With Gates on the run the anticorruption team find themselves under pressure to close the case. There is tension between Arnott, Fleming and Hastings, as Arnott questions how intimate Fleming was prepared to become with Gates. Gates still thinks that he can save his career and marriage. Arnott is forced to decide where his loyalties lie.
Steve Arnott is a young officer who's fallen foul of his superiors for refusing to help in the cover-up of an operation that ended in the shooting of an innocent father. He seems ideal to join AC-12, an anti-corruption police unit, just as it starts to investigate Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates, the regional force's Officer of the Year.
Line of Duty - Series 1, Episode 5 Synopsis and Schedule