Background
The situation in Northern Ireland in the years that followed after 1969 called the Ulster Police Force to begin the use of "new methods". These methods were later adopted by some police officers in Great Britain that wanted fast results sooner than finding the truth. Due to this, years later several convictions were found to be unsafe (like "Birmingham Six" for instance). The police forces of the UK appeared to need some cleaning of bad staff and for the Metropolitan Police this meant that the Complaints Investigation Bureau, CIB was invented. The two first series of Between the Lines is a kind of dramatisation of this "cleaning-up" process. In the third series focus is shifted more towards the secret services and MI5 in particular.
John Deakin, whose shadow is present throughout all three series, has a past in the Ulster police. He is the "fireproof" high rank detective who decides which other high ranked detectives that may use which methods. Tony manages to discover who he really is, but not good enough. Deakin also has contacts in the secret services. And the final two episodes ("The End User" 1 & 2) deals with a story of illegal weapon smuggling to Northern Ireland.
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