Thread by @jdpoc

If you’re a #LineOfDuty Fan you might of heard about the QR code Easter egg.

Here is a summary, nothing much in the way of spoilers, but there is a handful of videos on YouTube which go into more detail if you really want to go that route.

@jdpoc A few weeks ago a few people were posting cryptic messages connecting #LineOfDuty with a QR code. It took folks quite a while to find it without guidance but it’s there on the magazine cover which highlighted the murdered journalist.

@jdpoc Some people have had more technical skills than me and have screencappec this QR code, cleaned it up, and scanned it which takes you to a website which give you this:

@jdpoc The important point here, people are saying, is the identity of the new Chief Constable. Philip Osborne. He was Steve Arnott’s boss way back in series 1. Recognise him now?

This goes right back to Series 1, Episode 1 Scene 1.

@jdpoc On this page is also the next link, another web page: which gives you this, a copy of a prescription issued to Steve Arnott. Down at the bottom you’ll see something that doesn’t usually appear on prescription forms: a line of Morse code.

@jdpoc Once decoded this guide you to a short video on Vimeo, which I don’t think has been shown on the show.

@jdpoc In the description of this video is another link. This takes you to an image hosting site, and a gift with four messages as follows, the last one being a link.

@jdpoc So where does the link take you? It takes you to a very high resolution image of the incident board in the AC 12 office. Any clues here? Yes. The yellow post-it note is new. And that contains a bit.ly address.

@jdpoc This latest clue leads you to an unlisted video on the BBC iPlayer website. This contains a scene which was either deleted, or is still to be shown. For that reason, I’m not going to show that scene.

@jdpoc … And after that, you get a little phone message from Ted Hastings telling you that you now have enough information to crack the case.

@jdpoc It’s a marvellous little trial set up by the makers of #LineOfDuty, but I have to be honest, even following it I’m none too much the wiser. Perhaps better minds then I have followed the trail ... and come to a different conclusion.

@jdpoc If you want to follow the trail, it starts here:

drive.google.com/file/d/1s4n96q…