6 QUESTIONS THAT STILL NEED TO BE ANSWERED

How did organised crime boss Luke Aitkens manage to buy a bomb from Nadia when she had been in police custody since episode one, long before the first failed attempt on Julia’s life? Why did Aitkens’s henchmen remove the bullets from David Budd’s secret ex-Army gun and replace them with blanks? If they were so worried he would shoot them in a confrontation, why not just steal his gun? Was it just a coincidence that failed sniper Andy Apsted and Budd were ex-Army friends? Chief Superintendent Lorraine Craddock said that Budd was ‘a fall guy from the beginning’. Did she know that the men both served in Helmand? What led Aitkens to Apsted, and then to provide him with a gun, a security pass and information that led to an attempt on the minister’s life? Security services goon Richard Longcross told Julia the kompromat on the tablet was encrypted, and would disappear. How did it remain there, over six weeks after her death? What was the score with Chanel Dyson, the coffee-throwing ex-SpAd who led Budd into a terrible trap? Was she Aitkens’s lover? Who was Julia Montague? Was she a powermad politician keen to get to the top? Or did she merely want a bad man expunged from office, and ultimately what was best for the country?