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<p><strong>By Hugh Dunnett, Crime Correspondent</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Superintendent Ted Hastings is found innocent in next week's nailbiting Line of Duty finale and leaves the police force to join the priesthood, it has emerged.</strong></p>
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<p>Supt Hastings is so gutted at being under suspicion in the gripping crime drama that he leaves his glittering career with AC 12 behind and becomes a priest called Father Ted.</p>
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<p>Viewers will watch aghast as the Ulsterman exclaims: "Mother of God! I told you I was innocent, so I did."</p>
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<p>He then walks out of the station and the scene cuts to him relaxing in his new parish rectory in village near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.</p>
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<p>There he tends to the needs of an elderly flock and helps out at local old folks homes.</p>
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<p>[AdSense-B]</p>
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<p>Television critic Lorraine Fisher, 34, said: "Nobody saw this coming. Everyone assumes Supt Hastings was 'H', the high-ranking police officer leading an organised crime gang.</p>
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<p>"But there is a huge twist which includes the cop being found innocent of all charges. He runs off to the church and now enjoys a new Godly life in rural Suffolk, where he is known as Father Ted."</p>
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<p>Viewers will be able to see it act out for themselves in the cliffhanger, feature length final episode on Sunday at 9pm on BBC1.</p>
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<p>[AdSense-C]</p>
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