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While Ryan is just as infuriating as Joffrey, in many ways heвЂ™s a more terrifying villain: controlled, cunning, seemingly emotionless, a killer robot with a skin-crawling deferential facade вЂ“В like a work experience kid crossed with Dexter.ДЄnd while several other Line of Duty wrongdoers have had explicable motives, like Keeley HawesвЂ™ Lindsay Denton originally wanting to save a vulnerable girl, Ryan has no such excuse. What was the cause of death, she asked.В вЂњBeing a rat, maвЂ™am.вЂќ Shudder! He also вЂ“В while maintaining that same unnervingly courteous manner вЂ“В informed her that lawyer Jimmy Lakewell, who was considering betraying the OCG, had been murdered in prison. We wonвЂ™t be getting rid of Ryan that easily. In last nightвЂ™s episode, when she attempted to transfer him, he ambushed her at home and put a gun to her head. Scarily, we saw no evidence that he was struggling with what heвЂ™d done, or felt any sort of remorse about murdering, and attempting to murder, a colleague and a man heвЂ™d known for years.Д«ut, though Ryan appears to be a junior member of Davidson вЂ™s team, itвЂ™s gradually been revealed during the sixth season that heвЂ™s the one in a position of power. When questioned by Fleming, the slippery Ryan had all the answers, along with an irritatingly faux-apologetic manner, peppered with ingratiating вЂњmaвЂ™amвЂќs. HeвЂ™d also warned Boyle to stay silent under the guise of friendliness, staying he was still his вЂњbest mateвЂќ вЂ“В an extra-creepy detail. When Patel survived the crash, he brutally drowned her вЂ“В and would have done the same to Boyle if Kate Fleming hadnвЂ™t arrived on the scene.

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In fact, it was Ryan who innocently told PC Patel, who was driving the squad car, that they were taking a new route, and then forced the car off the road and into a lake. And he was hailed as a hero by the gormless DS Buckells, who put him up for a commendation for вЂњsavingвЂќ Terry BoyleвЂ™s life. He even вЂ“В and this is the most British betrayal of all вЂ“В offers to do the tea run. Yet outwardly, Ryan is an earnest probationary constable, smiley, polite to his superiors and eager to please. He is a constant reminder of the fatally corrupted system. Now, like Matthew вЂњDotвЂќ Cottan (aka The Caddy) before him, heвЂ™s wormed his way into the force: an OCG plant within the murder investigation team headed by Jo Davidson (Kelly Macdonald). He then leveraged his tough upbringing in his police application, convincing his interviewers that an officer had helped him turn his life around.

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In series five, he assisted in the killing of PC Maneet Bindra, and slit the throat of undercover officer John Corbett. Ryan has since graduated to a more senior role in the OCG, and more serious violence. ItвЂ™s also one of the more unsettling aspects of his character. That gift for bare-faced lying has helped him survive into the sixth series of Line of Duty вЂ“В pretty good going for a show with such a high death count. Though Ryan was later arrested, he only admitted to stealing phones for crime lord Tommy Hunter and denied knowledge of everything else. Additionally, Ryan terrorised an elderly man and took advantage of Terry Boyle, a vulnerable neighbour with DownвЂ™s syndrome (who also returned in this latest series) by stashing a body in his freezer.Д«ut perhaps most disturbing was his involvement in the abduction of AC-12вЂ™s Steve Arnott вЂ“В and his fumbling, but very real, attempt to cut off ArnottвЂ™s fingers with bolt cutters. Ryan was a BMX-riding courier for the вЂњOCGвЂќ (organised crime group), transporting drugs and burner phones, while verbally abusing Lennie JamesвЂ™s DCI Tony Gates, who was being blackmailed by the gang. We first met Ryan back in season one, when the actor who plays him, Gregory Piper, was just 13. Like Joffrey, Ryan is baby-faced and seemingly angelic, but, underneath, heвЂ™s chillingly psychopathic.

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Now, that loathsome TV youngster role has been filled by Line of DutyвЂ™s Ryan Pilkington. His gruesome death by poison felt thoroughly deserved. No wonder that Tyrion slapping the snivelling brat became a popular GIF. He tormented Sansa with her fatherвЂ™s severed head, fled from battle when KingвЂ™s Landing was under siege, tortured and murdered a woman, and viciously persecuted his uncle, fan favourite Tyrion. Initially, he seemed like the golden, chivalric prince of Sansa StarkвЂ™s dreams, but she soon realised he was actually spoilt, sadistic, cowardly, deceitful, and a straight-up murderous tyrant. Joffrey (skilfully played by Jack Gleeson) made the perfect heel for those early seasons of the show. And, famously, King Joffrey in Game of Thrones. Think Olivia ColmanвЂ™s ghastly Godmother in Fleabag. ThereвЂ™s nothing more satisfying than the TV characters we just love to hate.

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