Oh, hell no, Line of Duty - you didn't...
Except, BBC Two's nail-biting cop thriller very much did - delivering one of its trademark twists in the final moments of tonight's episode.
Farewell, DCI Lindsay Denton - not perfect, but a police officer to the last.
The fate of Keeley Hawes's character was sealed the moment she teamed up with fellow disgraced copper Steve Arnott (Martin Compston).
Suspended from AC-12 - and the prime suspect in the hunt for The Caddy, thanks to dirty Dot Cottan (Craig Parkinson) - Arnott was out of options.
He teamed up with Denton to retrace the last steps of the late Danny Waldron, only for Lindsay to steal Steve's notepad when he wasn't looking.
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Using the information contained within to hack Danny's e-mail, Denton found a photographic copy of his missing list - naming notable figures who'd abused Danny and the other children at Sandview Boys' Home.
The photo was stored by Waldron in a draft e-mail - deleting the draft, Lindsay made a copy on her own phone. But before she could do anything with the information, she was intercepted by devious Dot...
Finally revealing his link to the mobster and paedophile Tommy Hunter - and to the criminal conspiracy that put Lindsay behind bars - Dot attempts to buy her silence with £100k.
Denton's having none of it - "I'm a police officer!" she roars defiantly - and instead, Dot executes her with one shot to the head.
But not before Lindsay's able to e-mail the incriminating list of abusers to Supt. Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) - could AC-12 finally be about to cotton on to Cottan?
The final episode of Line of Duty series 3 airs next Thursday at 9pm on BBC Two.
