From Line of Duty to Lost: 10 of the best TV twists

Office romances, festive misery, an almighty family fall-out - here are some of the small screen's most audacious rug-pulls

• Modern Toss on plot twists

Jessica Raine's arrival in the cast of Jed Mercurio's anti-corruption police drama was at the heart of the publicity leading up to the show's second series. The opening episode constructed DC Georgia Trotman's character: dedicated, perhaps overly fond of a drink. And then, oops, a bent copper threw her out of a fifth-storey hospital window and she was gone. Trotman, we barely knew you ...