Bodyguard - BBC1

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Anybody watching?

Quite enjoying it so far

Huge LoD fan so I have high hopes for this series

Someone in the audience had a mobile phone out shortly before the bomb went off.

Fab tweet from Pam Ayres, tribpot !

I think Julia is dead (shame- I like KH) and I think David realises someone in power wants her dead and because he is basically a good person and because he cares about her on some level, he will try to find out who and why. They, in turn, will try to blame him. After Julia's ex immediately tore into him.

Great screenshotting!

The third screenshot seems to show the bomb in tne auditorium on the R of the aisle.

The late journalist sat on tbe other side of the aisle, I think.

Fermat, I very much like your depiction of the bomb.

Thank you, thank you, thank you (bows).

I am now waiting for the call from Hollywood. I see a glittering career ahead of me blocking out story boards for action movies. You can all say "I knew her before she made it big" when you see my name flash past in the credits, in 4 point text, at the speed of light (round about the 4th song in the end credits, the point at which most people have left and the staff are sweeping up the spilled popcorn).

Oh dear, unfortunate cursor placement on my laptop, obscuring a crucial couple of letters in the text.

I read the line in the Pam Ayres poem as "To stand alert and randy in the corridors of power..."

My theory is that Dave is suicidal and trying to get himself killed in active duty. In the first episode he mentioned to his ex about her getting the pension. He’s done loads of things which have been ridiculously dangerous - hugging the bomber, running onto the roof alone, running at the bomb.

Episode 4 info:

The home secretary's principal protection officer David Budd struggles to come to terms with the fallout from the devastating events of the last 24 hours. The police retake control of the investigation into the attacks from the suddenly weakened security service, and David is questioned by counterterrorism detectives DCI Deepak Sharma and DS Louise Rayburn.

Pushed to breaking point, David is helped back on his feet by his estranged wife, Vicky, and is determined to play an active role in the investigation, starting with those closest to Julia in government. At first Rayburn wants to keep David out of the enquiry, until he delivers a breakthrough.

“My theory is that Dave is suicidal and trying to get himself killed in active duty.”

He is certainly mindful of the pension and his family. But it would have been relatively easy to get himself shot in the sniper attack, surely?

I like Pam Ayrea, I’m glad DH and I feel that Pam’s poem, though excellent hasn’t adequately covered the events of episode 3.

I wish I had a bodyguard, with a vest that’s gleaming white
I’d be careful not to wake him in the middle of the night
I’d stand there looking sultry in communicating doors
Then I’d unzip my slacks and slip my fingers in my drawers

On the subject of pensions, do you remember the end of LOD series 1? That’s why the series is called Line of Duty.

Slip your fingers in your drawers?

It did come out a bit ruder than I intended because hands didn’t scan but fingers did.

" In the first episode he mentioned to his ex about her getting the pension. "

I thought that that was to stop her divorcing him.

The suicide bomber was I thought just a storyline for him to get the job as ppo to Julia.

@EvilRingahBitch - yes, it was a ridiculously unsexy thing she was doing!

I thought that that was to stop her divorcing him.

Yes, it was, nothing to do with him wanting to die - the reason he has not told anyone about the 'PTSD' is that he thinks he will be prevented from active service, and he doesn't want that, he wants to keep his income for the sake of his kids.

The suicide bomber was I thought just a storyline for him to get the job as ppo to Julia.

Possibly a plot device to place him there, but overall I think it's intrinsic to the plot, I think the cell has found out who he is, that stopped the bomb, and is after him.

Looking at that summary, I reckon Kelley Hawes is deaded.

I thought the news reports were saying the HS had been injured, not killed - just before the credits rolled at the end.

Yes it said 'suffering serious injuries'

KH might well still be alive. I haven't read that summary of the next programme.

I love Pam Ayres and those poems are brilliant!

Fermat great diagram! The best diagram I've seen yet. I'm still non the wiser though.

Yes, the news was basically saying there'd been no confirmation of whether the HS was alive or dead, i.e. the door has been left open for Julia to either survive or be dead when the next episode starts.

Potential spoiler - if you search on IMDB it tells you how many episodes each character appears in

The IMDB search isn't infallible, though. Someone could be listed as being in the cast all the way through despite being deaded in Episode 1, because they keep turning up in flashbacks.

Agree with VanGoghsDog:
"the cell has found out who he is that stopped the bomb" (on the train).

When he found the lady bomber in the loo, he told her his name was David.
He showed her a picture on his phone of his 2 children and told her what their names were.
On the news report later, though it didn't name him, it was reported that he was an off duty special officer person (can't remember the exact title used).

The cell have taken those snippets of info to work out who he is and the fact that he's now the bodyguard to Home Secretary is coincidental.

Am holding on to this theory for now - well, until next Sunday possibly.

Remember, the programme is 'Bodyguard', not 'Home Secretary'.

The sex scenes are a bit cringey. To me it's not to do with the Home Secretary being an older woman, I think it just looks very awkward, particularly the open mouthed kissing scenes. To do with the acting or directing I think.

She's a chilly character so I find I don't really care if she survived or not.

Yup, Inkanta - I found myself channeling my inner ten year old and watching through my fingers whilst mentally going "ewww, mummmm they're kissing."

I feel like rewatching the last episode just to count how many times SlashDavid said Ma'am.
He spent the entire episode Ma'aming Julia, his boss at Protection and Police Chief Gina McKee.
I'd suggest a drinking game but I don't think my liver could take it