Bodyguard - BBC1

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Anybody watching?

Quite enjoying it so far

Huge LoD fan so I have high hopes for this series

Breakfast my husband commented on that as well!
I was in the hairdressers today and saw a photo in an old Hello of RM wearing a kilt at a celebrity wedding. Never has my national dress looked so sexy

Really enjoy reading your theories but I’m more confused than ever now!
Two things have struck me..
Firstly, that the police have referred several times to not being able to get much info out of the train bomb couple. So the obvious answer is to send SlashDave in to speak to the woman as he clearly had a rapport with her. Why hasn’t this occurred to them?
Secondly, didn’t the HS say she wanted SlashDave to be with her, not just because he was paid to be her bodyguard? Which suggests it’s not just sex, at least not for her. I don’t think he answered though.
I thought episode three had definite echos of the film Bodyguard, with the speech before a packed audience reminiscent of Whitney’s awards ceremony, and SlashDave racing towards her just like good old Kev Costner did [sighs]
I don’t think Julia will die but I suspect she’ll have PTSD now too!

Yep she's dead. Poop.

Yes, I got the impression Julia was telling SlashDave she was having him taken off her protection detail, so that if they were together it was because they wanted to, not because they had to. Equally, that could just have been a test to see if he was there in order to spy on her.

I think the sex scenes are deliberately awkward and unsexy. These are two people who are desperate to feel a connection to someone else, thrown together in extraordinary circumstances, like wartime. Plus neither trusts the other. A fine romance this is not.

If you're right, Papergirl1968 we should have Keeley warbling one of Dolly Parton's greatest hits shortly!

Indeed tribpot 😂

Makes note to add this up sky+ planner.

I think she’s alive. She can’t die with another 3 episodes

I also think she knew he couldn’t be her bodyguard and lovers so said she wanted him as a lover

Again like bodyguard film and Whitney gets the old bloke as bodyguard as Kevin couldn’t love and save her

Useless fact. Bodyguard film is almost 26yrs old

Random unconnected theories in our house...the briefcase containing the speech did contain a bomb and SlashDave allowed it. We never saw inside the case. Home Sec is blackmailing PM re cocaine and sexual assault (he’s powerful enough to have it suppressed). Leak is via Chanelle and whoever picks her up in the Range Rover. I’m out of theories for now

Must explain, just binged all 3 episodes hence being late with the theories

I watched ep 3 again tonight. No way was the bomb from the side of the stage, it was right in front.

Kim saw something, Dave saw Kim run and ran towards her, presumably to meet her and stop whatever she had seen along with her.

KH was still alive according to news reports at the end of the episode.

Still think the briefcase was empty.

I've never seen The Bodyguard. Is that weird?

Surely he would have checked brief case before giving it to home SEc

So if he had known it was Empty he wouldn’t have tried to give it to her

Don’t think bomb was in it

Travelled the world I have had the displeasure of working with Adrian Dunbar. He has no rescept of women whatsoever

Watched the most recent episode on iPlayer last night so am now able to join this thread. Loving all the theories!

Having watched the first two episodes I was motivated to start watching Line of Duty. Two episodes in to series 1 and I am hooked.

Cheers to all who recommended it.

I realise many will already have seen LoD so please may I make a small plea for no spoilers?

Thank you!

He wasn't trying to give the briefcase to the Home Sec, he was going to warn her that the speech want fact checked.

We can't play that drinking game - too many potentially crucial bits of information would be missed.

I don't know how anyone can equate this with the truly lousy film The Bodyguard!

aww, i like the old 90s film the Bodyguard as Costner is so dishy in that film and the songs are not that bad even if it is overblown rubbish!
I am enjoying this drama but havent a clue what is going on.

Julia already knew the speech wasn't fact-checked, I assume he was aiming to give her a corrected version of the relevant section.

Oh, you must Charley - I love it.
Fudge!

But how could the aide have warned Julia that the facts were unchecked?

She was in the middle of a speech.

I do think the briefcase was a red herring.

She knew the facts were unchecked, she'd had a conversation with the aide about it earlier. I suppose she ploughed on with the speech on the assumption that if they found serious errors they would have warned her. If he's innocent, I guess he could have been psyching himself up to braving her wrath by interrupting the speech and giving her the corrected passage.

Jed Mercurio has said they decided not to show what was in the briefcase after agonising over it (or whatever it was he actually said) so my belief is that it was just papers/files. Otherwise we wouldn't be speculating whether her aide had the bomb in the case.

Yay duty I've just started watching LOD too after this thread. I've only watched the first two so far but I'm hooked. I'm clock watching until I can get the boys to bed!

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I remember coming across the second series of LOD by chance and binge watching it in one go! Jed Mercurio really knows how to write for television.