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New thread. Let's conspiracy theory chat away

As far as we know/were shown no one else was aware of the link between them.

making the assumption that Nadia was a put upon Muslim wife being told what to do and having to obey. She was still an extremist brainwashed into believing that bombing was OK to further the cause/kill infidels or whatever though, so for me the fact that she was "clever" enough to make the bombs was pretty meaningless.

I was hoping to see the new boyfriend. That 'long' walk back to his flat or should I say 'apartment' was cringe worthy. Didn't like the ending. Didn't feel it was tense. I can't do paragraphs for some reason. But overall, I enjoyed it.

Ohh, I can't do paragraphs atm either!!!

I'm just going to test again. Nope. Tis a conspiracy that goes right to the heart of the government.

As someone who has watched their husband struggle with a mental illness watching the scenes between budd and his wife where really moving. I'm saying he was sorry he had changed and the end when they had started to be able to become friends again I though that was lovely and actually really believable

I've read that Netflix are bidding for season 2?

I don’t think I want a season two. It would be odd to have him caught up in another, similar conspiracy around someone he is protecting - presumably that would be the storyline. Why can’t it just be left as a stand-alone story?

The Arts Desk review calls him “The Bond-like Budd ...” (Oh. True about paragraphs being apparently disabled atm. @MNHQ?) I suppose the thing that made him appealing was that he seemed so genuinely vulnerable and damaged (while being intermittently cunning.) I’ve never felt that any iteration of Bond required my active empathy. Interesting possibility ...

@Diggers, i'm glad i'm not the only one to notice those shots, evening made!

It didn’t end on quite the shocker of the first LOD series - but there are still plenty of loose ends and possibilities to explore, so I wouldn’t object to a second series. They clearly want us to think there’s something dodgy about Anne Sampson - very striking musical undercurrent when she was shown the Luke Aitkens info. And the HS bidding to become PM. And Deepak - just doing anything. In fact I wouldn’t mind an entire series with just Deepak and Daniel Chung (bomb defuser).

As far as we know/were shown no one else was aware of the link between them. Yeah, I know. So I'm really confused about the assertion that David Budd was put in the PPO role because of the link to Andy the gunman not because of the bomb on the train

Was it because Budd was seen by Luke Aitkens at one of Andy's meetings?So he got Craddock to assign Budd as PPO?

I am currently on a Kings Cross to Edinburgh train, have just walked through some carriages and am now staring at the toilet door, thinking back to those scenes. Unsurprisingly my enduring thought is what a brilliantly written and tense drama Bodyguard was. My other thought is that not many Scottish kids are going to be called Nadiya this year, can still hear Richard Madden say it over 😀. Surprised a fair number here seem disappointed.

he agreed to go downstairs with Chanel and sat with his back to the exits. That was the first thing I said to DH and DS as we watched that scene - there's no way he would have sat with his back to the room like that!

though obviously he wasn't going to blow himself up, so it was only a bit tense despite the fact the the armed police officer had clearance for a critical shot and was thus authorised to kill Budd and in fact would have done so?

Why/how did Andy and Dave knowing each other lead to Dave being put in the PPO role? At the start of the series no one except Andy and Dave knew about the link between them. But we don't know that Andy would have kept quiet about it.

"At the start of the series no one except Andy and Dave knew about the link between them" Luke Aitkens knew-he saw Budd at one of Andy's meetings.

Just watched this.

Anyone being interviewed by Ted in AC12 knows they are entitled to at least an interviewing officer one rank above them. C'mon.

Totally want to see Budd investigates by AC12!!!!

Flowery - that's only if the crime relates to corruption within the police I think, for an ordinary crime committed by a police officer it's not the case ☺️

I'm intrigued by Chanel & what her relationship to Luke Aikens is. I'm wondering if she is actually a police informant working for Anne Sampson. Or is Anne Sampson giving Luke Aikens some slack in exchange for info on other organised criminal gangs? I don't think Nadiya is the only bomb mastermind.

I found the whole last episode laughable and a let down from the needing to get a radio to him even though they were stood close enough to talk and then walking to his flat ' live' on the news...and then diffusing the bomb in a residential area 🤔 etc, etc

That's right. Mercurio has tweeted, "It’s only in matters of police professional standards that officers are interviewed by someone at least one rank senior. If an officer has been arrested for a criminal offence, they’re treated like anyone else."

I used to work for a company that made bomb disposal equipment and suits - they were a bit heavier duty than the ones used here.

My grandpa was in a bomb disposal unit in ww2 - they didn't have any!