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Im sure that for those in the know (and those that pretend they are) there are plenty of factual mistakes. But for a Sunday night drama to take your mind off work in the morning I think it’s pretty good.
As we can see on this thread they are giving us plenty of possible plot threads. Keeps you guessing.
As we can see on this thread they are giving us plenty of possible plot threads. Keeps you guessing.
strummerville said:
Smollet said:
His boss is also female. I thought we lived in a patriarchy ffs.
Well maybe. However, the current PM is a woman. Ditto the previous Home Secretary. The current Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Director General of Mi5 in the nineties... shall I go on? 
Dick by name, dick by silly reaction to a bit of deliberately over the top fictional theatre. Next we will see the silly cow complaining that the steam train in an episode of Poirot wasn't actually built until the year after the notional date of the fictional story. If the Bodyguard story stuck even approximately to real life, Christ it would be beyond tedious.
FiF said:
Dick by name, dick by silly reaction to a bit of deliberately over the top fictional theatre. Next we will see the silly cow complaining that the steam train in an episode of Poirot wasn't actually built until the year after the notional date of the fictional story. If the Bodyguard story stuck even approximately to real life, Christ it would be beyond tedious.
Agreed... I hope they never make a dramatisation of the Jean Charles De Mendez..... Smollet said:
His boss is also female. I thought we lived in a patriarchy ffs.
Yes, it's an enjoyable, but very sexist program. After all, Mr. Bodyguard has already flashed his arse, but we have yet to see any of the delectable Ms. Hawes' bits, which I feel would definitely add to the plot development.I can't believe this thread hasn't be updated this morning! Its all anyone is talking about at work!
Here's my thoughts if you did watch last night.....
She's not dead.
Julia Montegue
Juilet Montegue?
& what did she do in that well known play?
Plus I don’t know much about ballistics but I’m pretty sure that if you fire a blank cartridge at your temple point blank, you will die anyway. Certainly Brandon Lee did when some fired a blank pistol at his chest. Also how can he not realise that every room he enters or sleeps in is going to be bugged/full of CCTV?
And as they still don't know the blast came from the suitcase, I reckon that the female cop who ran down the aisle at the event was the suicide bomber, not the guy with the case. But the failed suicide bomber from the train recognised the government aide when they showed her his picture, so god knows.
If you look in the background at the scenes in the big police headquarters you can see pictures of the weapons that Scarface had during his assassination attempt. Clearly modern weapons and not the sort of thing that you could pick up on the street or hide in your duffel bag when you come back from Helmen. Our hero's gun on the other hand looks like a Saturday Night Special that you could probably pick up in most dodgy parts of London. So who supplied Scarface with his weapons.
The second aide is clearly going to fold like a cheap suit under interrogation and I would imagine won't last until the end of the next episode.
Yes its utter nonsense but its bloody enjoyable nonsense now and I can't wait to see what happens next.
Here's my thoughts if you did watch last night.....
She's not dead.
Julia Montegue
Juilet Montegue?
& what did she do in that well known play?
Plus I don’t know much about ballistics but I’m pretty sure that if you fire a blank cartridge at your temple point blank, you will die anyway. Certainly Brandon Lee did when some fired a blank pistol at his chest. Also how can he not realise that every room he enters or sleeps in is going to be bugged/full of CCTV?
And as they still don't know the blast came from the suitcase, I reckon that the female cop who ran down the aisle at the event was the suicide bomber, not the guy with the case. But the failed suicide bomber from the train recognised the government aide when they showed her his picture, so god knows.
If you look in the background at the scenes in the big police headquarters you can see pictures of the weapons that Scarface had during his assassination attempt. Clearly modern weapons and not the sort of thing that you could pick up on the street or hide in your duffel bag when you come back from Helmen. Our hero's gun on the other hand looks like a Saturday Night Special that you could probably pick up in most dodgy parts of London. So who supplied Scarface with his weapons.
The second aide is clearly going to fold like a cheap suit under interrogation and I would imagine won't last until the end of the next episode.
Yes its utter nonsense but its bloody enjoyable nonsense now and I can't wait to see what happens next.
This is the first thing I have watched on regular TV for years (other than Bake-off 
). Its stupid but enjoyable as said above.
One thing though, the freeze frame of the blast looked to me like it came from under the stage. This wasn't mentioned thought. Perhaps it wasn't meant to look like that in the program.
). Its stupid but enjoyable as said above.One thing though, the freeze frame of the blast looked to me like it came from under the stage. This wasn't mentioned thought. Perhaps it wasn't meant to look like that in the program.
The Hypno-Toad said:
I can't believe this thread hasn't be updated this morning! Its all anyone is talking about at work!
Here's my thoughts if you did watch last night.....
She's not dead.
Julia Montegue
Juilet Montegue?
& what did she do in that well known play?
Plus I don’t know much about ballistics but I’m pretty sure that if you fire a blank cartridge at your temple point blank, you will die anyway. Certainly Brandon Lee did when some fired a blank pistol at his chest. Also how can he not realise that every room he enters or sleeps in is going to be bugged/full of CCTV?
And as they still don't know the blast came from the suitcase, I reckon that the female cop who ran down the aisle at the event was the suicide bomber, not the guy with the case. But the failed suicide bomber from the train recognised the government aide when they showed her his picture, so god knows.
If you look in the background at the scenes in the big police headquarters you can see pictures of the weapons that Scarface had during his assassination attempt. Clearly modern weapons and not the sort of thing that you could pick up on the street or hide in your duffel bag when you come back from Helmen. Our hero's gun on the other hand looks like a Saturday Night Special that you could probably pick up in most dodgy parts of London. So who supplied Scarface with his weapons.
The second aide is clearly going to fold like a cheap suit under interrogation and I would imagine won't last until the end of the next episode.
Yes its utter nonsense but its bloody enjoyable nonsense now and I can't wait to see what happens next.
Quite so,Here's my thoughts if you did watch last night.....
She's not dead.
Julia Montegue
Juilet Montegue?
& what did she do in that well known play?
Plus I don’t know much about ballistics but I’m pretty sure that if you fire a blank cartridge at your temple point blank, you will die anyway. Certainly Brandon Lee did when some fired a blank pistol at his chest. Also how can he not realise that every room he enters or sleeps in is going to be bugged/full of CCTV?
And as they still don't know the blast came from the suitcase, I reckon that the female cop who ran down the aisle at the event was the suicide bomber, not the guy with the case. But the failed suicide bomber from the train recognised the government aide when they showed her his picture, so god knows.
If you look in the background at the scenes in the big police headquarters you can see pictures of the weapons that Scarface had during his assassination attempt. Clearly modern weapons and not the sort of thing that you could pick up on the street or hide in your duffel bag when you come back from Helmen. Our hero's gun on the other hand looks like a Saturday Night Special that you could probably pick up in most dodgy parts of London. So who supplied Scarface with his weapons.
The second aide is clearly going to fold like a cheap suit under interrogation and I would imagine won't last until the end of the next episode.
Yes its utter nonsense but its bloody enjoyable nonsense now and I can't wait to see what happens next.
It would be the second time the writer has killed Keeley Hawes character off.
Plus the blank would have to have the power of a party popper, ok slight exaggeration.
What was the plan between bald Speccy minister and the Spad? Not to kill her, more probably interrupt her speech with corrections to make her look incompetent is my guess.
Sunday night entertainment only, over the top fiction. Just reminding you Ma'am, stop you making another Dick of yourself.
When they had the meeting post explosion with the stand in home secretary, surely they'd have at least closed the blinds so that those stood outside the office couldn't see in and what they were showing on the screen? Also, once the meeting had finished you'd think they'd switch the screen off rather than all walk out leaving it up on there for all and sundry to see, especially as the meeting was primarily to see if it was an inside job.
I’m not convinced a blank round would kill you, purely based on seeing someone get shot point blank with a L98A1 5.56mm blank round - they had a ripped shirt and some light burns, but didn’t need hospital treatment
Maybe on whatever pistol that was it would be different (but then blank rounds look very different to real ones..)
Maybe on whatever pistol that was it would be different (but then blank rounds look very different to real ones..)
The Hypno-Toad said:
If you look in the background at the scenes in the big police headquarters you can see pictures of the weapons that Scarface had during his assassination attempt. Clearly modern weapons and not the sort of thing that you could pick up on the street or hide in your duffel bag when you come back from Helmen. Our hero's gun on the other hand looks like a Saturday Night Special that you could probably pick up in most dodgy parts of London. So who supplied Scarface with his weapons.
I had assumed that Budd's handgun was a unauthorised memento of his tour in Afghanistan
Though I'm not quite sure why we're spoilering stuff. if you come in here without having seen last night's episode, you only have yourself to blame if you see spoilers!
Tabs said:
Budd hid a hand gun behind the light blue panels. It wasn't there on the police inspection. Yet, when he returned to the flat he went straight to the light fitting to retrieve it?? Was that a usb stick next to it?
Did anyone else think the copper doing the search behind the panel look excessively brassed off and bewildered when she found nothing, as if tipped off there would be something.Next to light fitting, USB? Bug? USB could be copy of that document he found on Home Sexy secret phone?
Tabs said:
Budd hid a hand gun behind the light blue panels. It wasn't there on the police inspection. Yet, when he returned to the flat he went straight to the light fitting to retrieve it?? Was that a usb stick next to it?
Yes, possibly the recordings of the HS's conversation with 'Longcross' and the pictures of the documents.Maybe he had two guns? He deliberately planted one to be found, although I got the idea the police search team knew it was going to be there and were nonplussed to find it wasn't. So who took it instead?
I think there's a shedload of back-plot exposition to come.
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