Introduction

Bodyguard is a British police-thriller television series created and written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions as part of ITV Studios for the BBC.

The six-part series features Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes, and includes Gina McKee, Sophie Rundle, Vincent Franklin, Pippa Haywood, Paul Ready, Tom Brooke, Nicholas Gleaves, Stuart Bowman, Stephanie Hyam, David Westhead, Matt Stokoe, Nina Toussaint-White, Ash Tandon, and Anjli Mohindra.

Outline

Knowles and Mahmood were killed in the blast and Montague is in intensive care. Travis is appointed Acting Home Secretary and transfers responsibility for investigating the bombings back to Counter Terrorism Command.

The police suspect that Mahmood was responsible for the bombing, although CCTV is not conclusive that the explosion emanated from the briefcase. Budd falls under suspicion for not spotting the bomb when he spoke to Mahmood. DCI Sharma and DS Rayburn interview him and search his property. The next day, the PM announces that Montague is dead. CCTV from the House of Commons shows adviser Rob MacDonald handing Mahmood the briefcase.

Before MacDonald is interviewed by police, Travis tells him to stick to their pre-arranged story. Budd attempts suicide, but fails because someone has replaced the bullets in his hidden pistol with blanks. Returning to Montague’s hotel, he discovers the security footage has been tampered with to delete Longcross’s visit.

On orders from Sampson, he accompanies Rayburn to interview Nadia, the suicide bomber, about who had supplied the explosives for the foiled train attack. Nadia does not identify the bomb-maker among the pictures she is shown, which include one of Mahmood.

Bodyguard Series

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Production & Filming Details

• Creator(s): Jed Mercurio.
• Director(s): Thomas Vincent and John Strickland.
• Producer(s): Simon Heath, Jed Mercurio, Elizabeth Kilgarriff, Priscilla Parish, and Eric Coulter.
• Writer(s): Jed Mercurio.
• Music: Ruth Barrett and Ruskin Williamson.
• Cinematography: John Lee.
• Editor(s): Steve Singleton and Andrew John McClelland.
• Production: World Productions.
• Distributor(s): ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
• Original Network: BBC One.
• Release Date: 09 September 2018.
• Running Time: 60 minutes.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.