The millions hooked on the “Bodyguard” settle to watch the show’s finale on Sunday evening seeking answers while having their own ideas but I guess no one got this right. No rebirth of the Home Secretary Julia Montague she was dead as a dodo her reappearance would have been comical but what a finale.
The episode revolves around our hero David Budd now tentatively link to his army buddy who tried to kill the Home Secretary and after a meeting/date with Chanel, a former adviser to the late Home Secretary is world is about to fall apart. Chanel sets up Budd with crime boss Luke Aitkens who with some cronies drag him off and later wakes up wearing a suicide vest.
He walks around looking for help to phone the police as you do and realises the police are after him. When they turn up, he is quickly surrounded by barking counter-terrorism officers seeking authorisation to fire at their suspect, which is given. The police just don’t believe him then they walk Budd to a safe more open space to lessen the damage if the bomb goes off.
A bomb disposal man does a runner after having a look over the bomb the bomb is the same as the train in the opening episode. I really wanted to see the secret service to be heavily involved in the killing of the Home Secretary but I was beginning to doubt it. Later we find out it was the kompromat they were chasing to protect the Prime Minister.
Budd now in floods of tears believing the police moving back means he would be killed tells the police he knows were the kompromat is hidden at his flat. His wife runs to join him to hopefully protect him which works. He knew the secret service would pick up on that news knowing they would rush to the flat to beat the police. The secret service do get there first and it turned out to be our old friend Richard Longcross whose captured by the police happens after tripping Budd’s booby trap.
Now the long march to his flat to recover the kompromat with the police clearing the way still wearing the vest. Farfetched yes but its TV and it gave about the only escape option. Budd ops to disarm the bomb, single tension as he order everyone to back away next thing he jumps over a wall and legs it.
Then it all begins to unravel as Budd breaks in to Chanel’s flat and force her to phone Luke Aitkens telling him Budd knows everything and hoping to be lead to whoever. It worked; scratch the secret service in was his own boss. So the assassin of Julia Montague turned out to be gangland drug lord Luke Aitkens, with Lorraine Craddock who was is inside woman within the police feeding him information a bit of a let down.
It turnout ha Nadia was actually the master bomb-maker – and supplied the bomb to Aitkens at killed the Home Secretary and arranged the attack on Budd’s children school. Most of us watching at home, into the belief that she was a ‘victim’ of coercion by her husband and his Jihadi superiors. But in actual fact, in a subversion of dramatic tropes, she was the real terrorist mastermind all along.
David finally deduced that it was she who had put his children in danger, from prison, after he showed her a picture of his kids and gave her their names and ages. A gloating Nadia ultimately explained that she was the bomb-maker all along, being a trained engineer and devoted Jihadi, but she was happy to play along after David assumed she was just a meek, manipulated woman.
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