The series is over but I’m sure she’ll be back
With three minutes to go on the final episode of Bodyguard, I was still insisting that Julia Montague would be back. Charred and hobbling but mercifully alive, the home secretary – played by Keeley Hawes – would explain why she was forced to go into hiding after the second attempt on her life, and persuade her loyal lover and manservant, David Budd, to leave his slightly irritating wife, Vicky, behind. With a sea-view condo all set up on Cocos Island off Costa Rica – population 596 – the two of them could spend the rest of their days befriending finches in the rainforests and making sweet love under every single one of the island’s Unesco-listed 200 waterfalls.
Sadly, writer Jed Mercurio had other plans: four more series of the highest-rated BBC drama in a decade, a basement extension on his house, and a 54-room holiday home complete with infinity pool… on Cocos Island. But mark my words: at some point, she will be back.