The Protectors

Bodyguards in PET, 3 newly-trained in particular, are followed while doing their job protecting the PM, other ministers, and other political individuals threatened with attacks.

10 Votes (7.3)

2009 HD 55min Denmark Danish Ended
Crime Drama
bodyguard

Credits:

Mai Brostrøm, Peter Thorsboe

director

André Babikian

Jonas Goldschmidt

Cecilie Stenspil

Jasmina El-Murad

Søren Vejby

Rasmus Poulsen

Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Leon Hartvig Jensen

Rasmus Bjerg

'Lille Kurt' Birk

Ditte Gråbøl

Diana Pedersen

Ellen Hillingsø

Benedikte 'Tønne' Tønnesen

S1E1 - Part 1 2009-01-01

Danish defense minister Henrik Skelbæk would be exposed as an utter coward hadnt his PET bodyguards pulled him trough a scary New Year visit to the troops in Iraq. In order to phone his mistress, the adulterous politician breaks safety rules, costing valiant young bodyguard Ibro Catic his life. Like every year, 20 of the best police academy recruits are admitted to PETs elite training selection process. The heros father Drazen Catic, a traumatized Bosnian refugee, fails to attend the funeral, which worries the brass. Indeed he followed the minister, seeing hes playing with an opposition adviser.

S1E2 - Part 2 2009-01-04

The PET recruits class completes its training course. For Rasmus and a few mates, the normal exam is replaced by an actual operation. They must help track down and eliminate Drazen Catic, the Bosnian father of the killed bodyguard, who has kidnapped the adulterous ministers mistress and is a danger to anyone as his own family and colleagues sadly experience.

S1E3 - Part 3 2009-01-11

The just-graduated rookies are officially instated as PET bodyguards. After the yellow defense ministers resignation to take up a diplomatic posting abroad, the PM reshuffles the Danish cabinet. As this makes the daughter of in immigrated Persian professor culture minister, PET rightly suspects increased security risks from racist right-wing extremists. A leak is soon found, pointing to a complex conspiracy. Rasmus needs to mentally digest his deadly first mission.

S1E9 - Part 9 2009-02-22

The PET mobilizes to guard the participants of an international Copenhagen climate conference. Prime target seems the Dutch professor Wim Cremer, the spokesman of the scientifically absurd denial of the greenhouse effect itself. The team ignores he blackmails the British climate minister, who received a memory stick full of data about bribed participants, with StaSi records concerning embarrassing private youth life.

S2E1 - Part 11 2010-01-03

Morten Nyholm, whose wife is high-pregnant again, and Jasmina, are sent to Islamabad in advance of the Danish foreign ministers visit, Jonas and Rasmus are ordered to guard Preben Pedersen, the cartoonist who offended Muslims by portraying the Prophet.

S2E2 - Part 12 2010-01-10

A Taliban bomb explodes in the hotel in Islamabad where Morten Nyholm and Jasmine are staying. Jonas and Rasmus are bored babysitting the depressed cartoonist Preben Pedersen.

S2E3 - Part 13 2010-01-17

The Danish foreign ministers next visit is to Moskow. PET sends along Rasmus and Jonas, who is delighted to meet up with reporter Tatyana Tanya Zimakova, a former date. Benedikte Tønnesen, nicknamed "Tønne" , head of the Danish Intelligence Service, compromises her position by starting an affair with CIA agent Shane.

S2E4 - Part 14 2010-01-24

Russian reporter Tatyana Zimakova seeks political asylum in Denmark but can she be protected against her ennemies? The problems caused by the love affair between CIA agent Shane and Tønnesen are getting worse.

S2E5 - Part 15 2010-01-31

Foreign minister Margrethe Korch is supposed to retire for personal reasons after a grand birthday party. One of the main candidates to replace her is capable MP Thomas Eriksen. Leon and Claudia are getting married.

S2E7 - Part 17 2010-02-14

Jonas attends the Moscow funeral of his lover Tatyana Tanya Zimakova. The team is assigned to guard the charismatic Croatian nun Sister Abraham, author of a book on pacifist forgiveness.

S2E8 - Part 18 2010-02-21

The PET team finds out that the hotels German waiter Klaus Maria Grashoff may still be planning an attempt on Sister Abraham.

S2E9 - Part 19 2010-02-28

Jonas gets a phone call from Robin Tim, a Danish ex-policeman who is involved in criminal activities in Congo and is imprisoned there because he killed a cop. Robin tells Jonas about plans for an assassination at the upcoming Climate Conference in Denmark. Benedikte appoints the incompetent and weak Palle Rud as Leons second-in-command.

S2E10 - Part 20 2010-03-07

Leon and Jonas return home after they prevailed over the Congolese criminal gang, guarding the corpse of Robin Tim, which contains priceless diamonds.