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'Bodyguard' viewers are convinced they saw Julia Montague in series finale

Keeley Hawes as Julia Montague (Credit: BBC)
Keeley Hawes as Julia Montague (Credit: BBC)

Sometimes it’s just better to let things go.

But thanks to the makers of BBC drama Bodyguard deciding not to show the cold, dead body of Keeley Hawes’ Home Secretary Julia Montague following her assassination, fans of the show are starting to see her everywhere.

Most notably, fans reckon they spotted her in a second floor window in the tumultuous showdown between Richard Madden’s David Budd and his boss Lorraine Craddock in Sunday night’s finale.

(Credit: BBC)
(Credit: BBC)

And while it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to spot that it’s not her (but then who was it?), for some there is a light that never goes out.

It’s emerged that a colossal 12.6 million people tuned in to see the final episode of the show, taking in figures from iPlayer.

The figure puts the show in the top five highest-rated shows of the past decade, on any channel.

The episode was tucked in behind climactic episodes of Sherlock, Doctor Who, Coronation Street, and EastEnders, which scored the top spot, bringing in 16.41 million viewers in February, 2010, the 25th anniversary live episode.

Jed Mercurio has already teased that the show, which found Madden playing a close security officer with PTSD who stumbles on a conspiracy to assassinate the home secretary, could run and run.

“It’s probably fair to say we would probably approach any thoughts of a second series with the idea that it would create an opportunity for a third or fourth,” he told The Sun.

“If the ratings hadn’t been quite so high, then possibly everybody involved including the BBC would have said, ‘Well that was a nice little series but we’re just going to leave it at that and there won’t be any more’.

“So you are a hostage to fortune in that sense. And we do feel very privileged and fortunate that there’s been such a response that it gives us that opportunity to at least think about doing more.”

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