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The Protectors

All Episodes 2008 - 2010

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  • 2008-12-31T23:00:00Z
  • 55m
  • 18h 20m (20 episodes)
  • Mai Brostrøm, Peter Thorsboe
  • Denmark
  • Danish
  • Danmarks Radio (DR)
  • Drama, Crime, Mystery
The Danish national police branch PET is in charge of personal protection, mainly of politicians and royal family. That also involves preventive work concerning terrorism, stalking etcetera. Meanwhile several team members must keep op top of personal concerns, such as ethnic background-related concerns and relational troubles at home.

20 episodes

Series Premiere

2008-12-31T23:00:00Z

1x01 Part 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Part 1

  • 2008-12-31T23:00:00Z55m

Danish defense minister Henrik Skelbæk would be exposed as an utter coward hadn't 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 PET's elite training selection process. The hero's father Drazen Catic, a traumatized Bosnian refugee, fails to attend the funeral, which worries the brass. Indeed he followed the minister, seeing he's 'playing' with an opposition adviser.

2009-01-03T23:00:00Z

1x02 Part 2

1x02 Part 2

  • 2009-01-03T23:00:00Z55m

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 minister's mistress and is a danger to anyone as his own family and colleagues sadly experience.

2009-01-10T23:00:00Z

1x03 Part 3

1x03 Part 3

  • 2009-01-10T23:00:00Z55m

The just-graduated rookies are officially instated as PET bodyguards. After the yellow defense minister's 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.

2009-01-17T23:00:00Z

1x04 Part 4

1x04 Part 4

  • 2009-01-17T23:00:00Z55m

Even now he's best man at his sister's wedding, only Jewish PET agent Jonas Goldschmidt agrees to an undercover entrapment of the racists suspected of planning to murder his Egyptian colleague. After a fake discharge, he's transferred to the uniformed police as partner of the only accessible conspirator. The plan proves surprisingly complex and counter)action very dangerous, but the PM supports field chief Leon against yellow paper-pusher Diane.

2009-01-24T23:00:00Z

1x05 Part 5

1x05 Part 5

  • 2009-01-24T23:00:00Z55m

Jonas Goldschmidt's marital troubles worry is superiors too. Jasmina must push her naive, conservative sister to report on her husband and his buddy, Islamic fundamentalist, who have visited Afghanistan viz. Pakistan. They dispose of all ingredients to construct a big bomb.

2009-01-31T23:00:00Z

1x06 Part 6

1x06 Part 6

  • 2009-01-31T23:00:00Z55m

The Danish prime minister allows invasive spy techniques to observe the Islamist terror suspects, which prove Ammar Hayat and Mukhtaar have prepared a bomb. Next the PET team works out the target is the NATO secretary-general's visit to the monarch, the medium a trolly-car. Time is running out and tailing goes wrong, so a psychologic counter-measure is devised, appealing to paternal instinct which researched shows to be at the root of hatred too.

2009-02-07T23:00:00Z

1x07 Part 7

1x07 Part 7

  • 2009-02-07T23:00:00Z55m

Danish PM Jens Ole Vestergaard is guarded on his last official visit, to Paris, where he'll bid for an EU post. Meanwhile his bride, famous actress Josefine Rhode, is also under discrete PET guard. Prime concern is a female stalker, whose fantasy is to become Mrs. Vestergaard herself. Still even PET is surprised when Josefine's hen night goes way out of hand, and is filmed, so although the national press accepts to hold the story, crisis PR advises to cancel the wedding to save his career. Yet Josefine may be innocent, the stalker having impersonated her, which nobody realizes yet.

2009-02-14T23:00:00Z

1x08 Part 8

1x08 Part 8

  • 2009-02-14T23:00:00Z55m

The PM can't decide whether to stand by his fiancée, who turns on him and the PET, or play it politically safe as his PR team hopes. The PET meanwhile works out it was all the evil doing of the lunatic stalker, whose imaginary world makes her dangerous and unpredictable if undone. Jonas must come to terms with his wife having emigrated to a kibbutz, unlikely to return at all.

2009-02-21T23:00:00Z

1x09 Part 9

1x09 Part 9

  • 2009-02-21T23:00:00Z55m

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.

Season Finale

2009-02-28T23:00:00Z

1x10 Part 10

Season Finale

1x10 Part 10

  • 2009-02-28T23:00:00Z55m

Eco-terrorist leader Christoph Meyer, a former Bader-Meynhoff member, plays tricks on everyone, including his naive terrorist greenhorns, to lure British minister Thornton in a trap. After blackmail and kidnapping, she suffers disclosure as he claims to be the father of her aborted child. MI5 discovers he blackmail trail trough the mister's spouse. PET has a hard time localizing the kidnappers, then to plan an intervention in the decommissioned broadcast studio.

Season Premiere

2010-01-02T23:00:00Z

2x01 Part 11

Season Premiere

2x01 Part 11

  • 2010-01-02T23:00:00Z55m

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

2010-01-09T23:00:00Z

2x02 Part 12

2x02 Part 12

  • 2010-01-09T23:00:00Z55m

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.

2010-01-16T23:00:00Z

2x03 Part 13

2x03 Part 13

  • 2010-01-16T23:00:00Z55m

The Danish foreign minister's 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.

2010-01-23T23:00:00Z

2x04 Part 14

2x04 Part 14

  • 2010-01-23T23:00:00Z55m

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.

2010-01-30T23:00:00Z

2x05 Part 15

2x05 Part 15

  • 2010-01-30T23:00:00Z55m

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.

2010-02-06T23:00:00Z

2x06 Part 16

2x06 Part 16

  • 2010-02-06T23:00:00Z55m

The PM is ready to nominate MP Thomas Eriksen as new justice minister in a reshuffle. PET however feels it necessary to clear up his baby's kidnapping,

2010-02-13T23:00:00Z

2x07 Part 17

2x07 Part 17

  • 2010-02-13T23:00:00Z55m

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.

2010-02-20T23:00:00Z

2x08 Part 18

2x08 Part 18

  • 2010-02-20T23:00:00Z55m

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

2010-02-27T23:00:00Z

2x09 Part 19

2x09 Part 19

  • 2010-02-27T23:00:00Z55m

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 Leon's second-in-command.

Season Finale

2010-03-06T23:00:00Z

2x10 Part 20

Season Finale

2x10 Part 20

  • 2010-03-06T23:00:00Z55m

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

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