The Protectors: Season 1
The first season of the Danish drama created by Peter Thorsboe follows Jasmina, Rasmus, and Jonas as the three newest members of the elite Personal Protection Unit based in Copenhagen. Operating under the Danish national police branch PET, which is tasked with the personal protection of politicians and the royal family as well as preventive work concerning terrorism and stalking, these operatives must guard individua
Season 1 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The Danish national police branch PET is responsible for personal protection, focusing mainly on politicians and the royal family.
- PET handles preventive work concerning issues such as terrorism and stalking.
- Jasmina, Rasmus, and Jonas join the elite Personal Protection Unit based in Copenhagen as its newest members.
- Team members must navigate the pressures of their profession while managing personal concerns, including ethnic background-related matters and relational tensions.
Season overview
The first season of the Danish drama created by Peter Thorsboe follows Jasmina, Rasmus, and Jonas as the three newest members of the elite Personal Protection Unit based in Copenhagen. Operating under the Danish national police branch PET, which is tasked with the personal protection of politicians and the royal family as well as preventive work concerning terrorism and stalking, these operatives must guard individuals recognized as potential targets for terrorist groups. Across the ten episodes of the season, the narrative follows these team members in their day-to-day duties as they adjust to the intense pressures of their new jobs. At the same time, they attempt to maintain balance in their personal lives while managing personal concerns such as ethnic background-related issues and relational tensions.
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Part 1
Jan 1, 2009 · 55 min
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 p
Part 2
Jan 4, 2009 · 55 min
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
Part 3
Jan 11, 2009 · 55 min
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
Part 4
Jan 18, 2009 · 55 min
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 Egypti
Part 5
Jan 25, 2009 · 55 min
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 ha
Part 6
Feb 1, 2009 · 55 min
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
Part 7
Feb 8, 2009 · 55 min
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 di
Part 8
Feb 15, 2009 · 55 min
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
Part 9
Feb 22, 2009 · 55 min
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 scientificall
Part 10
Mar 1, 2009 · 55 min
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 tra