Guns in the sun

Ashley Walters and Noel Clarke take on Cape Town’s criminal underworld as Bulletproof heads to South Africa

- SEAN MARLAND, IAN MACEWAN

Bullets and banter will be flying through the air as cop buddies Aaron ‘Bish’ Bishop and Ronnie Pike return for a new adrenaline-fuelled three-part series of Bulletproof set in Cape Town.

The two detectives from the UK’s National Crime Agency had been hoping to chill out on a much-needed family holiday, but in this week’s first episode they’re soon caught up in the terrifying kidnap of a young girl.

Having befriended the child’s parents earlier that day, Bishop (Noel Clarke) and Pike (Ashley Walters) decide it’s their duty to help the couple get their daughter back. But they soon come up against a deadly criminal gang in an action-packed mission that takes them to a tough South African prison.

TV&Satellite Week caught up with Walters, 38, and Clarke, 45, to find out more…

Where do we find the boys as this story begins?