He looked like a pretty happy, off-duty, nightclub bouncer – and with the big fight ahead of him, it might be best that he did.
In fairness to the individual police officers, they did not seem happy with this duty.
So has Bond tried Line of Duty, Happy Valley, or Breaking Bad?
Completely good police officers make dull viewing, which is why both Happy Valley and Line of Duty (season three starts this month) have central characters under internal scrutiny.
And, although dramas such as this year's Happy Valley and Line of Duty attracted objections over graphic depictions of physical damage, even the most extreme scenes seemed to me justified as depictions of the reality of violence against police in contemporary society.
As for predictions and preferences, the jurors with the hardest task look to be those required to separate Happy Valley and Line of Duty in drama series, and their respective stars, Sarah Lancashire and Keeley Hawes, in leading actress.
Today's television is dominated by multi-part dramas adapted from novels – War and Peace and The Night Manager – or stories with the potential to return for several runs: Line of Duty, Happy Valley.
The BBC can still produce edgy output – Fleabag, NW, Line of Duty, Happy Valley, Sherlock – but whoever succeeds Rona Fairhead and Lord Hall of Birkenhead as chair of the BBC Trust and director general must urgently ensure that a culture of obedience does not restrict the broadcaster to heritage TV: wildlife, classic novel adaptations, remade 70s sitcoms.
The most notable recent dramas – Line of Duty, Happy Valley, Downton – stick to plain old "episode one", although after doing nothing fancy with The Shadow Line, Hugo Blick named each instalment of the Honourable Woman, and cumulatively, they achieved a sort of terse, doomed poetry (Two Hearts, The Paring Knife, The Hollow Wall …).
