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- 6.31152E8 (dbd:second)
- Lund and another rogue police officer search the house that Theis and Vagn were building, looking for more evidence against Vagn. Troels Hartmann is drinking more heavily and expressing paranoia towards other staff. He fires Rie Skorsgard, suspecting her of being the unknown person who had access to town hall keys and video. The prosecutor and police captain re-arrest Lund, but the captain grants her wish of a forensic technician at Theis's new house. When Vagn hears of this at Anton's birthday party, he asks the whole family to join him for a birthday surprise. The forensic team finds evidence that Nanna Birk Larsen was abused beneath the floor of the basement that Vagn had built. Mayor Bremer sends Hartmann a photo of Hartmann congratulating Nanna Birk Larsen for a school sports event. This prompts Morten to reveal that he tampered with evidence linking Nanna to the town hall, to protect Hartmann. Vagn drives Theis out to a forest, chased by Lund. Vagn confesses to Theis that he did not approve of Nanna's relationship with Amir, and had kidnapped Nanna, abused her in the new house, and then killed her. Vagn asks Theis to kill him using a shotgun he brought. Lund and Pernille arrive and ask him not to. Theis kills Vagn. The police chief offers Sarah a job elsewhere in exchange for ending investigation into Morten's deeds. Lund refuses. Hartmann drinks all night, but Morten has hired a new assistant for him, who gives him instructions. Lund wanders off down the street. (en)
- Leon Frevert, Vagn's friend who worked at the removal company related to murder victim Nanna and the previous victim Mette, evades police pursuit while Lund's lack of sleep causes her judgement to decline. She begs Meyer to follow her into a storage unit where clues relating to Mette's murder might be found. They are separated. An unknown assailant, who is seen by Meyer, shoots him several times. In the hospital, the doctor promises that Meyer will recover, but Meyer dies unexpectedly. Police officials try again to take Lund off the case. Anton Birk Larsen, Theis Larsen's son, finds Nanna's passport in the basement of their new house, still under construction. He hides it. The Larsens begin to try to reconcile with Vagn. (en)
- The prosecutor accuses Sarah Lund of shooting Jan Meyer due to her anxiety and paranoia. Bengt helps get her a temporary release with a fake psychological report. Mayor Bremer suffers a non-lethal stroke. Troels Hartmann accuses Rie Skorsgard of being part of the conspiracy and asks her to leave. Someone has taken Nanna's passport from the hiding place that Anton had found; Theis scolds him for lying. Troels Hartmann becomes more paranoid about involvement in the murder due to Bremer's accusations. The police try to recapture Sarah Lund due to the fake release papers, reporting that the passport was found at Leon Frevert's residence. Sarah finds out that Mette Hauge's boyfriend gave her a black heart necklace. Pernille Birk Larsen asks Anton who he thinks took the passport; he is implied to suggest Vagn, and Pernille begins attempting to follow up on that by double-checking about a removal appointment that Vagn had cancelled. Sarah meets Vagn and sees him wearing a shirt with the a logo that matches Jan Meyer's last words. (en)
- Hartmann admits he had used the username Faust on the dating site, but claims he had stopped using the site months before the messages were exchanged with Nanna. He provides Lund with a list of people who might know his password. Meyer checks Hartmann's alibi and finds that no one at the conference saw him until Sunday afternoon. Rie admits she never saw Hartmann on the Friday night that Nanna was kidnapped. Nethe, the woman who Hartmann had previously met on the dating site, says she phoned Hartmann that night and attempted to visit the party's flat, but she believes the person she had seen through the window was not Hartmann. Pernille and Theis attend grief counselling, and Pernille agrees to be interviewed by a journalist. (en)
- The police examine the blood and drugs found in the boiler room. Lund questions Jeppe, Oliver's friend and the head of the student council, who had access to the cellar. Troels calls Sarah for a meeting at a cafe. Sara's Swedish boyfriend, Bengt, returns home. Sarah finds expensive boots while searching Nanna's room. Sarah questions Theis and Pernille about the boots. Pernille visits Lisa at the school. Rie confronts Morten about the leak and shows the email in his inbox, but he denies writing it. The forensic team finds bed sores on Nanna's body, indicating she was drugged and raped multiple times, and then cleaned afterwards. The police suspect the work of a serial offender. Jan recovers a mobile video from Jeppe showing Oliver having sex with a girl similar to Nanna in the boiler room. (en)
- The police search the flat, which belongs to Troels's Liberal Party, finding Nanna's blood and fingerprints. Sarah and Jan question Troels but are interrupted by Deputy Chief Lennart Brix, who lets Troels go. Theis is released from custody. Charlotte reveals to Sarah and Jan that Nanna was having an affair with a married man whom she called Faust, and they met in hotels and a flat. Sarah makes a fake dating profile and finds another profile named Faust. The police find that Faust contacted Nanna on the dating site, which is supported by the bar in which Charlotte and Nanna worked. Log files reveal that Faust logged on from the flat and used the Town Hall WiFi. Buckard is discharged from duty and Brix takes charge. Sarah questions Troels’s employees, including Olav Christensen. Sarah and Jan question a married woman, Nethe, who dated Faust through the site, but initially she denies knowing anything. Nethe visits the police and reveals Faust's identity. Sarah and Jan arrest Troels. (en)
- Hartmann is questioned by police about his false alibi but refuses to divulge where he had really been. Sarah asks Olav about extra money in his payslip, suspecting that it came from the killer. Olav approaches Bremer in the mistaken belief that Bremer has been sending him money in exchange for favours, but Bremer does not recognise him. Before the police can find and question him, Olav is struck by a car and dies. Theis empties Nanna's bedroom of her belongings, believing this will encourage Pernille to begin moving on from Nanna's death. Instead, a devastated Pernille demands that Theis leave their house. (en)
- Philip Dessau, Bremer's press advisor, tells the police that the consulting money in Olav's pay was routed through Hartmann's office. The police investigate Hartmann's summer home and find that the windows and doors have been covered up with mattresses and towels. Hartmann admits that he tried to kill himself there on the Friday night of Nanna's death. The city councillors bring Hartmann before a tribunal and vote to exclude him from the mayoral election. In light of Hartmann's new alibi, Sarah suspects that Dessau had been the driver of the white car that struck Olav, and she questions Jens Holck about his behaviour during a trip to Latvia in August. While interviewing Holck, Sarah finds the car hidden in his garage. Theis is attacked and robbed while drunk outside of a bar, and he misses Nanna's urn burial. (en)
- Sarah and Jan break into the flat. Sarah finds Lynge, who tells her he was at the hospital and someone has stolen the car. Jan shows up at the scene, forcing Lynge to flee. He falls from the building, injuring himself. While Lynge is moved to the hospital, journalists mob Troels’s office. The police find Nanna's costume in the bicycle cellar at her school, but her cycle is still missing. Sarah and Jan question Oliver, but are interrupted by Oliver's father. Troels finds out that his campaign secretary, Morten, leaked the information to the press. Sarah questions Lynge at the hospital; he tells her about a boiler room near the cellar. Jan discovers the boiler room, finding signs of blood, drugs and struggle. (en)
- Lund receives a mysterious video cassette showing Nanna talking with Jens Holck before travelling. Theis Birk Larsen receives a video from Amir, his landlord's son, with a message from Nanna saying that she and Amir are eloping. Lund and Meyer follow up leads relating to Mette. Circumstantial evidence shows that it may have been a removal worker in both cases. (en)
- Sarah and Jan review the surveillance tape, and it shows a man taking the car while a party was being held at Troels’s office. Bengt leaves for Sweden without Sarah. Jan finds a number missing in the report of Nanna's phone details, and he suspects that Chief Inspector Buchard is covering for a politician. Sarah and Jan question a taxi driver who drove Nanna from Ryparken to Gronningen on the night of the party; he reveals that Nanna made him stop at the Town Hall and went inside for a few minutes. Pernille learns that Nanna had opened saving accounts in her brothers' names and deposited 11,000 kroner. Sarah recovers a video of Troels's party at the Town Hall that shows Holck, leader of the Moderate Party, leaving early. Sarah questions Troels regarding Holck; Buchard discharges her from duty. Pernille learns that her sister, Charlotte, got Nanna a temporary job at the bar where she works, and Nanna started seeing a man there. Charlotte reveals that she and Theis found Nanna drunk in a hotel room one night. Sarah tries the key found with Nanna in the buildings near Gronningen; she discovers the keys belong to a flat where she finds posters from Troels's campaign and signs of blood and struggle. (en)
- Lund and Meyer continue to try to work out who the removal worker was whom Amir saw, and who was involved with Mette's murder. It appears to be either Vagn or Vagn's similar-looking friend Leon. Leon points out to the Larsens that Vagn lied about a certain removal job that he claimed to have done, causing the Larsens to become suspicious of Vagn. A body is found in the same swamp where Nanna was found, with evidence linking it to the previous removal company that had been active when Mette was killed. Mayor Bremer covers up evidence of his having covered up Jens Holck's involvement with Nanna. (en)
- Sarah gets off her flight to Sweden because she fears for Rama's safety. The police search for Rama, who hasn't returned home. Jan is surprised to see Sarah. Theis drives Rama to a harbour, but leaves him unharmed. Sarah and Jan question Rama, who confesses that on the night of the party, Nanna briefly visited him in his flat at Ryparken to return some books, and she left her bicycle in front of his house. Troels decides not to suspend Rama. The police search Rama's flat and question him. Sarah suspects Rama of lying. Sarah questions Rama's neighbour, who reveals that Rama took a girl from his flat to a car waiting outside with an Arab person in it. Sarah's boyfriend, Bengt, visits her, asking her to come to Sweden, but she refuses until she has solved the case. She gives Nanna's file to Bengt, who is a criminal psychologist, to help her profile the killer. The police listen to a threatening call Rama made in Arabic to a friend; Jan tries to track down the friend. (en)
- A woman is chased by an unknown person in the woods. Inspector Sarah Lund's Danish colleagues throw her a surprise farewell party as she is emigrating to Sweden along with her son, to live with her boyfriend. At an isolated site, police find blood, a woman's clothes, and a video card in Theis Birk Larsen's name. Sarah and new DCI Inspector Jan Meyer are called to the scene. Theis runs a transport company and lives with his wife Pernille, daughter Nanna and two sons. Troels Hartmann, a government education minister, is standing to be Mayor of Copenhagen; the incumbent, Poul Bremer, offers him a deal to back out but he refuses. Sarah and Jan question Pernille and ask her to call her daughter Nanna, who supposedly spent the night at a girlfriend's; Nanna is unreachable. The police gather Nanna's class for questioning, cancelling the mayoral debate at the school. Meanwhile, Lisa, Nanna's best friend, leaves and searches for Nanna, presuming her to be with Oliver, her ex-boyfriend. Theis goes to Oliver's house, but Nanna is not there. Sarah leads a search party into the woods, missing her farewell reception and flight. They find Nanna's body in the boot of a car submerged in a nearby waterway. The car belongs to Troels's campaign office. (en)
- The police search for Theis, who has taken Rama to an old warehouse. Theis savagely beats Rama, but the police arrive and Theis is arrested. Sarah visits Bengt in hospital to discuss the case. He asks her to look into the car again, calling it the best lead. Sarah examines its mileage log and suspects that the car was refuelled before the murder by the killer. She gets the name of the petrol station used to fuel the campaign cars and recovers its surveillance tapes. Sarah recognises the man refuelling the car as the employee who handles car keys at the office; he tells Sarah that he found the car at the school and returned it to the Town Hall car park, putting the keys in the office. The surveillance tape is missing. Sarah asks Jan to look for cold cases related to missing girls over the past ten years. (en)
- Jan and Sarah visit Rama's father, an imam at the mosque, while they search for Rama's friend, Mustafa Akkad. Rama's father tells them that Mustafa rents garages. The police find Mustafa's garage, where in a hidden cell they find a mattress and a girl's clothes. Pernille recognises a sweatshirt similar to one owned by Nanna. Bengt, who has been studying Nanna's file, has an accident and is admitted to hospital; Bengt tells Sarah that the killer has a modus operandi, and so must be a serial offender. The police arrest Rama, but release him due to lack of evidence. He goes back to work, but the students don’t want to attend his class. Troels is informed that as a role model, Rama had access to the same car used by the killer. Police arrest and question Mustafa, who reveals that Rama helped a girl fleeing an arranged marriage and allowed her stay at the garage. Theis kidnaps Rama. (en)
- Sarah and Jan question Theis and Pernille. The detectives meet with Troels and his advisor, Rie. While asking Hartmann's campaign about the car, the vehicle's most recent driver, John Lynge, manages to escape. Sarah's chief asks her to stay until the conclusion of the case. Sarah questions Lisa, and the police place the car at Nanna's school during a Halloween party, after which Nanna went missing. Troels wants to release a press statement regarding the campaign's association with Lynge, but Sarah asks him to wait; the press gets hold of the information anyway. Sarah and Jan question Lynge's sister, leading them to a flat; Lynge breaks into the neighbouring flat, taking a blind woman as hostage. (en)
- Sarah searches the boiler room again, recovering a broken earring. Jan shows the video to Oliver, but he says the girl in the video isn't Nanna. Lisa confesses to Sarah that it was her in the boiler room with Oliver. Sarah and Jan interview the school's teachers; Rama, one of the teachers, tells them that Nanna wrote an erotic story recently about a secret affair between a married man and a young girl. Nanna's paper is missing; the principal suggests that Henning, a linguistics teacher who has access to the papers, could have taken it. Sarah and Jan meet Henning at his house and recover the paper; on noticing porn magazines, Jan questions him. Henning reveals that Rama was once accused of sexual assault at the school, but the girl retracted her statement. Morten asks Troels not to trust the civil servants, suspecting they might secretly be working for Mayor Bremer. Rama visits Pernille at her house with flowers from the school. Realising the police are questioning the teachers, Theis asks his employee, Vagn, to gather information about the case from a source in the school. (en)
- Jens reveals he had used Hartmann's computer to meet Nanna, had paid Olav to use the Liberal party's flat, and had doctored documents to implicate Hartmann. He attacks Sarah, but Meyer arrives and kills him. Although the case is considered solved, Sarah still has doubts. She visits the father of Mette, one of the missing girls from the cold case files, and finds a photograph of her wearing a black heart necklace similar to the one found with Nanna's body. The city council's decision to exclude Hartmann from the election is revoked. (en)
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