Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes

Are you okay?

Just a second.

This can't be your first body.

No, but I know her.

Knew her.

We were classmates in grade school.

You dated for a while, right?

-No. -No.

She was always careful. I don't understand how she ended up here.

It looks like natural causes.

Out here?

Don't people use this field as a shortcut?

Isn't that a bit odd?

I hate to order an autopsy for "a bit odd."

It ruins the budget.

But…

A dead woman in the woods. We don't have a choice.

When is the ambulance coming?

What's the ambulance going to do?

-Transport her-- -You watch too many movies.

In the movies, the ambulance comes and picks up the bodies.

They even use blue lights, as if it's a matter of life and death.

But it isn't. It's just death.

Who else is going to pick her up?

HALLANGEN FUNERAL PARLOR

Three. Three behind the register.

Yeah. Is the blue one there?

Yes, the blue one too.

The blue one too. Okay.

Plus 30.

Plus six.

There are 39 urns up here.

Thirty-nine. And then check…

-What about the caskets then? -Yes.

Let's see.

So we have…

one, two… We have five of the 21 casket.

Five… just a moment. Five 21s.

And we have one mahogany-stained cherry wood.

Which would have saved Christmas.

But no one dies in Skarnes.

The police.

Let's see…

-Yes, it's… -Yes, of course.

This is Hallangen Funeral Parlor, Arvid speaking.

Yes, thank you.

The funeral parlor can't pick up

Live Hallangen.

Why not?

Hallangen Funeral Parlor.

Live Hallangen.

Even though it's your sister we're getting,

a funeral director is a swan.

Poised and elegant on the surface, while the legs…

While the legs work like crazy under the water. I know.

Odd. Come on.

One, two, and three.

Let's see, then.

Found in a field outside Skarnes.

-You know what they say about Skarnes? -No.

In the '90s, they said it was the perfect place to kill someone.

-Why? -Because the police were lazy.

Or are lazy?

I see no signs of superficial injuries, no trauma to the torso, legs or head.

I hate to say it, but it looks like natural causes.

A woman in her early thirties?

An ailment, a sudden seizure, a blood clot caused by birth control,

or maybe an overdose.

Yeah, but we're still going to…

Of course we'll do an autopsy. We're at work, after all.

It costs the rural police half their annual budget

to order an autopsy.

The Skarnes police earned a reputation for how they…

-What? -That's strange.

What is?

The deceased hemorrhaging post mortem.

Huh?

Yeah, but… look.

What?

I'm just noting that it's strange.

That's what I said.

So what?

It's not like I'm writing "strange" in the report

and stealing your genius observation.

Shall we go on, or is it too strange for you?

No, it's not too strange for me.

No? It's not? Great.

Let's declare Live Hallangen open for business.

We declare Live Hallangen open for business.

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Hallangen Funeral Parlor, Arvid speaking.

Yes, hello. Are you Live Hallangen's closest relative?

Yes.

It's hard to explain what's happened here,

if it's routine error or a miracle.

She's not dead.

She woke up at the forensic institute,

and she's been placed under observation at…

Shit.

Odd…

-Hi. -Hi.

Hi.

You're happy.

Yes.

What happened?

You don't remember?

Hello, Live.

Hello.

-So you're awake. -Yes.

-How are you? -Well…

-Great. -Look straight ahead, please.

Yes, good.

What happened?

You were dead.

Or we thought you were dead.

Yeah, some joggers found you

out in the field near the old barn,

and then they called the police, the police called us, and we came

and picked you up, took you to the coroner,

and you woke up on the autopsy table.

You came… You came to pick me up? You mean you and Dad?

Who else?

Like Odd says, you were found in a field,

and we think you had a seizure

while on a walk.

Do you remember if you were out for a walk?

No.

Well…

-Yesterday? -Thursday evening.

What day is it?

Today is Monday.

How could you think I was dead?

Medically speaking, it could be due to hypothermia,

a cooling of the body.

It can cause this kind of apparent death.

Hypothermia causes body temperature to drop severely,

and all bodily functions,

cellular metabolism, slow down a lot.

It can be lethal. The heart can stop.

We've had cases where the heart stopped for seven hours

in the most serious instances.

Hey, Odd.

Can you go out and tell Reinert and Judith that Live is awake?

They're waiting in the café.

-Sure. -Great.

-Can you bring me a drink? -Yes.

-Yes? -Dad?

-Hi, Odd. -She's awake now.

Is she… different?

She looks really good, actually.

A little tired, of course, but…

So you can visit now if you want to.

-No. -All right.

-Or, yeah… -I'll see you at home.

-See you at home, then. -Yes.

-Bye. -Bye.

I want you to come for checkups for a while,

for blood tests and observation.

Yes, absolutely.

I just still don't understand

what's wrong with me.

Nothing.

All your tests are very good.

So, if you're ready, you can be released today.

Only if you feel well enough.

Where are you going?

To find the vending machine, of course.

Yeah, so it was obviously a shock, but…

Hi there.

The police want to talk to you, so I'll wait in the room.

Yeah.

-Hi. -Stocking up for winter?

You want a few more?

Life is clearly too short to only pick one.

Do you have a few minutes?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Your clothes from the forensic institute.

Thank you.

We want to apologize for this whole situation.

We take full responsibility.

For ordering an autopsy

when I wasn't dead enough to be sent in for one?

-In our defense, you looked really dead. -Very.

What we want to say now…

What I want to say now,

is that the press will want to write about this.

-The local paper? -No.

All of them. They've all called.

-They want to sensationalize this. -Yes.

"The police sent a living girl to be buried

by her own family."

That kind of thing.

-Isn't that what you did? -Yes.

-No. -No.

Well…

We're just trying to look out for you in all of this, Live.

Did she get mad at me?

Because she…

No?

I just felt there was some negative energy between us there.