Forsvinningen på Lørenskog

THIS IS A DRAMA SERIES BASED ON REAL EVENTS.

VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUALS FEATURED.

SOME NAMES, INCIDENTS AND LOCATIONS,

AND DIALOGUE HAVE BEEN FICTIONALIZED FOR DRAMATIC PURPOSES.

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Two minutes, 40 seconds.

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EPISODE 1 THE INVESTIGATORS

Police. How can I help?

OCTOBER 31, 2018

- Hello? Hi. - Yes, hello.

Yes, hello? It's, uh, my wife.

- She's gone. - I see. Can I take your name?

Yes, it's, uh, Tom Hagen.

They... They've taken her. I'm in quite some shock.

I understand. Where are you calling from, Tom?

- Well, I'm at home. - Right. You're at number 4 Sloraveien?

- Yes. - In Lørenskog. Is that right?

- Yes, that is right. - Okay, Tom.

We'll send a patrol car straight over to you.

No, no, don't send them here.

Because there is a note.

A note?

Yes. A ransom note.

I'm sure that must sound strange, but it says in the note

that I cannot contact the police.

So she's been kidnapped?

Yes, she's not here. Someone's taken her.

Yes, I'm sorry. I apologise. There was obviously a miscommunication.

- -

I said to them, "You can't come in-in uniform".

That should've been easy to follow.

They came in uniform.

They were talking loudly on the telephone.

And they said my name.

And...

...if...

If the kidnappers realise that I've contact... contacted the police...

...they will kill Lisbeth.

- You understand? - Yes, I understand.

He got worried when she didn't pick up, so he went home and found the house empty.

Where did he find the ransom note?

On a chair in the hall.

They're asking for nine million euros for her safe return, and to pay it in Monero.

- What is that? - Cryptocurrency that can't be traced.

- Right. - Didn't you know that?

- Did you? - No, but you should have.

Oh, really?

- Eva? - Yeah?

Anything on the ransom note?

Mm-mmm. No, I still have work left to do.

- Okay. - I'll come back to you.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

"If you involve police and media, you put pressure on us.

Too much pressure on us, we will choose freedom above money.

We lower our risk if we kill and then drop off

the body of Anne-Elisabeth and disappear.

Maybe you think you can involve police secretly,

help to find her, without pressure on us.

Bad idea.

We have long watched everybody,

Anne-Elisabeth and more family a long time,

and we all still keep eye on you".

Right.

Holger and Anne from Kripos will work with us from the East region.

- Hey. - Jorunn and Michael.

- Hi. - Hey.

As our police prosecutor, Haris is formally in charge of this case.

I'm the watchdog.

How seriously should we take this threat?

Uh, until we've established otherwise,

we'll assume that the kidnappers are watching the whole family.

If we follow that,

it means that the kidnappers surely know that Hagen has been in contact.

So every fucking hour and minute matters to us.

But we can't risk doing anything that might get Anne-Elisabeth Hagen murdered.

And that means top secrecy. A covert operation.

Yeah, but we have to talk to people who might have seen something.

We can't go knocking on doors and talk to the media like we normally do.

Then how in the hell are we supposed to investigate

without having any new leads?

This strategy is not open for any discussion at the moment.

As each day goes by, a witness will forget what they saw.

It's Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve.

Two days later, you've forgotten up to 70% of your experiences.

And it keeps dropping.

But you haven't had a case at Kripos like this before.

Tommy, none of us have had a case like this before.

We cannot take the slightest risk, though,

in case we put her life in greater danger.

Exactly. Life above all.

We'll begin with the family.

What are your thoughts on the ransom note?

In relation to the family contacting us.

I think that is very genuine.

The kidnappers could have set up a camera,

or they could be in a flat near to the house

and observing everything.

It is going to limit us.

Yeah.

But I agree that life is what matters.

We'll find a way around it.

I think you ought to lead this investigation.

And I will back you the whole way.

Hello. I'm leading the investigation.

- This is my daughter. - Hello, I'm Tommy.

- Hi. - Hello.

Sorry for what you're going through.

Firstly, I'd like to offer our deepest sympathy

for the awful situation that you find yourselves in.

So have you found my mother?

No. Not yet, I'm afraid.

But we will do all we can to get her back.

If the kidnappers understand that we're meeting you here now,

it has to be, uh,

very...

Then our mother's life will, uh, be in more danger.

Yes, we're doing everything to keep this enquiry secret.

That's why we're dressed as civilians.

So we think it's very unlikely anyone knows that we've met with you here.

It might be best for you to stay at the hotel for now,

so that we can protect you.

And we would like to tap the phones of the whole family.

But why?

That's because we assume the kidnappers will get in contact with you.

It's vital that we can trace them.

All right, so I left my telephone at home,

and that's where Lisbeth's phone is also.

Okay.

Hello?

Hey, Dad?

There you are.

Hi.

I can't stay.

- Another day, okay? -

- Okay? - I can hear fine.

- Yes, you can now. -

I have a huge case.

Finally.

That'll give those know-it-alls something to think about.

- Yes, come on. - What are you working on?

I can't tell you.

You can tell me something.

I'm a police officer.

- That's right. - Huh?

- You were one. - Yeah.

You've always been so damned secretive, huh?

You kept the secret when you won the lottery. For four days.

Until I saw it in the account.

- -

When were you going to tell me about it?

Sometimes, he thinks that I'm Mum.

She died over 20 years ago.

Suddenly, it's like he's back to before the accident.

Obviously, the doctor thinks there's Alzheimer's, but

he'll never get tested.

Yeah, everything's always fine.

My dad's like that.

Be careful where you step.

- Were they by the ransom note? - Yeah.

- - Hagen said it's her rings.

- I found a mobile. - I'm coming.

- How long have they lived here? - Since the '80s, when it was first built.

- It's very strange. - What is?

A billionaire who chooses to live like this.

POLICE

What if she ran away because she wanted a new life?

- Or it's her husband. - But why?

Statistics never lie.

What do we have on Tom Hagen?

He gets to his office at Futurum Business Park

while Anne-Elisabeth is talking to her son on the phone at 9:14.

He stays in his office throughout the whole morning.

He calls home several times. There's no answer.

In the end, he's so worried that he drives home.

- So that's airtight. - Yeah, that leaves us with the kidnapping.

Yeah.

Are we certain that there's a financial motive?

Well, they're asking for money.

It could be a professional gang

who've looked into the public tax records and found a rich guy with bad security.

HI, IT'S DAD. WHERE ARE YOU? WHEN ARE YOU COMING?

Okay, what about us then? I need to get back to the crime scene with my team.

- Uh-huh. - Yeah.

Jorunn, we've got to look for witnesses.

Find out what they've seen.

Is there any way we can do that without endangering her?

DAY 2

We're looking for a missing schoolgirl.

Okay?

Have you seen anything unusual in the area in the past few days?

I can't really think of anything that wasn't normal, no.

Well, she was sitting in her chair in the living room.