Face to Face (Forhøret)

POLICE

FACE TO FACE

Copenhagen, Department of Forensic Medicine

Hi, Frank.

Hi, Bjørn.

- What do you want? - You've got a Jane Doe?

Right there. I didn't know it was your case.

Andersen's kid is sick. I'm helping out.

I brought the dental records of a girl gone missing 14 days now.

- Will you check if it's her? - Sure, when I've got time. Bye.

Can't you reveal what we've got here?

Suicide.

You're off duty. There's no case. It's not even nine yet.

- Funny. - I can be.

Give me the extended version for Andersen.

- You wanna see her? - Just tell me what you've got.

Young woman, stabbed to death.

Several hesitation wounds of varying depth around the heart, so...

- She was afraid. - Suicide?

A girl stabs herself in the heart and Frank deems it suicide.

Bjørn, we go through this every time.

If you wanted to be a medical examiner, you should have stayed in school.

Every day, about 20 people try to commit suicide in Denmark. 2-3 succeed.

Many of them choose to stab themselves in the heart, so...

Afraid you say. How do you know?

I don't. But the term "hesitation wounds" implies it.

She searched...

Maybe she searched for a reason not to plunge in the knife.

Or maybe she searched for that last reason to plunge in the knife.

She stabbed herself around the heart several times before she plunged it in.

- Choose the motive that fits you. - You are sure she's dead?

- So long, Bjørn. - You've been wrong before. Remember?

Fine. I'll make sure to check out the dental records.

Bjørn, what's going on?

It's...

It's my...

It's my little Christina lying there.

You shouldn't be in here. Let's go outside.

Richard, Frank speaking, from the morgue.

Listen, the girl that was brought in last night from Amaliegade...

Bjørn's here with me -

and I think it might be his daughter.

Thanks. Yes, of course.

Bjørn, Richard wants to talk to you.

- Bjørn. - Bjørn...

Go sit outside. I'll be right over.

Are you there? Bjørn?

What happened?

- I just told you... - So tell me again.

Explain why my daughter is lying there.

Bjørn, I don't know.

What happened to her? What happened to her? Answer me.

- I don't... - You claim she committed suicide.

Everything indicates suicide. I did a routine examination.

Routine?! Handling a colleague's daughter isn't routine!

I didn't know. I can't know who she is, can I?

Bjørn, let's get out of here.

Listen to me.

Let's go over this from the top, okay?

- Where was she found? The address? - Amaliegade.

And what happened on Amaliegade?

I don't know.

- You were present at the find site? - Yes.

What did you see?

Christina didn't live on Amaliegade. So what was she doing there?

- I don't know. - Where was she lying?

It's in the report.

I told you we'd take it from the top. Talk me through this, okay?

Listen, Bjørn.

It was an ordinary find.

She was found alone in the living room.

She'd been lying there for a couple of hours, bleeding through the floor.

The lady downstairs calls it in because blood is dripping from her ceiling.

She's lying face down. It was executed standing. It's a clear case of suicide.

A clear case?! She's lying in an apartment without any kind of ID.

Isn't that just a little suspicious?

- How the hell should I know? - Use your head!

Why is Christina lying in an apartment without ID, bleeding through the floor?

Bjørn, I'm a medical examiner. I describe what I see.

You're talking about police work. Okay?

- Was she dressed? - Yes.

She didn't have any scratch marks or any signs of struggle.

- What else did you find? - The usual livor mortis.

Blisters between epidermis and dermis. Petechiae in eyes and gums.

There's not a lot to find in suicide cases.

Hesitation wounds? You hesitate because you're afraid, right?

Yes, because you're afraid, doubtful, uncertain.

When people slit their wrist or throat -

- we see six-seven superficial wounds before they apply force.

You like talking about it, huh?

What do you mean? It's my job.