Fortitude

- _ - The demon's jaw crunching.

Man's head is full of fairytales.

The victim was assaulted, murdered and decapitated.

I'm not leaving my home and that's what the doctor will do.

He punched Hildur Odegard.

Michael Lennox! Your boat!

Three hundred thousand tons of ice and snow buried forever.

We're just clinging on.

Dan?

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Dan has acute alcoholic poisoning.

Traces of ethylene glycol still in his blood, antifreeze,

coolant, can't be sure... that's why we have him on dialysis.

There's renal failure, cardiovascular compromise.

In your opinion, the condition you see him in now...

would he have been capable of...

strenuous physical activity in the last twenty four hours?

I'm surprised he could even walk.

How did he survive all that time and we never saw him, heard him? Nobody.

Could he have anything to do with the dead man?

I'll find out.

- How is she? - Afloat.

It's horrible. It's like an assault on somebody you love.

Probably get the wiring done today.

Patch up the rest tomorrow and Saul's got cable he can...

- Michael. - Pick up a finder second hand.

There's no money for a finder.

Every boat in the fleet is out there, using that data, my data.

Hauling in money.

The Muriel's finished.

I'll be on the crab by the weekend.

Michael. Baby. You have to start facing up to reality.

I am.

You okay?

Mum. Listen. Anything unusual... Or anybody around who shouldn't

be out here, let me know. Okay? Call me.

So that man was murdered then.

Just call me.

Eric? This thing wasn't bent out of shape.

It's supposed to be like this. It's called a wrecker bar.

Geologists use them.

FARC said only one of their researchers has one like this.

It's a German make.

Laszlo Hindemith. Arrived here last month.

Connecting flight from Kinshasa.

He rents a place out on the airport road. Five, Amundsunveien.

So let's go...

Hindemith works at the geology department at FARC, but he's not

affliated to the centre.

He is an independent researcher. Freelance, no colleagues.

What was he researching?

Nobody knows.

Mr. Hindemith! Fortitude Police!

I could probably get in through the kitchen window...

Mr. Hindemith!

There's nobody home.

He's been living here a month.

Eric?

Aruwamo. I think that's where Hindemith was based.

The Congo.

Mustard. Mustard and chilli sauce. And no hotdogs.

Hot spices and condiments.

This kind of food can be a sign of depression.

People need the kick it gives them to feel alive.

He was taking animal sedative.

Anything else?

What? No... Just drugs...

Lots of drugs. Yeah.

Prints and swabs, then we can bag it all.

Don't go in today.

I have a date... with a hermaphroditic reindeer foetus.

So I'm chucked.

You are so chucked.

Thought you were done with those biopsies. The reindeer...

Thought you had ran out of little foetuses.

Few left.

I saw absolutely no behavioural changes in the first rat.

When the larvae matured inside, the rat simply died.

The larvae feasted on the rat's tissues.

Standard parasitical wasp outcome.

Perhaps the wasps function as a vector.

Like mosquitoes and malaria, deer tick and Lyme's disease,

sand fly and Oncochersiasis.

Oncochersiasis?

A sandfly gouges a wound in the victims flesh in order to feed

the parasitic roundworm forces its way out of the sandfly's

head into the victim's blood.

Result... river blindness.

There's just no nice way to be a parasite, is there?

How do you mean?

- I'm being facetious. - Oh, I see.

The wasp I brought down from the glacier is clean.

It's not a vector for anything horrific. It's just... a wasp.

- It's a nasty little syringe with nothing in it. - Yes.

Then we can declare an all-clear. We can start telling people this.

That would be... injudicious.

Injudicious?

Precipitatous. Premature. Ill-advised.

That's a "no", isn't it?

You might think I'm not smiling at these occasional witticisms

because I'm humourless.

You might think that, Natalie, but you'd be wrong.

I'm not smiling much at all these days because everything about

this place has me shitting my pants in expectation of some

hurtling environmental catastrophe.

Boom boom.

Ow, fuck!

You can't take this boat out there.

The fire did us a favour. Just collect the insurance.

Make the best of it.

There is no insurance.

'Course there is.

Michael.

It's gone.

You didn't tell me.

What would it matter if I told you or not...?

Lamont...?

I couldn't let you go out there alone.

We both know what the seas are like this time of year.

Get the fuck off my boat.

The Muriel wouldn't have made it back...

Get the fuck off my boat!

I need to speak to Rune straight away. Rune Lennox...

Fortitude police need to ask him some questions...

Is he in some kind of trouble?

No... I need to ask...

What's the flight time from Kinshasha to Oslo?

What?

Would Hindemith fly in from the D.R.C via Schiphol?

Err? I'll find out.

Who's that, what's going on?

Nothing. I'll check the flights for you now.

Now I know I've got to run away.

I've got to get away, you don't really want any more from me,

to make things right, you need someone to hold you tight.

I'm not convinced this is a suitable environment.

It's the only suitable environment.

She'd be more comfortable in my hospital.

Until the patient has been determined to be

pathogenically sterile, then it is my responsibility to contain her.

Isn't that right, Governor Odegard?

The specialist committee from the mainland agreed this arrangement.

Yes.

You think this is acceptable?

Keeping the girl like a rat in a Perspex box?

The subject is in an irreversible vegetative comatose condition.

I'm sorry, governor, had I been part of that conversation, I would

never have agreed to do this.

Maybe he's right.

Here, she contributes. Her sacrifice has meaning.

What we learn from her may yet save lives.

Doctor. Governor.

And her existence is not without some stimulation.

Fortitude police.

It's Michael Lennox.

I just saw a flare go up near Matti's husky pen.

It's a reindeer. We're four months too early for bear.

I know, but it's still gotta be logged, Eric!

Michael, you see Matti, you tell him, frankly I've more

important shit to worry about.

I did what I could for you Hildur.

But they were always going to get you.

What is this?

You gave them their excuse. You'd loaded the gun yourself.

What gun? What, what are you talking about?

In direct contravention of express instructions from

minister himself.

You released fuel subsidies.

Yes, I know... but I, I had to do that.

Without authorisation.

The fleet had to have fuel.

I told you this would never work on the ground, Erling, Oslo

always trying to second guess...

You're right. It didn't work.

The idea of prosecution was mooted. Criminal prosecution.

Misappropriation of governmental...

you know the kind of shit they can cook up without even blinking.

Who's behind this?

They all are.

Termination of appointment.

You will be given time within reason to clear your desk and to

make interim arrangements.

I will be in charge during the transitional period.

Until a new appointment is made.

New appointment.

As of this time, you are no longer the governor of Fortitude.

I'll check into my room. Give you time to take this in.

Hey.

Hi, mum. Rune's been messing around with a girl.