The Bridge (Bron/Broen)

Fucking hell.

- Has someone really stoned her? - It'd seem so.

The paramedics said she didn't die immediately. It took up to 100 blows.

The CCTV cameras don't record automatically.

Had the bridge workers seen anything, they'd have come straight here.

We found this.

- Jesus... - Let me see.

Margrethe Thormod. The director of the Immigration Board.

Okay...

The champagne scandal.

The Immigration Board says that threats against Thormod

increased substantially when this was leaked.

- Did she celebrate with them? - No, but she was their boss.

I don't see why this should outrage anyone.

- They were celebrating a deportation. - No, the end of a bureaucratic process.

- We go for beer when we close a case. - It's not quite the same.

Where's that Iranian homo they tried to deport?

Taariq Shirazi went underground as soon as he heard.

- Do they execute homos in Iran? - Shirazi said he'd face certain death.

Do they stone them?

- So if that awaited him... - A warrant's out for Shirazi.

Thormod was receiving threats. Go and talk to her husband Niels.

Let me just take a piss first.

- Are you okay? - Yes.

- And how is Saga doing? - Not very well.

Not at all.

We're getting two new girls today. From Hinseberg.

I don't know what they're called.

Did I tell you it's Cecilia's birthday? She's six.

I recorded a fairy tale for her, so she can hear my voice.

She probably won't recognise it.

She was with me for only two years and then got a new mother...

But still, it'll be as if I'm reading her a bedtime story.

You know which story I chose? Shall I tell it to you? Okay, I'll tell it to you.

- Do you want to play? - No.

- You never want to play. - If you know, why do you keep asking?

One of the new ones keeps staring at you.

- Do you know who she is? - Yes. Lucinda Ardic.

Serving life for three murders and two attempted police murders.

- Did you get her sent down? - No, it was in Stockholm.

- So why is she staring at you? - She hates police officers.

Lucky for you that you're not a police officer anymore then.

Hi. Henrik Sabroe, Copenhagen police. What's happened here?

It's Niels. He collapsed.

- Do you know him? - I'm his assistant.

He had an attack. Shock maybe. They'd been married for 30 years.

- How long have you worked for him? - Just over three years now.

- When did Margrethe leave? - She left the day before yesterday.

- And where was she going? - They have a cottage in Norway.

- She was on leave after a job incident. - We know about that.

- When did anyone last hear from her? - Not since she left, I think.

- Why not? - She needed to be alone.

She'd switched her phone off.

- Excuse me, I must get to the hospital. - Sure.

- Could the killer have got her in Norway? - It's not very likely.

So we're already 48 hours behind.

This will be a tough one for Lillian.

- Where's Jonas? - At forensics.

- The media know it was Thormod. - Thanks, I know.

- Who was there other than Jonas? - You think it was him?

Forget it. The media is going wild.

The Security Service wants to know if we're treating it as terrorism.

Due to a vague link to a Muslim?

Iran abolished stoning in 2002, but Amnesty thinks it's still being used.

- There and in five other countries. - Muslim countries?

- We don't know who did this or why. - I told them that.

We'll keep the Security Service informed, but this is our investigation.

Look.

This was sent to the Immigration Board after the champagne scandal.

"Red October"? Sounds like a radical left-wing group.

They've carried out their threats before both here and in Sweden.

"Deporting people to a certain death is inhumane and disgraceful."

- Written in Swedish. - Linn is expecting you.

Do you ever meet Saga?

A couple of times a month. She won't always see me.

- Do you? - No. I never got round to it.

This is what little we have on Red October.

- Saga's being sentenced in two days. - Yeah.

- I'm trying not to get my hopes up. - The new evidence should suffice.

They only need reasonable doubt.

- You think they'll acquit her? - I hope so.

That's good. To have hope.

Let's hope we won't be disappointed.

Richard Dahlqvist is here.

- So you're an expert? - I don't know about that.

I specialise in radical left-wing groups.

- Like Red October? - I don't know much about them.

- Why not? - They've only ever posted text online.

That's where they claim responsibility for attacks.

No films with them in it, no spokespeople, no manifestos.

- So it could be one person? - Their actions suggest a group.

- Why are you interested in them? - It concerns a murder investigation.

So far they've only attacked banks and companies, never individuals.

There's a first time for everything.

Who's the victim?

Margrethe Thormod. Director of the Danish Immigration Board.

Your refugee policy has upset many people in those circles.

- So they could've gone a step further? - Sure. But it's unlikely.

- But you said you didn't know much. - That's true.

If it was them who did this, they'll keep doing it, won't they?

A cop in prison.

- For killing your mum. - For being convicted of killing my mum.

- But you didn't? - No.

Saga, you have a visitor.

Give it a rest, Ardic!

We had to choose a hobby.

Sitting at the potter's wheel doesn't invite interaction with other inmates.

- What's happened since last time? - A new inmate arrived today.

- From Hinseberg. Lucinda Ardic. - Is that good or bad?

- It's all bad. Now it's worse. - We talked about this.

You should focus on reading and on your routines.

But they're not my routines. Somebody else decides everything.

- When I do stuff, what I do, with whom. - There are just two days to go.

Even with the new evidence it's a question of interpretation.

There are fewer verdicts of acquittal than there are...

- It only takes this much doubt. - If upheld, I face eight more years.

I've got a new case.

The director of the Danish Immigration Board has been killed. Stoned to death.

Anything to do with refugees and immigrants is big news.

- I could do with some help. - I'm not a police officer anymore.

No, I'm aware of that. But you're still the best.

I'm not a police officer anymore.

Are you coming?

Yeah.

Yeah.

REPORTED MISSING

Get out.

That's mine. Get out!

No! Let go! Let go!

- Stop it! Get out of here! - Get out!

- Out. - Back off!

Right now!

Come here.

Excuse me. Are you that journalist?

- Would it be good if I was? - Could be.

- You're more handsome in person. - Yeah, so I've heard.

- Robin. - Richard.

I know.

- Can I take a picture of us? - Sure.

Thanks.

- Do you drink? - Are you buying?

- Yeah. - In that case I drink.

The murder of Danish Immigration Board director Margrethe Thormod

has made big headlines. Today's papers write that she was being threatened...

Good morning.

What service!

For you...

For you...

LIVE FROM MALMÖ

It's a recording. I did it yesterday.

- But it says "live"... - Well, you know, nothing's real on TV.

Okay, it's not me, it's my twin brother.

- My name's Patrik. - Fuck!

That doesn't make me any worse in bed. Quite the opposite actually.

If that was all you wanted, you met the right brother.

Fuck you!

"God, grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change,

"the courage to change the things we can..."

- Hello. - How are you?

- I'm fine. You? - I'm fine, thanks.

- And the drugs, no relapses? - What do you know about that?

- I know all that I want to know. - Okay...

I'm fine. I've had no relapses.

- How's your girlfriend? - She wouldn't like being called that.

Good thing she can't hear me then.

- She's being sentenced tomorrow. - Then let's cross our fingers.

It's hard to get in the mood in those prison visiting rooms.

What were you doing in a prison visiting room?

You want to know about that phone, right?

Thormod books a taxi for 9.30 via an app.

Four hours before the flight to Oslo. It's a 30-minute ride to the airport.

She gets a 58-second call from an unlisted number an hour later, at 10.39.

- Can you trace it? - It was a pay-as-you-go phone.

Turned off since the day before yesterday. If it's turned on I'll find it.

Here are the numbers from her phone not in her contacts.

Here's her web history, and the cab company she used.

Thanks.

- Dan Brolund? - Yes.

- Was it half past nine? - Yes, on the 28th.

Margrethe Thormod. Picked her up at her home address.

Dropped her at Carsten Niebuhrs Gade at five to ten.

Oh yeah... She wanted me to pick her up an hour later, but never showed up.

- Do you recall what's at that address? - The Dronningen Hotel.

- Maybe she had a quickie before going? - Why do you think that?

What else would you be doing at a hotel for an hour at 10.00 a.m.?

- Could have had a meeting. - It wasn't in her diary.

And let's not forget that infidelity is punishable by stoning.

What is it?

- The cab driver? - Yeah.

I picked her up from her house and drove her to the hotel.

She asked me to come back at 11. But she never showed up.

- So you say. - Yes.

What did you do while you waited? Between 10 and 11?

I had a coffee with a colleague.

- We need a name. - Of course.

So you return to the hotel and wait, but she never appears?

- As I told you, yeah. - Your log records no more trips.

- No, that was supposed to be my last. - At 11.00 in the morning?

Yes, my shift started at midnight, so...

What did you do after that?