Bait-and-Switch: The engine that the drove the show's narrative, especially in season one.
(For his part Troels goes along with it and doesn't say anything until Lund tells her mother off.) She's genuinely oblivious he's the leading candidate for mayor of the capital of Denmark. In series one, when Troels stops by Lund's apartment to talk about the latest issues with the case, her mother assumes he's a reporter or the coroner and dragoons him into helping fold a tablecloth.Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Lund's mother turns up at the police station to talk in front of Lund's colleagues about her student love life and how her son doesn't want her in his life.It is clearly that of a child and has a prominent bullet hole in it Alas, Poor Yorick: The scene where Sarah holds a skull in an Afghan house.So you drive to where the police are searching, and they've just pulled a car out of a canal. Her best friend thinks she's been staying at her ex-boyfriend's place, so you go there to pick her up, and she's not there. Then one of them asks if you have a daughter, and when you say you do, the detective asks where she is, and you realise that your daughter isn't answering her phone. Then the police come around and ask you why your video store card has been found in a field. Adult Fear: Business is good, you've bought a new house to surprise your loving wife (conversely: your husband is a smart, hard-working guy with his own business and you're still attracted to each other, even if he is a bit of a doofus when it comes to home repairs), your boys are happy and healthy, and your beautiful 19-year-old daughter was at a party last night so she's been having a good time.
It has become a Trope Codifier of the Nordic Noir genre and combined with Engrenages opened the floodgates for subtitled shows in the British market. In the third season, Lund is trying to get a less stressful administrative job in the police, but finds her old obsessions growing again when the discovery of a dead body by a dockside turns out to be the forerunner to the kidnapping of the young daughter of a shipping magnate, which appears to be connected to the rape and murder of a schoolgirl years before.Ī massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward), when shown in the UK on BBC4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA. Meanwhile, new Justice Minister Thomas Buch is trying to get a new anti-terror bill through parliament, while trying to find out just what was going on with his ill predecessor. Lund, having been exiled to a passport control job, is called back to Copenhagen when Afghanistan veterans start getting bumped off in gruesome ways, creating a panic over Islamist terrorism. The second season is set two years later and revolves around the Danish military.
Their decisions will shape their lives and those of others. Theis and Pernille Birk Larsen, Nanna's parents, have to come to terms with the murder of their daughter. Troels Hartmann is trying to become Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, when his campaign gets connected to the murder and his own activities come under scrutiny.