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.
[thudding]
[breathing heavily]
[lock clicks]
[phone ringing]
- Hello? - Hi, Michael. It's Winkelmann.
- Why are you ringing? - I have information.
- Lørenskog? - Here. Come!
[Michael] Forget it.
[line beeps]
[phone ringing]
[investigator] It's a fox pelt.
[sighs]
[phone ringing]
[Winkelmann] Don't hang up. You'll want to hear this.
- Everyone's got a Lørenskog story. - Yeah, I know that.
But you'll want to hear this one.
I don't think you'd like to be the poor sod
who'll have to explain why he wouldn't listen,
if you get my drift.
I'll see what I can do.
Bye.
[sighs]
- [typing] - [groans]
[typing continues]
THE FUTURUM MAN
[sighs]
- Hi. - [nurse] Hi.
- Is he still in the bathroom? - Yes.
I just can't get him out.
It'll be fine, okay? I'll sort it out.
[knocks]
[sighs] It's me, Pa.
[nurse] He answered earlier.
He locked himself in there over half an hour ago.
[parent] Get her out of here.
Come on, Pa. Open the door, so we can talk about it.
[parent] Get her the hell away from me!
- [glass shatters] - [gasps]
Go to the lounge, okay?
She's gone, promise, Pa.
I'm just trying to help out an inmate here.
- Fire away. - What do I get?
- You want a trade-off? - Yes, exactly.
Tell me about your source here. Are you the one, or is it Mads Lirhus?
Mattis and I have different information.
The problem now is we can't work with you.
That's why I'm giving you Mattis.
[sighs]
So, Mattis wants something from us?
Well, it's just common courtesy
if you repay someone for such valuable information.
[scoffs]
You have never ever had a better source than me.
You won't get anywhere without me.
- [scoffs] Leave it. - If you cut me out,
then I won't say anything when you come back. Anything.
- I must speak with Mattis first. - But not here.
The others will find out.
- [van door closes] - [dog barking]
- [door opens] - [Jorunn] Who the hell is he?
I don't know him, but I hear he's a pretty nice kid when he's not high.
He knows Tom?
Not that I'm aware.
- I can't deal with drawing any more perps. - Jorunn! It's the best we've got.
[sighs]
- Coffee. Black. - [Jorunn] Thank you.
What do you want from me, Mattis?
To get out of the hole.
For every little minute thing,
they throw me in the fucking isolation room.
I can't help you until I know what you've got.
Okay, then we have to go back to the winter of 2017
when Peter and I went to Warsaw.
- Who is Peter? - Peter Vam.
We went to Warsaw to find some girls for a racket.
Seven thousand and 50-50.
Take it or leave it.
I'll give you 7,000.
And I'll rent an apartment for you in Oslo for free.
You'll make a lot of money.
Mattis will guide you, and he'll set up the racket. He'll make sure you're safe.
Peter and I recruited a lot of girls in Warsaw that winter.
But Astoria was the best one.
What was the racket?
Peter had an apartment in Munkedamsveien.
He had a bunch of punters
where he would pick out all the men with potential.
[Jorunn] Is that men with money?
Uh, celebrities, people off the TV, finance boys, artists, comedians.
So when the punter showed up, so I was always in the area.
Checked the camera. Checked that the sound was okay.
The racket was in order.
That's when Astoria started her show. Some kind of play.
I don't know if you want to hear it.
I want to hear it all.
[sighs] She was a horny housewife, she said,
who was gonna go out with her friends.
She wanted the client to fuck her before she went out,
so she wouldn't get tempted while she was out, if you get my drift.
Is that what you want?
To get in the mood, she opened a bottle of Bollinger,
lined up some good coke on the glass table.
Then all that was taped.
So then Peter could make a start on his side of the racket,
which means showing them some clips from that night
and telling them step-by-step what will happen if they don't pay 200K.
Okay?
Well, I mean, we split it three ways, so that was chill.
So then Peter went out of the area.
So when I got back from Sandefjord, I was broke,
and that was the moment I knew that they no longer included me.
And why was that?
Well, he found some young punk, right,
to do the same thing for 10,000 a night, yeah?
So that made it a lot cheaper for Peter.
Did you confront him then?
I did, yeah, and he got really upset. Blah, blah, blah.
Said he'd think about it.
Sent me to get powder for him from a guy at Carl Berner's.
But it wasn't until I got up there that night
that I realised something was wrong with the guy.
[sniffs]
[shouts]
The sabre dude broke his neck.
Then I was arrested the day after,
and I got four weeks with no outside contact.
Soon as I got out, I went to see Astoria to find out what she knew about it.
And I understood that I wasn't part of this game anymore.
But that night up at her place
was the first time I heard about the guy from Lørenskog.
Tom.
What did she talk about?
She said that he was a guy with problems in his marriage,
but not like every other punter.
He was worth several billion, she said.
But then I didn't know anything else till I started snooping around myself.
And why would you do that?
Yeah, because it occurred to me that Peter,
he'd set me up with the sabre dude.
And now he was going to stab me in the back.
And I realised that he just wants me away from Astoria
so he can tap that honey trap for himself, the slick bastard.
So that's when I started doing a little digging of my own
when I was granted some leave from prison.
So if I've understood correctly,
you're saying Peter made a honey trap for Tom Hagen?
It could have been a honey trap, uh...
It could have been that Peter was contacted by Astoria,
and they agreed on this whole plan together.
I've no idea,
but I know who was in Lørenskog that morning when they took that woman.
Who?
Yeah, but what do I get out of it?
So you want out, you mean?
I want a transfer at least.
But I'm looking for something a bit more substantial than this, though.
I have what you want.
And I am the only one who can give you what you want.
Well, I remember that he was really in with the guy you've likely heard of.
Naser.
- Give me the name in full. - You have to get me out the hole first!
I can't do anything without a guarantee from you. I'm not dumb, yeah?
How credible is he really?
All the gangsters in Norway know that we're desperate.
The people around Naser are the most capable in the Nordics.
We can't risk not following up on him.
Okay, we'll send him up and down in that transporter van
and let him stew in there a bit.
- Mm-hmm. - Mmm.
[children squealing]
- Are you moving out? - I'm moving in for a while.
Ah, yes, with me.
- You're moving in. - Yeah.
[chuckles]
[door opens]
Exclusive Escorts?
We know that you put up an ad for a girl who's called Astoria.
I mean, my job is to receive adverts that come in by email,
and then I'll publish them on the website.
- [Anders chuckles] - Show me the advert.
EXCLUSIVE ESCORTS
[typing]
FIND YOUR ESCORT TODAY!
[Anders] She published until 2018 and then nothing after that.
[Michael] Who ordered and paid for the advert?
I... I can't be...
Can't or won't?
[Anders] Peter Vam. 3 Møllers Gate, Sandefjord.
Vam and Winkelmann were convicted in the same corruption case.
In 2014, their friendship ended
because Vam ran away with all the money, according to Winkelmann.
Vam moved about two years ago to Marbella,
and we've put him on the radar of the Spanish police.
Okay.
[Erlend] Winkelmann, why are you telling me all this?
I can help you. You can help me.
If you get any of the information I tell you published,
then the police will realise they've made a big mistake.
They should never have ignored me.
But how do I know that you're telling the truth?
You'll get an address in Gothenburg.
I know what he likes to get up to at the weekends in his free time.
Bäckeforsgatan 86.
He trains a young MMA athlete at that club.
[pen scrapes]
Okay, thank you.
Check it out, then call me.
[line beeps]
[typing]
GOTHENBURG MARTIAL ARTS CLUB
THE NEW MMA STAR
READ MORE
ZAHARA OLSSON READY FOR MATCH AGAINST NORMA RAE
MMA INSTRUCTOR
[door opens, closes]
Macchiato.
[chuckles]
Pain au chocolat.
[both chuckle]
That's so sweet.
- Is she asleep? - Yeah.
Okay.
I have to go to Gothenburg.
Why do you have to go there?
Well, I've got a tip from a source.
What does he want?
He wants to leave jail.
But he needs a hand from the police, and so...
So, he's using you?
Well, we're using each other. [chuckles]
The source has told me this crazy, messed up story.
And if it's really true, well...
What does Beate say?
I mean, I'm just going to Gothenburg to do a sports write-up
about a young MMA athlete.
But she trains at a gym that's owned by exactly the same anonymous company
that owned the car repair shop in Sandefjord.
That leads to Lørenskog?
[sighs]
You have a screw loose.
[chuckles] Yeah, I do.
[sighs]
Imagine if I didn't, though.
Then all those guilty assholes
who think they can get away with and are above the law,
they would go free then.
What kind of laws are you following then?
- Are you taking someone along with you? - Yeah, yeah. Daniel is coming.
I'll be careful.
[sighs]
[Jorunn] Do you know a girl called Astoria?
[Sandra] She's not actually called Astoria.
Her name was Julia Litsjenka.
[Jorunn] How did you meet?
She lived here.
She was my best friend that year, before she went to Sandefjord.
Sandefjord? Why?
She got offered some film work.
Turned out to be a porno.
She was furious, rang me in the middle of the night.
Told me she was taking the ferry over to Sweden, then she'd go home.
Do you recall her ever mentioning a rich client from Lørenskog?
I don't know exactly where his home was.
I think it could have been in Lillestrøm.
One of her regulars.
Very rich.
Tor or...
No.
Tom?
- Tom? - Yeah, Tom.
Did you ever meet this Tom guy at all?
No. We don't meet each other's clients.
- Do you know where Julia is now? - No.
You meet people, yeah?
You're with them, you do everything with them, and so...
And suddenly, they're gone like that.
Any pics of Julia?
Thank you.
[investigator] Julia was reported missing,
and we opened a full investigation.
She did get on the ferry that afternoon,
but the person she was going to meet in Sweden said she never showed up.
Seems she didn't even get to Warsaw.
[sighs]
[Jorunn] Did you conduct a search?
[investigator] Out at sea? [chuckles] No.
She knew Peter Vam, didn't she?
Lots of people know Peter. I haven't seen him around here for a good while.
Right.
Transfer to an open prison.
[sighs, grunts]
Okay, so I had to move away.
Then I went to Sandefjord to find Peter Vam,
the bastard I once trusted.
Down there, I spot this dude from Gothenburg. Edon.
Edon is often in Norway. He's got a girlfriend in Sandefjord.
And he doesn't bring the drugs himself.
He sends people up and down to Sandefjord by ferry.
So when Edon gets off the ship,
he meets someone he knows, Allan Kirap.
[Michael] Who's Allan Kirap?
[Mattis] The Kirap family, they're from Sandefjord.
They run a car repair shop there.
Edon has done business with them for a long time.
Both of them walk over towards Brygga Bar to meet with Peter,
who back-stabbed me.
[Jorunn] Uh, hold on.
- [Mattis] And then... - Hold on a minute.
Why are you on the pier when Edon comes off the boat then?
I was keeping an eye on Judas, who was sitting at Brygga Bar just then.
[Jorunn] And where were you?
[Mattis] I was parked right in front of Brygga Bar.
And out comes Edon off the boat, right in front of me.
Did you know him from before?
[Mattis] No, but I knew who he was.
- [Jorunn] So, you recognised him? - Course!
Do you have something proving that you were in Sandefjord that day?
[Mattis] I had a kebab, from Sandefjord Balkan.
Is that all you've got for me?
Okay, listen.
When I was sent to isolation after some shit in Halden,
I ended up on the same prison wing as Allan's cousin, Mogel.
Mogel and I are both from Sandefjord, both done a bit of martial arts.
So it wasn't hard to find out his story from him.
And it turns out, uh, the family, the Kiraps,
they weren't happy being dragged into the operation of Peter and Edon's.
Operations of what kind?
When Edon returned that autumn, he'd ordered a Ford Transit.
Allan and Mogel helped him pack the gear.
But none of the Kirap guys knew what they were doing or where they were going.
They just did what they were told, drove and got paid.
It was Edon who knew. He had a plan.
They had a safe house somewhere outside of Oslo.
In the evening, they drove Edon to Lørenskog.
He went for a walk while the rest waited in the car.
The next morning, they drove back.
Edon went in there alone,
came back with the lady in a sack.
As I understood it, she disappeared in a bog.
Have you seen him?
No, Allan? No. He's not in the shop.
Just the old man there.
So, where could he be?
We won't know that until we get a tap on Edon there.
[sighs]
Yeah, it takes time to go through the Swedish court.
[baby fussing, cooing]
[cell phone ringing]
- [Erlend] Hi. - [Ida] Hey.
[gasps] What's that? Come on.
- [Daniel] Yeah, sorry about that... - Fuck.
- [Daniel] I'm really sorry about that. - It's way too late to find anyone else.
[Daniel] Yeah, there's just no way I can get there. I'm sorry.
Um, fuck.
Okay, I'll... I'll have to just borrow your camera then.
[Daniel] Yeah, of course, yeah. I'll get it ready.
- I'm on my way now, okay? - [Daniel] Yeah, sure. I'll see you then.
Bye.
- You're not going alone? - No, I'm going to get Daniel now.
I heard what you said.
So, you're eavesdropping now?
- You're lying? - I can't handle this now, Ida.
- [Ida] You're not going. - Yes.
- No, you are not! - Yes.
- No! [grunts] - [grunts]
[Ida] Let go! [groans]
[baby crying]
Oh. [breathes deeply] Come here, baby. Come here.
- Oh, it's all right. - [crying continues]
[melancholy music plays]
[indicator clicking]
[clicking continues]
[clicking stops]
- [Edon] Bravo! - [fighters grunting, panting]
- Oh, the journalist! - Hello. Yeah.
- You're the one who called earlier, huh? - That's right. [chuckles]
- From Oslo, aren't you? - From Oslo, yeah.
Are you in Norway a lot?
- Yeah. My girlfriend lives in Sandefjord. - Yeah?
- Yeah. [chuckles] - Wow.
- Bravo, Zahara! - What does she do there?
- She's does a lot of films or something. - Oh, yeah?
[Edon] Oh! Bravo! Well done.
- Do you know what I like about Norway? - No.
- Have a guess. - Uh... [chuckles]
- Women, obviously. - [chuckles] Yeah. It's snow.
- Yeah. - [Edon] It's fucking nice. I mean...
Yeah, it's nice.
When it covers the whole city like a blanket, right?
Yeah, yeah. That's nice.
- Are you gonna talk to Zahara or...? - Yeah. She has a fight next week, yeah?
- Yeah, in Uddevalla. Norma Rae. - Hmm?
- Her opponent. Come on, come on, come on! - Norma Rae, yeah.
Come on, Zahara, come on.
Is it okay if I take a few photos of her before I speak with her?
Yeah, sure. Go ahead.
I... I see I have very little battery left.
I... I'll get a new one. I'll be right back, okay?
Edon! What's he doing here?
[fighters grunting]
[suspenseful music plays]
[panting]
[grunts]
[panting continues]
- [Allan] Hey! - [panting]
- [Allan speaks indistinctly, grunts] - [groaning]
[pants] No, don't. No! Let me explain.
- [groans] - [grunts]
[groaning]
- [groans] - [grunts]
[groaning]
- Not a fucking word, hmm? - [exhales sharply]
[screams, exclaims]
[Edon speaks indistinctly]
[Anders] He's been running a Ponzi scheme from there.
A kind of pyramid scheme made for cryptocurrency.
Vam apparently has a huge, cold wallet.
That is some hardware for cryptocurrency.
Can Michael interrogate him?
[Jorunn] Yeah. We're in contact with the Spanish police.
[birds chirping]
- [upbeat dance music playing] - [indistinct chatter]
[Michael] Does he have a business registered in Spain?
[Gaute] Property development.
A polite word for money laundering down here.
[cell phone ringing]
Hi. Why you calling me?
- [Erlend] Edon Imani. You know him? - Yeah. What about him?
[grunts] I have a source who we both know
who ties Edon to the Vestfold guys and Lørenskog.
Yeah, but you can't trust Winkelmann.
[Erlend] I saw them both in Gothenburg yesterday.
I mean, him and Allan Kirap.
- [strains] - [Michael] Are you in Gothenburg?
I, uh...
No, I'm at the border.
You do not get in touch with Edon.
- Understood? - [Erlend] Yeah.
If you ruin this, forget about anything else from me.
Okay?
Are you aware that the back window of your car...
[breathing deeply, clears throat]
[police officer] Are you okay?
[indistinct chatter]
[intercom rings]
- Hi. - Hi.
- Why are you here? - We need to have a word with Peter.
Peter.
- You have visitors. - Okay. [clears throat]
- Gaute. - Hi.
- And who are you? - Michael. East Police District.
- Michael, can I get you a beer or two? - No, thanks.
Your rental contract?
It has been used for prostitution since 2016.
Yeah, I have no idea about what my tenants are getting up to.
We have a witness statement about blackmail.
So called "honey trap" activities.
What witness?
The Spanish police are waiting for you.
[scoffs] There isn't any law against pimping in Spain, you know?
No, but you can be extradited for corruption.
You skipped the country back in 2014 with Jakob Winkelmann.
What are you really doing here?
Your connection to Tom Hågen.
Hågen? I only know him from the media.
With your conviction and the chance of a reduced sentence,
I might suggest that it's in your interest to cooperate with us.
I have nothing to say.
What about Edon Imani?
You've been talking with Mattis?
Mattis is paranoid. He's almost mentally retarded.
He's very good at telling stories,
but he'll do whatever it takes to avoid being alone, huh?
I feel sorry for Mattis.
[Gaute] Peter, this is your absolute last chance.
I will not be making a deal with you.
[dramatic music plays]
Was it just a honey trap, or did Tom order the disappearance?
[sighs]
[chuckles]
Yes. Now. [indistinct]
Yeah. No, it's all right.
So they're gonna move me into another wing.
[continues indistinctly]
[snoring]
[door opens]
I have a deal with Mattis, and we agreed on it.
So, you'll have to take it up with him.
[Andre] But the deal wasn't even worth 50, and you owe 100,000, Sandra.
[Sandra] I've done everything that Mattis asked me to do.
[Andre] Mattis is in jail, so he can't come. Don't you get it?
Who is he?
That is Andre. He does enforcement work along with Mattis.
[indistinct chatter]
[Gaute] They released him last night.
[suspenseful music plays]
[Gaute speaking indistinctly]
Peter Vam is on a plane to Dubai.
His wife bought tickets two days ago.
[Michael] So, he knew we were coming.
- Hi. - Hello.
[cell phone chimes]
MICHAEL: WE LOST VAM
Mattis?
[inhales deeply] Um... [sighs] ...are you doing okay in here?
[Mattis] It's not freedom.
I'm not free yet. I'm still here.
And what's more, there are guys here who know that I've spoken with you.
[breathes shakily]
[sighs]
Shall we sit over there?
[Mattis sighs]
Nobody knows that I'm here.
- Oh, no? - No.
And besides, what have you given me exactly?
[Mattis inhales sharply]
There's no one to prove Edon was in Norway on the days that you said he was here.
I've said that I can testify, but you have to get me out of here.
You got what you asked for. You were transferred out.
You can tell the fucking truth to me now then.
- I've already told you everything. - But have you, Mattis?
We know that Sandra owes you money.
So that means we can't use her as a witness.
Okay, and so?
[chuckles]
We have spoken with Peter Vam.
He says you're sick and paranoid. You always think the worst of people.
And that you're obsessed with the thought of getting out and taking revenge.
I'm taking a risk just by talking to you.
Everyone here knows you're on the Lørenskog case. [sniffs]
So why don't you help me to solve it?
I can't say any more.
[Jorunn] You know what, Mattis?
There's a cost
to become an honest person.
[gate opens]
[gate closes]
[Erlend] I'm not an investigator, obviously.
But, uh, we investigate too, in a way.
And sometimes we actually solve the cases. [exhales deeply]
But some cases may never be solved.
[chuckles] You say that in a matter of fact way.
[sniffs]
Well, it is a fact that not every case can be solved.
Yeah, of course.
[breathing shakily]
And your partner, Ida?
Yes?
- What about her? - What does she think?
I think she wants me to stop writing about Lørenskog.
Yeah. To stop writing about Tom and, uh...
[inhales sharply] She says that it's taken over and it's bad for me, so, yeah.
[therapist] Why do you think she wants you to stop writing about Tom?
[breathes deeply]
I think that she doesn't, uh, understand.
[door closes]
[cell phone buzzing]
Hello?
[Michael] I've got some bad news, I'm afraid.
Yeah?
[Michael] Mattis has been found hanging in his cell.
[continues speaking, indistinct]
I'm going to the station now.
We should've gone open with it.
You were right.
We lost way too much.
We've nearly cracked it, you know?
I doubt that.
[sighs]
Come on, Jorunn.
The escort lead, crypto-criminals, Swedish gangs. It all links up, yeah.
- But we don't have anything, Michael. - It will come.
We'll find the people who got money from Tom.
[stammers]
[sighs]
The police can't leave this charge hanging over my client's head.
Also, the revealing of private details
has come from obvious leaks inside the police.
Therefore, today, I'm reporting the East Police District
for breaching Tom Hågen's privacy.
- [clears throat] Erlend? - Yeah?
- Can you come with me a moment? - What's wrong?
I just want to have a chat.
This is Inspector Heimø from the East Police District.
- Hi. - Hi.
You were the one who went to Gothenburg to look at a connection?
Yeah.
You have to cancel that research right away.
- I haven't written anything... - I've talked to the public prosecutor.
And I've spoken to your editor-in-chief,
and he informs me that you'll apologise in full.
For all of it.
He said you realise that you've put yourself and others in danger.
And that's good.
He also apologised for his editorial staff obstructing an ongoing investigation.
And, of course, you won't be working on the Lørenskog case anymore.
From...
2000 to 2020, there were 158 Norwegian women murdered
where their own partners, or their husbands,
were charged by you, the police.
That is 32% of all murders committed in Norway.
Do you know how many of those murders remain unsolved by the police?
How many cases there are where there is still no conviction?
How many guilty are still free?
[breathing shakily]
If you keep cancelling these cases...
and I'm not allowed to write anything...
and do my job...
tell me who will be the voice for these missing women?
DAY 732
[Hågen] Emptiness is a horrible word.
You have to live through it to understand it.
It includes everything.
And when you experience that, it's, uh...
We're not young anymore.
But there is still such a word as "love", I think.
It may be a broad term.
She's an incredibly lovely person.
Who...
Well...
she's caring.
No, it's been... She's been good for me.
- I've been really happy without... - [video stops]
WHEN HUSBANDS KILL
WHY IS AN ACCUSED WIFE-KILLER GIVEN AIRTIME BY THE NATIONAL BROADCASTER?
- [interviewer] Did you do it? - [Hågen] No, I didn't.
[interviewer] What was it like being a suspect?
[Hågen] Yeah, it hurts.
And I thought, all the way up 'til April,
that I, uh, I had, uh, good relations with the police.
That's what I thought.
Uh...
And it happened in April and it was a real shock.
- A very big shock. - What did you say his name was again?
- Tom? - Tom, yeah.
- I know him. - "We have your wife..."
Huh?
We were in the same class together.
[Hågen] "If you want to see her again..."
- Really? - Yeah.
- That face is one I'll never forget. - What school was that?
[Reidar] I have the school photo.
[Hågen sobbing]
How was he back then?
Well, I never really got to know him properly.
He was very, uh, introverted.
[interviewer] They believe she was killed in the house at Lørenskog.
And 4 Sloraveien is Norway's most examined crime scene.
The police have looked at hundreds of sites, both in Norway and...
[interviewer continues indistinctly]
CLASS 3A
[Reidar] There.
There's the photo of all of us. The whole of 3A.
- Where is he? - [Reidar] There.
There's Tom.
"Tom Einar Hågen."
[sighs] He was a good lad.
[sighs]
[Reidar] Has he done something wrong?
I have no idea.