How did Strange turn the phone on if he was in Aghanistan — or why wasn't it noticed earlier? Surely people would have recognised him: Frederik Holst perhaps? Definitely the General … or was that the point?
Does body armour really protect that well when you're shot from point blank range? Wouldn't a Special Forces Officer have made sure Lund was dead with a shot in the head?
The Afghanistan adventure seemed a bit odd to me. Lund tricking soldiers into taking her without protection to villages where soldiers had been shot. Local police kidnapping her to show the oven. It all seemed a little far-fetched — even for Lund.
Outside Denmark I found it more difficult to suspend my disbelief. Anyone else? So why was Frederik Holst crossing out the members of the squad? If Rossing was prepared to join forces with Buch, what was it that made him decide to take all the blame for with-holding info on the hand? Did he just decide the Prime Minister had outwitted him and it was no use fighting?
I'm not sure I believe that Buch wouldn't have had some support from the press somewhere — if the justice minister claims to have evidence against the Prime Minister and is then hauled in by Special Branch, that would surely set alarm bells ringing. I loved Lund bumping into her mum at the airport, her mother saying she'd had a nightmare, and Lund telling her not to worry — all the while talking on the phone about the victims of a ritual killing.
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Vicky Frost. Vicky Frost's episodes seven and eight blog Gosh, it feels like this series has gone by in an absolute flash — no sooner were we applauding the return of the jumper than we were watching it dash around Afghanistan. We can only wonder at whether Lund will even get a partner for season three — I can't imagine there will be a waiting list given the current survival rate … The investigation: what do we know The Special Forces officer who killed the family in Afghanistan and the soldiers in Denmark was Ulrik Strange, Lund's partner, who had been using Per K Moller's identity.
It was Bilal who deleted the radio messages about Special Forces movements Perk's dogtags were found in the oven of the house in Afghanistan, along the remains of the family who lived there.
The Police Where to start? The Politicians Crikey Buch. Morten says he was going to tip off the police after the election and excuses his behaviour: "All I did was wash the stairs and the doors.
In principle I didn't remove anything that wasn't already there. Morten's actions have lost Troels the woman he loved — although Morten dismisses her as not "the right woman for you" — and also, it now appears, his morals: Morten effectively blackmails Troels into not going to the police about the matter.
It's interesting how blinkered Morten is about his actions: wiping aside his deliberate smearing of Rie, the fact that perhaps Olav and Holck died unnecessarily. And I loved the way he tenderly pours Troels a replacement brandy just before blackmailing him with a photograph and leaving him just as corrupt as any other politician. Once she'd busted out of prison using only the power of Bengt, Lund barely even blinked.
She was kick-ass, focussed, capable of holding up her fellow officers with their own guns — I loved that moment — and destroying basements with only a hammer. And all the while dressed in a cagoule, hairy jumper, and wellies. But despite that lack of fragility, the final shots of her leaving the police station, completely alone, apparently traumatised, were heartbreaking. The parallels between Lund and Pernille were picked out very cleverly — that they should discover Theis and Vagn side-by-side was a piece of fantastic writing.
We saw Pernille's silent grief mirrored in Lund; her dogged, determined belief that the answer hadn't been found; the gradual realisation that the person before them was the killer. When do we ever have thrillers that give us two women like this? Vagn unveiled. Theis in prison. Pernille, the boys and the puppy now left without a dad or business boss, or a new house to move to.
The adults betrayed and the children confused. And yet. The look between Pernille and Theis suggests they will get through it. I'd like to think so. Really, it would be too depressing to think they wouldn't. In power, but ruined and alone. Shown in its native Denmark in , the show struck a huge chord with BBC4 viewers when it made its debut on the channel in the spring of The impact of The Killing can perhaps be measured in that it is one of the few Scandinavian exports that has so far been picked up for its own US remake.
The Killing was shown in double bills over ten Saturday nights and gave viewers something that was rarely available on television. The main protagonist of the programme was Detective Inspector and knitwear aficionado, Sarah Lund. She accompanies her replacement, Jan Meyer, in an enquiry into the disappearance of a nineteen year old woman, Nanna Birk Larsen.
Running alongside this and intertwining on more than one occasion were two side plots. The first of these concerned Copenhagen mayoral candidate, Troels Hartmann. The most emotional story strand revolved around the Birk Larsen family themselves.
The story dealt with their desperation for answers and an explanation to events, a closure that was once or twice dangled in their faces before being snatched away. Each of the three plot lines that made up The Killing was equally gripping in their own way.
They each threw up more than their fair share of the shows notable plot twists. The twists in The Killing were plentiful. Every episode was a near game changer when it came to this programme. By the end of an edition, the viewer had been so intrigued, with the desperation to find out exactly what happened next — the kind of thing DVD box sets were made for.
Sofie Grabol, as the relentless detective Sarah Lund, and Lars Mikkelsen, as the idealistic, arrogant politician Troels Hartmann, take full advantage of this, turning in gritty, tightly controlled yet bravura performances. Perhaps the most striking difference between the two productions is their respective emotional temperatures: Danish cool versus American heat. The children who act out do so more politely; adults who scheme and fight do so with more compunction. Some of this may be national temperament and some of it, again, may be the exigencies of short-season character development.
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