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SEILANIEMI MENTAL ASYLUM 1981

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands, Lord;

your walls are ever before me.

Father, I was afraid you'd be angry at me.

When they took you away from me to this ungodly place,

I was angry.

But I prayed the Lord,

and the good Lord guided and blessed us.

You were the last one in our family.

But now, the family name will go on.

This is a criminal matter.

The pregnancy was discovered too late for an abortion...

- Abortion? - Yes.

Our internal investigation is going nowhere.

Many are sure about who fathered Kerttu's child.

Well, that's crystal clear.

The girl has been committed here for four years.

Had Mary had been in a closed ward,

would that have prevented God from begetting a son to her?

The Bible's Mary?

That child was fathered by God himself.

Let me know when it's born.

The National Bureau of Investigation

PRESENT DAY

wants me to lead the investigation into the nursing home mass murder.

The accident turning into a murder investigation will be kept a secret.

It will only be shared on a need to know basis.

We have to keep it secret until we have the perps.

I will get two detectives to guard the SpaceGuard conference,

but I need a couple of locals on the murder investigation.

Open Sesame, Arabic for beginners.

You're learning Arabic.

Sesame is also Finnish.

They use sesame seeds in rolls and to bread the tins.

Director Saana Hyry

machinated carbon monoxide poisoning of 24 people.

She had a partner in crime. Our priority is to catch the perp.

Of course, but Helsinki doesn't want people to panic.

There'll be a witch hunt and neighbors turning in neighbors.

It's hard to keep a murder investigation a secret.

Aikio tells everything to his wife, and when Alma knows, the town knows.

Well, sweet!

Let them continue investigating the accident

and you'll represent the local police in the murder case.

Okay. But outsiders stick out here.

I know someone we can ask for help.

- Is it someone who can keep their mouth shut? - Yes.

You went through the conference participant list with the organizers.

Did they tell you why the comet shines so bright?

My Venla is worried about that.

They're gas bursts, that's totally normal.

Tell Venla the gravitational fields in the solar system

are tearing the comet apart.

The gas bursts mean NASA's Sprout who was coming to the conference

will stay home to observe them.

- He will only come for the last two days. - Okay.

There's 15 minutes left of breakfast, eat something.

HEALTH CENTRE

Let's go, dad.

Sure. Okay.

Where are we going?

Home.

It's the wrong way.

To me and Marita's place. I told you, you're moving in with us.

When can I go to my own home?

Well, you tended to leave your keys inside all the time,

and sometimes you forgot your shoes.

The worst was when you left the stove on.

That wasn't me. I don't use the stove.

Right.

Venla's room is bigger, but she has so much stuff.

- How about this? - Where are my law books?

Your law books are all in here, it's all okay.

I need my portable radio.

He means his mobile phone, in his jacket pocket.

I need to call Hilkka, let her know where I am.

I'll go get your phone.

Someone needs to watch him all the time.

Can't you look for a new job from home?

Look for a new job?

Our life is about to change. We need a regular income.

You don't have to worry about me finding work.

- Right? - Don't I?

No!

- Where are you going? - To kick at stones outside.

Ossi! I'm going to make dinner.

24 people died: of carbon monoxide poisoning in Keirmatta nursing home.

They'd been moved to a dining hall with a fireplace,

as the oil burner was broken.

Some survived in a smaller room with electric heaters in it.

Director Saana Hyry was among the deceased.

The deceased are long-timer residents of Ivalo,

and there's nobody here who didn't know them

as friends, family members, ex-colleagues, relatives.

This is an immense grief.

I know what this" is about. Heaven's Gate, the cult in the US.

The Hale Bopp visited the solar system in 1997.

You were supposed to report on Hyry and other victims.

The cult leader had convinced his followers,

that behind the comet is a spaceship that will take the souls to safety.

An exciting story. What does it have to do...

All of them overdosed on phenobarbital.

The cult leader used to be a music teacher.

To the cult members, he was reincarnation of Christ.

Hey. Cut that out.

Think. Mass suicide.

Maybe Hyry promised the old people the UFOs will restore their memory.

Niilo! Seriously.

I could accept that offer when I'm older.

- I got to take this. - It was an accident.

Don't start spreading your theories.

Don't even tell Alma! And specifically not her.

People are crazy with grief, let's not make it any worse. Get it?

Well. Hyry, Saana. Lived in Ivalo all her life.

No children, trained as a psychiatric nurse.

16 years at the nursing home. No criminal record, nothing.

- Good, thanks. - There are so many victims.

I'll email their info as soon as I get it for survivors and victims.

- Thanks. - Comets make people do crazy things.

At Heaven's Gate, everyone was wearing Nike's sneakers.

Good. Our victims weren't.

Yes, so this is it.

Here have we machine for filter coffee,

this white one.

And then we have this espresso cooker.

Here, if you like.

This is a bit far from town, so some people maybe not like,

but you are our first Airbnb guest.

This is perfect.

- Why are you here? - I'm a journalist.

I just ask because

I heard that American people are in love to talk.

And I heard Finnish people don't like to talk at all,

which is why I'm here.

Oh. Are you married?

- Could I have the keys, please? - Yes, of course. Sorry.

Hey, enjoy, enjoy. Call me any time.

Thank you.

Were you talking to God?

When are we ready for the next phase?

God is happy.

Now we just have to wait for a while.

You need to go get saline solution.

- Where do I get that? - From the pharmacy.

- Yes? - I thought you'd come to dinner.

I'm going to...

This crisis therapy or whatever, the town offers it.

- But your dad made it. - I don't know.

They're offering this to the survivors' families as well.

- I could be long. - I see.

BAR

Tell about dad when he was little.

He was always running away.

Even as a child? He ran away when I was born.

But he came back and saved my life.

- That's good to hear. - Where did he run away from then?

From everywhere. From school, from home.

Once even during a holiday trip.

He always had his best friend with him.

A boy of the same age, Jarmo.

The longest they reached

- was when they hitchhiked to Denmark. - Oh?

Yes. They were only 14 then.

Jarmo's family moved here from Tornio.

They bought a house right next to ours.

Hilkka didn't like Jarmo.

She didn't like that he was so quiet.

I had a buyer for the tires. They were disappointed.

I told you a year ago

we can't store them in my fucking garage.

The fucking rat who ratted me out. I know exactly who it was.

- I'll kill him. - No, you won't.

It was Marita.

Of course it was her. She was afraid of moving to Sweden.

She wanted me to lose my job.

It's just a good thing Maybe.

It's a... new start.

What do you mean new?

Too many things are going on here. People are sad and angry.

You can't take Pumpkin to your work.

I have to travel again tomorrow, so I was thinking what if I...

- Take Pumpkin with me to Vienna. - No!

- Listen! I can handle him. - Of course, but no!

It's easy to carry him around. I got one of these.

I don't want Pumpkin in cold ice rinks...

- They're not cold. - Horrible noise.

I'll protect his ears.

No way! I can't be apart from him for a week.

- Five days. - No. We have a place in daycare.

You said Santeri is too small to go.

He's getting bigger by the day.

I enrolled him in the daycare.

- Hey, that's a big thing. - Yes.

Yes! Wohoo!

You'll be a real team player now, right?

Yes!

Why are you looking so sinfully good here?

Is this some apology?

For ratting me out?

Stealing is a sin, but I didn't rat you out.

- You did! You snitched to Testing Land. - No.

I don't mind, it's just good.

Being a test driver was a lousy job.

Drive there, go here.

I'll buy me a new tractor. So there.

- For your truck? - I've missed being on the road.

- With what money? - I've got savings.

Truck tractors cost an awful lot.

We ran the tire business for two years...

- We can't afford it. - Yes we can.

- What can't you afford? - Tractor.

- Don't interrupt! - You started it.

We have to make a baby now!

What do you mean a baby?

Esko, listen...

- I believe. - Have you talked to the doctors?

No, I feel we could do it now.

- Now! - Now?

You know why I became a truck driver?

Well, why?

This is so damn corny,

but ever since a little boy, I've had this feeling

that someone is following me all the time.

Except if I get far away from here.

What's far enough?

Well... In my own truck,

let's say somewhere on the Turkish-Greek border.

Far enough somewhere I've finally felt

that I'm not being watched, at least all the time.

Aren't you a big boy?

Mom doesn't want you to learn to lie or to cheat.

But mom went to the daycare and the bulletin board was full of

notices of lice, noro virus and human pinworms.

Children catch also other things besides bad habits from daycare.

So let's not make daddy nervous, he's far away.

It's better that you continue riding with mom, right?

Excuse me? Sorry, can't find the gun section.

I need to purchase a gun.

Nothing special, just a hand gun, some ammo.

You can't buy guns in markets in Finland.

What?

Well, there's a special store for them,

but even then, you can't buy a gun.

Unless you are a long-time member of the shooting club

or a hunting club, you know like for sports.

- This is just a short stay. - I'm so sorry.

No, you don't understand. I really, really need a gun.

There must be somewhere!

No. You're better off without a gun, lady.

This is a safe country, and even if it wasn't,

this is the only protection you really need.

- Niilo, hey! - Oh!

- Was it in the bathroom? - Yes.

My lower back has been aching.

- Might have slipped a disc. - You have to lock the gun up.

It's always the same long sentence, repeated again and again.

Let's see what we can find.

I was in Rome for work last summer and...

I can't remember anything about the last night.

It was just a boring evening, but I don't remember it.

- I wonder if they did something to me. - Like what?

Planted some kind of tech.

Does the scan reveal tech implants and such?

Let's just scan your brain.

How come this is locked?

- Yes? - Why is the door locked?

I'm in the middle of something. Did you want something?

The nursing home ordered firewood from the Hovattas across the lake.

They've always ordered wood for their sauna.

But when the snow mobile fell in the ice near Kermatta,

they fished out Tuomas Hovatta.

He had a load of firewood he was taking across the lake.

- Were they going to the nursing home? - We don't know yet, but...

What makes it suspicious the snow mobile fell in the ice

the day before the home's oil burner broke.

Thanks, Niilo. Good work! I'll talk to the people on the farm.

Thanks.

- Until tomorrow! - Tomorrow.

VICTIMS

WHAT'S THE BLOOD FOR?

Why would anyone want to kill people who would die soon anyway?

We need your help to figure that out.

Well...

The survivors...

Axar Patel. I've met him, I know he's a Hindu.

Then there's Miss Nisametdin.

I don't know, but her name suggests she's a Tatar and a Muslim.

Leena Huvanto, bookkeeper at the local bank.

It was a scandal when she turned Buddhist and got divorced.

Then there's our old police chief Kangasniemi,

who was very much frowned upon

when he and his late wife left the church.

At least four of these six survivors

Hyry carted out of the dining hall

are not members of the church.

What's your point?

It also looks like all the victims were church members in this parish.

- Each and every one. - Good catch.

Then there's the blood.

What could that mean?

Have the Christians had some upsets among them lately?

- Upsets? - Yes.

I thought you might know, being a Laestadian.

Well... The Laestadians rely on God's creative grace.

All children are born believers.

To us, all life is sacred, much more than to Sunday Christians.

I need more information.

You could talk to Martti Sonka.

He's our ex general practitioner, retired for a long time.

He has studied the history of revivalists all over Lapland.

No tumors, no other findings

and none of the technical gadgets you suspected.

- Fuck this. - Many people would be relieved.

If there was something extra, we could just cut it away.

- My dad got schizophrenia when I was 10. - Okay.

Sorry to hear that.

I know it's hereditary.

Late onset schizophrenia is very rare.

I wonder how the American is doing.

Don't worry about her, she'll be fine.

I would just like to know.

It's not our business. Can I take your car?

- To work? - Yes, a stakeout.

Of course.

- Where are the keys? - In the kitchen.

Professor Assad? That would be me.

- We need you to come with us. - Oh, great.

I didn't know that somebody will come pick me up.

- Do you work for the conference? - No.

We're from the Finnish police.

- Okay. What's going on? - This way.

Where are we going?

Your detectives from Helsinki

arrested a Lebanese participant to the conference.

- Yes. - Why?

We fed the participants into Interpol's database.

His name was immediately redflagged.

He has prior arrests.

He was categorized a security risk in his home country 15 years ago.

Okay, in Lebanon. Why? Connections to terrorists?

The info was not public, we have to talk to him.

You know what I'm thinking?

Remember the words from the alleged terrorist's whiteboard in DC?

Estimated number of casualties 35 - 50.

What if the number doesn't refer to the SpaceGuard conference

but the nursing home victims?

What if the number of casualties is a sign of worse things yet to come?

Nothing connects the nursing home deaths to SpaceGuard conference.

Not directly.

- Mom, a car. - Who's in there?

One of them is a woman with her tit in a baby's mouth.

Just a simple question:

was your son delivering the firewood to the nursing home?

- On the 14th of November? - When he fell through the ice.

It's not that long ago.

We deliver wood to several places.

That's where it went.

Was there something special about the order?

What would there be about a firewood order?

They need firewood.

Has the child been baptized?

Yes, he has.

Are you church members?

Leave that brat alone!

The husband shot himself.

The son didn't finish 9th grade.

Had they told me beforehand

that belonging to the church

would save my poor family from these trials

I'm sure we would have rushed to join the church.

Thanks!

We take comfort in thinking

Kalervo didn't have to make his journey to heaven alone.

He did it together with his best friends.

There is no gate as wide as Heaven's gate.

And now, 24 people walked in hand in hand.

I wonder who is next?

Who will they bury next?

"A child wanders alone in the vast wilderness."

"A lovely God's angel is taking her home."

The journey so long, no sight of the home

"but the lovely God's angel walks right by her side."

I try to be as good a Muslim as I can.

What do you mean by that?

Quran was written in different times.

It's hard to understand it sometimes.

Have you been contacting anyone in United States lately?

A lot. Goes with the job.

We astrophysicists, we keep contact with each other.

Space is our true home country

and mathematics is the language we use to describe it.

Do you have any close friends or relatives living there in US?

Close friends, no, relatives, yes.

Any of them living in Washington?

Not to my knowledge.

What is this about? Why am I here?

You have been arrested several times

by the Lebanese security police and also imprisoned.

I was arrested because of my...

Fiancé.

My boyfriend.

Oh.

It's against the law to be homosexual in Lebanon.

True.

But the law hasn't been carried out for many years.

I was arrested and imprisoned not because I'm gay,

but because my boyfriend is Israeli.

Luther's big discovery was

that we don't need the church between God and people.

Any person has a direct connection to God.

The revivalist movements took the same idea much further.

Charismatic lay preachers went around meetings,

spreading their own take on the Bible,

absolving people.

People had visions, heard voices, saw angels,

went into trance.

But when they interpreted the Bible's teachings

in a new way with a very strong slant

around the Northen Scandinavia,

this resulted of course in quite many truths.

There are dozens of these sects.

- Santeri! - Don't worry. Let him read by all means.

Do we know if any of these sects encouraged violence in teachings?

No. Well..

All communities have their horror stories.

I've studied the history of revivalist movements for 40 years.

Here and there I found rumors

about a sect around the early Laestadian movement.

The leading preacher was called Anders Antti Taimen.

His followers were called Taimenians.

Taimen's ideas were so severe

- that the elders of Lapland denied... - Elders of Lapland?

The leading lay preachers in Northern Scandinavia

toward the end of the 19th century.

And what did this Taimen teach?

Taimen is a historians' nightmare.

The believers were told to destroy all written possession about Taimen

and erase their memory both of Taimen

and every encounter with him.

All that remains are old minutes with lines drawn over,

burned letters, some inane pictures.

I can try to look into it,

but it might just be a story invented as a warning example.

If you try and extend one finger, just one at a time.

Let's try.

When your hands are crossed, nothing is sin.

When your baby is born, you need your hands to care for it.

The pinkie finger.

- Will you help me? - I will.

No! Help me, pull it straight.

- We need the doctor here. - No! No doctor.

Kerttu! The skin in your hands has grown together.

How can I care for my baby?

I won't let the baby be harmed in any way.

I promise.

A Scania, R-series.

The second generation was introduced in 2016,

and it won't break.

Too hot, too cold, no matter what.

You can drive it on a battleground, not a scratch.

And if you mean to take on a very long haul...

- Do you. - Yes.

Then the Highline model is the best truck tractor ever.

There's plenty of room for a little travel companion.

- Buy that. - New ones are too expensive.

They are so good, they're hard to find second-hand.

I guess I have to settle for an older Scania,

or Volvo or Mann, they're good, too.

- I have to see what we can find. - They're ugly.

They're tools, not Miss Truck pageants.

And you can never find the best deals online.

- You remember my old pal Jarmo? - Yes.

He has contacts to trucking people all over Northern Finland.

He could help us look.

We just need to find a reliable judge to help us decide.

- I can come. - Can you? It would be great.

And you should come, this is a family investment, right?

Antti Taimen. Never heard of a preacher that name.

Not many have, the early Laestadian elders saw to it.

There are Taimens around here, at least when I was young.

- Here? - Yes, in Ivalo. The area behind Rajakangas is...

- Called Taimenperä! - Yes.

That's true! I'll look into the local Taimens.

Can you dig into Saana Hyry's background?

Full work history, family, everything she has done.

And find out about Raakel Hovatta.

- The murder investigation moves forward. - Yes.

- I let the professor go, he's not a security risk. - Okay.

Are you okay?

- Yes. - Nina! And Mr. Stenius...

I need to show you something.

They are from Saana Hyry's apartment.

She was embroidering these framed quotes.

All of them have a religious theme.

But she was still working on one.

D/24 UN302,

The official name of our comet.

The truth about the comet D/24 UN302 erase all...

Niilo, can you stay with Pumpkin for a while?

- Of course. - Thanks.

They're gaining too much headway.

Professor Granqvist, you didn't pick up our calls.

I can't talk now,

the conference kicks off tomorrow.

You know and I also heard

that you two arrested one of our attendees,

Professor Assad. That's...

That's what we do when we believe

that someone is withholding information from us.

So, please, have a seat.

Would you two give us a couple of minutes, please?

Oh! We need to have good snacks for a stakeout.

Was there something you didn't tell us last time?

About the comet or about this conference.

Something important you left out?

Why do you ask?

You probably heard about the 24 dead people

at the local retirement home.

Yes, I... It's a ghastly accident.

No, it wasn't. They were murdered.

And the people who did it are still on the loose.

- But everyone said it was an accident. - Yeah.

If you promise to keep our secret,

we promise to keep yours.

The mass murder, it was religiously motivated.

And it connects directly to your comet.

24 dead people.

Please. What are you not telling us?

Is the comet somehow related to Christianity? Help us.

Comet D/24 UN302 is the star of Betlehem.

- What? - It's the star of Betlehem.

Yeah, the light in the night sky

that guided the wise men of the Bible

to find the infant Jesus,

that is if you believe in such things.

The truth of the comet will erase all disbelief on the Earth.

- What's that? - Nothing.

When the comet was discovered 1.5 years ago here in Ivalo,

we calculated when it had visited

our solar system the previous time.

And that was in the year 4 BC.

Now, in that year,

from February until April, it shone bright in the sky.

Definitely in Judea, too.

The historians today,

they date the birth of historic Jesus

to be somewhere between 7-2 BC. So...

So you published false data about the comet's last visit?

Why didn't you go public

about the tragedy in the retirement home

as a mass murder, I mean, that's pretty important.

Because nobody except you had any use for that fact.

Right?

And we also worried that people would react too strongly

and in too many unpredictable ways if they knew

that the star that witnessed Christ's birth

was back in the sky.

So we decided not to risk it.

One more push.

It was not an easy decision to make.

And why are you guys meeting now?

To discuss how and when to reveal the truth

about the previous visit of the comet.

And also how to explain away our earlier miscalculations.

Give it to me!

Can you wait a second?

No, now! Now!

- Kerttu... - Give me the baby!

We have to bandage these.

Give me my baby!

Hi there.

Hello.

You are mine.

Yes, mine! Not my father's.

Not God's.

Mine!

All mine.

You're a perfect child.

You are one, too. A perfect child.