All language subtitles for The.Sex.Slave.2026.S01E01.SWEDISH.HMAX.WEB.h264-EDITH_track5_[eng]

Carola says that Håkan sold her
as a sex slave.

He says that it never happened.

Who is telling the truth?

THE SEX SLAVE

All text messages are taken
from the preliminary police
investigation.

How much?

One thousand

Come a little after 10 pm.
The kids are still up.

[Carola] I know who sold me.

But I don't know who bought me.

[Lagh] It's a completely
unbelievable story.

MOTHER OF YOUNG CHILDREN
HELD AS SEX SLAVE

A mother of young children
being sold as a sex slave

by her own live-in boyfriend
in their house.

TOOK MOBILE PAYMENTS

NORRTÄLJE SPORTS FIGURE ARRESTED

[Nora] You never think it would
happen in Norrtalje,

let alone anyone you knew.

He monitors her constantly.

[Carola] With GPS
when I was outside the house

and video cameras in the house.

[Lagh] He blindfolds her and
ties her to the kitchen table...

where he sells her.

-Does she do blowjobs?
-Yes.

[Carola]
I didn't know if it was one man
or if it was multiple men.

Over a hundred people
came to our house.

[Lagh]
There are thousands of chats.

I would love to suck you off
Come here, it's hard
I'm so sexually frustrated

You'd have to read all of them

to understand
the full scale of this.

[Nora] He was very well-liked
by basically everyone.

[Tomas] He worked as a teacher.

She worked in retail.

They lived in
a house in Norrtalje.

Everything seemed normal.

But then again,
that's often how the story goes.

[Nora] She's been
victimized by a person

who we all live with
and constantly spend time with.

[Bjorn]
It's a big investigation that
we put a lot of resources into,

because we needed to.

[Tomas] She doesn't know
how many men there were.

It could be like she says.

Or it could be like he says.

[Håkan]
It's perfectly obvious that
these are false accusations.

If you follow the logic
and ask the right questions,

then the truth will come out.

You'll reach the same
conclusion. I'm innocent.

Carola lied.

Period.

[low, tense music]

[Carola]
For as long as I can remember,
I've wanted a big family.

It gives me so much joy
to be with my kids,

to see them grow and change.

In high school,
I met my future husband, Daniel.

[Eva] She was just
a regular, happy girl.

She was only 16 years old
or something like that,

and my son was a little older.

We had a great connection
right from the beginning.

When they had the kids...

that connection only grew.

She really let us in.

[Carola]
We both had full-time jobs.

Three kids.

A red house on the countryside.

I had everything you're supposed
to for a happy, normal life.

I guess we started to lose
the spark after baby number two.

We sort of lost each other in
the relationship at that point.

We both got a little bored.

There were times when the normal
average Joe sex was really nice,

but we both still wanted
to try something new.

I think I just wanted
some sexual thrills.

We decided to open up
our relationship.

My husband wanted us
to place an ad for

a threesome
and possibly a foursome.

HAIR COLOR
BLACK

It was a little vague.

We didn't really know
what we were looking for,

HORNY CAR MECHANIC
WANTS TO HAVE SOME FUN

so it was more dependent on what
kind of replies we would get.

CARRO85, 27 - STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
167 CM - 85 KG - ATTRACTIVE

As a girl, you get a lot
of validation on these sites.

MESSAGES - LIKES - VISITS

There were hundreds of replies.

I chose...

one of these replies.

Where do you live?

I think the distance was the
most crucial factor at first,

the fact that
he lived so close by.

And that was Håkan.

HÅKAN NORRTÄLJE - SWEDEN
SINGLE MALE SEEKS WOMAN
192 CM - 95 KG - ATTRACTIVE

We exchanged phone numbers,

and I was just supposed to call
him on my way home from work.

But he was already
pretty forward.

Eventually, we decided to meet.

I think it's a good place to
meet someone for the first time.

On the other side,

there are rocks where
you can sit and chat.

My first impression
of him was...

very kind.

He was worldly,
and he stood out.

It mattered a lot
that he had interests,

that he worked out at the gym
and took care of himself

and was into speedboats.

When we're out there
on that island,

he asks me what I wanna do.

And I say that I don't know.

And then he says,
"I'd like to kiss you."

So I reply, "Well, go ahead."

And then it was just like
an explosion of emotions.

And we went back to his place.

[Anneli] She hadn't yet been
through what I had been through.

She was only at the beginning
and on her way in.

ANNELI
HÅKAN'S EX-GIRLFRIEND

To Håkan, I'm the woman
who came before Carola.

The best date I ever had
was with Håkan.

It was amazing.

There were roses,
it was nice and cozy,

and he was so thoughtful
and amazing.

Stable and strong and manly.

So incredibly good at seduction.

I never thought
he could be dangerous,

but I understood
relatively early on

that things weren't adding up.

I reacted immediately
when Carola met him.

"EVA"
CAROLA'S FORMER MOTHER-IN-LAW

"This isn't good."

He started courting her
very openly.

She was very receptive to it
at that time.

He came to her work
on Valentine's Day with roses.

He's showing her and the world
how amazing everything is.

It was like she was
under some kind of spell.

[♪]

Naked and waiting, send a pic.

If I say please?

[Carola] Very quickly
after he came into my life,

we entered this
whirlwind romance.

He was so intense
about getting to know me

and learning who I was, and I...

had never really
felt that way before.

So, after only six months...

I made the decision
to get a divorce.

[Nora]
I was four or five years old
when my mom and dad got divorced

and Mom met Håkan.

Everyone else saw him as...

NORA
CAROLA'S DAUGHTER

...a good person in general.

He was very well-liked
by basically everyone.

And it was really
frustrating for me

when I knew what kind
of person he really was.

He's very good at adapting
to different situations.

He can be the funny one.
He can be the quiet one.

He can be the loud one.

He's got all these sides to him.

It's when you meet him
that you get the whole picture.

There's something about him
that words can't describe.

[Jenny] She was deeply
in love with Håkan.

THE SMÅLAND HOUSE SOLD

It all happened so quickly.

They got a loan
for a house on Bjorno,

and not just any house.

JENNY
CAROLA'S FRIEND

It had to have this huge garage
because of his boating hobby.

There's a lot of money involved,

and their finances
were quite strained.

They had a goal in mind,
and that was to create a façade.

And from Håkan's side,
I think it was also about him

having additional
control over Carola.

[Lagh]
The situation that Carola is in

is that she lives in
this relationship with Håkan.

REBECCA LAGH
CAROLA'S LAWYER

She has five children,
two with Håkan,

and three children
from another relationship.

She lives in a world
where she has absolutely
no wiggle room whatsoever.

She's completely
at Håkan's mercy.

He wanted to have rough, violent
sex that she didn't really want.

Håkan has,
on numerous occasions,

performed vaginal,
anal, and oral intercourse

in their home against her will.

[Carola] I think that for Håkan,
sex is about power and control.

His needs are the only
thing that matters.

Sometimes, we would have sex
and I was on top of him,

and it would start off nice,

and then out of nowhere,
he would slap me.

He would throw me onto the bed,

face-down...

and rape me anally.

And I remember grabbing
the covers really hard.

And once he was done,
he'd tell me,

"Go take a shower."

Somewhere inside him
is the person I love,

the same person
who did this to me,

so I'm trying to defend it,

that it's probably not
like I thought it was.

So then it was like
my experiences didn't happen.

Feels like
my experiences didn't--

It's hard to explain,
but like they didn't happen.

[Lagh]
I've seen a lot of cases where

you break someone down simply
by exercising power and control.

You switch between
cold and warm moods,

and the one being
subjected to this

never really knows where
they stand with this person.

And eventually,
you end up blaming yourself
most of the time.

"If I just
do things differently,

he'll be nicer and love me,"
or something like that.

And you're constantly
pushing your limits.

And that's extremely clear
in Carola's case.

[Carola] I think it was at that
point that I started to doubt

everything about myself.

He constantly
made me doubt the truth.

If I had experienced something,
he could make me believe

that I'd experienced
something else entirely.

[Nora]
I felt like I had lost my mom,

because she was no longer the
same mom I had grown up with.

She was a completely
different person.

She was so under his control
that she lost herself in it,

so caught up in what he wanted
and what he told her to do.

You know the rules
go all the way, right?

Of course, I know what I'm doing
and what I want.

Write the rules here?

[Lagh] He asked a lot of her.

He went to such
extremes all the time.

Pretty early on, he got her
to sign contracts in his chat.

For example, he could
sleep with whoever he wanted,

as many women as he wanted,

but she wasn't allowed to sleep
with anyone except Håkan.

You can sleep with other people.
I can only sleep with you.

Even if we break up, you still
get to sleep with me
and decide who I can see.

YOU'RE IN CHARGE

[Carina] I'm not used to
the idea of having contracts.

I didn't know how
to react when she told me.

"Wait, what?
What did you just say?"

CARINA
CAROLA'S FRIEND

I didn't understand.

You couldn't say anything to her

because she wasn't
receptive to it.

[Carola]
He words things in such a way

that he turns it into about
how much he cares about me.

It was purely sexual.

Meanwhile, he saw me
as the woman he loved,

who he wanted to spend
the rest of his life with.

When we built a house together,
he set up cameras in the house.

CAM 2

Pretty quickly, I noticed
that they were pointed at me.

I'd get messages like,
"Why have you been
on the couch for so long?"

He was monitoring everything
through the cameras.

If the cameras weren't
in their usual spots,

you never really knew where
it was safe to move around.

Put the bedroom camera
where it's supposed to be

I haven't touched it

[Jenny] If she left for work
15 minutes early, she'd be told,

"Who are you meeting? Whose dick
are you planning to suck?"

She would be timed
when coming home from work.

What time do you get off
tomorrow?

4:10 pm.

You work from 6 am to 3 pm.

[Carola] He always told me
that I was lying.

Work was kind of a safe space.

Are you on break?

I could just be in my own
little world sorting merchandise

and just exist.

But then he'd suddenly
pop up behind a shelf,

even though I knew
he was supposed to be at work.

Who is ---?

Delete her on Facebook.

He'd print out
my phone records every month.

So then we'd sit at
the kitchen table,

where I'd have to
account for every call.

Sometimes I wasn't sure why
I'd called a certain number,

and then I'd have to call them.

I can't shake the feeling that
you're lying to me—about
your calls, your texts,

and going to work
just to be with other people.
And I don't want that.

How can I prove that
I don't even want to be
with anyone else?

I'll get your name tattooed on
me to prove that I'm yours.

It became really
important to him

that I get his name tattooed.

This is a conversation
between me and Håkan.

"A deal.

You're owned by me whether
I get a new girlfriend or not.

I can see whoever I want,

and you'll do everything
I ask of you, no matter what."

"You will get
the tattoo 'Håkan S.'

It stands for my name, but also
'Håkan's,' as in my possession.

Do we have a deal?"

And I said yes.

It became really important
to him that I was
to be owned by him,

that I stopped
being a human being

and just become a possession.

[Nora] He's dangerous
to everyone around him

because he gets inside your head

and controls you without
you realizing it yourself.

He's controlling you,

and you don't notice
until it's too late.

She changed from this happy,
bubbly, spontaneous person.

Honestly, I couldn't help
being angry with her.

I'd been very upfront with her.

JENNY
CAROLA'S FRIEND

In hindsight, I feel bad about
some stupid things I said.

I was trying to be clear and
trying to make her understand
that this wasn't healthy.

[Carina] It started with me not
being allowed into their house.

I wasn't allowed
to set foot on their property.

We were trying to open her eyes
to who he really was

and what he was
really doing to her.

CARINA
CAROLA'S FRIEND

He noticed that we were trying
to drive a wedge between them,

and then he wouldn't
let me contact her at all.

[Eva] It's the classic scenario.

Her contacts from before
were taken away.

She was isolated.

"EVA"
CAROLA'S FORMER MOTHER-IN-LAW

He was in charge.

She was completely
under his thumb.

He isolated her so
he could do whatever he wanted.

Anything can happen
behind closed doors.

Someone will be coming over.

[Carola] My boundaries
were constantly being pushed.

One thing was clear:

I didn't wanna have sex
with another woman.

I've arranged for a woman
to come over on Sunday.

Okay. What does she want to do?

It doesn't matter,
you'll both do as I say.

Then I agreed to it
to get him to stop nagging me.

But then it ended up
becoming an obsession for him.

It was very intense, and
it went on for a very long time.

And then it became couples.

Can you get away tomorrow
night to meet a couple?

I don't know if I can get
a babysitter.

Toward the end, things just
escalated so quickly, so I--

I don't know what he was feeling
or what he was thinking,

but his lines were blurring too.

Come down, take your clothes off
and you'll get it

BDSM entered the picture
very quickly.

There was a black plastic box

on top of a closet
in our bedroom

where he kept sex toys, whips...

and various kinds of rope.

Håkan liked to play
"master and slave."

We had a very open floor plan
and big windows,

so we had to hang sheets
over all the windows.

He strapped me to
the dining room table

where we usually sat
and ate with our children.

Then he'd put a blindfold on me,

and also a ball gag.

There's this panic where
you don't know how
long it's going to last

or when it's gonna end,

when he'll finally be satisfied.

[Nora] Our bedrooms were
upstairs, so we'd go up to bed.

After that,
we weren't allowed downstairs,

especially not into the kitchen
to get anything to eat or drink.

I guess something was happening
downstairs that he didn't
want us to know about.

Come a little after 10 pm.
The kids are still up.

[Carola] There were several
times when he'd tie me up

and then tell me
other people were coming over.

What happens if she notices?

How does she feel about it?

[Carola] And eventually,
it actually started happening.

She doesn't need to know.
She's blindfolded.

The only sense
I really have is my hearing,

so the whole time, I'm trying
to hear what's going on.

How many footsteps do I hear?

They never said anything,
either.

I didn't know if it was one man

or if there were multiple men,

or if there were
different men every time.

Panic is, um...

a strange thing.

There were so many times
when I wished he'd just, like--

that he'd just end it all.

There were well over
a hundred people.

You'd think one of those people
would have sensed
that something was off.

And then you're
supposed to come to work

and be happy
and act like nothing happened.

But as you're there
at the register
helping all the customers...

you think, "Is it him?"

"Or is it him?"

As soon as I saw a man...

I would think,
"Could it be him?"

[Nora] So I noticed
that Mom had bruises

on her legs and on her arms.

Whenever I asked her, she'd say,

"I just dropped a pallet
on my leg at work."

And I thought
he was beating her.

I didn't know how.
I didn't know why.

Me and my siblings
would find Mom crying.

When we asked what was wrong,
she'd just say, "I'm tired."

It was like an anger
inside of me that
I wanted everyone to know.

It reached a point where I felt
like it was no longer worth it

to put that energy into
trying to save my mom

when it didn't seem like
she wanted to be saved.

So at one point,
I'm talking to my mom,

and I say,
"Now you have to choose.

It's me or him."

And she says,

"You know I can't do that."

That's when I moved in
with my dad and started
living there full-time.

To be on the outside and try to
help someone who's being abused,

it's very frustrating.

They've seen that she's changed.

But they also become powerless.

And Carola hasn't
been able to leave.

[Carola]
After almost ten years, he had
complete control of everything

and full custody
of the children.

He had made me
sign over the house.

He had complete access to
all my communication channels.

[Lagh]
She's a shadow of a person.

She has nothing left.

She can't see a way out.

But what she doesn't know

is that there's
a police investigation underway.

[♪]

POLICE

[Bjorn]
Someone made an anonymous call
to the non-emergency line.

The tip says there's a woman
who's being subjected to

extreme control
with very little freedom.

CAM 2

She was being monitored
with a GPS tracker...

and surveillance cameras
inside the house.

She was being subjected to rape
several times a week.

BJÖRN
POLICE

And all the while,
there were also young children
living in that home.

TOMAS
POLICE

Because of that,
we have to think this through
very carefully.

[Bjorn] In this case,
we couldn't contact the woman
that this tip was about,

as that could make things worse.

We were worried about
what might happen to her.

[Tomas] A person who
is under surveillance

will never be able to freely
tell the police about it.

We can't take any chances.
We can't just guess.

One thing that stood out
about this case was that...

REBECCA
SOCIAL SERVICES

...he'd managed to
get custody of the children

and had control over
every aspect of their life.

If you're an abuser and
you wanna keep up your façade,

then teaching is
the best job you can get.

[Bjorn]
We spoke to people who were

on the periphery
of Carola's social circle.

At the time, we didn't know

who might still be
communicating with the suspect.

So we had to think
outside the box

without putting anyone in...

serious danger.

[Rebecca] The police received
this anonymous report,

and then they called
a joint action meeting.

The child welfare caseworker
was invited,

and I was invited
as a domestic violence
social worker.

We sat there and discussed
how we could help Carola

while also acting
in accordance with the law.

First,
the child welfare caseworker

summoned Carola to a meeting.

So Carola thought
it would be a normal meeting
about her children.

And in the next room,
the police were waiting.

We knew beforehand that
he normally had a GPS on her.

We also know from experience

that men using GPS tracking
might also use audio
surveillance.

If there's a chance that
Håkan is listening to her

and I ask her
questions about abuse,

she's not gonna
answer truthfully.

It also increases the risk
that he'll hurt her even more.

So I had written down
in a notebook

and asked her if
she was wearing a wire.

IS SOMEONE LISTENING IN?

And then she looked at me,

and that's when I knew that...

our suspicions were correct.

It really messes with your head.

It's like a weight
has been lifted,

but I'm panicking
at the same time.

I realize that they know more
than I think they know.

She soon tells me that she's
been working with the police
on this for about two months.

And if I'm willing
to talk to them,

they're willing to help me.

The woman that
we first met during
the interrogation process,

I perceived her as broken
and going through
an acute phase of trauma.

When you get to that point
where you can't--

where you can't
take it anymore...

the fear and the panic
kind of leave you.

[Tomas] She tells me everything
she has been subjected to

throughout this ordeal,

which is a huge amount
of intercourse

and other sexual activities
without any consent.

[Lagh]
The police talk to Carola,

and she confirms
what this report says.

Then, the prosecutor decides
to take Håkan into custody.

There are a lot
of logistics involved

to keep Håkan from
realizing what's going on.

Why aren't you answering?

There's a GPS tracker
in her car.

They make sure someone
is driving her usual route

so Håkan won't know
through the GPS that
she's going somewhere else.

At the same time,

they're planning to arrest
Håkan at his workplace.

[Tomas] To arrest someone at
their workplace is obviously
highly invasive,

but we came to the conclusion
that there was no other way.

The evidence is often digital
in cases like this.

It's really not very hard
to delete things in the cloud

or even remotely these days.

A lot of the evidence was in
the phone that he had with him
at his workplace.

[Bjorn] We searched the home.

We seized phones,
computers, and iPads.

He’s sitting on the couch next
to me. If he can’t sleep,
I shouldn’t sleep either.

He got upset that I had talked
to Carina, so he spat.

The full picture that emerged
from the evidence was enormous.

A large volume
of digital material.

[Lagh]
There are thousands of chats.

You have to read all of them

to understand
the full scale of this.

Do you want to
and have the money for it?

There are conversations
with other men
where he's selling her.

And that's a shock to her.

How much will you pay?

Up to 2,000
if we can do most stuff

Come in.

Then she can have 2,500.

What does she think about it?

[Tomas] She explained to us that
this had happened
repeatedly over the years.

[Bjorn]
We interviewed about 40 people.

This was a major investigation

and we devoted
a great deal of resources to it,
because we had to.

[Tomas] We connected chats

to GPS positioning,
to mobile payments.

SENDER - RECEIVER

It's clear that
this had to be paid for

and that the money
was important.

People are willing to pay 2,000
just to watch.
What can you offer?

He-- he made money off me.

It's so absurd
that it almost doesn't register.

Wednesday?

I'm a sports coach,
so I'm busy most nights.

The worst feeling was
that I know who sold me,

but I don't know who bought me.

[Nora] It didn't take long
for the headlines to appear.

NORRTÄLJE SPORTS FIGURE ARRESTED

I remember old friends
started to contact me.

TEACHER ARRESTED

He teaches at my kids' school!

How can you sell your wife?

Fucking monster. Just shoot him.

Bervo, just shoot him.

To this day,
I can't understand how he,
as a father of three

Originally posted by fantasia73
Who is the sports profile?
H*kan --- called the fandom.

and a teacher,
could do this to Carola.

COWORKERS:
HE WAS A WELL-LIKED TEACHER

I would have guessed that there
was rape and abuse going on.

One more. You got it.

But it was to such
a horrible degree

that I never
could have imagined.

[Anneli] I don't think
Håkan has any limits.

I'm inclined to think
that he's capable of anything.

I think Håkan believes
that he's a great person

who hasn't done anything wrong.

That's the way he is.

I wouldn't have guessed
that he sold her,

but the rest, I would have.

Simple as that.

He never takes the blame
for anything he's done.

He'll keep denying it
until the day he dies.

[director] Håkan has agreed
to be in this documentary.

How do you feel about that?

I think it goes to show...

how sick he is.

[Håkan] It's not true.

It's perfectly obvious that
these are false accusations.

If you follow the logic
and ask the right questions,

then the truth will come out.

She's lying.

I'm innocent.