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Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Dad.

Happy birthday to you.

Thank you.

Here you go.

Wait, Dad! You need to make a wish.

Here.

Hey, what the fuck happened?

He attacked me, and then threw me on the floor.

Maja...

It's fine. He didn't do any damage.

Now he's back in again anyway.

I've made an analysis of Roy Eliassen.

I've looked at background, psychology, physical behavior.

And my conclusion is still that he's clearly the wrong man,

we are looking for a completely different type of perpetrator.

It's okay. We're giving you a chance.

So what do you need now?

I need access to the archives. I want to know everything.

- I need to review every case. - Every case?

Yes. And an office.

Yes. I think that's everything. Any questions?

No, I think that all sounds good.

Yeah, it's not exactly the hardest job in the world.

Ah! One last thing.

Always remember to knock on the door before entering.

- Always. - Okay.

What kind of building is this?

It was a military base, so they kept tanks here,

and it was used as a repair workshop.

And then some people came from Senja to make theatre here.

But then the district merger happened, and since then

it's been empty...

What are you looking for exactly?

I'm looking for cases that may have similarities with

the Sofie case.

Firstly, I'll search for cases with a female victim,

within a given time frame and geographical area.

I'm also interested in looking at cases that have been dropped,

or that may have been overlooked.

- Overlooked? - Misunderstood.

Listen, let me say one thing.

I'm taking a chance here.

There's a lot of people following this case now.

So, tread carefully, okay?

The police have dropped the charges against

a 27-year-old man from Nerbygd in connection with

the so called Sofie case, writes Nordlys.

The 27-year-old was charged with kidnapping and murder.

The police will not comment further, but the newspaper

writes that the investigation team has been expanded

to include Maja Angell, a criminal psychologist

and researcher originally from the region.

The police refuse to either deny, or confirm, the claim,

and are asking for patience with the case.

Look at this.

2001. Missing. A 17-year-old girl.

Under the care of child services. Drug addiction.

Ran away from home.

A bus driver may have witnessed her, so the

police assumed she escaped over the border to Sweden.

And this one.

Female asylum-seeker. 32-years-old.

Crossed over Storskog in 2015 during the refugee crisis.

Lived in a refuge.

Her application for residence was rejected,

and she disappeared shortly afterwards.

"Disappeared voluntarily" it says here.

They reckon she traveled to another European country?

“Disappeared voluntarily”. What the fuck does that mean?

Lazy police work.

She has no papers. No ID. She could be anywhere and nowhere.

Then it's a lot easier to not take responsibility

and decide that she doesn't exist.

A perfect target.

Just like Sofie.

Wasn't reported missing because...

I don't know.

The mother didn't care?

She worked too much and was used to her

daughter being away for days on end and doing God-Knows-what.

Soft targets.

Let's focus on the missing cases.

I was thinking...

I can take time off today?

So we can do something. Just you and me.

Silje's going to Taekwondo, and Thea's mom is taking her....

Sorry, I can't.

-Work? -Mhm.

Okay. It was worth a try.

When will you be home?

Eh... I'm not sure. It'll be a long day.

I have six appointments. So a lot of driving.

And then I thought of maybe having a couple

of birthday beers with the guys tonight like usual.

Okay.

We'll do it another day.

And the birthday cake was really good. As usual.

If they catch us just hanging around, they'll kill us.

This is Lilly, by the way.

Where are you from?

Kauto.

And where do you see yourself in five years, Elle?

I don't fucking know. On the moon, maybe?

Yeah, or here?

Not here! Anywhere but here.

Look at this.

I almost missed it.

It's just a small note in a log.

I don't think it was ever followed up.

Tina Danielsen was reported missing in 2008 by a friend.

This is only a half hour drive away.

Come on.

And you've double-checked this?

Triple-checked. She's not reappeared. She's gone.

That doesn't mean she's been killed.

No. She may have disappeared voluntarily.

She may have committed suicide.

She may have been in an accident.

But it's worth checking out.

The girl who reported her missing lives right around here.

And you've been in contact with her already?

She's waiting for me now, yes.

Okay, fine. But Erik will go with you.

Fine.

No, you never stop thinking about someone

who has just disappeared.

The police took me seriously, but...

yeah, they dropped the case.

At first I was pissed off.

But eventually I began to think they were right.

Right about?

That Tina had just gone her own way.

That she'd disappeared to the ends of the earth.

She wouldn't be the first to just leave.

But then she may not have exactly been

a flawless child.

What do you mean?

I don't think she had contact with her family.

She seemed very... Alone?

She was quite... There was a lot of partying.

And after just a few weeks in her summer job she was fired.

Was she on anything? Substances?

Did you go to the police several times?

I thought the police knew best.

I don't know about the investigation...

I don't think there was any investigation.

I never had the impression there was?

I'm sure they went through what they found.

I don't fucking know.

Everyone who reports a tip to the police thinks

it's the most important thing in the world.

You know how many tips we get in a year?

Here in the district? Yeah, how many can it be?

-It's not London, is it? -Fuck, Maja.

This police district is bigger than London, are you aware of that?

I realise we're not a big city. But obviously, with a couple

of officers and four fucking hours of driving in each direction...

But still ... A missing girl?

And please don't make excuses that she was

probably a drug addict.

This is just so fucking typical, they couldn't give a fuck about women...

They're not even aware that they're doing it themselves,

it's just inherited behaviour after thousands of years.

Tina went missing in June 2008.

We have to map that whole week.

It means knowing what the weather was like.

What was on TV. What was in the newspaper.

What people were talking about. When the buses left.

We need to find out whether there were sports events,

or church. Anything unusual need to be noted.

In short, we'll do what the police normally do...

or should do when women are reported missing.

On Monday, a head-on collision at the Church crossing.

In the afternoon of the same day, something with

a stolen bicycle, but then it turns up again.

On Tuesday there's some shoplifting, but no charges were made.

Yeah, there's also something about a farmer calling in

regarding a quarrel with a neighbour.

Wednesday is a completely quiet day.

And on Thursday there's a complaint about loud music

from a terraced house, but they calm down before

eleven o'clock, so nothing happened.

On Friday and Saturday there's a village party,

and then there's always some nise, but nothing that

the police couldn't calm down. And on Sunday there was just

a few kids causing some damage at the school. Doing grafitti.

What's the chances that anything here has got anything

to do with anything?

Impossible to say.

But whatever happened that week, pure statistics

show that some of this is likely to be different

connected with the disapperance.

What kind of statistics?

That's what I'm writing about.

If you look at all the major murder cases, it's almost

without exception that you'll find some minor details, or

incidents, that are overlooked, which turn out to be important

for the case in retrospect.

Do you have an example?

Yes. There was a case in Manchester.

A small issue came up with a rental car.

The perpetrator handed in his rental car too late.

A penalty fee had been issued, and that then went to a

debt collection agency.

If the investigators had looked into that penalty,

they might have had suspicions about the man. The perpetrator

had signed and rented the car with his full name,

and identified himself. So if they only tracked him

they'd have seen that he crossed all the significant

points on the timeline.

Now it's routine for the police in England to check all

car rental companies in the area.

It's now known that particularly violent killers have a

number of character flaws.

Killers are often narcissists, who...

feel above the law. And that kind of man couldn't

give a shit about paying bills.

They're not afraid of any debt collector.

That's just how it is.

Pure statistics. So now it's in the algorithm.

We program the artificial intelligence to see connections.

So what are we overlooking here?

I'm not saying they get everything right.

I'm just saying that being an officer in the districts

is like being a firefighter in hell.

It just doesn't work.

You're doomed to fail. No matter what you do.

The distances are too great. I'm not talking about expecting

to see large teams of investigators running around here.

What I'm talking about is bothering to follow up on a tip.

It can't be that a police officer just decides whether he

feels like following up a case or not?

Please tell me that's not what you think!

That everything should work exactly the same within

the country's borders, it's just an illusion. It's such a social

democratic vision, that everyone should behave exactly the same,

no matter where you live. But look around.

Look out the window. It's not possible.

There's one bus a day. Until the eighties, entire villages were

closed when the snow came.

You know. I was with an old police chief one day...

It was in the late nineties. You know, all reporters have this

idea to make an article called "a day with the police", right.

That was it. So we had our morning coffee

with him, and then there was a call about a missing person.

I was concerned and I didn't really understand how the old police chief

could be so calm and relaxed, completely "cool".

Eventually we went out in the car and started driving to that farm.

There inside we found the old girl who'd made the call.

The husband was gone.

What happens then? We sit down for a coffee.

I didn't understand a thing, so I just sat there listening,

keeping my mouth shut.

Eventually we put our boots on, and I didn't understand why,

but the police chief went down to the barn.

And I followed him.

I remember walking right behind him, and then we came up on the barn bridge,

and i could see the tracks up to the bridge.

Then he opened it and went in, and he asked me to wait outside.

So I stood outside and waited. You know the feeling you get

when you know something's wrong.

I'm standing there, waiting. Looked in.

There, I saw the legs hanging from the ceiling.

Then he waved me in. I went inside.

I pulled out the camera, took loads of pictures, and i knew then and there

that i would never use those pictures for anything.

I was never even going to develop them.

Suicide?

Well, people die.

The point is that he could have called the forensics.

He could have asked for assistance from the Special Forces.

But what good would that have done?

He was dead. We saw he was dead.

The wife knew he was dead. So what would be the point in that?

No investigation?

We know people are killed. Maybe it was the neighbor who

had quarreled with him and killed him and hung him up on the ceiling?

Maybe it was his wife and lover who had taken his life? Maybe it was the

KGB or the CIA or the Govornment? Does it matter?

It wouldn't have made a difference.

But a girl who's just disappeared?

Maja. Nobody is perfect.

Do you live here now or what?

What was the issue with that neighbour quarrel?

A regular thing...

There was a farmer who thought someone had trespassed

on his property. Repeatedly. Many calls. Accused the

neighbour ... Some things with the plot boundaries.

He meant that someone had been on the property?

Yeah, the neighbour.

Why did he think it was the neighbour?

- Did the police follow it up? - No.

Because they thought it was an ongoing issue?

You see that. They didn't take it seriously

because they'd received too many similar inquiries.

- What? - The police don't follow up on

a tip, because they think it's about something else.

It's classic.

These are the properties.

Fuck, that neighbor quarrel really took off.

- What happened? - Typical Norwegian neighbor wars.

Charges of vandalism. Theft of tools, driving across the property

in the middle of the night. Death threats and threatening

phone calls. And the rest. It was practically a small war zone out here.

As far as I understand, the quarrel began about the property boundary.

And that must be around here.

And then it went back and forth like that for years.

There must be enough land here for everyone.

What did you say about driving on the property?

No, it was something about an incorrectly parked van.

Were there any dates on those reports?

Lets see ... incorrectly parked car ...

Yeah. June 2008.

2008.

There's the farmer. I'll have a chat with him.

Hi. Are you the man who runs this place?

Yes.

Have you ran it for long?

Well... six years.

My name is Maja Angell. I work for the police. My collegue and i

are looking at some old missing person cases. There was a girl who

went missing here before your time. And this is perhaps a strange question

but if you, purely hypothetically, had killed someone here...

where would you hide the body?

Johan!

I think we have a breakthrough.

Emma said that she and Tina were dropped off in the city center around

half past two on the night of June 27 by a friend who was driving

an illegal taxi. Emma went home, while Tina continued along the road.

A couple of hours later, around dawn, a phone call came from Moholt farm

about unauthorized persons on the property.

To get from the center to the farm, you have to drive the same road

that Tina walked on.

So you think there's a possible connection between the call

from this farmer and Tina Danielsen?

A van was reported to have passed several times.

Along with the fact that several reports were received about

unauthorized persons on the property. I want us to do a search there.

It was Enoksen who was the police chief then.

I want to talk to him before we do anything else.

Afternoon.

- Good to see you again. - Likewise.

We're taking a look at some old cases, Gunnar.

It may be that things look a little different in the light of day.

Maja has studied criminology and psychology in London.

She's helping with the Sofiecase. Yes, that was a horrible case.

Mhm. Especially if it was a case that could have been avoided.

We're here because of a missing person report that wasn't followed up.

You never know. No, that's right.

You could never follow up everything, just like it is today?

Even if some people believe there's unlimited resources.

No one believes that. I grew up here, I know how things work.

We're looking for a violent perpetrator who may have

committed several assaults, maybe murders,

over a period of ten to twenty years.

I don't know if you remember.

Tina Danielsen was reported missing by a friend in 2008.

22 years old, she was in Nerbygd in connection with a summer job.

Disappeared on the way home from a party.

But the report wasn't followed up.

I want to find out whether Tina was killed by the same man as Sofie.

If we didn't follow up on that report, then we will have

had good reasons not to.

The disappearance coincides with other reports that weren't followed up.

Among other things, on Moholt farm.

We'd like to conduct a search there, but we'd like to know what you think.

Maybe you're looking in the wrong place?

Or maybe you're not quite sure what you're looking for?

Or who? Maybe you have the wrong priorities.

You never know.

Anything we should consider, or know about?

Not that I can think of.

But if you're looking for a serial killer,

I have very little faith in that.

No faith in that at all.

See you. Thanks.

You didn't exactly get him on side.

What kind of method was that? You behaved like a spoiled brat.

What kind of method is it to creep up and lick his arse?

You were behaving like you're scared of an old, decrepit pensioner.

What the fuck is the probability that this case has anything to do

with the Sofie case?

Woman. 22. 53 kilos. Far from home. Poor economy.

Just lost her job. Possible drug addict.

She's a textbook example of a victim profile.

And to be honest, we owe it to them to investigate this.

We owe what to whom?

A young woman was reported missing and police didn't do shit.

We owe it to everyone to look at this case.

All right, we'll start the search.

But you better fucking find something in that cellar.

Hey?

What are you really doing?

Down there by the garages.

I saw Billy.

No one's doing anything wrong.

But what. Does she get paid?

Of course she gets paid. But it doesn't matter.

Anyway, fuck it. We've all done it.

It takes maybe ten minutes, and you get paid as much as you would

working three days in this shit job.

Ten minutes?

It doesn't bother me jerking those idiots off.

Two thousand kroner.

Sofie...

You knew her, right?

The girl who was killed. She worked here.

What is it you actually want?

I'm just wondering what really happened to her.

Did she...?

What do you think?