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Copenhagen Police, how may I help you?

Yes.

Copenhagen Police, how may I help you?

Yes, please email us the photos.

Did he see them together?

May I have your name, please?

Pernille Rønnebæk.

And you saw them in the harbour fairway at 19:10?

Yes, please send us the photos.

THE INVESTIGATION

DAY 4 14TH AUGUST 2017

My team made a list of everything we found.

We quickly concluded there was human blood in the submarine.

Okay.

How much?

Not much. There's no guarantee it's hers.

38,000 litres of salt water has flushed through it,

so finding anything is quite a feat.

But you sent the blood for DNA testing?

Of course. But we don't know if there's enough for a result.

We also found a green water hose, some iron pipes and things.

But let's talk when we hand it over for standard searching.

In your opinion, has a murder been committed?

We'll finish up now, then you can have it at the end of the day.

The phones have been ringing all morning,

we're trying to establish an overview.

There are reports that the detainee and journalist knew each other.

That they were known as a couple on the BDSM scene in Copenhagen.

He is said to have a sophisticated, very active sex life.

His closest friends say he's innocent and that it must be a mistake.

When will the room be ready for us?

In a couple of hours.

-Hi. -Hi.

We got a video filmed by a tourist on a cruise ship just after 20:00.

It shows a small motor boat just next to the sub.

-How close? -Close enough to move between hem.

Who was in the boat?

It was taken from a distance of 100 metres, so we can't see.

Did anyone board the sub?

Were they not alone?

Or did she get off before the submarine sank?

It's Jens.

Yeah.

I don't have any comment.

You'll be the first to know if I have a comment.

I'm sure you know special prosecutor Jakob Buch.

He's not here to meddle in our work.

He's here to tell us about his work.

Welcome, Jakob.

Thank you.

As most of you know,

the detainee was remanded for four weeks on Saturday

on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter.

To put it mildly, I don't agree with that ruling.

But at least you've got four weeks to advance the case.

I neither wish to, nor am I allowed to,

interfere with the investigation,

but let me emphasise how crucial it is

that you find sufficient evidence of murder by the hearing in four weeks,

so that he can be jailed on the correct basis.

There is a long list of possible scenarios and hypotheses.

Maybe the suspect and victim were acquainted or in a relationship.

Maybe a hatch hit her in the head, maybe something entirely different.

These are all assumptions,

and as you know, knowing something is very different from assuming it.

What we assume cannot be proven, what we know can be proven.

And if it's murder, I have to be able to prove it.

If not, he walks free.

I thought you weren't going to meddle.

I don't want to.

But the quality of my work depends on the quality of yours.

So... do a good job.

-Yeah. -Thanks.

Very well.

A person can die in four ways:

Naturally, by accident, suicide, or murder.

The accused has said she died in an accident.

We're charging him with murder.

These are the two possibilities available to us at present.

So...

Murder.

Accident.

We know from numerous photos and witness statements

that the submarine set off at around 19:00.

We know she sent her boyfriend a text message at 20:25.

In which she wrote: "Still alive,

BTW, but going down now."

I've asked myself if this indicates that she is scared in any way.

But nothing suggests she was.

She was a journalist and used to working in different contexts.

And all the photos of the departure show her happy and smiling.

So...

Text message to boyfriend.

20:25 hours.

From then, there is a gap in our knowledge

until the submarine is seen again

by Drogden Lighthouse the next morning at 10:00.

And then it suddenly sinks at 10:22.

Until the suspect is picked up by boat, taken to Dragør

and taken into custody.

So what happened in those 14 hours, in the time from 20:25 to 10:22?

Yes?

I'm checking who's monitoring traffic on the Øresund Strait.

If this is recorded and detailed enough

to see the route the sub took.

It seems I need to go to Malmö to get the information in question.

I'll report back to you.

Musa?

During Nikolaj's and my questioning of the suspect,

I came across an article in the Sunday newspaper.

In it, the suspect makes this statement:

"In the long term, I hope for a criminal career.

I don't want to rob a bank. Fuck, no.

Nobody should get hurt.

In all secrecy, I want to build a hydrogen balloon

and fly over Copenhagen while police cars are hunting me on the ground.

I'll land between the two spires of Roskilde Cathedral

with the police ready to catch me."

And then he says:

"I don't know if that's exactly what's going to happen,

but I want to create a happening on a gigantic scale."

So there's a third possibility.

Yes.

-Maibritt. -Yes.

We need to get hold of the person in the boat that was near the sub.

Okay.

A happening?

Could she have climbed into the boat?

And hidden herself there?

Meanwhile, writing an article about being the victim of a crime?

That would be quite a happening.

And nobody would come to harm.

This is Detective Maibritt Porse from the Copenhagen Police.

We're seeking the owner of a boat in connection with an investigation.

I'm not absolutely sure. It's a motor boat of 20 to 24 feet.

Yep.

Sure, but I wondered if you could forward an email to your members

asking them to contact us if they have any information.

Great. And what's your email address?

Yeah.

Is that ".com"?

".dk", okay.

Thanks.

I'll be in touch.

Bye.

-Any news? -Not yet.

I'm calling all boating clubs within a 45 km-radius,

including in Sweden, and asking them to contact their members.

We shall see.

Musa has brought in a young man who helped out in the suspect's workshop.

-I'd like you to question him. -Okay.

We also contacted one of his girlfriends.

Maybe she knows something.

Musa has prepared Room 5 for you.

What if it's just a happening?

Do you know why you're here?

Yes.

Great, let's get started.

For how long have you known him?

Two years.

What do you do when you're together?

All kinds of things.

I help out in his workshop.

He's always got all kinds of crazy stuff going on.

What kind of stuff?

Nothing dangerous, just...

Now listen...

I can't imagine he harmed that woman.

No, and we're only trying to find out what happened.

Well, we...

We talk a lot about the war,

and sometimes we only speak German with each other.

Have you ever seen him upset or aggressive?

He does have a temper, you know?

But...

You need that to succeed in this world, don't you?

What else did you talk about?

We just talk a lot.

About what?

About our plans and fantasies and...

What are those fantasies?

I don't know.

I mean, nothing in particular.

When will he be released?

He's on remand for four weeks. It's the judge's decision.

You don't think he killed her, do you?

What I'm thinking is there's something you're not telling us.

-What do you mean? -What fantasies did you talk about?

We talked a lot about World War II and projects in the workshop.

Historical personalities, perfect crimes,

and air balloons, which we're both very interested in.

The suspect says he dumped the body between Falsterbo and Avedøre.

There's about 35 kilometres between those two points.

To search the area, we're placing four lead weights

to form a rectangle on the seabed.

This is connected to buoys on the surface and called a stay.

20 by 200 metres.

Three guys dive in and swim side by side from one end to the other.

They thoroughly search the seabed.

When we've searched one stay, we move the weights and search the next.

In that way, we can search rectangle by rectangle.

I know it's not optimal.

If we have no clue about where to search,

then it could take quite some time to search the whole strait.

Jens speaking.

You can write that we have planes and helicopters and dogs along the coast.

And divers in the sea.

I can't comment now.

I promise you'll be the first to hear it when I have news.

Fine.

We'll keep diving.

But we won't find anything like this.

-Hello, Jens. -Hi, Joachim.

Hi.

We want to look at Kim's computer,

so I asked the Swedish police to pick it up from you.

Why?

We want to see if there's anything on it that helps find out what happened.

What could that be?

It could be emails, photos, or Facebook messages.

Maybe they already knew each other.

No, they didn't.

It's important to confirm that.

So do you have a warrant for this?

No, it's not a search.

I don't know if we can just let you look into her things.

I don't understand. Why not?

-Kim is a journalist, Jens. -Yes.

That computer has information about people

who could be in danger and in need of protection.

Some are women who risked their lives for their beliefs.

Those people trusted her.

But we're only interested in information related to the case.

Yes. But if we give you her computer and password,

we don't have any guarantee that you won't look through the rest.

No, no. No.

I need to talk to Ingrid first.

How would you describe your relationship?

-As a good relationship. -Yeah?

-Are you friend or lovers or...? -We're friends.

And also a bit...

A bit what?

Yes.

-You sleep together? -Yes.

Or rather...

Yes.

Yes.

Was he ever violent or aggressive with you?

No.

Unless we'd agreed on it.

If it's part of the game.

Yeah.

Okay.

We used to go to these BDSM and fetish parties, right?

But it was a bit hard to get him to do things.

Because he's so polite.

He's very careful.

Did you ever meet the Swedish journalist?

Did he talk about her?

No, never.

Okay.

Did you ever go in the submarine?

-Did you sail in it? -Yeah.

Did you have sex in it?

Often?

No, only once.

How was it?

What do you mean?

Was it S and M or normal sex?

It was just normal sex.

It was... I think it was.

Gentle.

Listen to me. He's not a monster.

He really isn't.

I don't know what's happened, but he hasn't done anything.

I just know.

Hello.

I asked Jakob to sit in, just to get a sense of where we are.

Where is Musa?

He's gone to the sub.

Have the forensics finished?

No, but he was too impatient to wait any more.

Right.

Nikolaj?

I've made a timeline and marked what we know

and what we don't know, so I'll update it as we go on.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to map the route of the sub yet.

The radar surveillance has been erased or had too little detail.

What about Malmö?

I'm waiting to hear from them.

-Do you have any news? -Yes.

We haven't had any luck finding the boatsman,

but we've conducted interviews,

and the suspect was fascinated by the idea of the perfect crime.

And we've confirmed that he had a transgressive sex life.

And there are rumours that they were acquainted beforehand.

What do those rumours say?

People have heard that they were kissing in a cafe in Christianshavn

or that they went to sex parties.

I have no direct corroboration.

But we got a call from a woman

who heard from a chief physician at Rigshospitalet

that he saw them kissing in Christianshavn.

-A chief physician? -Yes. Lennart... Stauner.

Have we spoken to him?

I have an appointment with him this week.

If he can confirm a relationship,

then we have to reconsider jealousy as a main motive.

Yeah.

Or it's a red herring.

At what time was the motor boat next to the submarine?

At 20:15.

So that's before she wrote the text message.

-Can you put that on the board? -Yes.

Jens speaking.

Where did you hear it?

What was the name? Lennart?

Lennart Stauner.

Do you intend to print that?

No, I certainly won't comment.

What's happening?

The press has also heard that they had an erotic relationship.

One of the tabloids is considering it for their front page.

They say they'll finish in an hour at the earliest.

Why don't you go home and start early tomorrow?

It's getting late.

What would I do at home?

Sleep.

I didn't wait all weekend for this just to go home and sleep.

Call me if anything happens.

We've conducted investigations, which I cannot comment on.

but we still don't have a body.

We presume we're looking for a dead person.

And we're mostly searching around Køge Bay,

both on the Danish and Swedish sides.

Nero, come. Come on.

Come on.

Jens Møller.

-I'm Niels Bark from the news. -Yes.

Would you like to come to the studio to talk about the submarine case?

The submarine case? Is that what you call it?

The tabloids came up with it.

It's too early to say anything.

I don't have any comments now, but I'll call you first when I do.

How about that?

I look forward to hearing from you. Bye.

Hi, Musa. What's up?

Okay. I'm on my way upstairs.

Knickers and tights.

Where were they found?

In a grate under the submarine.

-How did they get there? -I'd say someone put them there.

Could they have ended up there during salvage and draining?

I can't see how that's possible, but I don't reject it.

Why the hell would he put it there?

-Is it hers? -Maybe.

I gave it to Forensics to send on for DNA analysis.

DAY 5 15TH AUGUST 2017

-Coffee? -Thank you.

This is Maibritt.

She's part of the team and will help out with the technology.

-Hello. -Hello.

Were there things we shouldn't see?

No, there's nothing you can't see.

but there are things you mustn't copy.

She's a journalist, and many people trust her.

It's about protecting her informants.

Of course. I'm sorry I didn't express myself clearly.

As I said, Maibritt will be at the keyboard helping us.

-Shall I set it up? -Yeah.

I think it's all here.

These pictures are from the Marshall Islands.

Between 1946 and 1958,

the US conducted 67 nuclear tests in the islands.

Kim and her colleagues wrote a series of articles about it.

The pictures are from that.

The poor children didn't understand anything.

They said there were two sunrises, one in the east and one in the west.

It suddenly began to snow,

and they'd only ever heard about snow,

so they were happy and ran out and rolled in the snow.

But it wasn't snow.

It was radioactive ashes.

It's in the Pacific, between Hawaii and Australia.

Right in the middle, you could say.

It's like a ticking time bomb.

The US did a big clean-up in 1978.

-There it is. -Yeah.

They sealed the radioactive waste in concrete shells like this one.

But plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years.

So it's just a matter of time before the shell breaks

and the radioactive waste leaks into the sea.

Oh, yes. She won several awards

for this series of articles.

Although everything indicates that they didn't know each other,

there is something I need to talk to you about.

One of the tabloids called me.

And they're considering running a story

based only on loose rumours.

What are those rumours?

The rumours suggest that Kim and the accused

were previously acquainted.

That they were in a relationship.

I'm so sorry that I have to bring this up.

But the story might be on the front page as soon as tomorrow.

And I wanted you to hear it from me first.

My goodness.

But it's not true. What kind of journalists are they?

How's it going?

Fine.

I've never had a murder case that didn't come home with me at night.

-Maibritt? -Yes.

I don't know about the police,

but in healthcare we don't have time for this kind of thing.

-I've got five minutes. -That's fine.

We can go down this way.

I don't know what you're on about. Maybe you got the wrong person?

I don't think so.

What am I supposed to have said?

That you saw them kiss passionately in a cafe in Christianshavn.

Why would I gossip like that?

To appear interesting.

-If there's nothing else... -There is.

Pernille Rønnebæk.

Does it ring a bell?

Yeah, why?

She said you were at a dinner party

and you told her you saw them together in Christianshavn.

If it's untrue, I'll have to ask her why she's lying about such things.

I recognise that story.

Fine. When did you see them together?

I never did.

-What? -I didn't see them together.

So you just made it up?

I heard it from someone and told it as if I'd seen it myself.

Okay.

Who told you?

I don't remember.

I don't know about the health service,

but we don't have fucking time for this in the police.

And I don't think the victim's family have time for it either.

DAY 6 16TH AUGUST 2017

-Hi. -Hi.

I'm here to see Jens Møller, the head of Homicide.

Yes.

I understand you're looking for me, or for my boat.

Let me check if he's in.

Here you go.

We only have water, the coffee machine broke.

Yeah. Thanks.

Well, I came in because I heard you were looking for my boat

in connection with the journalist, the sub and all that.

I don't know if I should have a lawyer with me.

Nor do I.

-What were you doing with the sub? -Nothing.

You said your boat was alongside the submarine, right?

Yeah.

-Wasn't it you who was sailing it? -Yeah, but...

We were never right next to the sub.

We may have been four or five metres away.

I can't find the photo now, but...

My son thought the sub was interesting and we took this photo.

That's all.

I was so upset when I read about it.

And I heard you thought I was involved, but I'm not.

You know nothing about the sub and the journalist?

Only what's in the newspapers.

Well.

We spoke with them for two minutes at most.

That's all it was.

Okay.

Relax. I don't suspect you of anything.

Thanks for coming in.

We got that cleared up. Let me walk you out.

-Can I just leave? -Oh, yes.

We just need a technician to copy the photo.

Yeah, sure.

NATURAL DEATH - ACCIDENT - SUICIDE - MURDER - HAPPENING

NATURAL DEATH - ACCIDENT - SUICIDE - MURDER

You've reached Cecilie. I can't take your call now.

Leave a message and I'll call you back.

There you are.

Yeah.

How's it going?

Are you making progress?

Yeah. Or...

Every time we thought we had something, it turned out to be wrong.

-How are you feeling? -Me?

I'm fine.

Did you speak with Cecilie?

What if she's angry with me?

Well, she is.

She told you she was pregnant and you walked away.

DAY 11 21ST AUGUST 2017

We have to search more precisely.

Who says the current didn't carry the body to Poland?

Nobody says that.

Cover one eye.

Imagine looking through a kitchen roll with the other eye,

and you have to find a pin on a football pitch.

That's what I'm asking my guys to do right now.

Every day, Jens.

From dawn to dusk, at 12 metres of water.

Forensics found no DNA on the knickers or the tights.

Have the divers and pilots not found anything either?

No.

Some Swedes thought they'd found her clothes,

but it was just an orange life vest, nothing to do with this.

Jens speaking.

I have no comment.

But you'll be the first one I call when I have a comment, alright?

Thanks.

We've got fuck all.

And there.

And there, or what?

-Not at first. -No, but do you want that one?

Exactly.

Nikolaj Storm.

Again there.

When?

Yes.

Yeah.

We'll be there straight away.

Jens speaking.

Jens, it's Nikolaj here.

-Are you heading home? -Yeah.

-You'd better turn back. -Why?

A woman's torso has washed ashore on Amager.

Subtitles: Kenn Nakata Steffensen www.plint.com