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-Who's flirting with you? -Thomas Eriksen, MP.

We were classmates in the 80's. Even then he wanted to become PM.

There's a cabinet shuffle and I recommended you as Attorney General.

You are the most trustworthy candidate, but you don't have popular appeal.

You have 14 days to get Denmark behind you. Go for it.

-What would I have done without you? -Jonas?

Rasmus!

A medic told the newspaper Koch committed suicide.

-What? She didn't. -You have "no comment". Okay?

I'll be right there, honey.

Where is Fanny?

-I forgot Fanny. -What do you mean? Where?

-I run down there ... -You stay here with Sally!

Fanny!

Talented.

Does PET think Fanny's disappearance may be politically motivated?

-Isn't it premature to go out on TV? -He must know what he's doing.

Help us find Fanny.

He can be good. It's setback generating public support.

Someone must have seen something.

-What man takes a child? -Thomas Eriksen's lying.

He got a call about suicide before he went into the kiosk, he said.

Directly after he got a call from the au pair and he left.

There is only one problem ... There are 29 minutes between the calls.

Why is he lying?

My bid for a position in the upcoming cabinet shuffle is ...

... The country's next Attorney General and your and my next boss-

Is Thomas-Eriksen. Answer it now.

Something's not right in Thomas Eriksen's presentation.

I'm heading to the office. He disappeared, nowhere.

-Thomas Eriksen. Really? -Yes.

If the child is found. We can't have a traumatized man in the post.

Mom couldn't get Sally to calm down.

Let me go do it.

Thomas ... Is this a sentence?

When we married, we promised each other eternal fidelity. Don't you remember?

-Don't start now. -When we had the girls we were together.

-Are we being punished now? -Stop it, honey.

-Will the two negotiators sleep here? -No, they'll be relived by another team.

It's a waste of time. The kidnapper hasn't called.

-Why do you say that? -It's just a feeling.

Can't you give us a hint next time so we can be ready?

-Ignore it. I run myself. -If Rasmus is ready in two minutes.

-I want to be alone. -You get used to it.

-Now it's my decision, okay? -Well, of course.

Something new, Thomas?

-What happened there? -Do you think he's hiding something?

I don't know. He was the teacher's favourite

-But when he helped with math, he gave the wrong answers.

to flaunt himself?

Someone must know where Fanny is. What is the ... man-

-Who can do something like this?

Do you see what I mean?

Look again at that time.

There he is reluctant!

Let us assume he studied in the sentence.

When he marks the nervousness he doesn't dare say the word "human."

It's damn well as if he's thinking of someone in particular.

-Or what? -Yes, it is possible.

Hello, Little Kurt.

Those two people have experienced the worst.

Someone has taken their child. And so, we suspect them.

Parents often find themselves at the top of the police list of suspects.

They're the closest to the child.

They are the ones who know it. It's their prerogative.

-But it's also their yoke. -Do you think they're hiding something?

Politicians are so used to telling inexactitudes.

Even when they're telling the truth it looks as if they're lying.

It's okay, they have to carry it around.

Do you hear her? I'm getting carried away with the screaming.

I've been so close to throwing her out the window.

I don't know if I can do it.

THE PROTECTORS

Where the hell is she?

Thomas Eriksen must be the last person to talk to the Foreign Minister.

At 20:00, she was on the way up to the bathtub.

Here.

-Yes, Jonas? -Yesterday, no one knew Thomas Eriksen.

Koch promised him a ministerial post if he got Denmark behind him.

She gave him 14 days. He needed only 14 hours.

-Why isn't it in the report? -We don't report to VIP's conversations.

The country's Foreign Minister has committed suicide.

-I found it interesting. -Let me decide that. Got it?

Yes, understood.

Hello, Jasmina. Did you take the dog to Koch's daughter?

-She wasn't so happy about it. -Then she has to shoot it.

-Daughter said they "fucked". -Fucked?

-Excuse me, who? With who? -Margrethe Koch and Thomas Eriksen.

-He'd have gone to ... -Islamabad. I know that.

I had to pass it up.

-Did you and Jonas have a good hotel room? -Yes.

I regret I only got a double.

-I'll sleep at my parents' tonight. -Okay. Then you'll sleep well.

-Same to you, Kurt. -That's fine, my friend. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

-Did you want to say anything? -What?

-Did you want to speak to Jasmina? -No.

-I just call later. She's at her parents'.

All right.

Did something happened between you in Islamabad?

Yes.

Yes ...

What we experienced together there no one will understand.

When I saw her come out of the darkness I thought, against all intuition-

You and I would leave her alone. She wouldn't talk with us.

She'd be alone. She's like that. She wants to handle everything herself.

Although it takes time.

Oh my God. You?

Daniel, who replaced you, baked chocolate cake for us every day.

You are welcome to bring your homemade cake if you're unhappy.

On the contrary. No, no, no. Then I might as well go home.

Why don't Fanny's parents get crisis counselling? They must be devastated.

It helps some greatly, but not others.

You don't go to the psychiatrist if you have something to hide.

What do you mean?

There are families where the man abuses children-

And the wife does everything in her power to try to hide it.

It took some time. Can you come in?

Thomas Eriksen's lying.

These are strong words about our prospective boss and attorney general.

-It isn't true. -It's certain.

The appointment is in effect.

Okay, listen ... Thomas-Eriksen-

said he got the call his daughter was in the ER-

Immediately after the message about Koch's suicide.

But there were 29 minutes between the calls.

What the hell did he do in that half-hour?

Is it unreasonable to ask that to our possible future boss-

And the country's future Minister of Justice?

-I want a surveillance team on him. -You can't have that.

-Help me now. -No.

20 minutes ago, he demanded he be allowed to take a run without his bodyguard.

-I haven't a check on him. -That's a bit too theatrical.

-Could he have orchestrated it? -What would the motive be?

-Who has profited the most? -How cynical is that.

All right. Koch's daughter claims Margrethe and Eriksen had a relationship.

It belongs to their private lives.

Eriksen was the last person to talk to Margrethe Koch.

Then she puts down the receiver, goes to the bathroom and commits suicide.

Handsome man, your grandfather, right?

We understand he had many women.

It was the first time I met him and your grandmother in Cairo.

The big house with the balcony. Remember the balcony where we slept outside?

There were very thin red curtains which could be drawn for the sun.

There was once a dead cat out there.

-You look like your grandmother. -Yes.

She was a lovely old woman.

All her life she believed she was your grandfather's favourite wife.

I thought the course he could make all women feel loved.

Now she's sitting there with his six other widows.

-That was voluntary. -Was dad like that?

I was. I came from the wild life in Aarhus where everyone screwed everyone.

That was before Cairo and before I converted.

Allah forgives those who repent of their sins and failures and to improve their performance.

Your dad just wanted me.

And so he got me just like him.

Him and me. Just.

Yes. He and you. Just.

Sweet darling ... Why are you so angry?

-What did I do? -I saw dad today.

He emerged from a hotel room with a young Arab woman.

There certainly is a natural explanation.

-We can ask him about it. -I'd never dream of that.

-Thomas Eriksen. -Benedikte T�nnesen, PET.

-Something new about my daughter? -No, but we're working under great pressure.

-If only I could contribute something. -Yes, we have some logistical issues.

-Okay? -Can I invite you to come here?

-Your body guards can drive you. -Yes, we're coming with him.

-When? -As soon as possible.

-I switch, so I'll come. -Good. Then we'll meet.

Thank you.

Can't we wait for someone else? We mustn't frighten the life out of him.

Jasmina!

As beautiful and nice as your mom when I met her. What, Birgit?

And you feel well again? -Yes.

I feel fine. I wanted to visit you When I got home from Islamabad.

Yes, that's it. But now you're here.

-Sure, we missed her? -I missed you too.

Jasmina saw you at the hotel with a young Arab woman.

Yes, it must be Afrah.

She's a professor in Cairo. She was here at the Psychology Conference.

I wanted to pay the hotel bill and drive her to the airport.

-Too bad we couldn't meet. -Why didn't you say hello?

You were in such a hurry. I was supposed to meet you here.

-Are you here on vacation? -No ... I have a little work.

-Rasmus. -I miss you.

-Has something happened? -I'll tell you when I come back.

-See you. -I miss you too.

"Excuse me, ma'am. Can you tell me what time it is? "

Hi, Monica. It's dad. Are you on the highway?

Are you already at grandma?

I'll call you back when you've eaten.

Take care, okay? Mom also. Goodbye.

Do you have a moment? I 'd like to apologize.

I regret the way I talked about my mother.

-Shall we go for a walk? -Yes. - Come, Bister.

I was just so angry.

-the letter and her ... -I understand that.

I don't think you do.

I was talking shit about her recently.

When my father died I thought I lost everything. She had her own problems.

I have realized she lost much more than I did.

How so?

I've never seen two people so much in love with each other.

While Mom and Dad met others sometimes ...

So ... it was as if ...

-As if ... -They breathed through each other?

Exactly.

It's not okay for me to judge my parents' way of life.

No, you're right.

Please note we're doing this, Rasmus. You're here in the most secret capacity.

And I'm inside the castle. Not like-

-When we played football in Ringk�bing.

Well, you wanted to become PM. You said that already in first grade.

I don't remember. But I always was a geek.

-Welcome. Benedikte T�nnesen. -Thomas Eriksen. Hey.

-Well. So it's ... -It is here, yes.

The average person believes this is very mysterious and secret.

And so it's just an office.

This is the operating room and here is our head of security.

-Thomas Eriksen. -Diana Pedersen.

It's Leon Hartvig who's head of security.

Have a seat.

When your boss rang ... I didn't know if it was good news-

Or bad news about Fanny. A thousand thoughts ran through my head.

-Has anything happened? -Right now, unfortunately nothing's new.

-Do you want coffee or tea? -No thank you.

-Can I turn this on? -Yes. What is it about?

We need to figure out the exact time line for Fanny's disappearance.

You have always said ...

Well ... got the call from the au pair immediately after the news of the suicide.

Yes.

The problem is we have ... There were 29 minutes between calls.

No, it's not true.

Or then .... well, well ...

That was just so clear. When you say it.

What happens during those 29 minutes?

-What do you mean? -Where were you?

Yes, I was ... in shock.

I don't remember just what I did.

Well, there was something on TV at the newsstand ...

Thomas Eriksen is known for his great objectivity ...

But why is it so important?

We assumed Fanny disappeared after you left the kiosk.

But she may have been taken while you were inside the kiosk.

Yes.

We extend the time of Fanny's disappearance by half an hour.

Do you remember where you were when the au pair girl called?

I saw it on the phone when I blanked out. I heard it ringing.

Now I'll say something that is very private.

Something I never wanted anyone to know.

When I was 13 My dad committed suicide.

His life was a fiasco and he didn't want to be with us at the end.

And it was our fault. My fault.

It is incredibly aggressive toward the family to take your life.

I was so shaken when they called and said she ...

Margrethe ... that she had ...

And in the emergency room ... I got an acute anxiety attack.

-Where is Fanny? -I forgot Fanny.

-What do you mean? Where? -Down at the kiosk.

-I'll run down ... -You stay here with Sally!

I just have to ...

How the hell do we forget your own child?

Unfortunately it happens more often than you think. I have a colleague here-

-Who's done it a few times.

I just have one last question.

Sorry to rush in, but Leon won't be disturbed.

Copenhagen Police report about a child crying in the same building as the kiosk.

But no child is listed there. A single man lives there.

We have a great view point there from Frederiksberg Swimming Complex.

-Shall we go? -Yes.

-How long will Leon continue to talk ... -Until you get the green light from me.

And close the door, please.

You are the last to speak with Margrethe Koch.

-Am I? -Yes.

You treat her like a child with your mother and daughter arguments.

She shouldn't feel like I've turned my back on my daughter.

-She's also an adult. -She saw us last week.

-I just sat and worked. -Yes, but not ten minutes earlier.

I've got all the details about how fat and ugly my ass is.

She thinks I betrayed her and especially her father.

He was ill and pushed me away like a dying animal goes into hiding.

What would I have done if you had not been there?

Margrethe, I've thought about what you said. Where to go for it.

And I'm leaving Katrine.

-Can't you help? -Why?

Do you mind telling what you're talking about?

No, not at all.

Margrethe's death was as big a conundrum for me as for the rest of Denmark.

But she was deeply unhappy.

She had just learned her daughter was mentally ill.

Ida Maria suffers from obsessions.

Among other things that Margrethe and I had a relationship.

Yes.

Thank you, Thomas.

Here you are. I'll follow you out.

Of course, we'll brief you when something new happens in the matter.

-You should have told me. -You waved me away.

Stuff I have to know right away.

-Hello. -Hi.

Everything should be in place now.

We're done here. Team 2, give us a report?

-The suspect is in his apartment. -Okay, switch to the infrared camera.

It looks as if it's just him.

-I have heard it. -It was ... it was suicide.

Sally ended up in the emergency room. I have to go there.

What the hell is he doing?

The suspect lifts something from the floor.

-That's Fanny. -no children live at the address.

We assume it is Fanny.

Hello, T�nne. Are you coming down? We've probably found Fanny Eriksen.

-Get SWAT out there now. -Map of the property? All right.

-I'll run down ... -You stay here.

Stay with Sally. You can do well?

I just have to ...

-It's Emre. -You have Fanny?

Katrine is onto it. I told her I forgot Fanny.

I didn't think she'd know.

She is there.

-I have to go down with her. -You stay where you are.

-She is about to collapse. - "I left her child with by gay friend"?

Everything we dream about? Listen to me. We can solve it.

I'll call you. You don't call me. Are we clear?

-Do you love me? -Yes, dear.

Then it's understood. We can solve it.

Is Thomas Eriksen in the house? Then I'll call him.

-Why? -We have found his child.

Thomas Eriksen's lying. And he is a bad liar.

Diana, find out everything about that man.

The suspect is leaving home.

-This may be blessing in disguise. -What, blessing in disguise?

So here's something I've never been exposed to. Or even Cecilia Toft I bet.

-We can't do it. -Well, if we imagine.

-What should I do with her? -My grandfather was a doctor.

-He tranquillized the children with whiskey. -I won't give your daughter whiskey.

Baby, it's not that difficult.

You put her in your big bag and go to the church.

Place her on the stairs. Then, call 911 and get lost.

-I don't know if I can do it. -You have no alternative.

Standby, Alpha.

Yes, okay. Standby, 2 and 3. The suspect now leaves the address.

The suspect comes out.

Does he have the child in the bag?

Okay, two, you take over.

Quiet, 2. He doesn't know you're there. Carry on.

Alpha here. I've lost him.

-What do we do? -We follow. We change to 2.

Okay, Alfa. Keep your distance.

2 here. I'll turn off.

-Is the guy on the bike one of ours? -Why don't you just take him?

We can't risk the child.

-I'll leave Katrine. -Can't you help?

I want to live with Emre.

-You want to play the gay card. -That's not a game. I mean it.

-That with me it was just ... -No. You used me well.

What can the Danish Foreign Minister use an unknown anonymous politician-

with a pubertal and wasteful father complex for?

Your daughter is right. Your ass is fat and ugly.

And I think you won't sit on it for very long.

-He turns toward the Swimming Complex. -When you take over, 3.

Damn. He discovered us.

The suspect comes out of the park.

He has seen 3. He turns.

You have to ... There's a small child in this bag.

-He gives the bag to a woman. Okay, 3, clear to arrest.

-Do it now! -There you go, 3.

Stay. Police!

-What the hell is happening? -Where are you, 3?

The suspect was hit by a car.

Do you have signs of life, 3?

Answer: no.

-The child then? That's Fanny. She is okay.

We'll send an ambulance. Just come home.

We have found Fanny. She's fine.

-Thomas, they have found her. -Where?

The perpetrator left her with a woman outside the Swimming Complex.

-Did he escaped? -Ran out in front of a car. Fatal.

-Who was he? -A young Danish-Algerian. We shall see.

Fanny was taken in for routine observation. We can drive you there when you're ready.

-Thank you. -Thanks.

You'll do yourself and everyone else a huge favour if you just resign.

It's a matter of time before the police learn he was your assistant.

I can crush you with a single telephone call. However, I'm not going to.

It isn't for you I still like you, but it's for Fanny.

She shouldn't be the one left behind with her father's gay friend.

Our story is this: You fired your assistant.

Maybe because he was lazy, incompetent or because you had a run in with him.

He sees you leave Fanny at the kiosk and to hurt those you love most-

Or to pressure you for on a job perhaps-

he took Fanny. He has previously demonstrated minor psychological problems.

It's our story.

Deviating one iota from it and you'll never see Fanny and Sally again.

Get it together.

Now I'll bring Fanny home.

Can we get a picture of the happy parents?

-How does it feel? -Will it be good to see her?

-Thomas Eriksen ... -Has she been abused?

Congratulations, Thomas. - You too, Katrine.

There are strong rumours you'll become the new Justice Minister.

I can't comment.

But I want to say thank you for all your support.

And now we have to bring Fanny home. Thank you.

Yes, that's fine.

Emre Amraoui.

He is 30 years old, born in Algeria, Danish citizen.

He is studying politics at university. He was an assistant to Thomas Eriksen.

Emre's mobile and phone lists. They have been in close contact.

They call and write all the time, and he gets a pretty large income.

-They had a relationship? -But suddenly they cease all contact.

Exactly when Fanny disappears. Then, just three calls.

All three times from a pay phone and never the same one.

-When we didn't have surveillance on Eriksen? -Yes.

There Eriksen's in the emergency room. There he goes without his bodyguards.

The conversation in the middle is just before we assigned bodyguards.

It is impossible to show it was Eriksen who called.

He and Emre may have been enemies and therefore, Emre took the child.

Thomas Eriksen and his wife have been through an ordeal.

We're talking about the country's prospective attorney general.

And perhaps his total lack of morality. We must know all about it.

We'll send the matter to the Copenhagen Police.

-Thank you. Hey, Trikker.

Listen, Rachel.

If your martyrdom feels larger by the apartment being empty, then fine.

Only you will pay. And then hang up. Great ...!

-I can do that myself. -Don't speak to me in that tone.

What is it?

Rachel won't let me take over the apartment.

So you and Rasmus will be stuck with me for some time.

The last time you said "darling" to her. You were her "darling".

-Was I? -Yes.

My grandmother told her about my relationship with Tanya.

Both now and when we were married.

And so freaked Rachel out? -Yes.

I'll call Moscow and say good night.

Can you take the bottles out.

-Thanks for coming. -It was still on the way home.

Yes, yes ... Can I tell you a little story?

If a French politician-

who lies about a right- wing attacks against him.

And it's revealed In all its made up.

Yet he ends as the highly respected President of France.

I haven't sent it to the Copenhagen Police.

It can be invaluable one beautiful day.

And who says Thomas Eriksen may not become a brilliant Attorney General?

Hey, little baby.

Hey.

She's fine. She's taken it extremely well considering the circumstances.

My wife and I are very happy with your operation.

She has taken it very, very well.

My mother!

I think you should see tomorrow's newspaper.

Thank you.

It is a good decision. He is a brilliant attorney general.

It's Jens Ole Vestergaard.

I'm calling to congratulate you and your wife on the happy ending.

If you want to call me at the moment ... Now right now, actually.

I loved him.

Good, Rasmus. Seize him and drive him to Copenhagen Police.

But let him get to tell the PM.

And, Rasmus ... Good job. -Thank you.

Thomas Eriksen.

The time is 23:05 and you are under arrest.

Come.

But thanks for your briefing, Eriksen. Sleep well.

Yes, but then it'll be Cecilia Toft as Attorney General. No?

But I respect that he turned himself in.

Absolutely.

-But it'd never have gone. -Well ...

It could be someone knew.

Honey?

The thing about the wedding night, huh?

Do you think it's something you wait for or it can be one day late?

-I don't think so. -No, huh?

Actually I think it only gets better from there.

What good is that, Grandma?

You shouldn't have interfered.

Tanya?