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Forbrydelsen

370 statements
72 feature instances
19 referencing feature instances

Forbrydelsen	type	TVTItem
Forbrydelsen	label	Forbrydelsen
Forbrydelsen	page	Forbrydelsen
Forbrydelsen	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is the entry for the Danish-language TV series known in English as The Killing. If you're looking for the American remake, go here.A tale of murder, politics and knitwear, Forbrydelsen (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012), literally translated as "The Crime", but known in English as The Killing was a crime drama produced by State Broadcaster DR.The first season, set in Copenhagen, focuses on the murder of Nanna Birk Larsen, a 19-year-old Danish schoolgirl. Each episode of twenty focuses on one day in the investigation, from three different perspectives:Detective Inspector Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl), a dour moody woman who likes wearing Faroese sweaters, is about to move to Sweden with her boyfriend, but decides to stick around and work with her replacement, Jan Meyer, to solve the crime.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Troels Hartmann is trying to become Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, when his campaign gets connected to the murder and his own activities come under scrutiny.Theis and Pernille Birk Larsen, Nanna's parents, have to come to terms with the murder of their daughter. Their decisions will shape their lives and those of others.The second season is set two years later and revolves around the Danish military. Lund, having been exiled to a passport control job, is called back to Copenhagen when Afghanistan veterans start getting bumped off in gruesome ways, creating a panic over Islamist terrorism. Meanwhile, new Justice Minister Thomas Buch is trying to get a new anti-terror bill through parliament, while trying to find out just what was going on with his ill predecessor.In the third season, Lund is trying to get a less stressful administrative job in the police, but finds her old obsessions growing again when the discovery of a dead body by a dockside turns out to be the forerunner to the kidnapping of the young daughter of a shipping magnate, which appears to be connected to the rape and murder of a schoolgirl years before.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })A massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward), when shown in the UK on BBC4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA. It has become a Trope Codifier of the Nordic Noir genre and combined with Engrenages opened the floodgates for subtitled shows in the British market.
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Forbrydelsen / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
Forbrydelsen / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: As Meyer laid dying after getting shot, his last words were a repeated "Sarah". This causes Internal Affairs to cast their suspicion on Lund, but she points out that her and Meyer were firmly on Last-Name Basis, so if he was accusing her, he would not have done so by calling her "Sarah". Indeed, it turns out that he was actually trying to say "Sarajevo", as it was a prominent part of what was written on his assailant's shirt.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Forbrydelsen / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Lund's mother turns up at the police station to talk in front of Lund's colleagues about her student love life and how her son doesn't want her in his life. In series one, when Troels stops by Lund's apartment to talk about the latest issues with the case, her mother assumes he's a reporter or the coroner and dragoons him into helping fold a tablecloth. She's genuinely oblivious he's the leading candidate for mayor of the capital of Denmark. (For his part Troels goes along with it and doesn't say anything until Lund tells her mother off.)
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Forbrydelsen / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Forbrydelsen / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Lund has one of these when she's told that Meyer has unexpectedly died.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1750b9be	type	Poisonous Friend
Forbrydelsen / int_1750b9be	comment	Poisonous Friend: Morten to Hartmann in the first season, and Kristian to the Prime Minister in the third. Vagn appears to be this to Theis in the first, but is actually trying to stir things up to distract from his own guilt.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1c0ad158	type	SweaterGirl
Forbrydelsen / int_1c0ad158	comment	Sweater Girl: Lund is usually seen wearing distinctive Faroese sweaters, although they do not have the tight fit and Male Gaze appeal usually associated with this trope.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Forbrydelsen / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Lund. Deconstructed in that it's not that she's so good at controlling her emotions, but because she runs from her feelings.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1decf141	type	HotForTeacher
Forbrydelsen / int_1decf141	comment	Hot for Teacher: The first season is complicated by the victim's sexual attraction to one of her teachers, which was shared by other girls as well.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Forbrydelsen / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Theis in season one, although the show depicts this as a really, really bad idea. In season 3, Robert Zeuthen.
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Forbrydelsen / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Forbrydelsen / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Buch, thrown into the ministry to sink or swim, keeps suspecting his new aides of being this and secretly betraying him in his quest for truth. At the very end, it's he who betrays them.
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Forbrydelsen / int_21f394ce	type	Spice Up the Subtitles
Forbrydelsen / int_21f394ce	comment	Spice Up the Subtitles: The official English subtitles for the first season translated practically every Danish profanity as some form of "fuck" regardless of how mild or extreme it was, leading to complaints from Danish speakers.
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Forbrydelsen / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Forbrydelsen / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Lund and Meyer slowly head in this direction over the course of the first season. Tragically, he is killed just when they're getting there; just before they head out to the warehouse where he will be shot, he advises her "as your friend" to go home and get some sleep. She ignores him, and her sleep-deprivation leads her into errors of judgement that contribute to his death.
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Forbrydelsen / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Forbrydelsen / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Lund often wears the same clothes three or four days straight. Justified because she gets so engrossed in cases that she just doesn't have time to change.
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Forbrydelsen / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
Forbrydelsen / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Lund is a great detective but an emotionally constipated person, even before the events of the series pile on the emotional trauma.
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Forbrydelsen / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Forbrydelsen / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Given the number of political characters with conflicting agendas, this trope is frequently played with. Bremer, Morten and Mogens are the clearest straight examples, while Hartmann, Buch and Kristian Kamper double-subvert it.
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Forbrydelsen / int_3a724069	type	Exposition Victim
Forbrydelsen / int_3a724069	comment	Exposition Victim: Lund ends the second season by baiting Strange into shooting her, but then reveals that she was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
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Forbrydelsen / int_3cb9ed4d	type	Bulletproof Vest
Forbrydelsen / int_3cb9ed4d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Utilized by Lund in the ending of the second season.
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Forbrydelsen / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Forbrydelsen / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Borch calls Lund "Sarah" because they had a relationship years ago.
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Forbrydelsen / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Forbrydelsen / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Lund's boss Buchard in season one. After it takes her only one day to go from some abandoned clothes and a video rental card in a field to finding a body in the trunk of an abandoned car, she is packing up the last of her stuff and about to leave the office when her boss starts reading aloud the gruesome details of how the victim was raped and killed, knowing that as soon as Lund has heard exactly what happened to the victim, she won't be able to just hand the case over to anyone else. It works.
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Forbrydelsen / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Forbrydelsen / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Troels remains an on-again, off-again suspect for several episodes, on account of his refusal to account for where he was on the night Nanna got killed. It turns out that he was at his wife's family's cottage, where he was unsuccessfully attempting suicide in a fit of drunken melancholy. Why he thought that that was worse than being charged with rape and murder is a bit of a mystery.
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Forbrydelsen / int_47fe2e12	type	Consistent Clothing Style
Forbrydelsen / int_47fe2e12	comment	Consistent Clothing Style: Sarah Lund always wears a Fairisle sweater and jeans. She changes which sweater depending on the day. (It crosses over with Limited Wardrobe in the seasons themselves, when she doesn't change frequently, but she also maintains the exact same style throughout 3 seasons.)
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Forbrydelsen / int_50f50a5e	type	Donut Mess with a Cop
Forbrydelsen / int_50f50a5e	comment	Donut Mess with a Cop: Averted. Quite often, the detectives are too busy to eat at all; Lund frequently misses dinners cooked by her mother and eats them cold when she gets home late. Lund eats Meyer's banana at one point, which annoys him.
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Forbrydelsen / int_540eb459	type	The Killer Becomes the Killed
Forbrydelsen / int_540eb459	comment	The Killer Becomes the Killed: In season 1, Vagn, by Theis. In season 3, Reinhardt, by Lund herself.
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Forbrydelsen / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Forbrydelsen / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: After the foul-up of the first season, Lund is demoted and packed off to do passport control in a remote Danish port.
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Forbrydelsen / int_588d6b3e	type	Vasquez Always Dies
Forbrydelsen / int_588d6b3e	comment	Vasquez Always Dies: The second season introduces a tough survivalist ex-soldier woman, who gets murdered the following episode.
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Forbrydelsen / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Forbrydelsen / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: The kidnapper in Season 3 is a father trying to solve and avenge his daughter's murder, which was covered up and declared a suicide. He kills several people involved in the cover-up and is prepared to murder an innocent nine-year-old to make her father suffer, but changes his plan to only using her as a hostage when doubts are raised about her father's role.
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Forbrydelsen / int_5cd4cebb	type	No Badass to His Valet
Forbrydelsen / int_5cd4cebb	comment	No Badass to His Valet: The scene when Lund meets Meyer's wife for the first time says it all, really.
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Forbrydelsen / int_5d86966a	type	Man on Fire
Forbrydelsen / int_5d86966a	comment	Man on Fire: One of the disabled veterans in the second season is gruesomely burned to death in his wheelchair.
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Forbrydelsen / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Forbrydelsen / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Lund, whose tirelessness and indeed success record as a detective is appreciated by almost no-one in the show, least of all her superiors, who routinely take her off cases, reassign, demote or otherwise punish her for relatively trivial procedural offences. One can only assume that if there had been a fourth season, it would have culminated in her being assassinated by a Danish intelligence black ops team for having incompletely filed some paperwork. There's also the little matter of her murdering a guy, but he was a serial rapist and murderer of teenage girls who was going to escape conviction.
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Forbrydelsen / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Forbrydelsen / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Meyer is frequently seen stuffing his face, usually with junk food. Ditto Buch.
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Forbrydelsen / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Forbrydelsen / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Lund's sidekick Meyer is killed towards the end of the first season.
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Forbrydelsen / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Forbrydelsen / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Vagn Skærbeck is extremely hateable and him raping Nanna and even more so his attraction to her isn't very nice, but he did have a hard time doing it and somewhere down his sociopathic mind he probably does feel regret for doing it. Niels Reinhardt is mentioned to have a wife and grown children despite being a pedophile-rapist.
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Forbrydelsen / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
Forbrydelsen / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: Subverted with Lund in season three; after sleeping with Borch, she wakes up with the sheet pulled up to her chest, then leaves it behind in her hurry to get up.
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Forbrydelsen / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Forbrydelsen / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Lund's Faroese sweater in the first season. The Radio Times promoted the second season in the UK with a knitting pattern.
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Forbrydelsen / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Forbrydelsen / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: In the very first episode, Vagn is seen calling a man "Paki", and later repeats racial slurs when Theis is beating Kemal, and in the final episode during his Motive Rant he reveals he raped and killed Nanna because he had a crush on her, and he couldn't stand the thought that she loved a Middle-eastern man instead of him.
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Forbrydelsen / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Forbrydelsen / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Meyer doesn't die in the novelisation of the first series, though he is left paralysed for life.
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Forbrydelsen / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Forbrydelsen / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Lund doesn't have much time for romance or family. That's not to say that she doesn't try, but she often screws it up by walking out on or ignoring them because she is so focused on a new lead.
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Forbrydelsen / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Forbrydelsen / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Raben in the second season.
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Forbrydelsen / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Forbrydelsen / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: Lund and Borch used to be a couple back when they were in school.
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Forbrydelsen / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
Forbrydelsen / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: In season one, Theis becomes one by killing Vagn. In season three, Lund becomes one by killing Reinhardt
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Forbrydelsen / int_86e17259	type	Alas, Poor Yorick
Forbrydelsen / int_86e17259	comment	Alas, Poor Yorick: The scene where Sarah holds a skull in an Afghan house. It is clearly that of a child and has a prominent bullet hole in it
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Forbrydelsen / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Forbrydelsen / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The engine that the drove the show's narrative, especially in season one. It systematically raised pretty much every major character (except for Lund and her partner) as potential suspects in the murder, and then systematically ruled them all out for one reason or another, making the climactic reveal all the more shocking.
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Forbrydelsen / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Forbrydelsen / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Lund blows off the investigation of the docks corpse at the beginning of the third season, and then is blamed by others and herself for not investigating more closely and possibly preventing the kidnapping.
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Forbrydelsen / int_8af45dbd	type	Wild Teen Party
Forbrydelsen / int_8af45dbd	comment	Wild Teen Party: An out-of-control high school party causes some confusion in the investigation of the first season.
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Forbrydelsen / int_9336a53a	type	Crusading Widower
Forbrydelsen / int_9336a53a	comment	Crusading Widower: The kidnapper in the third season appears to be trying to avenge the murder of his daughter.
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Forbrydelsen / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Forbrydelsen / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Whether Vagn was really a Serial Killer, or whether he was only guilty of the first murder linked to him in addition to those in the main action.
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Forbrydelsen / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Forbrydelsen / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The killers of every season. Season 1: The murder and rape of Nanna Birk Larsen is a traumatic event for many, especially her parents Theis and Pernille. Therefore things get disturbing when the killer turns out to be Theis' best friend Vagn Skærbeck, who killed Nanna because of such a petty reason that he was attracted to her, and was furious she would choose a "Paki" over him. Whether or not he committed more murders is never truly confirmed. Season 2: A bunch of Afghan veterans die one by one, and the killer is instantly shown to be some sort of Islamist. However, things go deeper than that, when the killer is revealed as Inspector Ulrik Strange, who committed an atrocity that killed a bunch of innocents during during his time as a member of the Jaeger Corps in the war, and kills the veterans to prevent it from coming out. He nearly manages to murder Lund as well in the end after realizing the truth. Season 3: Niels Reinhardt, Robert Zeuthen's personal assistant, is actually a pedophile who raped and killed the victims in the season but has managed to hide it for a very long time. If Lund hadn't executed him at the end, he probably would have continued.
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Forbrydelsen / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Forbrydelsen / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: One clue to the identity of the killer in season one is that when Vagn first meets Theis after Theis has learned that Nanna is dead, and Theis is obviously stunned with grief, Vagn doesn't offer Theis anything by way of sympathy — he just looks a bit uncomfortable, and the only thing he says is "I don't know what to say." Which is of course literally true.
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Forbrydelsen / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Forbrydelsen / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Everyone assumes that Vagn is an idiot. Brix even comments that it's ridiculous that they're questioning him since he clearly couldn't even hammer a nail. It turns out that he's a cunning sociopath who's been using this trope to conceal the fact for most of his life.
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Forbrydelsen / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Forbrydelsen / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Lund has one of these late in season one, when she's alone in a house with a man who has previously been eliminated as a suspect, and looking at the design on his sweatshirt she realises, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he's the killer—and then she realises that he's just worked out what she's thinking. Repeated with double the threat in the third season: Lund comes across evidence that makes it blatantly clear that the man who she's alone with is probably the man who raped and murdered a teenage girl, at which point the girl's Axe-Crazy father turns up looking for vengeance having come to the same conclusion.
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Forbrydelsen / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Forbrydelsen / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: All three seasons. Lund always solves the crime, but in season one the murderer is then murdered by the victim's father, who'll go to prison for it; in season two Lund's partner, who she was starting to fall in love with, turns out to be the Big Bad and she's forced to kill him; in season three the kidnapped girl is found alive, but the real Big Bad escapes justice until Lund herself murders him and has to flee the country, leaving behind her One True Love and the newborn granddaughter she'll probably never get to meet.
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Forbrydelsen / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Forbrydelsen / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lund was one in season one, as was Meyer, as seen when they're first paired up and she lays out her rules about how there's no smoking or eating crisps in the car.
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Forbrydelsen / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Forbrydelsen / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The show likes this trope. Several characters are put in situations in which they can have everything they wanted if they let a cover-up stand but stand to lose it all if they do the right thing. Hartmann, Buch, Kristian Kamper, and to a lesser degree Robert Zeuthen, eventually fail after passing earlier tests. Lund passes, if you count shooting a rapist-murderer in cold blood as doing the right thing.
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Forbrydelsen / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
Forbrydelsen / int_b41acf08	comment	Repeated with double the threat in the third season: Lund comes across evidence that makes it blatantly clear that the man who she's alone with is probably the man who raped and murdered a teenage girl, at which point the girl's Axe-Crazy father turns up looking for vengeance having come to the same conclusion.
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Forbrydelsen / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
Forbrydelsen / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: The motivation behind Emilie Zeuthen's kidnapping. It was originally planned to end with her being murdered in front of her father before doubts were raised if the target was actually guilt; he still doesn't let her go, though.
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Forbrydelsen / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Forbrydelsen / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: The kidnapper in the third season finally challenges Zeuthen to hand himself over in exchange for his daughter, with the implication that this was always his objective.
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Forbrydelsen / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Forbrydelsen / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In season 1, after Jens Holck is dead, Theis returns home from his drunken binge and Pernille has returned from almost sleeping with a random guy in a hotel; she's about to admit what happened when he gently lets her know that it doesn't matter, and they're finally reconciled, and then Pernille's sister brings the boys home, and the whole family is reconciled and at peace, because Nanna's killer has been at last identified, and is safely dead. Unfortunately, there are four more episodes to go.
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Forbrydelsen / int_c3c3c608	type	Evil Former Friend
Forbrydelsen / int_c3c3c608	comment	Evil Former Friend: Vagn. And Strange. And Reinhardt. The show likes this. Then subverted with Borch, who is hiding things but genuinely trying to help.
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Forbrydelsen / int_c3d95be6	type	You Said You Would Let Them Go
Forbrydelsen / int_c3d95be6	comment	You Said You Would Let Them Go: The killing of Emilie in the third season, although it turned out that her kidnapper faked her murder.
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Forbrydelsen / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Forbrydelsen / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Gilsfort, who gave Reinhardt an alibi for the time of Louise Hjelby's murder so the investigation wouldn't reflect badly on Zeeland corporation. He's entirely indifferent to if Reinhardt is guilty or not.
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Forbrydelsen / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Forbrydelsen / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Strange is trying to cover up an atrocity he committed while with the Jaeger Corps in Afghanistan.
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Forbrydelsen / int_d72164e9	type	Must Have Nicotine
Forbrydelsen / int_d72164e9	comment	Must Have Nicotine: Lund and Meyer in season one: she pops nicotine gum constantly, he just smokes. Halfway through the season she steals one of his cigarettes and after that he just gives her the packet.
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Forbrydelsen / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Forbrydelsen / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Have you murdered someone? Are you Danish? You lose! Lund will find you out, she will make you pay, and she will sacrifice friends, family, colleagues, bosses, her sleep, her happiness, her government, her health, her career and her freedom to get it done. Particularly striking because virtually everybody else eventually sells out, often at the eleventh hour.
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Forbrydelsen / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Forbrydelsen / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The show specialised in this so much that it became a Red Herring Canning Factory. In season 1, Kemal, Troels, Jens Holck and Leon are the four most important suspects before Lund finally figures it out. In the meantime, the viewer is briefly invited to suspect Olav, Vagn, Bremer and even Theis himself, before suspicion lands on the Red Herrings, distracting the viewer from the fact that one of the aforementioned is in fact the culprit.
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Forbrydelsen / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
Forbrydelsen / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: On Strange in the second season, and unsuccessfully on Reinhardt in the third.
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Forbrydelsen / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Forbrydelsen / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Lund and Meyer. It becomes a plot point when Lund is accused of shooting Meyer, because, as she points out, if he was going to use his last words to accuse her, he wouldn't do so by calling her "Sarah".
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Forbrydelsen / int_f180486d	type	Great Detective
Forbrydelsen / int_f180486d	comment	Great Detective: Averted. Lund frequently makes mistakes (for example, in season 1, deciding too soon that Kemal must be the killer) and she solves cases not through superior powers of deduction but by her sheer tirelessness, constantly returning to the evidence and going it over it one more time and refusing to give up until she's got a suspect.
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Forbrydelsen / int_f2bb1fb4	type	Let Off by the Detective
Forbrydelsen / int_f2bb1fb4	comment	Let Off by the Detective: Borch tries to do this for Lund after she kills Reinhardt, but quickly realizes there's no story they can give that will be accepted and instead helps her escape the country.
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Forbrydelsen / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
Forbrydelsen / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: Lund ends the final season by murdering Reinhardt after he outright taunts her with the possibility that he'll rape and murder another teenage girl
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Forbrydelsen / int_fc45bac0	type	Wouldn't Hit a Girl
Forbrydelsen / int_fc45bac0	comment	Wouldn't Hit a Girl: One scene in Season One has Theis being mugged by a gang of teenagers- he grabs one and goes to punch him when he discovers, to his shock, it's a girl. His hesitation gives them a chance to finish robbing him and run.
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Forbrydelsen / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
Forbrydelsen / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: In the second season, Strange, Lund's new sidekick, is the killer.
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Forbrydelsen / int_fe5c7660	type	Eating Lunch Alone
Forbrydelsen / int_fe5c7660	comment	Eating Lunch Alone: Actually Eating Dinner Alone: Lund usually doesn't eat anything until she gets home at night, at which point she sits alone in the kitchen eating the cold leftovers of whatever her mother made for dinner.
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