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The Bridge (2011)

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Bron|Broen (the former title is Swedish and the latter Danish), known in English-speaking markets as The Bridge, is a Nordic Noir thriller co-produced by DR and SVT, the respective state broadcasters of Denmark and Sweden. The first series was shown in its native countries in 2011, and in 2012 followed Forbrydelsen onto BBC4 in the UK. A second season aired throughout Scandanavia in 2013 with the third season airing it the region, followed by the UK in 2015. The fourth and intentionally final season was shown in both Europe and the UK in 2018.The show has had six remakes to date: An American remake premiered in 2013 on FX, with the action taking place on the US/Mexico border. It aired two seasons. It starred Diane Kruger and Demián Bichir. UK cable channel Sky Atlantic has produced a remake with Canal in 2013 called The Tunnel, which aired three seasons. It starred Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy. An Estonian-Russian remake set on the border with Estonia (specifically the Friendship Bridge between Narva and Ivangorod) has been ordered by NTV in that country to air in 2017, known as The Bridge in English (Мо�т in Russian) with two seasons aired. It stars Mikhail Porechenkov and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė. A Malaysian-Singapore remake that aired on November 26, 2018 on HBO Asia, NTV7 and online by Viu known as The Bridge. The first victim is placed on the Second Link. It stars Bront Palarae and Rebecca Lim. It aired a total of two seasons. An Austrian-German remake aired all the 8-episode series on January 17, 2019 known as Der Pass since the show starts in a mountain pass between Bavaria and Salzburg. It stars Julia Jentsch and Nicholas Ofczarek. It aired a total of three seasons. A Greco-Turkish remake, with the first crime scene on the bridge between Kipoi and İpsala. It began streaming on May 27, 2022, as an ANT 1+ original series. It stars Mando Giannikou and Burak Hakkı.The series begins when a body is discovered on the Øresund bridge that links Copenhagen (Denmark) with Malmö (Sweden), carefully dumped at the exact point where the bridge is divided by the international border. As a result, the two cities' police forces are forced to collaborate on the investigation, led by Saga Norén (Sweden) and Martin Rohde (Denmark). Threatening messages are then received by the police and media, from somebody purporting to have committed the murders to draw attention to social problems.In the second season, Martin and Saga are reunited when the discovery of a Ghost Ship turns out to be the first in a series of attacks by a group of apparent ecoterrorists.The third season has Saga joined by a new Danish partner, the secretive insomniac Henrik Sabroe, as they try to track down a Serial Killer seemingly motivated by homophobia who targets both Danish and Swedish LGBT activists and is strangely poetic about their murders.The fourth season reunites Saga and Henrik when a pro-immigrant activist is stoned to death under the bridge, in what initially looks like a politically-motivated killing but then turns out to have far more personal motivations.
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Artistic License – Gun Safety
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: In Season One, Episode Four, where Saga and Martin are searching for the homeless man Bjorn, and the bridge killer, believing him to be in the building. Saga is armed, Martin isn't, since he's a Danish cop and does not have the necessary permit to carry in Sweden, as Saga tells him. She tries to assure him by saying that she's a good shot. Mere seconds later, the two are moving through quite dark and narrow corridors, but it's Martin who walks in front, with Saga following behind, so that he's in her potential line of fire all the time. Not only that, but she doesn't even lower, or raise, her gun, keeping it aimed forward, with Martin's back occasionally being right in front of the muzzle. Needless to say, this is not something that anybody should do, much less a trained police officer who's supposedly good at shooting. In the first season, a suspect named Jesper Anderson retrieves a loaded gun from a public toilet and stuffs it in his pants. Zig-Zagged in season two, when in trying to get Laura to relive a recent trauma, Saga takes out her gun and points it at her. While Saga keeps her finger off the trigger and the firearm was probably secured, she was still pointing a loaded gun at a traumatized shooting victim. In the third season, Lukas forces Marc to play Russian Roulette with a blank cartridge. When the cartridge goes off, Marc is terrified but unharmed. In reality, this has killed people, the most notable case being actor/model Jon-Erik Hexum, who died doing exactly what happens in the show. In season three, when Saga's boss informs her that she will be investigated for her mother's death, and that she is suspended, she lets her keep her gun.
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Headphones Equal Isolation
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Headphones Equal Isolation: August.
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Control Freak
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Control Freak: Laura's father finds out about her affair with her high school teacher too late to do anything about it, and overcompensates by forbidding his daughter to tell the police what her male assaulter even looks like.
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The Millstone
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The Millstone: Cowboy Cop Wannabe Rasmus, in both Seasons he appears. In Season Two, he gets attacked by two suspects and then tampers with the report given by an eyewitness outing him, slowing down the investigation and the suspects are later killed before the police can question them. He also effectively kidnaps a suspect across state lines, meaning he can only be let off with a warning. In Season Three, he manages to track the killer and his latest victim, but instead of staying put and waiting for backup as ordered, he tries to confront them himself, getting shot for his trouble and alerting the killer that the police know their whereabouts.
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Heel–Face Door-Slam
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: Daniel finally does something that's not selfish and realizes that it felt good; almost immediately afterward, he's murdered as punishment for a past misdeed.
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The Sociopath
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The Sociopath: Saga's evil mother, Marie-Louise, who psychologically wrecks Saga every day throughout the entirety of season 3, caused her sister Jennifer to become ill with Münchausen by Proxy, and in the end even manages to get Saga fired from her job by posing her own suicide as murder, the murder being framed on Saga. Jens Hansen / Sebastian Sandstrod in season 1 can be interpretaded as this due to how much he seems to enjoy manipulating people, but he ultimately has a Heel Realization in season 2.
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A Father to His Men
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A Father to His Men: Hans, especially to Saga. Later, Linn tries to be, but her incomprehension of Saga allows Saga's evil mother to manipulate her into well-intentionally helping her to start abusing Saga again.
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Villains Never Lie
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Villains Never Lie: It's in Season One that the killer always does what he promises, including letting the victims go if his demands have been met. This proves very important in the climax because Martin knows he's also not lying about his plans for August and that Jens won't tell him what happened to his son.
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Dead All Along
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Dead All Along: Henrik's wife, whose body is found, and possibly his two daughters. Not quite a straight example, as they've only been missing for several years, and may or may not still be alive. The older daughter, Astrid, is still alive, raised by Frank (a social worker Henrik's wife used to see) in a secluded village. He apparently killed Alice in a fit of rage, and the younger daughter Anna died of appendicitis because Frank hesitated to take her to hospital. Frank told the girls that their parents died in a plane accident.
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The Heavy
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Oliver Nordgren, The Heavy of season 2 is a highly educated IT-guy who cooperates with the ecoterrorists for his own agenda.
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Framing the Guilty Party
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Framing the Guilty Party: Saga knew her parents were poisoning her little sister Jennifer, but also knew Munchhausen by proxy is hard to prove, so instead she testified that they sexually abused her, getting them thrown in jail.
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Chekhov's Boomerang
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Chekhov's Boomerang: Martin has sex with Charlotte early in Season 1. Mette finds out when he drops his wallet there, and this causes their marital problems throughout the series. But Martin's adultery also comes back in a big way at the end of Season 1, when it's revealed to be the Big Bad's entire motivation.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: Viktoria Nordgren.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Plenty throughout the series, such as the frog emblem in Season Two and the serial number found on Morten's fridge in Season Three, which is vitally important for the climax. In Season Three, Saga is talking to her friend from the mortuary who is currently examining a female skeleton that had been buried in concrete when Saga interrupts him to talk about the case. Later on, it turns out that it's Alice - Henrik's missing wife.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: Subverted, since we never hear Emil's foster parents tell him that they are not punishing him, they're correcting a mistake by putting him in time-out in the basement for hours. Saga just implies it when she explains the practice to Henrik while investigating said basement. Emil echoes it when he explains to his biological father why he's killing him.
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Brutal Honesty
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Brutal Honesty: Zig-zagged by Saga, who uses this to shoot down both optimism ("we can't promise that we will find your missing daughter as there's a good chance she is dead") and pessimism ("I can't say we're going to find your son, you can't say we're not going to find him"). Freddie tells Jeanette that she will always be Marc's second priority. She doesn't want to hear it.
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Subverted Catch-Phrase
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Subverted Catchphrase: A spectacular example in the very final line of the show, when Saga answers the phone with her name but no "Länskrim Malmö".
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In the last season with William and Leonora. He pays a great deal of money and goes through hell trying to get the antidote for his daughter - then, as he gives it to her, he learns that she was never poisoned and the antidote is actually the poison.
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Porn Stache
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Porn Stache: Stefan, the Swedish social worker. It doesn't help that his dress sense and even the style in which some of his scenes are shot evoke the 1970s.
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Crusading Widow
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Crusading Widow: Susanne/Stephanie lost her partner Tommy, who was a Danish petty criminal and a police mole, because his employer got wind of his treachery. A couple of years later, she (along with Tommy's son Kevin/Brian) take revenge by killing the loved ones of the people who could've saved Tommy, rationalising that a death of someone close to you stays with you for the rest of your life.
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Removed from the Picture
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Removed from the Picture: When Saga has to receive her mother's possessions, she finds herself cut out from photos of herself and Jennifer. Later Henrik takes for himself a photo of his daughters with Frank, cutting the latter off.
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Limited Wardrobe
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Limited Wardrobe: We hope that Saga has several identical pairs of black leather trousers. If not, she probably isn't very pleasant to be around.
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Break the Haughty
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Break the Haughty: Laura mellows out considerably in Season Two after several attempts on her life. Lise in Season Three seems wholly uncaring that two people she ranted about on her vlog were murdered and claims it's not her fault, but having her young daughter held at gunpoint by her seventeen-year-old cleaner who was violently in love with her and murdered the priest to get her attention seems to do away with her callous attitude. Saga too.
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Suicide, Not Murder
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Suicide, Not Murder: Saga's mother probably killed herself and framed Saga for killing her.
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Scary Black Man
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Scary Black Man: Lukas, the gangster posing as a charity worker, in the third season.
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Defective Detective
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Defective Detective: An Odd Couple of them; a By-the-Book Cop Swede with No Social Skills and a laid-back Dane who Really Gets Around. Series 3 turns it up to eleven with a new insomniac, pill-popping Danish partner with a tragic backstory who continues to interact with his wife and children, even though they've been missing for years.
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Hollywood Acid
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Hollywood Acid: Technically, lye is a base, but two season two bodies get put in it anyway.
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Incredibly Obvious Bomb
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Incredibly Obvious Bomb: Would you get into your car if the interior was festooned with wires? Daniel the jerkass journalist does. Actually a cruel joke.
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Street Urchin
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Street Urchin: The final season gives Danish teenaged sisters Julia and Ida who mostly live in the streets, frequently stealing stuff to sell and get by, refusing to be fostered or go to a faculty.
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Best Served Cold
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Best Served Cold: The motivations of the killers from three of the four seasons.
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Taariq speaks Danish with an Iraqi accent… except when he's shouting at a man to let go of a girl, then it's just clean Danish.
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Anguished Declaration of Love
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Anguished Declaration of Love: Saga makes one to Henrik. She starts it by explaining how serotonin works.
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Russian Roulette
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Russian Roulette: Lukas forces his debtor Marc to play Russian Roulette to intimidate him in the third season.
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No Shirt, Long Jacket
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No Shirt, Long Jacket: Sonja throughout the first couple of episodes.
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Ate His Gun
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Ate His Gun: In the fourth season, gay Iranian asylum seeker and brief suspect Taariq Shirazi shoots himself through the mouth when Saga is forced to confirm that he doesn't have any hope of escaping deportation.
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TheCareTaker
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The Care Taker: Stefan, towards his sister, Sonja. He spent a lot of time trying find her and after she almost dies due to the serial killer, he plans to take care of her for as long as she needs him. Unfortunately he gets arrested (for an unrelated murder) before she gets out of hospital and she's left alone again.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: In season four, the killer injects William's daughter Leonora with an unknown substance, which makes her unconscious. Then the killer contacts William and tells him that the girl will die without an antidote. The killer is however willing to sell it. The transaction takes place and William rushes to the hospital. Meanwhile, a doctor has found out that Leonora was not poisoned, only sedated by strong painkillers. Before she could give the information however, William barges in her daughter's room and injects her with the antidote. She begins to convulse and dies soon after. The antidote was in reality a potent neurotoxin used in executions. The killer knew that Leonora was William's whole world, and contrived the murder so that William would be the one giving the lethal injection.
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Deadly Gas
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Deadly Gas: Used to kill Ferbé in the first season, and the first group of terrorists in the second season, and a horse in season four.
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Hell-Bent for Leather
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Saga, with her leather pants and coat.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Curb-Stomp Battle: In the second season when two of the second group of animal masks force their way into Saga's hotel room with guns, and she overpowers them in seconds. Since this was across two episodes and since the curb-stomp was so extreme, could count as a Cliffhanger Copout.
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Captain Obvious
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When Saga remarks that the only difference between the Truth Terrorist killing homeless people and him threatening to kill five young children is that he killed far more than five homeless people, and that she feels more sorry for the victims who knew they were going to die than for children who are utterly clueless about their impending doom, Martin concludes that she has nothing in the way of maternal instinct.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Seasons 1 and 2 both have these, if they don't qualify as outright Downer Endings: Season 1: Jens has been captured, but August is dead. Not to mention that dozens of people have died gruesomely along the way. Season 2: The eco-terrorist conspiracy has been foiled, but the unknown mastermind of that conspiracy is still at large, Saga's boyfriend has left her, Martin's wife has fallen out of love with him, Pernille is dead, and because of the last two events, Martin finally crosses the Despair Event Horizon and possibly murders Jens, completing Jens's master plan from the first season finale. Saga finds out and is forced to report Martin, leading to his arrest. Not to mention that dozens of people have died gruesomely along the way. Season 3 ends on a slightly more upbeat note, but still qualifies: Saga and Henrik have caught Emil and saved Freddie and the baby, but they're both off the force, and Saga may be facing prosecution for (allegedly) murdering her mother. Saga herself is convinced she'd be convicted, given that she had motive, no alibi, and the technical evidence points to her. Not to mention that dozens of people have died gruesomely along the way. Season 4 ends with Henrik getting one of his two daughters back, although he finds that she still cares about her abductor, who killed Henrik's wife by accident and Henrik's other daughter through medical negligence. Henrik's AA sponsor tries to kill the remaining daughter to complete his revenge and ends up getting shot in the head right in front of the girl. Saga quits the police, having solved her sister's suicide, which she has realized was the reason she became a detective in the first place, symbolically throwing her badge from the eponymous bridge.
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Keeping Secrets Sucks
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Keeping Secrets Sucks: Saga complains about being asked to keep Martin' secret that he's the guy who had an affair with Jens' wife.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Freddie Holst is a downplayed example. While he's a smug man who seems to think that he can control whoever he wants, he isn't necessarily corrupt and, while his job is largely unsavory, it's not malicious nor criminal. He even drops this personality later on when Emil is defeated and his newborn son is rescued.
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Characterization Marches On
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Saga comes off as this for consistently not wanting any children, and thinking a lot of people who do have children shouldn't. As Characterization Marches On, we learn that it's in part because she doesn't understand them, and in part because she doesn't think she's equipped to take care of them.
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Everyone Knows Morse
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Everyone Knows Morse: Bjørn tries to communicate his location to viewers of the murder.com video feed by blinking out messages in Morse code. This, however, is justified: The police only realize that Bjørn is using Morse because he was in the merchant navy, where he would have learned and used it.
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You Are Too Late
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You Are Too Late: In Season One, Saga correctly figures out where the killer hid August and she and the other cops do get him out...but he suffocated before they managed to open the coffin. In Season Three, after being coerced into saying on live TV her relationship was a mistake, Anna has a change of heart and calls Benjamin to tell him she loves him and wants to be with him...only for the camera to pan away from the phone to show Benjamin's body, having slit his wrists in the bath.
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Motive Rant
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Motive Rant: Gertrud gives a subdued one when she shoots her confession video. Emil, the Big Bad of season three, gets two: one as he's about to kill Freddie, and one to Saga and Henrik after he's taken into custody.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: From the penultimate episode of season three: In Season One, when Saga realises the killer's endgame:
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The Atoner
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The Atoner: Daniel Ferbé becomes a weird mix of this and Nietzsche Wannabe after his overdose. It's established at the end of the series that Saga herself has filled her life with police work to atone for her obliviousness regarding any forewarnings about her sister's suicide, giving up her studies of microbiology in favor of the police academy. Her therapy helps her to let go of the guilt and begin to seek other life than police work.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: In the first few episodes, when Sofia Helin didn't have her "autistic" thing down yet, Saga sometimes gives blank smiles. She stops after three or four episodes, so it's not a part of the character.
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Et Tu, Brute?
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Et Tu, Brute?: In the climax of Season Two, though he never gets a chance to say anything to her, this is Martin's reaction to Saga turning him in.
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Mathematician's Answer
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Mathematician's Answer: Saga is fond of these, in line with her implied autism. (See above.)
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Improbable Infant Survival
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Improbable Infant Survival: Unexpectedly played straight with the school bus hijack, and later Martin's younger children. In series 3, Freddie Holst's newborn.
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NietzscheWannabe
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Daniel Ferbé becomes a weird mix of this and Nietzsche Wannabe after his overdose.
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: This may have been Emil's motivation for faking an attack on himself in the third season, although it may have been for some deranged reason only he understood.
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Lucky Charms Title
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Lucky Charms Title: The pipe symbol is used to separate the Swedish and Danish titles. In later seasons, multiple pipes are used to indicate the sequel number.
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Coincidental Broadcast
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Coincidental Broadcast: Linus is taken in for questioning, and while he goes to buy a soda a tv happens to be on that just then broadcasts news of his brother's death, which he had yet to learn of.
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The Un-Reveal
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The Unreveal: After the second season finale, the episode's writer stated in a live chat that the shadowy figure who killed Gertrud was not significant and would not be revisited.
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It's All My Fault
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It's All My Fault: Martin thinks like this about Mikaela's death, claiming their brief affair indirectly caused her and her son's death because, as he says, if there hadn't been any affair to tell her husband about then she couldn't have told him. Saga tells him he can't think like that, comparing it to thinking that if there hadn't been a bridge across the sound there would have been nothing for her to drive off of. Linus thinks this way about his brother's death. Saga confirms that they were able to locate the terrorist group because they traced Linus's phone call to him, and he thinks that's why they killed themselves. When Saga finds out they didn't kill themselves, but were murdered, she relays this information to the boy and tells him not to blame himself, as his phone call made no difference to the result.
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A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
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A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Freddie gives Marc a handout of several thousand kroner in order to convince him keep a low profile and keep his distance to Jeanette. Marc proceeds to gamble all of them away the very next night during a poker game.
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Chocolate Baby
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Chocolate Baby: In season four Saga remarks that a baby with brown eyes cannot be the biological offspring of the man who thinks he's the father, since both he and the mother have blue eyes.
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Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
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Would You Like to Hear How They Died?: Subverted very cruelly in Season One, when the killer explains no matter what Martin does to him, he'll never know what happened to August, where his body is, if he suffered or what his last words were. Saga spoils this because she actually did figure out where he was, but the end result is still that August is dead and they were too late to save him.
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Photographic Memory
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Photographic Memory: Despite her apparent autism, Saga is not shown to have this. However, Henrik is shown to memorize crime scenes and license plates at a glance, and as far as anyone can tell he's neurotypical.
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Do You Want to Copulate?
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Do You Want to Copulate?: If Saga wants to have sex with someone, she doesn't beat around the bush. No pun intended.
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Saga, who is very odd and has No Social Skills whatsoever, but she gets the job done and everyone she works with knows it.
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Bigger Is Better in Bed
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Discussed, hilariously, when a gigolo is murdered and Saga finds his size surprising.
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I Have Your Wife
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I Have Your Wife: And children.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: William Ramberg is a ruthless crime lord, who's not above of cold-blooded murder. His soft spot however is his daughter Leonora, who is hospitalized by an unknown disease.
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Animal Wrongs Group
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The Animal Wrongs Group bombs a petrol tanker and poisons the food supply, but it did not develop The Plague.
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British Brevity
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British Brevity: Each season consists of ten episodes, until the fourth season which only has eight.
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Plot Parallel
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Plot Parallel: In season two, the main villains are conspiring to unleash a deadly plague on the population under the guise of bringing attention to animal rights, which is generally considered a noble cause despite extreme measures. Meanwhile, the woman Martin and Mette hired to take care of their children is making their son Nikolaj ill in order to make herself seem indispensable and get praise for how much she cares for the children.
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Big Brother Instinct
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Big Brother Instinct: Niklas in Season Two, who threatens Linus' bullies at knifepoint and tells them they're going to start being nice to his brother, or else. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop him from doing 'one last job' with the Eco-terrorists, which ends in him being gassed to death and leaves Linus all alone. Stefan for his sister Sonja, whom he has been searching for for years. August behaves like an Aloof Big Brother to his half-siblings, but he's horrified when the killer kidnaps Mette and the kids, partially thanks to information he unwittingly provided. Julia looks after her younger sister Ida in the rootless life of street urchins they've chosen for themselves.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Saga is a relatively unusual Swedish name and means "seeing one" in Old Norse — appropriate for someone with her level of crime-solving intuition. Incidentally, as can be heard in-series, the name is pronounced as "Sah-ga" (rhymes with "Prada") in Swedish, but "Say-ga" (as in Sega) in Danish. "Saga" is the Swedish word for "fairy-tale". It is also a slightly archaic pan-Nordic word for "tale, story". The most famous Swede with Saga's last name is Lars Norén, a Swedish playwright, known for dark drama full of angst. Martin lampshades this in the first episode, when he asks whether there is any relation. According to Saga there isn't. Subverted in season 3, where there is a character named Bror, meaning "brother", which is at most a Red Herring for the viewers. The characters never bring it up, no matter how much Morten Anker talks about his unnamed brother.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: In the second season finale, Pernille, a Danish policewoman who Martin was attracted to, shoots herself rather than die slowly and painfully from The Plague she was exposed to. Jennifer Norén, Saga's sister, years before the first season begins. Saga, nearly, in the third season, due to Hans's death, Henrik turning out to be a drug addict, her realisation that she accidentally gave Emil the weapon he used to kill himself, and the fact that she might be prosecuted for the murder of her mother. Benjamin after the woman he had an affair with states on national television that sleeping with him was a mistake. Taariq, after he realizes he will face a prison sentence and after that would be deported to Iran where a certain death would await him (possibly due his homosexuality).
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Teacher/Student Romance
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Teacher/Student Romance: In Season Two Laura is having an affair with her teacher. It does not end well.
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My Greatest Failure
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My Greatest Failure: Saga's is her younger sister's death. Though she tries not to dwell on it, it's clear it still haunts her that she was unable to see Jennifer was suicidal.
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Understatement
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Understatement: In Season One, when Martin goes on his first job with Saga, one of her colleagues says, "Do you think we should mention she's a bit...odd?"
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Luke, You Are My Father
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Luke, You Are My Father: Emil's revelation of this is delivered holding a gun to his newborn baby brother's head.
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Aloof Big Brother
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August behaves like an Aloof Big Brother to his half-siblings, but he's horrified when the killer kidnaps Mette and the kids, partially thanks to information he unwittingly provided.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_71152dd
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: At one point, Hans discusses his future replacement with Saga, while she discusses the serial killer they're looking for.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_71329e49
type
Turn in Your Badge
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Turn in Your Badge: Briefly discussed and defied; once the case becomes personal for Rohde, it's suggested that he be taken off it. He matter-of-factly states that if he is, he'll just keep investigating on his own time, so he's kept on. In the final sequence of the show, Saga throws her badge off the bridge.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_714667be
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Murderer P.O.V.
 The Bridge (2011) / int_714667be
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Murderer P.O.V.: The start.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_71598ac8
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Internal Affairs
 The Bridge (2011) / int_71598ac8
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Internal Affairs: Saga ends up being investigated by Internal Affairs in the third season on suspicion that she murdered her own mother.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_716cdf08
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Vorpal Pillow
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Vorpal Pillow: Attempted in Season Two by Oliver on his sister, but Getrud manages to kill him before he can finish her off, because Viktoria is vital for The Plan In Season Three, Claes does this to his dying father. Annika, being a funeral director and thus regularly around dead bodies, figures it out and uses this to blackmail Claes into being her boyfriend.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_71e8a5c5
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Trauma Conga Line
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Trauma Conga Line: In series 3, let's see, Saga witnesses her first partner lose a foot in an explosion and feels responsible. Then her abusive mother, who had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, shows up and starts a campaign of intimidation, including blaming Saga for her sister's suicide. Saga's father, from whom she was also estranged, dies. Then Hans, her boss and friend, who always had her back, is kidnapped and tortured. Then she's mismanaged to the extreme by her new boss, who assigns an incompetent colleague who has a grudge against Saga to investigate her. Then her mother commits suicide in a way that frames Saga for murder. Hans dies. She forgets to search a suspect for weapons, and her colleague's daughter is consequently shot. Her new partner, whom she grew close to, turns out to be a drug addict. She inadvertently provides the murderer with the means to kill himself. And finally, she's suspended while being investigated for her mother's death. All this leads her to a very bad place. In season four, her psychologist has a lot to work with. Henrik undergoes one from Series 3 to Series 4. He struggles with drug addiction the whole series. His wife, Alice's, body is finally found, but not his daughters. He falls in love with Saga and prevents her from committing suicide, and is delighted when she gets pregnant. Then she has an abortion specifically so she won't lose him, and he finds that his eldest daughter died from appendicitis years previously.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_720e0c25
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Grave Robbing
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Grave Robbing: In the fourth season, the head of Hans Petterson is stolen from the coffin and hidden in a bouquet sent to his wife Lillian because Hans is still grieved by Lillian, who's one of the targets of the Revenge by Proxy scheme conducted by Susanne/Stephanie and Kevin/Brian. The robbers use a mini-digger rather than the traditional wooden shovel.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: Göran doesn't seem to grasp that when doctors say to take it easy after a heart transplant, they don't mean "broach the subject of divorce with your wife".
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When She Smiles
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When She Smiles: Saga smiles for joy exactly once in the entire series. It's when she is certain everything is right between her and Henrik again. It results in them having sex for the first time since Saga informed him she had an abortion.
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The Woobie
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The Woobie: Martin. Henrik. Saga. They all lose at least one child they were responsible for to circumstances beyond their control, Martin hires a nany who poisons his son, Saga gets framed for the murder of her abusive mother, and Henrik is a drug addict whose sole comfort is hallucinating his disappeared wife and children.
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Academic Alpha Bitch
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Academic Alpha Bitch: Laura in Season Two, who throws a tantrum because her teacher gave her a lower score than she wanted and begins blackmailing said teacher. Said teacher is also her lover.
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Friend to All Children
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Friend to All Children: Played straight with Henrik. Subverted with Saga, who seems to think they are little adults. At one point she gives a book on how to overcome PTSD to an eight-year-old.
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Hero's Classic Car
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Hero's Classic Car: Saga's early-model Porsche 911. In the fourth season the manner how she got the car is revealed. Her classmate in police academy bet his car that Saga will never graduate.
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Brother–Sister Incest
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Brother–Sister Incest: Oliver Nordengren is an Abhorrent Admirer of his attractive sister Viktoria, and has cameras planted throughout her house. He is less than pleased when he sees her making love with a woman.
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Improbably Cool Car
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Improbably Cool Car: Saga's car. Lampshaded by Martin, who jokingly asks whether Swedish cops are well-paid. Saga doesn't get it.
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Vengeance Feels Empty
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Vengeance Feels Empty: Saif's father warns his son that killing Henning will not bring back his brother. Saif listens and lets Henning go, but the killer planned around this and guns Henning down in the street anyway.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_7a143509
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Shell-Shocked Veteran
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: In the third season, Morten is a violently-deranged ex-soldier afflicted with PTSD after being taken prisoner and tortured in Afghanistan.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_7ad0e492
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Imaginary Friend
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Imaginary Friend: In the third season, Henrik's wife and children are imaginary.
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Cannot Tell a Lie
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Cannot Tell a Lie: Saga is frequently noted as being a terrible liar, which she is trying to improve. Naturally, this becomes vitally important in the finale.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_7e1cc19b
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk With A Heartof Gold: August comes off as kind of aloof and a typical rebellious teen, but he's not a bad guy and is usually given babysitting duties of his half-siblings, and he tries to work on his strained relationship with his dad. Which is exactly what the killer wanted.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_7f1be21
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Functional Addict
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Functional Addict: Henrik takes pills for insomnia, then takes stimulants to counteract the strong sleep aids and get through the day (or pull an all-nighter). He does not get high, and it does not affect his professional performance negatively. However, his illegally obtaining the stimulants opens him up to blackmail; he can't quit without going through withdrawal; and eventually he overdoses.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_7f1c90c4
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murder.com
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murder.com: The two "Truth Terrorist" sites, one for each country. Which the killer uses to broadcast Bjorn's murder and threaten to kill the school bus children.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_7fe66c69
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Hand of Death
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Hand of Death: The first season likes depicting the killer as a pair of gloved hands driving a car to the next crime scene.
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Evil Matriarch
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Evil Matriarch: Saga's mother, who abused her sister and, after Saga's father's death, manipulated Saga's new boss into distrusting her, and finally killed herself and framed Saga for it.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_820ac3c5
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Dysfunction Junction
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Dysfunction Junction: All the significant characters are so screwed up that you'll start thinking the killer has a point.
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Pun
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Pun: A Swedish one, quite naturally. The Swedish word "fall" can mean both "fall" (downward tumbling motion) and "situation", so when a season three victim says that the baby won't survive the fall, the killer replies that no, not everyone survives the situation.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_8387bb18
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion
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Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Zigzagged in the fourth season when Saga accidentally gets pregnant by Henrik. She first intends to get an abortion due to knowing she is not equipped to handle a child, then offers to have the baby and let Henrik keep it when she sees how desperate he is for a child. Then she ends up having the abortion anyway due to disastrously misinterpreting advice from her therapist and Lilian, because when he wants to deepen their relationship she thinks that it's unconnected to the pregnancy and she can treat it as an either/or thing. However, this is treated as a very bad thing to do, since she'd already told Henrik.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_8411ab92
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Red Oni, Blue Oni
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Interestingly, both Martin and Saga have moments of both blue and red oni. Henrik is constantly in between though. A common thread throughout the series, actually. In Season 2, Caroline is the blue to her sister, Bodil's, red. Hans is the blue to Saga's red.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_863fa679
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: We never find out what happened to Veronika and her children after Stefan helped her disappear and killed her husband. Likewise, in the third season, we never find out what became of Claes and Annika after they ceased being relevant to the main storyline because it became clear that neither of them was the killer. After Christoffer escapes the container he was locked in and tells the police about him accidentally shooting his father and Frank keeping him captive, he's not seen again, and we're not told if he faced any consequences for his father's death.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_86b21114
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: Saga doesn't mean hers as anything but a matter of course. When offered a bodyguard because she might become a killers next target, she replies that if they want to kill her up-close she can handle it herself, and if they want to shoot her from a distance a bodyguard won't be any help, thus politely declining.
 The Bridge (2011) / int_86b21114
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City Noir
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City Noir: Almost every scene is based in either bland, modern, city buildings or dull, workaday, rural or suburban areas. According to Word of God, the series deliberately avoided any picturesque or famous locations. Apart from the titular structure, and unavoidably the Politigård building in Copenhagen; both more impressive than picturesque.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_8797239c
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: In season three, Hans is kidnapped and the police recieve a video of him with the day's newspaper strapped to him. Henrik asks for a zoom-in, but not on the date of the newspaper: he recognizes the coffee ring from a newpaper he saw in the kitchen of a suspect they questioned earlier.
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Murder-Suicide
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Murder-Suicide: The final goal of Emil, who sets up the last of his "art pieces" to hang himself with his estranged father and newborn half-brother. However, Henrik and Saga get there in time to stop them.
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Lazy Alias
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Lazy Alias: The masterminds of season two use typical chatnames like "motherofthree". The person in question is a man and has no children, so clearly he was hoping this alias would throw the police off track.
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Bilingual Dialogue
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Bilingual Dialogue: All the dialogue is in either Danish or Swedish depending on who's talking, as the languages are mutually intelligible to an extent. In the very first episode, Martin asks his Swedish counterparts if they can understand his Danish, and when they appear to be straining to comprehend somewhat, he realises he’s going too fast and slows down a little — which does the trick, and it’s never really brought up again. Incidentally, in Denmark, the name “Saga� is pronounced as "Sega", but as “Sah-ga� when in her native Sweden, while she introduces Martin as "Röhde (sounds like “Rurd�) rather than "Rohde" (sounds like “Road�).
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: Sage's younger sister Jennifer who's been dead long before the start of the series. Some of Saga's issues stem from Jennifer's suicide which came as a complete surprise for Saga who had landed their parents in jail because their mother — who had Münchausen syndrome by proxy — continuously poisoned Jennifer. It also becomes clear in the therapy sessions Saga has in the last season that the reason she became a police was guilt from Jennifer's suicide.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Likewise, in the third season, we never find out what became of Claes and Annika after they ceased being relevant to the main storyline because it became clear that neither of them was the killer.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_8cb4ea46
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By-the-Book Cop
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By-the-Book Cop: Saga takes her duties very seriously. After finding a store camera that could have useful evidence on it, she gets the camera's memory card - and then mentions that the store-owner doesn't actually have permission for the camera.
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 The Bridge (2011) / int_8e20979
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: In finale of season two, one of Martin's colleagues if forced to kill herself after becoming infected with a superplague, while Saga is forced to turn in Martin himself after he murders Jens in prison. Doing so potentially shifts the geographical axis of the series away from Denmark.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Quite a few in Season One, which actually earns the killer an online following. Bjørn is an asshole, but tries so hard not to be a victim, you kinda end up rooting for him. Soren is killed early on in Season One, but there's no pitying him when he's abusive to his wife and kids. In Season Three, one of the victims is a teacher who molested his students. He is found missing his penis. Lukas is violently gunned down in the street, but he really had it coming. Ferbé's introductory scene, where he viciously mocks a sad-sack colleague for his unhipness and taste in music, makes him appear so unpleasant that the unspeakably horrible things that happen to him immediately afterwards seem karmic and comical.
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National Stereotypes
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National Stereotypes: Plays throughout with stereotypes of the Swedish as uptight and Danes as laidback. Discussed when Hanne refers to genderless kindergardens as "very Swedish", and Saga asks if she's referring to the Danish perception that Swedes are very politically correct. Most of the couples are made up of one Swede and one Dane, for the sake of contrast.
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Nursery Rhyme
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Nursery Rhyme: Sofia and Stefan know each other by a nursery rhyme from their childhood.
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type
Creepy Dollhouse
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Creepy Dollhouse: Season 3 has a creepy dollhouse. Shown in episode 8, it depicted all the gruesome murders that happened up to that point in the season, and shows a new room being set up and staged.
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In the first season, Ferbé, who after losing his job gets gassed to death in his car. Extra irony because he was locked in his car with a (fake) bomb before - you'd think he'd be a little more wary. In the second season, the original terrorist foursome, who are gassed to death in a shipping container. At the end of the second season, Gertrud is shot by a villain.
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Revenge
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Revenge: The first-season serial killer's real goal.
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Feminine Women Can Cook
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Feminine Women Can Cook: Subverted with Saga, who seem uninterested in gender roles beyond their forensic application, and cooks by heating food in the microwave.
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One-Night-Stand Pregnancy
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One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: In season 4, Nicole gets pregnant with her husband's brother after a single very drunken night together. Of course, Saga is the one to figure this out based on the baby's eyes being brown despite both purported parents being blue-eyed. Leads to a somewhat unexpected conversation, when her husband asks "how long have you been having an affair with him?", clearly expecting it to have gone on for months under his nose, and she reveals that it was in fact only a single night.
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Heel Realization
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Jens Hansen / Sebastian Sandstrod in season 1 can be interpretaded as this due to how much he seems to enjoy manipulating people, but he ultimately has a Heel Realization in season 2.
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Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!
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Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Jens Hansen first tries to set this up with Henning and the family of the guy who was killed by the cops, and then with himself and Martin. He ultimately succeeds one season later when Martin, blaming Jens for the breakup of his marriage, poisons him in prison and ends up getting arrested. Though at that point, he has found that Vengeance Feels Empty, making his plan become less meaningful.
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Riddle for the Ages
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Riddle for the Ages: We never learn what Elsa did to be in a high-security prison, nor why she is not allowed to have contact with her daughter. When Henrik tries to talk Saga out of jumping in front of a train, and fails, we clearly hear the train hitting something. But what?
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Big Bad
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Emil, the Big Bad of season three, gets two: one as he's about to kill Freddie, and one to Saga and Henrik after he's taken into custody.
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Brand X
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Brand X: The lipstick used on victims in season three is of the brand FeliCity, which is not a real makeup brand.
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As You Know
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As You Know: Frequently subverted. Because of Saga's implied disorder (and sometimes just unwillingness to share information), she often explains proper police procedure to other police.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the third season Morten's pathetic attempt to find someone to connect with by tracking down his sibling-by-sperm-donation ends up triggering Emil's mental breakdown and serial murders, which included Morten himself.
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Character Tics
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Character Tics: When someone (usually Martin) corrects one of Saga's Innocently Insensitive moments, she frowns and cocks her head.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Frank in season four to Stefan in season one. Both are social workers who go to unprofessional and illegal extremes in order to rescue women from unhappy relationships. However, Stefan is genuinely well-intentioned, while Frank is an abusive control freak who's looking for vulnerable people to prey on himself.
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Kill the Cutie
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The reason for Anja's death - she accidentally saw the killer leaving the building of a subordinate and the police were looking for her. So she had to go.
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Let Them Die Happy
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Let Them Die Happy: Following a conversation with Martin about how sometimes, it's better to lie than tell a harsh truth, Anja asks Saga from her hospital bed if she's going to die. Saga tells her no.
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Last Episode Theme Reprise
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Last Episode Theme Reprise: The very final minutes of the third series, as Saga and Henrik set out on their unofficial investigation of the murder of Henrik's wife, use the theme music as incidental music leading into the end credits. Notably, this includes portions of "Hollow Talk" that were cut from the opening and closing credits edit. The same thing happens in the final moments of the fourth season.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: When Saga chats with Martin's nanny, the girl makes it sound like she thinks she's perfect for the family just because she does her job. The time-out room. Saga tells Henrik that the idea is that children don't perceive time-out as a punishment, but as a natural consequence. Jonas telling Saga he'd rather follow Hanne's example when it comes to smalltalk seeing as Martin is in prison.
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Fan Boy
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Fanboy: August is one for Saga, which leads to a few humorously awkward moments.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: In season four, Saga knocks over a cup full of paperclips, and picking them up makes her flash back to when she semi-assisted in Emil's suicide in the last episode of the previous season.
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The Dog Was the Mastermind
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The Dog Was the Mastermind: In the third season, the killer turns out to be an unassuming art gallery employee who had previously played a relatively unimportant part in the plot.
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It's Personal
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Briefly discussed and defied; once the case becomes personal for Rohde, it's suggested that he be taken off it. He matter-of-factly states that if he is, he'll just keep investigating on his own time, so he's kept on.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: In Season one, August goes through this when he realises the girl he's been chatting to online is actually the killer, and he has been unwittingly feeding him information this whole time, which ended up getting Anja killed, because only the police knew she had accidentally seen the killer. Season Two has Laura realising she got her lover fired over a petty argument and then killed after she visited Laura in hospital and accidentally sat on a syringe filled with poison intended for Laura. And in Season Three, Saga has this reaction when under stress, she forgets to search a perp and he wildly fires his gun in the police station, accidentally hitting John's daughter. Luckily he simply clipped her arm and the daughter recovers, but Saga does not take it well.
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Canon Discontinuity
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Canon Discontinuity: In season four there's an entire subplot revolving around finding out whether Saga and Jennifer's mother really had Münchausen by proxy. However, in season two it was established that her condition was discovered when Jennifer was ten, by authorities as it is in a police file.
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Parental Neglect
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Parental Neglect: Anja and her "family"; she finds shelter with a friendly but very unstable man.
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The Bad Guys Are Cops
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The Bad Guys Are Cops: Season 1 has shades of this as Saga and Martin figure out that the Big Bad has to be a police officer, or is at least posing as one with an unusual grip on procedure. They're right. Sebastian was a cop.
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Hates Being Touched
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Hates Being Touched: Despite enjoying sex with men, Saga does not want them to touch her, as she informs Henrik before having sex with him.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: The mastermind in Season Two kills Gertrud and leaves, we never hear from them again. Freddie Holst is a borderline case: while he and his son survive, he has likely been severely traumatized by the ordeal.
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Obfuscating Stupidity
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Emil engages in this when he talks to the police. It's subtle, such as translating a Dutch phrase that is almost exactly the same as in Swedish, and claiming not to see the four animals "hidden" in a painting. Subverted with Elsa's lie about thinking trying to kill Saga would make her stay. It is found plausible enough to not be questioned further, given whatever disorder she usually displays, but the disorder is genuine.
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Leave No Witnesses
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Leave No Witnesses: The reason for Anja's death - she accidentally saw the killer leaving the building of a subordinate and the police were looking for her. So she had to go. Also the reason for a wild ride in a car boot in season four, whilst it is peppered with gunshots and hits a parked Volvo.
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Not So Stoic
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Not So Stoic: To the casual observer (and even many of her own colleagues and associates) Saga appears cold and unemotional, if not outright cruel in her insensitivity at times. However, the show on numerous occasions takes time to explore how much this is not the case: Saga is a moral and thoughtful person who simply struggles to understand which of her actions may insult or hurt others, but who tries to adapt herself to avoid it. As to her own emotions, we see on numerous occasions how deep they run, with the following being just some stand-outs: In Season One, when Martin repeatedly asks her if his son is alive, her face is one of true regret and despair. After experiencing a Trauma Conga Line in series 3, Saga has one of these moments when she collapses in tears after almost committing suicide. She's also noticeably upset when John's daughter gets shot in the arm when she failed to search the perp for a hidden firearm. Luckily she's fine later. The final season fully embraces the trope and breaks the presentation of Saga as unflappable, starting her out in prison where life is a daily struggle (not just because there are those who would like to see her dead in the prison, but because any degree of control over her life, which she strictly depends on as a psychological matter, is lost. Even once freed and restored to the police force, the season often sees her, through therapy and character interactions, facing the fall-out of the Trauma Conga Line that has been her life to date and struggling to understand what she really wants for herself. And in a particularly meaningful moment, in the last episode of the series, the trope is embraced head-on: in a previous scene, Henrik, in a moment of deep hurt and anger, accuses Saga of being incapable of love. But in the penultimate scene of the finale, Henrik, having just had his daughter's life and his own saved by Saga, is seeing things more clearly and notes "I said that I needed you more than you needed me, but that isn't right, is it?" to which Saga shakes her head, looks him in the eye and says "No, it isn't."
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
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Icy Blue Eyes
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Icy Blue Eyes: Stefan has these. And so does Jens, the real killer.
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Obfuscating Disability
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Obfuscating Disability: Subverted in the last season. When the posthumous father of the wheelchairbound Kevin becomes implicated in the case, Henrik goes to demand answers from him, lifting him from the chair to see if he's really unable to walk. Kevin can't seemingly use his legs. It becomes a double subversion in the last episode with the reveal that Kevin can walk even though he jumped down an apartment building after his father died. His cover of being bound to wheelchair serves him well as Stephanie's murder accomplice.
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Fatal Flaw
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Fatal Flaw: Let's just say Martin's infidelity has serious consequences.
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Jack the Ripoff
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Jack the Ripoff: In the second season, the second group of animal-masked terrorists turn out to be a much less dangerous group of animal liberationists who are just imitating the first group with no true connection. In the third season, the second murder turns out to be a copycat killing.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: While in season 1 his defeat is portrayed as rather satisfying, Jens has this in season 2 when he is constantly put into test by his archenemy Martin if he still has a human side to him. It turns out he does, and eventually he breaks down in tears only a day before his eventual death. His eventual Heel Realization and how he clearly misses his old life add alot of sympathy. In season 3 the Big Bad, Emil Larsson gets a pretty tragic exit when he constantly complains about how he never should have been born to begin with and eventually he commits suicide.
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Martin tries to excuse his recent infidelity as him being insecure about his masculinity. His wife points out that he knocked her up just before getting a vasectomy and kicks him out. Oliver's wife/widow tells her sister-in-law that the fact that she never showed her brother any kindness is no excuse for him to try to kill her.
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I Can Still Fight!
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I Can Still Fight!: Saga in the final episode, continuing to try to save August and Martin after being shot twice by the killer and minimally treated in hospital.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: Saga's: "Saga Norén, länskrim Malmö." Henrik's roughly translates to "for fuck's sake, man!"
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Abusive Parents
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Abusive Parents: Anja's mother refuses to her respond to her daughter's attempts to get her attention at all, except to slap her in the face when she brings her home after Anja was arrested for shoplifting. Saga's mother, who poisoned her daughter Jennifer. When Jennifer was Driven to Suicide after Saga got their mother arrested by framing her, she blamed it on Saga and turned the tables on her by framing her for murder twenty years later.
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I Did What I Had to Do
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I Did What I Had to Do: Saga's reason for turning Martin in when he poisons Jens, but later it's made clear she misses him.
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Enhance Button: Averted in the second season, when John explains to Saga that an image of a suspect on a CCTV shot can't be made any better by zooming in.
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Hollywood Autism
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Hollywood Autism. Thoroughly subverted. The series garnered praise in many areas, but probably no other aspect was more consistently lauded than in how Saga is portrayed. Though clearly "on the spectrum" in some respect, the writers/runners of the show steadfastly refused to give a label to her condition (or even to treat her as necessarily having "a condition", either inside or outside the show's narrative. Nor is she a one dimensional 'savant' stereotype whose social issues are played primarily for laughs. Instead she is a well realized character who, while outwardly cold seeming to those who don't understand her, is at her core a deeply ethical and caring person who simply struggles daily to understand the needs of those around her and to express her own.
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Everyone Has Standards
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Everyone Has Standards: In the fourth season, after Taariq Shirazi shoots himself, there's a point where the characters, and the audience, are visibly bracing themselves for the thoroughly bigoted Jonas to make some kind of racist/homophobic joke about it, but he refrains.
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Tragic Villain
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Season 3: Emil Larsson
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Too Dumb to Live
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Also, while he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, he is not a sexual predator and not a threat to Anja, who gets offed by Jens because she saw him leave Lasse's apartment complex.
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Hollywood Blanks
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In the third season, Lukas forces Marc to play Russian Roulette with a blank cartridge. When the cartridge goes off, Marc is terrified but unharmed. In reality, this has killed people, the most notable case being actor/model Jon-Erik Hexum, who died doing exactly what happens in the show.
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Tin Man
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And in a particularly meaningful moment, in the last episode of the series, the trope is embraced head-on: in a previous scene, Henrik, in a moment of deep hurt and anger, accuses Saga of being incapable of love. But in the penultimate scene of the finale, Henrik, having just had his daughter's life and his own saved by Saga, is seeing things more clearly and notes "I said that I needed you more than you needed me, but that isn't right, is it?" to which Saga shakes her head, looks him in the eye and says "No, it isn't."
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Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere
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Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: Two variations are used in the finale, for Mette and her kids — a shack in the countryside, which they're locked inside with a live grenade, and for August — bricked up behind a false wall in a secret location.
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Revenge by Proxy
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Revenge by Proxy: The idea of the fourth season's murders. A petty criminal and police mole named Tommy was killed by his cohorts when his treachery was discovered and the police did nothing to bail him out. Tommy's girlfriend Susanne/Stephanie and son Kevin/Brian murder loved ones of the people they hold responsible for Tommy's death, wanting them to experience their pain of losing a loved one forever. As an extra insult, they use common execution methods.
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Aerith and Bob
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Aerith and Bob: "Saga" is an archaic, classically Nordic name, whereas her sister is named "Jennifer", an English (Cornish) name that seems a little mismatched. Downplayed to the Swedish perspective — Jennifer is a perfectly common name in Sweden and has been so for quite some time, while Saga just sounds a bit old-fashioned.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Ã…sa expresses genuine surprise that the police would expect her to care about murders that don't affect herself or anyone she knows. In a case of dramatic irony, it turns out the killer is out to hurt her husband specifically.
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Child Hater
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Child Hater: Saga comes off as this for consistently not wanting any children, and thinking a lot of people who do have children shouldn't. As Characterization Marches On, we learn that it's in part because she doesn't understand them, and in part because she doesn't think she's equipped to take care of them. In the first episode, a journalist tells his colleague that has no kids to suck the life out of him, which is why he can work nights. When Saga remarks that the only difference between the Truth Terrorist killing homeless people and him threatening to kill five young children is that he killed far more than five homeless people, and that she feels more sorry for the victims who knew they were going to die than for children who are utterly clueless about their impending doom, Martin concludes that she has nothing in the way of maternal instinct. In season two, Saga explains to Anna-Dea that she doesn't like children just because they're children, like Anna-Dea has professed to do herself. One of Martin's kids is in the room and asks if she likes him, and Saga tells him she doesn't know him well enough to say.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Oliver Nordgren keeps his rage to himself, unless you have sex with his sister where he can see it on his spycams.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Saga manages to shoot Jens's bomb vest off him. The season three killer always shoots people with three bullets in a triangle pattern on their chest.
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No Social Skills
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No Social Skills: Saga. Played sometimes seriously, as when she callously interrogates a guy over the phone while he's trapped in a car with a time bomb, and sometimes comically as when she picks up a guy in a bar with "want to have sex at my place?" and freaks him out when she post-coitally starts her laptop up and looks at gruesome autopsy photos in bed. In one episode she attempts to eat lunch and make small talk with the other detectives; after a long awkward silence all she manages to say (completely straight) is "my period started today." Her habit of changing her shirt in front of her colleagues is another example of this. There's also Annika in Season Three, who seems shocked the man she's been stalking and blackmailing didn't report her missing when she disappeared.
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Crazy Homeless People
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Crazy Homeless People: Sonja, though her life was pretty terrible even before she became homeless.
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I Have No Son!
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I Have No Son!: The last we see of Jeanette is like this. Turns out to be a major plot point.
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Jurisdiction Friction
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Jurisdiction Friction: Part of the initial hype for the show, and possibly hoped for by the killer. But actually the two police forces work together pretty well, barring some arguments over who gets to carry a gun (initially humorous but later played more seriously).
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Irony
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Irony: Freddie Holst donated sperm to a sperm bank in his youth. Thirty years later, when he wants to have a child with his wife, she is sterile and they have to get a surrogate.
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Genius Book Club
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Genius Book Club: Saga reads pretty heavy stuff, such as disertation-titled works on neurology and don't you dare lose her place in Laws of Sweden.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: Saif and his father decide not to kill Henning and to let him go. Then the killer turns up in a police uniform and guns him down. Later when it's falsely implied that August survived. In Season Three, Hans is kidnapped and is missing his hand, but Saga and Henrik find him alive. He never wakes up from his coma, sadly.
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ZigZagged
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Zig-Zagged in season two, when in trying to get Laura to relive a recent trauma, Saga takes out her gun and points it at her. While Saga keeps her finger off the trigger and the firearm was probably secured, she was still pointing a loaded gun at a traumatized shooting victim.
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One-Woman Wail
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One-Woman Wail: Dramatic, violent scenes play a man's voice singing in this style.
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Insane Troll Logic
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Insane Troll Logic: The killer wants to draw attention to the plight of the vulnerable in society, by murdering them in incredibly cruel and gruesome ways.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: This being a Scandinavian show, there's a lot of casual nudity (especially involving Saga, Stefan and Sonja), but the style of the shots is so clinical and the events sometimes so disturbing that it's rarely erotic.
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Fallen Hero
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Fallen Hero: Martin, when he kills Jens at the end of the second season.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Martin reads Mio, min Mio by Astrid Lindgren to his son. When Saga gives John a book about handling PTSD to pass on to his eight-year-old daughter Julie, who is in the hospital after being grazed by a bullet, John points out that Julie still struggles with My Little Pony books.
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Five Stages of Grief
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Five Stages of Grief: Saga references these when she describes herself as "between shock and denial" with regards to Hans.
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Criminal Mind Games
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Criminal Mind Games
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: When Saga asks Martin why he cheats, he says he probably feels the need to prove his manhood "or something".
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Heteronormative Crusader
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Heteronormative Crusader: In the third season, Lise the right-wing vlogger, and apparently the killer as well, but it's later subverted.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Sebastian Sandstrod, the Truth Terrorist kind of gives off this vibe when he meets Mette for the first time, so it is possible he went on to get a job like that after he faked his own suicide. It would also explain how he is able to afford everything. Gertrud Kofoed, the Big Bad of season 2 is a scientist for a huge medical company and a mass-murdering ecoterrorist. Oliver Nordgren, The Heavy of season 2 is a highly educated IT-guy who cooperates with the ecoterrorists for his own agenda. Freddie Holst is a downplayed example. While he's a smug man who seems to think that he can control whoever he wants, he isn't necessarily corrupt and, while his job is largely unsavory, it's not malicious nor criminal. He even drops this personality later on when Emil is defeated and his newborn son is rescued.
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Fake Static
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Fake Static: When Claes's secretary calls him to tell him the police have been asking for him, he pretends he can't hear her and tells her "in case she can hear him" that he'll call her back later.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The police believe the fourth season killer is on one, because they use execution methods to kill their victims. It seems to fall apart when two of the victims are a horse and a child with kidney failure, but it turns out to be true.
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Spoiled Brat
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Spoiled Brat: Laura in Season Two, as her father constantly dotes on her and never calls her out on her bratty behaviour. She seems to grow out of it towards the end.
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: Its Swedish and Danish titles, respectively, Bron and Broen.
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Western Terrorists
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Western Terrorists: Gertrud's plot to attack an EU conference in the second season.
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Theme Serial Killer
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Theme Serial Killer: Used in all seasons, although the early episodes sometimes misdirect it and the real theme is sometimes an important part of the solution: First season: Hot-button social issues. Second season: Environmentalism. Third season: Initially believed to be homophobia. Actually copies of artworks owned by the killer's endgame target. Fourth season: Judicial execution methods, and victims selected in order to cause grief to the real targets.
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The Chessmaster
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Season 1: The Truth Terrorist (real name: Sebastian Sandstrod aka Jens Hansen)
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: A season three suspect lives this trope, describing himself as "not a particularly curious man". Henrik feels the need to explain to him that when most people discover large quantities of blood in a car they want to know what happened.
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One of Our Own
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One of Our Own: Season one: Lillian asks how a police car could be missing for 24 hours without being reported stolen, making Saga realize that the perp could in fact be a policeman. Season two: Saga figures out that Martin killed Jens and reports him. The Danish police in season three feel both that she did the right thing and that they can't really trust her.
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No, Except Yes
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No, Except Yes: After Astrid has revealed to the new boy in town that she sometimes pretends that she's a mean girl named Agnes, and he asks if she was the one to assault a neighbor, she replies "no (Beat) – that was Agnes".
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Saga. Two eco-terrorists with guns? Deranged serial killer with a hostage? Doesn't matter. In hand-to-hand combat, Saga will take them out.
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Can't Take Criticism
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Can't Take Criticism: Subverted with Saga, who takes it, but doesn't know what to do with it. Even when Linn tells her upfront that a lot of people perceive her as unpleasant, she can only reply that she is unable to do anything about that.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: Several suspicious characters are not the one Saga and Martin are looking for. Season one: Stefan kills Sören, but he's not a serial killer. Jesper is guilty of rape, but not murder. Lasse gets manipulated to kill a psychologist on behalf of the real killer. Also, while he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, he is not a sexual predator and not a threat to Anja, who gets offed by Jens because she saw him leave Lasse's apartment complex. More turn up in season two: The Animal Wrongs Group bombs a petrol tanker and poisons the food supply, but it did not develop The Plague. Oliver is guilty of peeping on and then attempting to kill his sister, but he is not the mastermind behind the eco-terrorist conspiracy. Gertrud, the real ringleader of the conspiracy, may not have been the real ringleader after all. And in season three: Lise posts a video after the first two killings coolly ranting about the victims, but she isn't the killer. The victims are all found with a burn mark in their mouth that has a letter branded on it, which Saga says is part of the Babylonian alphabet. They actually make up the serial number of the sperm-donation case that resulted in Emil. Claes is seen carrying a shovel after Annika mysteriously disappears, but he had nothing to do with her vanishing and not only is she alive, she's not the killer. The fourth season suggests that Julia and Ida are actually Henrik's daughters. In fact, a completely different character turns out to be his one surviving daughter, although it's hinted that there are feelings developing between him and the other two.
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Contrived Coincidence
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Contrived Coincidence: Ã…sa is seconds away from getting kidnapped when the killer receives photos proving that her pregnant belly is just a prosthetic, causing the kidnapper to abandon their mission as it was the baby they were after. Just when Henrik needs Lucas to lose his photos of Henrik buying illegal drugs, Lucas gets killed in a drive-by, and Henrik steals the phone. Marc just happens to steal an ipad belonging to the very person who is looking to kidnap his pregnant girlfriend, just as the police figures out they can send a tracking virus to his device.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Stefan, Charlotte and August, among others. The writers often introduce new characters early, and we get to follow their daily lives for an episode or two before it's revealed how they relate to the case.
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Affectionate Nickname
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Affectionate Nickname: Henrik starts referring to Saga as "Wiki" because she knows everything, much to Saga's chargrin.
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Cat Fight
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Cat Fight: Saga gets into one in season 4 while in prison.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: Even a year after the events of the first season, Martin cannot get over the profoundly negative impact Jens has left on his life. He finally falls into the Horizon when his wife tells him their marriage can't be salvaged, leading him to kill Jens and go to jail. Ironically, it was probably Martin's infidelity that caused her to come to this conclusion. In Season Three, Saga herself nearly crosses it and jumps in front of a train (right where her sister did) after her Trauma Conga Line, but she ultimately doesn't go through with it.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: In the third season, Hanne is introduced as Saga's new Danish partner, but is seriously injured by a bomb at the end of the first episode, and replaced by Henrik.
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Alone with the Psycho
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Alone with the Psycho: Several times.
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History Repeats
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History Repeats: Both Saga's male Danish temporary partners have an estranged child who they reunite with, only for a vengeful former friend of theirs to try killing the child in question.
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Office Romance
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Office Romance: In season four, John and Barbara end up dating.
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Hannibal Lecture
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Hannibal Lecture: Jens attempts several of these when Martin visits his jail cell.
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Literal-Minded
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Literal-Minded: Saga's understanding of smalltalk is that it is merely informative. However, she subverts this when Martin and Mette's nanny, Anna-Dea, reminds her that Martin said they couldn't do without her, and Saga points out that Martin didn't mean Anna-Dea personally, but her services. Defied in a season two scene where Martin clarifies that he didn't mean that that the criminals they are looking for are literally invisible, and Saga clarifies that she didn't either, she meant that they leave no trace, which is what Martin meant.
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All Women Are Lustful
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All Women Are Lustful: Saga.
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I Regret Nothing
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I Regret Nothing: Jens, who says he'd do it again.
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Insistent Terminology
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Insistent Terminology: In the second season: It's a ship, not a boat, and Saga will never let you forget it. And, it's not a toad, it's a frog. Also, as she tells Linn, when the blog is in video format it's called a vlog. Saga always, always introduces herself as "Saga Norén, Malmö municipal police" — even in casual conversations. A typical interview will start like this: Played with, for poignant contrast in the the very last scene of the series: after Saga throws her police badge over the side of the titular bridge, indicating, along with her conversation with Henrik in the penultimate scene, that she has freed herself from the guilt that has defined her for so long and is moving on from police work to restart her life on her own terms, she gets back in her car and, when her phone rings, she answers simply as "Saga Norén". A slightly darker example in Season three, the killer insists he wasn't "punishing" the people he killed, he was "correcting" them. Saga insists she's not "strange", she is "different". In Season Four, the brusque Jonas Mandrup insists on referring to Taariq Shirazi - who is dodging deportation to his native Iran, where he would be executed - as "the fag", possibly because it annoys both Henrik and Lillian. He agrees to drop the habit once Taariq has killed himself. In series 4, Saga always corrects Henrik when he says Kevin, which is the name Henrik first knew him as, instead of Brian, even though doing so clearly irritates Henrik.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: The photographer who outed Benjamin and Anna's affair (which it turns out Benjamin anonymously tipped her about) goes to Benjamin's grieving mother's apartment and blurts out: "It was not my fault that your son killed himself!"
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The Load
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The Load: Marc, Jeanette's boyfriend, is a selfish idiot and a gambling addict who has repeatedly gambled away all their money and ends up being held at gunpoint at one point. Does that stop him? Nope!
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Saga will tell you who she's had sex with and how, the exact size of her boyfriend's penis, and if you ask about her sister she'll inform you that she jumped in front of a train when she was fourteen… but if you ask how she knows so much about Munchhausen by proxy she'll avoid the question.
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Loose Lips
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Loose Lips: Ã…sa makes a very big mistake in confiding in Claes and telling him she's been faking her pregnancy. He tells the papers and brings a huge scandal to Ã…sa and Freddie out of revenge.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: Saga, who Cannot Tell a Lie, tries to reassure Martin by telling him that "we found August", and that he's being taken to the hospital. After she repeats that exact wording a couple of times, the killer points out that she's not saying they found him alive...
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: The killer kicking Rohde in the balls, possibly because he knows that Rohde just had a vasectomy.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: In the fourth season finale, Saga has a huge moment, when Kevin/Brian is about to murder Astrid right in front of Henrik. Henrik closes his eyes and hears a shot... when he opens them, he finds that Saga has shot Brian through the head from the doorway.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Jonas, even though he is a competent policeman, is prone to making insensitive remarks about and to suspects (to a point that one homosexual man wanted for questioning refuses to talk to him), is hinted to be cheating on his wife and is leaking information about the current murder investigation to media.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Poor Hans. He picked up a runaway child and returned him to his foster home, only for said foster home to actually be horribly abusive and said child kills him years later as part of his revenge scheme. Stefan tries to help Veronika hide from her abusive husband only for said husband to show up at Stefan's place, leading Stefan to kill him in self-defence and later arrested just as he's reunited with his homeless, mentally fragile sister.
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Political Correctness Is Evil
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Political Correctness Is Evil: The first suspect in season 3 thinks the first victim represented this, running gender neutral daycare centers and wanting gay people to get married in church as she was.
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Too Much Information
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Too Much Information: Saga is extremely prone to this, with her implied autism rendering her unable to tell where the line goes between personal information that people want you to share and personal information that no one wants to hear. You'd think she is immune to this because of her usually stone-faced expression, but she does look slightly grossed out when informed, without her asking, that Mette has kidney stones.
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Magic Plastic Surgery
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Magic Plastic Surgery: Jens
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Law of Inverse Fertility
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Saga gets pregnant with Henrik despite them actively using birth control. Freddie and his wife are desperate to conceive but cannot, to the point of faking her pregnancy and using a surrogate mother instead.
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Never Found the Body
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Never Found the Body: After Christoffer accidentally killed Dan, Frank covers it up by tossing his body into a stream. His car was found, however... Frank turns out to have prior experience with hiding bodies, when it turns out he was Alice's extramarital affair.
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No Sense of Humor
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No Sense of Humor
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Organ Theft
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Organ Theft: In Season Three, the killer's trademark is posing the victims as if for photographs (such as the first being set up like a family breakfast) and the victim has something on their body removed...only for the missing body part to show up at the next murder.
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Earn Your Happy Ending
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The fourth season has the happiest ending in the series. Henrik finds one of his daughters alive and well, and even though things are a bit weird between them (since she was raised by another man for eight years), Astrid acknowledges that Henrik is her real father. Saga finally finds evidence that her mom had Münchhausen by proxy and that she made her sister Jennifer ill by giving her unnecessary medication. In therapy Saga realizes that she was not to blame for Jennifer's fate and that she became a police officer only because of her feelings of guilt. In the end, she makes peace with her past, resigns from the police force (and throws her badge down the titular bridge) and starts her life anew. Not to mention that slightly less people have died gruesomely along the way, the killer(s?) also bothering animals and the predeceased.
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Together in Death
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Together in Death: Invoked by Henrik. When they find Alice's remains but not those of their daughters, he says he suspected they were dead, but he thought at least they'd be together.
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Insult Backfire
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Insult Backfire: Subverted. August wasn't trying to insult Saga when he called her a "milf", but she doesn't think it applies since she doesn't have children.
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External Combustion
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External Combustion
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Faking the Dead
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Faking the Dead: Jens, who went through all the trouble of finding a man with his body type and blew his head off to fake his own suicide. Lennart Blomgren, who moved to Indonesia and had his wife tell everyone he was dead.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Saga's boss explaining "She meant to say 'How are you?'" Martin's insistence that Saga needs a hobby, and the Swedes waking Martin up early in the morning while he's sleeping. Saga trying to pronounce Danish names in Danish, and inevitably mispronouncing them as the way the vowels flow together is tricky for Swedes to accomplish.
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Accidental Murder
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Accidental Murder: Christoffer is trying to fend off his abusive father Dan by pointing a rifle at him, when he trips and accidentally shoots Dan in the throat.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Subverted with Jens; double subverted with the eco terrorists, who are seemingly revealed to be Unwitting Pawns in a money-making scheme, until Gertrud turns out to be a true believer.
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Cut Apart
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Cut Apart: Used in the third season when the SWAT team raid Aleks's house looking for Petersson, but Aleks and Petersson are in a different building, and the killer shoots Aleks and re-kidnaps Petersson.
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Innocently Insensitive
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Innocently Insensitive: In line with her implied disorder, Saga does this very often, especially when dealing with people who have just lost loved ones. This becomes a minor plot point in the third season.
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Pet the Dog: Saga averts this when informing Anja's mother that they might be unable to find her missing daughter alive. Subverted a little later in the same episode, when Saga tells Lasse that his boss is gonna kill Anja if they can't find him first, and this finally convinces Lasse to betray his idol by giving a description of him.
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Creepy Dollhouse / int_c1376571
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Defective Detective / int_c1376571
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International Coproduction / int_c1376571
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Jack the Ripoff / int_c1376571
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Killer Cop / int_c1376571
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Last Episode Theme Reprise / int_c1376571
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Münchausen Syndrome / int_c1376571
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murder.com / int_c1376571
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Nordic Noir / int_c1376571
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Only Friend / int_c1376571
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Photographic Memory / int_c1376571
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Suicide, Not Murder / int_c1376571
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Symbolic Glass House / int_c1376571
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Take It to the Bridge / int_c1376571
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Teacher/Student Romance / int_c1376571
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The Black Death / int_c1376571
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Theme Serial Killer / int_c1376571
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Too Much Information / int_c1376571
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Villains Never Lie / int_c1376571