There have been several threats
from the far right against journalists and others.
-The resistance is from within. -People only think about themselves.
Politicians only think about their personal survival.
-I'm always there for you. -Shut up!
I have to handle this myself.
You can't tell me what my husband used you for?
-His book? -It could be that.
Look.
Do you know her? She was at the lawyer's.
Margrethe was Hammern's wife. They were married.
In this bag there are things from people who like Viking ships.
Who hate Jews and dislike Muslims.
Mathiesen?
Find out who did this.
-Are you "The Liberal"? -Look at the comments. PC14.
-The Party Conference? You fell? -Not exactly.
If this gets out, I'll be the raped daughter forever.
-What happened at the Conference? -You know why this surfaced now?
-This is what they want. -They're using you to get to me!
I found someone to whom Hammern chatted.
They met several times.
-Did you send e-mails? -No.
I got Hammern's research. This place. This meeting. What's the secret?
Someone wants to stop my educational project. Yggdrasil.
EPISODE 4: Fimbul
Dad! Dad!
Easy.
Easy, easy!
Water!
Calm down.
It'll be all right. It'll be fine.
About 18. Suspected poisoning or shock. Condition critical.
-Poisoned? -Who are you? A friend?
I was here to meet the prime minister. She's his daughter.
He's not safe.
-The meeting's cancelled. -Follow procedure.
He's with me. He's been shot.
I'm OK, but his daughter's not doing too well.
-Journalist. -Behind the cordon.
-I'm being ejected. I'll come over. -Hang on.
Can you go live? Short broadcast from there?
-I'm no TV reporter. -OK, not if you don't want to.
But you witnessed it. So, to avoid speculations, just give a clarification.
Take off your jacket.
-I have to go home first. -Out of the question.
-My nitro-glycerine is there. I need it. -Send a car.
Surely you've lost enough ministers for one day?
Roadblocks are being put up. The dog patrol is here.
The Emergency Response Unit's arrived. They're searching for the perpetrator.
Are we now without a prime minister?
I can't confirm or deny whether anyone's dead.
-He was shot by persons unknown. -He was shot?
-You don't know any more? -They think I came to get my medicine.
Peter Veras, you're live at the scene. Could you bring us up to speed?
They're putting up roadblocks everywhere here.
-You can't be here. -They'll go through everything I own.
-Don't show this to anyone. -This is no warehouse.
None of us could stand an open hearing.
What the hell's wrong with you? Do I have to beg?
It's not the first time a Norwegian prime minister dies.
Do as Jens Hunseid. Cut and paste.
-He got ten years for treason. -Because he became a Nazi later.
If you want to win, you have to make that call.
-I can't. -Let someone else do it.
-Are you going upstairs to see her? -No, she'll just get worried.
-What's that? -Your pills.
-What are they? -An American multi-vitamin cocktail.
The Emergency Response Unit's here. They're looking for the perpetrator.
People are lighting candles and laying down flowers.
They are very shocked at the prime minister's death.
They're coming here to pay their respects...
I'll call now.
-No... -Say it.
I was thinking of all the people who've been in this bed.
-For this... -I don't know.
Nelson Mandela.
-Michelle and Barack Obama. -I like that.
-You do? -A bit.
Henry Kissinger. Mother Theresa.
The EU.
-That won't get the Peace Prize. -Never mind that.
No!
Yes?
-I'm coming! -Again?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
How long ago? Has anybody been caught?
When was Ulrichsen informed? Half an hour ago?
OK.
We have to add a sentence to the press release. Put it at the end.
-Can we say this? -Yes, I called.
-It could backfire. -I won't hold back again.
This could be taken totally the wrong way.
Just make sure it's released. I'll take care of the rest.
Thanks.
We're standing as close as we can get.
Several times they've pushed us back. They say it's for our own safety...
-Where did CNN get that from? -A drone. It's illegal.
-We can't buy that. -We have an obituary.
-Book of Condolences? -That's ready.
Hi. Hi.
-My God, Peter... -I'm all right.
I'm OK.
-Do you have anyone to talk to? -Sure. Don't worry about that.
This is the one we use. Listen... You will call her.
Sure.
Have you got pictures? Did you take pictures?
Yes, but we can't use them. That would be... wrong.
We must document that the PM was killed.
I trust your pictures much more than the ones we get elsewhere.
This is my decision.
It's just as important to understand why as who.
Hammern knew something about the prime minister.
Tell them everything you know, but don't speculate.
-Speculate? -Do you know what Hammern knew?
No, so don't speculate.
-How are you doing? -I'm OK.
-You should get trauma therapy. -How is his daughter?
-What were you doing there? -I'm a journalist. He wanted to meet me.
-Strange meeting place. -He chose it.
-What did you talk about? -Politics.
-What matters is what I saw. -Answer the questions.
You sent me away. The only witness.
That frustrates you, understandably. But you sent me away.
You said you were a journalist, not a witness.
The prime minister has been shot. You must cooperate.
I am.
Look. This is the guy who shot Hammern.
The same person who shot the prime minister.
Just find him!
It's the same person, the same body language, movements, height.
He's left-handed.
-Where are you going? -Trauma therapy. Just find him.
Let us, in the light of this tragedy, observe a minute's silence.
-How are you? -Bloody awful.
How about you?
How is she? Will she survive?
Are you working?
No, I'm visiting Mathiesen. He had an eye gouged out.
I was just wondering how she is. It was me who found her.
-Was she poisoned? -She's got epilepsy.
You won't write about this.
If VG wants to talk to me, they can send someone else.
-Why am I the problem? -What?
-Why am I the problem? -Leave her alone.
-You're so childish. -She's lost her father. And her mother.
Write that I'm childish, that's fine. I won't read it anyway.
With all due respect, Finance Minister...
This is going a bit too fast. We're all in shock.
This should go to a vote. You don't take over automatically,
just because you're one of two deputy leaders.
I'm also number two in the government. In his absence I take over.
This is no absence, but a death. A murder. The difference is obvious.
We have to take it to a vote.
Could I please read a press release to you first?
Or should we vote on that too?
-Be my guest. -Thank you.
"Prime Minister Michael Woll was shot and killed this evening."
"Two Homeland Security guards also lost their lives."
"It is with great sorrow and shock that the government has received this news."
"Their loved ones are in our thoughts and have our deepest sympathies."
"We are a country united in grief."
"At His Majesty's request,"
"Finance Minister Erik Ulrichsen will now head the government."
"This is a dark night for our country. But also for me personally."
"I've lost a good friend and a highly regarded leader."
"But I will take on the responsibility the King has laid on me,"
says acting PM Ulrichsen."
Are we going to waver now?
Then lets' move on.
Hi.
-Take it easy. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not my back. It's my eye.
I knew him well. He was a bloody good man.
I actually knew him really well. I was going to write his biography.
I've had many conversations with him.
I've shelved it now of course.
-Why? -I liked him too much.
I wasn't able to distance myself.
It would have been a rubbish book.
It's not nice to write a rubbish book, you should know.
At least he believed in me.
Do you know where they shot the prime minister?
-No. -In the eye.
Who would do something like that?
-Right wing extremist lunatics. -Do you know anything else?
If I know anything? Have you got totally confused?
-You've written a biography. -I haven't written a single word.
I told you that.
He wanted to call his educational reforms Yggdrasil.
-The Tree of Knowledge. -Odin sacrificed his eye for knowledge.
He hung himself in that tree. Odin only had one eye.
Do you see the connection? Your eye, his eye.
You know how long they've worked on the Palme murder in Sweden?
They're still working on it.
-What the fuck was that? -Can't you knock?
I have just as much right to be in this room as you have!
-No fucking way did the King call! -We talked before you got up.
You make me sick! You cheated by lying to the King!
-You're finished. -It's fun to see you err all the time.
This is a coup. You won't get away with it.
I'll personally make sure that you become the most pathetic footnote
who ever sat in that chair.
Come in!
-Right on time. -We can wait.
No. He was just about to leave.
-They've tried hard to get rid of me. -Not that I know of.
-Then you don't know much. -Michael told me most things.
You don't believe that yourself. How would you like a promotion?
-To what? -Security. A proper job.
-You'll become State Secretary. -Thank you. But why?
Security will decide everything now. If we don't do it right, we both lose.
It's not just about security, but how we disseminate it.
Security to make people feel safe. That's where you come in.
Speaking of communication ... You ought to visit Amelia in the hospital.
-I doubt she wants to see me. You go. -Don't ignore his family.
I won't.
People are looking for a connection between the murders.
-Where? -Twitter, Facebook, blogs, everywhere.
-And you take that seriously? -I should know the problems before you.
I've got a tip for you. I can't help you with what I don't know.
-There's a lot here I don't know. -Enjoy that feeling.
That I don't know everything doesn't mean I don't know something.
You're not answering your phone.
My daughter got woken up by the TV and heard that someone had been shot.
She got scared. I had to look after her.
We realise you have other things to think about...
I'd rather think about something else. I'll be back the day after tomorrow.
I just have to drop Mai-Linn off at nursery, then I'm ready.
Ready as anything, as you say here.
It's not a good idea.
You just lost your husband. Such a large share of the portfolio, it's too risky.
Bullshit! I know the portfolio better than anyone.
I just heard that the murder of your husband
is directly linked to the murder of the PM. By Homeland Security.
It's a security risk.
You can't fire me because he was shot!
-It's just leave. -You can't do that.
You can't do that, do you understand?
Excuse me.
-Nice of you to call. -Did you hear?
-Yes. -We have to talk about your husband.
I think Mathiesen knows why he was killed.
I don't even know if he knows himself. But I think so. You have to come over.
Are you crazy? He sabotaged everything Thorgrim did.
-They hated each other. -I'm not talking to that ape.
Don't be silly. You can trust me. And him.
That's what you think.
This is about you protecting someone's ass.
You know what I've delivered to you.
-Give me three days. -So you want some leave?
I'm just asking you not to push me out. I haven't deserved it.
Fine. As it's you.
Thank you.
Prime Minister Erik Ulrichsen. What's the situation now?
The country finds itself in a crisis. I am acting prime minister.
Homeland Security, the government and Interpol are on the case.
When will we know who will be PM?
How would we let him take the reigns?
-You have to make some calls. -That won't be possible.
-They hate him on the West Coast. -To win, you must stay out of this.
I can't sit idly by watching him help himself to...
Michael was shot. People are scared, but they're following this closely.
If you start making calls now, it will look like you're dancing on his grave.
-Me going to see Mathiesen? Forget it. -You wanted help?
-To find out what I don't know. -We know something about Thorgrim.
I knew everything about him.
Did you know your husband had a relationship with someone else?
He got married a few weeks ago.
Get in the car.
Thanks for bringing my clothes.
-You won't do anything stupid? -I've stopped that.
Promise?
I've stopped making promises I can't keep.
Keep staying at your sister's. OK?
We need an overview of the growth in social security.
Oil price prognoses. Worst case scenario. Thanks. Then we're done.
-Hi. -Hi.
Shut the door. Thanks.
Something you want to tell me? Something you ought to tell me?
My job is to meet people.
Only if you tell me what you talk about.
He's the education minister. We talk about education.
Everything isn't about you.
Some was about politics that have been agreed upon. He sends his regards.
Nice. Some sparkling water?
I'm only a messenger. Don't think I'm being rude.
I know that you are rude.
But not now.
These are not my words, but he's willing to compromise.
If you go through with the educational reforms,
you may be able to stay in the post, even if you're alone.
If you try to sink the reforms, you're finished within a week. So he says.
If I'm alone, how come I know about your meetings?
They wanted to forewarn you. Don't be confrontational.
Don't stop the education train. Then you're finished. His words.
Wait. You're not strong enough.
We're due at the Royal Palace in 45 minutes. The country's in mourning.
The funeral will be attended by people from all over the world.
So we have to continue with the pre-decided politics.
You're acting PM until Woll has been buried.
In front of you are the government's desired educational reforms.
-Which I just got. -We can't waver now.
Breaking this agreement will ruin any chances of re-election.
You'll ruin the party's chances.
You're politically dead if you go against the members' will.
Bad choice of words after your leader got killed.
When did our party begin to advocate a massive increase in spending?
The Finance Department have looked at the numbers the reforms are based on.
"Pie in the Sky" it's being called.
-By your people. -"Your" and "my" people?
Minutes are being taken here. I don't want to play with people's pensions.
There will be an uproar if we break this.
I doubt it. People are walking on eggshells. There's a crisis.
If you don't want to, resign. We're meeting the King.
That's where you ask for an honourable discharge.
So the government is going to lose a PM and a finance minister in 24 hours?
I think people would rather lose a justice minister.
-Give it a break. -Shut up!
Are you going to oust your new leader
24 hours after the previous one was killed?
Then you've got balls, but no fucking brain.
Are you going to let a terrorist kill a head of state
and plunge Norway into crisis?
CNN, BBC, Fox News, they'll all be at the bloody press conference.
What are we going to show the world that we're made of now?
Erik Ulrichsen will continue as acting prime minister.
What does that mean?
Ulrichsen wanted to be formally appointed.
But Conservative sources have pointed out that there are several candidates.
The education minister is one possible candidate.
-What the fuck are we waiting for? -For them to clear the street.
There's a car there they want to check out.
What if you gave an exclusive TV interview?
-And maimed him once and for all? -No.
Be a statesman. Father of the Nation.
The one who takes charge in difficult times.
Then he will appear small-minded and power-hungry.
-If you play this right... -Can I deliver?
You have to.
-I'm not... -You won't get any tough questions now.
What the fuck are you doing?
It's Hammern's?
No.
Then it's the biography on Woll which you haven't written.
I want to read something to you.
From my script. Something Woll told me a long time ago.
"He's bitter. He's my deputy leader. He's a Count Skule."
"He wants power for power's sake."
It's exactly the same as he said in that interview with NRK.
It seems like this was planned a long time ago.
He used you. You only realised that now?
-Your husband was writing a book too. -The one we found. "Men Down".
I met him whilst he was working on it. We were both doing research.
I want to show you something to make you understand.
-What? -What Hammern wanted to use.
Which I promised to not divulge.
-For years I refused makeup for TV. -Why?
It was more honest. I looked like a corpse for years. What are the points?
Warmth, care, responsibility.
Your thoughts are with the family. No promises.
Warmth, care, responsibility and no promises.
-What did Homeland Security say? -There's something in Trondelag.
Some group in Trondelag?
Woll should have taken them seriously. He was warned.
-What do you mean? -What are Homeland Security doing?
Trying to avoid attention. We'll brief you after the broadcast.
-Warmth, care, responsibility. -Let's go. Five ...
Four, three ...
-Welcome, acting PM Erik Ulrichsen. -Thank you.
Several of your party colleagues are contesting the leadership post.
-What are your thoughts on that? -Honestly?
I can't spend the time. The last few days have been tough.
For the government and the nation. And for me.
They're expressing doubts about your leadership capabilities.
-How does that affect you personally? -Only one thing matters to me now:
To get the country and us through this crisis.
-That's a huge responsibility. -Yes.
Norway has had great leaders.
I'll do my very best to maintain that tradition.
Could this become Norway's Palme case?
We can't live with that. This case must be solved.
-How far would you go... -I give my guarantee.
Those are strong words from a politician. Could you elaborate?
If the murderer isn't caught and we get a Norwegian Palme case,
I'll take the consequences.
What did you tell him?
-Then you'll resign? -Yes. That's what "consequence" means.
Congratulations with the responsibility for security.
You were supposed to secure your position,
not throw yourself off a cliff.
You said it yourself. Something in Trondelag.
I'll take the credit for that.
-None of that is confirmed yet. -Where's Aslak?
-I thought you'd tread carefully. -It's about showing resolution.
-Hammern bullied him to leave Norway. -How did he know him?
He didn't know him. It's Woll's nephew.
-Where is he? -In Asia, I think.
I've been in touch with him.
Hi. It's Ellen. How is she?
Good. Could you please make her some food?
What are you looking for?
-Hello? What are you looking for? -You'll see.
-This place is disgusting. -Not everyone can live in a perfect way.
Crazy.
-Did you know about this? -No, are you crazy?
I'm looking for a folder with pictures and documents in it.
-Is that the nephew ? -No.
End of episode 4