THIS IS A DRAMA SERIES BASED ON REAL EVENTS.
VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT THE OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUALS FEATURED.
SOME NAMES, INCIDENTS AND LOCATIONS,
AND DIALOGUE HAVE BEEN FICTIONALIZED FOR DRAMATIC PURPOSES.
[church bells tolling]
DAY 512
[mobile ringing]
Hello?
[person on phone] Are you Tom Hagen's lawyer?
Who am I talking to, please?
Tell Tom we'll release Anne-Elisabeth in Oslo.
Pay one million euro within 24 hours, or she's dead.
- Wait. - We've waited too long.
So has Lisbeth. But she is sick. Very sick.
She needs medical treatment.
- Not much time. - Hang on.
Tom Hagen will pay in bitcoin. Write down new address.
Call the police. East region. Hmm?
- Is she alive? - Write address.
- 1-B-V-5. - Give me that. Come on. One moment. Yeah.
Pay in bitcoin.
- Bitcoin? - Write 1-V...
But, but...
- You've never asked for bitcoin before. - Write code 1-B-V-5.
What did you leave, by the note on the chair?
What'd you leave under it, the ransom note, so I know this is real?
- [busy signal] - [sighs]
What do I say?
We'll just have to report it.
- Scammers? - Yeah.
Yeah, hi. I'm calling from lawyer Holden's office.
EPISODE 3 THE LAWYERS
POLICE
These false threats are just very concerning for the family.
- [Jorunn] Uh-huh. - Yes, we're sympathetic to that, and we...
we're trying to catch all those people who are abusing the situation.
Yes, but I have sent you many suggestions for what might have happened to Lisbeth.
- [sighs] Have you read them? - [Jorunn] Yeah.
You said you think the perpetrators must know Lørenskog in minute detail.
Yes, yes, uh, this kind of operation is designed to break me.
And they must have been monitoring me and Lisbeth for a long time
in order to be able to do this.
I have a feeling that someone has been spying on us.
[Haris] Hmm.
Yeah.
Has Tom's input furthered your investigation?
Yes, it has actually. We...
We have made progress these last few months.
What sort of progress?
I can't say any more than that, I'm afraid.
Why not?
It might interfere with the investigation.
[Jorunn] But we are very close to solving the case.
So, feel free to carry on sharing your thoughts with us, Tom.
Yes.
Yeah, um... [smack lips] I...
[daughter] Why do you want his thoughts?
[Jorunn] We go thoroughly through all the information you give us.
And details that to you might seem insignificant
can end up being highly crucial.
The police are depending on you.
To share information... those who know Lisbeth best.
- Yes, yes, of course. - Do you have any suspects?
That's not something we can tell you, I'm afraid.
You have someone?
It's best for the investigation that we keep that quiet.
[Tommy] Well, the means of payment is challenging, I have to admit that.
Yeah, you almost feel nostalgic for paper money. [scoffs]
- It was easier in my time. - [Haris scoffs]
- So it's been that long since you quit. - 2005.
- You were with the Oslo PD? - That's right.
- Oh. - In Majorstua.
- [Haris] Do you miss it? - Yeah.
[chuckles] I had some great years there, I must admit.
But I must say, I don't envy you. I know what it's like.
Prosecution. It's more responsibility, less respect.
No, he gets a lot of respect. I think you get plenty of respect, huh?
Even though you say no to things we ask for.
Right. He's the one who has to make the hard decisions.
- [Haris] Your salary is better too. - Yeah, that's not really a secret.
[Jorunn] Hey, don't get any ideas there.
- [Haris] So I'm not entirely useless. - Well...
- Excuse me, I have to... - We'll keep in touch.
Yeah.
All that interrogation was just something you had to go through to...
to clear your dad of any suspicion.
They asked over and over again about how Mum and Dad were getting along.
Mostly aspersions, rumours,
questions about intimate details of my parents' sex life.
Flat-out lies. Things I know are not true.
All that questioning was just an obvious attempt to make my dad look bad.
The police have to look extra thoroughly at Tom, who's the husband.
- Oh, the husband? - Yeah, statistically speaking...
[clicks tongue] This is how police think, right?
They have to question someone to rule them out, but it has to be thorough.
Does that mean you think they've ruled out my dad?
Yeah, I think they're sure that Tom had nothing to do with it.
So how many more months will this all take?
They say they're close, so that is good.
So it's entirely fine that he keeps giving them all that?
Yeah, it's good if he does that.
I'm really worried about Mum.
But the police want the same as us. We'll find out what happened to Lisbeth.
[sighs] Just call me if there's anything, all right?
[sighs]
[sighs] Okay, it's... Can you get out by yourself or...?
Yeah. Yeah, no, of course.
Yeah. Okay. Bye-bye.
What's wrong?
That was my boyfriend. He, um...
Uh, he's got a head injury. I mean, neck... neck injury.
Oh, for God... What happened?
We were out last night, rather late, so...
So we headed home and then we realised someone was following us.
Suddenly he runs up, takes hold of Marcus and slings him to the ground and...
Yeah, he landed really hard. Banged his head.
- That must've been frightening. - Yeah.
How's he doing now?
Well, we thought he was fine, but now he has, um...
His neck's all swollen up, and he's got horrible neck pain and stuff.
Yeah, I have to get home and take him back to the hospital.
I'll take you. We'll get him and I'll take you there.
- You're right in the centre, aren't you? - Yeah.
Okay.
[sighs] That's kind.
Have you reported it?
No.
Well, you have to, 'cause if you don't, he'll get away with it.
[dog barking]
Oh. Oh, my God, you're in a bad way. Come on, let's get you to a hospital.
- You'll be fine. - Let me help.
- Thank you. - That's it.
- Careful. - Okay.
- You got him? - Yeah.
Okay. Come.
All right. There you go.
- [Haris] Hi. - We're ready.
Okay.
Okay, what have you got?
This is from last year, when Tom transferred 1.3 million euros
in bitcoin to the kidnappers.
Yeah. Have you found out to whom the money was paid?
No.
- No? Okay, so what is it then? - There.
- [officer] Now you select this one. - [Tom] This one?
[Jorunn] He can barely use a PC.
That's something Tom Hagen's lawyer will bring up in court.
Yes, exactly.
That's why we have to prove the identity of the people helping him, right?
- So that's what we talked about. - Ivar Eng.
I asked whether Tom wanted to invest ten million in mining.
In Egypt, with the energy prices there.
[Michael] What was Tom's answer?
I thought he seemed interested.
Very interested, but, um,
I never heard a word, so...
Yeah, I don't know the reason for it, but, uh...
- I was, um... - But we've been through this, right?
We have to prove he's been in contact with Hagen since Anne-Elisabeth vanished.
Yes, and that's why we must have additional communications control, Haris.
- You want room surveillance on Ivar Eng? - Yeah.
But on what grounds?
Well, I think that this will be good enough.
[Ivar] So, right at the beginning, Tom and I discussed bitcoin
and all sorts of different currencies.
About what kind of attributes they have.
For example, I know that Monero is a currency of little value,
and it's, uh... [clears throat] it's the choice for various criminals.
But it's very often been used in kidnapping cases and all that.
We mostly talked about bitcoin.
That was sort of the, uh, main theme with us.
Did you talk to Hagen about Monero?
No, we didn't talk about that. It was only bitcoin
and how we could maybe, uh, try and get this mining started or...
And through that, maybe start a company. And that's why...
So why would he discuss Monero and kidnappings
when our investigation is top secret?
- He denies having talked about it at all. - Come on now.
We need help.
Then bring me better arguments. You know how strict the courts are.
You always manage to convince the judge.
You're the best prosecutor we've got.
We need room surveillance on the accomplice
when we take action against Hagen.
[door closes]
Now we begin.
Michael?
[Michael] Receiving.
You must introduce yourselves. Make sure he recognises you.
Yeah.
The lights are off on the second floor.
- [beep] - Lights are off on the first floor too.
Stop him from getting in his car. Block the driveway.
Drive.
Unknown person by the house.
- Coming over the garage. Southeast. - [Michael] I see him.
[engine shuts off]
It's a photographer from the Daily News. What do we do?
No, we can't have journalists round there.
I'll get rid of him.
[Spaner] Tom Hagen is leaving the house now.
- Haris, photos of this can't get out. - Michael!
Yes, I'm just walking out.
- [Jorunn] Plan B. - [car door closes]
- [car engine starts] - [Spaner] He's getting in the car.
He's driving off.
[chattering]
He's on Marcus Thranes gate now.
Nordahl Griegs vei in one minute.
Delta is in place at the junction.
[birds squawking]
[tyres squeal]
- Round the back there! Go! - In position.
- Get out of the car. - What's...
Turn around. Hands behind your back. You're under arrest.
[handcuffs ratcheting]
Right, get in the car.
[Haris sighs]
- Hmm. That's a difficult one, isn't it? - Mm-hmm.
Linnea? We have to go.
- Yeah. Come on. - We haven't finished.
- [phone ringing] - We can finish the rest tonight.
- Let's see. - [phone continues ringing]
- Yeah. - Right. Come on.
- Hello? - Have you eaten anything?
- Yeah. - Good.
- What did you eat then? - Apple.
- You only had some apple? - No, Cheerios.
Okay, come on. Bringing that?
There.
- Uh, yeah. You'll be hearing from me. - Turn around.
- Like this. And your hair. - Yeah.
There. Come on.
- There. - [sighs]
- Take care, sweetie. - [Linnea] Bye-bye.
Well, they've arrested Tom Hagen.
He wants me for his defence.
You've represented the whole family.
- They support him. - Yeah, now, but...
There's a reason they've arrested him. They must have something.
So, if they can prove that the father killed the mother,
they'll end up on opposite sides in court.
- [Linnea] We have to go. - Yeah, come on.
Is it possible to go from counsel to defence lawyer?
Yeah, but...
I mean, you can be accused of conflict of interest.
We'll be late.
The police will use it for all it's worth.
- I know I would. You would as well. - I know.
- Jorunn? - Mm-hmm?
He's making a call. Ivar Eng.
[Ivar on phone] Are you, uh...? Can you hear me?
- [person on phone] Yeah, hi. - Am I calling too early?
- No, no, no, no. - I wasn't sure if you were open.
- Yeah, yeah. We're open, you know. - Right.
I'll have a, uh, medium number 16.
- Do you want any sides or a drink? - No.
Medium 16.
What the hell were you playing at? This arrest.
What do you mean?
You couldn't have rung? Let Tom come to the station.
It was a professional call by the police. You must understand that.
Delta takes a 70-year-old man? Arrests him at the wheel.
It's the opposite of what we're taught. He could've hit someone.
If it matters to you, I can confirm we had to adjust our plans
midway through the operation.
There were journalists outside of his house.
- Journalists? - Yeah.
How did they find out about it?
[sighs] There's not a police department in the world that's airtight.
Anything wrong?
[sighs] I just don't understand your timeline.
Are you challenging Tom's alibi?
What do you mean?
I mean the day Lisbeth disappeared, Tom wasn't home.
The cameras at Futurum filmed his car. Colleagues said that he was there.
We are aware that Tom went to work that day.
- Are you trying to tie Tom to the murder? - [sighs]
We won't rule out anything.
Listen, either he was at work when this happened or he was at home.
Yes.
Haris, do you have anything?
We shall see.
[seagulls crying]
[person on radio] Probably to avoid any evidence getting compromised.
[person 2] Why now?
We believe that the police have conducted a covert investigation of Hagen,
and we have to assume they found something new...
a development that has led to Tom Hagen being arrested. He's currently...
...the news that Tom Hagen has been arrested.
We'll bring you more updates on this breaking story as we get them.
[journalist] Can you say anything about how this could have happened?
[chattering]
[chattering continues]
Your lawyer is here.
- Go on in. - Thanks.
- Hi, Svein. - Hi.
So... the police wouldn't just make an arrest without good reason.
That much I know.
So if you have something to say,
well, say it now.
No. [clears throat]
What kind of thing?
Tom, it's best for us if you tell me all of it.
So, is there anything you want to say?
No.
[sighs] Let's go to Lørenskog police station.
- [knocking on door] - [door latch opens]
[Jorunn] In one of the notes you gave us, you described a man.
He wasn't Norwegian, and he was more than six feet tall
and had a Gucci bag.
- You met him at Futurum? - [mobile pings]
Yes, and he, uh, turned around as soon as he saw me.
The motion for custody is in. A lot of material.
And then you write about another man.
You said he was dressed casually and had a penguin-like walk.
Can we get to the point here?
The man's jacket had a big flap at the collar.
Maybe a snowboard outfit.
- Have you seen the-the sketch I made? - Yes.
[Tom clears throat]
"His behavioural pattern suggests that he had a stake-out point by my office".
Yeah, so did you find him then?
And then you write about a third man.
An Eastern European training by Langevannet,
who chatted to you about Jehovah's Witnesses and atheism.
You have a good memory.
Tom supplied you with everything that might be relevant.
It's not his job to draw any conclusions.
What has your intention been in giving us these clues?
- I thought for you to investigate. - I think we'll stop here.
I've got the court to challenge this in 18 hours.
I need to read the motion for custody first.
[officer] We've found something!
- Hi. - Hi.
We've almost got everything here. All fifteen thousand pages of evidence.
[sighs] Yeah.
Looks like I'll be here all night.
Uh, I'll start working on sorting everything now,
so I can make a timeline.
No, I think I'd prefer to do that on my own.
So I don't miss anything about how the police have been thinking.
- Are you sure about that? - Yeah.
Go get some sleep.
Okay.
- But you'll call if there's anything... - Yeah.
- ...you need any help with. - Yeah.
- Okay. - And your partner, how is he?
He's doing fine.
- He'll be okay. - That's great.
- [grunts] - Seven a.m. tomorrow?
Yeah.
Good luck.
INTERROGATION
[sighs]
BLOOD TRACES
Interview records.
CALL LOGS
PROFILES AND INTERROGATION ANALYSIS
BLOOD TRACES
[footsteps approaching outside]
- [knocking on door] - [door opens]
[Sander] Hi.
Hey.
Well, there are lots of leads.
I haven't found how they connect yet.
No.
Okay, but is there anything here that we haven't seen before, or...?
Yeah, there is, but... [sighs]
I can't see how they've linked it up and made it viable evidence.
[sighs]
Unless there's something I've overlooked.
- Yeah. - [sighs]
- Hi, Eva. - Hi.
Did you talk to the Water and Sewage Department?
Yeah. And if she'd been dumped down a drain, someone would've spotted it.
[exhales deeply] What about the hair?
It was from a dolly. [scoffs]
[chuckling] It was doll's hair.
- I'm sorry. - [sighs]
- Mr Holden! - Svein! Svein!
- Mr Holden, please! - Will Tom Hagen be present?
- Mr Holden! - What does the family think about it?
[journalists all speaking at once]
What do they have? What's the police's evidence?
[sighs] In all honesty, I think that they were on
pretty thin ground when they made the arrest yesterday.
Do you think the court will agree with you?
- Is there anything else you can say? - Mr Holden!
- Good morning. - Hello.
Did you have a long night?
Yeah, I did.
I can't see what you got here.
Good luck.
Court is in session.
Your Honour, we ask that Tom Hagen is remanded into custody
for four weeks with no correspondence, visits or media.
The grounds for this request is the risk of evidence tampering.
And we have evidence that clearly demonstrates
why there is reasonable suspicion.
We have discovered Tom Hagen's blood at the scene.
And we have samples to demonstrate that someone tried to wash it away.
The accused's statements are not at all consistent with our phone evidence.
And we can prove that the accused
has manipulated the call log on his mobile phone
by deleting two calls to Anne-Elisabeth Hagen
the day she disappeared.
Friends and acquaintances of the family talk about
a marriage on the brink of divorce.
And Tom Hagen claims that is not the case.
But we think we can prove that Anne-Elisabeth wanted out of the marriage.
A divorce would entitle her to a considerable amount
of Tom Hagen's fortune.
This gives the accused a financial, social and emotional motive.
The accused keeps coming to the police with theories
and presents them to our investigators.
In these theories, he throws suspicion at every member of the local community,
and he presents every possible outcome that does not include himself...
- But you encouraged him to do that! - [judge] One at a time.
I heard it myself. You asked him for his theories.
Counsel Holden.
From my point of view, this is a clear attempt to mislead our investigators
and get them to aim their resources in the wrong direction.
Your lawyer is here for you.
It's not good news, I'm afraid. We lost on all counts.
The court's put you on remand for four weeks.
Correspondence and visitors are forbidden. Plus, two weeks in solitary.
We'll appeal, of course.
If you want.
I know you're doing your best, Svein.
I know you'll be able to get this sorted out, and...
How are you bearing up?
Well, it's, uh... Yeah, it's fine.
The prison guards, they are nice to me, for the most part.
Solitary is tough.
As you well know, my roots are humble ones,
so this room is totally fine for me.
I am not guilty.
The police won't be able to find any proof against me.
[clears throat] And when they realise that,
what happens? Hmm?
Have they spent so much time on me that it's too late to
progress and solve the case?
Then it's too late to
find Lisbeth.
We have to appeal this, okay?
Mm-hmm.
- [clears throat] - [footsteps departing]
- [knocking on door] - [door opens]
[door closes]
[door opens]
She's here. Should I let her in?
- No. No, she can't come in here now. - Right. Okay.
I'll be there in a minute.
They have very weak grounds for arresting him, I promise.
What do they have on him?
I can't discuss it with you right now. It's confidential.
I can't represent you anymore. I'm sorry.
- What do they mean by "misleading"? - Well, that's...
They said that at the press conference... he misled them.
- He's cooperated 100%. - Yeah.
Just like you recommended.
If we had known that it would turn out like this,
we would have done a lot of things differently.
And how is my father?
He's doing well. Really, he's all right.
Shaken up, of course.
Can you give him this in case he needs any clean clothes?
We'll petition the court of appeals at once.
We have four days to file a supporting document.
Yeah, but they've already judged him as guilty.
The media, the police, the judge...
everyone has already made their decision that he's guilty.
We mustn't lose faith.
It's not too late. We-we can turn this around, you know?
Sorry about what happened in court today.
Yeah, uh... It was how I thought it would go.
Is that his DNA from her sandal?
Anyway, I'm going to bed.
[sighs]
They found blood.
Small drops in the bathroom.
- Is it time-stamped? - No.
She could have... cut herself with a razor,
or it could have been a... nosebleed.
- They have lived there forever. - [sighs]
It's not Lisbeth's. It's Tom's blood.
Okay. So the police's theory is that-that he's been scratched?
That they fought?
I don't know.
- I tried to wash the blood off my shirt. - Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
So if Marcus went missing, what would they say?
That wouldn't look good for you.
So the point is that these traces don't mean anything.
They're not important on their own.
It means that Tom would have to have been there right then.
And that he was physically there. He was at the house when it happened.
When did Tom arrive at his office at Futurum?
At 9.14.
At 10.06, uh,
the police claim that he took the first phone call from his desk.
So here.
Here is when Tom had to have killed Elisabeth.
Fifty-two minutes.
- And no car. - Mm-hmm. He must have walked.
Sneaked out.
Yeah, if he acted alone with no accomplices.
That's what the police are saying.
[sighs]
CALL LOGS
What's the quickest way?
From Futurum to Sloraveien?
- Fifteen minutes and 12 seconds. - [panting]
Tom was a speed skater. He's in good shape.
- So he'll be faster than me. - So he had 21 minutes to kill Lisbeth.
Yeah, and then sprint,
right back the same way for the call at 10.06.
That's unlikely.
Yeah, but he could do it.
[chattering]
[Eva] Jorunn, come upstairs to the bedroom.
Look at this. A request for separation.
Addressed to Anne-Elisabeth from the county governor.
Postmarked January, 2003.
Is it signed?
Yeah, nine years later, in 2012.
But not by him.
It was where?
I found it at the back of that drawer.
[sniffles]
[grunts]
- Hi. - Of course. I'll give him the message.
Bye then.
- Do you need any help? - Uh...
See if you can find one that fits this one.
Here.
[beep]
[dialling tones]
[mobile rings]
Five.
[dialling tones]
[mobile rings]
Six.
[dialling tones]
- [mobile rings] - Seven.
[mobile rings]
Eight.
[dialling tones]
Did it work?
Sorry, you didn't want to be disturbed, but...
All that they have here is so vague. I can't even refute anything.
It's like some sort of thick fog of all the arguments.
He didn't delete any calls.
Tom rang Lisbeth eight times from his phone that day.
But the first two calls at 10.06 and 10.07 are not in the log.
The police think he has something to hide because he didn't mention it.
Yeah?
This here.
This phone can only save six calls from the same person in the log.
[scoffs]
It's the same phone that Tom has.
And those phone calls... he didn't talk about them at all to the police, did he?
But he might've forgotten the first two, or then he checked the log
and thought he'd called six times or something.
But he didn't delete them. They delete on their own.
[exhales]
This is proof that Tom didn't do it.
It should have been given to the court by the police.
SIGN AND SUBMIT
SUBMITTING DOCUMENT
RECEIPT OF SUBMITTED DOCUMENT
Yeah. [sighs]
The appeals court almost never overturn a police request for remand.
No, but then again, I've never heard of the police presenting a...
a mobile phone as evidence without knowing how the mobile works.
We shall see.
'Night.
Sander.
Did you report what happened?
We didn't.
The police wouldn't have done anything anyway.
- Good night. - Good night.
No one will believe that this wasn't a troubled marriage anymore.
It's not enough. We need a concrete link that ties him to the case.
Sloraveien is all but dried up.
Yeah, he's also had a year and a half to empty out the place.
- [mobile buzzes] - What about a confession?
Yeah, we're getting him in for questioning.
Haris.
Oh, yeah?
Okay.
On what grounds?
[footsteps approaching]
Are you okay?
We won.
- Tom's being released. - Congratulations!
I never would have thought. [chuckles]
I don't understand what the police have been playing at.
This could have been disastrous.
It wouldn't happen here in Oslo.
So, I'll see you tonight.
It was a little unexpected, but we will appeal, of course.
- We look like idiots! - We'll take it to the higher court.
That will only postpone what we know is going to happen.
No, this is without a doubt some procedural mistake.
[Holger] The next thing is we'll lose access to his properties.
[Jorunn] Step up the searches.
Tom owns half of Lørenskog. Where should we begin?
We'll start with his cabin. Anne-Elisabeth told her daughter she was going there.
And then we have to arrest Ivar Eng.
This is urgent. You get that, right?
We're here to find Anne-Elisabeth.
[sighs]
[grunts]
[secretary] Hi. He's waiting for you in there.
This was good news.
Very good.
Thanks for your help.
[journalist on TV] Surprised at the outcome?
No, considering the weak arguments the police presented to the court
and the court of appeals, this was to be expected.
What are your thoughts about the arrest now?
Well, for Tom Hagen and-and his kids,
this arrest has been an absolute disaster.
I think that this is a sad day for the police as well.
[button clicks]
[background chatter]
- [Aleks] Go ahead. - [beep]
Who could it be? Uh... someone has it in for Hagen.
But who could do something like that?
Could it be, uh, finance guys he's done some business with?
And so, during that process, it developed into a new antagonism
because some building project wasn't a success?
Then, you see, they'd be getting even with Hagen, with her murder.
But also frame him as a suspect for a murder.