Outlier (2020) s01e01 Episode Script

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Elle?
Where you going?
Elle, fucking dick tease!
You're always running off!
You think you're so much
better than everyone else!
Hello?
I can't hear The line's bad
Hello?
What are you doing?
You know I always sit up
and wait for you.
Ok, I'm going to bed.
How did you get home?
Where were you?
I have to be allowed to go to a party
like other normal people.
Other "normal people" don't have
an important job waiting for them.
-And responsibilities.
-Good night.
The classic
serial killer is a man.
And his victims,
so called soft targets
are women.
Something happened early
in his life
and now he wants revenge
on women.
It is not spontaneous.
It is planned.
It is fantasies that he's
turned into reality.
The police are frighteningly often
unable to see connections
between different cases.
And the leaders of the investigations
are men.
Just as the killer is a man.
And the victims are women.
Soft targets.
Girls.
And this happens over and
over again.
But the worst of all
is this wall of ignorance you
meet as a woman
when you try to speak up.
Men listen to woman only
as an obligation.
But not if they don't have to.
And that is perhaps
the most frightening part.
And what it makes it possible
for a serial offender
to develop.
From a disturbed young boy
into a sadistic, full-blooded
serial killer.
I asked you to not be so
personal in your lecture.
Has there been another complaint?
Yeah.
Some of the students think
you're too involved.
That you don't have
enough distance.
You're scaring them, Maja.
You need to take it down a bit.
You know, it doesn't take much to
create a storm these days.
Isn't that exactly what
academia needs?
That women and other under-
represented groups contribute
based on their experiences?
That's not what we're talking
about and you know it's not.
Are you talking to me as the
professor and my tutor
or as my boyfriend now?
What is this?
Why are you so aggressive?
Can't you just take
good advice?
Don't draw personal
experiences and
repressed anger
into your work at
the University.
Alright.
I'll suppress myself and keep
my mouth shut from now on.
Fuck sake.
I found a mobile in the snow
on the way home.
It rang, but
Something could have happened
to whoever owns the phone.
But I don't know whose it is.
Yeah, OK.
There's always something else. Always
something more exciting than this.
Hello?
This is Elle, who is it?
Sofie? Is that you?
Have you gone away already?
Sofie?
No, this is Elle.
I can't hear you.
Call when you're there.
This is Elle, I found
Hello?
-Hi!
-Hi! Is Sofie home?
Have you heard from her?
No, I haven't.
Did she not come home yesterday?
She left the party way before me.
I found this.
You can give that to her.
She always goes off for a
few days at a time.
She's likely with some
friends or a boyfriend.
I'm sure you'll see her first.
Was it you who called Sofie?
Do you know where she
might have gone?
Has she received any messages?
Has she talked with anyone
on the phone?
-Do you know if anything has happened?
-Why are you doing this?
I'm scared that something might
have happened with her.
And nobody's doing anything.
She told me that she was
going to leave.
Leave? Where to?
A hotel, I think.
Hotel?
Some kids saw some lights in
the tent by the caravan.
"Some kids saw some lights."
And it's still closed for winter here?
Yes.
Go and talk with her.
OK?
Female. Partly undressed.
Between 15 and 25 years old.
Killed.
Probably strangled. I think I
see some marks around her neck.
She's been lying here for a while.
It looks bad.
So Roy Eliassen has just been
convicted of aggrevated assault.
He's out on probation, and it would be
typical of him to mess it up.
We should talk to him.
Fuck, look at it.
It's a lot worse than last time.
They live here?
Lets check the back first.
What the hell is this?
Where is Roy?
-What do you want with Roy?
-I need to talk to him.
Why is that? Has he done
something wrong?
That's what I want to talk to him about!
Where is he?
Hey! Stop!
Roy! Relax! We just want
to talk to you.
See this.
It's where I come from.
In your hometown?
Town? It's more a village.
The girl was found strangled
and undressed in a caravan.
She disappeared from a
village miles away.
The Police have arrested a
27 year old man
from the district previously
convicted of violence
and drug related crimes.
It's obvious they have
the wrong guy.
And you can just tell that,
just like that?
Violence and drug related crimes
point toward an individual
with poor control over his impulses.
This man, who kidnapped
and transported
this girl miles and then killed her
Is the opposite.
He is someone with
total control.
This is not just a murder.
This could be a serial killer.
Yeah, ok
I know this community.
I know the police.
I know what it's like to
be a girl who's
completely overlooked, ignored.
I know what it's like to
be a soft target.
That's why I chose Criminal Psychology
in the first place.
And this bastard
is still a free man.
and is probably already
fantasizing about doing it again.
But you're not thinking of
using this case
for your own dissertation?
-Well, I
-Maja, please. Don't go back there.
Don't ruin this for yourself now,
after all these years.
-Hi.
-I've called three times, where are you?
I just arrived,
I didn't hear the phone ring
I'm staying at my
Grandmother's old house.
-Ok.
-Look,
it's still light outside.
The world famous midnight sun.
Wow. Amazing.
Will you be able to sleep?
I don't know. People around
here are used to it.
Guess I'll just have to give it
a few days and
then I guess I'll sleep
just like normal.
Hm. Have you talked
with your family yet?
I don't know, I just
I'm here to work, not socialize.
Right. So what's your plan?
I'm going to see the local police.
Ok. And you really think
they'll give you access to the case?
-Well
-Just remember
there's a lot of prestige involved
when it comes to murder cases.
This is my field of expertise!
I'm just saying try to avoid
stepping on anyones toes.
-Yes.
-Just remember to be careful and not
Yes! I shall be very diplomatic.
No way!
If it ?s not Dr. Philos herself!
You and academic titles, Johan.
You mustn't forget I've been
through primary school, Maja.
Listen
Hi.
This is Maja, Erik,
who I've told you about.
Oh, yeah. Johan is a bit
in love with you.
-Did you not know?
-Now, fucking cut that out.
You don't talk about
anything else.
I am impressed!
Maja went away and
made a career.
Out in the World, Erik!
"Out in the World, Erik".
Listen. I've been following
the Sofie case.
We nailed him in just a few weeks.
And in the middle of all the
fucking Police reforms
and the consolidation of the counties,
that has complicated everything.
Troms and Finnmark is a
very, very bad idea.
I heard he confessed?
Eventually.
His timeline was all over the place.
He started lying, and then
he really messed things up for him self.
-You know how it is.
-How many hours?
Can I read through the interrogations?
What are you thinking?
I can't let outsiders influence
the work of the police.
I'm in the middle of my dissertation
and it would be very valuable to dive
into a case of this type.
What are you writing it on?
The psychology behind
male serial abusers.
Serial abusers?
As in serial killers?
That too, yes. But no one uses
that term outside the U.S.
A serial killer?
Here?
I don't understand what you want?
We've solved the case,
we have the offender.
-I'm not so sure about that.
-No, fucking hell!
-Fine.
-Fine?
Okay!
Yes that went well.
Fucking hell! Jesus!
-Hi! Welcome back.
-Thanks.
Your room is ready.
Thanks very much.
Hi, Dad!
Maja?
-Hi.
-Hello!
Why didn't you call?
Is there something wrong?
Has something happened?
Classic dad, "Is something wrong"
You need to stop worrying.
-That's a fathers lot in life.
-To worry?
Yes? Because you're not exactly
coming home to join the party?
-The party?
-It's St. Hans' today.
The longest day of the year.
We'll meet down by
the water as usual.
You're welcome to come.
Your mum will certainly be
very happy to see you.
-You think so?
-Mhm!
Dad
I can't fucking stand the
the family, and
the looks, and
I'm not part of that,
and you know it.
I thought you were working on
your doctoral dissertation.
I've not heard from you in a
long, long time.
Yes, I'm working on it.
I've moved into grandma's old
house, temporarily,
to take a closer look at a case.
The girl who was found
murdered at the campsite
You covered the case quite
extensively in the newspaper.
It's a case that the local police
are proud they solved,
but now everyone
just wants it finish.
Yeah?
That's clear. That they
just want it finished.
But?
I'd really like to see everything
you've written about the case.
Quite a few pictures have been
published, but I assume that
you in the editorial office have
more material.
I would like to look at all of the
pictures, research, interviews.
I didn't write anything about that
case I don't have the
possibility to give you
access to anything.
Are you not the editor
here anymore?!
No. I took early retirement.
I'm only a freelancer now.
Jesus Christ, what are
you so afraid of?
Cut it out, I'm not afraid?
But when you show up unannounced,
trouble usually is in the making.
The police caught the wrong man.
You can't just say that.
I've done research on
Roy Eliassen, the accused.
He has the wrong profile.
It doesn't match the information
I have about the case.
Okay.
And what do the police
say about that then?
They'll come to realise
that I'm right.
But what then? Should I just
stand on the sidelines
watching them make such
grave mistakes?
Dad
Can you help me?
Your mum will be very
happy to see you again.
– Hi.
– Hi.
Please, sit down.
So nice that you came.
Yes, you asked me so nicely,
so what else should I do?
It's cosy here.
Yes, just like usual.
But look, here, take a beer and go
and have a chat with your mum.
Come on, go and talk to her.
Come on!
You don't need to keep
going on about it!
Hi, mum.
How's it going here?
No, you know
All things They.
They what?
Shine in the dark.
All things shine, you know that?
Are you tired of London already?
Or have you and Prince Harry
split up?
He doesn't look much like him.
And no, we have not "split up".
Let me know when you have then.
You and I are a little too closely
related, perhaps?
Why are you here?
I thought you were never coming back?
I'm writing my dissertation.
I needed some peace.
That's not so typical of you?
I've matured
How's it going with uncle?
Has he retired yet?
The plan is still to keep
working until he dies.
Or at least that's what he said
last time I spoke to him.
And Auntie Anna?
Same old. Happy and optimistic.
Mum is sitting there talking like
a crazy and demented
person about how
everything shining.
How's it possible for two
siblings to be so different?
I think when you lose a child
in an accident then
You become a black hole.
You stop giving anything to others.
You just take.
Feeding on others guilt.
Do you feel guilty?
How long has it been
since Petter died?
Twenty? I don't know.
I've stopped counting.
Guilt because
you're actually trying to live.
Cut it out! Please!
I'll drive you home!
Can you stop here?
– Here?
– Yeah.
Is this such a good a idea?
The police havn't been
here for a long time.
And there's already a guy locked up, so
they consider themselves finished here.
See here.
This is what it looked like.
– It's a staged crime scene.
– How the hell did you get this?
You see that everything's clean,
it's neat and organized.
It's like a theatrical set
made for an audience.
And she was lying there in the shower,
you can see how her legs
Okay, okay! Can we go now?
The police have the wrong guy.
What are you doing?
What?
Are you involved in the case?
Are you part of the investigation?
Sort of.
Okay, then I think we should
start going home.