The Investigation (2020) s01e01 Episode Script

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We have heard two witnesses testify
that the defendant, Ronnie Asgaard,
was not in Copenhagen, but in
a holiday cottage in North Jutland,
at the time of the killing.
Thus he cannot be the perpetrator.
Those testimonies must, however,
be dismissed,
since several witnesses recognised
the defendant on CCTV footage.
Text messages were also sent
to the victim
from the defendant's phone
in the weeks before the killing.
Please allow me to quote:
"I'm going to fuck up your life,
man.
Don't sleep soundly.
I know where you
and your whore are hiding."
Message after message,
right up until the murder.
And then they stopped.
Although witnesses have stated that
the defendant, Ronnie Asgaard,
was not in the flat in Copenhagen.
The prosecution remains convinced
that it has been proven
that the defendant shot and killed
18-year-old Brian Ottesen
on the morning of
Sunday the 23rd of March.
Shots of this nature
can only be premeditated.
It is consequently proven beyond
reasonable doubt
that the defendant, Ronnie Asgaard,
committed premeditated murder.
Aren't you the head of
the homicide squad?
Yeah. Well, I lead the investigation.
It was my boyfriend who got killed.
I'm sorry.
How long does it normally take
the judge and the jury?
It's hard to say.
Do you think he'll be convicted?
I don't know.
How far along are you?
34 weeks.
Congratulations.
He didn't even know
he was going to be a dad.
We have reached a verdict.
And it is as follows:
This court rules that the defendant,
Ronnie Asgaard, be acquitted
in the matter of the killing
of Brian Ottesen.
Please be seated.
I can advise you that it is not
a unanimous verdict.
One judge and two jurors
found the defendant guilty,
but the remainder found that there
was insufficient evidence to convict.
Did you notice when he looked up?
Yeah.
I know that he did it.
So do I.
But we couldn't prove it.
Will you appeal?
Let me read the verdict
and see the grounds.
If the surveillance video
and threats are not enough
Then I don't fucking know
what it will take.
I hate losing.
See you, Jakob.
THE INVESTIGATION
DAY 1
11TH AUGUST 2017
Good morning.
Do you know where my cup is?
-Your cup?
-Yeah.
-Did someone steal you cup?
-Ha ha ha.
There it is.
Would you like some coffee?
Yeah, that'd be nice.
Thanks.
Are you busy?
I hope not.
I am busy, apparently.
I probably won't get home
until after four.
I can buy the fish.
Great. Don't forget your daughter
is bringing her cute boyfriend.
Bye. Have a nice day.
You too.
-See you later.
-Yeah.
Nero, come on.
Lofus, come on.
It's nice to go this way than
passing by the amusement park.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
-So beautiful.
-Beautiful.
I go that way because it's
where all the deer are.
Okay.
You can get close
-Good morning.
-Good morning.
Well, let's get started.
24-hour report, 10th August 2017.
First, a possible rape near Brønshøj
reported at 01:30 hours.
A 15-year-old girl, intoxicated.
She doesn't remember much,
but mobile video footage shows
three boys having sex with her,
simultaneously and individually.
Who's got bingo?
It came to me at around 4:30.
I've spoken with Bellahøj,
and they'll take over from here.
Any arrests?
I have spoken with the boys,
but I haven't charged them.
They all say she consented.
Yeah, of course she did.
-Nikolaj?
-Yes.
I have a somewhat curious one here.
At around 1 AM,
a young man called and reported
his Swedish girlfriend missing.
She's a journalist.
And at around 19:00 hours
she embarked on a homemade submarine
in connection with an interview,
but did not return home as agreed.
A homemade submarine?
Apparently, she was going to
interview one of the builders of it.
Were there only the two of them?
Yes, as far as we know.
What's the status?
There is a search on for the craft
by the Navy's mine-clearing unit.
In case they are trapped
on the seabed
and a rescue mission
has to be launched.
Worst case?
That they run out of oxygen
before we find them.
Right.
Musa, do you have anything?
I have two, maybe three,
connected shootings.
In Mimersgade, in Tingbjerg, and one
in Odinsgade early this morning.
One person wearing a
North Face jacket was shot.
This person has no gang connections
and was suddenly fired on
from a car driving by.
-This is Jens Møller.
-It's Jakob here. I hear you called.
I wanted to hear if there was any
news about the Ronnie Asgaard case.
Not yet. I'm still waiting to hear
from the prosecutor.
But we don't exactly have loads
of hard evidence.
No. Okay.
I'll be in touch.
Have a nice weekend.
Yeah.
Jens speaking.
Hi, Nikolaj.
Oh, that submarine.
Right, yeah.
And are all onboard fine?
And the journalist too?
That's great news.
Have nice weekend.
Yeah!
Yeah.
Hello?
Hello?
-Hello.
-It's me, Jens, again.
Listen. We've had a report
that the submarine has sunk.
-Sunk?
-Yeah.
Right.
It sank suddenly after the boat
made contact with it.
What about those onboard?
The report says the builder of the
submarine was rescued.
What about the journalist?
There's no report of her.
The colleagues from City ask
if they should arrest him.
What for?
I don't know.
Ask him to come in for voluntary
questioning and background check.
What if he refuses?
Then we'll know
that something's not right.
Roger that.
I'll ask them to bring him
to Halmtorvet.
-Great. I'll be right back.
-Great, yeah.
He said he set her ashore at 22:30,
but her boyfriend has heard nothing
since a text message at around eight.
-Where did she go?
-What do you mean?
After he set her ashore,
didn't he see where she went?
Have we asked for dogs
to search Refshaleøen?
Two teams are out there already.
Yes?
I was told to report here
regarding the missing journalist.
Yes, come on in, Maibritt.
Take a seat over there.
Where were we, Nikolaj?
He didn't see where she went.
But according to his statement,
he wrote a text message to his wife
after he had dropped her off.
What about
the journalist's boyfriend?
Maybe he was jealous that she went
sailing with another man.
Was he waiting when she went ashore?
I doubt it.
He has a very sound alibi.
He was with friends of theirs
all night, and that's confirmed.
Jens Møller speaking.
Yes.
Okay.
Is she absolutely sure?
Right. Thanks.
That was the navy.
One of their experts thinks
the sub was sunk deliberately.
What did the yachtsmen
who found him say?
He asked them to stay in the area,
went into the submarine,
and when he re-emerged,
he'd jumped into the sea
and the submarine had sunk.
It's Jens Møller.
Listen, I think we have to
charge him with murder straight away.
You take care of it.
Great. Thanks.
Musa and Nikolaj,
prepare an interrogation ASAP.
I hear you're filing charges
for murder.
Yeah.
On which grounds?
On the ground
that I think he killed her.
Why do you think so?
Because they left together
and he came back alone.
And there are indications
the sub was sunk deliberately.
Indications?
What else should I charge him with?
Have you been inside the sub?
The Navy divers are in there now.
I want him before a judge
no later than 10:30 tomorrow morning.
By then, I need more than your gut
feeling to lock him up for murder.
See you.
Yeah.
Hi, it's me.
Sorry, I didn't get round to it.
I had to go back to the office.
A new case has come up.
We don't know yet.
Maybe it's nothing.
No, I'll come home tonight,
I just don't know exactly when.
Say hello to Cecilie and tell her
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Thanks, dear.
So, the journalist
was set ashore here?
She lives with her boyfriend in some
kind of commune over there.
The accused has a workshop
in the same area.
We'll start searching here
and move westwards.
And there are
a number of restaurants here.
We're getting their CCTV footage.
How far is it from the suspect's
workshop to her house?
Maybe 200 to 300 metres.
But they don't know each other?
I don't know about that.
It's the City Station.
I have to take it.
Yeah.
Hello, this is Maibritt.
-LM.
-Møller.
-It's been a while.
-It bloody well has.
I hear you had divers inside the sub.
Yeah, I sent a couple of guys down.
-Are there no signs of survival?
-No.
No knocking sounds.
No signs of life
through the portholes.
You haven't been inside?
The way in is too narrow. No need to
gamble with my men's safety.
-There are no signs of life.
-So we don't know if she is there?
If she's in there,
she's definitely not alive.
Didn't he say he put her ashore
at Refshaleøen?
We've just been there,
and there are no traces of her.
We need that sub raised
as soon as possible.
Why?
The suspect is appearing in court
tomorrow morning.
Okay.
It's at ten metres depth,
mid-current.
It must weigh 60 or 70 tonnes.
It's full of water.
Can't you get it out?
We can, but it's not easy.
No, I guess it isn't.
No.
I'll see what we can do.
It's LM. Listen
I need your help.
We have to get the sub
out of the water.
They called from Halmtorvet.
The journalists parents saw on TV
that we're charging him with murder.
Weren't they informed?
No, they thought it was still
a missing person's inquiry.
-It's also that.
-Yes.
They don't get how we can file murder
charges and search for her alive.
Tell them to call me
if they have any queries.
Did you get that?
Yeah.
Jens Møller speaking.
Hello, my name is Joachim Wall.
My daughter's gone missing.
Hi, Joachim.
-Do you have time for a chat?
-Sure, I've got time.
We don't quite understand
what you're up to.
You say you suspect him of murder.
But you don't know
if Kim is still alive.
What's going on?
It's too early to draw conclusions.
But is she alive or what?
Is there still hope?
Joachim, are you still in Copenhagen?
Yeah, we're still here.
He sure didn't set her ashore there.
Rewind.
When can you and Nikolaj
interrogate him?
His lawyer has to get back
from Jutland and study the case,
so it'll be tonight or tomorrow.
Where's Nikolaj?
He's drawing up
a provisional timeline.
-Can you ask him to come in here?
-Yes.
Right. We fear she's dead,
but we obviously hope she's alive.
That she's just sleeping off
a wild night somewhere in town.
But if she's dead
She can have died in four ways:
Naturally, accident, suicide, murder.
If it's murder,
there are seven motives:
Lust, jealousy, revenge, profit,
extremism, ostracism, excitement.
90 percent of murders of women by men
are caused by jealousy or lust.
Jealousy requires prior acquaintance
between the perpetrator and victim.
Lust doesn't require it.
So the big question is,
did they know each other?
The journalist's boyfriend says
they didn't.
But they live a few hundred metres
apart, so it wouldn't be strange.
Maybe she lied to her boyfriend.
Maybe she led a double life.
It's happened before.
Do we still rule out
that the boyfriend was jealous?
He's got a strong alibi
for the entire evening.
Plus, she's a journalist, so he's
used to her talking to all sorts.
So that's what we know
Until we interrogate the suspect
and raise the sub.
I've been told we can start
the interrogation at 23:00.
-Thanks.
-It'll be a long night.
Yes.
Maibritt, meet LM and the divers
at the harbour at 6:30 and help out.
I'll meet the parents
and tell them what we know.
Why are you meeting them tonight?
Because they heard from the press
that we're pressing murder charges.
And we don't want them
against us now.
No.
Right.
-You get the coffee.
-Sure.
It's strange because the police
called and said everything was okay.
They said they were both well.
The next time they called,
only he had come ashore.
We didn't understand anything,
and we still don't.
What do you think happened?
It's far too early to tell,
but we're obviously searching high
and low for any signs of life.
Have you been inside the submarine?
No. It's too risky to go in.
Risky? For whom?
For the divers.
They say the entrance is too narrow.
If you can climb in and out,
you must be able to swim in there.
I promise you,
we're doing all that we can.
Instead, we're going to raise the sub
tomorrow morning.
Do you think she is inside it?
We don't know.
But you suspect him of murder.
But that's more of a technicality.
When you're arrested in Denmark,
you have to be charged with a crime.
If you can't charge someone,
you have to release them.
So there's still hope?
Yes, until we
Until we know for sure, there's hope.
I've been thinking about something.
How the hell could it
just sink like that?
We don't know.
But can a submarine just sink?
I think we'll all know more
tomorrow morning.
Now, I happen to be
an old diver myself.
A friend of mine is
a professional diver,
and he knows Øresund very well.
If we can help in any way,
do let us know.
Thanks.
It's good to know.
Do you have children?
Yes.
But as I was saying,
if there is anything,
you can always call me.
Find my daughter.
Just find her.
Thanks for your time.
Don't mention it.
Hello, you two.
Hello, you two.
There you are.
So nice.
-Hi.
-Hi.
-Sorry I'm late.
-It's good to see you.
-Hello, darling.
-Hi, Dad.
-Hi.
-Hi.
-It's been a while, eh?
-Yeah.
-Would you like some wine?
-Yes, please.
-Have you had a look around?
-Yeah.
Wonderful place, really.
-Spacious.
-Yeah.
-We haven't quite settled in yet.
-No.
No.
That would be an exaggeration.
Actually, I've got
We've got something to tell you.
Hi, Nikolaj.
Right.
Okay.
How is he?
What does he say about us not seeing
him on CCTV?
Okay.
When do you think you'll finish?
Talk to you. Bye.
Well
Right. Well
What we wanted to tell you
is just that
I'm pregnant
and you're going to be a granddad.
Oh, my.
Well
That's wonderful.
Yeah.
How far along are you? When?
I'm due in February.
That's 12 weeks, then.
Yeah.
-I don't know
-Cecilie, why didn't you say earlier?
I don't know. I wanted to,
but then we had the first scan.
Yeah, it'll be wonderful.
-Like
-Sorry.
Nikolaj, what's up?
Yeah.
He's sticking to his story.
Yeah, Maibritt will go and help
raise the sub tomorrow.
Then we'll see what happens.
Bye.
Oh, have they left?
Yeah.
-Have you seen Jens?
-No.
DAY 2
12TH AUGUST 2017
-Hey, Jens.
-Yes?
He's asked to be interrogated again.
-When?
-Now.
Before the preliminary hearing.
Questioning was postponed
until afternoon,
but when he heard we're raising the
sub, he wanted a new interrogation.
He said if we raised the sub,
he had something urgent to tell us.
Okay.
They're on their way with him.
Room 5 is ready for him.
INTERVIEW ROOM 5
He's just explained that she is dead.
How?
There was an accident.
A hatch hit her head.
Okay.
-So the body is in the sub?
-No.
He said he buried her at sea.
-He did what?
-Buried her at sea.
He threw the body into the sea.
How did he say it?
Very calmly.
So the situation didn't upset him?
No, he seemed kind of serene.
Okay.
Repeat exactly what he said
had happened.
There.
They went up to the tower
to catch some fresh air.
He went first, she followed, and the
hatch accidentally shut on her head.
He heard something fall
to the bottom of the sub.
When he managed to open the hatch,
he saw her lying in a pool of blood,
and he climbed down.
He saw her having a seizure
and realised she wouldn't survive.
-He realised she couldn't survive?
-Yeah, it was so horrific
that he planned to sail towards
Bornholm to kill himself.
But he had regrets and wanted to say
goodbye to his cats and his wife.
Okay, stop it right there.
Why did the sub sink?
He had no explanation.
Why didn't he try to save her?
Why didn't he call for help?
He said it was because he felt
everything was over,
he'd lost everything.
Did he say where
we can find the body?
He said he dumped the body
between Avedøre Power Station
and Falsterbo in Sweden.
Once more.
Why did he throw her in the sea?
Because it was so horrific
and he wanted it all to disappear.
Yeah.
What are you thinking?
I think he's made up a story as to
why we'll find blood in the sub.
And why the body has head injuries.
We say it's a murder.
He claims it's an accident.
Will he say so
in the hearing at 14:30?
Yeah, that's what he says.
We need the Swedes
to visit her parents.
They need to know that she's probably
dead, before it gets into the press.
Yeah.
We shall see what the sub tells us.
The current is too strong.
Go and help with the hatch.
Yeah, forward, forward.
Yeah, he's in. Great.
We're pulling forward.
That's great.
More towline.
The current's got the towline.
More towline. Come on.
The current's too strong.
We have to start again.
It's more than one-and-a-half knots.
No, it's not as easy as we hoped.
The sub is too heavy for the crane
to lift it the whole way up.
Our first attempt failed
because the weather changed.
Yes.
I'm back from the preliminary
hearing.
Involuntary manslaughter.
Four weeks for
involuntary manslaughter.
-What did he say?
-That it was an accident.
-Did the judge believe him?
-No.
But I don't have enough evidence
to cast doubt on his explanation.
What if he's telling the truth?
Maybe it was just an accident.
What would you do if you went for a
drive with journalist
and she suddenly died?
I don't know.
No.
But you wouldn't dump her in a ditch,
drive your car off a pier,
and go home to say goodbye
to your cats.
No.
Any news on Ronnie Asgaard?
We decided not to appeal
to the High Court.
It looks like we have to let him go.
We're ready to try again.
The diver is in. Keep your distance.
We're ready to lift.
Keep clear.
Preparing to lift.
Slowly up. Slowly.
The current is strong.
I repeat, the current is strong.
Bring it forward!
Good job, lads!
Stand clear!