Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes (2021) s01e02 Episode Script

1
[bleep]
[camera shutter clicks]
[machinery humming]
[sighs]
- [Reinert] What have we got?
- [Judith] "What have we got?"
Do you think this is NCIS or something?
[woman laughs]
Hi.
No, we are not going to assume
that a masked murderer has killed Arvid.
Most likely scenario is just
an older man who has fallen.
- Old stone stairs are silent killers.
- I applied to the council
regarding the health and safety
of those stairs in 2014.
Haven't got an answer yet.
No.
He was stood there, it wasn't his day,
lost his balance, and
[whistles]
landed on top of an urn.
Or several.
And what was he doing here
in the middle of the night?
[woman] Who knows,
with these Hallangen folk?
He has a key card,
so he was probably polishing something.
Yes, well, this is the second fatality
in one and the same family in a week.
[woman] No, it's one and a half.
Live doesn't count.
[sighs] You're not technically dead
till you're in here.
[loud thump]
- [flames roaring]
- [screaming] No!
[screaming]
- [gasping]
- [Arvid] Live?
Come home with me to the apartment,
and I'll show you.
And then you'll understand
that you are not what you believe you are.
[yells]
[gasping]
- [flames roaring]
- [sighs]
Papa?
A NETFLIX SERIES
[opening song in Norwegian playing]
[wind whistling]
[ringing tone]
Hi. Uh
I'd like a taxi
to Hallangen Funeral Agency?
[door unlocks]
[creaking]
[door closes]
[electricity buzzing]
[water dripping]
[tape player whirring]
[whirring continues]
[whirring loudly]
[turns switch]
[tape rewinding]
[woman] You don't understand
the darkness living inside of me.
I said that it was just a matter of time
before it was going to go wrong.
- Mama?
- I thought we could emerge
out of this tunnel together.
But it's not a tunnel.
It's a hole that goes deep down,
into the darkness.
And should you ever see my darkness in
[recording plays backwards]
And should you ever see
my darkness in Live,
yes, you know what you have to do.
[grunts]
[clattering]
[gasps]
HALLANGEN FUNERAL AGENCY
POLICE
[Reinert sighs] If someone is
out to get the Hallangen family,
shouldn't we at least warn Odd?
No one is out to get family Hallangen.
No?
- But Live said she remembered
- [scoffs]
- Her missing jewellery?
- Know how much an autopsy costs?
Does that mean you're sending him for one?
Not because I think
that he's been murdered,
but because the media would love it
if we were to get it wrong again.
You're thinking of sending him for one?
That's strong of you.
Strong of me?
Do you mean you're proud of me?
Yeah.
[scoffs] Thanks
for the vote of confidence.
Huh.
That just took an hour.
But look at that.
Took a taxi to the crime scene.
[Odd] Many thanks.
- [Judith] Yep. He's in here.
- [Odd] Yeah.
[taxi reversing]
[Odd sighs]
[machinery humming]
Let me know if there's any way
I can be of assistance.
- I can I can do it.
- Hm.
I was thinking about moving, or
- I can do it.
- Hm.
[sighs heavily]
My condolences.
Do you know
what "condolences" means, Reinert?
"I feel your pain." Did you know that?
- And do you?
- [door opens]
- Feel my pain? Do you?
- [door slams]
I can relate to it. I mean
Oh.
We would ask you
to drive him to forensics.
What for?
- Do you know something?
- You've worked long enough
to know that it usually turns out
that it's nothing.
But we're very careful.
- We don't want to rule anything out.
- When there is nothing here,
we'll find out after the autopsy.
[Reinert] Without a doubt. Always.
[sighs]
[engine humming]
[hearse rattling]
["Du er min los" plays]
[door bell chimes]
[food frying]
Hi.
- [light buzzing]
- [music continues over speakers]
Du er min los ♪
På leia eg dreg ♪
[screams]
- [gasping]
- Sjølv om du vankar ♪
Langt her ifrå ♪
I mine tankar ♪
- Bur du enn då ♪
- [sighs]
Der skal du bu ♪
- Som song i mitt sing ♪
- [grunts]
Ven ♪
[clattering]
Live?
- Live?
- [grunts]
[Live] Yeah, um Wait a minute.
I'm coming.
- Hey, you.
- Hi.
Are you up there alone?
Um, yeah. Yeah,
I was just going to say, probably best
if I tell work I'm not coming, yeah?
Then we can support each other
I think it's all been a bit worrying
for you lately,
- so I think it's good
- I was thinking I'd just pop into work.
- You're sure?
- Yeah, I
[chuckles] Well, uh
I'd just rather I wasn't here.
Maybe it would be nice to think
about something totally different.
Yeah, I can understand, sure.
I understand. Sure, yeah.
Okay. Can we just make a deal, though,
that you let me know if you
if you suddenly feel bad?
Oh, absolutely.
I don't think it's advisable
to do your job, you know?
- I'm talking about the patients' safety.
- Definitely, yeah.
- Okay.
- [chuckles]
[birdsong]
[Odd sighs deeply]
FIRST NAME: ARVID
[sighs] What the fuck?
How do you do this?
Here you go.
- [sighs]
- Would you be able to help for a minute?
[chuckles]
Aren't there usually two of you?
Yeah. I mean, um usually.
Oh, sorry, man. My job is to open doors
and and do the paperwork.
How presumptuous of me to assume
the security guard at a morgue
- would be comfortable around corpses.
- I'm just killing time till I'm old enough
- to get into the police academy.
- Splendid idea.
[grunts]
[loud clatter]
- Good work, bud.
- [sighs]
[sighs]
[murmur of conversation]
[woman laughs]
- Oh, I love you, you know.
- [chuckles]
Are you talking to me or the gin?
- Both of you! [laughs]
- Fine.
[water running]
So, Live, today I have one for you.
- Uh-huh?
- Mm-hm.
Yes, today, we have Hitler,
and we have Trump,
and we have Margaret Thatcher.
Which of them would you murder,
and which of them would you marry,
and which of them would you sleep with?
- Hmm?
- [sighs] Hmm.
Um
- Murder Hitler.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then, um
- sleep with Trump, huh?
- What? Come on, Live
- Ugh!
- Because
- What?
- He'd fall asleep before anyone had time
- to have to sleep with him.
- You think?
- Yeah.
- That's outstanding. Clever thinking
[distorted and echoing]
I have to say.
- [blood flowing]
- [heart thumping]
[distorted] Is every thing
Uh, yeah, yeah. All fine.
[door opens]
[lorry rumbles past]
[door closes]
HALLANGEN FUNERAL AGENCY
[lorry rumbles past]
[Odd sighs]
[door creaking]
[sighs]
- Hmm.
- [clattering]
Hmm.
[whirring]
[chuckles softly]
Hm.
HALLANGEN FUNERAL AGENCY
BANEVEIEN 4
[sighs]
- [Live] You'll feel a little scratch.
- [woman groans]
[Live] That's it.
- Well done, Mrs. Gundersen.
- [chuckles] Thanks!
[both laugh]
- Are you okay?
- I'm fine. I've been giving blood forever.
- You wouldn't believe if I told you.
- Hm.
Since 1968. Well, then I had to stop
for a short amount of time.
A few [voice slows and distorts]
[blood flowing]
[heart beating]
[distorted, echoing voice]
[slow and distorted] Live?
- Live!
- [sounds stop]
Live! Let's get you out of here.
- [door slams]
- [gasping]
[sound of running water fades]
- [knock at door]
- [sound of running water resumes]
[Rose] Live?
[banging at door]
Live, are you okay in there?
- Hi.
- Hi. Yes, it's all good. I'm fine.
What's going on?
What happened, then?
[chuckles] Uh I don't know, I just, uh
felt dizzy for a moment.
How is she, tell me?
- She's fine. All good.
- Well, I should apologise
No, I don't think you She's asleep now,
so I think it's a good idea
if you just go home and relax a bit.
Um Yeah.
- But I feel better, you know?
- Yeah, I know. I know that.
But just to be entirely certain
- Yeah?
- Hm. Yeah.
- I'll see you at home, then.
- Yeah, all good.
[man] I want to say, condolences.
FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Thanks. [sighs]
It's not nice when parents die, I'm aware.
No.
As you probably know, we've made several
attempts to get in touch with your father.
Yeah, I noticed that something
may have escaped his attention.
He hasn't paid the mortgage
for over a year.
Yes, we have several cases against him
which now pass to the new owner
of the Hallangen Funeral Agency.
- That's you, Odd.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I thought, maybe at first,
um, as a temporary solution,
- we could, uh, remortgage the house?
- I'm afraid there's nothing to remortgage.
No. Uh
Um
Uh, what can we do, then?
Humour me, Odd. Let's see
[clears throat] Let's see. This here,
this hole is your expenses.
Hmm?
- That's not terrible, is it?
- No, but new coffins, vehicle repairs,
loan, expenses, expenses,
expenses, expenses,
- expenses, expenses, expenses
- Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
[Odd sighs]
Frode, tell me this is gonna be okay?
- With time?
- [door bell chimes]
All the people in Skarnes
are gonna die at some point.
- Some before others.
- Hmm
They have to come to me.
No other option. [chuckles]
I will give you two weeks
before I put the house up for sale.
- My house, you mean?
- Yes.
I live in that house. My wife lives there.
We're planning a children's room.
- Odd, Odd, Odd, Odd
- Five generations!
I've offered you condolences.
[sighs]
[brakes squeal]
[Reinert] We've got a murder case
to deal with, Judith.
This is a waste of our skills.
Traffic lights could be doing this.
No, a traffic light would have done it
with more empathy and enthusiasm.
We can't afford a traffic light, remember?
Therefore, it becomes our responsibility
- to help the children cross the road.
- People are being murdered.
There's no way to continue
the investigation of this possible murder
until after Arvid's autopsy has been done.
[man] A man and a woman's car
breaks down in the wilderness.
The man goes to get help
- and leaves the woman
- Why doesn't he call somebody?
[man sighs] That's not
how the logical problem is set up.
How can I solve a logical problem
when the problem lacks logic?
Okay, they have no signal.
- [woman] In Norway in 2021?
- [man] Yes, uh
This was in the '80s
and in the Soviet Union.
Okay. Here, here he is.
- Okay. May I continue?
- Yes, you can continue.
[man] The man says to the woman,
"I'll be back soon. Lock the car."
- "Don't unlock it for anyone except me."
- Okay.
He comes back some hours later on.
The woman is dead, but there's another
person in the car with her. Who is it?
- [woman] Another person in the car?
- [man] Yeah.
- [woman] Has someone broken in?
- Um, no.
- [woman] And she's dead?
- Very dead.
[man] So, do you give up?
[woman] Has anyone tricked her to open up?
- Someone who looks like her husband?
- [man] Nope.
[woman] But who did it, then?
Who's the person in the car?
- [man] Should I tell you?
- [woman] Yes!
- [man] It was a baby.
- Huh?
The woman was pregnant. That was the other
person in the car next to the dead woman.
[woman] But why did her husband say she
shouldn't open up for anyone, then? Hm?
[man] I don't know.
What does that have to do with it?
The world is a dangerous place.
I said it was in the Soviet Union.
[woman] Oh.
[gasps]
[man] What is it?
- Don't say that he's awake, too.
- [woman] Look.
[gasps]
- [birdsong]
- [phone buzzing]
- Are you going to answer that?
- No.
Not while we're having
a good professional debate.
- Yeah, it's pathology.
- Yeah, okay.
- Yeah, pathology? The medical institution?
- All right. I'll call them back.
[phone continues buzzing]
Judith Berg Åsen's telephone.
[muffled] Yes, hi,
this is Brynjar from forensics.
Am I on speaker?
Hi, Brynjar.
[Reinert] Yes, how can we help you?
Arvid Hallangen. We've observed
clear signs that his ribs were broken.
And?
[sighs] Yeah, and falling backwards
down the stairs doesn't cause that.
Someone must have pushed him.
- [sighs] Fucking hell.
- Uh-huh.
- I won't even say I told you so.
- No, you shouldn't do so.
- But I told you so!
- Don't, Reinert.
Fine.
- Let's not jump to conclusions.
- A murderer on the loose in Skarnes.
- Reinert! [sighs]
- Someone's out to get the Hallangens.
I knew it. I knew it! Yes!
Reinert
- [sighs]
- [Brynjar] Hello? Hello?
Still on speaker.
[PA chimes]
The next stop is
[power lines humming]
[steady rainfall]
[Reinert] Live!
Reinert?
[Reinert] I'm going to close off
this area, and then I'll
When I say I, I mean, we.
I mean, the police.
Judith is also very invested in this case.
You know, we'll figure this out.
I'm convinced that whoever
was involved in your attempted murder
is the same person who's responsible
for Arvid's death,
and I will not rest
before I've caught that person, okay?
Okay.
[thunder rumbles]
Thanks.
It's my pleasure.
[heartbeat]
[blood flowing]
[Live gasps]
You keeping well?
[Live sighs]
Uh I was just really dizzy for a moment.
I feel completely fine now, you know?
I mean, I just had a acute dizzy spell.
- [doctor] Dizzy?
- Yeah.
Yes, anything else?
- Else?
- Yes, any other symptoms?
Uh no.
Please hold this.
No changes, physical or psychological?
I really just want to know
what's the matter, you know,
what's wrong with me, and
uh, for it just to stop.
What you have been through
has been very traumatic.
The quicker that you are aware
that something like that will change you,
the easier your life will be
moving forward.
- Fuck.
- [children laughing and shouting]
[horn honking]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[motorbike driving away]
[sighs]
[glass squeaking]
Well, well, Odd.
What can I say to make it better?
- Heh
- [chuckles]
Condolences.
Yeah.
I ean, now you're in charge here.
But that's how it is
with family empires, you know?
You have to step up right away.
But that's what I see all the time
with my clients.
You meet lots of other people
who have to take over the family business
- the same day the parents die?
- That's a normal Tuesday.
- And bury them?
- You know what I say?
"The customer doesn't give a fuck."
- No.
- For the customer, it's just business.
No. Um, Papa had a a real and truthful
- a special bond with many of his clients
- But a special bond
It's all about trust, isn't it?
And do you know how to begin
to build trust with customers, Odd?
Yeah?
By offering them a better discount.
What do you mean, "better"?
Yeah. This is something I'd learn
pretty quickly, if I were you.
Unless your company's lucky enough
to have a large buffer
to lean on in the beginning, that is.
Here you go.
See you at the course, then.
A SALES CLASS WITH MARTIN JETTLAND
[dog barking]
[frogs croaking]
[rainfall]
[splash]
Should we say skål?
Skål for a painful time,
but also skål for a new time ahead.
Uh, skål for Arvid.
And for the fifth generation
of the Hallangen Funeral Agency.
- Skål.
- Skål.
For Papa and for Hallangen.
Um
Speaking of Papa for a moment
Hmm?
Mm I went to the bank today
to speak with Frode.
- Mmm?
- [Odd] Hm
[Rose] Yeah?
Yeah, really just to talk about
a few of the for formalities. Mmm.
Yeah, and then, um Yeah. Frode helped me
with that, and so that's better.
- [Odd chewing]
- Okay. That's better.
I get nervous just getting a
[slurping loudly]
Yeah. Getting a bill
for 300 kroner, you know? [laughs]
[Rose chuckles]
Must you chew so fucking loud?
Sorry.
Pasta's food for slurping, no? [chuckles]
- [chewing]
- [chuckles]
[slurping]
Yeah, and then, um I met Jettland today,
and, uh, of all things,
you'll never guess what he said
Yeah. [slurping]
Uh a pretty nice chat with him.
- [Rose] Mm-hm.
- And, um That's not very usual.
And then, um yeah.
- We just talked a little about, um
- [slurping loudly]
how one, um
[fading]
the way to move forward
[gulping and slurping[
- [plate shattering]
- Shut!
Yes, sorry.
Uh
I just have to
Sorry.
[gasping]
[panting]
[whimpering]
[sighs deeply]
Huh?
What the fuck? [gasps]
Oh [whimpers]
[Mama on tape] And should you ever
see my darkness in Live
Yes. You know what you have to do.
[whirring]
- [baby crying]
- [Mama] Just help my children and family!
Please!
- [Arvid] Madeleine?
- Can you make her be quiet?
- [baby screams]
- [Arvid] You have to calm down.
[Madeleine sobs] I can't take it any more!
- I can't take it!
- [baby wailing]
- [Arvid] It'll be fine.
- [Madeleine] I can't take it any more!
- [sobbing]
- [Arvid] No.
[Madeleine] I must.
I must, just a little. Please.
Please. I have to have a little.
Just a little.
Just a little sip.
Oh, I just need a little blood.
[thunder crashing]
OVERDUE!
SOLTUN NURSING HOME
[heavy rainfall]
Darling, sometimes people act
a little strange when they're grieving.
Shouldn't we just give her a little time
until tomorrow, and then we'll see?
[Odd] Yeah.
Okay, what else is wrong?
It's raining.
- Yes, I see that.
- [thunder rumbles]
And therefore, there could be
a lot to do next week. For sure.
Huh?
You know old people don't deal with
changes in weather especially well.
I I don't really know
if I'm following you now, darling.
It takes little more than a seasonal cold,
- and then, you know
- Okay [sighs]
If you weren't so terribly adorable,
I'm pretty sure I'd find you creepy.
[both chuckle]
Lunatic.
- [thunder rumbles]
- There are those who are crazier than me.
[thunder rolling]
Live?
Hi, Margit.
- I'm just going to get some blood samples.
- Now?
Yeah. Just sleep.
I'm so sorry for scaring you
like that earlier today.
You sweet thing.
It'll take more than that for you to scare
an old one like me, you know.
Aww!
But you?
- Mm-hm?
- You listen to me.
No blood samples without
Oh, yes, of course. How silly of me.
Um, what about
- Mmm?
- Uh, Martin Luther King
- Mmm?
- And Gandhi and Rosa Parks?
Who who do you murder,
who do you sleep with,
and who do you marry?
Well, without fail, I'd sleep with Gandhi.
Uh-huh.
You'll just feel a little scratch,
that's all.
[thunder rumbles]
[groans]
[sighs]
[thunder rumbling]
[heavy rainfall]
[blood flowing]
[gasps]
[thunder rumbles]
[Margit sighs]
[rattling]
Oh, no, no, no.
- Margit? Margit, can you hear me?
- [gasping]
Margit, can you hear me?
[wheezing and gasping]
[stops breathing]
[Live gasping]
[thumping]
[cracking]
[alarm blares]
[bell rings]
[alarm continues blaring]
Mrs. Gundersen!
[crunching]
- [alarm continues]
- [thumping]
[thumping slows]
[thumping stops]
[switches alarm off]
[nurse clears throat]
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and deliver us from evil.
Amen.
[thunder rumbles]
[door closes]
[lock bleeps]
[thunder rumbles]
[lock clicks]
[thumping and rattling]
- [gasping]
- [thunder rumbling]