The Lorenskog Disappearance (2021) s01e02 Episode Script

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Yes, so the only reason I'm even here
is because
I was given an ultimatum.
By Ida, my partner.
Mm-hmm.
I've got enough on my plate as it is.
That's all right. I understand.
That's great.
- And you're a journalist?
- Yeah.
And you say you've been doing
a lot of work on a case
that's been quite challenging?
It's just a job.
Actually
there is one thing for me
that's a little challenging, um
I'm having trouble sleeping.
I just keep having all these thoughts.
I don't know why.
What are you thinking about?
About the case, details and
All of it. I can't stop.
I just
I just can't, um
All these thoughts, they're
They aren't going to stop
until the case is closed.
And what if they can't solve it?
EPISODE 2
THE JOURNALISTS
DECEMBER 2018
TWO YEARS EARLIER
One of the very first things
that I noticed
when I joined this department last year,
was the spark that I saw in all of you.
In you, Arne, Daniel,
Thomas, Jostein, Gunnhild,
and now Aleks, who we've been so fortunate
to get on the team.
You are, to put it bluntly,
the crème de la crème of crime journalism.
And, as if that weren't enough,
Erlend has won
the national crime-writing award
for the second year in a row!
- I am so, so proud of you.
- Congratulations!
So congratulations to you all,
- and especially our dear Erlend.
- Yeah.
Congrats, Erlend!
You're raising the bar.
- Amazing.
- Erlend! Erlend! Erlend!
- Erlend! Erlend!
- And the winner is
I feel awkward enough already.
This is so embarrassing and, uh
Uh
But at the same time,
I can't deny I do deserve this.
I mean, compared to you lot.
But, um,
I'm afraid I can't accept this award, um
Instead, I would like to dedicate it
to all the women,
um, women who are still being abused,
and raped, and killed
in one of the richest,
safest, uh, places anywhere.
We journalists don't need
this kind of recognition.
Well done.
Yeah.
- Congratulations.
- Congratulations.
- Come.
- Okay.
Aw.
And then he says,
"He writes almost as well as his father".
And he was convinced
that was some kind of compliment.
He snuffled.
No, he did not.
- Yeah, he'd been drinking.
- He's your boss, you know.
Does he actually read what we write,
or is he just chasing clicks, huh?
He did read that article
you wrote about that horrible,
corrupt Finnish police chief.
Yeah, great.
Yeah, that one.
- Hey, Beate.
- Yeah?
We've had a tip-off
about a situation in Lørenskog.
It's a kidnapping.
The wife of a billionaire.
That's what you're saying, right?
You got a report that someone
was dispatched and then nothing happened?
Okay, everyone.
I've spoken to the chief of police.
He wants us to call it off right now.
We're not allowed to cover this case.
We've been summoned
for a meeting with police tomorrow.
So, as I'm sure you're all aware,
Anne-Elisabeth Hagen was kidnapped
from her home at Sloraveien in Lørenskog
on the 31st October.
She is the wife
of the billionaire Tom Hagen.
The family has received a demand
for a ransom payable in cryptocurrency.
Her kidnappers have told us that they
are prepared to kill Anne-Elisabeth Hagen
if the police or the media get involved.
So, what exactly are you saying?
It means that none of you here
are going to write or talk about it.
That you don't show up in Sloraveien.
You don't go knocking on any doors
and you don't attempt to contact
any of our officers in private
in search of more information.
Okay, but, um
aren't you running the risk of letting
potentially important leads run cold
- if you don't go public?
- Look, I know, as usual,
there's a certain amount
of competition going on
and everyone wants to be the first
to get the story,
but what I think you need to remember here
is that you're also responsible
for, uh, Anne-Elisabeth Hagen's life.
And you should consider very carefully
if that's a risk you're willing to take.
No, no, but, uh, what makes you so certain
that there even is a kidnapping at all?
So, we know this because the family
has already been in contact
with the kidnappers about her release.
This is ridiculous.
We'll keep an eye on the situation.
Excuse me. Hi.
Could I have a word, off the record?
Not until we have something.
I was just wondering
if you considered any other theories?
So you're not considering other theories?
What are you looking at
that old wreck for?
Uh, well, I'm a journalist.
I'm working on a financial story
for the Daily News.
Did you know Tom Hagen?
- The little boy?
- Sorry?
- Yeah, he lived there.
- Hmm.
A tough little kid he was.
Used to be
a whole brood of them over there.
- Twelve kids in all.
- Huh.
My dad grew up on one of these,
uh, small farms on the west coast.
Until he moved to the city
and became an editor.
A what?
Can you tell me about Tom?
Well, the boy's mum, Rakel,
she died very young.
Right there, in the outhouse.
Her heart just stopped.
He was only a little boy at the time.
They didn't have much money, you know.
And then I saw in the news that, uh,
Tom had became very rich.
- Made his money in electricity?
- That's true.
Yeah, electricity, that's right.
Oh, well.
THE DAILY NEWS
So even though we have upheld
the secrecy of this case
so far and will continue to do so,
I want everyone of you to give it
your full focus for the time being.
We don't know
when the police will go public.
There's never been a criminal case
like this in Norway before.
We can't go to Sloraveien,
but we can dig into Anne-Elisabeth
and Tom Hagen.
When we publish it,
I want everyone, uh, who reads it
to understand how it feels to suddenly
have your sense of security ripped away.
Okay. What do we got?
Well, I've done a little bit of research
into Tom Hagen and, uh,
yeah, he's a smart guy and
In Lørenskog, he's practically royalty.
He's interested in speed skating.
He's done the 10,000 metres.
Wasn't he involved in building all
those hotels for the Lillehammer Olympics?
Yeah, I can look into that.
I'm submitting a request
to see a copy of the prenuptial agreement.
I've been looking at the Facebook profile
of Anne-Elisabeth.
Seems she was very active on that.
I'm looking at her, uh, friends and stuff.
What exactly is her role in the family,
and in the company.
- Is she more than just a housewife?
- Okay.
I'm looking into crypto.
Over in Sweden, they had
quite a similar case a while back,
known as the 2005 SIBA kidnapping.
- The Bengtsson case.
- What is that?
There was a billionaire who was kidnapped
and held prisoner for 17 days
before they set him free.
Now, as you all know, uh,
Christmas is coming up,
but I still want us
to keep working on this case,
because the bubble
could burst at any time.
- Okay.
- Great.
TOM HAGEN MADE 174 MILLION
ON ELECTRICITY
AND REAL ESTATE LAST YEAR
Do you like this one?
Or this one?
What do you think?
I think you're very beautiful.
Look.
Where'd you get that?
I have my methods.
See?
- What?
- Look at his expression.
Okay, put that away now.
What do you think?
I used to have a cot like this.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm. I think so.
Well, then it's perfect.
DAY 71
It is now day 71
since the disappearance
This is the BBC World Service.
Erlend?
- Hey.
- Oh, hey.
- It's been a while.
- Yeah. Just haven't seen you around.
Not every day
a billionaire's wife gets kidnapped.
Yeah, at least not in Norway, you know?
Mm-hmm.
How long
have we been standing here?
Too long.
What's new?
We're pregnant.
Yeah?
Yeah, well, Ida is. We're having a baby.
- You? A dad?
- Mm-hmm.
Wow.
Yeah, things are changing.
They really are.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
Let's just get this case solved first.
The kidnappers have issued
a demand for ransom money
and also made threats
of a very serious nature.
The police have advised the family
not to meet the demand.
At present, no proof of life has been
provided for Anne-Elisabeth Hagen.
As you all know, she is the spouse
of local businessman Tom Hagen.
- Shouldn't he be here to make a plea?
- became concerned on October 31st,
when he couldn't reach her by phone,
and shortly afterwards, he left work.
He then returned to his home where
he found the ransom letter at 1:30 p.m.
OSLO COURTHOUSE
- Hey.
- Right, double Americano?
Yes.
- Hey, Marianne.
- Hey.
Hey, thanks for coming here
at such short notice.
Anything for you.
Almost.
Okay, go ahead.
Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen.
I mean, this prenup
is incredibly one-sided.
I mean, she gets nothing of the company
or the fortune.
All she's left with
is an old Citroën Berlingo.
She's allowed to keep a cabin in Biri
that she inherited from her parents,
while he gets to keep
the mansion in Kvitfjell
and the whole empire.
Um, and then
Here.
200,000 kroner as a gift from Tom Hagen.
This sum deposited into
a high-interest account
or into secured obligations.
This sum is not to be used,
except in case of an emergency.
I mean
Yeah.
I gather you spoke to her?
That she wanted to know
what her chances were
in the event of a divorce.
Let me put it this way.
I've never seen anything like this.
And it's highly unlikely
that it would stand up in court.
- Are you sure about this?
- Just trust me, okay?
Okay.
- Hello.
- Hi.
Hi.
Yeah? What is it?
My name is Erlend Moe Riise,
this is my colleague Aleks Zaretski.
We're from the Daily News.
Uh, we've been in touch with your lawyers,
Svein Holden and
We just want to hear the story
from your perspective.
Johan Olav Koss.
Sorry?
Weren't you his mentor
for the Olympics in 1994?
You're a speed skater too, right?
Yeah, yeah, but not at that level.
- But you've done the 10,000 metres.
- Yeah. But it's not worth talking about.
- Hi.
- Hello.
Lakke!
- You can't be here.
- I'm aware of that.
I just need to ask you a few questions.
Tom Hagen. Are you getting anything
out of his statements?
Not enough.
And has he got an alibi?
What about the kidnappers?
Come on.
You said in the meeting that they were
talking to the family, right?
You don't know anything
about the kidnappers.
There is no dialogue.
The exit is this way.
Okay.
On the morning
of October 31st last year,
Anne-Elisabeth Hagen disappeared
from her home in Fjellhamar.
Her last sign of life was a phone call
made that morning.
The Hagen's family home directly overlooks
the lake in Langvannet,
however police have not been looking
for leads in the area in order to avoid
drawing attention to the case.
The Oslo Fire and Rescue Service
packed up its equipment
shortly before 4:30 today.
THE HAGEN FAMILY RECEIVED
THIS MESSAGE ON JANUARY 16TH:
"HURRY UP, OR SHE DIES"
Police received over a thousand calls
claiming to have information.
However, the main theory remains
WHO ARE YOU?
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
And you received this yesterday?
- That didn't take long, did it?
- I know.
How did you do it?
Imagine the pressure on the family.
Yeah.
I'm having it checked out
and I'll confirm it with their lawyer.
We both know where that message came from.
I want you to keep me informed
on all contact with the police.
Okay.
MESSAGE FROM THE KIDNAPPERS:
"HURRY UP OR SHE DIES"
They should have done this
the day she disappeared.
They won't find her. Not here.
What makes you say that?
All this,
it's just like the Dung Tran Larsen case.
All right,
we can go get it from the van.
Are you coming?
Hmm?
Did you cover that case?
Yeah, in 2007 and 2008.
- It was a big case.
- What happened?
There's this young
Vietnamese woman who disappears
without a trace from Kjøkkelvik,
and the police,
they suspect that the husband's involved.
She was 22 when she arrived in Norway
from Vietnam.
To be with this guy.
And,
she'd just given birth
to their second child,
but the relationship was bad
and she wanted out.
After a few months, the husband,
his parents, and, uh, his brother
are arrested and charged with murder.
The police spent weeks searching around
the Rongesundet bridge with their divers,
but, um,
I was utterly certain,
no doubt in my mind,
that they dumped her in the ocean.
And I'd figured out the exact location,
where they done it, but, um,
they never found the body.
What made you so certain that
it was the husband then?
There was a list as long as my arm
of circumstantial evidence
and erratic behaviour, so
It was a cold-blooded murder
of a young and vulnerable woman.
- Did they drop the case?
- Yeah.
You know, if you say nothing,
and the body isn't found,
you're home free.
That message from the kidnappers?
- You must have some good sources.
- Yeah.
Found anything yet?
Has anyone been charged?
If you could stay in the area
reserved for journalists?
Of course.
CHECK SOURCE: MANNFRED HANSEN
GAMLEVN 696, 1488 HAKADAL
You're lucky you have
such good contacts in the police.
We have an understanding.
They share their investigation with us,
we write about it.
So we're helping them build the case.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Erlend Moe Riise.
- Daily News. Pleased to meet you.
- Mannfred.
Hi. Aleks Zaretski.
So what can you tell us
about Anne-Elisabeth?
Well, she was a sociable, breezy,
happy person.
- Liked to party.
- Uh-huh.
Lively.
- You liked her?
- Yeah.
But everyone liked Lisbeth.
A lot of people have mentioned
her love for her family, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
When I heard that Lisbeth had disappeared,
I knew he had something to do with it.
And why was that?
Because I know what Tom is capable of.
Tom
he wanted to punish her.
For what?
I think she fell in love with someone.
Back in '93.
And Tom was jealous.
He believed she got loose when drunk.
So he forced her to sign that prenup.
He forced her to give up drinking,
even though it was totally uncalled for.
And how do you know that?
I just know.
Yeah, we have heard about the prenup,
but back in '93,
when the prenup was written,
wasn't Tom Hagen
having financial problems?
Maybe he wanted to spare her
from the risk of becoming insolvent,
and decided to put it in his name
to shield her?
It would've been easy
to change it back, though.
When Tom became a billionaire.
No. Tom kept the prenup.
Elisabeth would've got nothing
after 49 years of marriage.
That was his way
of keeping her under his thumb.
- And do you think that she deserved more?
- Yeah. Half of it.
She would have got it too, if
Can you tell us about any incidents with
Tom Hagen after what happened in '93?
Didn't he come and pay you a visit?
Yeah.
I don't know what he was thinking,
but he came here and threatened me.
And then you pressed charges, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah. He came to my door, he said
he had a gun.
That he could have me killed.
And they dropped the case.
It was my word against his, so
Every New Year's Eve,
for five years in a row,
he called me
and told me he was keeping tabs on me.
Which wasn't very nice.
Anyway,
whenever New Year's Eve came around,
I'd say to myself,
"He's going to call".
"He's going to call".
- Here.
- Oh, thanks.
This is all getting pretty dark.
I'm not sure what it is.
Some are more jealous than others.
It didn't seem like Mannfred and Tom
got on very well, did it?
Hmm.
If you ask me, any guy who calls up
on New Year's Eve five years in a row
just to leave a nasty message,
he's, uh,
the kind of guy who knows how to plan.
Plan what?
Revenge. Over time.
If he's telling the truth at all, that is.
And Tom might tell
another side to the story.
Hmm. Except Tom won't talk.
It was Mannfred who was in love
with Lisbeth.
What if he's lying
because Tom humiliated him once
and he wants revenge?
You're good at turning things
on their head,
but you need to see the bigger pattern.
The personality.
- The personality?
- Mm-hmm.
Isn't it strange that the police
sent us here when the case was dropped?
All of these cases get dropped.
That prenup felt like he was trying
to make her suffer, didn't it?
Didn't it?
I mean, as a woman, you can see that
it's completely unreasonable.
As a woman?
But it was written 20 years ago,
wasn't it?
It was so different then.
But if she was able to divorce Tom,
he'd lose half his fortune.
You know, women have been killed for less.
I CAN'T SEND DETAILS. FOLLOW
THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
The next stop is Ellingsrudåsen.
This is Ellingsrudåsen.
They've intentionally
structured the sentence
- to make the syntax seem terrible.
- Hmm.
And how do they use the infinitive here?
Look.
Here, for example.
This person speaks good Norwegian
Maybe they're just
trying to cause confusion.
- Couldn't they take Google Translate and
- Yes, you'd be forgiven for assuming that.
But there's a consistency
in their use of Norwegian here,
and with an algorithm,
that's just not viable.
In any case, certainly not yet.
It's unlikely
that this is translated directly
from Swedish or English
or anything like that.
Not to mention the sentence structure.
Like this. Look: "Remember this".
No Swedish speaker would say
"Remember this" in this kind of context.
There's a lot of evidence here to suggest
the writer is a real native Norwegian.
Their vocabulary and figures of speech
suggest they're born before 1960.
- Before 1960?
- Yeah. Language is like DNA.
So it can tell us when you were born,
where you were born, your education.
It can reveal your whole identity.
You can try and hide it,
but it always comes up.
I think the main issue here is the effect
that A-B testing has on content,
because most of the time,
it ends up dumbing down the case.
You take a headline
and then you do an A or B test,
and whatever gets the most clicks,
wins, right?
- It's a pretty basic process.
- Yeah, right.
So for instance
Okay, let's say the headline is
- Hey.
- Hey.
Social smoker, I see.
Yeah, yeah.
Always better with wine.
Yeah, right.
Do you mind?
- Okay, here, let me pour
- No!
- Ah, no, no, no. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- Non-alcoholic.
That's the first time today though, right?
Yeah, it was.
We don't want our kid
to be brain-damaged, right?
Talking of brain damage,
that, uh, justice minister's wife?
Imagine what she'd do
if she was really angry.
She's willing to torch her car
just because she didn't like
a performance at Black Box.
Now that I'm a crime journalist,
I see criminals absolutely everywhere.
- That's one of the occupational hazards.
- The whole world has become a nuthouse.
Know what I read the other day?
- That truth with a capital T is dead
- Okay.
and that public life is now just
a form of theatre
where anything can be true.
- Cheers to that!
- Cheers.
Everyone's so loud all the time.
Except for Tom. Tommy Boy.
- Tommy Boy, right.
- Tom Hagen.
I haven't heard a word from him.
He's the silent type, like Clint Eastwood.
- Mmm.
- Tom is the old Norway.
- What? What was that you just said?
- Our traditions.
Traditions?
Uh, they're all crumbling.
Okay. Oh, shit!
Are you alt-right?
You coming out to us, like, right now?
No, I'm serious. I really mean it.
I mean, Tom Hagen, what's he like?
He's quiet, careful with money, modest.
He's not one of these flashy
nouveau riche narcissistic guys.
He drives a run-down old Citroën Picasso.
He lives on that old house in Sloraveien.
That's image management in Norway.
There's no way
he wouldn't be driving a Bentley
if he lived in Manhattan, you know.
It's still modest for a billionaire.
That whole family, they remind me
of the old Norway, you know?
The frugal lifestyle. The happy housewife.
A hard-working father who
sits in his armchair and reads the paper.
- Probably doesn't know what an app is.
- No!
He sits and works out
electricity prices with his pencil
and he's not paying a penny more
than he has to.
No way!
You know, isn't that everything we admire?
- Isn't that the Norway that we come from?
- Well, yeah.
I mean, we all wanted to be like Tom.
You know? Or Anne-Elisabeth, obviously.
If she kept the family together.
The good old-fashioned mother figure.
She's the one we all miss,
that we all wanted.
Happy, kind, warm, friendly.
Home-made blueberry jam
and waffles and family gatherings
and babysitting
You're forgetting the threats,
the abuse, the psychological terror.
Okay.
But none of that stuff's been proven.
I mean, you can't go believing
everything that you read
in those online forums.
Or did you read something different?
No, but seriously.
The reason people blame Tom
is that the rich are hated
in this country.
That's fucking weird, because
we're some of the richest people on earth.
Why are we so hard on the rich over here?
You know?
We've forgotten that
people like Tom Hagen are role models.
I mean, he built this country.
We should be fucking honouring him
and uplifting the Tom Hagens
of this country.
But instead, we see him as
No, I'm serious.
Instead we hold him in contempt because
because we hate ourselves
and can't accept who we are.
We're all metrosexual, cortado-sipping,
bourgeois social climbers,
who have become incapable
of respecting a real man.
- Where did you find him?
- Huh?
Where did you find him?
Well, he found me, actually.
He won me over.
With his accent among other things.
- Yeah, I can understand that.
- Yeah!
That was a great little speech,
Tord, but the guy is
- He's a psychopath, um
- Mmm.
And
I know one when I see one.
And we're gonna expose him
then bring him to justice.
He's going to prison.
Look,
I know you're a really good journalist.
Yeah?
But I just wonder,
aren't you being a bit judgmental?
I'm being judgmental?
What do you mean?
Uh
- What do you mean?
- Uh
- He didn't mean anything by it.
- Let him speak for himself.
- What do you mean?
- He wasn't serious.
- Erlend.
- I'm not just gonna let him say that.
- Let's just dance. Let's dance.
- Come on.
For ten minutes you go on about Tom Hagen
and you're calling me judgemental.
- Music!
- Erlend, just let it go, will you?
Why is everyone so obsessed
with Tom Hagen?
He's the father.
Of who?
Everyone.
What about your dad?
Hmm?
What do you mean?
You think I'm obsessing over Tom Hagen
because of my old father?
Maybe it's 'cause I can tell
a fucking psycho
and a wife beater when I see one.
You'll be one yourself soon.
- A psycho?
- No!
A father.
Mmm. Shit.
EDITOR JAN OLAV MOE
11.3.1927 - 30.11.2011
It is natural, of course,
to speculate here,
or indeed to call into question entirely,
whether Anne-Elisabeth Hagen
is still, in fact, living.
I'll refrain from sharing my own thoughts
on the matter,
but the police can confirm
that we have received no proof of life,
despite communicating multiple requests
for proof to the kidnappers.
Why isn't he saying what he thinks?
They've come up with a new theory.
How do you know?
Just a gut feeling.
So the police gave us the ransom letter
to build the case against Tom Hagen?
Yeah, they think he's guilty.
Yeah, the police I mean,
all they care about is their reputation,
all they want is for us to believe
they're capable of solving the case,
but none of that changes the fact that
Norwegian police are just incompetent.
Now, let's just say Tom Hagen is innocent
and he's got no idea
what the police are up to.
That would be one of the greatest
miscarriages of justice we've ever seen.
Go, go, go, go!
Tom? Tom.
- I need your signature on these papers.
- No. I've said everything I have to say.
- Well, we We just need a
- No.
Jorunn Lakke.
It's Erlend Moe Riise,
from the Daily News. Uh
You've been questioning him
for several days now.
Will you be pressing charges?
I can't answer that right now.
DAY 239
Hey.
Okay, guys, now that the police
are coming at it from a new angle,
we have to figure out
how we're going to cover it.
First, the family were the victims
of a violent kidnapping,
and now it's just
an ordinary domestic murder.
It's not ordinary.
No,
but it doesn't attract the same interest.
Sorry,
but I don't think that's true.
I think what makes this case special
is that one of Norway's richest men
has probably killed his wife.
But if all the evidence points to
Tom Hagen, why haven't they arrested him?
Their children said
the marriage was solid.
I don't think the kids know much.
Tom Hagen is an odd man and he feared that
Anne-Elisabeth would divorce him.
Also, he went to extreme lengths to stop
her running off with 100 million kroner.
Come on, Erlend, you don't know that.
Think about it.
If Anne-Elisabeth really wanted a divorce,
Tom Hagen could handle it.
- He's good with money.
- Yeah, but it's not about the money.
- Not really.
- So what's it about, then?
It's about their marriage.
All relationships have ups and downs.
And if Tom Hagen really did plan out
this whole thing in detail,
surely he would've realised
that he would be putting his whole family
through years and years of mental torture.
Uh, well, I think fear can make you
very short-sighted.
I think it puts you in a loop
where your thoughts
keep spinning and spinning and spinning,
and those thoughts won't go away.
And all these thoughts are saying,
"She betrayed me",
and it just grows and grows and grows,
and you can't stop imagining
their two bodies together,
that makes you scared of being alone,
so you say to yourself,
"I have to do something
before she takes everything".
Aren't you overthinking this?
Where's the evidence?
The last thing we want to do is
turn the public against an innocent man.
Yeah, but,
all points to Tom.
Right, but I don't think
the evil of the crime matches the motive.
Why do something so extreme?
And also, it's our job to look critically
at what the police are doing.
Yeah, well, I think it's very healthy
that you have a different take on this
than Erlend, but, um,
mmm, I want us to tell a story that gets
to the bottom of the psychology behind it.
What goes through the mind of a man who's
plotting to kill the woman he once loved?
- Okay?
- Yep.
- Have a good summer.
- Scherfig? Scherfig.
We spoke on the phone.
I'm working on an article
about domestic violence.
- I read your book. The Nature of Violence?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You're the one who wanted to talk?
- Yeah.
- Do you have time?
- Sure.
Men are supposed to be quiet types.
Not showing their emotions,
but keeping them hidden behind a mask.
That just creates frustrations
which become fantasies.
- Here you go.
- Thanks.
In a hypothetical scenario
- Yeah.
- uh, a man murders his wife.
And then decides to stage a kidnapping
to make it look as if he's the victim.
Hypothetically?
Yeah.
Had it happened in real life?
Yeah. What would you be looking for,
in terms of motive?
The-the That's impossible to say.
But there is a world of difference
between an impulsive act
and a premeditated violent attack.
And in your case, we're talking about
a huge amount of planning.
- Mmm.
- It might go on for months, or even years.
- Mm-hmm.
- Most likely,
he would dream up ways
of getting his revenge.
Ways to escape the thoughts
that have been haunting him.
That unbearable feeling he has
of being hurt, humiliated and trampled on.
But there is another aspect to it
that he may not be aware of.
Because he isn't just punishing
the woman he was in love with.
He's also punishing himself.
Punishing himself?
As long as no one knows where she is,
the punishment continues.
He's punishing the children too.
Yeah, he's punishing anyone
who's ever loved her.
And he's probably experiencing
a form of forbidden pleasure
at the thought of her suffering and death.
The first time I ever sat face to face
with a man who had been
convicted of murder, I was only 23,
visiting a prison in the west of Sweden
to speak to a man
- who had murdered his wife.
- Mmm.
I was
I come from a home
where no one ever raised their voice.
But the world of violence
I was shaken by that.
But as I was walking
out of the prison that day,
I realised it was because this world
was incredibly foreign to me.
It was important to understand it
on a deeper level.
You are lying!
- Come here! Move!
- Stop! No!
No!
We have to go now.
We have to go now to the hospital.
Okay.
- Fuck! I'm going to put it up, I promise.
- Yeah, that's fine.
- Just find the car keys, please, okay?
- Yeah.
Yeah?
Oh.
Okay.
Okay.
- Aw, she's so cute.
- She's only five pounds. So tiny.
- She looks like you.
- You think?
Yeah, she's got your nose.
Aw.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
- To?
- Uh,
- we haven't decided on a name yet.
- Okay. To the nameless, then.
To the nameless.
Thank you for coming out. Uh
I should really be at home, putting up
one of those IKEA cots, but
I needed to talk. It's all so much.
So what's it like, being a father?
Um
I'm nervous.
Are you?
Yeah, it's scary, you know?
What if I become a dick?
But you're a dick already.
I mean,
it's only natural to be a bit nervous.
I'm excited too.
Obviously.
So, are you gonna take some time off?
I think that's gonna be difficult,
given everything happening with the case.
They'll arrest him soon.
Why do you say that?
That's the direction they're going in.
Hmm.
- One more?
- Yeah.