Outlier (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

1
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, dear Dad.
Happy birthday to you.
Thank you.
Here you go.
Wait, Dad! You need to make a wish.
Here.
Hey, what the fuck happened?
He attacked me, and
then threw me on the floor.
Maja
It's fine. He didn't do any damage.
Now he's back in again anyway.
I've made an analysis of Roy Eliassen.
I've looked at background,
psychology, physical behavior.
And my conclusion is still
that he's clearly the wrong man,
we are looking for a completely
different type of perpetrator.
It's okay.
We're giving you a chance.
So what do you need now?
I need access to the archives.
I want to know everything.
- I need to review every case.
- Every case?
Yes. And an office.
Yes. I think that's everything.
Any questions?
No, I think that all sounds good.
Yeah, it's not exactly the hardest
job in the world.
Ah! One last thing.
Always remember to knock
on the door before entering.
- Always.
- Okay.
What kind of building is this?
It was a military base,
so they kept tanks here,
and it was used as
a repair workshop.
And then some people came from
Senja to make theatre here.
But then the district merger
happened, and since then
it's been empty
What are you looking for exactly?
I'm looking for cases that
may have similarities with
the Sofie case.
Firstly, I'll search for cases with
a female victim,
within a given time frame
and geographical area.
I'm also interested in looking at
cases that have been dropped,
or that may have been overlooked.
- Overlooked?
- Misunderstood.
Listen, let me say one thing.
I'm taking a chance here.
There's a lot of people
following this case now.
So, tread carefully, okay?
The police have dropped the
charges against
a 27-year-old man from
Nerbygd in connection with
the so called Sofie case,
writes Nordlys.
The 27-year-old was charged with
kidnapping and murder.
The police will not comment
further, but the newspaper
writes that the investigation
team has been expanded
to include Maja Angell,
a criminal psychologist
and researcher originally
from the region.
The police refuse to either
deny, or confirm, the claim,
and are asking for patience
with the case.
Look at this.
2001. Missing.
A 17-year-old girl.
Under the care of child
services. Drug addiction.
Ran away from home.
A bus driver may have
witnessed her, so the
police assumed she escaped
over the border to Sweden.
And this one.
Female asylum-seeker.
32-years-old.
Crossed over Storskog in
2015 during the refugee crisis.
Lived in a refuge.
Her application for residence
was rejected,
and she disappeared shortly afterwards.
"Disappeared voluntarily"
it says here.
They reckon she traveled to
another European country?
“Disappeared voluntarily”.
What the fuck does that mean?
Lazy police work.
She has no papers. No ID.
She could be anywhere and nowhere.
Then it's a lot easier to
not take responsibility
and decide that she doesn't exist.
A perfect target.
Just like Sofie.
Wasn't reported missing because
I don't know.
The mother didn't care?
She worked too much
and was used to her
daughter being away for days on end
and doing God-Knows-what.
Soft targets.
Let's focus on the missing cases.
I was thinking
I can take time off today?
So we can do something.
Just you and me.
Silje's going to Taekwondo,
and Thea's mom is taking her.
Sorry, I can't.
-Work?
-Mhm.
Okay. It was worth a try.
When will you be home?
Eh I'm not sure.
It'll be a long day.
I have six appointments.
So a lot of driving.
And then I thought of
maybe having a couple
of birthday beers with
the guys tonight like usual.
Okay.
We'll do it another day.
And the birthday cake was
really good. As usual.
If they catch us just hanging
around, they'll kill us.
This is Lilly, by the way.
Where are you from?
Kauto.
And where do you see yourself in
five years, Elle?
I don't fucking know.
On the moon, maybe?
Yeah, or here?
Not here! Anywhere but here.
Look at this.
I almost missed it.
It's just a small note in a log.
I don't think it was ever followed up.
Tina Danielsen was reported missing
in 2008 by a friend.
This is only a half hour drive away.
Come on.
And you've double-checked this?
Triple-checked. She's not
reappeared. She's gone.
That doesn't mean she's been killed.
No. She may have
disappeared voluntarily.
She may have committed suicide.
She may have been in an accident.
But it's worth checking out.
The girl who reported her missing lives
right around here.
And you've been in
contact with her already?
She's waiting for me now, yes.
Okay, fine. But Erik
will go with you.
Fine.
No, you never stop
thinking about someone
who has just disappeared.
The police took me seriously, but
yeah, they dropped the case.
At first I was pissed off.
But eventually I began
to think they were right.
Right about?
That Tina had just gone her own way.
That she'd disappeared
to the ends of the earth.
She wouldn't be
the first to just leave.
But then she may not
have exactly been
a flawless child.
What do you mean?
I don't think she had
contact with her family.
She seemed very Alone?
She was quite
There was a lot of partying.
And after just a few weeks in her
summer job she was fired.
Was she on anything?
Substances?
Did you go to the
police several times?
I thought the police knew best.
I don't know about the
investigation
I don't think there was any
investigation.
I never had the
impression there was?
I'm sure they went through
what they found.
I don't fucking know.
Everyone who reports a tip
to the police thinks
it's the most important
thing in the world.
You know how many tips
we get in a year?
Here in the district?
Yeah, how many can it be?
-It's not London, is it?
-Fuck, Maja.
This police district is bigger than
London, are you aware of that?
I realise we're not a big city.
But obviously, with a couple
of officers and four fucking
hours of driving in each direction
But still A missing girl?
And please don't make
excuses that she was
probably a drug addict.
This is just so fucking typical, they
couldn't give a fuck about women
They're not even aware that
they're doing it themselves,
it's just inherited behaviour
after thousands of years.
Tina went missing in June 2008.
We have to map that whole week.
It means knowing what
the weather was like.
What was on TV.
What was in the newspaper.
What people were talking about.
When the buses left.
We need to find out whether
there were sports events,
or church.
Anything unusual need to be noted.
In short, we'll do what
the police normally do
or should do when
women are reported missing.
On Monday, a head-on
collision at the Church crossing.
In the afternoon of the
same day, something with
a stolen bicycle, but then
it turns up again.
On Tuesday there's some shoplifting,
but no charges were made.
Yeah, there's also something
about a farmer calling in
regarding a quarrel
with a neighbour.
Wednesday is a completely quiet day.
And on Thursday there's a
complaint about loud music
from a terraced house, but
they calm down before
eleven o'clock, so nothing happened.
On Friday and Saturday
there's a village party,
and then there's always
some nise, but nothing that
the police couldn't calm down.
And on Sunday there was just
a few kids causing some damage
at the school. Doing grafitti.
What's the chances that anything
here has got anything
to do with anything?
Impossible to say.
But whatever happened
that week, pure statistics
show that some of this is
likely to be different
connected with the disapperance.
What kind of statistics?
That's what I'm writing about.
If you look at all the major
murder cases, it's almost
without exception that you'll
find some minor details, or
incidents, that are overlooked,
which turn out to be important
for the case in retrospect.
Do you have an example?
Yes. There was a case in
Manchester.
A small issue came up
with a rental car.
The perpetrator handed
in his rental car too late.
A penalty fee had been issued,
and that then went to a
debt collection agency.
If the investigators had
looked into that penalty,
they might have had suspicions
about the man. The perpetrator
had signed and rented the
car with his full name,
and identified himself.
So if they only tracked him
they'd have seen that he
crossed all the significant
points on the timeline.
Now it's routine for the police in
England to check all
car rental companies in the area.
It's now known that particularly
violent killers have a
number of character flaws.
Killers are often narcissists, who
feel above the law. And that
kind of man couldn't
give a shit about paying bills.
They're not afraid of any
debt collector.
That's just how it is.
Pure statistics. So now it's in
the algorithm.
We program the artificial
intelligence to see connections.
So what are we overlooking here?
I'm not saying they get
everything right.
I'm just saying that being
an officer in the districts
is like being a firefighter in hell.
It just doesn't work.
You're doomed to fail.
No matter what you do.
The distances are too great.
I'm not talking about expecting
to see large teams of investigators
running around here.
What I'm talking about is
bothering to follow up on a tip.
It can't be that a police officer
just decides whether he
feels like following up
a case or not?
Please tell me that's
not what you think!
That everything should work
exactly the same within
the country's borders, it's just an
illusion. It's such a social
democratic vision, that everyone
should behave exactly the same,
no matter where you live.
But look around.
Look out the window.
It's not possible.
There's one bus a day. Until the
eighties, entire villages were
closed when the snow came.
You know. I was with an
old police chief one day
It was in the late nineties.
You know, all reporters have this
idea to make an article called
"a day with the police", right.
That was it.
So we had our morning coffee
with him, and then there was
a call about a missing person.
I was concerned and I didn't really
understand how the old police chief
could be so calm and relaxed,
completely "cool".
Eventually we went out in the car
and started driving to that farm.
There inside we found the old girl
who'd made the call.
The husband was gone.
What happens then?
We sit down for a coffee.
I didn't understand a thing, so I
just sat there listening,
keeping my mouth shut.
Eventually we put our boots on, and
I didn't understand why,
but the police chief went
down to the barn.
And I followed him.
I remember walking right behind him,
and then we came up on the barn bridge,
and i could see
the tracks up to the bridge.
Then he opened it and went in, and
he asked me to wait outside.
So I stood outside and waited.
You know the feeling you get
when you know something's wrong.
I'm standing there, waiting.
Looked in.
There, I saw the legs hanging
from the ceiling.
Then he waved me in.
I went inside.
I pulled out the camera, took loads
of pictures, and i knew then and there
that i would never use those
pictures for anything.
I was never even going to develop them.
Suicide?
Well, people die.
The point is that he could have
called the forensics.
He could have asked for
assistance from the Special Forces.
But what good would that have done?
He was dead.
We saw he was dead.
The wife knew he was dead.
So what would be the point in that?
No investigation?
We know people are killed.
Maybe it was the neighbor who
had quarreled with him and killed
him and hung him up on the ceiling?
Maybe it was his wife and lover who
had taken his life? Maybe it was the
KGB or the CIA or the Govornment?
Does it matter?
It wouldn't have made a difference.
But a girl who's just disappeared?
Maja. Nobody is perfect.
Do you live here now or what?
What was the issue with that
neighbour quarrel?
A regular thing
There was a farmer who thought
someone had trespassed
on his property.
Repeatedly. Many calls. Accused the
neighbour Some things with the
plot boundaries.
He meant that someone had been on
the property?
Yeah, the neighbour.
Why did he think it was the neighbour?
- Did the police follow it up?
- No.
Because they thought it was an
ongoing issue?
You see that.
They didn't take it seriously
because they'd received too many
similar inquiries.
- What?
- The police don't follow up on
a tip, because they think it's about
something else.
It's classic.
These are the properties.
Fuck, that neighbor quarrel really
took off.
- What happened?
- Typical Norwegian neighbor wars.
Charges of vandalism. Theft of
tools, driving across the property
in the middle of the night.
Death threats and threatening
phone calls. And the rest. It was
practically a small war zone out here.
As far as I understand, the quarrel
began about the property boundary.
And that must be around here.
And then it went back and forth
like that for years.
There must be enough land here
for everyone.
What did you say about driving on
the property?
No, it was something about an
incorrectly parked van.
Were there any dates on those
reports?
Lets see
incorrectly parked car
Yeah. June 2008.
There's the farmer.
I'll have a chat with him.
Hi. Are you the man
who runs this place?
Yes.
Have you ran it for long?
Well six years.
My name is Maja Angell. I work for
the police. My collegue and i
are looking at some old missing
person cases. There was a girl who
went missing here before your time.
And this is perhaps a strange question
but if you, purely hypothetically,
had killed someone here
where would you hide the body?
Johan!
I think we have a breakthrough.
Emma said that she and Tina were
dropped off in the city center around
half past two on the night of June
27 by a friend who was driving
an illegal taxi. Emma went home,
while Tina continued along the road.
A couple of hours later, around dawn,
a phone call came from Moholt farm
about unauthorized persons
on the property.
To get from the center to the farm,
you have to drive the same road
that Tina walked on.
So you think there's a possible
connection between the call
from this farmer and Tina Danielsen?
A van was reported to have passed
several times.
Along with the fact that several
reports were received about
unauthorized persons on the property.
I want us to do a search there.
It was Enoksen who was the police
chief then.
I want to talk to him
before we do anything else.
Afternoon.
- Good to see you again.
- Likewise.
We're taking a look at some old
cases, Gunnar.
It may be that things look a little
different in the light of day.
Maja has studied criminology and
psychology in London.
She's helping with the Sofiecase.
Yes, that was a horrible case.
Mhm. Especially if it was a case
that could have been avoided.
We're here because of a missing
person report that wasn't followed up.
You never know.
No, that's right.
You could never follow up
everything, just like it is today?
Even if some people
believe there's unlimited resources.
No one believes that. I grew up
here, I know how things work.
We're looking for a violent
perpetrator who may have
committed several assaults,
maybe murders,
over a period of ten to twenty years.
I don't know if you remember.
Tina Danielsen was reported missing
by a friend in 2008.
22 years old, she was in Nerbygd
in connection with a summer job.
Disappeared on the way home
from a party.
But the report wasn't followed up.
I want to find out whether Tina was
killed by the same man as Sofie.
If we didn't follow up on that
report, then we will have
had good reasons not to.
The disappearance coincides with
other reports that weren't followed up.
Among other things, on Moholt farm.
We'd like to conduct a search there,
but we'd like to know what you think.
Maybe you're looking in the wrong place?
Or maybe you're not quite
sure what you're looking for?
Or who? Maybe you have
the wrong priorities.
You never know.
Anything we should consider,
or know about?
Not that I can think of.
But if you're looking
for a serial killer,
I have very little faith in that.
No faith in that at all.
See you. Thanks.
You didn't exactly get him on side.
What kind of method was that?
You behaved like a spoiled brat.
What kind of method is it to creep
up and lick his arse?
You were behaving like you're
scared of an old, decrepit pensioner.
What the fuck is the probability
that this case has anything to do
with the Sofie case?
Woman. 22. 53 kilos.
Far from home. Poor economy.
Just lost her job.
Possible drug addict.
She's a textbook example
of a victim profile.
And to be honest, we owe it to them
to investigate this.
We owe what to whom?
A young woman was reported missing
and police didn't do shit.
We owe it to everyone to
look at this case.
All right, we'll start the search.
But you better fucking find
something in that cellar.
Hey?
What are you really doing?
Down there by the garages.
I saw Billy.
No one's doing anything wrong.
But what. Does she get paid?
Of course she gets paid.
But it doesn't matter.
Anyway, fuck it. We've all done it.
It takes maybe ten minutes, and you
get paid as much as you would
working three days in this shit job.
Ten minutes?
It doesn't bother me jerking those
idiots off.
Two thousand kroner.
Sofie
You knew her, right?
The girl who was killed.
She worked here.
What is it you actually want?
I'm just wondering what really
happened to her.
Did she?
What do you think?