Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes (2021) s01e05 Episode Script

1
[Live] I don't know what He, um just
[doctor] You don't understand yet?
- [rapid bleeping]
- [groaning]
- Give me the syringe.
- [Reinert moaning]
Aren't you a nurse? Give me the syringe.
Come on, quick. Come on.
- [rapid bleeping]
- [Reinert moaning]
[groaning]
- Go out and make sure no one comes in.
- [wheezing]
[Reinert yelling]
[rapid bleeping continues]
[Reinert moaning]
[coughing[
[bleeping slowing]
[moaning stops]
[steady bleeping]
A NETFLIX SERIES
[opening song in Norwegian plays]
HALLANGEN FUNERAL AGENCY
PARKEN SHOPPING CENTRE
[knocking]
Frode, I have some good news.
Has someone died?
No, I'm going to be a papa.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
But I wondered if it would be possible
for a tiny bit of a deferral because of
Oof. You're bankrupt.
Nothing I can do about it.
[sighs] Are you a hundred percent sure
you're not able to help me?
If you're able to make a down payment
of 30,000 kroner in the next two days,
then I can get a deferral.
Okay. 30,000?
Is that realistic?
Yeah, no, no, no
Yeah, that's no problem.
[chuckles]
[dog barking]
- [splash]
- [frog croaking]
[yelling]
[panting]
[sobbing]
[sighs heavily]
INNLANDET HOSPITAL
[siren wailing[
[phones ringing]
[nurse sighs]
- Hi. Hi, there.
- Hi.
I wondered if I could speak with
the doctor of Reinert Tisthamar?
- [nurse] Uh, yes.
- [long bleep]
[birdsong]
[long bleep]
Hi.
Hi.
You are a very lucky man, Reinert.
Do you remember anything
of what happened in the last two days?
- You're awake.
- [doctor] Yes, he just woke up.
Good. Does he remember anything?
Do you remember anything, Reinert?
You were found out in the woods somewhere
with Live. Naked. She was carrying you.
You had a bag over your head as well!
He has suffered a psychotic episode.
Psy psychosis?
Yes, a state of confusion
- that's triggered by something else.
- Yeah, but I can't have
- Psychosis isn't what I've got.
- It's fortunate Live ran after you
and calmed you down.
It was dangerous, but fortunate.
Can I go home now?
Don't you think it'd be sensible
to stay here for a few days?
- No, I'd rather be home.
- Your vitals are completely fine,
so you'll be discharged.
Nevertheless, if your general condition
changes, contact me.
I'd like you to come in
for a check-up next week.
Sverre! Sverre, you can't
discharge him now!
- No
- Not now, Live.
- But what will happen to him?
- We can't talk here!
[buzz of voices]
[sighs] You should go home and, uh
try to get some rest.
Then I'll come there.
I'll come over this evening
to explain the whole lot.
But
[Judith] Are you okay, Live?
[sighs] Uh
yeah.
[door opens]
Odd!
Odd?
Hey.
What's happened here?
Um I
Uh
You've got a customer in there.
- Huh?
- You have customer in there,
waiting to be seen.
- For me?
- Yes!
Oh.
Oh!
Better get in there.
Huh. Good day. Uh
[chuckles]
Relax. You don't have to offer
condolences or anything like that.
Yeah, I don't usually do that, but, uh
[chuckles]
Sit down.
[Martin sighs]
[Odd sighs]
So, what can I help you with?
A third cousin of mine.
- Yeah. Lovely feller.
- Hm?
Most of his life in Sweden, just died.
Yeah.
And it's important to me and the family
that his, uh grave
is here at home, in Skarnes.
I understand that. Mmm.
Yeah [sighs]
Yeah, I mean, with that kind of ceremony,
it's a large, uh job.
There are Death certificates
need to be produced first.
- Uh Death passports Lots of paperwork.
- What's the cost of that?
[sighs] Hmm
Huh. Phew
I mean, what's the cost of that? Uh
Drive over there
OVERDUE
Thirty thousand
Thirty thousand, that's perfect.
[chuckles]
- Thirty thousand.
- Yes.
[Madeleine] Come back!
I don't need much! Just a small sip!
Just to calm down. Please!
I must have it! Just a little, I must!
- Give me a little blood!
- [tape stops]
It was me who suggested
she should make these. [sighs]
- How do you know about Mama?
- When Madeleine came to Skarnes
she wasn't like others.
She first became aware of how different
when she became sick.
It was a night in December.
Arvid almost had to carry her
to the back door.
As far as I'm aware,
that was the first time she really
really tried hard to quit blood.
And that pain, all the madness
She was terrified I'd expose her,
but I did nothing other than help her.
You helped her?
We helped each other.
A doctor and a patient.
Medicine's existed
for thousands of years.
In the shape of witch doctors,
shamans, monks
Our mission is to cure sick people,
some pain relief,
extending people's lives.
What was it about her body that
enabled it to heal itself?
What was it that kept her young?
If I could manage to extract
these properties from her blood
and then begin to produce a vaccine
Oh, I could have
I could have found
the key to eternal life.
But you didn't, did you?
No.
We almost did, but then, Madeleine, she
Took her own life.
Judith!
- Judith?
- Mmm?
I can't find the last piece.
Have you seen it?
[Judith] It's probably
right under your nose.
[sighs] Hmm.
What is it?
[Judith sighs]
It was me who found Live.
I would have wagered
everything I own that she was dead.
Good thing you didn't do that, then.
[Judith sighs]
And then, just a few days later,
the death of their father,
after a hard blow to his chest.
Reinert, who has been in love
with Live forever,
he just disappears,
and nobody knows where.
After a few more days, he shows up again,
together with Live, in the forest
under the most curious of circumstances.
[sighs] And no one wants to say why.
Remember when you asked me to tell you
when you get too conspiratorial?
What do you mean by that?
[sighs] A handful of folk believe
you were responsible
- for driving Madeleine to her grave.
- Yes, I know that.
[Judith sighs]
Ever since you were little,
Madeleine felt that you were like her.
So she knew about this the whole time?
And never said anything?
She didn't want the thoughts
to control how your life was lived.
And who would have thought
that you would not die of natural causes?
Why'd you lie
about suspended animation, though?
To protect you.
The problem now
is that you have given this to Reinert.
But they believed it was
a seizure he suffered.
For the time being, yes.
But the hunger
Sooner or later,
he is going to kill innocent people.
There must be something that
we can do to stop that happening.
Yes. We have to burn him to stop him.
That's the only certain way to kill him.
[sighs]
[Live] Burn him? Are you shitting me?
- [Sverre] Yeah. I've seen this before.
- [Live] Yes, but he's like me.
- I know what
- [Sverre] Live, he isn't like you.
I gave him blood today, but
what happens when he doesn't get blood?
[Live] No, let me talk with him.
Like you should have talked with me.
Okay.
Until tomorrow, then.
But then, something must be done.
Take these with you.
One for him and one for you.
Thanks.
["Harde Tider" by Ole Paus plays]
Det er harde tider
Ingenting er hva det var ♪
Det er harde tider
Ingenting er hva det var ♪
Du har deg selv, og det er lite
Din mor er død, går det hardt ♪
Det er harde ♪
[grunts]
Ow!
I'll renovate the bathroom soon,
I assure you, honey.
Create a special baby room.
Fill up the pool again
gå ♪
Det er harde tider
Ingen steder kan du bo ♪
Du har deg selv, og det er lite
Er lite det å stole på ♪
Aaaow! ♪
[swallows]
[ringing tone]
You have reached the voicemail
of Detective Reinert
- [Odd sighs]
- of Skarnes sheriff's office
- Oh, yum. Smoothie!
- after the beep.
Yes, it's not for you.
Oh, just a little.
I'm going on a long trip and everything.
- Long trip?
- Yeah.
Just to Sweden, that is.
A Norwegian's fatal trip
to his neighbouring land.
And you know what? I make 30,000 cash,
- straight into the account.
- Check you out!
Don't even try to distract me
from those. Give me some.
No they're for Reinert.
I'm going to see him now.
- Before work?
- Yes.
Ooh.
- Ooh, ooh!
- Oh, for fuck's sake. Dickhead.
[chuckles] You like him.
[scoffs] I've known him for 20 years.
I haven't suddenly started liking him now.
I'm just trying
to look after him a little.
Gross.
What's in this?
Red beets?
Yeah.
Ugh. Tastes like devil shit.
- It's healthy, you know.
- I don't give a fuck. Yuck.
- I'm going.
- Okay.
- Bye!
- Bye!
[doorbell rings]
[birds squawking]
Reinert?
Hello?
Reinert, are you here?
Hello?
Hi.
Hi.
What are you doing here?
Uh
- I just wanted to talk to you about
- Shit. Now I'm gonna be late.
You shouldn't take at least
- a day off at home?
- No, I'm better off at work.
Okay.
Yes, anyway, I made some smoothies
for the Hallangen gang today.
If you want?
I'm not especially hungry.
You have to get some nutrition, as
- you look a little worn out.
- Yeah, thanks.
What if you have another seizure?
The doctor discharged me,
so I'm sure it's fine. [sighs]
[light fixture buzzing]
You remember that day
I woke up on the autopsy table?
After that, uh
I haven't had any sleep at night.
It's just my senses, I mean,
it's like they're tricking me.
- [gargling]
- Taste and smell and
It's all just It's just not the same.
I can hear people's pulses, even.
You saw it yourself that day
with Jettland. The day I pushed you.
You you feel you're going crazy,
is that right?
- That's because you need blood, the same
- Shush!
[Reinert] I have to get to work.
[engine revving]
Reinert!
Det klaprer på veien av hover mot grus ♪
Død mann rider ♪
Det klager en storm om ditt ♪
- Hi, Frode. It's Odd.
- Hi, Odd.
I'll come to the bank tomorrow.
I'll have the money.
- Great. Have you sorted it?
- Mmm.
It's like Papa used to say, you know?
"Death comes to everyone.
No one has survived it yet."
[door opens]
- Hi, Live.
- Hi.
Uh Where's Reinert?
We just thought he needed
a few days to get better after all
- [Judith] Live!
- [coughs]
Do you have a moment to come
into my office for a bit?
It won't take long. Five minutes.
- Um, yeah, I was really just
- Let's talk about yesterday, shall we?
[sighs]
- Yeah.
- A couple of things
I'm struggling to completely understand.
- I have to write a report about this.
- Okay.
That, uh evening when Arvid died
- [slurps]
- Isn't this all about Reinert?
Yeah, most of it is.
But it was Reinert who
investigated Arvid's death.
Uh Where were you when Arvid died?
[chuckles] I don't get what's going on.
This sounds like an interrogation.
Really?
A little.
Well, that's not how I mean it.
INTERNATIONAL BORDER
SWEDEN
HALLANGEN FUNERAL AGENCY
[bleep]
- [woman] Yes?
- Hi.
I'm from Hallangen Funeral Agency.
I've arrived to collect, uh
um, Bendik Kvale.
[static crackling]
Hello?
[sighs] He's not ready yet.
Come back tonight.
Oh.
[sighs]
All right.
[phone buzzing]
- Hi.
- Have you given him the blood?
No, not yet.
Live, you have to give him that blood now.
I I'm on my way to him now.
You don't want more lives
on your conscience, do you?
No, but wait.
I'm meeting him soon, and then
- Good.
- I'll make sure to speak to him. Okay?
- Good. Bye.
- Bye.
Fuck.
[panting]
[sighs]
[gasps]
[grunts]
[fizzing]
[groaning]
[techno music playing loudly
on car speakers]
- Hi.
- Hi.
That's quite a hearse you've got there.
- [chuckles]
- Thanks.
Hmm.
How do you afford something like that?
Well, you know
the result of good business.
Oh.
How'd you do that?
- Do what?
- Good business.
At least, how can you sell a coffin
for for 59,000 to someone grieving?
[chuckles] Listen, I don't sell them
to the people grieving.
I sell them to the deceased.
- The deceased?
- Yes.
But how do you know
what the deceased wanted?
I don't know that.
But neither do the people still here.
[door opens]
[woman] Hallangen?
- Uh, yeah, hi. Just a moment. [sighs]
- Come in.
Cheers.
[Odd sighs]
- Yep.
- One, two, three.
[grunts] Oh, wait, wait, wait.
[grunts] That's it.
[strains]
[sighs]
Ah. A heavy gentleman. [chuckles]
I guess it must be some big bones, then.
[sighs] Cause of death, do you know that?
- [sighs]
- What?
What did he die of?
Are you employed to be the driver?
Yeah.
Yeah. And I'm the pathologist.
Yeah.
Hmm.
[paper rustling]
Safe journey.
Thanks.
[door slams]
Hmm.
[rattling]
[indicator ticking]
[engine idling]
[squelching]
[gasps]
What the fuck am I driving for you?
[Martin] Come on.
You didn't really think you'd make 30,000
getting an ordinary dead body?
- 30,000, Odd. You need that money.
- [splutters]
Just get back to Skarnes now
and we'll figure it out.
[dialling tone]
Oh
Oh, fuck!
WHAT HAPPENED TO LIVE?
[phone buzzing]
- Hiya.
- [Judith's husband] Where are you?
- I'm at work.
- Still?
- Yeah.
- Yes, it's dinner time.
Your favourite. Bangers and kohlrabi mash.
I wouldn't bother with that, yeah? I'll go
to the petrol station on the way home.
Is it that Hallangen stuff?
Yes. [sighs]
Isn't it better to focus
on a case with solid evidence you have,
- and that you can prove?
- Such as what?
Well, like that drug find
in the library van, for example.
Yeah, I've already made the call to border
control to stop all the traffic for me.
[indicator ticking]
[horn beeps]
[dog barking]
Just there.
I'd like to see your driver's license.
[Odd gasping]
- [dog barking]
- [radio chatter]
[ringing tone]
Hi, you've reached Jettland.
Leave a message
- Fuck that.
- after the beep.
[sighs]
MAX HEATING
[air blasting]
[rattling]
[spraying]
Hi.
You haven't just seen a policeman
run past here just now?
N-No.
You had better move on from here.
- Why's that?
- Just, uh
- go home.
- Okay.
Okay? [panting]
[scoffs]
[dog barking]
[radio chatter]
Hmm. [sniffs]
Good evening, sir.
- Yes, uh
- Sorry about the queue.
Mm-hm.
I'd like to see
your license and registration.
Yeah, uh, let's see.
Here we are.
- Thanks a lot.
- That one
And
- And you're transporting
- Uh, a body.
A dead person.
Bendik, he was called. [chuckles]
- [dog whines]
- [radio chatter]
[sniffing]
[dog barking]
Can you come out
and open the, uh the back door, please?
Yeah, yeah.
[radio chatter continuing]
- You sure you'd like me to, uh
- Come on.
Yeah.
[gags and coughs[
- Do you want me to open the coffin too?
- God, no.
- Yep.
- You all right?
Yep. [sighs]
[dog barks and whines]
[breathing shakily]
[vomiting]
[phone buzzing]
[buzzing getting louder]
[panting]
[whooshing]
- [whooshing stops]
- [phone buzzing]
[heart pounding]
- [high-pitched whining]
- [phone continues buzzing]
[sounds fading]
[sounds stop]
Hi, this is Live. Leave a message.
Fuck!
[paint spraying]
Guys, let's get out of here.
Wait a minute.
Let him finish first.
[all laughing]
- Guys! It's a policeman!
- Guys, come on!
Quick, run!
[ringing tone]
[Reinert] You have reached
the voicemail of
[bridge creaking]
[boy] I'm sorry!
[Reinert screeching]
I'm sorry!
[panting]
[boy] I'm sorry!
Sorry!
[yells]
- [groans]
- [thump]
[Reinert breathing heavily]
[screams]
[Reinert growling]
[grunts]
[snorts]
[grunts softly]
[Live] Reinert?
Oh, no, no!
- [phone buzzing]
- Oh, no.
Yeah? It's Sverre.
I think something terrible's
been done by him.
Yes, almost, but I managed to stop him.
- How'd you know?
- I'm on my way to the old barn.
Can you meet me there? I need your help.
[panting]
[Martin] Oh, come on. If Odd can do it,
it can't possibly be that difficult.
[squelching]
[woman gasps]
She works as a librarian.
- Was a librarian.
- [Martin] Huh.
- Until she crashed the library van.
- Yeah.
[librarian sighs]
We'll take it from here, yeah, Odd?
Okay, so when can I
It's just business. Hm?
[ballad playing]
[fly buzzing]
- [sighs]
- [indicator ticking]
[knocking at door]
[Judith] Police.
- Yeah. Coming.
- [Judith] Open up.
Yeah, coming! Um
- Just a moment, uh
- Is that you, Odd?
They called and reported you were
in the toilet for, uh, two hours or more
It's usually junkies who
lock themselves in the toilet.
Yeah, it has been a little tough
since, uh, Papa died.
Economically.
Yeah.
Nobody dies in Skarnes.
No.
But I didn't expect it
to be so tough, though.
Now I don't really know what to do, so
Oh, there's always something you can do.
Mmm.
You could sell something
you don't have any use for.
The bank asked me to sell my car.
Would you believe that?
That would make it really easy
being a funeral director.
What about that storage unit?
Can't you sell that?
You suggest I sell my basement?
No, the storage unit
on the opposite side of the river.
I don't have storage
on the opposite side of the river.
Oh. Then I've misunderstood.
[panting]
[Live] What's going on?
What happened in the underpass?
[Sverre] I managed to stop him
and catch him.
He's hungry.
He is totally uncontrollable.
We must do it.
First, he has to drink this.
Without it, he'll break out.
If he bites me, then I'll get sick, too.
You have to give him this.
And then you must get out.
And then we'll keep him in.
And you'll set fire to the barn?
And then we'll set fire to the barn.
[Live sighs]
He was going to kill a child.
There are no options left.
[creaking]
[rattling]
Reinert?
[rustling]
Reinert?
[Live gasps]
What the fuck?
Reinert!
- [chain rattling]
- [thump]
[metal rattling outside]
[panting]
[fire roaring]
[gasping]
Sverre!
Sverre!
- [liquid splashing]
- Sverre, what are you doing?
- Stop! Sverre!
- [banging]
What are you doing?
I'm truly sorry, Live.
It was you.
I had to finish
what your mother and I started.
Now I don't need you any longer.
No, Sverre! Sverre, no! No!
No, no!
Reinert.
Reinert.
Reinert.
- [glass breaks]
- [fire roaring]
[grunting]
Sverre!
[gasps]
[groans]
[coughing]
[glass smashing]
[hissing]
[growling]
[roaring]
[snarling and panting]
[crashing]
[Live coughing]
[Reinert roaring]
[glass smashing]
[Reinert yells]
Reinert.
[Reinert roars]
- [roars]
- [screams]
[coughing]
[gasping]
[groans]
Sverre!
[Live screams]
Live, Live, Live. Listen to me.
- You killed me!
- I knew you would come back, Live!
- Yes, as a monster!
- Live, listen to me!
- Please, Live!
- [sobbing]
I can help you, I can give you blood!
So you can live a completely normal life!
[choking]
- [sobbing]
- Live, you aren't a murderer!
- Live
- [screams]
[Sverre choking and wheezing]
[gasping]
[coughs]
- [groaning]
- [gasps]
[sobbing]
- Live
- [Reinert roars]
- [Sverre groaning]
- [Live] Reinert!
- [snarling]
- No, Reinert!
Reinert!
- Reinert! Reinert!
- [yelling]
[Reinert gasping]
[moaning]
[panting]
Richard.
Richard?
Uh Yes, my love?
The day after the funeral for Arvid,
I saw Live pulling a stretcher.
- From their storage over the river.
- Oh.
Oh That's great, love
They don't have storage over the river.
- Oh, Judith
- No, I must do it.
[coughing and sobbing]
[crying continues]
I'm sorry.