Gidseltagningen (2017) s01e08 Episode Script
Episode 8
1 Copenhagen in terror and fear Held hostage for 6 months before escaping, Philip is a hero.
Philip is leading the PET Anti-Terrorism Unit.
How long have you been held hostages? - 6 months.
Did you know it was Mark down there? - No, I thought they were dead.
What happens now to Philip? - I know you're dying to hear what Philip has to say.
But there's no point without an overall view.
Until proven otherwise, I'm head of the TTF.
Why everyone thinks Philip was the only hostage? Philip was following my orders.
You knew and never told me.
- Sometimes you just can't save them.
Everything ok? - I feel put aside.
You're free to go, but I suggest you stay here.
I'd like to help.
I could come for one last live interview with all the hostages.
Three minutes per hostage.
At my signal now! Two down.
- I pulled the pin, stand back! Everybody out! Send Philip down.
- No way.
Send Philip or they die.
- I'm coming.
DAY 8 What about Jim? His foot is gone, he won't last long.
We should talk to Ahmad.
If Jim dies, he ain't gonna get anything.
If he thinks Jim is dying, he'll take him to the desert and cut his head off on camera.
Then load it up on YouTube.
How I miss daily routine problems.
Like what? Hof or Tuborg? Croissant yes or no? - Pizza or burger? Eat out or takeaway? "Pork, beef or shrimp? Same stuff anyway.
" He can count only on us.
We gotta get him out of here.
- We will.
The first one out will help the others.
Stop! Let me see your hands.
On your knees.
On the floor.
Hands behind your back.
So, Philip great war hero Get up.
What are you doing, Mark? I wanna chat with you.
- About what? Mark what's behind all this? There's you.
Are you there? Philip, tell them what I just did.
He just strapped 100 grams of Semtex on me.
Relax up there, you'll hear from us.
Shit! Mark what are you doing? I need your attention, please.
We've contacted your families, they can't wait to see you.
If you wanna stay here a bit more though, that won't be a problem.
You may be of help in saving the others.
We wanna stay here until everyone else is rescued.
- Alright, thanks.
We're doing everything in our power to get them out.
We will save them.
Louise.
- Have you got my money? It's here, what do we have to do? - Put it all in a gym bag.
Then one man alone will bring the bag to 55° 54' 39" 21' 37" east.
If the man is followed, I'll blow up the Semtex and kill the hostage.
Alone and in contact with me all the time.
- Ok, Mark.
About the others - I'll let them go when I have the money.
Money keeps them alive so no tricks.
It's a trail in Hareskoven.
Obviously, he'll take the money himself.
- How do we carry this out? One of ours will be in the car.
How do we trace the money? - We won't.
We don't know how he would react.
- We'll constantly have an eye on our man.
Alright, the.
Let's move.
It's just a delivery, be careful.
- Of course.
Good luck.
- thanks.
Kold here.
Ready to go.
The money's being transferred as we speak.
Tell your contact they will have it soon.
And you're certain they will honor our agreement Ok, thank you.
What happens now? - I have no idea.
So, Philip what shall we talk about? Is Jim alive too? Is he still there? - Yes, he's still there.
The money is to get him home.
He lasted way longer than I thought but now he needs to get out.
If I knew you were alive, I'd have done something.
I'd love to hear your side of the story but let's call Naja too.
I think she earned the chance to do the last interview.
Don't you think it's time to make everything public? Naja.
- I must say you've put up a great act yesterday.
You're braver than I thought.
- What do you want? I wanna give you the best story Philip's story.
How do you plan to do it? - I'll let you know.
When? - I'll make the interview, you'll put it on your blog.
We're on at 12 o'clock.
Behave for the hostages' sake.
Roger.
I'll spread the word.
We cannot authorize an interview now.
Why not? - It's too risky.
Orders from above.
Philip's down there with other 3.
- What's risky is creating a state of confrontation.
I told you orders from above.
- I don't take orders from your bosses.
This time you do.
We'll pretend to agree and buy time but no interview.
The money has arrived.
- Naja, we need to work now.
Thanks.
Naja - When someone from above decides what can or can't be aired something's not right.
- Yes, but there are hostages involved this time.
Mark Hald sent our man through the woods.
We're listening.
Over, Michael.
300 meters ahead of you there's a dirt road through the woods.
I'm on it.
You'll see a tree with a red X on it.
I see it.
Leave the road and enter the woods.
- I'm proceeding.
In 2 minutes you'll find a clearing, wait there in the middle of it.
Roger.
I'm at the clearing.
Have you dropped the bag? - Yes.
Turn around and go back to the car.
Is it alright? - Seems so.
- Check it for bugs.
It's clean.
- Good, go to the rendezvous point.
We have no visual contact.
- Ok.
I got the money, everything looks fine.
Money delivered.
- Ok, Sammy.
Now we're even.
Mark tell Jim I'm sorry Naja is gone, she took everything with her.
Who's gonna call her? Cramer to inner fence.
Have you seen the reporter? Over.
Her phone is off.
- Clausen from KST.
I need a search between Langebro and Knippelsbro.
Hi.
- Hi, Naja.
- I'm gonna need your wi-fi.
Hans, look.
- What? Switch to the big screen.
Ok, Philip Nørgaard lets start by telling how we met.
You, me and Jim.
We were held hostages together.
- Who? You, me and Jim.
- Do you remember when we first met? When we ended up in the same cell.
- You were surprised to see us, weren't you? Yes.
- Why? I had heard you were dead.
- Where did you hear that? Your Captain said that.
He said you all got hit by a grenade and you all died.
You weren't there for long though, you managed to escape.
Tell us about your daring escape.
How could you escape from a place full of guards in the middle of the desert? You built a great career on it, I'm sure they all wanna hear the whole story.
Did you do as I did? Took advantage of a guard's distraction, and followed the North Star up to the border? Is that how you did it? How did you escape? I never escaped.
I was ransomed.
You were ransomed.
You can say goodbye to your friends.
How is he? - He gotta get out of here.
I'll start the negotiations soon as I get home, you're not staying here.
The car is here, come on.
"Yalla", my friend.
It's time.
I'll get you out.
Go.
They paid for you.
My father.
He used his influence to get me free.
Did you tell me anything else before leaving us? I promised to help you.
- You promised to get us out.
Yes.
- Then why nothing ever happened? Welcome back, Philip.
- Thanks.
Sit down.
Thanks for your help with the ransom, I'm very grateful.
No need to thank anyone officially, it never happened.
We can't let out the voice that a ransom has been paid for a Danish soldier.
How will you do that? - We'll say you escaped.
I escaped? - You were the only hostage and you heroically escaped.
I can't go around saying that I escaped! - I'm sure it won't be a problem instead.
No, PÃ¥l, I can't no one will ever believe that! They're gonna believe it because I will confirm.
You'll get a medal I can't - You have to! Philip if the word gets out that we paid a ransom every Danish soldier out there will become a target.
You're a hero learn to live with that.
- What about Jim and Mark? Negotiations are going well but if this goes public, it's over.
They'll raise the price to 100 million dollars and that would be a death sentence.
You were alone, Philip and you escaped.
The very next time I spoke to PÃ¥l, he told me you got killed during a drone attack.
He told me US Navy Seals had confirmed your death.
That's weird given that we'd been in the same place all the time.
Sometimes, a guard would show us videos of Denmark on YouTube.
"This man here today, Philip Nørgaard " is a true hero.
" Remember that? Yes.
I have betrayed you.
I should have done more.
I'm sorry, Mark I'm sorry.
Can you ever forgive me? Yes.
Doesn't it feel good to tell the truth? I should have done it long time ago.
Hello? So you're letting him go.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
He's coming home.
It's over.
Out.
Get in the elevator.
Stop.
Done.
Two minutes and you'll be out, don't try anything stupid.
I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
Jim.
I want it to be you who arrests me.
I'm a soldier and I will surrender to a soldier.
Roger.
It's them! Joachim I'm Louise, the negotiator The cop who came down - He was sitting with explosives around his waist.
How's Mark? - He just got a text hi! A text? - Yes, he looked upset nobody noticed Thanks.
Mark got a phone message in the last 5-10 minutes.
I'm ready.
I'd like to get out the same way I got in.
- Alright.
Expand the parameters.
- This is every data in the area in the past 20 minutes.
Go back slowly.
We gotta get Philip out! - We're on.
Over.
Shall we go? Yes.
Philip will you look after him when he comes back? Of course.
- Thanks.
Philip, stop there.
- Cramer? Mark, let Philip go.
- I gave myself up, we're going out.
He's not armed, I have it under control.
Mark, lay on the ground, hands behind your back.
Now.
Philip Call your partner and get them to retreat.
Hello? - Louise, it's me.
Mark is under control, let us out.
- Philip Jim killed himself Mark just knew it.
Mark - Don't do it! I didn't want to get out like this anyway.
- Put it down! Cramer! - Mark, put down the gun! I give you one warning! - Mark, come on, Mark I'm not going up with you.
- Cramer, stand back! I have orders - I'm changing the order! You don't take orders from Louise or Hans, you take orders from the TTF commanding officer! I'm giving you a direct order: take your men and get back! Daniel, let me take care of this.
I'll deal with him.
Mark we can both start over from here.
There's nothing for me after this.
- There is! Let it go, we still have a chess game to finish.
Don't you remember? You lost that long time ago, Philip.
You really suck at chess.
What about the beer we were supposed to have? Hof or Tuborg? Brown bread or white bread? - Pork, beef or shrimp? It's all the same.
- It's all the same.
Everything's fine.
Philip are you ok? - Yes Mark is dead.
Philip is ok, Mark is dead.
Come on, Leon! I wasn't expecting you.
Hi, love! I missed you so much.
Philip When they let you out, I'd like to hear your music.
It might be a little too unusual for you.
You're saying I can't get avant-guard music? - No, I'm saying that I don't get it either! Well, then you'll explain it to me over lunch.
- I'll be happy to.
Hi, Naja.
Danish Minister of Defense was fired today and the future of Philip Nørgaard, chief of TTF, is still uncertain.
Authorities are examining his role and responsibilities.
This concludes the 8 days drama in Marmorkirken.
We'd be happy to have you back.
You'll have your own team, choose your producer - I don't wanna be on the screen anymore, Karin.
What then? - I wanna be on the field.
Welcome back.
- Thanks.
What I want to do is thank you.
For your professionalism, for your determination for everything you've done.
I hope we'll never find ourselves in such situation, but if we do it's you I wanna work with.
Now go home and get some sleep.
Philip! Hi.
Thanks for the cooperation, despite everything.
I lied to you.
If only you had trusted me - I couldn't trust myself.
Sorry.
Roger.
You're staying here? - Yes.
Can I join you? - Yes.
When you were 2, you broke your arm.
- I don't remember that.
I took you to the hospital.
They thought it was dislocated, so they tried to fix it.
The strange thing is that you never even cried.
Not when it happened, not when they were pulling the arm.
You suffered everything as if it was some kind of destiny for you.
You were just holding my hand.
From when we left home, till you fell asleep at night.
I slept by your side with my coat on, I was afraid of letting your hand go.
You did never let go.
Dad Everything will be fine, son.
Philip is leading the PET Anti-Terrorism Unit.
How long have you been held hostages? - 6 months.
Did you know it was Mark down there? - No, I thought they were dead.
What happens now to Philip? - I know you're dying to hear what Philip has to say.
But there's no point without an overall view.
Until proven otherwise, I'm head of the TTF.
Why everyone thinks Philip was the only hostage? Philip was following my orders.
You knew and never told me.
- Sometimes you just can't save them.
Everything ok? - I feel put aside.
You're free to go, but I suggest you stay here.
I'd like to help.
I could come for one last live interview with all the hostages.
Three minutes per hostage.
At my signal now! Two down.
- I pulled the pin, stand back! Everybody out! Send Philip down.
- No way.
Send Philip or they die.
- I'm coming.
DAY 8 What about Jim? His foot is gone, he won't last long.
We should talk to Ahmad.
If Jim dies, he ain't gonna get anything.
If he thinks Jim is dying, he'll take him to the desert and cut his head off on camera.
Then load it up on YouTube.
How I miss daily routine problems.
Like what? Hof or Tuborg? Croissant yes or no? - Pizza or burger? Eat out or takeaway? "Pork, beef or shrimp? Same stuff anyway.
" He can count only on us.
We gotta get him out of here.
- We will.
The first one out will help the others.
Stop! Let me see your hands.
On your knees.
On the floor.
Hands behind your back.
So, Philip great war hero Get up.
What are you doing, Mark? I wanna chat with you.
- About what? Mark what's behind all this? There's you.
Are you there? Philip, tell them what I just did.
He just strapped 100 grams of Semtex on me.
Relax up there, you'll hear from us.
Shit! Mark what are you doing? I need your attention, please.
We've contacted your families, they can't wait to see you.
If you wanna stay here a bit more though, that won't be a problem.
You may be of help in saving the others.
We wanna stay here until everyone else is rescued.
- Alright, thanks.
We're doing everything in our power to get them out.
We will save them.
Louise.
- Have you got my money? It's here, what do we have to do? - Put it all in a gym bag.
Then one man alone will bring the bag to 55° 54' 39" 21' 37" east.
If the man is followed, I'll blow up the Semtex and kill the hostage.
Alone and in contact with me all the time.
- Ok, Mark.
About the others - I'll let them go when I have the money.
Money keeps them alive so no tricks.
It's a trail in Hareskoven.
Obviously, he'll take the money himself.
- How do we carry this out? One of ours will be in the car.
How do we trace the money? - We won't.
We don't know how he would react.
- We'll constantly have an eye on our man.
Alright, the.
Let's move.
It's just a delivery, be careful.
- Of course.
Good luck.
- thanks.
Kold here.
Ready to go.
The money's being transferred as we speak.
Tell your contact they will have it soon.
And you're certain they will honor our agreement Ok, thank you.
What happens now? - I have no idea.
So, Philip what shall we talk about? Is Jim alive too? Is he still there? - Yes, he's still there.
The money is to get him home.
He lasted way longer than I thought but now he needs to get out.
If I knew you were alive, I'd have done something.
I'd love to hear your side of the story but let's call Naja too.
I think she earned the chance to do the last interview.
Don't you think it's time to make everything public? Naja.
- I must say you've put up a great act yesterday.
You're braver than I thought.
- What do you want? I wanna give you the best story Philip's story.
How do you plan to do it? - I'll let you know.
When? - I'll make the interview, you'll put it on your blog.
We're on at 12 o'clock.
Behave for the hostages' sake.
Roger.
I'll spread the word.
We cannot authorize an interview now.
Why not? - It's too risky.
Orders from above.
Philip's down there with other 3.
- What's risky is creating a state of confrontation.
I told you orders from above.
- I don't take orders from your bosses.
This time you do.
We'll pretend to agree and buy time but no interview.
The money has arrived.
- Naja, we need to work now.
Thanks.
Naja - When someone from above decides what can or can't be aired something's not right.
- Yes, but there are hostages involved this time.
Mark Hald sent our man through the woods.
We're listening.
Over, Michael.
300 meters ahead of you there's a dirt road through the woods.
I'm on it.
You'll see a tree with a red X on it.
I see it.
Leave the road and enter the woods.
- I'm proceeding.
In 2 minutes you'll find a clearing, wait there in the middle of it.
Roger.
I'm at the clearing.
Have you dropped the bag? - Yes.
Turn around and go back to the car.
Is it alright? - Seems so.
- Check it for bugs.
It's clean.
- Good, go to the rendezvous point.
We have no visual contact.
- Ok.
I got the money, everything looks fine.
Money delivered.
- Ok, Sammy.
Now we're even.
Mark tell Jim I'm sorry Naja is gone, she took everything with her.
Who's gonna call her? Cramer to inner fence.
Have you seen the reporter? Over.
Her phone is off.
- Clausen from KST.
I need a search between Langebro and Knippelsbro.
Hi.
- Hi, Naja.
- I'm gonna need your wi-fi.
Hans, look.
- What? Switch to the big screen.
Ok, Philip Nørgaard lets start by telling how we met.
You, me and Jim.
We were held hostages together.
- Who? You, me and Jim.
- Do you remember when we first met? When we ended up in the same cell.
- You were surprised to see us, weren't you? Yes.
- Why? I had heard you were dead.
- Where did you hear that? Your Captain said that.
He said you all got hit by a grenade and you all died.
You weren't there for long though, you managed to escape.
Tell us about your daring escape.
How could you escape from a place full of guards in the middle of the desert? You built a great career on it, I'm sure they all wanna hear the whole story.
Did you do as I did? Took advantage of a guard's distraction, and followed the North Star up to the border? Is that how you did it? How did you escape? I never escaped.
I was ransomed.
You were ransomed.
You can say goodbye to your friends.
How is he? - He gotta get out of here.
I'll start the negotiations soon as I get home, you're not staying here.
The car is here, come on.
"Yalla", my friend.
It's time.
I'll get you out.
Go.
They paid for you.
My father.
He used his influence to get me free.
Did you tell me anything else before leaving us? I promised to help you.
- You promised to get us out.
Yes.
- Then why nothing ever happened? Welcome back, Philip.
- Thanks.
Sit down.
Thanks for your help with the ransom, I'm very grateful.
No need to thank anyone officially, it never happened.
We can't let out the voice that a ransom has been paid for a Danish soldier.
How will you do that? - We'll say you escaped.
I escaped? - You were the only hostage and you heroically escaped.
I can't go around saying that I escaped! - I'm sure it won't be a problem instead.
No, PÃ¥l, I can't no one will ever believe that! They're gonna believe it because I will confirm.
You'll get a medal I can't - You have to! Philip if the word gets out that we paid a ransom every Danish soldier out there will become a target.
You're a hero learn to live with that.
- What about Jim and Mark? Negotiations are going well but if this goes public, it's over.
They'll raise the price to 100 million dollars and that would be a death sentence.
You were alone, Philip and you escaped.
The very next time I spoke to PÃ¥l, he told me you got killed during a drone attack.
He told me US Navy Seals had confirmed your death.
That's weird given that we'd been in the same place all the time.
Sometimes, a guard would show us videos of Denmark on YouTube.
"This man here today, Philip Nørgaard " is a true hero.
" Remember that? Yes.
I have betrayed you.
I should have done more.
I'm sorry, Mark I'm sorry.
Can you ever forgive me? Yes.
Doesn't it feel good to tell the truth? I should have done it long time ago.
Hello? So you're letting him go.
Thank you.
Goodbye.
He's coming home.
It's over.
Out.
Get in the elevator.
Stop.
Done.
Two minutes and you'll be out, don't try anything stupid.
I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
Jim.
I want it to be you who arrests me.
I'm a soldier and I will surrender to a soldier.
Roger.
It's them! Joachim I'm Louise, the negotiator The cop who came down - He was sitting with explosives around his waist.
How's Mark? - He just got a text hi! A text? - Yes, he looked upset nobody noticed Thanks.
Mark got a phone message in the last 5-10 minutes.
I'm ready.
I'd like to get out the same way I got in.
- Alright.
Expand the parameters.
- This is every data in the area in the past 20 minutes.
Go back slowly.
We gotta get Philip out! - We're on.
Over.
Shall we go? Yes.
Philip will you look after him when he comes back? Of course.
- Thanks.
Philip, stop there.
- Cramer? Mark, let Philip go.
- I gave myself up, we're going out.
He's not armed, I have it under control.
Mark, lay on the ground, hands behind your back.
Now.
Philip Call your partner and get them to retreat.
Hello? - Louise, it's me.
Mark is under control, let us out.
- Philip Jim killed himself Mark just knew it.
Mark - Don't do it! I didn't want to get out like this anyway.
- Put it down! Cramer! - Mark, put down the gun! I give you one warning! - Mark, come on, Mark I'm not going up with you.
- Cramer, stand back! I have orders - I'm changing the order! You don't take orders from Louise or Hans, you take orders from the TTF commanding officer! I'm giving you a direct order: take your men and get back! Daniel, let me take care of this.
I'll deal with him.
Mark we can both start over from here.
There's nothing for me after this.
- There is! Let it go, we still have a chess game to finish.
Don't you remember? You lost that long time ago, Philip.
You really suck at chess.
What about the beer we were supposed to have? Hof or Tuborg? Brown bread or white bread? - Pork, beef or shrimp? It's all the same.
- It's all the same.
Everything's fine.
Philip are you ok? - Yes Mark is dead.
Philip is ok, Mark is dead.
Come on, Leon! I wasn't expecting you.
Hi, love! I missed you so much.
Philip When they let you out, I'd like to hear your music.
It might be a little too unusual for you.
You're saying I can't get avant-guard music? - No, I'm saying that I don't get it either! Well, then you'll explain it to me over lunch.
- I'll be happy to.
Hi, Naja.
Danish Minister of Defense was fired today and the future of Philip Nørgaard, chief of TTF, is still uncertain.
Authorities are examining his role and responsibilities.
This concludes the 8 days drama in Marmorkirken.
We'd be happy to have you back.
You'll have your own team, choose your producer - I don't wanna be on the screen anymore, Karin.
What then? - I wanna be on the field.
Welcome back.
- Thanks.
What I want to do is thank you.
For your professionalism, for your determination for everything you've done.
I hope we'll never find ourselves in such situation, but if we do it's you I wanna work with.
Now go home and get some sleep.
Philip! Hi.
Thanks for the cooperation, despite everything.
I lied to you.
If only you had trusted me - I couldn't trust myself.
Sorry.
Roger.
You're staying here? - Yes.
Can I join you? - Yes.
When you were 2, you broke your arm.
- I don't remember that.
I took you to the hospital.
They thought it was dislocated, so they tried to fix it.
The strange thing is that you never even cried.
Not when it happened, not when they were pulling the arm.
You suffered everything as if it was some kind of destiny for you.
You were just holding my hand.
From when we left home, till you fell asleep at night.
I slept by your side with my coat on, I was afraid of letting your hand go.
You did never let go.
Dad Everything will be fine, son.