The Helicopter Heist (2024) s01e08 Episode Script

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[bell rings]
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[quiet melancholy music plays]
SERBIAN POLICE INFORMED ABOUT THE ROBBERY
OVER A MONTH AGO
SUSPECTED YUGOSLAVIAN NETWORK
BEHIND THE HELICOPTER HEIS
[melancholy music continues]
[tapping on keyboard]
PHOTOS
[children chatter in distance]
[melancholy music continues]
[dog barks]
[engine revs]
[dog barks]
[melancholy music continues]
[tense music plays]
[engine revs]
[tense music continues]
[Leonie] Hey, listen. Apparently,
one of the robbers cut himself in here.
The forensics team
found multiple microscopic bloodstains.
[Mats] Weren't the robbers wearing gloves?
Could it be from one of our people?
No, there's blood on the ladder
and around the broken skylight.
They must have bled through them.
Uh, SKL said
they're fast-tracking the processing.
[Mats] Okay.
Uh, come in so we can have a debrief.
Okay, I'll be there. Bye.
[man 1] Another tip, uh, from County
Criminal Investigations, actually.
It's high priority.
Two Poles were seen at Indian Garden
talking about money
the day after the heist.
- [man 2] What does that mean?
- [man 1] Should we go after 'em?
[man 2] We already got 2,000 tips,
and people are still calling.
[Tamas] There's no way we can follow up
on all of them, even with County's help.
[man 1] It'll only get worse.
I just spoke to G4S.
Now they're offering a reward
for any tips that lead to arrests.
- Seven million kronor.
- [man 2] Seven million?
- [Willner] Idiots.
- [Mats] Seven million, huh?
We'll be drowning in calls.
We'll get a call a minute.
No way we'll keep up.
- [Mats] Yeah, no way.
- [Leonie] Guys.
We shouldn't get swept away
in tips and speculation.
We need to focus
on what we actually know right now,
and we know that a pilot, Axel Broberg,
met with Zoran Petrović
no more than three weeks before the heist.
- [Mats] Huh.
- Hm.
What's the story with Broberg right now?
What do we have on him so far?
Good question. What do we know?
Let's take a look.
Axel Broberg.
Thirty-six years old,
resident of Ljusterö. Uh, two kids.
Had 'em when he was young
with his high school sweetheart,
Vanna Andersson Broberg.
[sniffs]
[tense music plays]
[Vanna] Is something burning?
- Hey.
- What?
- [Vanna] Smells like something's burning.
- [Axel] What?
No! Damn it!
[man 1] They separated last year,
but they've since gotten back together.
- He used to work in television.
- Good job.
[man 1] He's since pivoted,
now working as the marketing director
and co-owner of a wind-power company.
He got his helicopter license
in his spare time.
[Willner] So, we're not considering
a Serbian pilot anymore?
[Leonie] The connection
between Petrović and Broberg
is our strongest lead right now.
[Willner] I mean, that being said,
Broberg could've provided the helicopter
without flying it during the heist.
Well, we can't rule that out, no.
[man 1] The interesting thing
about Broberg,
is that his profile doesn't really match
the average hardened criminal.
Upper-middle class, a stable job,
a family, nice house, and so on.
However, it looks like
he was battling a cocaine addiction,
according to a prior conviction.
This is enough for an arrest, right?
We have a helicopter pilot
who was seen meeting with Petrović
just days before the heist and
[Willner] No. It's not enough.
We need more.
- Don't you think we could crack him?
- No.
[Mats] If the robbers told him anything,
it's what'd happen if he ratted them out.
[snorts]
[exhales]
[knocking on door]
- Yeah?
- [girl] What are you doing in there?
I'm, uh, pooping. Why?
- [girl] I need to shower!
- Okay, honey, let me finish up in here.
- [toilet flushes]
- [banging on door]
Settle down, honey. I'm almost done.
- [girl] Then come out!
- [banging on door]
[Axel] Okay, okay. God.
You're such a pain. What is it?
- Does it stink like poop in there?
- You shouldn't knock like that.
- [girl] Jeez!
- [Vanna] What're we doing for sides?
I'll make a salad to go with it.
[Tamas] Stakeouts in residential areas
are almost impossible.
You get spotted immediately.
That's a good thing.
The more anxious he feels,
the more likely he is
to make some mistakes.
[tense music plays]
[breathes deeply]
[profiler 1] Each point here corresponds
to what we call a heist phone.
Every line you see
represents a phone call.
The key to this whole thing
was that operator guy
from the phone company.
He could identify
all the new phones making calls
out of this massive list of phone numbers.
It showed us where to look.
So we searched the logs for new phones
that had pinged
or made a connection
to the tower near the Västberga depot.
We found another number
that we suspect could have been used
by someone on the ground.
Probably the person
who placed the caltrops
or acted as a lookout.
[profiler 1] Once we move on
to the next step,
we'll take that data
and map out the other phones
they were in contact with.
And from there,
we'll build a chain of phone calls.
[Leonie] Hm.
Are you able to take those phones,
and then compare them
to Axel Broberg's cellphone?
[profiler 2] Well,
there's 20,000 calls here,
so it's gonna take a while.
Okay. Thanks. Uh, reach out to me
when you know more.
Thanks.
It's incredible that they pulled this off,
don't you think?
Yeah, there was some kind of intelligence
needed to make this work.
It's just the level of planning
that went into this is spectacular.
Every step was laid out methodically.
It's pretty damn elegant.
- Uh, what do you mean?
- [Heed] What?
In what way is it elegant?
- I
- You gotta admit, it was fairly elegant.
[Heed] There were no shots fired,
no one got injured.
Have you talked
to any of the employees yet?
No.
- Tamas.
- [Tamas] Mm?
Um, when's the interview
with the pregnant woman?
The one who was stuck in the mantrap
and thought she was going to miscarry?
[Tamas] Her interview's scheduled
tomorrow, around lunchtime.
Mm. Heed will take it.
[Heed] But I can't. I have a baptism.
No, you don't.
[sighs]
That's great.
Yeah.
[Mats chuckles]
- [Alex] I don't know what else to say.
- [man] Okay.
Did you ever hear
any of your colleagues talk about
the specific route the robbers took
from the roof, and down to the balcony?
I don't know.
[man] No?
[Leonie] I thought,
since you never saw
what the robbers looked like
Do you recognize him?
No, I don't.
- Can I see it again?
- [Leonie] Mm-hmm.
[melancholy music plays]
[Leonie] Do you recognize him?
No, I don't.
[melancholy music plays]
[gentle knocking on door]
[Lena] Come in.
[music fades]
Can you clarify something for me?
'Cause I can't figure it out.
Who said we could bring in the profilers?
Who approved it?
I had no choice.
How do you think it looks?
I said no, and you did it anyway.
[cell phone buzzes]
And Petrović? Have you found him?
Mm. We have 24-hour surveillance on him,
and that pilot, Axel Broberg.
Have you read this?
[sighs]
POLICE CONSTANTLY ONE STEP BEHIND
[cell phone buzzes]
It's the National Police Commissioner.
The Ministry of Justice is pressuring him.
They want arrests.
Yesterday.
There's already an internal
investigation against you.
Everything you do
is scrutinized twice as hard.
You can't afford
to make any more mistakes, Hamsik.
Do you understand that?
[sighs]
[breathes deeply]
[brooding music plays]
[Leonie] It's the fact
that they stopped at Kanaan Beach.
[Mats] Yes?
[Leonie] The witnesses are saying
that the helicopter barely touched down
before taking off again.
- No one got on or off.
- [Mats] Okay.
- [Leonie] Sorry!
- [teacher] He's over here.
Hi!
How are you?
[Kian] Tired.
[Leonie] Could it be
where they dropped the cash?
- Thanks so much.
- [teacher] Bye.
[Mats] No. Robbers at this level
would never leave the cash
out of their sight before counting it.
- They don't trust anyone.
- [Leonie] Mm.
So then, you think the robbers
and the cash were dropped off in Norsborg?
[Mats] Yes.
But that doesn't explain
why he landed at Kanaan Beach.
[Leonie] No.
No.
Could it
So maybe the pilot
got scared, and just took off?
[Mats] Okay, so you're thinking
that Skavlöten wasn't
their intended final destination?
[Leonie] Mm.
I mean,
say that you're the pilot.
[Mats] Huh.
[Leonie] You know that someone's
waiting for you when you land,
you're alone,
and you haven't been paid yet.
What do you think's gonna happen?
[tense music plays]
[Mats] You're saying he thought
they were gonna kill him?
[Leonie] Mm.
What if the plan was for the pilot to go
drop off the helicopter at Kanaan Beach,
but he got freaked out and ran?
[tense music continues]
[Mats] Huh.
[Axel] Hello? Hello!
[Mats] That would explain
why the helicopter wasn't torched.
[tense music continues]
The real question is how the pilot
got himself out of Skavlöten.
[Mats] Ah.
CHECK TAXI, BUS, ROAD CAMERAS
[tapping on keyboard]
[tense music continues]
[upbeat music plays]
- [entertainer] So how's your holiday?
- [cheering]
All right! And are you ready
for the bingo?
[crowd] Yeah!
[entertainer] All right!
Bingo, bingo, bingo!
[waiter] Your beer, sir.
- [entertainer] Guys! Bingo, bingo, bingo!
- [crowd] Bingo, bingo, bingo!
Come on, guys! A little bit louder!
Bingo, bingo, bingo!
- [crowd] Bingo, bingo, bingo!
- [entertainer] All right!
[upbeat music continues]
- Bingo, bingo, bingo!
- [crowd] Bingo, bingo, bingo!
[entertainer] Okay, here we go!
[crowd cheers and applauds]
[glass smashes]
- [waiter] I'm so sorry.
- Show me the closest bathroom.
[waiter] Yes, follow me, please, sir.
[upbeat music continues]
The bathroom is right there, sir.
You can turn this way, on the right.
Wait, sir, it's this way!
[tense music plays]
[Rami] Baby, by the time you get this,
I might already be dead.
[lock clicks]
They've found me.
I'm surrounded.
At first, I thought
it was Interpol, but no.
With the way these guys move,
they can't be cops.
[tense music continues]
[Rami breathes heavily]
I don't know if I can get out of this.
[tense music continues]
[music fades]
I know you're going to ask,
"Did you ever think of us?"
Yes,
I did.
[tense music plays]
All the time.
[tense music continues]
[groans]
[phone smashes]
[music fades]
What is it, sweetie?
Your phone won't stop ringing.
Oh.
Thank you.
[groans softly]
7 MISSED CALLS
FROM: BÖRJESSON
[Mats] You were right.
[Heed] I went through the logs of
the taxi companies driving that morning,
the ones you emailed me.
One ride in particular stands out.
It's a drive from McDonald's to Hägernäs,
three, four kilometers
from where they dumped the helicopter.
The person calling was named Johan,
but the number was registered
to a Kevin Karlsson,
20 years old, lives in Täby.
Taxi Stockholm's trying
to get a hold of the driver right now.
What's the deal with the 20-year-old?
Is his record clean?
Uh, yes, and apparently
he works at that McDonald's.
[oil sizzles]
[Leonie] Do you remember
what he looks like?
He was like a normal business guy.
Uh, he ordered a small breakfast meal,
then he asked to use my phone.
Did he look stressed out?
Am I in trouble for this?
I only need to know what he said.
You guys have CCTV cameras at the counter?
[man 1] Mm-hmm.
And for how long
is that video footage stored?
I don't know. You'd have to ask my boss.
- Could you get him for me, please?
- Yeah, for sure.
[man 2] Did you say a quarter to seven
on the 23rd?
- Yeah, around seven o'clock.
- [man 2] Hm.
Wait, go back a little.
[tense music plays]
[cell phone dials]
- [Mats] Hello?
- Uh, hey.
- [Mats] How's it going, you find anything?
- We got him.
[Mats] Hm.
What?
Why are you wearing your good shoes?
What?
[girl] It's parents versus kids.
Did you forget?
Well, these ones'll have to work.
A bunch of dads will be playing like this.
[tense music continues]
[radio reporter] The search
for the suspect after the drama occurred
[tense music continues]
- [Willner] Hi.
- [Lena] Hey.
[Mats] Hello.
[Lena] We can tie Broberg to Skavlöten.
This is at 6:50 in the morning.
McDonald's in Hägernäs, a few kilometers
from where the helicopter landed.
[tense music continues]
[Willner] It's unbelievable.
[man] The parents won last year.
[Willner] What's he doing there?
Having breakfast?
[Leonie] He asked the cashier
to call a taxi.
Can we link him to the taxi?
The driver confirmed it was Broberg.
- [man 1] Right there.
- [woman] Here! I'm open!
Hey. hey!
[woman] Here! Hey!
Here! Here! Over here!
[girl] Pass! Pass!
[man 2] Nice! That was awesome!
[tense music plays]
[man 2] Good!
All right, head over there.
- Axel, here!
- [man 1] Come on, man!
[tense music continues]
[girl] Come on!
- [man 2] Yeah, there you go! There you go!
- [girl] Give it to me! Here!
- Oh!
- [man 2] That's it!
[girl] Yay!
[applause]
We have one more name.
[music fades]
National Forensics found a match
for the blood found in the depot.
Rami Farhan.
He did time
for the National Museum robbery.
[Mats] He seems to have fled the country.
- Where?
- I reached out to contacts at Interpol.
- We'll see what they say.
- [Lena] We know there were more than two.
The technicians found DNA on one
of the blast frames the robbers used,
so we're waiting on those results.
We need more names before we can act.
Otherwise, there's a risk
the others'll scatter.
- [cell phone rings]
- [Mats] Uh, sorry, I have to take this.
Yes, hello?
Ah, yes.
This is Mats Börjesson speaking.
[tense music plays]
[Mats] My contact said
that Rami Farhan was already flagged
when he landed in the Dominican Republic.
Apparently, the American DEA
thought he was traveling there
for some kind of drug deal.
So that's why they've been following him.
But the guy from the DEA
shared another little tidbit.
Someone else has also
been watching Farhan.
[tense music continues]
[Rami] Excuse me?
Hi.
Dolores?
Uh, can you help me
to mail this to Sweden?
[Dolores] Mm.
Wait just a second.
Here. I'll give you
[Rami] I never really told you
about my old life.
Maybe because I didn't want you
to see me that way.
Thank you.
[tense music continues]
[Rami] But, baby,
I don't think
I'm gonna make it out of this one.
[breathes heavily]
[lock clicks]
[tense music continues]
[door closes]
[tense music continues]
[Rami] If I don't come back home
[music fades]
I need you to tell the boys
that I love them.
[shudders]
Dad has always loved them.
[Karin and Anders]
Happy birthday to you ♪
Happy birthday to you ♪
Happy birthday, dear John ♪
Happy birthday to you ♪
- [Christina] Beep beep beep!
- Wee!
- Happy birthday!
- [Christina] You're a big man now. Bravo!
- [Anders] Ah!
- You wanted one of these earlier.
Now you can have one! There you go.
- [baby cries]
- [Karin] Oh no!
Aw, come here, dear.
- Hey, honey.
- [Vanna] Hello.
Whatcha doing?
[Vanna] Nothing. I can feel
a migraine coming on, so
Ugh, that's the worst. [sniffs]
Hey
[Axel sighs]
Things aren't great for me right now.
I'm gonna need to sort out
a couple of things about myself.
[sniffs]
So, I'm I'm going away for a while.
[melancholy music plays]
[Vanna] Baby
[melancholy music continues]
[profiler 1] We found something.
When we took a closer look
at a total of 14 phones
that were active during the night,
primarily two of them stick out.
They're more active, and move around
extremely fast over a large area.
Our theory is that these were two burner
phones being used in the helicopter.
And when we compared the data
from the cell tower
and the helicopter's satellite GPS data,
their location data
was virtually identical.
[profiler 1] Then, we stumbled
onto something else we found interesting.
We found one more number that had
pinged another phone tower in Frescati
at the same time
the helicopter landed there.
[profiler 2] A phone tied
to a registered number was turned on
and connected to the cell tower
at the same time as the two burner phones.
[Leonie] Axel Broberg's phone.
[profiler 2] Yep. That's his name.
[Leonie] Can we see what he was doing?
[profiler 2] Hm, he sent a text
to a Vanna something.
[Leonie] His wife.
[tense music plays]
So we're able to tie Broberg
to the helicopter now?
Just like that?
Well, the thing is that,
no matter how careful these robbers were,
we have an advantage.
They have no idea we can do this.
It's all new. Actually,
the first time we've fully used it.
[tense music continues]
For instance, we can see
that one of the burner phones
called a number that isn't a part
of the closed circuit of heist phones.
We're pretty sure
it's what one would call a prep phone,
which will, in turn, make calls
to its own closed network of other phones.
Using the network of prep phones,
we were able to determine the robbers'
exact movements during their prep phase.
We then cross-referenced
their location data
with your master list of plausible robbers
and their home addresses.
- [Mats] So
- So, then what?
Do you have names then?
More names than we already have?
[tense music continues]
[upbeat music plays]
[entertainer] All right! So here we go!
- [waitress] Welcome.
- Thank you.
- [entertainer] How's everybody doing?
- [waitress] You want something to drink?
[entertainer] All right!
Yeah. I could drink something.
Um, your choice.
[upbeat music continues]
[entertainer] All right! Number seven!
- [waitress] Enjoy.
- Thank you.
[upbeat music continues]
[entertainer trills]
[entertainer] Thirty-nine, sir? Anybody?
[music stops]
[engine revs]
[engine starts]
[tense music plays]
[woman on radio] carried a majority vote
within the party, with 16 dissenting.
Contamination risk was reduced by 30%,
according to the researchers.
In Denmark, the majority of politicians
centralized in the capital, Copenhagen,
are pushing
for the legalization of cannabis.
If passed, the cannabis industry
would be government-owned,
to allow for regulatory enforcement
and consumer safety.
[tense music continues]
This case has entered a critical phase.
The positive news is that we've been able
to pin down five main suspects.
Axel Broberg,
Zoran Petrović,
Rami Farhan,
Michel Maloof,
and Niklas Larsson.
[TV reporter] More than
two billion Swedish crowns according to
[tense music continues]
[Leonie] The bad news is that
at least one of them has fled the country,
and we suspect the others
are about to do the same.
[door beeps]
[tense music continues]
Rami Farhan, 35,
is currently in the Dominican Republic,
where some local criminals
are also tracking him.
[entertainer 1] Twenty-five!
- Come on.
- Twenty-five?
Huh?
No one?
Come on, you guys.
[Lena] The Dominican Republic doesn't have
an extradition treaty with Sweden.
Correct, but we've revoked
Rami Farhan's passport.
When that's final, he'll be
in the Dominican Republic illegally,
and he can be deported
with immediate effect.
We believe that the other four
main suspects are still in Sweden,
although intel from our wiretaps
has given indications that at least one
of them is currently planning to escape.
[tense music continues]
[airport announcer] Flight 21CE2
will be departing in one hour.
Boarding will begin in 15
Therefore, we need to be prepared
to act swiftly and with force.
[man on radio] carried out
over the span of three years.
Truthfully, the proposition is
primarily motivated, among other things,
by the desire to decriminalize
the commercialization of cannabis.
In other countries,
we've seen that decriminalization
has not led to an increase in drug use.
[tense music continues]
[exhales]
[snorts]
Number 51!
Anyone?
[cheering]
[upbeat music plays]
[entertainer] Come on!
[tense music plays]
[sirens wail]
[engine roars]
[officer 1] Go!
- [officer 2] Police! Freeze!
- [officer 1] Sit still! Stay right there!
- [officer 2] Don't move!
- [officer 1] He's running! Move!
Stop! Stop right there!
- Hands up. Hands up now.
- [officer 2] Freeze. Turn around.
- Turn around!
- [officer 1] Hands behind your head!
[officer 2] Turn around right now!
[indistinct airport announcements]
Flight 281?
[indistinct chatter]
[footsteps approach]
Axel Broberg?
We're with the police.
[officer] Come on, get up, get up. Get up.
Easy.
Easy.
[Axel breathes heavily]
[somber music plays]
[sirens wail]
[tires screech]
- [horn honks]
- [sirens continue]
[car engine roars]
[Rami panting]
[somber music continues]
[car horns honk]
[horn honks]
[breathes heavily]
[somber music continues]
[door bangs]
[indistinct shouting]
[door rattles]
[sirens wail]
[Michel breathes heavily]
[somber music continues]
[sirens wail]
[somber music continues]
[door rattles]
I LOVE YOU
- [panting]
- [indistinct shouting]
[door rattles]
Okay, get on the ground!
[somber music continues]
[engine turns off]
[music fades]
Get out here. Get on the ground!
- Okay, okay! Don't shoot!
- [man] Lay down. Don't move! Down!
- Okay, okay, okay!
- [man] Hey, hey! Don't move.
[officer 1] On the ground!
Get down on the ground!
- [officer 2] Put your hands up!
- [officer 1] Step away from the vehicle!
On the ground! Get down on the ground now!
- [officer 3] On the ground!
- [officer 1] Away from the car!
- [officer 2] Lay down!
- [officer 3] Lie down!
- [officer 2] On the ground!
- [officer 1] On the ground!
On the ground!
[helicopter blades whir]
[officer 3] Stay still.
- [man 1] Get up! Get up.
- Okay!
[man 2] Come on. Over there.
What?
[man 1] Rami Farhan?
Rami Farhan?
You are under arrest for unlawful presence
in the Dominican Republic.
- Police, huh? Police?
- Yeah.
[Rami exhales]
Fuck.
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
["Dance Again" by Kite plays]
[man] Hi, Karin?
- Hello.
- My name is Johan.
I'm with the Västberga Police.
We need to conduct a search,
so could you and I go into the kitchen
with the children?
Then my colleagues will
["Dance Again" continues]
In a small town, taking my hand ♪
From the woods into a promised land ♪
How I wished for a thorn in my heart ♪
And deadly was the rose that I got ♪
So we moved to a far bigger town ♪
And for all we knew, it tore us down ♪
All those years
Were the best that I've had ♪
But now I must forget about that ♪
'Cause tonight I'm gonna dance again ♪
Till the morning, give it all I can ♪
If there's a chance
For me and my heart ♪
Then I will give it all that I've got ♪
For too long, I have been underground ♪
And for too long
I've had my curtains down ♪
And I'm done with pity and doubt ♪
And now it's time for me to get out ♪
So tonight, I'm gonna dance again ♪
Till the morning, give it all I can ♪
If there's a chance
For me and my heart ♪
Then I will give it all that I've got ♪
[music stops]
[keys jangle]
[Karin] Why don't we sit on the couch?
There.
[Rami] Just let me know
if you want some more water.
You want coffee?
No, I'm fine.
[Karin clears throat]
How's, um
How's handball been going? For John?
[Karin] He quit.
[Rami] When?
It was a while ago.
Hm.
Did he drive you here?
[Karin] Yeah.
He's waiting outside.
Yeah.
Is he kind to you?
[somber music plays]
Yeah.
[Rami] Good.
[somber music continues]
They've grown up so much.
[somber music continues]
[tattoo gun buzzes]
[door slams]
[somber music continues]
[tattoo gun buzzes]
[somber music continues]
[chuckles softly]
[somber music continues]
[somber music continues]
[music fades]