Unit One

A young woman psychologist spends ages chatting on the Internet. One day she arranges to meet Romeo and nobody sees her again. Six months passes and Unit One is called in. (Nordic Noir, True Crime, Best of Crime)

When a young couple on the run go amok, heady with victory after hiding the proceeds of their latest robery, it ends in a tragedy that causes an earthquake deep into the ranks of Ingrid’s own family.

When severed limbs belonging to a woman are found in a lake near the German border the police are unable to identify the victim, and nobody from the area has been reported missing.

A young couple return from a night out in an unfamiliar town and discover that the hotel where they’ve left their eight-year-old son asleep in bed is in flames. The fire looks like arson, but who is the arsonist?

A building contractor, known as Daddy, is found dead just after being released from Horsens prison. When two more people are killed the job of Unit One is complicated still further.

Kåre has confessed to killing two people during a bank robbery but says nobody helped him. Unit One doesn’t believe him, With Helene’s help the unit becomes more and more convinced that Ivan was involved.

An elderly couple arrives at a beautiful old inn for a romantic weekend. Later that evening the husband phones Ingrid anonymously to say he has killed his wife. But what was the background to the killing?

When a couple arrive at a friends house they come across the most macabre sight. Unit One is pushed to the limit in a milieu of unusual sexual proclivities in which very few players are prepared to make their identities known.

An entire family has apparently wiped itself out but things aren’t so simple. Unit One is called in when indications appear that somebody from outside the family committed the murders.

Finn arrives at his fishmonger’s one morning to find his wife murdered. It looks like a gangland take-out and Unit One is summoned. La Cour has to call on his peculiar talents and Boysen goes to see Ingrid on a private matter.

A fifteen-year-old girl is found dead they day after leaving a party. Unit One is called to Bornholm where she lived. There are many indications that the killing is linked to a series of unsolved murders elsewhere in Denmark.

While Gaby is busy with wedding plans, Johnny is drawn farther into a case investigating organized human smuggling of prostitutes, which develops dramatically, and La Cour has a lot on his plate when Helene goes into labour.

A boy has disappeared. La Cour is the one who makes the breakthrough that starts the investigation for real. Gaby can’t wait for her forthcoming wedding, until she is brutally dragged into the work of solving the case.

Ulf has to tell his staff that Unit One is going to be disbanded. Ingrid, Fischer, IP and La Cour all concentrate on pursuing one of the most horrifying criminals they have ever hunted, although it seems more like the killer is hunting them.