Episode 19
Danish crime thriller. The hunt for a missing suspect takes an unexpected turn, while the odds stack up against Sarah. Troels and Bremer battle it out in a live TV debate.
Plot
Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department. She is supposed to move to Sweden with her fiancée, but everything changes when a 19-year-old girl, Nanna Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered. Along with detective Jan Meyer, Sarah is forced to head the investigation, as it soon becomes clear that she and Meyer are chasing a very intelligent and dangerous murderer.
Local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of a hard election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen when suddenly, evidence links him to the murderer. But is he really the murderer? At the same time, the girl\\\'s family and friends struggle to cope with their loss.
Over a span of twenty days, suspect upon suspect is sought out as violence and political pressures cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.
Main cast
Sarah Lund: Sofie Gråbøl
Jan Meyer: Søren Malling
Troels Hartman: Lars Mikkelsen
Theis Birk Larsen: Bjarne Henriksen
Pernille Birk Larsen: Ann Eleonora Jørgensen