And I loved the way he tenderly pours Troels a replacement brandy just before blackmailing him with a photograph and leaving him just as corrupt as any other politician. It's interesting how blinkered Morten is about his actions: wiping aside his deliberate smearing of Rie, the fact that perhaps Olav and Holck died unnecessarily. "We've waited for a change in the political system for years, should I let that go because a jerk killed a girl?" Morten asks. Morten's actions have lost Troels the woman he loved – although Morten dismisses her as not "the right woman for you" – and also, it now appears, his morals: Morten effectively blackmails Troels into not going to the police about the matter. In principle I didn't remove anything that wasn't already there." "In principle," replies Troels, darkly. Morten says he was going to tip off the police after the election and excuses his behaviour: "All I did was wash the stairs and the doors. "What have you done to me?" Troels asks him despairingly. He saw the state of the flat, washed the stairs and doors, and sent away the plumber – trying to flush the cleaning materials down the loo. And Morten actually the more ruthless, power-hungry of the pair. Not least because of Pernille, and the parallels with Theis' beating of the teacher. To have Vagn return to the scene of the crime, to first explain – "We all loved her, but suddenly she didn't care about me – and you as well, right?" – and then goad Theis into shooting him may have been a bit too perfect, but it was also extremely effective. The final scenes between Vagn and Theis were also first-class. Not to mention the menacing: "So we agree that it's over, right?" Was anyone else holding their breath as Vagn zipped up his hoodie and revealed that the line being used to incriminate Sarah was something else entirely? Perfect television. The scene with Lund and Vagn in the house alone was electrifying. More to the point, the reveal was brilliantly done. Vagn being unveiled as the killer provoked mixed reactions for me – slight disappointment that it was someone who'd looked a bit shifty from day one, coupled with relief that it was someone who made sense as the murderer.
He presumably also saw off Leon, who Bengt's pathologist contact confirmed had come into contact with a shotgun before his apparent suicide. Vagn also killed Meyer, who simply blocked his escape route from the warehouse where he'd been hunting for the incriminating 10th grade picture. It was Vagn, the jilted boyfriend of Mette Hauge, who was responsible for the young woman's death 15 years ago, and bought her the black heart Nanna was clutching in her hand when she died – presumably pulled from round Vagn's neck. "She was afraid, and I knew that you would never understand if she told you what had happened."
He drove her to the woods, chased her when she got away, and then left her to drown in the car because he was unable to kill her outright. Vagn took Hartmann's car keys from the flat, and kept Nanna on the concrete floor of the then unrenovated basement of the Birk Larsen house. "I thought about you and Pernille and the boys and I knew that you would be upset about it," he pleads before trying to excuse his actions: "Sometimes you just can't tell what's going to happen." Enraged by her relationship with "a towelhead", he went to the flat to talk to her – but she wouldn't listen. Vagn, who thought of himself as a Birk Larsen, found out from Leon that Nanna was planning to leave with Amir. Just two misguided men who managed to convince themselves that their actions were justified that they were only helping the friend they worshipped. There were no complicated political connections to untangle no new characters.
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