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* BaitAndSwitch: The engine that the drove the show's narrative, especially in season one. It systematically raised pretty much every major character (except for Lund and her partner) as potential suspects in the murder, and then systematically ruled them all out for one reason or another,
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* BaitAndSwitch: The engine that the drove the show's narrative, especially in season one. It systematically raised pretty much every major character (except for Lund and her partner) as potential suspects in the murder, and then systematically ruled them all out for one reason or another, making the climactic [[TheReveal reveal]] all the more shocking.
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* MustHaveNicotine: Meyer and Sarah in season one: he smokes, she pops nicotine gum constantly.
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* AdultFear: Business is good, you've bought a new house to surprise your loving wife (conversely: your husband is a smart, hard-working guy with his own business and you're still attracted to each other, even if he is a bit of a doofus when it comes to home repairs), your boys are happy and healthy, and your beautiful 19-year-old daughter was at a party last night so she's been having a good time. Then the police come around and ask you why your video store card has been found in a field. Then one of them asks if you have a daughter, and when you say you do, the detective asks where she is, and you realise that your daughter isn't answering her phone. Her best friend thinks she's been staying at her ex-boyfriend's place, so you go there to pick her up, and she's not there. So you drive to where the police are searching, and they've just pulled a car out of a canal.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: the main killers in all seasons are into this.
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* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: deconstructed with Theis - his attempts to avenge Nanna's death are depicted as catastrophic mistakes. Also, the kidnapper in the third season appears to be trying to avenge the murder of his daughter.]]
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* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: deconstructed with Theis - his attempts to avenge Nanna's death are depicted as catastrophic mistakes. Also, the The kidnapper in the third season appears to be trying to avenge the murder of his daughter.]]
* MustHaveNicotine: Meyer and Sarah in season one: he smokes, she pops nicotine gum constantly.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: In the very first episode, Vagn is seen calling a man "Paki", and later repeats racial slurs when Theis is beating Kemal, and in the final episode during his MotiveRant he reveals he killed and raped Nanna because he had a crush on her, and he couldn't stand the thought that she loved a Middle-eastern man instead of him.]]
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* TheStoic: Lund. Deconstructed in that it's not that she's so good at controlling her emotions but because she runs from her feelings.
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In the third season, Lund is trying to get a less stressful administrative job in the police, but finds her old obsessions growing again when the discovery of a dead body by a dockside turns out to be the forerunner to [[spoiler:the the kidnapping of the young daughter of a shipping magnate magnate, which appears to be connected to the rape and murder of a schoolgirl years before.]]
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* SpiceUpTheSubtitles: Danish people complained that the official English subtitles for the first season had too much, and too strong, swearing in them.
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* SpiceUpTheSubtitles: Danish people complained that the The official English subtitles for the first season had too much, and too strong, swearing in them.translated practically every Danish profanity as some form of "fuck" regardless of how mild or extreme it was, leading to complaints from Danish speakers.
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* SweaterGirl: Lund is usually seen wearing a distinctive striped Faroese sweater.
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** It should be noted that Lund's sweaters do not have the tight fit and MaleGaze appeal usually associated with this trope.
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* SweaterGirl: Lund is usually seen wearing a distinctive striped Faroese sweater.
** It should be noted that Lund's sweaterssweaters, although they do not have the tight fit and MaleGaze appeal usually associated with this trope.
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A tale of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, politics and knitwear]], ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012), , literally translated as "The Crime", but known in English as ''The Killing'' was a crime drama produced by UsefulNotes/StateBroadcaster Creator/{{DR}} was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on Creator/{{BBC}}4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA. It has become a TropeCodifier of the NordicNoir genre.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: In the very first episode, Vagn is seen calling a man "Paki", and later repeats racial slurs when Theis is beating Kemal, and in the final episode during his MotiveRant.MotiveRant he reveals he killed and raped Nanna because he had a crush on her, and he couldn't stand the thought that she loved a Middle-eastern man instead of him.]]
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A tale of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, politics and knitwear]], ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012), produced by UsefulNotes/StateBroadcaster Creator/{{DR}} was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on Creator/{{BBC}}4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
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* PoliticallyIncorrect Villain: PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler: In the very first episode, Vagn is seen calling a man "Paki", and later repeats racial slurs when Theis is beating Kemal, and in the final episode during his MotiveRant.]]
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* WouldntHitAGirl: [[spoiler: One scene in Season One has Theis being mugged by a gang of teenagers- he grabs one and goes to punch him when he discovers, to his shock, it's a girl. His hesitation gives them a chance to finish robbing him and run.]]
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A tale of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, politics and knitwear]], ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012), produced by StateBroadcaster UsefulNotes/StateBroadcaster Creator/{{DR}} was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on Creator/{{BBC}}4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
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A tale of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, politics and knitwear]], ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012), produced by StateBroadcaster {{DR}} Creator/{{DR}} was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on Creator/{{BBC}}4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
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* PocketProtector: An inversion of this costs [[spoiler:Jan Meyer]] their life.
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* TheUnfettered: Have you murdered someone? Are you Danish? You lose! Lund ''will'' find you out, she ''will'' make you pay, and she ''will'' sacrifice friends, family, colleagues, bosses, her sleep, her happiness, her government, her health, her career and her freedom to get it done.
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* TheUnfettered: Have you murdered someone? Are you Danish? You lose! Lund ''will'' find you out, she ''will'' make you pay, and she ''will'' sacrifice friends, family, colleagues, bosses, her sleep, her happiness, her government, her health, her career and her freedom to get it done. Particularly striking because virtually everybody else eventually sells out, often at the eleventh hour.
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* TheUnfettered: Have you murdered someone? Are you Danish? You lose! Lund ''will'' find you out, she ''will'' make you pay, and she ''will'' sacrifice friends, family, colleagues, bosses, her sleep, her happiness, her government, her health, her career and her freedom to get it done.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Buch, thrown into the ministry to sink or swim, keeps suspecting his new aides of being this and secretly betraying him in his quest for truth. At the very end, [[spoiler: it's he who betrays them.]]
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* RevengeByProxy: The motivation behind [[Emilie Zeuthen's kidnapping.]] It was originally planned to [[spoiler: end with her being murdered in front of her father]] before doubts were raised if the target was actually guilt; he still doesn't let her go, though.
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* RevengeByProxy: The motivation behind [[Emilie [[spoiler:Emilie Zeuthen's kidnapping.]] It was originally planned to [[spoiler: end with her being murdered in front of her father]] before doubts were raised if the target was actually guilt; he still doesn't let her go, though.
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A tale of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, politics and knitwear]], ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012) 2012), produced by StateBroadcaster {{DR}} was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on BBC4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All three seasons. Lund always solves the crime, but in season one the murderer is then murdered by the victim's father, who'll go to prison for it; in season two Lund's partner, who she was starting to fall in love with, turns out to be the BigBad and she's forced to kill him; in season three the kidnapped girl is found alive, but the real BigBad escapes justice until Lund herself murders him and has to flee the country, leaving behind her OneTrueLove and the newborn granddaughter she'll probably never get to meet.]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: All three seasons. Lund always solves the crime, but in season one the murderer is then murdered by the victim's father, who'll go to prison for it; in season two Lund's partner, who she was starting to fall in love with, turns out to be the BigBad and she's forced to kill him; in season three the kidnapped girl is found alive, but the real BigBad escapes justice until Lund herself murders him and has to flee the country, leaving behind her OneTrueLove and the newborn granddaughter she'll probably never get to meet.]]
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* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Vagn. And Strange. The show likes this.]]
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* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Vagn. And Strange. And Reinhardt.]] The show likes this.]]this. Then subverted with [[spoiler: Borch]], who is hiding things but genuinely trying to help.
* BrokenBird: Lund, by season three.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler: Gilsfort, who gave Reinhardt an alibi for the time of Louise Hjelby's murder so the investigation wouldn't reflect badly on Zeeland corporation. He's entirely indifferent to if Reinhardt is guilty or not.]]
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* [[spoiler:DetectiveMole]]DefectiveDetective: Lund is a great detective but a rather emotionally constipated person, even before the events of the series pile on the emotional trauma.
* [[spoiler:DetectiveMole: Strange]]
* [[spoiler:DetectiveMole: Strange]]
* FireForgedFriends: Lund and Meyer ''slowly'' head in this direction over the course of the first season. [[spoiler: Tragically, he is killed just when it looks like they might be getting there.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Borch calls Lund "Sarah" because they had a relationship years ago.
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* KnightTemplarParent: [[spoiler: The kidnapper in Season 3 is a father trying to solve and avenge his daughter's murder, which was covered up and declared a suicide. He kills several people involved in the cover-up and is prepared to murder an innocent nine-year-old to make her father suffer, but changes his plan to only using her as a hostage when doubts are raised about her father's role.]]
* LastNameBasis: Lund and Meyer.Lampshaded by It becomes a plot point when [[spoiler: Lund herself.is accused of shooting Meyer, because, [[LampshadedTrope as she points out]], if he was going to use his last words to accuse her, he we wouldn't do so by calling her "Sarah".]]
* LetOffByTheDetective: [[spoiler: Borch tries to do this for Lund after she kills Reinhardt, but quickly realizes there's no story they can give that will be accepted and instead helps her escape the country.]]
* LastNameBasis: Lund and Meyer.
* LetOffByTheDetective: [[spoiler: Borch tries to do this for Lund after she kills Reinhardt, but quickly realizes there's no story they can give that will be accepted and instead helps her escape the country.]]
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* MarriedToTheJob: Lund doesn't have much time for romance or family.
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family. That's not to say that she doesn't try, but she often screws it up by walking out on or ignoring them because she is so focused on a new lead.
* ModestyBedsheet:Averted Subverted with Lund in season three.three; after [[spoiler: sleeping with Borch]], she wakes up with the sheet pulled up to her chest, then leaves it behind in her hurry to get up.
* NewOldFlame: Lund and Borch used to be a couple back when they were in school.
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* NewOldFlame: Lund and Borch used to be a couple back when they were in school.
* PapaWolf: Robert Zeuthen
* PerpetualFrowner: Lund
* PerpetualFrowner: Lund
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Brix, for the most part.
* RevengeByProxy: The motivation behind [[Emilie Zeuthen's kidnapping.]] It was originally planned to [[spoiler: end with her being murdered in front of her father]] before doubts were raised if the target was actually guilt; he still doesn't let her go, though.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: The show likes this trope. Several characters are put in situations in which they can have everything they wanted if they let a cover-up stand but stand to lose it all if they do the right thing. [[spoiler: Hartmann, Buch, Kristian Kamper]], and to a lesser degree [[spoiler: Robert Zeuthen]], eventually fail after passing earlier tests. [[spoiler: Lund]] passes, if you count [[spoiler: shooting a rapist-murderer in cold blood]] as doing the right thing.
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''This is the entry for the Danish-language TV series known in English as ''The Killing''. If you're looking for the American remake, go [[TheKilling here]]''.
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* LimitedWardrobe: Lund often wears the same clothes three or four days straight.
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A tale of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, politics and knitwear, knitwear]], ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012) was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on BBC4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
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''This is the entry for the Danish-language TV series known in English as ''The Killing''. If you're looking for the American remake, go [[TheKilling here]]''.
A tale of murder, politics and knitwear, ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012) was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on BBC4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
The first season, set in Copenhagen, ''UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}'' focuses on the murder of Nanna Birk Larsen, a 19-year-old Danish schoolgirl. Each episode of twenty focusses on one day in the investigation, from three different perspectives:
Detective Inspector Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl), a dour moody woman who likes wearing Faroese sweaters, is about to move to Sweden with her boyfriend, but decides to stick around and work with her replacement, Jan Meyer, to solve the crime.
Troels Hartmann is trying to become Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, when his campaign gets connected to the murder and his own activities come under scrutiny.
Theis and Pernille Birk Larsen, Nanna's parents, have to come to terms with the murder of their daughter... Their decisions will shape their lives and those of others.
The second season is set two years later and revolves around the Danish military. Lund, having been exiled to a passport control job, is called back to Copenhagen when Afghanistan veterans start getting bumped off in gruesome ways, creating a panic over Islamist terrorism. Meanwhile, new Justice Minister Thomas Buch is trying to get a new anti-terror bill through parliament, while trying to find out just what was going on with his ill predecessor.
In the third season, Lund is trying to get a less stressful administrative job in the police, but finds her old obsessions growing again when the discovery of a dead body by a dockside turns out to be the forerunner to [[spoiler:the kidnapping of the young daughter of a shipping magnate which appears to be connected to the rape and murder of a schoolgirl years before.]]
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!!This show contains examples of:
* AlasPoorYorick: [[spoiler: The scene where Sarah holds a skull in an Afghan house. It is clearly that of a child and has a prominent bullet hole in it]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lund's mother turns up at the police station to talk in front of Lund's colleagues about her student love life and how [[spoiler:her son doesn't want her in his life]].
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Vagn. And Strange. The show likes this.]]
* BluffingTheMurderer: [[spoiler:On Strange in the second season, and unsuccessfully on Reinhardt in the third.]]
* BulletProofVest: [[spoiler:Utilized by Lund in the ending of the second season.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: the main killers in all seasons are into this.
* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: deconstructed with Theis - his attempts to avenge Nanna's death are depicted as catastrophic mistakes. Also, the kidnapper in the third season appears to be trying to avenge the murder of his daughter.]]
* DaChief
* [[spoiler:DetectiveMole]]
* TheDeterminator: Lund will do pretty much anything to solve a case, often putting herself in a lot of danger to do so.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All three seasons. Lund always solves the crime, but in season one the murderer is then murdered by the victim's father, who'll go to prison for it; in season two Lund's partner, who she was starting to fall in love with, turns out to be the BigBad and she's forced to kill him; in season three the kidnapped girl is found alive, but the real BigBad escapes justice until Lund herself murders him and has to flee the country, leaving behind her OneTrueLove and the newborn granddaughter she'll probably never get to meet.]]
* ExpositionVictim: [[spoiler: Not really]]
* ExternalCombustion: [[spoiler: with a boat, rather than a car]]
* HotForTeacher
* IconicOutfit: Lund's Faroese sweater in the first season. The ''RadioTimes'' promoted the second season in the UK with a knitting pattern.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Turns up in both seasons, but by amateurs, not the cops.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler:Reinhardt, by Lund herself.]]
* LastNameBasis: Lund and Meyer. Lampshaded by Lund herself.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lund often wears the same clothes three or four days straight.
* ManOnFire
* MarriedToTheJob: Lund doesn't have much time for romance or family.
* ModestyBedsheet: Averted with Lund in season three.
* NoBadassToHisValet: The scene when Lund meets Meyer's wife for the first time says it all, really.
* NoHeroToHisValet
* OhCrap: Lund has one of these late in season one, when she's alone in a house with a man who has previously been eliminated as a suspect, and looking at the design on his sweatshirt she realises, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he's the killer--and then she realises that he's just worked out what she's thinking.
** Repeated with double the threat in the third season: [[spoiler:Lund comes across evidence that makes it blatantly clear that the man who she's alone with is probably the man who raped and murdered a teenage girl, at which point the girl's AxeCrazy father turns up looking for vengeance having come to the same conclusion.]]
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: Morten to Hartmann in the first season, and Kristian to the Prime Minister in the third. Vagn appears to be this to Theis in the first, but is actually trying to stir things up to distract from his own guilt.]]
* ReassignedToAntarctica: After the foul-up of the first season, Lund is demoted and packed off to do passport control in a remote Danish port.
* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler: Lund blows off the investigation of the docks corpse at the beginning of the third season, and then is blamed by others and herself for not investigating more closely and possibly preventing the kidnapping.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: Whether [[spoiler: Vagn was really a SerialKiller, or whether he was only guilty of the first murder linked to him in addition to those in the main action.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Meyer]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Raben in the second season.
* SociopathicSoldier
* SpiceUpTheSubtitles: Danish people complained that the official English subtitles for the first season had too much, and too strong, swearing in them.
* SweaterGirl: Lund is usually seen wearing a distinctive striped Faroese sweater.
** It should be noted that Lund's sweaters do not have the tight fit and MaleGaze appeal usually associated with this trope.
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:The kidnapper in the third season finally challenges Zeuthen to hand himself over in exchange for his daughter, with the implication that this was always his objective.]]
* TurnInYourBadge: Happens a lot to Lund.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler: The second season introduces a tough survivalist ex-soldier woman, who gets murdered the following episode.]]
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:Lund ends the final season by murdering Reinhardt after he outright taunts her with the possibility that he'll rape and murder another teenage girl]]
* WildTeenParty: An out-of-control high school party causes some confusion in the investigation of the first season.
* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Averted to a degree with Raben in the second season.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: The killing of Emilie in the third season, although it turned out that her kidnapper faked her murder.]]
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''This is the entry for the Danish-language TV series known in English as ''The Killing''. If you're looking for the American remake, go [[TheKilling here]]''.
A tale of murder, politics and knitwear, ''Forbrydelsen'' (first season 2007, second 2009, third and final 2012) was a massive hit in Denmark (a third of the population turned in for the first season finale and the second half of the season was brought forward) and when shown in the UK on BBC4, got rave reviews, huge audiences for the channel and won the 2011 International BAFTA.
The first season, set in Copenhagen, ''UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}'' focuses on the murder of Nanna Birk Larsen, a 19-year-old Danish schoolgirl. Each episode of twenty focusses on one day in the investigation, from three different perspectives:
Detective Inspector Sarah Lund (Sofie Gråbøl), a dour moody woman who likes wearing Faroese sweaters, is about to move to Sweden with her boyfriend, but decides to stick around and work with her replacement, Jan Meyer, to solve the crime.
Troels Hartmann is trying to become Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, when his campaign gets connected to the murder and his own activities come under scrutiny.
Theis and Pernille Birk Larsen, Nanna's parents, have to come to terms with the murder of their daughter... Their decisions will shape their lives and those of others.
The second season is set two years later and revolves around the Danish military. Lund, having been exiled to a passport control job, is called back to Copenhagen when Afghanistan veterans start getting bumped off in gruesome ways, creating a panic over Islamist terrorism. Meanwhile, new Justice Minister Thomas Buch is trying to get a new anti-terror bill through parliament, while trying to find out just what was going on with his ill predecessor.
In the third season, Lund is trying to get a less stressful administrative job in the police, but finds her old obsessions growing again when the discovery of a dead body by a dockside turns out to be the forerunner to [[spoiler:the kidnapping of the young daughter of a shipping magnate which appears to be connected to the rape and murder of a schoolgirl years before.]]
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!!This show contains examples of:
* AlasPoorYorick: [[spoiler: The scene where Sarah holds a skull in an Afghan house. It is clearly that of a child and has a prominent bullet hole in it]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Lund's mother turns up at the police station to talk in front of Lund's colleagues about her student love life and how [[spoiler:her son doesn't want her in his life]].
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Vagn. And Strange. The show likes this.]]
* BluffingTheMurderer: [[spoiler:On Strange in the second season, and unsuccessfully on Reinhardt in the third.]]
* BulletProofVest: [[spoiler:Utilized by Lund in the ending of the second season.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: the main killers in all seasons are into this.
* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: deconstructed with Theis - his attempts to avenge Nanna's death are depicted as catastrophic mistakes. Also, the kidnapper in the third season appears to be trying to avenge the murder of his daughter.]]
* DaChief
* [[spoiler:DetectiveMole]]
* TheDeterminator: Lund will do pretty much anything to solve a case, often putting herself in a lot of danger to do so.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All three seasons. Lund always solves the crime, but in season one the murderer is then murdered by the victim's father, who'll go to prison for it; in season two Lund's partner, who she was starting to fall in love with, turns out to be the BigBad and she's forced to kill him; in season three the kidnapped girl is found alive, but the real BigBad escapes justice until Lund herself murders him and has to flee the country, leaving behind her OneTrueLove and the newborn granddaughter she'll probably never get to meet.]]
* ExpositionVictim: [[spoiler: Not really]]
* ExternalCombustion: [[spoiler: with a boat, rather than a car]]
* HotForTeacher
* IconicOutfit: Lund's Faroese sweater in the first season. The ''RadioTimes'' promoted the second season in the UK with a knitting pattern.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Turns up in both seasons, but by amateurs, not the cops.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler:Reinhardt, by Lund herself.]]
* LastNameBasis: Lund and Meyer. Lampshaded by Lund herself.
* LimitedWardrobe: Lund often wears the same clothes three or four days straight.
* ManOnFire
* MarriedToTheJob: Lund doesn't have much time for romance or family.
* ModestyBedsheet: Averted with Lund in season three.
* NoBadassToHisValet: The scene when Lund meets Meyer's wife for the first time says it all, really.
* NoHeroToHisValet
* OhCrap: Lund has one of these late in season one, when she's alone in a house with a man who has previously been eliminated as a suspect, and looking at the design on his sweatshirt she realises, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he's the killer--and then she realises that he's just worked out what she's thinking.
** Repeated with double the threat in the third season: [[spoiler:Lund comes across evidence that makes it blatantly clear that the man who she's alone with is probably the man who raped and murdered a teenage girl, at which point the girl's AxeCrazy father turns up looking for vengeance having come to the same conclusion.]]
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler: Morten to Hartmann in the first season, and Kristian to the Prime Minister in the third. Vagn appears to be this to Theis in the first, but is actually trying to stir things up to distract from his own guilt.]]
* ReassignedToAntarctica: After the foul-up of the first season, Lund is demoted and packed off to do passport control in a remote Danish port.
* RefusalOfTheCall: [[spoiler: Lund blows off the investigation of the docks corpse at the beginning of the third season, and then is blamed by others and herself for not investigating more closely and possibly preventing the kidnapping.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: Whether [[spoiler: Vagn was really a SerialKiller, or whether he was only guilty of the first murder linked to him in addition to those in the main action.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Meyer]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Raben in the second season.
* SociopathicSoldier
* SpiceUpTheSubtitles: Danish people complained that the official English subtitles for the first season had too much, and too strong, swearing in them.
* SweaterGirl: Lund is usually seen wearing a distinctive striped Faroese sweater.
** It should be noted that Lund's sweaters do not have the tight fit and MaleGaze appeal usually associated with this trope.
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:The kidnapper in the third season finally challenges Zeuthen to hand himself over in exchange for his daughter, with the implication that this was always his objective.]]
* TurnInYourBadge: Happens a lot to Lund.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler: The second season introduces a tough survivalist ex-soldier woman, who gets murdered the following episode.]]
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:Lund ends the final season by murdering Reinhardt after he outright taunts her with the possibility that he'll rape and murder another teenage girl]]
* WildTeenParty: An out-of-control high school party causes some confusion in the investigation of the first season.
* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Averted to a degree with Raben in the second season.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: [[spoiler: The killing of Emilie in the third season, although it turned out that her kidnapper faked her murder.]]
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