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GSI is a part of the Swedish police organization and is a group specified in special missions and efforts against organized crime.
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Johan Falk
Johan Falk
Damn!
The main character and a very intelligent and experienced policeman.- Action Hero: He is a policeman specialized in organized crime and sting operations.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: He deliberately invokes this In-Universe in a scene in The 107 Patriots. He and his colleagues captures the neo-Nazi Valter and blackmails him to cooperate with them. When Valter hesitantly agrees, Johan suddenly sticks his hands in his own ears and dances around a tree in an oddly specific way. He later explains to Niklas that he did that on purpose to confuse the crap out of Valter. So if Valter would go to the police and had to explain what happened later, they would probably not take him seriously.
- Cowboy Cop: He is a very good cop but has a habit of not listening to his superiors and instead does whatever he thinks is the best ways to catch the criminals.
- Frame-Up: In season 3, he gets framed for killing Andrei Dudajev’s wife in Estonia, which The Unknown Woman uses to blackmail him.
- Genius Bruiser: He's not only an experienced and competent policeman, but proves many times to be quite cunning and a clever tactician. He is also shown to be a good speaker in German.
- Guile Hero: He is multiple times shown to be extremely clever and cunning and many times outsmarts or traps his opponents even if it is in some sleazy ways.
- The Hero: The titular main protagonist.
- The Hero Dies: Subverted. A Russian assassin tracks down Johan and tortures him for info. When he doesn’t gain anything, he decides to kill him. Then Valdo receives an message with a picture of Johan seemingly looking dead. It is believed by everyone that Johan was in fact killed, but it is revealed that Seth had agreed to help Johan if something would go wrong and saved him by killing the assassin.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the last film, he has himself getting horribly tortured by the Russian assassin who demands that he tells him where his wife Helen Falk is (who knows about the papers revealing info about the Valdo’s illegitimate companies), but Johan refuses to tell him. He is seemingly killed by the assassin until it is revealed that Seth came in and shot the assassin and saved Johan.
- Pragmatic Hero: He doesn’t always follow by the rules, sometimes even doing illegal things, but it is for what he thinks is necessary for whatever greater good he is planning at the time.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He often commits some questionale acts or things that is not approved from his superiors, but he always do so because he knows it will stop the criminals they're all chasing.
Frank Wagner
Frank Wagner
I don't intend to offer that the authority that has put me in this situation should also deliver my death sentence just because it can not handle the situation that it itself has created.
Frank Wagner, also known by his codename as Lisa, is a police infiltrator to the GSI and also has a good reputation within the criminal underworld which he uses to help the police.- 10-Minute Retirement: He attempts to quit time and again, but it never lasts long.
- The Ace: Frank is a very good infiltrator and shows multiple times why he is GSI's most valuable player.
- Anti-Hero: He is an infiltrator to the GSI, but sometimes commits questionable acts such as murder to achieve his ends, but generally wants to hurt as little people as possible, unless they have harmed him personally.
- Being Good Sucks: He continually helps the police bring down organized crime but at the cost of living a peacful, normal life because of the pressure from both the police and criminals alike and even gets to suffers from great personal losses because of it, such as his girlfriend having a miscarriage and his family-members not respecting him.
- Big Good: While Johan Falk is the titular main character, Frank can be seen as the Big Good for Season 1 and 2 as he is arguably the most valuable player for the GSI, and they wouldn’t have gained such a big upper hand against the organized crime if it weren’t for Frank’s infiltration.
- Byronic Hero: A determined and intelligent infiltrator who has to suffer from immense pressure and personal losses because of his job.
- Chessmaster Sidekick: To Falk and the GSI. They often leave the details to Frank in however he will undermine the criminals he is infiltrating. He often does so by pulling of a carefully thought-out scheme.
- Code Name: Lisa.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He usually has the look of a typical gangster (like wearing dark ghetto-clothes), when in reality he is anything but.
- Forced into Evil: Doesn’t want to commit criminal acts like murder or assault, but sometimes he is forced to by other real criminals.
- Genius Bruiser: Frank is a street wise and cunning infiltrator as well as a very capable fighter.
- Good Is Not Soft: He won't hesitate to use violence or murder if he really has to.
- Guile Hero: Frank is intelligent, cunning, street-wise, and charismatic among the criminals, which he uses to his advantage as a police infiltrator. He decieves criminals by gaining their trust and often pulls off detailed-based schemes to have their activites sabotaged, all while (usually) getting away unnoticed.
- Heroic Breakdown:
- After he killed Martin when he found out about Frank’s secret, Frank feels deep regret about it since Martin was always genuinely friendly towards him.
- When Mikahel assaults Frank’s pregnant girlfriend for thinking that she was spying, causing her to have a miscarriage. Frank maintains collected long enough for Mihkail to go away, then he screams in a rage, when driving her to the hospital.
- When Frank makes Mikahel unknowingly reveal to the police that he is the mysterious ”Mr. K”, Frank chases him throughout the city and finally kills him.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: To the public, including his own family, he is merely known as yet another notorious gangster. But it’s just a reputation he needs to maintain or otherwise he could easily be uncovered. It isn’t until he is unveiled that his uncle and half-brother finds out he was not a real criminal.
- The Informant: To GSI, and has been so for a long time without getting caught by his fake fellow criminals and if they do, they don't get to live much longer.
- Mole in Charge: He quickly gains enough trust from Seth to become the Vice President of The Rydell Gang.
- Number Two: Of The Rydell Gang.
- Pragmatic Hero: Being an infiltrator, Frank needs to maintain the front and reputation of a ruthless gangster. He does so by doing some questionable acts such as assault and intimidation, and at worst, he has to kill criminals who finds out his secret. However, this also means that his family thinks of him as just a criminal lacking empathy, because even if they found out the truth it could quickly uncover Frank’s facade to the public.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Many times suffers from personal losses because he has to be good at his job.
- Once he managed to stop an entire sting operation but had to shoot his own criminal friend because he realized what Frank was doing.
- The Mole: Frank works as a police infiltrator and puts on a front as a ruthless gangster and has very good relation to the underworld. Therefore, as he is just a fake member of Seth Rydell’s gang, he not only informs the GSI what their next plan is, but regularly costs them potential victory. Needless to say, he is also very good at hiding it so no criminal he has worked with notices that Frank has been actively undermining them.
- Street Smart: Very much so. Part of is job requires him to know the streets and be in good relation to the underworld, so that he can gain the trust from criminals while also avoid danger as much as possible.
- Treacherous Advisor: A rare heroic example: Frank regularly acts like an ally to Seth and other criminals, often in an important and respected role, only to decieve them to have them being brought down by the police.
- Unknown Rival: Is one to Seth Rydell and, for that matter, every criminal he has worked with.
- Unscrupulous Hero: He commits questionable acts like assault, intimidation and murder to achieve his ends.
Sophie Nordh
Sophie Nordh
The only female member of GSI and a quite competent cop as well.- Action Girl: Is the sole female member of GSI, and a quite good and respected one.
- The Leader: Takes over the role as the leader of GAI after Patrik quits.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When one of her informants called Amir calls her after seeing the newspaper showing a picture of the two talking, thus unveiling his cover. He gets shot in the middle of their conversation. Sophie gets shocked and calls the police, then blames herself for what happened.
- Subverted as it is also revealed to her by her colleague that it was actually her husband Roger who took the picture and she confronts him for it.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She tells Seth that if he gives her the name of the heist planner in ”The Child Infiltrator”, she’ll give him 100 000 SEK. Seth does this by setting up a meeting between him and the planner and it turns out it is Heikki Nieminen, a psychotic criminal Seth once knew. Now that Heikki knows Seth has a part of the money stolen from a robbery Heikki planned, Heikki goes to Seth’s house and tries to steal it after the GSI took all of Heikki’s money. He starts a shootout resulting in the death of Seth’s own brother Felix.
Patrik Agrell
The boss of GSI.
- The Leader: Being the chief of GSI.
Niklas Saxlid
One of GSI’s members and has a degree in psychology.
- Badass Bookworm: Has a degree in psychology and is an effective cop as well.
- The Dog Bites Back: After being kidnapped and tortured by Ramzan and witnessing two people being killed, Niklas eventually breaks loose and kills both Ramzan and his brother.
- Guile Hero: Completely deconstructed in ”Blood Diamonds”. Niklas along with three other guys are kidnapped by the criminal Arms Dealer Ramzan, as the latter suspects there is a snitch among them. Niklas starts to come up with different plans to escape and promises to help the other guys escape as well. Only problem is that Niklas is too overconfident and heavily underestimates Ramzan and the situation, resulting in the death of two of the hostages and himself getting tortured.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: See Guile Hero above. He screws up is own plan at escaping from a kidnapping, unintentionally causing two others to be killed.
- Too Clever by Half: In ”Blood Diamonds” he is this. Niklas is quite keen and knows human psychology. But as stated in Guile Hero above, his overconfidence (and underestimation of the bad guy) causes him to screw up his own plan.
Lasse Karlsson
Lasse Karlsson
A member revealed to be The Mole in the third season.- Alas, Poor Villain: He hangs himself in his cell after killing Patrik. But he is genuinely remorseful and has a sympathetic motive as The Mole in the first place.
- Big Bad Slippage: Was once a good and talented cop, but after his loved one was killed, he became insane and a liability towards The GSI, eventually becoming a major antagonist of season 3.
- Corrupt Cop: Turns out to have been an infiltrator in his own group and have helped mobsters through his position, such as giving them info about his own colleagues.
- Driven to Suicide: Hangs himself in his cell.
- Hero Killer / Cop Killer: He kills Patrik right after he recovered from cancer out of panic that he might’ve been unveiled.
- Killer Cop: A cop who kills another cop.
- The Mole: Was revealed to be one for the Russian mob.
