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* ICanStillFight: [[spoiler:[[{{Determinator}} Saga]] in the final episode, continuing to try to save August and Martin after being shot twice by the killer and minimally treated in hospital.]]
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* JurisdictionFriction: Part of the initial hype for the show, and possibly hoped for by the killer. But actually the two police forces work together pretty well, barring some arguments over who gets to carry a gun [[spoiler:(initially humorous but later played more seriously.]]
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* JurisdictionFriction: Part of the initial hype for the show, and possibly hoped for by the killer. But actually the two police forces work together pretty well, barring some arguments over who gets to carry a gun [[spoiler:(initially humorous but later played more seriously.seriously).]]
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* ExactWords: Saga, who CannotTellALie, tries to reassure Martin by telling him that [[spoiler:"we found August", and that he's being taken to the hospital]]. After she repeats that exact wording a couple of times, the killer points out that she's not saying [[spoiler:they found him ''alive''...]]
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: Saga complains about being asked to keep Martin' secret [[spoiler:that he's the guy who had an affair with Jens' wife.]]
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* DefectiveDetective: AnOddCouple of them; a ByTheBook Swede with NoSocialSkills and a laid-back Dane who ReallyGetsAround.
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Saif and his father decide not to kill Henning and to let him go. Then the killer turns up in a police uniform and guns him down. Later when it's falsely implied that August survived.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Saif and his father decide not to kill Henning and to let him go. Then the killer turns up in a police uniform and guns him down. Later when it's falsely implied that August survived.]]
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* MailerDaemon: [[spoiler:August and the killer, who is pretending to be a (real) female friend of his.]]
* MurderDotCom: The two "Truth Terrorist" sites, one for each country. [[spoiler:Which the killer uses to broadcast Bjorn's murder and threaten to kill the school bus children.]]
* MurderDotCom: The two "Truth Terrorist" sites, one for each country. [[spoiler:Which the killer uses to broadcast Bjorn's murder and threaten to kill the school bus children.]]
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* ShootYourMate: [[spoiler:With an innocent bystander]].
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''Bron|Broen'' (the former title is Swedish and the latter Danish), known in English-speaking markets as ''The Bridge'', is a thriller co-produced by the national TV companies of Denmark and Sweden. The first series was shown in its native countries in 2011, and in 2012 followed ''{{Forbrydelsen}}'' onto BBC4 in the UK. A second season has been confirmed in Scandinavia.
The series begins when [[spoiler:dismembered parts of women's bodies are]] discovered on the Øresund bridge that links Copenhagen (Denmark) with Malmö (Sweden), carefully dumped at the exact point where the bridge is divided by the international border. As a result, the two cities' police forces are [[JurisdictionFriction forced to collaborate]] on the investigation, led by Saga Norén (Sweden) and Martin Rohde (Denmark). Threatening messages are then received by the police and media, from somebody purporting to have committed the murders to draw attention to social problems.
The series begins when [[spoiler:dismembered parts of women's bodies are]] discovered on the Øresund bridge that links Copenhagen (Denmark) with Malmö (Sweden), carefully dumped at the exact point where the bridge is divided by the international border. As a result, the two cities' police forces are [[JurisdictionFriction forced to collaborate]] on the investigation, led by Saga Norén (Sweden) and Martin Rohde (Denmark). Threatening messages are then received by the police and media, from somebody purporting to have committed the murders to draw attention to social problems.
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''Bron|Broen'' (the former title is Swedish and the latter Danish), known in English-speaking markets as ''The Bridge'', is a thriller co-produced by the national TV companies of Denmark and Sweden. The first series was shown in its native countries in 2011, and in 2012 followed ''{{Forbrydelsen}}'' onto BBC4 in the UK. A second season has been confirmed in Scandinavia.
Scandinavia, while remakes are being looked at in both the US (with Mexico) and the UK (with France)
The series begins when[[spoiler:dismembered parts [[spoiler:two halves of women's bodies are]] two separate womens' bodies]] discovered on the Øresund bridge that links Copenhagen (Denmark) with Malmö (Sweden), carefully dumped at the exact point where the bridge is divided by the international border. As a result, the two cities' police forces are [[JurisdictionFriction forced to collaborate]] on the investigation, led by Saga Norén (Sweden) and Martin Rohde (Denmark). Threatening messages are then received by the police and media, from somebody purporting to have committed the murders to draw attention to social problems.
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** The languages are mutually intelligible - Rohde asks his Swedish counterparts if they can understand his Danish.
* [[spoiler:IHaveYourWife: And children]]
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* MurderDotComMurderDotCom: The two "Truth Terrorist" sites, one for each country.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Ferbé]][[spoiler:Ferbé, who after losing his job, gets gassed to death in his car]]
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Several times.
* CannotTellALie: Saga is frequently noted as being a terrible liar, which she is trying to improve. Naturally, this [[ChekhovsSkill becomes vitally important in the finale]].
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* DeadLittleSister: Saga's sister killed herself at some point in the past. [[spoiler:Jens' wife and son were killed in a car crash.]]
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* DefectiveDetective: AnOddCouple of them; a ByTheBook Swede with NoSocialSkills and a laid-back Dane who ReallyGetsAround.
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:In the final few episodes, Martin discovers that Jens wants revenge against him, for sleeping with his wife just before she died. He takes his wife and kids, and his teenage son, hostage.]]
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* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: Two variations are used in the finale, for [[spoiler:Mette and her kids -- a shack in the countryside, which they're locked inside with a live grenade]], and for [[spoiler:August -- bricked up behind a false wall in a secret location]].
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* TurnInYourBadge: Briefly discussed and defied; once the case becomes [[ItsPersonal personal]] for Rohde, it's suggested that he be taken off it. He matter-of-factly states that if he is, [[VigilanteMan he'll just keep investigating on his own time]], so he's kept on.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Martin is a serial case. He's gone through several marriages because of it, and his current one is on the rocks, but it really comes back to haunt him when it turns out [[spoiler:the killer is after him because he slept with his wife years ago, shortly before she left him and died in an accident.]]
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* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler:Ferbé]], possibly. Unless he was just being self-destructively irresponsible with drugs.
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''Bron|Broen'' (the former title is Danish Swedish and the latter Swedish), Danish), known in English-speaking markets as ''The Bridge'', is a thriller co-produced by the national TV companies of Denmark and Sweden. The first series was shown in its native countries in 2011, and in 2012 followed ''{{Forbrydelsen}}'' onto BBC4 in the UK. A second season has been confirmed in Scandinavia.
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* ByTheBookCop: Saga takes her duties very seriously.
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* ByTheBookCop: Saga takes her duties very seriously. After finding a store camera that could have useful evidence on it, she gets the camera's memory card - and then mentions that the store-owner doesn't actually have permission for the camera.
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* DoYouWishToCopulate: If Saga wants to have sex with someone, she doesn't beat around the bush. No pun intended.
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* HandOfDeathHandOfDeath: The show likes depicting the killer as a pair of gloved hands driving a car to the next crime scene.
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* DysfunctionJunction: All the significant characters are so screwed up that you'll start thinking the killer has a point.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: The killer wants to draw attention to the plight of the vulnerable in society, by murdering them in incredibly cruel and gruesome ways.
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* RunningGag: Saga's boss explaining "She meant to say 'How are you?'", Martin's insistence that Saga needs a hobby, and the Swedes waking Martin up early in the morning while he's sleeping.
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* FanDisservice: This being a Scandinavian show, there's a lot of casual nudity (especially involving Saga, Soren and Sonja), but the style of the shots is so clinical and the events sometimes so disturbing that it's rarely erotic.
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* FanDisservice: This being a Scandinavian show, there's a lot of casual nudity (especially involving Saga, Soren Stefan and Sonja), but the style of the shots is so clinical and the events sometimes so disturbing that it's rarely erotic.
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* GroinAttack: The killer kicking Rohde in the balls, possibly because he knows that Rohde just had a vasectomy.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler:Charlotte paying the entire ransom just to spite her dead husband and spend her stepdaughter's money]]
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* MurderDotCom
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* NoShirtLongJacket: Sonja throughout the first couple of episodes.
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* BilingualDialogue: All the dialogue is in either Danish or Swedish depending on who's talking.
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The series begins when [[spoiler:dismembered parts of women's bodies]] are bodies are]] discovered on the Øresund bridge that links Copenhagen (Denmark) with Malmö (Sweden), carefully dumped at the exact point where the bridge is divided by the international border. As a result, the two cities' police forces are [[JurisdictionFriction forced to collaborate]] on the investigation, led by Saga Norén (Sweden) and Martin Rohde (Denmark). Threatening messages are then received by the police and media, from somebody purporting to have committed the murders to draw attention to social problems.
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* MurdererPOV: The start.
* NoSocialSkills: Saga. Played sometimes seriously, [[spoiler:as when she callously interrogates a guy over the phone while he's trapped in a car with a time bomb]], and sometimes comically [[spoiler: as when she picks up a guy in a bar with "want to have sex at my place?" and freaks him out when she post-coitally starts her laptop up and looks at gruesome autopsy photos in bed]].
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* MurdererPOV: The start.
* NoSocialSkills: Saga. Played sometimes seriously, [[spoiler:as when she callously interrogates a guy over the phone while he's trapped in a car with a time bomb]], and sometimes comically [[spoiler: as when she picks up a guy in a bar with "want to have sex at my place?" and freaks him out when she post-coitally starts her laptop up and looks at gruesome autopsy photos in bed]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Saga. The actor and writers have said that she probably is autistic/Asperger in some way, but that they didn't explicitly state it to keep their freedom of writing without offending/misleading people.
* CriminalMindGames
* ExternalCombustion
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Rohde's teenage son.
* IncrediblyObviousBomb: [[spoiler:Actually a cruel joke.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Ferbé's introductory scene, where he viciously mocks a sad-sack colleague for his unhipness and taste in music, makes him appear so unpleasant that the unspeakably horrible things that happen to him immediately afterwards seem karmic and comical.
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* CriminalMindGames
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* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Rohde's teenage son.
* IncrediblyObviousBomb: [[spoiler:Actually a cruel joke.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Ferbé's introductory scene, where he viciously mocks a sad-sack colleague for his unhipness and taste in music, makes him appear so unpleasant that the unspeakably horrible things that happen to him immediately afterwards seem karmic and comical.
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