History Series / Oyevitne

* AffectionateNickname: Camilla Bjerke, assigned to protect Henning whilst he lies in his hospital bed, is nicknamed '[[VideoGame/{{TombRaider}} Lara Croft]]' by both Henning and Philip.

* BigBad: Ronny Berg Larsen, the Head of Oslo's Organised Crime Unit is [[ReverseWhoDunnit revealed to be the killer from the very first few scenes]]. As well as relentlessly trying to suppress the investigation into the murders in the quarry that he committed, he also conducts a paedophilic relationship with a local crime boss' daughter before staging her suicide. When he's made aware that Henning and Philip witnessed his murdering rampage in the quarry, he stages a bike accident that puts Henning in a coma and abducts Philip to presumably make it look like he killed himself too. Luckily, his EvilPlan is thwarted by Helen, whose impassioned speech (in which she actually offers him a way out) gets to him so much that he's DrivenToSuicide.

* BookEnds: The series both begins and closes with scenes of Philip and Henning joking about happily together.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Many of the series' promotional images (especially internationally) revolved around Zana, with her walking along moody-looking city streets looking mysterious and FinalGirl-ish. However, apart from her brief encounter with Ronny, and subsequent staged-suicide, she doesn't feature as much as the imagery would have us believe.

* DisappearedDad: Philip’s father is notably absent.
* DrivenToSuicide: Ronny Berg Larsen, having been exposed as the killer in the quarry and Zana's murderer, shoots himself in the head after Helen passionately pleads with him (even bribing him with an alibi) to release the kidnapped Philip.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mia snarks that she bets it's Henning who died in the quarry, as he's so reckless on his bike that he's ''bound'' to one day have an accident -- which is exactly what happens in episode 5 when Ronny lays a trap on Henning's usual course, firing a taser at him so he goes plunging over the handlebars and into a rockpool below.

* GoodbyeCruelWorld: After he's spurned by Henning, who he witnesses kissing Mia at party, Philip lingers nearby, getting more and more drunk on a bottle of vodka Henning has hurled his way. In despair over losing Henning (and Helen refusing to believe his account of the murder), he wanders utterly wasted down the train-tracks at Slitu, seemingly not caring at all if the oncoming train flattens him. Luckily, he either dodges at the last minute, or the train manages to brake in time (we don't see), but he's discovered passed-out next to the tracks by Helen and Sven.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The killer's modus operandi in dealing with those who could reveal his identity:
** Ronny strangles his underage lover Zana to death when she becomes a nuisance and sets it up to look like she hung herself.

** In an attempt to kidnap the other witness, Philip, he breaks into his mother Anne Britt's apartment, sends a fake distraught message from her phone, and sets it up to look like she's taken a heroin overdose.

* PapaWolf: Hamit might be a morally corrupt drug-dealing kingpin, but he loves his daughter Zana and would go through great lengths to protect her -- including orchestrating the local biker gang to kidnap and kill her paedophile lover "Nixon", later revealed to be the killer in the quarry, Ronny.

The victims of the shoot-out all belong to the local 'Ferrymen' biker gang – though it’s soon revealed that one of them was a police informer trying to save the abductee-turned-killer from his captors, but the killer’s identity remains a mystery.\\\

* AlwaysMurder: Ronny, revealed as the killer in the first few scenes, was also conducting a paedophilic relationship with 15 year old Zana, and stages her suicide by hanging when she becomes carelessly chatty and clinging.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Henning, whose macho father may have something to do with his internalised homophobia, and the fact that he’s something of a popular jock at school, due to his skills as a star motor-cross biker.

* BilingualDialogue: All the dialogue is primarily in Norwegian, but some Danish and Swedish characters do make an appearance, speaking in their own languages as they are all mutually intelligible to an extent (slower speech is the usual practise to ensure understanding).
* BookEnds: The series both begins and closes with scenes of Philip and Henning joking about and happily together.

* LeaveNoWitnesses: After Ronny has murdered his captors in the quarry, he realises Henning and Philip have witnessed the whole thing from the cabin. The boys force their escape, with Henning knocking Ronny out with a frying pan. When Ronny joins the investigation (into the murder ''he'' committed, no less), he firstly dispatches his under-age lover Zana, faking her suicide, and then when he learns that Henning was one of the witnesses in the cabin, he stages a motorbike accident that puts Henning in a coma. Finally, after an unwitting Camilla blabs that Philip ''also'' witnessed his murderous rampage, he stages a kidnap, likely with the intent of setting up Philip's suicide too.

As a with all NordicNoir dramas, beware of uncovered spoilers below!

** Camilla and Ronny, who begin seeing each other later in the series -- mostly so he can use her as a mole to stay one step ahead of Helen's investigation. He's furious when she casually notes their relationship is subject to work gossip, slamming her into a wall and quickly having to make up a fake story about a dead former friend to explain himself.

** Zana and Ronny -- morally despicable on his behalf and completely illegal due to her being 15 years old. There relationship begins prior to the series, and both parties try to keep it private, but in the series opening episode, Zana's father Hamit has found out and sent a gang of bikers after Ronny.

* SecretRelationship: Philip and Henning's relationship, mostly due to the latter's brief, but strong internalised homophobia. After Philip's scare on the railway line in episode 4, the pair make up and Henning is much more openly affectionate. In the finale, Philip chokes out that he and Henning are in love to a supportive Sven, who notes he thinks it's wonderful.

* CassandraTruth: The fifth episode deals with Philip telling Helen that Henning witnessed the murders in the quarry. Unfortunately, nobody believes him because Henning, worried that his sexuality will be exposed, refuses to corroborate his story and Helen catches Philip in what she believes to be another lie.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Philip, whose mother Anne Britt is an immature medication-addict who can barely look after herself, let alone a teenage son. Philip mentions to a shocked Sven that he’s seen a dead body up close and personal, when he discovered his mother’s friend Øyvind dead on their sofa – presumably from an overdose.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: For mostly everyone (including the viewers after 6 episodes of tense drama) -- rare for a NordicNoir. Ronny is outed as the killer and commits suicide before he can harm Philip; Anne Britt is saved from a staged suicide; Henning recovers from his coma and is reunited with Philip; Despite taking a bullet, Helen is expected to make a full recovery and she and Philip are now bonded closer than ever.

* FosterKid: Helen and Sven fostered Philip when his own medication-addict mother proved herself incapable. The trio have a fractious relationship as the series begins, which is fully healed by the dramatic events of the finale.

* GangOfHats: The biker gangs all wear matching jackets and have similar tattoos.

* TheHero: Helen Sikkeland -- a ByTheBookCop who's struggling to raise her foster son Philip whilst conducting an inquest into the quarry murders, just as Oslo's OC unit begins to muscle in on her case. Her truly heroic side emerges in the finale where, having learned from both Henning and later Philip that Ronny is the quarry killer, she confronts him (after he’s kidnapped the titular 'eyewitness' Philip) and pleads with him, sotto voce, to let her foster son go -- even resorting to completely uncharacteristic bribery (offering Ronny an alibi) if he'll release Philip unharmed.

** When Philip identifies Ronny as the killer, Helen realises that she has been completely unknowingly feeding him information on the case -- including the identity of the key witnesses; Henning and her foster son Philip.

* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: Mysen is a small rural Norwegian town which Helen keeps peaceful in her capacity as sheriff. The murders in the quarry, perpetrated by Ronny, shock the close-knit town.

* WhamEpisode: In the final moments of episode 5, Henning is stealthily attacked by Ronny and sent tumbling to his doom down a waterfall, pinned underwater. The episode closes with a protection officer frantically trying to restart Henning's heart.

* DeathOfAChild: The bikers versus Balkans gang war hits the headlines when a young girl at a primary school is shot and killed in a shoot-out.
* DisappearedDad: Philip’s father is never mentioned.

* GayMoment: The first scene in the cabin where, after opening a couple of beers and collapsing with laughter on a camp-bed, Philip makes his first move, starting off safely -- "do you ever bring babes up here?" -- before making it clear that ''he'' wants to be Henning's babe. Henning initially laughs it off and play-fights with Philip, but after turning out the cabin lights, the encounter moves on to something far more romantic.

* WhenItAllBegan: The entire plot is kicked off by Ronny Berg Larsen's relationship with Zana Korda, the underage daughter of a local Balkan crime-boss, Hamit. Wanting rid of Berg Larsen, Hamit solicits the services of the local biker gang, The Ferrymen, to dispose of him, which kicks off the chain reaction of events depicted throughout the sixth episode series.

''Øyevitne'' (English: ''Eyewitness'') is a 2014 NordicNoir crime mini-series written and directed by Jarl Emsell Larsen, produced by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK and starring Anneke von der Lippe, who won an International Emmy for Best Actress for her role as Helen Sikkeland. The series also features the debut of young Norwegian actors Axel Bøyum and Odin Waage in co-starring roles. For the 2016 American remake, please go here: ''Series/Eyewitness2016''.\\\

Philip and Henning make a pact to tell no one what they have witnessed, lest their sexual experimentation be discovered, but as Philip’s foster mother Helen (Anneke von der Lippe) is the local sheriff and heading up the murder investigation, their silence on what they both witnessed proves increasingly difficult.

''Øyevitne'' (English: ''Eyewitness'') is a 2014 NordicNoir crime mini-series written and directed by Jarl Emsell Larsen, produced by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK and starring Anneke von der Lippe, who won an International Emmy for Best Actress for her role as Helen Sikkeland. The series also features the debut of young Norwegian actors Axel Bøyum and Odin Haage in co-starring roles. For the 2016 American remake, please go here: ''Series/Eyewitness2016''.\\\

The series begins with school friends Philip (Bøyum) and Henning (Haage) hanging out together in an old workers’ cabin at a remote quarry, where they nervously begin to explore a previously unspoken mutual attraction. Their brief encounter is shattered when a car pulls up outside and a gun battle takes place before their eyes between a hostage and his abductors. The surviving abductee, having expertly dispatched his captors, spots the spying boys, but they manage to force an escape, taking the murder weapon with them, which they hurl into a nearby rock pool.\\\

The victims of the shoot-out all belong to the local “Ferrymen” biker gang – though it’s soon revealed that one of them was a police informer trying to save the abductee-turned-killer from his captors, but the killer’s identity remains a mystery.\\\

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Following the murder of four bikers in a quarry as the series begins, a large part of the early plot is given over to the tense relationship between local Balkan club-owner Hamit Milonkovic's crime syndicate and the "Ferrymen" -- a biker chapter who Hamit employs to kidnap and kill his daughter Zana's paedophile lover "Nixon", later revealed to be Ronny Berg Larsen.

* StumbledIntoThePlot: Philip and Henning just wanted to hang out at the quarry, have a couple of beers and explore their budding attraction. However, the arrival of the Ferrymen biker gang, with a kidnapped Ronny Berg Larsen in tow, propels them into the plot when they both witness Ronny's subsequent escape and murder spree.

* WhenItAllBegan: The entire plot is kicked off by Ronny Berg Larsen's relationship with Zana Korda, the underage daughter of a local Balkan crime-boss, Hamit. Wanting rid of Berg Larsen, Hamit solicits the services of the local biker gang, the Ferrymen, to dispose of him, which kicks off the chain reaction of events depicted throughout the sixth episode series.

* GangOfHats: The Ferrymen biker gang all wear matching jackets and have similar tattoos.

Philip and Henning make a pact to tell no one what they have witnessed, lest their sexual experimentation be discovered, but as Philip’s foster mother Helen (Anneke von der Lippe) is the local sheriff and heading up the murder investigation, their silence on what they both witnessed proves increasingly difficult. As the plot builds, a runaway girl begs the killer for help, an undercover cop tries to conceal her connections to the drug-dealing biker gang, and the new head of Oslo’s Organised Crime Unit seems mysteriously intent on burying the case…

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Once Ronny is made aware that Henning was one of the witnesses to his murderous rampage, he sets up an ambush on his motocross trail. As Henning approaches a jump over a waterfall, Ronny fires a taser into Henning's chest, which causes him to flip over the handlebars and tumble into the pool below, the bike then landing on top of him and pinning him underwater. He's down for a good ''seven'' minutes before Philip and his protection officer can get him free and almost doesn't make it, going into cardiac arrest at least three times before stabilising and recovering.