Great read. Yes indeed, very different sort of case — less whodunnit than an more conventional political thriller. But a suicide bomb, form someone supposedly so anti-extremist?
Very odd, I thought. Ahh, well. The person chased by Lund across the railway tracks was Bilal. He admitted this early on when questioned. He had fully informed his Army superiors, but they had not told the Police. Ahh, excellent, thank you!
Much obliged to you for the info! Thanks for the comment. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. After arresting Sogaard, finally, because the police find the mobile phone that killed Gruner and all the half dog tags in his basement locker, the finger is then pointed to Bilal.
And Bilal has always been a bit shady. And meanwhile the Prime Minister proved to be a heartless politician. True to form. He betrayed Rossing and Buch. They found out that the PM had been covering up that that extraneous hand found in Afghanistan was not the hand of a suicide bomber, but of a civilian.
Confusing anyway. And then, Episode What a rollercoaster! Is it Bilal? Is it Strange? Is it Plough? Is it Frederik Holst? Did they kill Sarah Lund? Well, no. Because, yes, Strange was the magnificent bastard. He was the officer, who pretended to be called Perk, who murdered the Afghan civilians and then killed Anne Dragsholm and the surviving members of Alpha to cover it all up. So Strange was not even a great criminal mastermind. Raben was right all along.
But meanwhile, Bilal went a bit mental. Vicky Frost's episodes seven and eight blog. Gosh, it feels like this series has gone by in an absolute flash — no sooner were we applauding the return of the jumper than we were watching it dash around Afghanistan. We've got lots to get through so I suggest we press straight on with the details and not only because many of you will surely be shouting "I told you so!
We can only wonder at whether Lund will even get a partner for season three — I can't imagine there will be a waiting list given the current survival rate …. Strange began killing members of Alpha after a chance meeting with Anne Dragsholm at the magistrates court.
It was hot, and she saw his tattoo — and started asking questions. He had been cleared of involvement thanks to General Arild who lied to Brix about the dates Strange was in Afghanistan — despite Strange being AWOL on the dates of the shootings — in order to cover up Special Forces involvement. The Prime Minister knew about the civilian deaths and the Special Forces officer, but covered them up to protect the government, who had sanctioned the secret mission without the necessary permission of parliament.
It was Bilal who deleted the radio messages about Special Forces movements. Perk's dogtags were found in the oven of the house in Afghanistan, along the remains of the family who lived there.
They had been executed. The local policemen and General Arild said the family — or at least the father — were Taliban informers.
But the extra hand that was found was covered in a special Henna design of the Hazara people, known to hate the Taliban. It was also wearing a gold ring.
The Taliban do not wear gold. Where to start? Perhaps with that final betrayed glance from Lund that Brix could not quite meet. Even as she flew back from Afghanistan more of which below , Lund couldn't shake the feeling that Strange could still be the killer. We saw her tell Brix twice tonight. But Brix, under pressure from Ruth Hedeby — and, to be fair, events on the ground — would not countenance the idea.
Well not quite: he did double-check Strange's alibi. But while Lund seems to see Brix as having failed her when she needed him most, I'm not convinced that she really wanted to believe Strange was the killer herself.
Like some of us on this blog, she had been charmed by him; was perhaps even falling for him. I'm still unsure whether she truly knew it was Strange behind the killings as they walked in the memorial park — although the body armour suggests she was at least on the way to being convinced. Similar to the first season, there was also a political sub-plot — but from local politics, it moved on to national politics, with the newly appointed Justice Minister, Thomas Buch, being the lead in the sub-plot, who is put in a situation which forces him to open a can of worms.
Then there is Jens Peter Raben, a suspended military officer who is now in a psychiatric ward over mental issues and Raben, in some way has links to the murdered. Coming to the story, it was good, to say the least. Murders all over the place, and also, these murders also had political impact. The story also added dimensions, military protocol, and the war in Afghanistan among several things.
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