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Jan and Louise, who had spent most of the episode telling each, ‘sorry, you were right’, finally hit paydirt in a good twist at the end: as Stine led Emma out of the house to freedom, we saw Louise surmise – after seeing all photos of Kjeldsen’s victims laid out in the incident room and seeing that none of them linked up – that there two people at work here: one, Kjeldsen, who was in it for sexual kicks, and another – in this case, Stine – who was in it for the killing. These conversations with Emma felt wrong to me – Stine had been his companion for a long time, and knew what he got up to, so why was she opening up to his latest conquests now? Why was she agreeing to help her now, after all these years? We saw, in flashback, how she and Kjeldsen first met and, later, explain to Emma (who obviously thought that by isolating Stine on her visits to the basement, she could psychologically get to work on her) how he had beaten her, forced her to have sex and followed her around, threatening to kill her and her parents if she did not do what he demanded. Louise deduced that Erika was not connected to Kjeldsen.Įpisode four concentrated on Stine – Kjeldsen’s mysterious companion. He got away.Įarlier in the episode, Jan and Louise went to Sweden to investigate a crime with a similar MO. On his way to dispose of Julie (who had been thrown down the stairs in Kjeldsen’s basement after she and Emma had tried to escape), the episode ended with perhaps the worst car chase in history – Jan was chasing Kjeldsen and was relaying his number plate to a policeman on the other end of the radio, except, inexplicably, the policeman didn’t hear. There they found a slurry pit, containing the bodies of three women. In episode three, some of that backstory was filled out, which eventually led Jan and profiler Louise to an isolated farm, where Kjeldsen spent time as a youngster. Add in the fact that the two women – Julie and Emma.
#THE KILLING DANISH RECAP SERIES#
The twist of course in this series is that we know who the killer is already – Anders Kjeldsen – so the trick in this series is to fill in his backstory, figure out why he does what he does (and his lover/helper Stine) and follow the trail to him. Not because I liked Jan Michelsen any better – I still think he’s quite an unlikable main character – or because there was any less violence against women (there was a sickening scene in the basement towards the end of the episode that was too gratuitous), but this was purely procedural, and it was quite propulsive and addictive. The good news is that the third episode was much better. And I agree with that – DTWK seemed to be far too by-the-numbers, which meant following some disturbingly easy tropes when it came to female victims.Īnd yet, I wanted to see whether the series would improve and hit its stride – after all, with BBC Four’s propensity to show double-bills each Saturday night, we’d be half-way through the series after tonight.
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#THE KILLING DANISH RECAP SERIAL#
Some of you thought it was an atmospheric serial killer hunt that had a nice twist at the end of episode two.Īnd then some of you thought that yet another series featuring young women being violently murdered was just too enough to take. I thought they were a bit clichéd and a bit meh, but many of you disagreed with me. Last week’s opening two episodes of Danish series, Darkness: Those Who Kill, disappointed me.