When it starts, a woman’s torso, with 17 stab wounds, has been washed up on the shore. The police already have a man in custody: the owner of the submarine, who at first claims he put Kim Wall safely ashore. He changes his story multiple times, yet never tells the truth.
We’ve already seen Jens Moller (Soren Malling), head of Copenhagen’s homicide division, and prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jensen (Pilou Asbaek) fail to secure a conviction against a smirking thug who murdered a teenage boy. They knew full well he was guilty; the jury wasn’t persuaded, so he walked.