Nordic Noir

The Bridge

-  The Bridge is a Scandinavian-noir crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's Danmarks Radio, it has been shown in more than 100 countries.

- AKA - Bron / Broen

- Genre - Serial Crime Thriller, Scandinavian Noir

S03 EP1 Plot

When a female body is found on a construction site in Malmö, Sweden – posed in a tableau representing a traditional family – Saga is assigned to the case together with a Copenhagen police officer Hanne Thomsen, who is hostile towards Saga due to her role in the incarceration of Martin Rohde. The victim is identified as Helle Anker, a resident of Copenhagen. Anker, a lesbian married to a Swedish woman, was the pioneer of Denmark's first gender-neutral preschool. Her work had been the target of numerous threats, including vlog posts by right-wing lawyer Lise Frise Andersen, whose husband owns the facility where Anker's body was discovered. While attempting to question Anker's son Morten, a mentally unstable veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Thomsen is wounded by a booby trap. Saga is then assigned a new Danish partner, Henrik Sabroe.

Series three consists of 10 episodes. Each episode is 60 minutes in length.

Characters

Saga Norén 

 

Lead homicide detective in Malmö. Always focused in work and has no time to waste. She seems to dislike her mother.

Henrik Sabroe

Lead homicide detective in Copenhagen. He is assigned to the Helle Anker case after Hanne Thompson is seriously injured. He is addicted to drugs and apparently goes out with other women even though he is married.

Hans Petterson


He is a key supporting figure in the Mälmo police department. Hans Petterson maintains a calm and collected demeanour that can be seen as aloof and lethargic. His long-standing relationship with Saga defines him as a conduit to help Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) adapt to his burgeoning partnership with Saga and gauge her personality.

Lillian Larsen


The Police Commissioner in Copenhagen, later married to Petterson


KEY SCENES

• Victim found
• confrontation between Saga and her partner
• Interrogating the victim's wife
• interrogating the son
• Man running from someone
• Saga's partner has her leg lost in an explosion