Strange seems cut from the same mould as Lund, which is why, for a time at least, the story threatens to take their relationship beyond the professional.
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DI Ulrik Strange fills the partner role in this series though he isn’t as easy to warm to as Meyer. As Lund’s partner, Meyer was the voice of reason and we could feel his frustration with Lund’s methods, even if we were routing for him to go along with them. In the first season where she would have shown despair though, she seems to just accept events when Lund leaves her wedding to attend to the case.ĭuring season one of The Killing Detective Inspector Jan Meyer was a character that the audience could take to its heart. Her mother appears to still be holding out hope for her daughter and seems genuinely pleased just to see her in one piece when she returns to Copenhagen. Her son seems to have almost accepted that his mother is not going to be there for him but actually seems happier for it, as though he is relieved to know one way or the other if he can rely upon her. Perhaps because of the fewer episodes, we don’t see as much interaction between Lund and her mother and son in this season. That feeling of ‘one episode is never enough’ is just as prevalent. The story might not strike quite as an emotional nerve with its audience this time around, but the edge of the seat writing is as present as ever. As a result, this season is every bit as gripping as the first.
The multiple victim pile up leads to the investigation never seeming to have time to stand still. Might this all be related to the murders that Lund and co are investigating?Īlthough the plot of The Killing II did not encompass a third storyline, it had to be crammed into half as many episodes which means it moves at the speed of a rollercoaster. Over the course of the season Buch comes to realise that he may be being a scapegoat for his predecessor’s involvement in covering up military operations in Afghanistan. Thomas Buch has just been appointed Minister for Justice, though immediately we feel like he’s out of his depth and fumbling in the dark. It could be said that the nature of the investigation is a lot more politically inclined for this series but there is another plot strand that once again involves those in political office. The return of The Killing does keep its political edge with its second storyline. Lund couldn’t find a desert camouflage jumper so settles for traditional BDUs. As the bodies start to pile up, the investigation takes Lund and new associate Strange to the rural islands of Denmark and into Afghanistan itself. Jens Peter Raben is adamant that a sole officer known as Perk was responsible for the slaughter of civilians that the unit witnessed in Afghanistan. One member of said unit is so in fear of his life that he breaks out of a mental hospital at the end of episode two. It seems that Islamic extremists are behind the deaths. Someone is offing members of a Danish military unit who were caught up in a controversial incident in Afghanistan a number of years earlier. What forms the first of The Killing II’s major plot strands is the hunt for a very organised and deadly killer. No sooner is Lund on the case than a second body shows up, throat slashed with a soldier’s dog tags. It’s on with a fetching new red jumper, and back to Copenhagen.Īnd it’s not before time either.
This is the beginning of the re-emergence of the Sarah Lund we know, the woman who sees things a little bit differently to everyone else and just can’t bear to let those nagging thoughts go. It is only after Lund hears of the confession of Dragsholm’s husband that her interest in helping is piqued. Her taking of a job well beneath her level of expertise is telling that she has lost a great deal of confidence in her abilities as a policewoman. It becomes instantly clear that Lund’s obsession with the case of Nanna Birk Larsen has completely devastated her to the point that she has shut herself away from her family. Then a woman on the verge of a new and stable life in Sweden, Lund has now been reduced to a passport controller in Southern Denmark. Our first encounter with Lund in The Killing II could not be more different than her first appearance in season one. Before this happens though, DCI Lennart Brix (one of very few returning characters) sends his new Detective Inspector Ulrik Strange to locate Sarah Lund and enlist her help with the case. The victim’s family in the case of Anne Dragsholm turns out to be her husband who forcibly confesses to her murder.
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