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Still don't understand the murder [SPOILERS]

posted 9 years ago by wp-859-224985
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SPOILERS HERE. PLEASE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED SEASON 1 ALREADY!!

Finished Season 1 — and I'm still confused about exactly what the heck happened. I gather Vagn got wind of Nanna's plan to elope. And I gather that he somehow knew that she had gone to the apartment owned by Hartmann's political party (where she had been meeting Jens, the other councilman). So he goes there and finds her. And then what? I guess he rapes her there (presumably because he's obsessed with her and has been controlling his obsession for years since she reached puberty but now he snaps). Okay. But he does NOT kill her there. So why the heck is there blood all over the place? And then he drags her to the Larsen's new house where he takes her to the basement. Why? Because he needed somewhere to hide her for a while? And what happened there that causes blood to be spilt? And finally, he takes her out to the woods — and she actually GETS AWAY? By this point I'd imagine that she had lost so much blood that she couldn't sit up. (I have a bleeding disorder and I know more than a little about this.) Nevertheless she's seen racing through the woods. Finally, even after attacking her brutally and bloodily, both in the political party's flat and in the Larsen's new house, he can't bring himself to issue the coup de grace — so he puts her in the trunk of the car and drowns her?

Have I got this all right or did I miss something major?

It's an utterly compelling series, and sometimes I think the writing is really brilliant. Ditto acting, direction, cinematography and music. But I have this feeling that if I sat down and watched the 20 hours again, I'd come to the conclusion that the 'plot' is pretty vague. Somebody here said that the writers were working on it one week ahead of production — and I'm afraid that's the way it looks to me in retrospect.

[–] wp-859-224985 8 years ago

So, nobody else understood the ending either?

[–] grey_noise 8 years ago

Have you seen this? http://normgregory.com/forbrydelsen/

[–] DrZaat 8 years ago

Very good summary of the crime.

[–] opalfiction 8 years ago

Vagn beat Nanna up and raped her. I don't think she would've lost enough blood to be incapacitated. About your other questions: Do you remember the psychological profile Lund's boyfriend made for the killer? About how he's probably done this many times before and how he enjoys leaving them in the water to die because it's like a secret the victim and the killer shared? The police also theorized that he let the girl go in order to feel the thrill of catching her. He did to Nanna exactly what he did for many years to those other girls. He just told the father he couldn't kill her to appear sympathetic. He was, after all, the family dog. What is a dog without love and appreciation?

[–] letess 8 years ago

Spoilers...

You forget that Vagn was a serial killer of young women - giving them a black heart necklace and dumping them in the water. There were many he killed. He went off the rails when he confronted Nanna and her leaving and her choice of a fiancé and he repeated his past. He had a warped sense of thinking as he believed that he did not kill her but rather let her die. Vagn wanted Larsen to kill him once he knew he was discovered by Lund as the killer when Sara84 revelation occurred, and he knew that if he fessed up and told Birk that his daughter was screaming, his death would be swift. He liked at this moment he had complete control. He also didn't want to live if he couldn't be with this family. He really had no affinity to women but had a deep respect for Larsen and and his sons and was a protector of the Larsen family in some bizarre way. He wanted this family to stay together even without Nanna. He was loyal but unforgiving and extremely violent. Yet, in the end, the family is completely split up and devastated once he reveals himself to be the killer.