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About The Killing's Killer (Spoiler)


Just saw season 1
I have a couple of questions about Vagn

This is what I have understood correct me if I am wrong please

1. He was a serial killer
2. That girl Mette?? was his first kill,but he loved her so it was a crime of passion back then. He has killed other girls too i am assuming?

3. He was insane no doubt, but he killed Nanna mainly because he did not want to upset the Larsens, probably because they were like family to him, and he did not want Nanna to run away with her childhood sweetheart.

Did he rape her? When he confesses to killing her he never clearly says that he raped her. So did Nanna fit his killing pattern or not, since the motive for this one is pretty different. I am really confused on this one.

Lastly Troels did know Nanna as seen in the picture at the end, but was he in a relationship with her. (he said he wasn't) Was he?



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1. He was a serial killer

Yes, it is implied that there were other unsolved murders/disappearances between 'that girl Mette' and Nana that might be linked to him.

2. That girl Mette?? was his first kill, but he loved her so it was a crime of passion back then. He has killed other girls too i am assuming?

Yes, but they didn't really go into it as some police boss person didn't want to press ahead with further investigations, for some reason. Probably too expensive and time consuming.

3. He was insane no doubt, but he killed Nanna mainly because he did not want to upset the Larsens, probably because they were like family to him, and he did not want Nanna to run away with her childhood sweetheart.

I think he was probably obsessed/'in love' with Nana and had already lined her up as his next victim. He had to kill her in an improvised way as she was about to leave. I don't think killing Nana was so as not to upset the Larsens as they were clearly far more devastated by her murder than if she had simply run away. Even if he said it was because of that, it was obviously the warped reasoning of a psychopath.

Did he rape her? When he confesses to killing her he never clearly says that he raped her. So did Nanna fit his killing pattern or not, since the motive for this one is pretty different. I am really confused on this one.

The autopsy I think showed that she had been raped, so yes. he did, and she did fit the pattern of his other victims as his motive was crazed controlling obsession, anyway.

Lastly Troels did know Nanna as seen in the picture at the end, but was he in a relationship with her. (he said he wasn't) Was he?


I don't think he knew her particularly well; he'd just come across her somewhere and happened to have been snapped with her. He had never been in a relationship with her. I don't know why he didn't admit that he'd met her before: perhaps he genuinely had forgotten.

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Troels is a politician and when they do these kinds of photo-op events, they'll end up shaking countless people's hands/pose with numerous constituents and then later on, not remember any one of them. I genuinely believe that Troels totally forgot Nanna, despite being in a photo with her. It's clear that personal relationships to him are disposable - just look at how he treated Rie, with such a cold, abrupt dismissal. "You mean nothing to me now." Wow...and he was practically engaged to her! If he could sever ties that quickly with someone who was so important to him, it's no surprise that he'd completely forget Nanna, esp. since he didn't even sleep with her.

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Now, he thought Rie was lying to him about cleaning the stairs and covering for him and most def, thought she was lying about not sleeping with the guy she was getting info from. Remember that he saw them getting physical ( argument ) in the Lobby. So I can understand why he was acting so cold... he was disgusted with her.In the end it is clear she is not the one that cleans the stairs but we really don't know is she slept or not with Dessau. That getting physical, specially for Scandinavians, means they must have been intimate.

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