Below the Surface
Season 1
April 2, 2017
8Episodes
7.5
On a rainy October morning, fifteen Danes have their lives turned upside down when the metro train they are travelling on is hijacked by unknown perpetrators, who will threaten to kill each of them, one by one, if their demands aren’t met. This is the beginning of a historic hostage situation that, over the course of one single week,...
Episodes
1. Episode 1
7.2
April 2, 2017
44 min
Three heavily armed men hijack a metro train taking fifteen hostages. The police terror unit TTF is activated with Philip Norgaard as a leading commander.
Guest Stars:
Susanne Storm, Magnus Bruun, Katrin Weisser
2. Episode 2
7.3
April 2, 2017
44 min
Naja, the journalist who was fired for her unauthorized interview, starts a national fundraising campaign to raise the ransom for the hostages.
Guest Stars:
Besir Zeciri
3. Episode 3
7.3
April 9, 2017
44 min
Philip is planning an armed response to the first hostage execution. As the mission is risky it creates a rift in the negotiating team.
4. Episode 4
7.3
April 16, 2017
44 min
TTF is getting closer to the hostage taker’s identity while Naja gets second thoughts with regards to facilitating the fundraising campaign, but then she meets Jonas, the hostage Leon’s son.
Guest Stars:
Lamaiporn Hougaard, Peter Christoffersen, Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Niclas Vessel Kølpin, Susan Olsen
5. Episode 5
7.7
April 23, 2017
44 min
Distress spreads among the hostages in the metro and they consider taking a stand. At TTF, Philip and Louise suspects that the wall with the photographs of Philip is not just about thorough prep-work.
Guest Stars:
Patricia Schumann, Oskar Sælan Halskov
6. Episode 6
7.3
April 30, 2017
44 min
With the hostage Bodil just killed by the hostage takers, the police’s work keeps growing. TTF’s investigation leads them to sources in the Danish military and they seem to be close to a breakthrough.
Guest Stars:
Thomas Guldberg Madsen, Iris Mealor Olsen, Regitze Estrup, Jens Sætter-Lassen
7. Episode 7
8.0
May 7, 2017
44 min
Philip learns the identity of the main hostage taker and is choked about his personal involvement in the case that leaves a role for Naja to play as well.
Guest Stars:
Jesper Zuschlag, Niels Ellegaard
