AANDAHL ANETTE ANNE_MARIE ARIEL CHARLIE ERLING ESTHER ESTHER_VOICEMAIL FROYDIS_URSFJORD GREGERSEN HAMMER HELENE_SOMMER HEYERDAHL INGVILD JUDGE LARS_IRGENS LEO MAJOR NORNE ODD_SELJESTAD PHONE_VOICE POLICE_OFFICER RADIO_VOICE STEFAN_KEYN VIGLEIK WORKER ZARA SAETHER ESTHER Pantogena claims the salmon was infected by bacteria drifting in from the sea. But you and I found no proof of that. HEYERDAHL Have you seen the opinion polls? INGVILD Yeah. HEYERDAHL Yeah. That fucking plague. ODD SELJESTAD You're suggesting that the Black Death didn't come here from outside? That it originated here in Norway? ESTHER Yes. LARS IRGENS You fucking informer! CHARLIE No, don't! LEO Get down! ESTHER We have to be tested! We've been in close contact with an infected man! POLICE OFFICER Clean yourself up and put this on. ESTHER Wait! Wait! POLICE OFFICER Got something. We'll just take everything. ESTHER I want to see my son. POLICE OFFICER Sit down. ESTHER My son and husband were close to an infected man. They need treatment. POLICE OFFICER I'm taking a blood sample. Sit! ESTHER I want to talk to them. POLICE OFFICER Sit yourself down! ESTHER Do they knw that I'm here? Do they know that I'm here? Do my husband and son know that I'm here? HAMMER There's been a serious incident. It's particularly serious as it concerns a prioritised person of authority, Esther Winter. She appears to have been collaborating with Lars Irgens. A member of the resistance group Vigen, whom are suspected of this attack. As I'm sure you know, Esther Winter is central to the effort of securing the food supply in Norway. This occurs at the same time as a large disease outbreak is detected in both the fish and the vegetable production. We're now considering the possibility that this could be a premeditated terrorist attack. The Ministry of Justice has now authorised us to carry out a complete background check of Esther Winter and her husband. Captain Sæther will brief you further. Please... SAETHER A central search criterium concerns Lars Irgens. Did Winter or her husband meet him before? Charlie Oldham was with Winter when Lars Irgens was killed. Is there a connection between them? Winter's husband, Leo Winter, moved to Norway from England years ago. He was in the first worker patrol. An apparent success story. Well-adapted to society. But in the light of recent events we have to ask if Leo Winter is head of the secret network of human traffickers. That's why we've been granted permission to go years back in the Meta-data.That was when Esther and Leo Winter moved in together. A computer was found in Winter's home with an illegal program installed to circumvent the state's firewall. Police IT experts are now looking into what contacts she may have had abroad. Was that how they communicated with the human traffickers? Each of you will be assigned a six-month period of Meta-data. And I want informationon who Winter's friends are. Where she meets them, who she sees at work. All mail correspondence, telecommunications, sexual preferences, extramarital affairs. Drugs and alcohol intake, everything. No stone must be left unturned. HAMMER Get to it. HELENE SOMMER The time is : . Present is police lawyer Helene Sommer interviewing Esther Winter. Sommer, Winter... No pun intended, but... ESTHER Where's my on? HELENE SOMMER Johannes is with Child Protection. They're taking good care of him.Sorry, that won't be possible right now, Esther. You're suspected of complicity in a murder. ESTHER I haven't killed anybody. I tried to save him. HELENE SOMMER Okay. Let's take it easy now. I want you to know that you have the right to a lawyer. Do you want one? ESTHER I don't need a lawyer. I haven't done anything wrong. HELENE SOMMER Okay. So, you knew Lars Irgens beforehand? ESTHER No. HELENE SOMMER Did you know that he was a human trafficker? ESTHER No. I just want to see my son. HELENE SOMMER You can't see your son yet, Esther. So, you're saying that you went to see Lars Irgens without having met him before? ESTHER Yes. HELENE SOMMER Are you sure about that? Esther, I have images here that show you arrived at his house with a person who was fleeing the authorities. Can you explain that to me? ESTHER I want a lawyer. HELENE SOMMER I thought you just said that you didn't need one? ESTHER I want a lawyer. HELENE SOMMER Okay. CHARLIE You don't understand. I can't be here. No, no, no, no, no!! No, no, no. Oh God. Please, please help me. Please! AANDAHL I'm sorry.You're infected, and you're charged with a serious crime. You have to stay here. Food will be brought to you. And I or another physician will check on you twice every day. CHARLIE Listen, okay? I have a daughter. Her name is Hope Scholl-Oldman. She's on a farm, Lydersen Horticulture. She's being looked after by a woman called Ruta. Can you tell Ruta that I'm here, please? AANDAHL I'll talk to my commander. CHARLIE Who are you? AANDAHL I'm Captain Ida Aandahl. I work for the army. And I try to find a cure for the pestis. If you get ill or need help, press this button. INGVILD Amund and I talked about going to a few small places during the election campaign. To show that we're there for the whole country. Check which places are more suitable than others. Maybe some with relevant stories Amund could use. Okay? ARIEL I'll do my best. INGVILD It'll be fine, because you are very good. And very pretty. You have to attend a meeting today. Zara Sandberg is liaising with editors. To discuss the situation in Bergen. ARIEL What will I do at the meeting? INGVILD Be my eyes. ARIEL Okay. ZARA Let's log the editors on. Hello, and thanks for taking the time. I know you are busy. I just want to explain some of our strategy to handle the Yersinia pestis. Firstly, I'll say that we've been extremely lucky that the outbreak is confined to Bergen. FROYDIS URSFJORD That's an odd way of putting it. Here in Bergen we're locked in. ZARA I understand. But during the first pandemic of modern times hundreds of thousands of people died. In London, New York, Rio, everywhere. But in the city where it all started, that had the biggest population... FROYDIS URSFJORD Excuse me, but they sealed Wuhan shut. The entire population was locked in. They welded shut the doors of people who breached the quarantine. And when I last checked, Norway was still a democracy. ZARA I don't think the plague we are trying to stop cares about the form of government. Do you? And we can't relax measures too soon. But rest assured that we're doing absolutely everything, using all available resources to gain control. FROYDIS URSFJORD But that's exactly what you're not doing. There's a whole world outside the wall. What about the World Health Organisation for example? ZARA They didn't manage to stop Covid. They didn't even dare call it a pandemic until months after the outbreak in Wuhan. They were terrified of upsetting China. FROYDIS URSFJORD You're oversimplifying. ZARA FROYDIS! It won't help anyone if you spread fear amongst your readers. There's no reason why you should speculate in all sorts of worst case-scenarios. I don't want to see things like this anymore. FROYDIS URSFJORD Is that a threat? ZARA The media have a huge responsibility. Be aware of that responsibility. ANETTE Norne, call Esther. NORNE Calling Esther. ESTHER VOICEMAIL Hi, you've reached Esther Winter. Leave a message. ANETTE Esther, where are you?I need help with Hilde. Someone has to tell her that Tora is dead and... I can't face it on my own. Just... Just call me. ANETTE So annoying. I can't get hold of Esther. Just... What's the matter? ERLING I just lost my job at Bergen hospital. ANETTE You've been fired? ERLING The HR manager said I'd misused medical records. ANETTE I'll just... I'll call HR and... ERLING This is Esther's fault, you know? She made me break my oath of confidentiality. ANETTE Esther's just trying to find out what's going on here. ERLING I've lost my job. I'll never get a job in another hospital after this. VIGLEIK Zara Sandberg is a bit much. ARIEL Zara was only doing her job. I didn't even know you'd be there. VIGLEIK Right. Would that have made a difference? ARIEL Come on, grow up. You know this is a real crisis, right? That we're under huge pressure. ARIEL I'm really busy. Did you want anything? VIGLEIK I want to go back to Bergen. ARIEL What do you mean? VIGLEIK I can't take any more of this quarantine crap. I want to go home. ARIEL You could get ill. You could die. VIGLEIK No, I doubt it. But if so, I'd rather die in Bergen than in this bloody prison. POLICE OFFICER We have the result of your test. MAJOR I have an offer for you. We need help to develop a vaccine against the plague. And Anne Marie Moen in Pantogena recommended you. Strongly. ESTHER I don't workwith Anne Marie and I don't work in Pantogena. MAJOR No, but that's not a problem. Anne Marie has been dismissed. You'll be working for us. The armed forces. Pantogena's been bought by the state and we always draw on the best resources nationwide. ESTHER Do you know Stefan Keyn died because he pricked himself on a vaccine needle? And that Pantogena covered it up? MAJOR Stefan Keyn died because he got infected. ESTHER Who are you really? Where do you come from? MAJOR I'm someone giving you a chance to clear your name. You could even become a hero. ESTHER What are you, some sort of messenger? Or someone with real power, someone in the know? MAJOR What preoccupies me and which I think about constantly is that people are dying. In escalating numbers. Don't you think about that? ESTHER Of course I think about it. But the reason people are dying now is that you're killing the truth. MAJOR Really? Perhaps a tad melodramatic, wouldn't you say? ESTHER I want to see my son. And my husband. We're going home now! If Heyerdahl goes public with where the plague really originated, I'm in. MAJOR They sad that you were very intelligent. ESTHER I want to talk to a lawyer! INGVILD Hi. ARIEL Hi. INGVILD You alright? ARIEL Yeah. INGVILD How did it go with Zara and the editors? ARIEL She may have overdone it when she told them what to do. PHONE VOICE A call of high priority. INGVILD Is this classified? MAJOR To the highest degree. INGVILD Could you go to the office? I'll be there soon. INGVILD Yes, I'm ready. MAJOR I came across a video that Stefan Keyn recorded in secret. It shows Zara Sandberg almost on her own or personally approving the development of the vaccine. And putting a factory at their disposal to test it. INGVILD And that was Zara? MAJOR Yeah. INGVILD My God. Where did the video come from? MAJOR From Esther Winter. She showed it to Odd Seljestad so he could take it to the media and make a story out of it. INGVILD Odd wouldn't dare to go to the media with that now. Does he still have the video? MAJOR No, he's just seen it, he doesn't have it. INGVILD And Winter? MAJOR The police confiscated everything when Esther Winter was arrested. I've used the Emergency Powers Act for it all to be taken off them. And I wiped everything from the cloud. INGVILD So you have the only copy of the recording? MAJOR Yeah. INGVILD Is there anything else I should know? MAJOR I found a photo of two dead fish farm workers. INGVILD Okay. INGVILD Okay, send me all the material you've got. It's extremely important. Everything. You don't keep anything, okay? MAJOR Okay, but what about the fish farm workers? Should I have them identified? INGVILD No. No, we'll take care of that. MAJOR And Zara Sandberg? INGVILD I'll talk to her. ANNE MARIE You won't regret this. ZARA No, I hope not. STEFAN KEYN I'll do my very best, I can assure the party secretary. ZARA What the hell is this? INGVILD It comes from Stefan Keyn. ZARA So... Stefan Keyn spied on me? INGVILD The man was paranoid, he filmed everything. This doesn't look good, Zara. You'll have to resign. Take a break from politics. For the sake of the party. There is this too. ZARA You made me approve that vaccine. INGVILD If this is leaked, Our Way will lose the election, guaranteed. Then we're both finished in politics. If you leave quietly, you can have the ministerial position you wanted. When the dust has settled. GREGERSEN Hello, Esther. How are you? ESTHER I've been tested, and I'm not infected. Could you ask if it's okay for you to come in here? GREGERSEN Better safe than sorry, I think. Wouldn't you agree? Listen... It's very flattering that you wanted me as your lawyer, but criminal law isn't my field of expertise. You'd be better served by a defence lawyer. I brought some suggestions. ESTHER We went to a fisherman to buy some fresh seaweed. What's wrong with that? GREGERSEN People don't normally shoot the fishermen they buy from. ESTHER Fishermen don't normally threaten their customers with a shotgun either. Lars Irgens is mentally unstable. Charlie Oldman had to defend himself, it was an accident. I even tried to save Irgens' life. The police know, they have it recorded. GREGERSEN Okay. I understand. ESTHER I want to get out of here. GREGERSEN I understand. I totally understand. But our judicial system doesn't work that way. What will happen next is that you'll be appearing before a judge. The police regard this as a very serious case, the judge will probably agree. That means another two weeks of custody, for starters. Then there is the overall picture. It doesn't go in your favour. ESTHER What do you mean? GREGERSEN Lars Irgens. He was under surveillance. You weren't going to see a fisherman, but a human trafficker. You brought your husband and child. A refugee from England helped you find Irgens. You left a city that's hermetically sealed, except from on the seafront. So from a judicial standpoint... It's not looking good, Esther. Not very good at all. ESTHER Do you want to know the truth? Why we really went to see Irgens? GREGERSEN Not really. As I said, I brought some suggestions. The cards are numbered. I suggest you begin with number , and if she doesn't answer, try the next. ESTHER Olai, we're still friends, aren't we? GREGERSEN Yes, of course. ESTHER What if I, as your friend, said that it's true? That we did go to see Irgens, but not to run away. ESTHER What's happening in Bergen... We weren't infected by refugees, but by ourselves. Stefan Keyn got sick from his own vaccine. And now the people behind this had me arrested and took the evidence. That's why we had to go into hiding. What would you say to that? GREGERSEN I would say... ...that it sounds a bit paranoid. My dear. Start there. INGVILD This will be a long night. Zara Sandberg is resigning as party secretary of Our Way. Due to family issues. We have to prepare a press release. HEYERDAHL How did Zara take it? INGVILD As expected. But we didn't have a choice. And we have more important things to think about. HEYERDAHL Like what? What is it? INGVILD We'll have to go to Black Level in Bergen. Around-the-clock curfew. The army will deliver food. No one can leave their home. Without an efficient vaccine we'll have to try to burn the bacteria out. Deny it the chance to find more people to infect. HEYERDAHL But a curfew... For how long? INGVILD As long as it takes. ARIEL The Institute of Public Health says that the Yersinia bacterium mutates constantly. Two, three times a day. They've never seen a bacterium behave this way. HEYERDAHL No wonder they're struggling to find a vaccine then. The Institute of Public Health... also suggested that we contact the WHO. Well, that could be an option. INGVILD You don't even believe that yourself. We can't go against everything that Our Way stands for. And if we did and the WHO said a vaccine,,would take,years, they'd stay for years. Before you know it, half the UN would be here. Believe me, that is not a good idea. WORKER Wait! MAJOR He's alive? AANDAHL Yeah. And that's very surprising. Everyone with his diagnosis has died within three days. That means there's still hope. MAJOR Could he still infect others? AANDAHL We don't know enough about that, but we'd have to assume so. MAJOR Okay. You need to guard Oldman closely. He was the partner of Patient Zero. So... Many people would regard him as Norway's enemy number one. AANDAHL Could you open? I need to take some samples. RADIO VOICE The curfew applies around the clock for the next hours. The army will distribute emergency supplies to cover people for this period. ESTHER I was expecting a sharp female defence lawyer. GREGERSEN The sharp one called me and said she'd fallen ill. ESTHER Ill? GREGERSEN Yeah. ESTHER Thanks for coming. GREGERSEN Don't thank me. Thank my feet. They brought me here. It's about time I stand upright as a proper man of Bergen. JUDGE I accept the police's request for continued custody with a ban on visitors and letters for two weeks. GREGERSEN Your Honour. My client hasn't seen her son or her husband for more than a week. That's inhumane. JUDGE I will consider the visitors ban again in two weeks. ESTHER What do we do now? GREGERSEN We'll stay in touch. ESTHER Because... POLICE OFFICER Come. ARIEL Vigleik? VIGLEIK Ariel! The people in charge of the quarantine said if I put a GPS on the car and myself and don't stop or get out of the car, I can drive back to Bergen. ARIEL Then you'll be locked in. VIGLEIK I'm locked in now. I'm a journalist. I want to get out on the streets in my town. ARIEL You can't do that. VIGLEIK I've made up my mind.You can come with me. ARIEL No VIGLEIK Just think about it! ARIEL Vigleik? RADIO VOICE The curfew applies around the clock for the next hours. he army will distribute emergency parcels. For questions, call the hotline. BJØRK Sæther? Come take a look at this. Isn't that a vaccine passport? SAETHER Hammer! BJØRK Look at this. SAETHER ou see Esther Winter? And what she is receiving here? HAMMER Good work. Very good. Great. Keep going. ESTHER You're not afraidof getting infected anymore? MAJOR Regard it as a sign of trust.My task... ...is to get you to sign this work contract. So you can solve a much bigger problem. ESTHER I won't work for Pantogena. MAJOR Last time we met, I realisedthat what I had to offer youwouldn't get me your signature.That your past with Pantogena and Anne Marie Moen... ESTHER And with you. You're forgetting you guys.Heyerdahl made me lie on TV.He lied to me.He said the plague came from outside.The plague comes from Pantogena. MAJOR What I know is that Pantogena hasn'tmanaged to develop a vaccine that works.Neither for humans nor for fish.nd that's my operative problem. Yesterday people died in Bergen.There were , new cases,all were in quarantine.of those lived alone and said theyhadn't met anyone other than themselvesfor three weeks.So how did they get infected?One theory is that Yersinialies dormant in our bodies.But the Institute of Public Healthreally doesn't know.Pantogena doesn't know, nobody knows.The only thing on whichthere seems to be a general consensusis that within six weeksthe entire country may be infected. You studied at the Johns Hopkins University.Aged you were one of the recipientsof the US equivalent to the Nobel prizeor your work in developing vaccines.And I have tried... I have really tried...But I haven't been able to find anyonebetter qualified in Norway than Esther Winter.But I did find something else.Something that is personal to you.Your husband Leo Winter hasafake vaccine passport from England. ESTHER So Leo...Leo lost everything in the fire in England.And when he fled, he had to...Loads of people do the same. MAJOR I'm sure they do. ESTHER Loads of people... MAJOR I'm sure they do. I don't doubt it for a second.But we have an Emergency Powers Actin Norway now.So all asylum seekers, all immigrantswithout a verified health recordare to be deported. The only difference is that you'll geta prison sentence, a long sentence.That means that your son Johannes will bedeported to live with his dad in England.And I don't know much about Englandright now, but last I checkedI have to say that thingshad gone to hell over there. Then there's one more thing.It's a minor detail.But Anette. Your friend.She'll lose her job as a nurse.And she'll get a prison sentence,although not as long as yours.But I guessyou are a very principled person...So... You probably won't wantto compromise your ideals.