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Below the Surface
Below the Surface
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Below the Surface

6.4 / 10
2017
2 seasons
16 episodes
CrimeDrama

An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.

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Below the Surface: Trailer - BBC Four

Cast

Johannes Lassen

Kasper Leisner

Flemming Enevold

Kenneth M. Christensen

Alexandre Willaume

Peder Thomas Pedersen

Esben Dalgaard Andersen

Paprika Steen

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Simon Derksen

Alba August

Tommy Kenter

Seasons

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,...

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    7.2
    02-04-201744m

    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.

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    7.3
    02-04-201744m

    Naja, the journalist who was fired for her unauthorized interview, starts a national fundraising campaign to raise the ransom for the hostages.

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    7.3
    09-04-201744m

    Philip is planning an armed response to the first hostage execution. As the mission is risky it creates a rift in the negotiating team.

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    7.3
    16-04-201744m

    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 L...

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    7.7
    23-04-201744m

    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...

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    7.3
    30-04-201744m

    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 clos...

  • Episode 7

    7.Episode 7

    8.0
    07-05-201744m

    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.

  • Episode 8

    8.Episode 8

    8.0
    14-05-201744m

    Philip goes down into the metro himself hoping to free the last three remaining hostages and is confronted by the man he thought was dead.

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