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Kidnapping - Episode 8

Polar intimiste cr&eacute;&eacute; par Torleif Hoppe (The Killing), Kidnapping suit l&rsquo;enqu&ecirc;te sur un enl&egrave;vement d&#39;enfant men&eacute;e par le policier Rolf Larsen, anim&eacute; par le secret espoir de retrouver sa propre fille disparue. Aux c&ocirc;t&eacute;s de Claire, inspectrice fran&ccedil;aise excentrique incarn&eacute;e par Charlotte Rampling, Rolf va r&eacute;v&eacute;ler un trafic tentaculaire &agrave; l&#39;&eacute;chelle europ&eacute;enne.

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Rolf Larsen (40) is a police officer working in the Crime Investigation Department in Copenhagen (CID). He and his wife Maria (34) recently had their first child, Andrea. Just as Maria is returning to her stewardess job after her maternity leave, Rolf is called to work. A baby girl with a heart-shaped birthmark, Minna, has been kidnapped from a nursery in Br&oslash;ndby, and Rolf is to investigate the case.&nbsp; 
The police immediately suspect the child&rsquo;s father, a refugee named Zaid, as the mother has won custody of Minna against his wishes. The hunt for the man sets in but for some time all the police can find is the girl&rsquo;s clothes. &nbsp; 
Suddenly, Zaid shows up at the mother&#39;s house, upset and scared. When he realizes that the police is watching the place, he tries to escape, but Rolf manages to grab him and he is brought in for interrogation. Rolf learns that Zaid has a very solid alibi. Meeting the father is a turning point, which convinces him that Zaid is innocent. Rolf feels a strong connection to the case, as it could have been his own daughter disappearing from the nursery. 
He now follows alternative traces. Against his boss&#39; command, Rolf takes the story to the press. He feels the police needs all the help it can get from the public to find the child.&nbsp; 
Together with forensic technician Jarl Thybo (50) Rolf starts to collect DNA tests from the area around the nursery. They soon find details that indicate he might be right&hellip;&nbsp;

A Copenhague, une petite fille, Minna, est kidnapp&eacute;e. Son p&egrave;re Zaid, r&eacute;fugi&eacute; et priv&eacute; de la garde de son b&eacute;b&eacute; depuis peu, est tout de suite suspect&eacute;. Mais les apparences sont plus que trompeuses et pour l&#39;officier Rolf Larsen qui vient de devenir papa,&nbsp;l&#39;affaire est particuli&egrave;rement p&eacute;nible...&nbsp;

Kidnapping - Episode 1

While the situation in Denmark unfolds, Polish woman Julita (20) finds out she is pregnant with her boyfriend, Aron. She is unsure whether she wants to keep the child or not, but Aron convinces her to keep it, and they decide to get married. Julita&rsquo;s mother-in-law-to-be discovers the premarital pregnancy, which is completely unacceptable in their Catholic family. Without telling Aron, she forces Julita to get an abortion, for the sake of the young couple&#39;s future.&nbsp; 
Just before the abortion is about to take place, Aron finds out and hurries off to the hospital. On his motorcycle, he feels relieved, when he sees Julita is calling, but when he answers he&#39;s inattentive for a brief second, and a car crashes into him. At the close of this episode, Julita&rsquo;s life has crumbled &ndash; but she hasn&rsquo;t gone through with the abortion, and is now more determined than ever to keep Aron&rsquo;s baby. &nbsp; 
*** 
In parallel, we reconnect with Rolf, five years after losing his daughter. Rolf has divorced Maria and is now living in the isolated region of Jutland working at a small-town police station, with absolutely no contact to his former life.&nbsp; 
When what appears to be a simple car-theft takes place in Rolf&rsquo;s area, his commissioner asks him to go back to the CID in Copenhagen to check the DNA results of the thief from a breathalyzer. A young, ambitious but very headstrong local officer, Neel (28), is surprised to learn about Rolf&rsquo;s pas connections to the CID, her dream workplace. She asks about Rolf and learns of the loss of his daughter during his investigation of the five-year-old Minna case. Rolf believed that his daughter&rsquo;s disappearance was connected to Minna&rsquo;s kidnapping, she is told, and broke down when he realized that Minna&rsquo;s father was responsible for the crime.&nbsp; 
In Copenhagen, Rolf&rsquo;s old friend Thybo, who is now head of the Danish Police forensics center, agrees to help him compare the car thief&rsquo;s DNA to other cases in the DNA register. While waiting for the results, Rolf meets up with Maria at Andrea&rsquo;s pro forma grave. They are still very emotionally connected to each other, but Maria can&rsquo;t deal with Rolf not accepting the death of their daughter.&nbsp; 
Concurrently, Neel follows the trail of the perpetrator in Jutland, as she is convinced that he is not just a simple thief. It turns out she is right: he is a convicted serial rapist who just got out of prison, and is currently keeping a new victim prisoner. Neel rescues the girl and captures the rapist.&nbsp; 
At the same time, Rolf gets a result from the DNA register, but the answer disappoints: there is no match or connection to any other cases. When he calls Neel to tell her the bad news, she is uncomprehending. They have just captured the serial rapist who had been convicted in three similar cases &ndash; his DNA must be in the system. If not, there must be a flaw in the DNA register&hellip;&nbsp; 
Encouraged, Rolf asks Neel to pick up a box from his house, containing DNA evidence from both the Minna case and from his own daughter&rsquo;s, and bring it to Copenhagen. At the forensics center, they compare the DNA from the Minna case and Andrea&rsquo;s disappearance. But it seems that all results have been deleted from the Danish system, and there is no match between the evidence Neel has brought from Jutland. Rolf is furious and takes his anger out on officer Hviid, who took over and closed the Minna case after Andrea&rsquo;s disappearance. The fight leads to Rolf&rsquo;s arrest.&nbsp; 
While Rolf sits in a cell, Neel receives a message: the new DNA from the Minna case matches a murder case in France, that of an unknown young woman found dead three weeks prior. Rolf is right on one thing at least: the Minna case was not a family affair... Her perpetrator is still at large, and is reoffending.

Cinq ans apr&egrave;s la disparition de sa fille, la vie de Rolf a radicalement chang&eacute;. Divorc&eacute; de Maria, il m&egrave;ne une vie d&#39;ermite dans la r&eacute;gion du Jutland, cherchant &agrave; tout prix &agrave; oublier le terrible incident. Mais quand, &agrave; l&#39;occasion d&#39;une anecdotique affaire le vol, il est amen&eacute; &agrave; consulter&nbsp;la base de donn&eacute;e ADN de la police, son pass&eacute; revient au galop. Et si les deux affaires d&#39;enl&egrave;vement &eacute;taient li&eacute;es ?&nbsp;

Kidnapping - Episode 2

Rolf is pulled out of his cell and taken to Police Commissioner Astrid Oxvig. She has heard about the DNA match between the Minna case and the murder in France, and wants Rolf to take over the case together with a French investigator, Claire Bobain (35), who Rolf is sent to pick up at the airport; with the Minna files still mysteriously AWOL, he is one of the few people who can provide context for the French investigation, and he is not to disappoint their European colleagues at a time when cross-border cooperation with Denmark is fraught. This new development reawakens Rolf&rsquo;s hope of finding another perpetrator than Minna&rsquo;s father &ndash; one with possible knowledge of his daughter&rsquo;s disappearance.&nbsp; 
When Claire arrives, she together with Rolf and Neel reopens the Minna case in order to investigate the French murder. They talk to Minna&rsquo;s mother again and notice her mentioning the name Sabina and some phone calls from her to Minna&rsquo;s mother. Neel gets a list of numbers calling the mother, and there is a Polish number among them. The new lead make Claire and Rolf agree that they must go to Poland once again, to review the case with the Polish Police.&nbsp; 
The evening before they leave, Thybo and his wife Eva invite Rolf and Maria over for dinner. Rolf is drawn to Maria once again and happily accepts her offer to look for an apartment for him in Copenhagen.&nbsp; 
In Poland, Claire and Rolf learn that the witness, who Rolf never got to talk to five years earlier, has disappeared. Furthermore, their local liaison officer Karol knows nothing about the only pieces of evidence that support the accusation of Zaid going to Poland with Minna: a sweatshirt with his DNA and a drawing with her DNA, which were apparently found in a motel nearby the ferry. Rolf and Claire call Neel to get her to ask Hviid who found the pieces of evidence back then? Unfortunately, it turns out there was a gap from Rolf leaving the case to Hviid taking over, and in between, it was handled by Frode Markmand, Thybo&rsquo;s predecessor. Neel contacts Frode, who now sadly suffers from dementia and can&rsquo;t tell her anything. But his caretaker reveals that just the day before Neel&rsquo;s visit, a man came to talk to Frode about Minna. Neel is spurred, can this be a coincidence? On her way out, Frode hands her a stack of papers. Between them lies a creased file on the Minna case. On the back is written a name: Sabina, and an address. Neel hurries out.&nbsp; 
Meanwhile, Rolf wants Karol to check the cars on the ferry on the day of Minna&rsquo;s abduction. But as there is nothing there, he asks to check the cars on another date &ndash; the day of Andrea&rsquo;s disappearing. It becomes clear that Rolf has let himself be blinded by his longing for answers to his own personal tragedy, and is mixing the two cases. But it turns out that there was a stolen car onboard that very day, which was later dumped into a river. A picture from the car indicates there had been a baby, swept in a vest with a symbol of a glowing cross and two hands, in the car before it was dumped. Rolf is speechless. Could this have been Andrea?&nbsp; 
Just then Neel calls. She has the address for Sabina, and the phone number they found earlier matches it. Claire and Karol pull Rolf out of his bubble. She must be the witness, and they need to go there immediately! 
*** 
In parallel, we continue to follow the strand of Julita, which we find attending the funeral of Aron, still carrying his child. She learns that a lot of Polish girls are giving up their babies to a group of nuns, who make sure the babies get good homes, as the girls simply can&#39;t afford or manage to raise the children. Julita is shocked: she is determined to keep the child and raise it by herself despite the pressures of her and of Aron&rsquo;s families.&nbsp; 
But one day she breaks down in pain and is immediately hospitalized. Julita has pre-eclampsia and cannot be physically active during her pregnancy. She can&rsquo;t afford not to work and therefore seeks help from the Catholic charity organization Mandorla. The organization&rsquo;s symbol is a glowing cross and two hands holding one another&hellip; just like on the evidence Rolf has just seen. Julita is relieved to stay at Mandorla and doesn&#39;t feel suspicious, though a few ominous details tell us perhaps she should.

L&#39;affaire se poursuit &agrave; l&#39;&eacute;chelle europ&eacute;enne, des secrets sont d&eacute;voil&eacute;s, et le myst&egrave;re semble s&#39;&eacute;claicir pour Rolf.

Kidnapping - Episode 3

Rolf, Claire and Karol hurry to the address belonging to the mysterious Sabina. She is shocked as the police storm her apartment, but quickly understands why they are there &ndash; five years later than expected! As suspected, she was the witness who called the police after having seen Minna near her home, and as the Danish police never arrived, she tried to call Minna&rsquo;s mother herself to show her a video she took of the perpetrator. Sabina has never met Zaid or anyone from his family &ndash; in fact her video shows that the abductor was Caucasian, not North African. &nbsp; 
Rolf and Claire immediately know this is a significant point. Sabina&rsquo;s video confirms that Zaid was innocent of the abduction of his daughter. Rolf has been right all along... But this evidence comes five years too late, and the trail for both Claire and Rolf is well and truly cold.&nbsp; 
However, back in Denmark, Neel manages to identify the victim of the French murder case: a Danish teenager, Victoria, has been missing for a week and has the same tattoos as the victim in France. With the Polish trail cold, Claire, Rolf and Neel head to the home of the girl&#39;s foster parents, Bror and Vibeke. They learn that Victoria and her sister have been living there since they were removed from their biological parents. Their father sexually abused them, and earned money on allowing other men to do the same. 
While officially helping Claire&rsquo;s case, Rolf discretely asks Thybo to check the symbol with the cross from the car stolen on the day of Andrea&#39;s disappearing. Thybo doesn&rsquo;t have an answer to what it is but agrees to look into it. Claire begins to have doubts about her Danish partner and asks Neel why Rolf was pulled off the Minna case back then. She learns about his daughter&#39;s disappearance, and begins to connect the dots. She silently worries that Rolf can&#39;t focus exclusively on the case they are supposed to investigate, knowing that with the trail being in Denmark, she can&rsquo;t bring closure to her case without his help. 
Neel again proves a more focused ally than Rolf: from checking the data on Victoria&#39;s phone, she learns that she was driven all the way to Paris, where she stayed in an apartment for several hours, where she could have been killed. Rolf and Claire immediately head to France to check out the place. In the building they meet a Frenchman, Moreau, in his 50&rsquo;s, who denies knowing Victoria. But when a police dog is brought in to search for tracks of Victoria there is no doubt that she was there. Just as they are about to arrest Moreau for questioning, another man comes into the apartment, a baby crying in his arms... 
*** 
In parallel: Julita is heavily pregnant and still staying at Mandorla. Slowly, she figures out that the prioress and nuns force the pregnant girls they shelter into signing a contract, saying that they will give up their babies after birth, as a payback for their stay during their pregnancy. Julita will not sign &ndash; but comesto realise that the nuns are taking all children anyway. She desperately tries to escape the charity. But due to her pre-eclampsia, she breaks into labour while trying &ndash; and failing &ndash; to escape&hellip;

Un&nbsp;t&eacute;moin de l&#39;enl&egrave;vement de Minna est retrouv&eacute;e. Contre toute attente, sa d&eacute;claration semble innocenter le principal suspect, Zaid...&nbsp;

Kidnapping - Episode 4

In Paris, Rolf and Claire arrest the two men, Moreau and Fabien. The couple is brought in for interrogation along with their new baby L&eacute;o. They know nothing about the murder of Victoria, but admit to having paid her to be a surrogate mother using Moreau&#39;s semen, through a Polish Internet organization called &quot;Bliss&quot;. The couple only met Victoria once, along with a man they confirm was the man from Sabina&#39;s video, and they tell Claire that Victoria seemed afraid. To the couple&rsquo;s astonishment, a DNA test reveals that neither Moreau nor Victoria is biologically related to L&eacute;o: whoever the boy&rsquo;s biological parents are, the couple has been cheated. The men are devastated, since they are not allowed to keep a child they actually have no rights to.&nbsp; 
As Rolf takes in their pain at losing L&eacute;o, Claire confronts him about the loss of his own daughter. Is he even capable of concentrating on this case without conflating the two? Rolf deflects her criticism, unwilling to kill his hope of finding Andrea.&nbsp; 
Back in Denmark, Rolf talks to Thybo about the situation. Though Thybo agrees that it does sound like it could be trafficking of babies, he advises Rolf not to dig further into the disappearing of Andrea, if only to keep his newly appeased relationship with Maria. Rolf moves into an apartment close to her, but has to contend with the fact that, although there is a strong connection between them, Maria has moved on and has new boyfriend.&nbsp; 
As it turns out that L&eacute;o&#39;s Polish birth certificate is a fake, Rolf presents his theory to Oxvig: that Victoria has been used as a fake mom, in order to launder L&eacute;o through the Danish state, which didn&#39;t question the birth certificate. This indicates that the real mom likely didn&#39;t consent (otherwise, why use Victoria at all?). He wants to go back to Poland to try and find the baby&rsquo;s biological mother.&nbsp; 
Back in Poland, Rolf, Claire and Karol look into other cases of missing children. Rolf stumbles over an old report from a woman who thought her infant was stolen, and though Karol says that it has nothing to do with the case, Rolf insists on looking into it as it is close to where the car from the ferry was found in a river.&nbsp; 
Rolf tracks down the home of the girl, who reported her infant stolen. It was Julita! (We come to realise in this episode that the Julita strand is not running concurrently, but five years earlier than the Rolf strand). Her home is demolished, so instead he goes to Mandorla, where she gave birth. He recognizes the symbol with the cross and the merciful hands from the vest in the stolen car. He asks the prioress about Julita&#39;s situation, but the only thing she tells him is that Julita&#39;s child was stillborn and that she suffered from a severe puerperal psychosis. When he asks if Mandorla delivers children to a company called &ldquo;Bliss&rdquo;, the prioress explains that Mandorla exclusively delivers to a government-approved adoption centre. 
Meanwhile, in Denmark, Neel talks to Victoria&#39;s biological mother, who received a phone call from Victoria three weeks earlier, saying that she was in trouble. Neel tracks the phone call and it appears it was made from a Polish gas station &ndash; the same place that Minna was spotted! This is the proof they need: Victoria was in Poland three weeks earlier, presumably to get L&eacute;o. At the gas station, Claire, Rolf and Karol watch the recordings from the gas station&#39;s CCTV and see Victoria nervously making the call to her mother before disappearing into a car with the suspect from Minna&rsquo;s disappearance and her own murder. Surprisingly, they don&#39;t drive towards the highway but instead in the direction of a forest, where this is nothing but a convent. Rolf, Claire and Karol drive in the same direction as Victoria and the man did three weeks earlier, going through the forest, and finally seeing a convent with dimly lit windows... 
*** 
Five years prior, at Mandorla, Julita gives birth. It is a tough delivery, but she hears the screams and knows her little girl made it. When she wakes up, however, the baby is gone. The nuns try to convince her that the baby was stillborn but Julita doesn&#39;t believe them. She is convinced the nuns are stealing the girl from her. She calls the police for help, but the officer dismisses the case as the prioress shows him the death certificate for the child&hellip;&nbsp; 
But Julita won&#39;t give up. At the adoption centre that Mandorla officially works with, she asks about her baby and other recent newborns who she knows have been given up for adoption during the last days. The manager at the adoption company is uncomprehending: they only receive children older than six months. Julita knows something is up &ndash; Mandorla must be giving the infants to another company, an illegal one&hellip;&nbsp; 
She decides to spy on Mandorla during the night and discovers that a car picks up babies from the back door. She follows the car in the middle of the night, through a forest to the same gloomy convent Rolf and Claire have reached in their own timeline&hellip;

Rolf et Claire enqu&ecirc;tent sur le meurtre de la jeune femme. Apr&egrave;s l&#39;arr&ecirc;t d&#39;un jeune couple, l&#39;affaire semble r&eacute;gl&eacute;e. Mais&nbsp;les r&eacute;sultats d&#39;un nouveau test ADN vont&nbsp;chambouler&nbsp;la suite des &eacute;v&egrave;nements...&nbsp;

Kidnapping - Episode 5

Rolf, Claire and Karol enter the convent, but the abbess denies knowing anything about the babies being giving up for adoption illegally, or about Victoria&#39;s death. Rolf and Claire are suspicious&hellip; When they see a nun burning records and the abbess denies them a full search of the convent, they know something is up. Out of the flames, Rolf discreetly pulls an old record book and takes it before they are forced out. 
Back in Denmark, Neel has traced the license plate from the video to a car belonging to Oliver Myhre (28). A Police team drives directly to his home to arrest him, but Myhre escapes and Neel takes chase, before Myhre assaults her and runs off. After this missed opportunity to arrest their main suspect, Rolf, Thybo, Clarie and Neel search his apartment, but other traces are gone. To Rolf, it seems like Myhre was prepared that they would come&hellip; just like the nuns in Poland. 
He shares his feelings with Neel and Claire. It was strange that the nuns started burning pieces of evidence just as they arrived&hellip; But the records he saved from the fire bring a connection with the child Julita had reported stolen, as well as, crucially to the company &ldquo;Bliss&rdquo; that Moreau and Fabien used to obtain surrogacy. Bliss is connected to the convent via a French fertility clinic, which used them as proxy to pay the convent a lot of money five years prior. Though they now have a direct link between the convent, Bliss and suspected baby trafficking, they still can&rsquo;t search the place due to the Church&rsquo;s local reach. With frustration growing, Claire criticizes Rolf for not focusing on the case &ndash; she is afraid he is still mixing it up their investigation with his unprocessed own loss.&nbsp; 
Leaving Neel in Denmark, Claire and Rolf go to Paris to interrogate the owners of the fertility clinic that gave money to the convent. The owners turn out to be a well-connected couple, known to the public for their advocacy and work. Everything, therefore, needs to be handled very carefully. At the clinic near Lille, the couple initially denies knowing about Bliss or the convent, but faced with the evidence, but Claire decides to bring them in for an interrogation anyway. &nbsp;However, before she leaves the clinic, her worst fears come true&hellip; Rolf sees the blonde, 5-year-old daughter of the two dark-haired adults and he instantly thinks she looks like Andrea, illegally grabbing a DNA sample from her. He can&#39;t help but tell Maria as they speak &ndash; maybe there is a hope, maybe this actually is their daughter! When she finds out, Claire is furious at Rolf. She knew he couldn&rsquo;t handle it, and now she has to deal with the fall-out. We realise later she reports Rolf to remove him from their joint investigation.&nbsp; 
Neel interrogates Victoria&rsquo;s older sister Melanie, who seems to recognise their suspect, Myhre, yet denies having met him. Just then, Neel and Thybo are informed that the 23-year-old Melanie has had five children&hellip; All of them born in Poland, all of them with French fathers&hellip; Every time, she conveniently gave up custody. Neel is speechless. Melanie introduced Victoria to the trafficking of Polish babies! She runs out but fails to get a hold on Rolf. As she leaves the room, Thybo makes a phone call. He warns someone that they have a problem&hellip;&nbsp; 
In France, the Lille couple freely admits that the girl is not entirely their own, though they wish to keep the fact private. She was born to a surrogate mother in London (legally) and is therefore not Rolf&#39;s daughter. Rolf is dejected, and having raised Maria&rsquo;s hopes, now has to let her down again. But just as he is about to leave, the French mother breaks into tears. She tells the story of how they paid Bliss to get them a surrogate mother before the British surrogacy went through, just like Moreau... But the delivery dragged out and Bliss told them that the baby needed treatment. Long after, a child finally arrived, but things weren&rsquo;t right: the child looked nothing like them and was not a newborn, and so they refused to take her. She had dark skin and a heart-shaped birthmark&hellip; Rolf and Claire exchange a look. Minna! 
*** 
Determined to track her daughter, Julita manages to sneak inside the convent by pretending to be a nun from Mandorla. She gets to look after the children and learn that they are to be given up for adoption. Not long after her arrival, she discovers that her daughter is amongst the infants! But just as she is about to take her and leave, she is revealed and assaulted by the nuns. They lock her up, and from the window she cries, while watching her daughter being picked up and taken away by what seems to be a young, Danish couple &ndash; Melanie and Myhre&hellip;

Rolf, Claire et Karol se rendent au couvent pour chercher des r&eacute;ponses au sujet d&#39;un&nbsp;r&eacute;seau d&#39;adoption ill&eacute;gal, ayant d&eacute;j&agrave; fait bien trop de victimes. Mais quand l&#39;abesse occulte des informations, la sc&egrave;ne tourne au drame. Heureusement, Rolf r&eacute;ussit &agrave; r&eacute;cup&eacute;rer discr&egrave;tement un myst&eacute;rieux registre qui pourrait bien faire avancer l&#39;enqu&ecirc;te...&nbsp;

Kidnapping - Episode 6

On his way back to Denmark, Rolf receives a phone call from Maria, furious that he once again let his mad hopes get the better of them. But though the kid in France wasn&rsquo;t Andrea, Rolf is sure there is something more to it &ndash; everything points towards wider baby trafficking&hellip; Maria hangs up on him.&nbsp; 
In Denmark, Neel meets Bror in front of the foster parent&rsquo;s home, packing his car. Bror is acting weird as Neel tells him that the police believe that Melanie has been involved in baby trafficking. She becomes suspicious, but Bror lures her into the family&#39;s barn &ndash; where she is attacked by Myhre, who has been hiding there! He points at Neel with a hunting rifle and ties her up inside the barn.&nbsp; 
Nudged by Neel, Myhre tells the story of how Victoria died. According to him, he didn&rsquo;t mean for her to die, as they were close and knew each other since childhood. Neel tries to get Myhre to switch side by convincing him that Bror is using him and is about to leave without him. Myhre is scared of being left behind, and as it turns out Bror actually is going to leave him, he runs after the car. &nbsp; 
Meanwhile, Rolf finds out that Bror is the connection between Myhre and the girls, through his work as a social worker. He begins to worry, as he can&rsquo;t get a hold of Neel, and drives to Bror&rsquo;s home as fast as he can. Near the house, he confronts Bror attempting to leave in his car, but just then Myhre comes running like a wounded animal, pointing his rifle at them. The situation escalates and before Rolf is able to take control, Myhre shoots Bror through the front window of his car as Bror tries to run him over to escape. Myhre is hospitalized, Bror dies before the ambulance gets there. &nbsp; 
In CID, Rolf, Neel and Oxvig get to the understanding that Bror and his wife have been taking advantage of the vulnerable foster girls they have had, using them to take part in systematic baby laundering. 
Interrogating Melanie, they learn that she was the one who persuaded Victoria to take part in the trafficking, believing they did the children a favor and gave them a better home &ndash; something she and the other abused girls could relate to. According to Melanie, all the babies were Polish orphans &ndash; except Minna. The only time she experienced something abnormal was when a Polish woman accused her of stealing her daughter. But Melanie is pretty sure the woman got her daughter back, and that it was a mistake. Suddenly it all makes sense to Rolf: they kidnapped Minna because the Polish woman wanted her child back, and they suddenly needed a child to deliver to the French couple! &nbsp;The only thing he doesn&#39;t understand is how a Danish social worker and his sidekick could organise it all... How did they get in contact with a Catholic convent? How did they source clients? &nbsp; 
Oxvig is worried. She suspects that Rolf is still looking for his daughter, and tries to get him to give up. But Rolf has no intention of giving up &ndash; if they took a Danish girl once, they could have done it twice. 
Rolf goes back to Poland. Officer Karol has found a girl, legally adopted, who fits the description of Minna. As she enters the family&rsquo;s home there is no doubt: the little girl with the heart-shaped birthmark looks exactly like Minna! As the family heartbreakingly realise they may not keep the daughter they genuinely adopted, Rolf is overwhelmed with emotions. 
*** 
Five years earlier in Poland, Julita escapes the convent and decides to seek the Danish couple that took her baby. At the gas station close to the convent, she spots Myhre with Minna! She realizes he has stolen one more child and follows him by car towards the convent. Here he and Melanie drop off Minna and return in the direction of the ferry to Denmark. Julita follows all the way to Melanie&#39;s home, determined to find out where her daughter is. Here she assaults Melanie, who tells her that the baby was taken by a social worker from Civil Service who they cooperate with, Novak, as she was sick. Julita tracks down Eva Novak, but she rushes out before Julita can get a hold of her&hellip;&nbsp; 
*** 
In Denmark, Neel has just realized that all cases with the Polish babies were processed by the same social worker at the Civil Service department in Copenhagen, 150 km away from the foster parent&rsquo;s home. Just then, she finds out that the social worker is Eva Novak &ndash; Thybo&rsquo;s wife! Rolf is at his friends&rsquo; when he sees his a police squad storm the house, arresting both Thybo and Eva. Neel holds back Rolf while he painfully yells after his only friend.

Malgr&eacute; les &eacute;checs Rolf suit son intuition, au plus grand dam de son ex-femme Maria. Alors que tout semble perdu, le trafic d&#39;enfants ne cesse de s&#39;&eacute;tendre, faisant chaque fois plus de victimes...&nbsp;

Kidnapping - Episode 7

Thybo and his wife Eva are taken to court for a preliminary hearing. Here Eva confesses to having played a leading role in the network, Bliss, which has been organizing baby trafficking. It turns out Eva herself was an adopted Polish child and she has always dreamt of helping other children the same way, and as such, is mostly unrepentant. Thybo is charged with manipulating the investigation of the Minna case in order to shield his wife&rsquo;s activities, removing profiles from the DNA register as well as other leads from the case. He also paid Minna&#39;s father, Zaid, to get out of Denmark and settle in his homeland. As their own children break down in tears, both Eva and Thybo are taken into custody.&nbsp; 
Rolf is enraged &ndash; he wants to question Thybo himself, as he is now convinced that Thybo has played a part in Andrea&rsquo;s disappearing. If she hadn&rsquo;t disappeared, Rolf would have solved the Minna case five years earlier, and Eva and Thybo would have gone to jail.&nbsp; 
After the hearing, Minna returns to Denmark to be reunited with her biological mother. But the reunion goes terribly wrong, especially for &ldquo;Minna&rdquo;, who wants to stay with the only parents she remembers to have lived with. As the crying girl is being dragged out of the room, Rolf is very emotional. Was the investigation for the best?&nbsp; 
Maria and her new boyfriend help Rolf move into his apartment. But as the boyfriend congratulates Rolf with the solved case, and wonders how it must feel for Minna&#39;s mother, who imagined she would never see her child again, the situation turns very awkward. Maria&rsquo;s boyfriend&rsquo;s statement gets Rolf upset enough to seek out Thybo in jail. He confronts Thybo with having lied to his face for five years. He is convinced that Thybo needed to distract his attention to make him stop digging in the case, and therefore made Andrea disappear. But Thybo tells him that he had nothing to do with Andrea&rsquo;s kidnapping, though he knows who has taken her: a Polish girl, who sought out Eva, convinced that they had stolen her infant. Rolf becomes furious as he hears this. He beats up Thybo and leaves him behind nearly beaten to death. &nbsp; 
*** 
We relive Andrea&rsquo;s disappearance through Julita&rsquo;s eyes, as the final pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Julita has traced Thybo&rsquo;s home and now demands to get her child back. Thybo doesn&#39;t have her baby and hustles her out. But Julita waits outside in her car, and the next morning she sees Rolf arrive to pick up Thybo, Rolf with a baby on his arm! She is sure that this must be her child and follows them through the storm aboard the ferry to Poland. Here, she waits until Rolf leaves the pram unguarded. It is now or never! She tumbles feverishly with the pram outside on the deck. The storm rages as she runs off with the child inside her coat. At that very moment, Rolf comes running outside, seeing the pram smashing against the railing. Julita manages to get off the ferry in her car with Andrea, driving by the desperate Rolf shouting and crying in despair, while Thybo tries to comfort him.&nbsp; 
One year later, Thybo arrives at Julita&rsquo;s address in Poland. She is furious seeing him, as she is convinced that it is her baby. Thybo says nothing against it, but feels guilty, and offers to help her, giving her the contact information for at home in France, which helps single mothers. Julita ends up accepting his help 
*** 
Meanwhile, Neel and Claire interrogate Myhre, who is recovering in hospital. He sticks to the explanation that Victoria&#39;s death was an accident, but confesses to kidnapping Minna. But the reason he took Minna is different from Rolf&#39;s theory about the Polish woman snatching her own daughter back. Myhre explains that the Polish baby died because she was too premature, and he panicked and stole Minna to replace her. Just then, Claire and Neel are informed that Rolf has nearly beaten Thybo to death. There is a warrant out for Rolf, who apparently flew to France. Claire and Neel exchange a look &ndash; they have to go get him!&nbsp; 
In France, Rolf has traced down Julita. He watches her at a distance, and as he sees a 5 &frac12; -year old girl by her side, he knows. She even looks like Rolf. He follows them, talks to both Julita and his daughter and observes them together. Julita is a very good mother, and the girl is extremely fond of her.&nbsp; 
Neel calls him to warn him that she, Claire and the French police are coming to arrest him for aggravated assault. Rolf begs her for a little more time and tells Neel that he finally found Andrea. Neel is speechless. 
Rolf continues to talk to Julita and his daughter, and he realizes that the two have a very special bond. The messy reunion of Minna with her biological mother also plays on his mind. After some time he picks up a stick from an ice cream Andrea has eaten. He puts it in a plastic bag &ndash; it has her DNA on it. Neel and Claire see it from a distance. They know he is right &ndash; it is his daughter. But as Rolf says goodbye to Julita and Andrea, turning towards to police, he throws the stick in a garbage bin, deciding to sacrifice his own desires &ndash; for now &ndash; and not disturb his daughter&rsquo;s wonderful life with Julita. He willingly turns himself in to the police.

Le r&eacute;seau ill&eacute;gal d&eacute;cel&eacute;, les principaux responsables sont jug&eacute;s. Mais cette justice suffira-t-elle &agrave; Rolf qui crie vengeance ?&nbsp;

Le combat d’un policier danois pour démanteler un réseau de trafiquants d’enfants et retrouver sa fille.

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