The discovery of the girl’s body in a car at the end of episode one leads to Lund being drawn into an investigation that she finds impossible to leave behind the further it progresses. She accompanies her replacement, Jan Meyer, in an enquiry into the disappearance of a nineteen year old woman, Nanna Birk Larsen. As the series opens, Lund is on the verge of leaving Copenhagen to join the Swedish police force and be with her fiancé and son. The main protagonist of the programme was Detective Inspector and knitwear aficionado, Sarah Lund. At twenty fifty-five minute episodes, the show didn’t bombard its audience at a relentless pace but took its time hooking them in and then turned the screw ever tighter. The Killing was shown in double bills over ten Saturday nights and gave viewers something that was rarely available on television. The impact of The Killing can perhaps be measured in that it is one of the few Scandinavian exports that has so far been picked up for its own US remake. Shown in its native Denmark in 2007, the show struck a huge chord with BBC4 viewers when it made its debut on the channel in the spring of 2011.
If there was one show which stood at the pinnacle of this invasion then is was Forbrydelsen. Directly translated as “The Crime” but known to us in the UK as The Killing.
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