He gave three wildly conflicting versions of his story, changing it each time the investigators turned up new evidence, starting with Kim’s torso and ending, months later, with the rest of her dismembered body. It does not show him, give a lot of biographical detail, or even offer much from his testimony – perhaps because it is not worth much. Pointedly, The Investigation never mentions the killer by name.
The job is his life, the task of bringing closure to Kim’s parents, Ingrid (Pernilla August) and Joachim (Rolf Lassgard), is his mission. He is an inscrutable figure, giving almost nothing of himself away. In short - watch it, even with subtitles, you won't miss the developing characters and their reactions to their changing lives.The central player though is not the killer, it is Jens Moller (Soren Malling), Copenhagen’s (now-retired) head of homicide.
Either way, these are things you just live with as its a TV show and reality has to be strained. Unless the Danish police are really well funded I found forensics turning up at a snap of Sarah's fingers in the middle of the night to be somewhat unrealistic (they must have good overtime payments in Denmark), similarly a DNA sample would be tested and the results back in less than an hour, and its nearly always dark too - maybe they all sleep during the day. That's a double act that Hollywood will never be able to match. The filming is very good, and little touches abound in it - my favourite is still how Sarah Lund can breeze along with her eyes shut, yet Jan Meyer cannot follow behind her without stepping in something. The whole thing is about characters wrapped up in a mild cliffhanger plot, its how they react to each other and developments that really makes the difference from what we usually get on TV. The absolute best part of this is just the sublime acting. But that isn't its main appeal, I'd even go so far to say that it detracted slightly from the series as a whole. 20 episodes spread over 20 days, many twists and turns, the main characters stumble from one wrong turn to another until the final denouement. In many respects it does remind me of 24.
I've just finished watching all the episodes and I've not been so engrossed in a series since 24 (the original series) was on TV many years ago.
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