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"A Royal Mess"
lavatch27 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
In episode three of "Trapped," the thick plot grows even thicker! As one character muses, "What is going on around here?"

By the end of this program, it would appear that two suspects are eliminated from consideration as the murderer. One is the wayward Hjortur Stefansson. While Hjortur possibly started the blaze in the fish factory when he lit his lighter while urinating, he clearly did not intentionally set the fire. There is no other evidence linking him to the recent murder. The Lithuanian criminal is also ruled out as a suspect after he broke his neck driving away in the police vehicle following his prison break.

The little kids are rounded up after walking out into the snowstorm. The girl who was taunting the boy is sufficiently contrite and apologizes for her cruel remarks. The son of the elderly man refusing to sell his land is backed into a corner when his father adamantly stands his ground, placing the son in a major fix.

The episode is driven by the search for any possible remaining body parts. A small crew led by the policewoman's husband brings up a bag that contains a hand along with other evidence.

The quick-thinking Andri, who early called his situation "a royal mess," immediately notices that the pack of cigarettes is a Spanish brand purchased at a local hotel. Both the victim and his killer were not aboard the ferry. Instead, they were residing in the peaceful community of Logregan!
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10/10
Dear Darri
evening113 October 2020
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You gotta feel for the big guy. He's doing his best to juggle both police work on a shoestring budget and difficult family stuff -- including divorce from a wife he clearly loves. On the job front, a corpse disappears and a sinister crime suspect flees ("Hann er dauður"). None of it's Darri's fault, but we gather he'll take the rap from the police bigs in Reykjavík.

One person of interest the local cops do collar is Hjörtur, the young man with lovely Dagný when she died in a fish-factory blaze seven years earlier. We'd learned earlier in the series that Hjörtur went to prison for arson, but we're still unclear about his guilt. "I should have died with her," he tearfully tells the cops.

Intriguingly, we learn that Hjörtur recalls being dragged from the burning building, while Andri wonders whether he escaped on his own and doesn't remember. (Might the actual fire-setter have been the dragger?) Sensitive policewoman Hinríka (Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir) comes away from the exchange disbelieving Hjörtur capable of murder, perhaps both in the past and present. (Along the way in all this, we may notice that actor Baltasar Breki Samper has stunning eyes.)

A wonderfully charming touch in this episode gives us Darri (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) scrubbing his face with a snowball. In Iceland, nature truly rocks!
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