In this concluding episode of the series, Andri appears to have hit rock bottom, when, after arresting his father-in-law for the murder of the mayor, he receives a tongue-lashing from his ex-wife and is booted out of the house. The wife admonishes him for not exonerating the old man and covering up the crime, then takes the children away with her to live with her new boyfriend.
The backstory of the murder of Geirmundur is that he had raped Maria, and the result was the little boy Maggi. The crooked police chief (and later the mayor) Hrafn let Geirmundur off the hook on the condition that he set fire to the factory. After setting the building ablaze, Geirmundur rescued Hottir from the conflagration. They both skidaddled to Spain. When Geirmundur returns to the town, he breaks in on Maria, and she stabs him in self-defense. That incident was covered up by the oligarchs.
There is a poignant moment in this episode when the police officer Henrike confronts the local hotel proprietor, accusing him of enabling human trafficking and abetting murder in a "sleep little town." The multiple homicides in the town, along with corruption and the human trafficking, were not the plans of a diabolical monster, but rather by rather ordinary people within an ordinary community. The sins of the past are denoted in the act of arson that took the life of a young woman. It appeared that in trying to bury a crime of the past, select residents became enmeshed more deeply in amoral wrongdoing.
The culminating sequence is ironically a return to the site of the fish warehouse where the original fire took place. It is there that a reckoning finally occurs with the forces of evil that boiled to the surface in the story of a sleepy little town.
The backstory of the murder of Geirmundur is that he had raped Maria, and the result was the little boy Maggi. The crooked police chief (and later the mayor) Hrafn let Geirmundur off the hook on the condition that he set fire to the factory. After setting the building ablaze, Geirmundur rescued Hottir from the conflagration. They both skidaddled to Spain. When Geirmundur returns to the town, he breaks in on Maria, and she stabs him in self-defense. That incident was covered up by the oligarchs.
There is a poignant moment in this episode when the police officer Henrike confronts the local hotel proprietor, accusing him of enabling human trafficking and abetting murder in a "sleep little town." The multiple homicides in the town, along with corruption and the human trafficking, were not the plans of a diabolical monster, but rather by rather ordinary people within an ordinary community. The sins of the past are denoted in the act of arson that took the life of a young woman. It appeared that in trying to bury a crime of the past, select residents became enmeshed more deeply in amoral wrongdoing.
The culminating sequence is ironically a return to the site of the fish warehouse where the original fire took place. It is there that a reckoning finally occurs with the forces of evil that boiled to the surface in the story of a sleepy little town.
