Sarah and Jan questions Lynge's sister leading them an apartment Lynge breaks into the neighboring apartment taking a blind woman hostage. Troels want to release a press statement regarding the campaign's association with Lynge but Sarah asks him to hold it for a day the press gets hold of the information. Sarah questions Lisa and the police place the car at Nanna's school during the Halloween party after which Nanna went missing. Sarah's chief asks her to stay until the closing of the case.
They meet with Troels and his advisor Rie while enquiring about the last driver of the car, the driver, John Lynge, manages to escape. Sarah and Jan question Theis and Pernille. The car belongs to Troels' campaign office. Sarah leads a search party in woods missing her farewell reception and flight they finds Nanna's body at the back of car drown in a nearby waterway. Theis shows up a Oliver's house but Nanna is not there. The police gather Nanna's class for questioning canceling the Mayor debate at the school meanwhile Lisa, Nanna's best friend leaves and searches for Nanna presuming her to be with Oliver, her ex-boyfriend. Sarah and Jan questions Pernille and asks her to call her daughter Nanna who supposedly spent the night at a girlfriend's from school Nanna is not reachable. Troels Hartmann is running for the Mayor's office the incumbent Mayor Poul Bremer offers him a deal to back out of the race but he refuses. Theis runs a transport company and lives with his wife Pernille, daughter Nanna and two sons. Police find blood, a woman's clothes and a video card with Theis Birk Larsen's name at an isolated site Sarah and the new DCI Inspector Jan Mayer are called at the scene. Inspector Sarah Lund's Danish colleagues throw her a surprise farewell party as she is emigrating to Sweden along with her son to live with her boyfriend.
Søren Sveistrup, series creator and head writer, worked closely with lead actress Sofie Gråbøl throughout the writing process to develop the character of Detective Inspector Sarah Lund. Novelisations of each series have been published by Macmillan. The Killing has proved to be an international success, particularly in the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands, receiving numerous awards and nominations including a BAFTA Award and an International Emmy. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the stories of the murdered victim's family and the effect in political circles alongside the police investigation. Each fifty-minute episode covers twenty-four hours of the investigation.
Each series follows a murder case day-by-day. The series is set in Copenhagen and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund ( Sofie Gråbøl). It premiered on the Danish national television channel DR1 on 7 January 2007, and has since been broadcast in several other countries. The Killing ( Danish: Forbrydelsen, lit.'The Crime') is a Danish police procedural drama television series created by Søren Sveistrup and produced by DR in co-production with ZDF Enterprises.