The Bridge: Season 1

2011 · 10 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 1 of The Bridge

A body turns up in the middle of the Øresund Bridge, which connects Malmö with Copenhagen, right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Because the discovery falls on the line dividing the two countries, the investigation is shared between Swedish and Danish police. Saga Norén, a homicide detective in Malmö, struggles to deal with her colleagues. Her counterpart in Copenhagen, Martin Rohde, must work with her. They soon discover the case is not isolated, because behind it is a killer who wants to expose society's major problems. Sofia Helin leads the cast of this SVT and DR production.

10episodes

Sep 21, 2011premiered

Nov 23, 2011Latest episode

9.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Episode 1
Sep 21, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 7.4
The chair of the Malmo city council is found dead right on the Danish-Swedish border on the Øresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmo - the corpse cut in half at the waistline. Detective Saga Norén of Malmo CID is applied to the case and soon learns that the lower half of the corpse belongs to a yet unknown Danish woman. She is forced to team up with her Danish colleague Martin Rohde, who is slightly irritated by her unusual manners. At the same time, Göran Söringer is brought to Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet to receive a heart transplant.
Directing: Charlotte Sieling · Starring: Julie Carlsen, Lars Simonsen, Tuvalisa Rangström, Milo Randowo
1x02 Episode 2
Sep 28, 2011 · 59 min · ★ 7.4
The bomb in Daniel Ferbé's car did not go off. Instead, the car's CD player put out a disc that contains a message from the murderer, which is also published on a website. He deplores five grievances of society, the first of which shall be highlighted by the murders. Norén traces back the website of the murderer to a server of the Danish CID and Rohde reopens the case of the second victim, a Danish prostitute who disappeared more than a year ago, and obtains her diary. Eventually Charlotte Söringer manages to get her beloved husband his heart transplant.
Directing: Charlotte Sieling · Starring: Julie Carlsen, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer, Morten Hauch-Fausbøll, Nicolaj Kopernikus
1x03 Episode 3
Oct 5, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 7.8
To draw attention to the increased number of people falling through the cracks of society, the killer kidnaps a homeless man and demands a large ransom from four landlords for his survival. So what is the price of a human being after all?
Directing: Charlotte Sieling · Writing: Morten Dragsted · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Helle Jensen, Jens Bo Jørgensen, Malin Levanon
1x04 Episode 4
Oct 12, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 8.1
Knowing the killer has carefully planned his crimes, Saga and Martin wonder whether they can catch him off guard by doing something he doesn't expect.
Directing: Charlotte Sieling · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Morten Suurballe, Pia Örjansdotter, Stig Engström
1x05 Episode 5
Oct 19, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 8.0
The murderer has groomed a number of schizophrenics to commit carefully synchronized violent crimes on the same day in Malmo and Copenhagen.
Directing: Lisa Siwe · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Fanny Ketter, Iggy Malmborg, Tove Wiréen
1x06 Episode 6
Oct 26, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 7.9
A rogue policeman is killed by someone in uniform. The detectives believe that the killer for whom they are searching was the killer. They also now suspect that the killer may indeed be one of them - that he is actually is a cop.
Directing: Lisa Siwe · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Magnus Krepper, Christian Hillborg, Ole Boisen
1x07 Episode 7
Nov 2, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 7.6
A bus-load of children is kidnapped and are threatened to be killed. The police believe that the kidnapper is the killer, and the hunt continues.
Directing: Henrik Georgsson · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Lars Simonsen, Magnus Krepper, Christian Hillborg
1x08 Episode 8
Nov 9, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 7.6
Because the detectives suspect that a policeman is involved, a profile of the killer is developed and several police fit the profile and a search among them begins. The hunt continues and a particular suspect is found.
Directing: Henrik Georgsson · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Lars Simonsen, Kristian Lima de Faria, Jörgen Thorsson
1x09 Episode 9
Nov 16, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 7.9
Things are brought closer to home when the criminal's mask is removed.
Directing: Henrik Georgsson · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Julie Carlsen, Lars Simonsen, Malin Morgan
1x10 Episode 10 Season Finale
Nov 23, 2011 · 58 min · ★ 8.5
The crime spree is resolved. However, many loose threads remain.
Directing: Henrik Georgsson · Writing: Hans Rosenfeldt · Starring: Sarah Boberg, Lars Simonsen, Magnus Schmitz, Vibeke Ankjær