" This shouldn't be personal." " He must take responsibility." " Daniel Verås embezzled 2.3 million." " He'll get a prison sentence." "At school they say you stole some money." " Did you?" " What do you think?" "You're having good days, sending your brother to prison." "He did that to himself." "It's about Andreas." "Promise you'll take care of him." "Who's your source in Hungary?" " All the evidence points to Daniel." " You don't know who started this." "I can't rule out that someone has been conned." ""Sofia", the source, was your brother." "All the chat, e-mails and files came from him." "I'll go home." "When I'm back, I'll transfer to Sports." "You can't warn the man we're writing about!" "You've acted like Mother Teresa for five years." "A moralistic old biddy!" "I'm lawyer Runa Torgersen." "I've come to give you this." "From your late husband." "How do you know my brother?" "Abraham!" " You don't know anything." " No!" " Do you know who it is?" " Åge Haugen." "Today's front page." "Chapter 2:" "THE AWAKENING" "Do you know anything about him?" "Did he know Daniel?" "No." "I've never seen him before." " Abraham." "Have you heard that name?" " No." " Are you sure?" " Only men do that kind of thing." " They're sick and selfish enough." " Daniel didn't plan to do it." "He had no plans." "That's why he shot himself." " Daniel warned us." " Yes." "Who does that tell us most about, Daniel or that guy?" "Who would know that we're here?" "Who the hell knows we're here?" "I don't know." "Did you think I called?" "Aftenavisen is printing a big story about that guy." "Could they know about some connection with Daniel?" " I don't know!" " Get out of here." " Are we running from the police?" " Just go!" " You don't tell me what to do." " Get out of here." "Okay?" "Or stay, and you and Andreas will be all over the TV again." "Is that what you want?" "Now go!" " And what will you say?" " You weren't here." " What are you doing?" " Trust me." "Run!" "So, Åge Haugen says he wants to talk to you?" "He drives you there, lets you out and drives into the water?" "You jump in and pull him out of the car?" "You get him ashore, and he shoots himself." "What did he say?" "I'm a journalist." "He's a source." " He's a dead man." " But he's still a source." "So I have to read what he said in your paper?" "Could you give me a lift back?" "I could take you in." "But then I'd be up to my neck in journalists." "Where have you been?" "At a client meeting." "It drove me up the wall listening to their bullshit." "I had to tell them off and bang the table - at grown men." "I bumped into Peter in the cemetery today." "He drives an old blue Toyota." "There's one parked down the road from here." "I haven't seen him, but I saw four other handsome men today." "They wanted to change accountants." " What have you done?" " You know?" " You know I know." " From the police?" "No, worse!" "VG and Dagens Næringsliv." "Peter?" "Hello!" "Haven't seen you in a while." "Come in." "I just made some soup, want some?" "Light a candle, Frank." "I'll get another plate." " So I get my news from VG now?" " My mobile got wet." " The police drove me back." " You can call me with police present." "Can we not talk shop while we eat?" " Do you want some dessert?" " I'd love some." "It was delicious." "Give me that." "How could you approach Haugen again?" " That's not important." " Then what is?" "Someone forced him to shoot himself." "I saw it in his eyes." " He was scared shitless." " You could see that in his eyes?" "Yes." " And he said something else." " What?" " I'll tell you." " Yes?" "Let me work on the story." "Who would want to work with you?" "Just research." "I need to see what you've got." "Our chief editor may be stupid and unpredictable." "But in this case he will be very predictable and far from stupid." "I want the facts." "Inger Marie can write it." "Yeah, she's really enamoured of you." "Either you get to the bottom of this with me, or other papers will write about it." "Are you threatening me?" "Haugen came to me, not to you guys." "Did he come to you after you scared the shit out of his wife?" "Yes." " Why the hell did he do that?" " Don't know." "Haugen is part of something bigger." "Hello?" "The dessert's ready." "Yes, we're coming." "Take care, Peter." "I can't let this story go." "Not now." "Come in tomorrow." " But you won't be back in News." " I have what they need." "You've lost credibility, no matter what I say." "I've stood up for you before." "Find someone else who believes in you." "So he's doing just this one story for News?" "Yes." "And I don't think we can risk him acting on his own." " How much does he know?" " Quite a bit." "But we shouldn't take the risk." "He was the last person to speak to Haugen." "Only this story." "Not an hour more." "I'll come to the meeting." "Good." " Hello?" " This is Gjermund from VG." "Why were you on a Hurum beach today?" " You pay the police for info too?" " You know this business." "Where were you when Haugen killed himself today?" "I know the business, and that's a stupid question." "It doesn't get less stupid by asking it twice." "Why call the competition?" "You're not the competition." "You're news." "Suicide as news?" "It's a tragedy for the family, be considerate." "It's about you, not a suicide!" "I shouldn't have been there, I'm not covering it." "You've been present at a suicide before, your brother's." " I could lose my job." " When did you start to care?" " We don't write about each other." " You said you weren't covering it." "Turn that recorder off." "Put it in your pocket, so you get this right." "No, no, no, you can remember this." "I think he was pressured into killing himself." " Do you think or do you know?" " I know." "From what he said." " Hello, it's me." " I've only got leftovers." "Tell me about Abraham." " Can't you look it up on the net?" " Daniel's connection to Abraham?" " Daniel?" " What's his connection to Abraham?" "Do you know or not?" "There's not much to say about the two together." "That wasn't my question." "Don't you know anything about our founding father?" " Come over tomorrow, I'll tell you." " No, now." " Directory enquiries." " Vibeke Haglund, Financial Crime." "Vibeke Haglund..." "No matches for Haglund." "Put me through to Katrine Myhre." " Hello, it's Katrine." " Hi, Katrine." " It's Peter." "You're working?" " Yeah, what can I do for you?" "I need the phone number of Vibeke Haglund, Kjølberggata." "She's moved and is unlisted." " And her number is...?" " Peter...!" " You can give me that." " I couldn't..." "Of course you can." "You owe me that much." " Aren't you in Sports now?" " Look on it as sport." " 90 1-9 7 689." "But don't..." " Thank you." "We don't have to do this now." "It was you who wanted to." "You brought a Bible?" "Bring a notepad." "Maybe you'll learn something then." "If you write it down, that is." " What do you know?" " Abraham is the founding father of Judaism, Christianity and Islam." " What do you know that's important?" " Not much." "I know nothing." "Abraham was willing to sacrifice everything for his God." " That's hardly what matters here." " Wasn't this about Daniel?" "Then that's what matters, what one does will do for one's faith." "Your theology doesn't interest me." "The symbolic value of Abraham does." "What the name means, what it has to do with my brother." " What?" " Come here." "Here's something of symbolic value." "Isn't that what you asked me?" " You've got CCTV in the church?" " We had some burglaries." " What's he doing in the church?" " It's the morning of his suicide." " What's he screaming?" " What's he screaming at?" " What's he saying?" " It's what he's screaming at, I said." "Abraham..." "He's screaming at a painting of Abraham's sacrifice in my church." " What's the painting?" " The altarpiece." "An anonymous donation I got via the bishop." "Valuable, by a famous artist." " I got it the year before." " Who's the artist?" "That's not the question." "The question is, who is the donor?" " Well?" " Daniel." "I had to pressure the bishop into telling me." "I had to show him the recording." "This is Daniel's last greeting." "You had nothing to do with this?" "Who do you think Daniel claimed sacrificed his son for his faith?" " You never told me?" " It concerned me and my prodigal son." " Why didn't you tell Mum?" " Didn't she suffer enough?" "Exactly, that's what I mean." "Abraham didn't sacrifice his child, God spared him that." "Isn't that enough for now?" "Get some sleep, you look awful." " Do you know Åge Haugen?" " Who's that?" "Peter!" "Come over for dinner soon." "Hello, it's Vibeke." "I can't take the..." " What's first?" " A meeting." "The Permanent Secretary." "About the conflict of interest." "Let's postpone that until after the Party Conference." "What I was elected for and what I may be elected for is not the same thing." "You won't lose respect for not asking for squabbles to reduce our support." "I'd get less respect if we postponed it." "We answer to everybody, not just to the Party Conference." "Then why are you standing in the Party Leadership election?" "I was asked, I didn't ask for it, that's the difference." "HAUGEN SHOOTS HIMSELF JOURNALIST WITNESSES SUICIDE" "Cancel all appointments before lunch." "Did you know him?" "Vibeke, I've called you 100 times." "Where are you hiding?" "Call me back." " Coffee." " Thanks." "Got a new job?" "In VG?" "Oh well, it's the content that matters, not the paper." "The police called VG before examining the body." "You managed what no one else has:" "putting our Sports Desk on the map." "Talk about shitting on your own doorstep." "If you've got to shit, you've got to shit." "But you're okay, right?" "Yes, I'll be there." "Take your coffee and chocolate." "You never know what you'll get up there." "Why doesn't anybody suck up to me by phoning me?" "That front page screams that I'm out to lunch." "Totally out to lunch." "You have police and press contacts." "You're online." "Why not use that?" "I want everything about Haugen's life on this table by noon." "Shut the door." "At least you read the newspapers unlike the people here." "Peter Verås tried to contact me." "You split up, you don't owe him anything." "I know." " Do you want to come over?" " I can be at your place after noon." "See you." "Bye." " Hello." " How are you?" "Why couldn't you pick me up yourself?" " Did you know what he was up to?" " Are you mad?" "Thank you." "But why couldn't you come to my home?" "You must not talk to anybody about me." "Don't talk to journalists about me." " Why not?" " It's for your own sake." "It may be difficult to understand." "The car behind us will take you home." "Festive mood in here, I see!" " Okay, where are we at?" " Well..." "Haugen has, in a tragic way, pulled Peter into this story." "Inger Marie suggested that he might come back." "The Chief Editor and I have discussed it." "It all boils down to: should Peter get to work just on the Haugen case?" "Let me." "Since yesterday I've seen a massive professional suicide." "And I don't mean Haugen." "We'll regain the lead on this." "And you'll do that as a team without Peter." "We didn't kill Haugen, Peter did, and VG covered it." "We don't cover alcoholic colleagues and directors who shun their responsibilities." "And how could you possibly think you'd ever cover news here again?" " We agreed..." " This is how it will be." "Our lawyer advised me not to say much, but I'll say this:" "the trouble you've given me is nothing compared to what you'll get." "You'll wait it out in Sports until I find grounds for your dismissal." "Apparently there are lots to choose from, but it's important to pick one." " There are better ways of doing this." " I'd be happy to hear your proposals." "You've taken people into swamps like this one before my time." "The performers are about to enter the ring again, but now we'll stop them." "After all, this company employs more than 800 people." "Jan, you will work with Inger Marie." "Jensen will join them too, so we can squeeze something good out of this." "You've got three days." "We will make the best Saturday paper ever." "Make me proud." "Peter, get out." "Right, then..." " Three days!" " What does Peter know?" "Peter's out of the loop." "I let him back in to get us there." " Generous of you." " Spare me the sarcasm." " You don't fear Peter will go to VG?" " I talked to Torry." "As editors we agreed that we have better stories about their employees." "So, no more Peter in VG?" "I don't think he knows shit." "He's bluffing." " You disappoint me." " I found someone who believes in me." "VG?" "You go to VG?" "They came to my home." "Had I not talked, they'd have written anything." "Yes, but they couldn't have quoted you, that's the point." "He threatened to write that story about my brother again." "What would you have done?" "Is that when you decided you might as well lie?" "No, Haugen was pressured." "I think so, and you know." "Pressured?" "With what?" "I'll find out on my own time." "I'm going to have a piss." "By myself." " Can I ask where are we going?" " "Where we are going"?" " We're netting the biggest fish." " Not Haugen?" "No." "That fish is stranded." " Hello?" " Hi, it's Yvonne Haugen." " You came by yesterday." " I'm sorry about what happened." " I need to talk to you." " That can be arranged." " Can you meet me now?" " Yes." " Coffee?" " Yes, please." " There you are." " Thank you." "A lot of people have been in touch after he died." "But only you talked to me before it happened." "What was Åge doing, and why?" "I'm sorry, but some men can't take a fall." "My brother was the same." "Not Åge." "Åge didn't want to die." "I'll show you something." "He told me to take the children and leave if something happened to him." "You can't write about this in the paper." "It looks genuine, but it's not my name." "You can trust me." "A few hours ago, I was told not to speak to anyone." "My son..." "He's in South America, and I..." "I can't get hold of..." "I need advice on what to do next." "Who told you not to speak to anyone?" "Terje Hjorth." "He came here with full security and everything." "The Minister of Justice..." "You mustn't tell this to anybody." "He was Åge's best man, our friend." "Sorry..." "I'll tell you what I know." "Your husband said one word to me." "One word. "Abraham"." "Do you know what that meant to him?" "Was it something to do with a person?" "He called this painting "Abraham"." "Is that your husband?" "It's our son." "Åge was always so scared something would happen to him." "What am I going to do?" " Mummy?" " Hi, sweetheart." "Is the film finished already?" " Who's that man?" " He's a friend." "Where's Daddy?" "Daddy is out travelling, darling." " Did you take the underground?" " Commoners." "Hang out with them." "I did." "They mobbed me." "I have to go to Åge Haugen's funeral." "We were friends." " Friends?" " Close friends." "That isn't really what you need right now." " Close friends?" " You know what I mean." "My name will come up in relation to this." "People need something on you now." "This suits them perfectly." " I was his best man, his friend." " Anything else I should know?" " That commoners would want to know?" " That's more than enough." "Haugen worked with Tom Lied." "He worked here at Paragon, one of Norway's biggest brokerage firms." "Lied, a top broker at Paragon, got fired." "Five years later, he was worth billions." "No Norwegian got that rich that fast." " A meteoric rise to success." " I read newspapers." "Everybody thinks he did something, no one knows what." "We'll find out." " Why did we write about Haugen then?" " We pushed a piece to see the result." " Pushed it hard?" " How tasteful." "Hello." "We're meeting Jon Stensrud." " Did Tom Lied get fired from here?" " Yes." "I'll tell you when to speak." "We're the first to gain access." "Why?" "The old boys' club must improve the reputation of Oslo Stock Exchange." "Hello." "Is there anything prettier than pregnant women?" " Thanks for giving us access." " By all means." "Unfortunately I haven't got time to help you, but my secretary does." "Ask her anything, but don't get lost." "There's coffee in here." "Three kroner a cup, but I'll treat you." "Noble motives, I'm sure, but we said we'd keep his company out of this." "It's a big house, but my hearing is good." " It was a joke." " I know." "Ask me what's the most important thing about comedy." " What's the most...?" " Timing." "Yes, we want to improve the business' reputation." "I lose money by doing this in public." "And it could be that I have an honourable agenda as well." "You're not looking for a Norwegian Gekko, but a Gatsby, a gangster." "Apparently they call her the Dragon." "She puts me in the shade." "Good luck." "Hello." "Please come with me." "Here are the documents." "Leave everything as you found it." "You can't take any documents with you without my permission." "You start on the last year, you on the first." "We're looking for investments with Haugen's and Lied's names on." "Dumping loads of documents on us is the oldest trick in the book." " I'm the boss." " His, yes." "Talk to his highness." "I'm no fucking assistant." "I have a list of people and companies you need to look out for." "If you want it all served on a plate, become a waiter." "BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL" " Your son wants to talk to you." " I'll call him back." "The thing is, he isn't on the phone, he's..." "We don't mind waiting outside." "Kids will be kids." "You can't just come in here." "That's my uncle." "And he's wearing Dad's jacket." "You lied to me yesterday." "You said we don't lie." "He wanted to protect us." "He thought it had to do with your dad." " But he was your boyfriend once." " Boyfriend?" "I snogged him at a party, if that's what you mean." "And that was before I met your father and before we moved to Bergen." "Listen..." "I was on that beach yesterday." "I saw that man shoot himself." "Had I waited for the police, I'd have been on that front page too." "I couldn't take that, nor could you." "That's why I lied." "This has nothing to do with us." "Is that why you were on that beach?" " Let's go home." "I'll take time off." " No..." "Did you miss me?" "What do you want?" "I'm here to tell you that Vibeke wants you to leave her alone." " I do what I want." " That's the problem." " So she sends her boss?" " Ex-boss." "I'm here as a friend." " Friend?" " Yes." "Maybe the only friend she has." "We were together for 3 years." "She wants nothing more to do with you." "She wants to be left alone." ""I'M OUTSIDE."" "You sent your boss." "Couldn't you have told me yourself you won't help me?" "Ex-boss." "I don't work there anymore." "Today I lost my job, I screwed up again and saw a man shoot himself." " Now you won't talk to me." " It's not a good idea." "A good idea?" "There's something happening." "A lawyer delivered a suitcase from my brother..." " Don't tell me." "I'm done with this." " Are you scared again?" "I'm ill, Peter." "I'm trying to get well, but it won't go away." "Sorry." "You said you were going back to work." "I thought you were upset." " You could've come and told me." " Come and told you?" "I can't go out!" "I never go out." "Apparently that's what's wrong with me." "I'd rather not talk about your brother." "But you can have a cup of tea." "Coffee?" "Tea." " Coffee?" " Coffee's bad for you." ""BIG DOWNTURN FOR HYDRO" "MANAGEMENT DECISIONS"" "Take that down if it makes you ill." "How typically masculine to think that there are switches you can turn off." "So women understand that?" "Was it my fault?" "You can't talk like that, even to me." "I don't want to wrap things up in cotton-wool." "Sorry..." " The journalist is here." " I want to talk to him myself." "No need to comment." "And don't talk to him." "They'll write something anyway." "I want to ask him not to." "Try anyway." " You trying will just confirm it." " I doubt that." "Say I'll be there in 15, I want to call my wife first." "See you later." "Here..." "It all stops here." "The curve rises and rises, and suddenly it's all over." "Autumn 2008." " Over?" " What happened then?" "Big money circulating, loads of potential sales, and then..." "Within two weeks Haugen is gone, Lied starts on his own." "What happened?" " You know who died in 2008?" " Lots of people." "Why?" "He's pursuing his brother again." " What do you know?" " That there's a Cup Final." "Rosenborg in a 4-4-2 formation." "There's your front page." "I think the only thing you're working on is what happened to your brother." " Admit that, and say what you know." " Why?" "You don't believe in me anyway." "You owe me this, Peter." "That I don't end up in the shit again." "Haugen had some connection to Hjorth." "The Minister of Justice?" "I promised Yvonne Haugen to keep that to myself until I know more." "If you burn me, you'll lose my confidence." " He knows about the Minister." " I'll be right there." "HOME SWEET HOME" " Peter?" " Where's Andreas?" " What's going on?" " Somebody broke into my flat." "But..." "Someone broke in." "Someone's after Andreas." "It was me." "Why are you stalking me and Mum?" "Stop thinking I'm after your mother." "I promised your father to look after you, that's all I've done." "Then he breaks into my flat and assaults me." "Scares me with a photo covered in blood." "No, this wasn't me." "I didn't do this to the photo." "I didn't assault you." "I don't know who's behind this, Eva, but..." "It has something to do with your father." "And you." "Come." "Let me show you something." "It's creepy, taking photos of us." "I promised to look after you." " It's still creepy." " I kept my promise for five years." "You can call it whatever you want." "Hello, Vibeke, how are you?" "I've been thinking." "I'd like to help." "It could help me." " We can give it another go." " No, I've had enough." "I'll come by tomorrow morning." "I'm here with some...sources." "Okay." "Bye." "In some countries, this coffee would be a criminal offence." "And in some countries, people are polite." "I want to go there." "Don't shine the torch on the windows." "Someone might call the police." "This is nonsense." "It's all mumbo-jumbo." "Let's just see what he wants, end of story." "Your dad gave this painting to the church one year before his death." "What has this got to do with Andreas?" "The sacrifice of Abraham." "So you couldn't leave it alone?" "How long have you known the painting is of Andreas?" "That's remarkable." "Why would he give that to me?" "The date..." "Was it added later?" "That's not a date, it's a reference to the Bible." "Genesis 22:10." ""Abraham stretched out his hand to slay his son." ""But the Lord's Angel shouted:" "'Do not hurt the boy!" "'" ""'Now I know that you obey God."'" "The biggest Christian sacrifice is that of your own son." "22.10... it's a date." "It's the date when Daniel and Åge Haugen killed themselves." "It was painted on one year before..." " And you knew nothing?" " This is nothing." "Look at this." "I was assaulted an hour ago." "You call that nothing?" "What do you know?" "I think somebody threatened to kill Andreas and also Haugen's son." " Can you please go somewhere else." " It's not illegal to park here." "It's sacred ground, I'm the priest, and you're not wanted." "Unless you came here to pray." "In which case, mobiles are unnecessary." " It's a public place." " Be off with you, or come and pray." "Or shall I etch the Commandments here?" "One: "Thou shalt have no other god but me."" " Fuck!" " Are you profaning here, you bastard!" " We'll have to find you a hotel." " There is another option." "Tore?" "You've got a big house." "Can Andreas stay with you?" "Let's go." "Time you two got to know each other." " You don't know him either." " Okay..." "In that case I might stay there as well."