The Snowman Page #4

Synopsis: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Tomas Alfredson
Production: Universal Studios
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
23
Rotten Tomatoes:
8%
R
Year:
2017
119 min
$6,658,715
Website
1,498 Views


But perhaps she was there

for an abortion?

Happy birthday to you

Well, then, I'll come down there

with a f***ing warrant myself.

Happy birthday,

dear Swensson

Happy birthday to you

- Rafto?

- Idiot.

Incompetent sons of...

- Oi!

- Rafto?

Rafto!

What's he doing?

Get back.

Get back in. Get back in.

Happy birthday to you

Idiot!

I heard he was a great detective.

He was a suicidal maniac.

They were going to

suspend him, anyway.

They found stuff in his drawers.

Items he'd stolen from

various crime scenes.

Is this him?

Where'd you get this?

From a colleague.

Yes, that's him.

He had this cabin

up on the coast.

He used to get up there

to get smashed.

He was probably drunk

when he shot himself.

They look like coffee beans.

Maybe he was trying

to sober up after all.

You didn't check?

The cabin was locked

from the inside.

And he looked like that

when they found him.

There wasn't anything

to check.

Did he have any family?

Wife who left him a year

before he killed himself. Uh...

I think there was a daughter.

You know where is now?

Not a clue.

Is the cabin still there?

What are you doing to my

f***ing gun, you idiot?

Where's Harry?

In Bergen.

- Hello?

- Mr. Hole?

This is Harry Hole's phone.

Can I speak to him?

He's not here right now, but

I can take the message for him.

Right, okay. Uh, this is Rebecca,

NRS at Telenor.

We picked up a signal from

a missing person's phone.

Case number MP2.

Um, I don't have any files

in front of me. Um, who's that?

I'll check...

Birte Becker.

- Wha... is it transmitting now?

- Yeah.

Just got it in minutes ago.

Yeah, but, w-wait,

is it moving right now?

No.

I'll send you the coordinates.

No, just, w-what's the address?

Uh, Parkway 1, 0139 Oslo.

You sure that's correct?

Yes, Parkway 1.

Hey, are you all right?

This is Birte Becker.

Please leave a message.

Wednesday, unless you...

Yes?

- In his own garage?

- Yeah.

Ah, the great Harry Hole.

How many bodies?

Birte Becker and Ms. Dahl.

Where's Katrine?

Suspended.

She got a call telling her

they traced the Becker phone

and didn't think to tell anyone.

I asked you where she was.

That's not my problem right now.

He shot himself straight on.

How'd he do that with a shotgun?

It's too long, you have to angle it.

Pellet marks should be

up there somewhere.

Luckily, we have experts

to determine that.

You sure he was alone?

The garage door was closed.

One set of footprints.

We found two bodies in the house

and Birte Becker's phone.

It was a suicide.

Case closed.

Mathias, listen,

I have no idea where he's gone.

Yes, I've checked my messages,

he hasn't called.

Oh, well, how can you help?

You're at your bloody conference!

Can I keep this?

Can I keep this?

Yeah, sure.

She's not picking up.

Katrine!

Get off me!

Stop.

I guess congratulations are in order.

You know it wasn't that creep.

Vetlesen didn't commit suicide.

Someone killed him because

we got too close.

Like your father.

My father would never have

committed suicide.

He would never have

left me like that.

Get off me.

Get off me, get off me!

Get off me!

Get off me you f***ing drunk!

Get off.

Get off.

Yeah.

I'm a drunk.

Like your father.

Laila Aasen and Arve Stop

were having an affair...

and that's the last thing my father

was investigating before he got killed.

You broke in to Vetlesen's house

because you were afraid

I'd find out this was personal

and take you off the case.

Vetlesen was his pimp.

And they were both in Bergen

when the murders started.

I know how much you want this,

but you can't force the pieces to fit.

I called the Gellion clinic

and Vetlesen wasn't even working

the day he was supposed

to meet Birte Becker.

They found two dead bodies in his

house and Birte Becker's phone.

Isn't that convenient, then?

So Hagen has his killer

and Arve Stop's safe.

And no questions are asked.

Do you actually think

he killed them?

I don't know.

I don't think either of us

do for sure.

Maybe this will bring your balls back.

I'm gonna need your weapon.

It's right there

in front of you.

Why did he call you Cloudberry?

Because I liked

cloudberry jam with ice cream.

Oleg ran away again.

It doesn't really matter if

we win or lose this bid tonight.

What matters most is that...

we celebrate the way

this has brought us together.

And use that energy to restore

the values that make Noway great.

And so, it doesn't matter if uh...

56 minutes and 33 seconds

from now, but who's counting...

if the World Cup goes to

Beijing or Denver or Montreal.

Because I believe in my heart...

tonight...

Oslo has already won.

I tried calling.

I thought he might be with you.

Oh.

He's okay.

He's uh, he's at a friend's house.

Just didn't bother calling me.

What did you argue about?

He doesn't want to leave the city.

I thought that change

would be good for him.

Well, for me too.

Where?

Um, Mathias has a house uh,

up in Telemark.

And because he consults

all over the place...

it's not too inconvenient.

I saw him the other day,

he didn't mention anything.

Is that really what you want?

I don't know what I want.

I miss you.

My head says 50/50,

but in my heart, 100%.

Thank you for coming.

Mr. Stop?

Mr. Stop, I'm sorry, I um...

I just want to thank you.

I really liked your speech.

I found it very... very moving.

Well, you see, I uh...

I was an orphan myself, so...

Well, it doesn't have to be

a disadvantage, young lady.

It can motivate us, too.

Oh.

Well, yes.

I work in Bergen with-

with young people in a care center

and I know how-

how very busy you are.

But if ever you're

ever in the city...

I started my career in Bergen.

Write to me.

I'll see what I can do.

Yes, I'm so sorry, I know...

I know people are waiting

to talk to you. Thank you.

- Not at all.

- Oh.

Yes.

Mr. Stop wanted me to let you know

how much he enjoyed your conversation.

- Oh.

- It's um, it's room 472.

He'll be free after

the announcement

if there's anything else

you'd like to ask him.

Thank you.

Mathias.

Where are you?

I just tried calling you

on the landline.

I'm at Harry's.

Yeah?

Because I phoned Eric's parents

and Oleg wasn't there either, so...

No, no. I found him.

He was with another friend.

Are you okay?

Yes, I-I'm fine now.

Mathias...

Eh, I've got to run now to one

of those boring dinners, but...

I'll call you in the morning

when I'm back. Okay?

Sh*t.

You couldn't have asked

another doctor?

What?

Two minutes,

ladies and gentlemen.

Hello?

Hello?

And to all our viewers

around the world, thank you...

No. No!

Stop. No!

No!

Of Beijing, Denver, Oslo

and Montreal.

No!

There can only be one winner.

The 15th Winter Sports

World Cup...

has been awarded to...

Two, one...

Oslo.

Oslo! Oslo! Oslo!

Congrats to us all.

Hoo-hoo.

That's the last

of her files to download.

There's nothing after that.

Get me a list of

all the phone calls

and appointments she made

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Peter Straughan

Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughan's talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories. His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band "The Honest Johns". He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 1980s and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song "Killer", which appeared on the CD album North of London, a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts. Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. O'Connor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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