Below the Surface

Synopsis

An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.

First Air Date: 2017-04-02

Last Air Date: 2019-05-13

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 16

Created By: Kasper Barfoed

Networks: Kanal 5, ZDFneo

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Top Cast

Johannes Lassen as Philip Nørgaard
Kasper Leisner as Ebbe Møller
Flemming Enevold as Hans Hejndorf
Kenneth M. Christensen as Daniel Cramer
Alexandre Willaume as S.P.
Peder Thomas Pedersen as Simon Clausen
Esben Dalgaard Andersen as Esben Garnov
Paprika Steen as Naja Toft
Sara Hjort Ditlevsen as Louise Falck
Simon Derksen as Charlie

Seasons

Season 1 (2017)

On a rainy October morning, fifteen Danes have their lives turned upside down when the metro train they are travelling on is hijacked by unknown perpetrators, who will threaten to kill each of them, one by one, if their demands aren’t met. This is the beginning of a historic hostage situation that, over the course of one single week,...

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (2017-04-02)

Three heavily armed men hijack a metro train taking fifteen hostages. The police terror unit TTF is activated with Philip Norgaard as a leading commander.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (2017-04-02)

Naja, the journalist who was fired for her unauthorized interview, starts a national fundraising campaign to raise the ransom for the hostages.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (2017-04-09)

Philip is planning an armed response to the first hostage execution. As the mission is risky it creates a rift in the negotiating team.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (2017-04-16)

TTF is getting closer to the hostage taker’s identity while Naja gets second thoughts with regards to facilitating the fundraising campaign, but then she meets Jonas, the hostage Leon’s son.
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (2017-04-23)

Distress spreads among the hostages in the metro and they consider taking a stand. At TTF, Philip and Louise suspects that the wall with the photographs of Philip is not just about thorough prep-work.
Ep. 6: Episode 6 (2017-04-30)

With the hostage Bodil just killed by the hostage takers, the police’s work keeps growing. TTF’s investigation leads them to sources in the Danish military and they seem to be close to a breakthrough.
Ep. 7: Episode 7 (2017-05-07)

Philip learns the identity of the main hostage taker and is choked about his personal involvement in the case that leaves a role for Naja to play as well.
Ep. 8: Episode 8 (2017-05-14)

Philip goes down into the metro himself hoping to free the last three remaining hostages and is confronted by the man he thought was dead.