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Success, Failure and Violence
Lund is slowly approaching forty, divorced, with a teenage son and a new partner who wants to move back to his homeland Sweden and start a new family life. Although Lund is fond of these plans it won’t work out. A murder case in her homebase Copenhagen suddenly blocks all future plans and finally destroys them. Even if Lund at the beginning is halting once the thrill of the chase is present she is full on her case. Her private life goes down the drain – her new partner moves to Sweden alone, she suffers from another separation, her son moves to her ex-husband to live with his father and his new family.
Lund is a loner. So far her private life seems to be a disaster and a complete failure – no change on longterm view.
When there is a corpse you may be sure that it won’t be a case only concerned with this corpse. During the investigation more corpses will pile up. Lund has experienced a lot of murder during her years at the murder squad in Copenhagen, but sometimes she is deeply affected by a case e. g. when a young girl is brutally murdered or a woman is tortured and killed or the life of a little girl is at stake. These events encourage her to use all her power and wits to solve the case. At the end she is successful, but only from her personal point of view … Success and failure are close together. A success for Lund may be a failure viewed from other people involved who would have liked to bury some truths deeply.
The cases are complex. Lund touches politicians working on their election campaign and publishes facts doing damage to their careers. Also she makes a deep dive into the military world of Denmark confronting and challenging the government with state secrets which are leaked out – partly. Finally there is an abduction related to a brutal murder involving the head of one of the most powerful corporations of Denmark – also alerting and calling into action the government.
So Lund is moving on thin ice. She is snooping around in powerful circle of people with their very own agenda. Human life resp. caring for human lives isn’t of top priority for these people. Lund goes on warpath when realizing some background affairs. Her boss backs her up, but … he gets to know that there are other priorities – his boss talks to him because on higher levels of the police hierarchy and prosecution people are alerted up to some governmental departments.
In short once Lund solves the case, but is moved to another position in the organization far away from Copenhagen and her special field of action. She is ordered back when there is a crucial murder case …, but finally she vanishes … for her own good.
Influential people, if politicians, if tycoons, if secret service managers, always have their own interests and follow their own agenda regardless of human life and destinies. Success is essential for them and they are able to present even a failure as a success – mainly by just remaining silent about the truth or lying. Lung of course is not happy about this.
All over the cases there is violence. People are killed. They are hurt and killed. They are tortured and killed. People are beaten up and stabbed … There is a long list of violent acts during the series. It shouldn’t be denied that not only the evildoers use violence … also the involved parties like politicians and their aides and allies use violence whenever necessary from their point of view. Lund? Well also Lund uses violence up to killing someone even if out of the moment.
Lund isn’t alone … there are more detectives … there are also partners working with her. Unfortunately Lund likes to do her own thing and often just dashes off when something crosses her mind. Her partners … they get hurt, they get killed, they betray her somehow … There is not much happiness in any co-operation with Lund.
The series about Lund is extraordinary – although rather old. The amounts of violence, the mix up and interdependencies of police, prosecution and governmental departments, the activities of political parties and their leading figures, the dirty linen of anybody responsible for whatever is extraordinary and the result are corpses.