Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Christian Toft.A disappointed Martin walks away, leaving an emotionally-drained Toft and Boe alone. Suddenly, Boe arrives and shoots and kills Tarzi, avenging Lars. A distraught Tarzi asks Toft to kill him, but Martin makes clear that he intends to use the vengeful assassin as an asset for years to come. They meet on the rooftop, but Al-Din dies from his wounds. Just in the nick of time, Toft and Boe realize what is happening and intervene, shooting Al-Din in the process.īoe calls Wold, who in turn calls Martin, who proposes a trade - Tarzi for Al-Din. Al-Din’s men fly a camera drone into the arena, intending to film their comrade’s suicide bombing. Toft follows Al-Din to the roof of the building, while Boe follows the others into the arena, where she spots one of them causing a distraction while another gets into a strategic location. They follow him to a bullfighting area, where he and several others splinter off into the ring and nearby building. They follow the truck, eventually stumbling across Al-Din himself in another. As they’re driving from the airport, they spot one of Al-Din’s tomato delivery trucks, and Toft deduces the connection.
The two fail to find leads in Brussels, but learn that Tarzi has been spotted in Almería and quickly change course for southern Spain. When a shocked Toft pushes back, Boe reveals intimate photos of the two together and an ultrasound, indicating she's carrying his child. Heartbroken, Alex reveals that she and Lars had been having an affair and he’d been intending to divorce Hanne and start a family with her. Along with Boe, who also wants to avenge Hansen, the two travel unsupervised to Brussels, but during the drive receive a phone call from Hansen’s wife Hanne that he has died in hospice. Tarzi travels to Almería and attempts to find Al-Din by torturing one of his underlings, but gets nothing.ĭespite being suspended, Toft remains resolute in finding Tarzi. They deduce that Al-Din intends to use a ferry to escape to friendly territory in North Africa, where he’ll be effectively untraceable. Tarzi manages to find several hidden cellphones in the apartment, from which Martin traces calls from a restaurant in Almería. He sends him first after Hares’ nephew in Copenhagen, but during the struggle the younger Hares breaks loose and throws himself to his death. Martin pressures a reluctant Tarzi into working on his behalf by threatening to reveal his murderous deeds to his children. Meanwhile, Tarzi and his family have been abducted by CIA agent Joe Martin, who has relentlessly pursued Al-Din ever since he killed five of his colleagues years earlier. Toft wants to pursue Tarzi to bring him to justice, but is suspended by his superior Detective Wold after he learns that Toft misplaced his service weapon, and is interrogated by internal affairs inspector Alex Boe. Tarzi’s victim, Farooq Hares, was one of Al-Din’s lieutenants, and Tarzi was trying to get to him. Al-Din, who smuggles weapons and explosives through a tomato importer based in Brussels, is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks which he films and edits before posting them online.
The police identify the assailant from fingerprints as Ezra Tarzi, a Libyan emigrant and former Special Forces operative whose parents had been killed by Salah Al-Din, an ISIS commander known as “Sheikh”. While Toft lies incapacitated, he sees three men come up and knock the assailant out before taking him away. Toft pursues the assailant across the rooftop, but both fall several stories.
The wounded Hansen tells Toft to give chase before losing consciousness.
Using a hidden knife, the assailant breaks free from his restraints and attacks Hansen, inadvertently cutting his throat. He takes Hansen’s and goes upstairs, only to find the apartment filled with firearms, plastic explosives, and a man lying dead with his throat slit and fingers removed. Hansen sends Toft upstairs to go check on the man’s wife, when Toft realizes he accidentally left his gun at home. Toft assumes he’s the domestic assailant and handcuffs him. When they arrive, they find a man trying to leave the building with blood on his shoes. Copenhagen police officers Christian Toft and Lars Hansen are sent to check out a reported domestic disturbance in an apartment.