Den som dræber - Fanget af mørket: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

17-year old Julie has been missing for six months without a trace and police investigator Jan is desperate to give her mother answers. When Jan finds the remains of a girl the similar age and suddenly another girl is kidnapped, he calls in profiler Louise to help understand the mind of the killer. Under the pressure to save the two kidnapped girls, Jan and Louise must predict the killers next move, while every decision they make escalates the manhunt which has severe consequences for the fate of the two girls. In order to save the girls, they must embark on a journey into the darkest and most extreme part of the human mind and face the consequences that arise. Jan and Louise constantly move around in the thrilling periphery of the murderer's view, but as the case progresses the murderer's mind and actions become more and more desperate, and it becomes unclear if there is only one killer out there.

Series details

• Title: Den som dræber - Fanget af mørket
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Danish
• Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2019-03-01
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Prime Video
• Typical episode runtime: 44 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 41176
• IMDb ID: tt9466596
• TVDB ID: 360369

Cast and credited roles

• Kenneth M. Christensen — Jan Michelsen
• Natalie Madueño — Louise Bergstein
• Mads Riisom — Anders Kjeldsen
• Peter Mygind — Møller Thomsen 'MT'
• Uffe Rørbæk Madsen — Dennis Højbjerg
• Tessa Hoder — Emma Holst
• Signe Egholm Olsen — Stine Velin

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-03-01; final listed air date 2019-04-12; episode order: 8.
• Season 2: premiered 2021-03-28; final listed air date 2021-05-09; episode order: 8.
• Season 3: premiered 2023-01-08; final listed air date 2023-02-19; episode order: 8.
• Season 4: premiered 2024-09-27; final listed air date 2024-09-27; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

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