The Bridge is back!!

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The Bridge is back on Saturday 4th January on BBC 4!
Only for a double bill though but better than nothing.

So what was 'the graduation'?

More trivia; do you remember in The Killing when Pernille goes to group therapy? She goes for coffee with "grieving dad"? I almost pooped with fear as "grieving dad" is played our own jens...i thought Pernille was a gonner!:)

Wasn't he referring to the plague in the plane which he did know about/

Did you notice that the psychiatrist who went to the prison with Martin, was Morten from the killing? He dyed his hair blond so he looked very odd, but was still recognisable.

Languages then, all the Swedes speak Swedish, all the Danes speak Danish and this is what would happend in real life, for example SAS employ a mix of danes Swedes and norweigian cabincrew who all speak their own languages but they all understand eachother with a bit of practice and a trained ear. I think they all speak english for the operational bits and the pilots communicate in English too to rule out missunderstandigs. This would happend in the police too, if in doubt they would rephrase in english for clarity. I am swedish and occasionaly deal with danes and will sometimes swap to english if we both look confused!:) hope this clarifies the language. Kim Bodnia (martin) speaks really heavy Danish which I found hard to follow whilst Caroline and Pernille were both very clear.

Just holed myself for virtually the entire weekend to watch this. Just finished episode 9 and episode 10 is not on iPlayer!! I'm desperate to find out what happened.

Marrow that's what we said ! Why on earth weren't the poisons / deadly viruses / whatever kept in some kind of ultra-secure storage ?

Napoleon I was frantic this morning has Sky had failed to record it. I always watch Sunday morning so I am wide awake for subtitles.

Episode 10 was not on the iPlayer app on my iPad or the one which goes to the TV through the Wii. It was on the laptop though when I googled iPlayer so i just watched episode 10 on my laptop. Very strange.

HTH

For the discombobulated, I THINK this is what happened...

Oliver was running his own show, trying to spread the Plague across Europe, so that his DS could heroically release the antidote and save everyone. The graduation was releasing the plague on the plane.

Gertrude knew about this, and encouraged him to put an environmental front on it so that her boss would be pleased. But she meanwhile was planning her own terrorist activity, which was using Viktoria as a human bomb to wipe out the apathetic environment ministers.

Oliver didn't know about Gertrude's activity. Gertrude had to kill him because he was about to destroy her 'bomb' before she'd used her.

The two illnesses were different. Oliver had a plague; Gertrude had a much more complicated disease which altered things at a cellular level (allegedly) so the antidote wouldn't have worked on Viktoria/Pernille.

Good work stinking that helps!

Thanks Breeze. In the end I watched it on Blinkbox. Remembered I had £10 worth of free credit so I invested £1.89 of it so I didn't have to stay in suspense any longer!

Did Martin kill Jens?

I think he took the stuff to do it but Jens was already dead.

I think gertrud was just a tool, not a mastermind (or she would been caught, not shot at the end).

I think pernille was very well potrayed at the end. I might have cried

Ooooh Diddl, I like that theory.
Intention but not action - would be interesting to see how that affects his relationship with Saga.

Was anyone else expecting Rasmus to come to a sticky end? I was convinced that he would die in the course of his investigations.

Just caught up on the podcast thing and note that creator has corrected himself - series 3 will be shot from Sept 2014, shown in Sweden/Denmark in Sept 2015, so we may get it soon after (Jan 2016?).

He also confirms that Saga is not pregnant but just likes loosening her trousers.

I am ashamed to say we had friends round for drinks and said it was just from 7 - 9 - and that we had to strictly enforce it - they actually all left at 9 and I felt rotten (but relieved) and then sat on the edge of my seat for two hours - those last two episodes were brilliant, utterly brilliant.

I cried with Saga when it was all over with Jacob and she tried so hard to come to terms with that, and also when Mette told Martin she no longer loved him, and also when Saga told Martin that he was her only friend - that is why it is so brilliant, the personal and the professional mixed right up. I don't think Martin did kill Jens, I wonder if it will be some kind of 'test' of his friendship with Saga, after all, he could have dobbed her in for her 'crime' but didn't. And why did he bring the coffee cup back to the bin outside the hotel he was staying in? As an experienced cop, wouldn't he have hidden any evidence, or destroyed it? I couldnt believe that a deadly virus had been filed on an open shelf! .

Fabulous stuff. Not sure if the Salamader series advertised at the end will be as good, but will have to give it a try!! :)

that's salamander.
Tak.

thanks hrh, my brother and I were discussing the bridge earlier and he said there's a guy from cork in his office and a glaswegian and they've agreed to communicate by email!! We thought it was probably about that different (swedish and danish) like, you'd have to slide your ear in to the right 'gear' but once you had done that you've have to be a bit awkward not to understand. It's very frustrating not knowing the extent of the difference.

I'm surprised at how many people cannot hear the difference between Danish and Swedish. Admittedly I have the advantage of hearing Danish spoken a fair bit but I've always thought they sound different.

Well, I feel like I can now. Am I not deluding myself though? never been to Sweden, or Denmark. How could I tell the difference? but yet, by episode 9, I felt I could

So souljacker, would I be talking utter shite here if I said that Danish sounded a little bit more choppy and Swedish sounded a bit more lyrical? culchie vowels. that's what it sounds like to me. I went to school with a Swedish girl and I thought she was from the country, like, mayo or Sligo or somewhere, like cian egan. had no idea she was Swedish.

danish is with very soft completely without consonants.
mette = medde
martin rohde = mar'in roh'e

many describe it as swedish spoken with a hot potatoe in their mouth.

wow.

anybody else feel that they have to go and teach themselves a bit of Swedish in time for series three?