The Bridge 4!

[MrsFring]

Anyone else counting the hours 'til Friday? Saga banged up and stitched up for the murder of her evil mama; how will she cope? Come on Henrik, save our girl!

I am kind of hoping Astrid is Henrik's daughter but fear they were the first victims in this case. It all depends on who Tommy is and what is the timeline.

My husband also noticed Kevin using his legs when vomitting in the bin. I am now wondering if that was the purpose of that scene. The Bridge is clever with clues.

I have stayed away from wiki (thanks for the warning) and this week's preview.

I have a new theory. Tommy (and/or Kevin acting in his name) is not the perp, but Margarethe and Neail's PA is. This is because:-

1. We have another 3 hours to go so too soon for the scriptwriters to have given us the answer

1. The assistant had her wallet stolen, so did she also have the mobile that apparently got stolen at the same time?

1. The perp is killing people (and horses) using state-sanctioned methods of execution. Is that the act of someone who feels the criminal justice system wrongly punished them, or is it the act of someone who thinks that system let them (or their beloved) down by not punishing someone properly first time around and therefore managed to inflict further crimes, that ultimately affected the perp? I think the latter. I think someone very close to the murderer was killed by Tommy, and that Tommy had been free to kill that someone because previously he had been let off or inadequately punished for another crime. Had the state executed Tommy way back he would not have been free to kill the PA's relative/friend. She is now punishing the criminal justice system for failing to deal with Tommy properly.

I think Tommy himself may have been dispatched by the PA, using one of the other execution methods. I still think Tommy is Kevin's dad.

1. In the last series Emil the killer came out of virtually nowhere and turned out to be the killer, the PA in this series is equally obscure.

Of course none of the above explains the Sonning connections

Very, very interesting, @YouStacey!

I had wondered about that assistant. She serves no purpose at all and could well be hiding in plain sight. If she was the dead woman's assistant, would she even be needed now?

Re Tommy... we only know him because at the end of the last episode, Henrik mentioned his name - we hadn't heard of him until that point, had we?

Now that Saga has been chucked out of Henrik's house, I think she'll go all out to find his children for him. That will be her apology (I think) for the abortion.

it was definitely a woman who got her phone nicked!!! was it not in a handbag? This is all excellent detective work!!!

Just to recap - this is the phone that was stolen by one of the young girls, when the other pretended to be ill? It was taken out of a woman's handbag. Remind me what was on the phone? (I always feel that The Bridge has one too many storylines for my sanity!)

Hollow, if I've got this bit right in my head they stole the phone and then instead of selling it they gave it to Tariq as a thankyou for saving them from being attacked. The police had found out that Margrethe made a call to that number shortly before her death and were trying to trace it. Once they picked him up (because they knew that she'd taken an interest in his case in spite of her department deciding he had to be deported) and found he had the phone they thought it was proof that he was implicated in her death.

I agree that the scriptwriters like to test our mental faculties - there are lots of things that I just take on trust because they've always come good in the end!

It also had tracking software on it which tracked Margrethe Thormod....

There's a really interesting interview with the scriptwriters. They were talking about writing an 8-parter this time. They said that with a 10-parter, they save the last two episodes so that they're like a feature film. And then they start to write episode 1 and realise they're running out of things, so they use some of episode 2. That goes on until episode 8, when they realise they haven't got anything! They said that's always the episode that's full of fillers and red herrings. So when they had the chance of writing just 8 episodes, they thought "problem solved!"

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me! I remember with The Killing I had to keep notes - I should do that with The Bridge.

Well that information about the phone makes it less of a mystery if it is the PA's. I mean, it makes sense that Margrethe would call her (or someone else using M's phone), and, possibly, it makes sense that the PA could track her (at least, it's not as random as if it were a stranger's phone, M may have asked her too, possibly. I know I could have done with being able to track an old boss of mine!).

Did the PA report her phone being stolen, or just her wallet? If just her wallet then perhaps that means the stolen phone was a sleeper phone (is that what they call them?) which she was using?
Still trying to work out, if the PA dunnit, how the Sonnings and the stolen car fit in? Toby's wife knows Morgan's wife was connected to Margrethe; Toby's wife had access to the stolen car; she is the mother of Tommy's son (possibly). Therefore she has a reason to be angry with Tommy too - he introduced Kevin her son to the drugs that eventually crippled him. But how do PA and Toby's wife otherwise link up?

I'm sure the PA said she'd only had her purse stolen, nothing else, so maybe some subterfuge there?

Not sure PA and Toby's wife link up at all. Other than very tenuously via Margrethe?

The PA denied it was her phone and they couldn't find any of her finger prints on the phone. She could have been wearing gloves or someone put that phone in her bag. Maybe the husband did or someone else did it to set up the husband.

So it is the husband who is linked to Tommy and Margrethe was the innocent victim, like the horse and the twin brother. Taariq was a red herring.

Aaaargh I'm now totally confused!!!

I won't Google this in case I see a spoiler, but when Henrik's wife and children left, did they do so willingly, or were they kidnapped? If they went willingly, I can see they might well have ended up in that commune, which would mean the weird girl (Astrid?) could well be his daughter and her alter-ego could be his other daughter who'd died.

His wife's body was found quite recently, wasn't it? Where was it found - does anyone remember? Did she drown? (I'm thinking of the violent taxi-driver and how he met his end - it didn't look like that guy was new to shoving people in the river.)

I think at the end maybe Saga sacrifices her life to save Henrik's child/children. We're told there can't be any more series, so realistically Saga has to die. I had thought maybe she would drive off to another life elsewhere but that would mean we could have another series.

I'm DYING to know what happens!

I’m another one trying desperately not to google, but I’ve realised I’m not going to be able to watch the last episode until the Wednesday after! I’ll need to stay off the internet completely and not read any newspapers.

Henrik's wife was found buried. It was too decomposed to determine cause of death.

This series is very hard to watch at times.
Still hope it's a happy ending!
Thanks for warning about spoilers.

I agree with YouStacey, the scene at the baby party was like the wicked fairy turning up at Sleeping Beauty's christening!

I had to look it up and Henrik's wife had been buried in clay for 6 years, so it was 6 years ago that they disappeared.

But had she left of her own accord?

Does anyone here read The Guardian blog on this? There are some great comments on there (just as there are here!)

Someone there mentioned "back to the beginning" (from the song) on that site and wondered whether Martin was going to be involved... I found it unlikely really, but keep thinking about it now.

Usually I do - some great contributions - but if it's really the final series I don't want to risk having some clever clogs pipe up with spoilers.

uff. My poor friend's Mum is Danish and has seen it, and keeps forgetting which series she is talking about when discussing it with my friend. It's a matter of time before she ruins it for my friend.....

Are there spoilers on this thread please?