Little Emilie is kidnapped and Sarah Lund, teamed up with a new colleague (again) and an old love from Special Branche, take over the case. It appears to be connected to the death of a girl a few years back. The old case was filed as a suicide, but as the kidnapping investigation progresses, and the law enforcement team get led around their noses by the kidnapper, it turns out that the girl was murdered.
The kidnapper of Emilie, daughter of the CEO of the powerful Zeeland Cooperation that has close ties to the Prime Minister (yes, of course, politicians are involved in all this again), is the murdered girl's father. Lund and her troop are forced to investigate on both fronts now and get to the original killer before the kidnapper does.
Privately, Lund is still living by herself and her relationship with her son Mark is more strained than it has ever been. When she sees her son while she is supposed to deliver money to the kidnapper she realizes that he is about to become a father. This shocks her for a moment and she misses the train she was told to get on by the kidnapper. So, all is not well.
After she ends up in bed with her partner from Special Branche, she gets cornered by his wife, which doesn't improve the situation.
In the end, they save the little girl in the nick of time. When Lund realizes who the original killer of the kidnapper's daughter was, she also understands that she has no hard evidence against him and he is unlikely to ever be prosecuted for his crime, at which point she does the worst possible thing she can possibly do. She shoots him.
The season ends with Lund on a plane fleeing to - one assumes - Finland. One also assumes that this might be the end of the series.
7/10
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