Below the Surface

Below the Surface ·Gidseltagningen

An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.

Crime

Drama

Below the Surface ·Gidseltagningen

An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.

Crime

Drama

Created By: Kasper Barfoed
First Aired on: Apr 02, 2017
Popularity: 16.8525: 32 votes
Networks: (DK)
(DE)
Production: SAM Productions (DK)Kanal 5 (DK)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 2 seasons, 16 episodes

Season 1

On a rainy October morning, fifteen Danes have their lives turned upside down when the metro train they are travelling on is hijacked by unknown perpetrators, who will threaten to kill each of them, one by one, if their demands aren’t met. This is the beginning of a historic hostage situation that, over the course of one single week,...

Aired 8 years ago

8 Episodes

Episode 1Episode 144 min
Three heavily armed men hijack a metro train taking fifteen hostages. The police terror unit TTF is activated with Philip Norgaard as a leading commander.
Episode 2Episode 244 min
Naja, the journalist who was fired for her unauthorized interview, starts a national fundraising campaign to raise the ransom for the hostages.
Episode 3Episode 344 min
Philip is planning an armed response to the first hostage execution. As the mission is risky it creates a rift in the negotiating team.
Episode 4Episode 444 min
TTF is getting closer to the hostage taker’s identity while Naja gets second thoughts with regards to facilitating the fundraising campaign, but then she meets Jonas, the hostage Leon’s son.
Episode 5Episode 544 min
Distress spreads among the hostages in the metro and they consider taking a stand. At TTF, Philip and Louise suspects that the wall with the photographs of Philip is not just about thorough prep-work.