The Absent One

The Absent One (Fasandræberne, 2014) is a Danish crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. This second Department Q case sends detective Carl Mørck back into a file everyone else called solved.

In 1994, two teenage twins were found brutally murdered in a country house. A reclusive local confessed, the case was buried, and that was that. Two decades later a broken former officer hands Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and his partner Assad (Fares Fares) a different story: the killing was the work of several people, all of them graduates of an elite boarding school. They are powerful adults now, with reputations to protect, and they will kill again before they let the past resurface.

Director Mikkel Nørgaard adapts Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestseller into pure Nordic noir — cold, brutal, with no soft lighting on its villains. Pilou Asbæk is especially loathsome as the ringleader. If bleak Scandinavian procedurals like The Snowman are your thing, this one delivers without flinching. Stream The Absent One (2014) online on iFILM.