
A North Zealand police inspector and a Copenhagen journalist follow separate leads towards chilling secrets when a notorious con artist is implicated in a murder.

When a woman is found dead in a wealthy neighbourhood, Chief Inspector Morten Stark takes charge of the case and journalist Nora Sand digs into the prime suspect's dubious background

Tom resurfaces and undergoes a lengthy interrogation from Morten and Andreas. In the newsroom, Nora and her team piece together Tom's troubling history of deception. Is his confession another lie?

Nora closes in on Tom's true identity. A vital lead puts Mathilde and Bo's investigation ahead of Morten's. And with no hard evidence to work with, Morten takes a dangerous gamble.

Morten releases Tom under close surveillance, hoping he'll incriminate himself. Tom promptly slips the net but makes a surprise reappearance at the Globalt newsroom, demanding to be put on camera.