Unit One

Someone kidnaps a young boy on his ninth birthday while he is at the bakery; the ransom becomes complicated for his family.

A lawyer with a history of getting defendants to retract confessions uses the technique to exonerate a criminal the team previously investigated.

The owner of a chocolate factory is found murdered after a sex game goes wrong, raising questions about his several affairs with those in the factory.

A house burns down in a small town in the countryside north of Copenhagen; a woman dies in the fire and her eight-year-old daughter hovers on the verge of death; suspicion focuses on the husband.

A few local officers are on a routine operation when a frightened young girl approaches them: a tragedy is waiting in her apartment, and a shocking confession awaits.

The corpse of a child is discovered in a forest; everyone in Unit One is progressively more affected as the picture of the dreadful crime takes shape; LaCour goes off limits and is impossible to stop.

When the perpetrator of a boy's murder is found hanged, LaCour's fingerprints are discovered at the site; LaCour can't remember anything.