I’m taking a trip. You’re going to run things while I’m away. Lilyhammer s2e8: Ghosts ****** Frank to Torgeir
The return of Frankie the fixer. This is like a Sopranos episode. ibid. Ange
How would you feel if you got shot? Lilyhammer s3e1: Tiger Boy, Torgeir to Roar
I had a spiritual awakening. At first I turned to Islam for integrational purposes. ibid. Jan
A Norwegian was arrested in Brazil for drug smuggling. 38-year-old Roar Lien from Lillehammer was arrested this morning … Lilyhammer s3e2: Foreign Affairs, Brazilian television news
It’s important to be able to joke around about something as serious as murder. ibid. Jan
Nobody eats, nobody sleeps, nobody takes a fucking piss till my club comes back. Lilyhammer s3e3: Homecoming
I am just a completely ordinary killer. ibid. Jan
Here at The Flamingo we’re concerned with safety and the working environment. ibid. Torgeir to contractors
Frank: What’s going on here?
Torgeir: Workshop. To build the focus of our presentation group. Lilyhammer s3e4: The Mind is Like a Monkey
I, my friend, am the last guy you want to fuck with. ibid. Frank
Congratulations, you’ve just given birth to a nine-millimetre slug. Lilyhammer s3e5: Tommy, Frank to shot gangsta
Desperate measures are needed to wake Norway up. ibid. Jan
Fucking Millwall, you cunt. Lilyhammer s3e6: The Minstrel Boy, ghost
How am I supposed to react to the prospect of this pervert [lactophiliac] raising my kids? ibid. Frank to Sigrid
The Scream by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is one of the most famous and powerful images in art history. In the past twelve years it’s been the target of thieves not once but twice. Art of the Heist s1e4: The Search for the Scream, 2006
One version stolen in 1994 was recovered. But a decade later another Scream vanished when thieves walked into the Munch Museum in Oslo and ripped it from the walls along with a second masterpiece The Madonna. ibid.
August 22 2004 ... Two men got out and ran towards the entrance of the museum ... They brutally snatched them from the walls. ibid.
Norway: The discovery of the world’s oldest and best-preserved Viking ship built at the very beginning of the Viking era, it was buried as part of a royal funeral. Somehow the ship and its vast collection of burial treasures survived almost intact for a millennium before it was discovered intact in 1903. Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez s2e2: Vikings, BBC 2022
In the mid-1300s the Bubonic Plague wiped out nearly two-thirds of Norway’s population including most of its social elite. ibid.
The former police office Eirik Jensen … has been charged with smuggling several tons of hashish to Norway as well as corruption for several million krone. Mr Good Cop or Crook? I: Old-School Cop, TV news, Netflix 2022
He was closer to the criminals than he was to his own colleagues. ibid. investigator
21 years in prison … Everything is gone … Always on my mind, Why did it happen? ibid.
I’ve been a policeman for more than thirty years. And for most of that time in organised crime and narcotics. ibid.
I knew Eirik Jensen as a stable good colleague. ibid. head of narcotics
He may have been borderline but he was always on the right side. ibid. mum
Now it was time for us to roll up our sleeves and start delivering. ibid. Jensen
You won’t get anywhere if you don’t know who you’re dealing with … You have to be on the inside. ibid.
We’d actually managed to clean up properly. ibid. rozzer
This was the time Eirik Jensen starts to get awards. Mr Good Cop or Crook? II: Operation Silent
They were convinced I blew their cover but I didn’t. ibid. Jensen
Watching Jensen became a case of its own while the case against Cappelen [Jensen’s informant] continues. ibid. rozzer
I was confronted with allegations of smuggling hash and corruption. Mr Good Cop or Crook? III: The Connection, Jensen
Cappelen’s statement has one statement – to gain benefits for himself. ibid.
Drug smuggling? Never in my life. ibid. head rozzer
The verdict is unanimous … Sentenced to 21 years in prison. ibid.
Now I can prove Cappelen is lying. ibid.
It’s time for soul-searching for the Norwegian police after today’s historic verdict in the Oslo District Court. The court barely believed a word the former police commander Erik Jensen said. And he was sentenced to the harshest penalty under the law, 21 years in prison. Good Cop or Crook? IV: The Fall
I see that something is not right … [texts] do not match the time the hash came in … I wake up Eirik euphoric. ibid. wife investigates
There was almost nothing in the court documents that showed anything about where the hash came from, when it was smuggled, how it was smuggled, and that should make you think twice. That he is supposed to have smuggled such a large amount of drugs over such a long period of time with Jensen’s help without any evidence. ibid. brief
Smuggling: Not Guilty; Gross Corruption: Guilty. ibid.
I’m headed to Norway: it just under 780 miles from Basel to Bergen on a 24-hour drive if you fancy the road trip. Cruising with Jane McDonald at Christmas II: Norway
I’m here to explore Norway’s dramatic coast. From Bergen we make a couple of quick pit-stops at Alesund and Trondheim before officially entering the Arc Circle near Stamsund. We’ll then venture further north to picturesque Tromso, continue the coast via Honningsvag and conclude our Christmas cruise on the winter wonderland of Kirkenes. ibid.
Hurtigruten: There’s 216 cabins on board with a bakery, ice-cream bar, sauna and fitness room. And on decks there’s two hot tubs and a bar. ibid.
Norway, July 2011: A bomb rips through Oslo city centre killing 8 people. On an island 40 kilometres away over 500 teenagers are running for their lives: a lone gunman is methodically hunting them down. In a 3-hour terror spree, 77 people will die. Over 200 will be injured. Seconds from Disaster s6e1: Norway Massacre: I Was There
It’s now left to Norway’s security services to stop him on the day of the attack. ibid.