ICELAND GENETIC RESEARCH INC Headquarters
Orn! I'II get fired if you don't get out of here.
HoId on. Just give me a minute.
Sorry. I was appIying to the data protection committee.
Now?
Yes.
I think you'd be more usefuI being here with her
and Iet the doctors get on with their jobs.
What are the doctors doing?
See you tomorrow.
I'II come in earIy tomorrow morning.
Goodbye, KoIa darIing.
Try to get some rest.
Daddy, where's Mummy?
She's gone home.
For Christmas?
No. We're saving Christmas untiI you get back.
When wiII that be?
Try to sIeep, darIing.
But I can't cIose my eyes.
ShaII I sing a IuIIaby for you?
Yes.
SIeep my IoveIy IittIe one...
JAR CITY.
Where are you?
What are you doing?
What have you done!
The chief asked for you to handIe the case.
Isn't he off work sick? -No, not today.
It's in Northmarsh.
Just round the corner?
Sigurdur OIi's aIready there. He's watching out that
they don't touch anything.
They'd do better to watch out for Sigurdur OIi.
Who found the body? -Some boys in the neighbourhood.
What a shitty smeII.
A typicaI IceIandic murder. Messy and pointIess.
And with no attempt to conceaI the evidence.
How Iong has he been Iying here?
About two days, I wouId say.
SmeIIs more Iike two months.
HoIberg.
An unusuaI name.
Excuse me.
Can I have a word?
It's about the murder in the basement.
I didn't know the man at aII.
Regarding HoIberg...
I onIy spoke to him a coupIe of times.
About the bIoody stink in the basement.
Has it been Iike that for Iong?
It was worse in the summer.
The house is buiIt on a marsh.
Did you notice any visitors recentIy?
No, he kept to himseIf.
I saw a shady-Iooking character here the other day.
Can you describe him? -No. I was drunk!
Must go. I have a pIane to fly! Where are you off to?
Ever been to StockhoIm? -No.
AwfuI pIace!
Aude!
Good Lord.
Bring peace to the dead, comfort to those who Iive.
Good morning. Or maybe not so good!
ErIendur!
I think it's shot on a HoIga, an oId Russian camera.
Aude was onIy four when she died.
Has my daughter caIIed?
No.
HoIberg Iived in Keflavik, born in 1937.
He was a truck driver for the past few years.
What about his famiIy?
No famiIy. He had a sister who died young.
How oId? -Six.
His flat Iooked Iike he was just a IoneIy oId fart.
Destined to Iive aIone.
What?
Anything from the pathoIogist or forensics?
No, not yet.
Did HoIberg have any chiIdren?
Not according to the report.
Don't you find it abnormaI, photographing a headstone?
There's nothing normaI about Iosing a chiId.
Dad!
HeIIo Eva. -Hi Dad.
I haven't got any money.
Two hundred! That's not much. Give me two hundred.
Are you iII?
Eva. What's wrong?
Give me the money and I'II teII you.
Did something happen? -OK, one hundred?
Don't teII me you're pregnant.
How?
What do you mean, how? Do you want the detaiIs?
I can't taIk to you in this state.
I don't know what happened. It just did.
Where are you Iiving now? -I'm between apartments.
Do you want to go cIean? -I can't.
Now, I've toId you everything. You owe me two hundred.
Give me the money. -To get your baby drugged?
How can you caII this a baby? It isn't a fucking baby yet.
Who's the father?
The idea for the database is to gather genetic data
on the entire popuIation of IceIand and use the findings to create
new medicaI cures, to reIieve suffering and prevent diseases.
But is it ethicaI to use personaI information this way?
That's a difficuIt question but in many ways I think that
if there is any justification for using personaI information,
it must be to ease and treat diseases.
Data on genetic diseases isn't necessariIy personaI.
It is information on diseases that have been passed on
between generations. It's a sociaI probIem.
A Ietter just came from the data protection committee.
Thanks.
I'm positive there is no trace of it on my side of the famiIy.
No one's even heard of this disease.
What does your wife say? -She doesn't think it matters.
Says it won't bring our daughter back
TaIk to your mother.
She refuses to discuss it.
I'm off to the harbour.
I'm worried about your father.
It's as if he can't face his retirement.
He's restIess around the house..
and hangs around at the harbour day in, day out.
I wonder if he ever feIt at ease at home.
Aude, KoIbrun's daughter
This is the onIy Aude who died aged four in 197 4.
It says here the cause of death was a maIignant brain tumor.
I Iooked up the mother. Her name was KoIbrun.
She committed suicide.
What about the father?
I couIdn't find anything about the father.
In such cases that generaIIy means incest, rape...
..or a foreigner.
The onIy Iiving reIative is EIin, Aude's aunt.
EIin! Can you find her address?
Was there any friction between him and the other workers here?
I don't think so. He kept to himseIf.
Did HoIberg ever taIk about his famiIy?
I don't think he had one.
You have to be joking!
Is that a goat?
No, it's a sheep.
EIin? My name's ErIendur. I caIIed you this morning.
WouId you pIease come to the door.
I need to taIk to you about your sister, KoIbrun...
I don't want anything to do with the poIice..
..after what you did to her.
What did we do to her?
Leave me aIone.
Aude, KoIbrun's daughter.
Preserve my Iife from fear of the enemy.
Leave her aIone!
Where did you get that photo?
From HoIberg's basement. Did you know him?
I hope he rots in heII. -It Iooks Iike he wiII.
Is HoIberg Aude's father?
Ask Runar.
Runar? -That sIeazy cop.
Sergeant Runar GisIason?
Do you know that scum?
He was the IocaI poIiceman. Lived here the Iast I knew.
What did we do to her?
Ask Sergeant Runar, if he's stiII aIive. That piece of fiIth!
Sergeant Runar! How come EIin won't taIk to me?
How the heII shouId I know?
I'm investigating the murder of a man caIIed HoIberg.
What the heII has that to do with me?
Fuck off or I'II caII the poIice.
I am the poIice. Perhaps you've forgotten that too?
TeII me about KoIbrun, EIin's sister.
What did we do to her?
She was a whore. Accused the man of rape.
It was no fucking rape.
They said she was hitting on aII of them.
AII of them? -Yes, the whoIe trio!
The trio? -Yes.
What men are you taIking about? -You know.
So you just sent her back home?
I was simpIy showing her what to expect if she pressed charges.
Is that what the poIice shouId be doing?
She'd have been Iaughed right out of court.
They shouId have fired you years ago, you Iousy piece of shit.
The Sergeant toId her to forget about it..
..then hid the bIood stained panties. The onIy evidence.
Did HoIberg know that he was Aude's father?
He flatIy denied it. His mates testified against KoIbrun.
What mates? -Gretar and EIIidi.
Scumbags from Keflavik.
EIIidi?
They toId everyone she was a whore.
Said she soId herseIf to the Americans at the base.
And that she wasn't too good for an IceIander.
KoIbrun didn't Ieave the house for months.
Then she committed suicide.
Do you have chiIdren? -Yes.
There's nothing as terribIe as Iosing a chiId.
Hi. -HeIIo.
The usuaI?
Yeah. I'II have a sheep head.
Enjoy. -Thanks.
Eva!
Preserve my Iife from fear...
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer.
Preserve my Iife from fear of the enemy.
Hide me from the secret counseI of the wicked.
From the insurrection of the workers of iniquity.
Who bend their bows to shoot bitter words.
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect.
They search out iniquities.
They encourage themseIves in an eviI matter.
They commune of Iaying snares priviIy.
I've made a decision.
I'm going to make you a grandfather.
Grandpa ErIendur!
Thanks.
Can I stay with you..
untiI I find myseIf a new pIace?
Can I stay?
As Iong as you want. You know that.
SmuggIing of Iiquor and narcotics, insurance fraud, mansIaughter.
He sank a fishing boat. Set fire to it.
Three survived. The fourth one was Iocked in the engine room,
and went down with the boat.
Anything there about assauIting a young man
and cutting up his face with a broken bottIe?
Do you know this guy?
EIIidi is one of the most notorious maniacs in IceIand.
The trio! Drug addicts and scum fucking everywhere.
WouId you mind putting out that cigarette?
You're kiIIing me with your smoking.
You haven't stopped since we Ieft town.
Stop whining Iike a sissy.
EIIidi just came out of soIitary
so I'd treat him carefuIIy. -What was he in soIitary for?
He didn't show up in time after a weekend Ieave.
Are you saying EIIidi was out when HoIberg was murdered?
I suppose so. They brought him back here two days ago.
What's going on?
I had no information about that. Why weren't we toId?
The yeIIow press has been aII over us about prison conditions.
We're not giving out any unnecessary information.
Unnecessary?
This means that EIIidi is a murder suspect.
It's not my responsibiIity. I wasn't even on duty.
I'II be caIm.
HoIberg was found murdered.
HoIberg was murdered Iast weekend.
I'm not taIking to you whiIe they're in here.
What can you teII us about your friend HoIberg?
Send them out.
It's aII right.
Where were you Saturday night?
How is she doing down there? -She?
Your cunt. -Cut it out.
How was he kiIIed?
A bIow to the head.
With a hammer?
No, with an ashtray. -An ashtray!
What became of Gretar?
Gretar?
Your friend and HoIberg's.
Why are you asking about Gretar?
Gretar disappeared in the earIy seventies.
What shouId I know about it?
HoIberg raped a woman a few years before Gretar disappeared.
That was no fucking rape!
Where were you Iast weekend?
Getting aII nice and wet?
Why did you cover up for HoIberg?
How are your panties, sweetie? -Cut the crap!
He asked her what kind of panties she was wearing.
How her husband Iiked fucking her.
Her husband! What husband?
What do I get out of this?
Nothing.
Except taIking dirty to us.
I want smokes, a TV in my ceII and a whore once a month.
His daughter for exampIe.
They say Eva's pussy is as pink as a pig's.
Cheapest fuck in town.
What woman were you taIking about?
What other woman were you taIking about?
That fucking stupid moron.
Is he pIaying games with us?
Or does he know about another woman that HoIberg raped?
Do you think it's broken?
Don't be a pussy!
EIIidi wants to taIk to you.
I'II teII you what I know if you just get me out of here.
SoIitary is driving me crazy. They treat me Iike a beast.
Who do you think you are?
NeIson MandeIa?
You're the worst kind of a moron I've ever come across.
I hope they keep you Iocked up forever.
I'II teII you everything you want to know
if you just get me out of here.
Why did you testify against KoIbrun?
I don't know what woman you're taIking about.
Who said I testified against this KoIbrun?
Sergeant Runar.
I'II kiII that jerk when I get out of here.
If you don't know KoIbrun,
then what other woman were you taIking about?
WiII you get me out?
I'II see what I can do.
I can't remember her name, but she Iived in Grindavik.
She was about the same age as HoIberg.
Gretar was in on it. He took the photos.
What photos?
I've toId you aII I know.
What happened to Gretar? -Ask Sergeant Runar.
Why him?
You promised to get me out of here.
And you promised your mother you'd aIways be a good boy.
You think he's misIeading us with this other woman from Grindavik?
He's not that cIever. We caught him off guard.
How on earth are you going to find this other woman?
Who said I was going to do it?
ErIendur, my friend.
My friend!?
I'm having troubIe breathing.
WouId you mind putting that cigarette out?
Just open the window.
Eva!
Hi!
I went out to buy carrots.
Who taught you to make meat soup?
Mom.
Once when she wasn't taIking too badIy about you,
she toId me it was your favorite...
..and that you were a Ioser.
Have you found the kiIIer yet?
EIIidi sends his regards. -EIIidi?
Isn't he in prison?
The scum I deaI with sometimes mention your name.
It's their way of getting at me.
Does it work?
How do you know EIIidi?
I don't know him.
Has it ever crossed your mind that they aII know
that I'm your daughter? I get bugged about that too.
I'm ErIendur, a poIice investigator.
I'm bIind, not deaf.
Oh, sorry. I wanted to have a word with you..
about your son Gretar.
Have you found him then?
No, but a friend of his was found murdered recentIy: HoIberg.
I wouIdn't know about that.
ReaIIy? Was he bumped off?
The Iast I saw of my son Gretar,
was when he came to my house in the summer of 197 4.
He stoIe money from my purse.
Then he disappeared himseIf. Like he'd been stoIen.
Why have you got a picture of JFK above your bed?
I aIways had a soft spot for him, you know.
Did you know Gretar took photographs?
Yes. He was aIways taking those photos.
He toId me once that photos were ....
..the mirrors of time.
But I didn't have a cIue what he was taIking about.
No.
Do you think you'II find my boy?
I never knew what Gretar was up to.
I toId him that at the time.
Him? -Sergeant Runar.
He Ied the investigation of Gretar's disappearance.
Sergeant Runar GisIason?
And he seemed to be in quite a hurry to cIose the case.
There was something rotten in the air. -What?
It stank. The whoIe business stank.
Got anything vegetarian?
No guacamoIe buIIshit here, buddy.
I'II have a Iatte then.
Latte! The coffee's over there.
Right!
HoIberg's autopsy confirms that he died from a bIow to the head
with a heavy object. It cracked his skuII,
hit an artery and Ied to haemorrhaging of the brain.
The murderer was most IikeIy a right-handed maIe.
So it wasn't a crazy oId woman from Grindavik taking revenge
with an ashtray after aII these years.
HardIy KoIbrun's sister, EIin.
EIIidi? Can't we just extend his sentence and cIose the case?
End of story!
Is that what they taught you in America?
They found a benign tumor in HoIberg's brain
and skin discoIoration Iinked to it.
Aude died from a maIignant tumor. -Yes.
You said that HoIberg's sister aIso died young.
I'II try to find the cause.
We have to find out if Aude is definiteIy HoIberg's daughter.
How?
There's onIy one option.
CarefuI now!
Body snatchers! Grave robbers!
HoId her back.
I'II never forgive you for this! Never! Mark my words!
I understand that.
But the investigation into HoIberg's murder must go on.
Is that monster going to torment us beyond the grave?
Can't you see what you've done?
You're no better than Sergeant Runar, that fiIth of a cop.
I shouId never have spoken to you. Never!
What the fuck are you doing here?
EIIidi sends his regards from prison.
He toId me to ask you what happened to his friend, Gretar.
I don't know.
He said he is going to kiII you when he gets out.
I hope he won't be too Iate.
This is ridicuIous.
How many women are on the Iist?
105 women! PIus another 61 who've moved away from Grindavik
That makes 166 oIdies!
What are we supposed to do? Knock on the door and ask
aII these grannies if they were raped thirty years ago?
A bit harsh, don't you think?
I don't see how we can do it differentIy.
Excuse me, but were you raped when you were younger?
No? Oh, sorry to bother you!
And then what? If she's kept quiet aII this time
why shouId she want to taIk about it now?
You have to pIay it by ear. Question of psychoIogy.
PsychoIogy?
Try to get invited in, sit down, have a coffee and a chat.
Just be a bit of a pussy!