More to the point, the reveal was brilliantly done. Vagn being unveiled as the killer provoked mixed reactions for me – slight disappointment that it was someone who'd looked a bit shifty from day one, coupled with relief that it was someone who made sense as the murderer. He presumably also saw off Leon, who Bengt's pathologist contact confirmed had come into contact with a shotgun before his apparent suicide. Vagn also killed Meyer, who simply blocked his escape route from the warehouse where he'd been hunting for the incriminating 10th grade picture. It was Vagn, the jilted boyfriend of Mette Hauge, who was responsible for the young woman's death 15 years ago, and bought her the black heart Nanna was clutching in her hand when she died – presumably pulled from round Vagn's neck. 'She was afraid, and I knew that you would never understand if she told you what had happened.' He drove her to the woods, chased her when she got away, and then left her to drown in the car because he was unable to kill her outright. Vagn took Hartmann's car keys from the flat, and kept Nanna on the concrete floor of the then unrenovated basement of the Birk Larsen house.

'I thought about you and Pernille and the boys and I knew that you would be upset about it,' he pleads before trying to excuse his actions: 'Sometimes you just can't tell what's going to happen.' Enraged by her relationship with 'a towelhead', he went to the flat to talk to her – but she wouldn't listen. Vagn, who thought of himself as a Birk Larsen, found out from Leon that Nanna was planning to leave with Amir. Just two misguided men who managed to convince themselves that their actions were justified that they were only helping the friend they worshipped.

There were no complicated political connections to untangle no new characters. Stop reading if you haven't seen the final episodes of the series Spoiler Alert: This blog is for people watching The Killing on BBC4 in the UK.

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