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- Private detective Varg Veum and police inspector Hamre located in Bergen, Norway work closely together in solving crimes and murders. Showing us how cruel humans are.
- Follows Hero on his journey as he transforms from a fresh-faced and raw young man to a ruthless leader of man and match for the gods themselves.
- [season 1, episode 2]: "Tornerose" (original book title: "Tornerose sov i hundre år"): Private detective Varg Veum is in Copenhagen to retrieve the teenage girl Lisa who has run away from home and now earns a living as a prostitute in Copenhagen. As Varg Veum returns the girl to her parents the neighbors ask for his help to find their son who was also Lisa boyfriend. He had spent money on some unsuccessful investments in an attempt to pay back some drug money and is now missing. When his body turns up it sets up a string of family secrets that are revealed. It lasts 89 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 3]: "Din til døden." (original book title: "Din til døden."): A not very successful robbery against a horse racing venue and a mechanic with both a criminal record and a bad temper leads to murder, kidnapping and a stalker who does his best to be persuade his victim into becoming his girlfriend. It lasts 86 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 4]: "Falne engler." (original book title: Falne engler."): The suicide of a teenage girl dressed as an angel in a white dress brings out Lucifer in her grieving father. He is actually a policeman and a colleague of Hamre. As the avenging father kills several women dressed the same way as his daughter, Varg Veum and Hamre work together to solve the case and, by coincidence, one of the involved parties is actually one of Varg's youth friends. The teenager was mentally ill and had stopped her medical treatment but her father could not accept her death as suicide. It lasts 94 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 6]: "Begravde hunder." (loosely based on the book: "Begravde hunder biter ikke.": A right-wing nationalist party wants the political power in Norway if not internal strife, scandals and a bloody assassination get in the way first. The female front politician Marit Haug is known to the police as someone who often report people for either harassment or burglary. But no one really takes her seriously. At least not until more people die. It lasts 87 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 1]: "Skriften på veggen." (original book title: "Skriften på veggen."): The action in the first episode of season 2 takes place 6 years after season 1 ended. Varg Veum has cut his hair and quit his job as a private detective and now works as a teacher. His last case ended 6 years ago when we helped the police solve a murder which incarcerated Kniven. Now, he has been released and has gained a reputation as a writer, but he is still a dangerous man and Varg Veum needs to quit his job as a teacher and stop Kniven for doing further damage. It lasts for 85 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 1] "Bitre blomster" (original book title: "Bitre blomster"): Camilla Farang, 4 years old, has disappeared. Although Bergen's police are on the case, Camilla's mother hires private detective Varg Veum. The company Norrlon produces plastics and other toxic substances such as hydrocyanid acid also known as Zyclon B, which can be a very lucrative industry when you are willing to compromise the law. It lasts 91 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 2]: "Svarte får." (original book title: "Svarte får."): Varg Veum's mother-in-law is dying from cancer and her last wish is to see her younger daughter before she dies. Siren ran away when she was only a teenager and now lives a life as a drug prostitute using a hotel as her work place with the hotel maneger as her pimp. Varg Veum fulfills his mother-in-law's wish but Siren is shortly after that killed. Now Varg Veum in cooperation with Hamre needs to put an end to the hotel's working methods. It lasts for 85 minutes.
- [season 1, episode 5]: "Kvinnen i kjøleskabet." (original book title: "Kvinnen i kjøleskabet."): The international oil company VeriDrill asks Varg Veum to find one of their employees. It starts a hunt searching for the truth of why a man would steal business secrets from his own company and the true identity of the missing employee who to the very end is only partly retrieved. It lasts 86 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 2]: "Svarte får." (original book title: "Svarte får."): Varg Veum's mother-in-law is dying from cancer and her last wish is to see her younger daughter before she dies. Siren ran away when she was only a teenager and now lives a life as a drug prostitute using a hotel as her work place with the hotel maneger as her pimp. Varg Veum fulfills his mother-in-law's wish but Siren is shortly after that killed. Now Varg Veum in cooperation with Hamre needs to put an end to the hotel's working methods. It lasts for 85 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 4]: "I mørket er alle ulver grå." (orginal book title: "I mørket er alle ulver grå."]: One of Varg Veum's friends, a soldier, returns to Bergen after service in Afghanistan. He has got a new job as a security guard at the company Armakon, that produces weapons and bombs. The company's CEO's are some of his old war comrades but now they need to clean every obstacle away that before they can lounge Operation Phoenix. Norway has banned the sale of of them. Therefore, they blow themselves up so they can re-emerge in Hungary, which has not banned cluster bombs. The mission is called "Operation Phoenix". Varg Veum needs to travel to Hungary to prevent "Operation Phoenix". It lasts for 86 minutes.
- [season 2, episode 5]: "De døde har det godt.": Dead and/or abused illegal immigrants seeking refuge in Norway are not considered to human but only an excellent opportunity for making good money by a civilized society full of respectable citizen who are to occupied with being respectable to notice what it feels like to try surviving and often dying on the beneath the limits of respectability. It lasts 86 minutes and is not based on a book but only on the characters from the books.
- [season 2, episode 6]: "Kalde hjerter." (original book title: "Kalde hjerter") Varg Veum works on a case about drug trafficking in a prison. That has a direct link to his search for a missing sister and her hidden and also missing brother, since he was one of the involved parties in the drug trafficking until he escaped prison. Varg Veum and Hamre discover cats hung around the city. Hamre tells Varg that there has been more reports from old ladies who lost their cats. The dead cats eerily mimic victims of the Norwegian tradition "hitting the cat out of the barrel", where a barrel is hit until the bottom falls out. However, in this unsettling twist it seems as if the cats have been removed from their barrels and then hung up around town. Varg Veum becomes a father. It lasts 87 minutes.
- Hero must rescue the Oracle of Gaia from the Cyclops and bring her back to the temple so she may use her vision to shed light on his mysterious past. Athens is under siege by the Minoans and there is ongoing political unrest which spawns an assassination attempt on the Athenian King Aegeus.
- Hero and Oracle come across the genius inventor Daedalus on the run from King Minos. They discover the existence of the Ring of the Magi. Queen Medea learns of Hero's existence and dispatches warrior priests after him. King Aegeus's brother Pallas has a plan to usurp the throne which involves manipulating Prince Lykos.
- Hero makes his way into Athens. Lykos is starting to gain confidence but receives a blow when he discovers Hero's identity by chance. Oracle works her charms on Minos while convincing Daedalus that they must get into Athens ahead of the Minoans. Daedalus presents his war machine idea to Minos.
- Medea and Aegeus try to convince Hero to help them solve the riddle of the Lexicon and save Athens but Hero is not convinced of their motives. Lykos has no idea he is being used by Pallas and Xerxes to betray Medea. At the Minoan camp, Daedalus creates a diversion so Oracle can slip away and try to get into Athens.
- Hero, Oracle and Daedalus are captured and brought before King Minos and his daughter, Ariadne. Minos commands Daedalus to build a war machine to conquer Athens. Intrigued by Hero, Ariadne subjects him to her brand of seduction - involving torture. In Athens, Medea finds out that Hero has been taken prisoner, so she arranges for a rescue.
- Hero, Oracle and Daedalus narrowly escape capture by the Medea's warrior priests but they still have to find the Ring. Working with Pallas and using Lykos, Priest Xerxes convinces Medea to participate in a tribute to Apollo, but in reality it's a lethal trap for the Queen.
- Hero has agreed to work with Medea to solve the Lexicon. Medea discovers that Hero must complete a critical task they think must take place in the temple of Aphrodite but Hero is stunned by whom he finds. Medea is confronted by Chalciope who has come to reclaim the Ring of the Magi. Daedalus may finally have a secret weapon for Minos to break the siege.
- Medea is trapped and visited by two ghostly figures from her past. Hero has accomplished his first mysterious sacrifice and has to figure out the second which Medea believes involves Aegeus. The opened Tomb rolls out a thick fog that breaks down the separation between the living and the dead. Medea, Hero and Daedalus are visited by the ghosts of their loved ones.
- The Minoans invade Athens and take over the city. Hero, Oracle and Medea sneak back into the city to try save the Athenian family. A deal is struck with Minos which involves Hero confronting Chronos again. A manipulative Ariadne has both Hero and Oracle in her sight.
- Hero sets off to find the door to Olympus but Daedalus has inadvertently sent him to a dangerous place so Medea goes after Hero before it's too late. Oracle strikes a terrible deal with Minos while the noble Lykos tries to save his father.
- Medea makes a dangerous pack with the demon goddess Circe. Hero, Daedalus and Oracle must set aside their differences to help Medea control Circe long enough for them to find the door to Olympus. When they finally arrive, they are stunned by what they find.