Season 2 of The Bridge ups the stakes, and the body count, as a shipwreck leads the international team of detectives to forge one hell of a partnership.
When an abandoned tanker ship crashes into the Øresund bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Onboard are five Swedish and Danish youths, chained below deck, unconscious. Investigating the incident is Scandinavia's oddest couple: Swedish detective Saga Norén, hampered by primitive social skills, and Martin Rohde from Denmark, still reeling from the death of his son. Theirs is a friendship born from having been through hell together on the job; adversity has given them grace for the other's weaknesses. More bizarre crimes follow the tanker incident and they discover they're up against a deranged activist group who will stop at nothing to convey their message, “The World is Bigger than Us.” As the body count escalates, Saga and Martin know that they're running out of time and that the next attack could result in the death of thousands.
This global television hit has inspired not one, but two remakes: an American version for FX that relocates the action to the US-Mexico border towns of El Paso and Juaréz, and an Anglo/French adaptation that begins with a murder in the Channel Tunnel.
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