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SMILLA: Fear and longing.

Fear of the truth, while we long to uncover it.

Uncover what lies beneath, in the shadows.

Be careful what you wish for.

Because one day it might find you.

RAHID: Smilla?

Are you OK?

You saw something.

I saw a face.

He could be anyone.

Sit down.

Do you think it was. .. Real?

He was there.

You don't chase a kid off a roof!

I mean...

Unless...

..he wanted something from the kid.

He took something from Isaiah.

No.

I think he tried...

..but he didn't get what he wanted.

I don't get it.

The recording.

It's a route, a kind of secret set of coordinates leading to...

..whatever's under the ice.

He didn't get what he wanted,

because I have it.

(HUMMING)

What the hell?

What are they looking for? I don't know.

(FOOTSTEPS AND MUFFLED VOICES UPSTAIRS)

They're up above.

(SIRENS APPROACH)

My floor.

Shit.

They're looking for you.

No.

Rahid, that's not real. I know.

(SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE) (FOOTSTEPS AND VOICES APPROACH)

MAN: Hallway clear! Moving forward!

We might have 20 seconds to make it

before they realise we're on the move.

Is that Isaiah's fob? Here.

Come on!

(ALARM WAILS)

MAN: Up the stairs! MAN: Keep on moving up.

It's clear!

Come on! Go!

What are you doing?

They're down the stairwell.

Come on! Move it!

(SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)

(DRONES HUM)

DRONE: All citizens must remain inside.

All citizens must remain inside.

Remain inside your homes. MAN: Clear!

You still got your phone on you?

All citizens must remain inside.

Remain inside your homes.

Where do we go?

Smilla, this is YOUR home town.

(MAN CALLS OUT INDISTINCTLY)

My dad? They'll be all over his place!

Let's go.

(DRONES HUM) color = #008000>MAN: All units on high alert!

(SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE)

It's a nice place.

My father and I spent the summers here when I was little.

I don't think he's been here since.

Good memories.

Memories.

You got a plan?

You ask a lot of questions.

Well...

..we could talk like human beings,

or we could just sit here in cold silence.

Maybe I prefer it that way. Maybe.

Or maybe you just think wrapping yourself in that icy armour

is protecting you from this thing called life.

I think I'm doing life just fine.

But thank you for the super-cool, shitty analysis.

I have a therapist. Do you?

Has he taught you how to make friends yet?

SHE doesn't TEACH me anything.

That's not how it works.

I've just been framed for the murder of an officer.

You think I care about making friends?

Where the fuck are yours, anyway?

Tunis.

I left them.

Why?

Is that where you grew up?

Where I was born.

I grew up in Germany.

Moved there when I was four.

My dad, he was considered a...

..foreigner with special skills, I guess.

Engineering.

I took after him.

You're an engineer?

Aeroplanes. Maintenance.

You've never spoken about Germany.

You've never spoken about Greenland.

I only know you were born there because of Juliane.

She knows nothing about me.

You ask a lot from others, Smilla.

And you give so little back.

I don't know if we would have come to Denmark...

..if my mother hadn't died.

She died?

I was expected to go from being the child of a hunter

to the child of a doctor, overnight.

I failed,

fell through the cracks, and...

..now I'm neither.

I went to boarding school in Copenhagen, and...

..suddenly, Greenlandic,

the language I knew until I was seven,

was forbidden.

Your father - he speaks Greenlandic?

He speaks a little Kalaallisut,

just enough to get by with me when I was very little.

And then my mum allowed me to learn his tongue, and...

..now I can barely remember hers.

It's a mess when you feel like you have to choose.

I think we all felt more German than Tunisian at one point.

One of my brothers, he forgot Tunisian.

But I never did.

You held on to that part of yourself.

Mm. I was 17.

My father had become a senior engineer.

And then, suddenly...

..new government.

They revoked our resident status.

They took my father's job and they sent us back to Tunis.

But we're not African.

We had North African passports, names...

..but we talked like Germans.

We didn't belong anywhere.

We were home, but...

..we were...

Outsiders.

I think the solar water heating still works.

No electricity, but there should be warm water.

What about you?

(SIREN WAILS IN DISTANCE)

Saudi Arabia, China and Russia

are all installed on their floors in the selected hotels.

Spain haven't landed yet, but they'll join France and Germany,

all in embassy houses.

So, you read the news? About the girl?

Hi, Asbjorn. Nice to see you too.

Yeah, I heard.

So it wasn't One Denmark.

You missed that one by the skin of your teeth, huh?

An officer dead because your little army can't control their feelings.

They're not my army.

You knew her, right?

The killer? Moritz Jaspersen's daughter?

He had her with an Inuk woman, a Greenlander.

We've met.

Can't say we're familiar.

Well, we're up by four points since the news broke.

Couldn't have paid for a clearer message.

Can't maintain our law and order

while discarding the values of our past.

Denmark created that woman, and now it's reaping the rewards.

(SHOWER RUNS)

(CLATTERING)

Asiaq.

"Where the hand meets the rock."

"Anersaat pinngortitaq tassani naapippaat."

Where the spirits meet nature.

2021.

This can is half as old as I am.

Think we'll survive?

I think we should blow out the candles.

KATJA: Karsten Tork. Yes.

He wants Prospectus chairman.

And he'll use Prospectus to endorse us.

He's the best positioned for it. There isn't anyone else.

And we need someone fast.

The energy leaders are all here. They're gonna want news.

I don't know. We took a leap allowing him to become majority.

So you've already taken half the risk.

Our safest bet right now is not to play safe anymore.

Look,

the company has been going through some very ropey months.

We've had a board whose values were at odds with the chairman.

We need someone who's tough

and who's willing to make the decisions

that Hansen fell off the cliff with,

and who isn't afraid to find us the energy we need.

Whatever the costs.

What does that mean?

Whoever takes over needs to be willing

to lead the company into Greenland.

We need to know.

If Tork gets government vote, our vote, he's in.

And he trusts me.

If you'll let me, I can persuade him to work more closely with us.

More closely than Hansen was ever going to.

He's our best chance of getting to what's under there.

Our best chance of protecting it against foreign aggressors.

What is it between you two?

(SIGHS)

Sweet. (CHUCKLES)

(INHALES DEEPLY)

Shockingly, men are, in fact, not my thing, Prime Minister.

We made a solemn promise to this country

to try and avert this disaster we've got coming.

We need to explore,

exploit whatever will help get us there.

If I need to lead your government in energy,

getting Prospectus into Greenland -

that's the direction I want us to go.

We have to.

(COMPUTER CHIMES)

I want to present this to the Energy Congress tomorrow.

So you're backing the sales of energy now?

Your campaign is riding on the opposite message.

You get that, right? I do.

But I think we're close.

I think we're close to a breakthrough that'll get us more than we need.

If we can do this, if...

..if Tork can really do this...

..the rest of the world will be begging.

And whatever the price we set, they will be buying.

There isn't a single voter out there

who'll complain if they've got endless energy,

and we will be padding our economy while they're keeping warm.

I don't like surprises, Katja.

The Prospectus vote was an hour ago.

I instructed Steen Guldfeldt

to place the government's vote at 10:00am.

Where did our vote go?

Johanna? Yes, sir?

Can you tell them to get the car out, please?

Certainly.

Asbjorn...

Prime Minister!

Tork.

Like you asked us to.

RAHID: You should sleep. I'll keep an eye out.

Where will you sleep?

On the floor.

Why?

Who do you trust?

What?

Who do you trust?

You said you left your family behind.

But I trust them.

Will you ever go back?

I don't know if I'm brave enough.

I don't know what home is anymore.

We learned what it was to live in a country where you have no say.

You can have hopes, dreams...

..but somebody else can crush them like that.

So can circumstances.

I thought it would be better in Tunisia.

Farez, one of my brothers, he got involved in politics.

Democratic resistance.

The elected government had been thrown out.

I remember...

..all I wanted was to be ordinary.

Go to school,

grow up,

get a job.

Then Farez was arrested.

Indefinitely.

I couldn't stay out of it anymore.

A bunch of us, we took to the streets.

Pushed back.

Maybe...

Maybe we pushed too hard.

No-one was supposed to be hurt.

Then we were hunted.

Who got hurt?

It shouldn't...

I ran.

I was the only one that got out.

The resistance helped me, and...

..I kept running.

I was Sidan Hadad all my life.

But I entered Denmark with a false identity...

..and I left Sidan behind in North Africa.

Who is Rahid Youseffi?

He's an illusion.

A shadow on the Danish register.

Look too deeply, and...

.. the illusion disappears.

Why did you tell me?

I don't know.

If you have to live a lie,

sometimes you need to touch the truth.

Even if it's just for a second.

I wanted to tell you who I am.

I don't want to lose myself.

I'm afraid, when I look in the mirror...

..that I don't know who's looking back.

What if I've shut him out for so long that he can't find his way?

Doesn't it ever frighten you?

That I've shut myself off?

You're running away, Smilla.

I'm not running.

You're running.

From Greenland.

Maybe from your hurt.

Stop.

I don't have a choice.

But you do. I don't.

Not anymore.

If they find you with me...

It won't be worse than if they find me without you.

I want to be here.

You shouldn't be alone tonight.

Goodnight.

(WIND HOWLS)

Rahid?!

Rahid?

(SCREAMS) No!

Cool.

Retro.

There are two recordings.

One's in East Greenlandic, the other's the translation.

Doesn't sound like a map.

Well, it is.

Is it really worth a little boy dying for?

Whatever's under there?

I don't know, Rahid.

And if I did, I wouldn't tell you.

So...

. .what about my papers?

In the making.

What's that mean?

Bureaucracy.

The wheels take time.

You're a mechanic, right?

I...I'm an engineer.

Thinking I could use your help on another job.

You understand what I had to do to get that?

That was your decision.

You wanted to buy yourself a new life.

You wanted the right to be legal in this country.

Now, you thought that was worth betraying your friend.

How do you fuck around so easily with your friends, Rahid?

I wouldn't sleep at night if I was you.

But then...

..I'm not you.

What?

Keep an eye on your phone, huh?

Time flies when time's not your own.

Fuck!

(DRONE CHIME SOUNDS)

(DRONE ANNOUNCEMENT PLAYS INDISTINCTLY)

DRONE: ..body cams at all times for the safety of the community.

Don't worry. This is offline.

Yeah, but even if it wasn't...

It wears off after two or three hours

but, until then, you're practically invisible.

Should be more than enough time for you to get to where you need to go.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

NEILSEN: Denmark is proud to be hosting

this year's United Worlds Energy Congress.

Now, we, of course, welcome Henrik Olesen,

representing the board of Prospectus-Norseline,

Denmark's only power supplier,

as I hand things over to Denmark's foremost voice on this subject

and our future Minister of Energy,

Katja Claussen.

Thank you, Prime Minister.

And thank you to all of you who have joined us in Denmark today.

No mean feat in these difficult times.

We have witnessed the global energy market

become extremely volatile during these last five years.

Power trade has become a new religion, if you will.

Decades ago, a weaker government

thought it wise to join the European Union. (CHUCKLES)

A ruinous, nearsighted mistake.

Like all of its states,

Denmark has been forced

to make so-called value-based power supply decisions,

which unfairly exclude some of your countries

as potential power suppliers, all on the grounds

of supposed and manufactured human rights violations.

This causes unnecessary power supply shortages

and state-controlled electricity rationing.

The Danes will not let this stand.

The DDA believes in the sovereignty of states and nations.

We will free Denmark from the EU's iron grip

and open ourselves up to more reliable partnerships.

The network we forge today is undoubtedly one of the most...

(THUNDER CRACKS LOUDLY)

Even God approves.

Ms Claussen?

COMPUTER VOICE: Sokolov, Alexander.

Thank you.

The video was flawless.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

Have you found her? I don't know.

Not yet, I don't think.

Your Prime Minister has become completely silent

concerning Greenland.

It's complicated.

The independence movement is picking up ground.

Any step we take up there, we have to be sensitive.

Asbjorn has agreed to move forward with the Prospectus plan,

but he wants Denmark solo.

You won't hear any official talk.

He's sharing nothing.

He's happy for you all to keep hoping.

I don't mind playing the game, but...

..I need movement - REAL movement.

Of course.

NEWSREADER: The police hunt for Smilla Jaspersen,

daughter of renowned and controversial Danish writer

Moritz Jaspersen, continues.

Officials have released a detailed holographic image of the suspect

based on eyewitness accounts and surveillance footage.

Drone squads with advanced facial recognition technology

are being deployed.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

What do you want, Karsten?

Answers.

To what?

Hm.

Life.

What are you talking about?

There was a child...

..two decades before the little boy, Isaiah Christensen.

A child just like him, in Greenland.

Don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about,

because I know you do.

Because you're one of the doctors

that performed tests on that child 20 years ago.

Who told you that? Hansen.

Hansen is dead.

Hansen is speaking FROM the dead.

There was a child exactly like Isaiah,

with the same ability to protect, the same ability to survive

utterly unaffected by what's under the ice.

That's bullshit.

I saw the letter you wrote David in his private files.

You're a veteran.

Of what? Of the ice.

Of its secrets.

I never cared about what's under there.

Oh? Why'd you keep the secrets so long?

What were you gonna do with them?

I told Hansen when he came back from the expedition

never to interfere with what he'll never understand.

Who was the child?

Go, or I'll make you go, Karsten.

Who was the child who was exactly like Isaiah?

Who had the same cell structure? color = #00FFFF>ISAIAH: We're the same.

The same ability to protect?

The same biology that I've taken from that little boy

to get me into the soul of that place

where no-one has been before?

Unless you have, Moritz.

Did you use the child to get to that place?

I did not.

Only two people had access to the biology that protects under the ice.

Used to be you and Hansen, and...

..now it's you and me.

Hansen didn't know anything about the cell structure,

until I told him, after he returned.

He was never going to capitalise on it.

And neither will I.

Then why did you test the child?

Because I needed to know if the power was real.

I should have known it would pave the way for maniacs like you.

Did it protect you long enough to get to what's under there?

Tell me what you know. No.

You know, Hansen kept your nasty little secret.

But he forgot...

..that one day a new chairman would come around

and he'd look in that safe,

and then you'd have to answer for what happened to that child.

I don't have to answer for anything.

I'm leaving Dronningen Harbour at 7:00pm tonight.

My crew, my icebreaker, were headed for Greenland, for the ice.

I pray that you didn't leave any secrets behind there.

Because, if you did...

..I'll find them.

(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)

How long have you been there?

That man...

Is everything OK?

What's his name?

Moritz?

Give us a moment?

Please?

Your face is all over the news. We have to deal with that.

He chased Isaiah off the roof.

You know that?

And now he's standing here.

In your house.

His name is Karsten Tork.

He's the new man at Prospectus Corporation.

How do you know him?

He, um...

We did some business -

a long time ago, when he was first starting out.

He was looking for an investor.

He. ..he was just a kid.

You're lying.

He's going there, isn't he?

The place David Hansen went to.

How does he know how to get there?

What is it they're all looking for?

Smilla... color = #FFFFFF>Just tell me the truth!

For once!

Am I the child?

The child he was talking about?

(DRONES HUM)

You bitch.

(DRONES HUM)

(CHIME SOUNDS)

DRONE: Smilla Jaspersen, place your hands on your head.

Failure to cooperate will result in an electric shock pulse.

(TONE SOUNDS) Smilla Jaspersen, place your hands on your head.

(DRONE BLEEPS, TRILLS)

Face unknown. Face unknown.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)

Karsten Tork is gone.

What are you saying? He set sail tonight.

He's heading towards the Arctic.

That can't be. Oh?

OLESEN: Well. ..well, it is.

I just got the call.

Well, it's too soon.

We were supposed to be part of it.

The government was supposed to be apprised of every detail, every...

We were supposed to have representatives on the team.

This is... He...he can't have.

The moment color = #00FFFF>the chairmanship was confirmed,

he ordered access to files and safes.

Staff report that Tork was seen

going through the safe early this morning.

The boat was supposed to get going half an hour ago.

This is...

You told me to go with this.

You said you had him under fucking control!

I do.

You'd better.

Or you'll be the first person

to be catapulted out of the cabinet before even being elected.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

Ah.

Are we on time?

The storm that is coming is making it difficult to leave.

Hasn't been like this in years.

Lucas says that we might have to... Captain Lucas is remarkable.

A coward who's brave enough to tell me I can't sail.

We leave tonight.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

MAN: Come over!

(CASE BEEPS)

(THUNDER CLASHES AND RUMBLES)

(WIND HOWLS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

MAN: And he called out with a mighty voice,

"Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great!

"She has become a dwelling place for demons,

"a haunt for every unclean spirit."

(THUNDER CLASHES)

For all nations have drunk the wine

of the passion of her sexual immorality,

and the merchants of the earth have grown rich

from the power of her luxurious living.

And another voice from heaven saying,

you'll hear of wars and rumours of wars.

See you're not alarmed...

.. for this must take place,

but the end it is not.

For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,

and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

(THUNDER RUMBLES AND CRACKS)

Then I saw a new heaven, and a new earth...

..for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.

(THUNDER BOOMS)

Everything you see is real.

It's the past,

it's the present,

it's the future.

Blessed are the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy.

Blessed are those who hear and who keep what's written in it.

For the time is near!

I'm the Lord...

..and I have spoken.

WOMAN: Copenhagen City Police.

I'm still holding for Chief Constable Holm.

This is Moritz Jaspersen.

He's available now. One moment.

RECORDING: Please hold the line.

(CHIME SOUNDS)

Please hold the line.

(CHIME SOUNDS)

Please hold the line.

Chief Constable Holm.

Is there any news? No.

Your daughter has disappeared.

She took to the darkness like a spirit.

We received unconfirmed reports

that she might be at Dronningen Harbour,

heading towards the dock area.

If you know where she's going,

then it's in your interest to speak now.

BENJA: What are you doing?

Moritz.

Where are you going?

Don't be here when I get back.

I tried to do what's right.

She's a criminal!

She's my child.

(DRONE HUMS)

DRONE: Restricted area - crew and staff only.

(MACHINERY CLANKS AND WHIRRS) (MEN CHATTER INDISTINCTLY)

Restricted area - crew and staff only.

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

ANE: Smilla! We have to get home!

(PANTS)

MAN: Move to the right! (MACHINE CLATTERS, WHIRRS)

Now, easy!

(DRONE HUMS)

Restricted area - crew and staff only.

(MACHINE WHIRRS)

SMILLA: What is a homegoing?

An opportunity to reconcile?

To understand the ghosts of the past?

Or is it a shattering of the delicate balance

between who we are...

..and what we left behind?

Every life contains within it

a potential for clarification.

The desire to understand

is an attempt to recapture something we've lost.

But it means facing your biggest fear.

There is only one path to fearlessness.

It's the one that leads into the mysterious centre of terror.

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