The episode starts in Oslo, where a group of
friends are enjoying their time near the sea.
As one of them gets ready to dive into the
water, he is taken aback by a mysterious light
coming from underneath. Soon after, three people
emerge from the water, looking terrified. The
group immediately rescues the 3 and contacts the
police. On the other hand, we are introduced to
Lars Haaland, a police officer, and his wife,
who have recently purchased a new apartment
in the city center. As soon as Lars signs the
purchase agreement, he gets information about
the incident in the sea and proceeds to the scene.
Upon reaching there, Lars notices that the victims
are cold, so he gives them some warm blankets.
He also believes the victims are Icelandic,
so he summons for a translator, only to discover
that they speak Old Norse. When the translator
asks where they have come from, they reply
that they are from the past. Hearing this,
Lars believes that the victims are mentally
ill, but when he turns on the television,
he sees news about the same incident
happening all over the world.
Following this, the scene fast forwards
to a few years, where Lars wakes up in his
apartment. A radio in the background reports that
the ‘beforeigners’ have become a common phenomenon
throughout the world. Beforeigners are people from
different time periods, who suddenly appear in the
21st century. Just last year, over 13,000 of these
cases were reported by the BBC. Meanwhile, Lars
appears to be taking a secret medicine in the form
of eye drops. He is also revealed to be divorced,
and his wife, Marie, now has a new husband named
Gregers. Lars’s daughter, Ingrid, lives with her
mother but she pays him frequent visits. One day,
Lars learns of a female beforeigner who has washed
up dead on the shore of Tjuvholmen. He, along
with his team, arrives at the scene immediately
and registers the body in their database before
contacting the ambulance. The body appears to be
the year’s 12th floater. While investigating the
body, Lars notices a prehistoric tattoo on her
neck and petechiae on her hip, as well as on her
eyelids. The case appears to be different because
the forensic believes the cause of death is
strangulation rather than a regular drowning one.
In the police station, the head officer; Harald,
hires a police officer with a multi-temporal
background named Alfhildr Enginsdottir. Later,
the chief summons Lars and Harald to discuss the
appointment of a senior detective to handle the
ongoing beforeigner death investigation. Lars
decides to take the lead on the investigation
but Harald refuses because he is currently on
sick leave for chronic drowsiness. Furthermore,
beforeigner cases have already been heavily
criticized and they cannot afford to appoint
the senior detective who is on sick leave. After
a bit of thinking, the chief comes up with an idea
to pair Lars with Alfhildr. Lars believes
that Alfhildr has recently joined and is
unqualified for the case but he is
powerless to change the chief’s decision.
Soon after, Lars and Alfhildr go to the port
police station to find out who ‘arrived’ with
the victim, having the prehistoric tattoo.
Upon reaching there, they meet with officers;
Jeppe and David and ask them if the victim was
part of a group, to which they respond no. Jeppe
suggests they go inside the port for further
investigation, so they head there and meet with
the other ‘arrivals’. After a bit of talking,
Lars displays the dead girl’s photograph and
inquires if they have any information about her.
One of the victims recognizes her and confesses
to seeing her in the water. She also claims
that Hafgufa, a sea monster with glowing eyes,
tried to capture her. Hearing this, Alfhildr
believes her description, but Lars does not.
At night, Lars goes to a suspicious slaughterhouse
and gets his eye drops. After returning home,
he investigates the Tjuvholmen case while Alfhildr
contacts him to inform him of the Hafgufa theory.
Although he still doesn’t believe in the
theory, he asks her to prepare everything
she finds on Hafgufa and present it to the
team the following day. On the other hand,
Ingrid intends to visit Russebuss,
a traditional Norwegian high school
celebration, but Marie and Gregers forbid
her, claiming that she is still a minor.
The following day at the police station, Alfhildr
shows a picture of the sea monster to the team,
which makes everyone laugh. Harald then suggests
that she stick to the present scientific world.
Later, Alfhildr discovers that a man named Tore
Hund, whom she has been looking for a long time,
is in a restaurant, so she rushes there alone.
Lars notices her departure and follows her. After
a while, Alfhildr approaches Tore and inquires
whether he recognizes her. When Tore declines,
she reminds him of the time
when they met 1007 years ago,
and when he forced himself on her,
in a pigpen. Saying this much,
Alfhildr starts attacking him. Shortly
after, Lars arrives and pulls her back,
prompting Tore to flee. He then warns to report
her to higher authorities as the police department
cannot keep a person who is out of control.
Hearing this, Alfhildr reveals that she knows
about his secret medications and addresses
him as a temp addict, leaving Lars speechless.
The same night, Lars returns home and finds
Ingrid on the balcony. He asks why she isn’t
with her mom, to which she replies that her mother
has forbidden her from participating in Russebuss
because the cover name is too crude. After
learning about this, Lars agrees to provide her
with the funds she requires, allowing her to take
part in it. Elsewhere, we see two men in a boat,
capturing a woman who emerges from
the middle of the sea after a flash.
The scene then shifts to the year 1031 at
the Finnmarksvidda Plateau where Alfhildr
approaches a small tent in search
of Tore. Upon entering the tent,
she notices a blind elderly woman
sitting beside a fire. Alfhildr
questions her about Tore’s whereabouts,
to which she responds that he once arrived
in search of the lake with multiple lights.
Alfhidlr then asks Tore’s precise location,
claiming that he is everything to her. The old
woman chuckles and says that Tore is a ladies’ man
and that she is not the first one to look for him.
Following that, the elderly woman picks up a tool,
slices Alfhildr’s palm, sips her blood and
begins her occult ritual. After a while she
reveals that Tore is in a place where houses are
as tall as mountains and cities shine like stars.
Back in the present, Lars, who is at home,
discovers that the image of the sea monster
is strikingly similar to that of a fishing
trawl bag. Just then, a boy rushes to his door,
seeking help for his father. Lars goes outside
to check and sees the boy’s father being hung
on the stairwell by several men. Wasting
no time, he rushes to stop the men, and as
soon as they realize that Lars is a cop, they
flee the scene. After saying the boy’s father,
Lars inquires about those men, to which he replies
that they are Bohemians who claim sole authority
over ‘drop selling’. Lars doesn’t understand any
of it, since the man is from a prehistoric time.
The next day at the police station, Lars informs
Alfhildr that the picture of the sea monster
looks like a trawl bag. He believes that the
victim’s hip bruises are caused by the trawl bag.
He then instructs her to print all trawl sales
and look for buyers who aren’t in the industry.
After a while, she comes across a buyer
company named Cro Magnon Security.
Elsewhere, we see a nude man named Navn, who is
hunting a bunny in the woods. After the hunt, he
returns home and cracks jokes with his wife. Navn
then heads to the kitchen and eats the raw bunny.
A few moments later, the same two men from the
boat arrive at Navn’s house, and start discussing
about the beforeign girls they captured from the
sea. Here, it is revealed that the men work for
Navn. After a bit of discussion, Navn directs
them to hide the girls in the Hovedoya barracks.
Meanwhile, Lars informs his coworker, Alex,
about the video footage which was recorded
near Hovedoya on the night of the murder.
He also asks that Alex locate additional
footage from the same website. Just then,
Marie and Gregers approach Lars and confront him
about allowing Ingrid to participate in Russebuss.
Marie believes that he has severely breached the
trust and decides to file a case against him.
On the other hand, Alfhildr receives a call
from the National Gallery, informing her that
the person in custody is willing to speak with
her. She then goes to the National Gallery,
where she notices a woman being handcuffed by
security. The woman is revealed to be none other
than Alfhildr’s elder sister. Alfhildr inquires
about the reason for her arrest, to which she
responds that she ripped a false drawing of
Tore, worth thousands of dollars. Expectedly,
this upsets Alfhildr, and she refuses to release
her sister, but the latter reminds her of the
past, when she saved her in Bjarmaland. Because
of this, Alfhildr approaches the Gallery’ owners
and persuades them to withdraw their complaint,
claiming that the woman in custody is intending
to sue for PTSD triggering. Soon after, the two
sisters go to a bar to celebrate their reunion.
At home, Lars is watching the CCTV footage of
Hovodeya that Alex sent him. A few moments later,
the man, whom he rescued earlier, arrives
at his place with various foods as a token
of gratitude. Lars invites the man and
his son inside and converses with them.
He inquires about the man’s wife, to which he
responds that she died on the way to the city,
causing him to be emotional.
Being the kind person that he is,
Lars tries to console the man, and even addresses
him as a friend. This makes the man happy,
as no one has ever called him a friend before.
During their conversation, Lars notices a tattoo
on the man’s hand and inquires about it. The man
simply responds that it represents the family.
Meanwhile, the two sisters proceed
to a dance bar, but on the way,
Alfhildr notices a Cro Magnon Security van and
decides to follow it. The van pulls over to a bar
and Navn’s two men enter. Inside, the two men
approach the bar owner and demand that all of
the girls they supplied be returned. Initially,
the owner refuses because his business will suffer
without the girls but the men threaten him with
Navn’s name, leaving him with no other options.
Outside, Alfhildr secretly photographs
the van, the men, and the beforeign girls.
The following day at work, Alfhildr shows
those pictures to her team and suspects that
the beforeign women, captured from the sea, are
being used as prostitutes and that the murder
is connected to it. Following this, Lars and
Alfhildr begin spying on the van. Elsewhere,
Navn’s wife throws a business party to celebrate
her blogging success. A few moments later,
Navn notices the bar owner approaching outside his
place and walks out to meet him. The owner demands
that the girls be returned or else the Bohemian
will take action against him. This enrages Navn
and he chokes the bar owner. However, when he
notices his wife on the balcony, he lets him go.
Meanwhile, Lars and Alfhildr
notice Navn’s men smuggling drugs,
and the latter asks if they should
apprehend them. Lars tells her to wait,
and the two follow the men to a
place where several beforeigner women
are apprehended. Taken aback, Lars immediately
decides to save the women. The officers then
chase after the perpetrators and after a bit of
back and forth, the bad guys are finally subdued.
While rescuing the victims, Lars notices the
exact tattoo on one of the beforeigners that
he saw on the man’s hand earlier. He tries to ask
the woman about the tattoo, but she is unable to
understand his language. Later at the police
station, Lars interrogates one of Navn’s men
but he doesn’t reveal anything. Lars then
summons the man he saved, along with his son,
to the police station and allows them to meet the
woman with the same tattoo. The woman appears to
be the man’s wife and they are all overjoyed
to be reunited. At night, Lars is working
late in the office and Alfhildr joins him. As
they watch the video footage, they discover
that the deceased girl of Tjuvholmen appears
beside the sea four hours before her death.
This shocks the duo as till now, they had believed
that the beforeigners only traveled from the past.
In the following scene, we see Tore, who
has surprisingly become a food delivery man.
On his way to his delivery, he is distracted by
a woman, causing him to fall off his bicycle.
He then goes to a nearby restroom to
clean up the ruined food. Simultaneously,
a cleaner named Skjalg enters and recognizes
Tore from the prehistoric world. However,
Tore pretends to be unaware of it and walks away.
On the other hand, Lars and Alfhildr go to the
forensic lab, where the forensic expert reveals
that the deceased girl is not a prehistorian.
Despite her best efforts to appear different,
she is a modern woman. Following this,
they go to the trans-temporal community,
believing that the victim has ties to it.
When they arrive, they are asked to leave
their electronic devices outside because
the residents are allergic to electricity.
Reluctantly, the duo place their laptops and
cell phones in a box and enter. While the two
are interrogating inside, a young lady retrieves
all of the case’s information from Lars’ laptop.
Later in the police station, the officers learn
about , so they decide to apprehend him before
he flees. Lars and Alfhildr are given pistols in
order to catch him. Meanwhile, Holger is preparing
to escape by diving into the sea but just then,
the police arrive and arrest him. Following this,
he is brought to the police station,
where Lars and Alfhildr question him
about the Tjuvholmen murder case but he appears
to have no idea. Despite this, he tells them
about Navn but before he can elaborate, he
falls asleep. After some time, Lars orders
Alfhildr to keep her gun in the locker. In the
process, Alfhildr accidentally pulls the trigger,
causing the bullet to strike Lars’ feet. With
this, he is rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, Ingrid is with her friend at home,
and the two are enjoying each other’s company.
Ingrid opens her father’s drawer
and reveals his secret eyedrops,
which intrigues her friend. As the two are
fooling around, Lars and Alfhildr arrive outside,
prompting them to quickly put away the eye drops.
However, when Ingrid goes to open the door,
her friend steals an eye drop bottle secretly.
Shortly after, Alfhildr prepares food for
everyone, and she quickly bonds with Ingrid and
her friend. While assisting Lars with the dishes,
Alfhildr inquires a personal question about the
service’s stance on intimate relations among
coworkers. She then reveals that she has been
communicating with the harbor cop, Jeppe. She
also claims that they’ve been sending each other
private photos, which surprises Lars. Meanwhile,
Ingrid and her friend are staring at them,
suspecting that there is something between them.
On the other hand, Skjalg approaches Alfhildr’s
sister; Nora, and tells her about Tore. Later,
Nora informs Alfhildr of the same but the latter
is skeptical that Tore will be working as a food
delivery man. The two sisters then decide to go to
his house to verify that is the person they know.
Surprisingly, he appears to be married
and has a child. When Tores meets them,
he mentions that he is suffering from memory
loss but they remind him of everything, claiming
to be Norse women. However, the conversation
scares Tore, so he threatens to call the cops,
forcing the sisters to leave. After this,
Alfhildr learns that her sister has cancer,
which breaks her heart. However, she
persuades Nora to get the treatment
and encourages her to fight it, claiming that
they are shieldmaidens and are born to fight.
The following day at work, Alfhildr informs Lars
that seven people in Oslo are registered as Navn
but one of them is a wealthy Prehistorian
who lives with his wife in a large house in
Holmenkollen. She also discloses that the two men
they apprehended on the island work for Navn. They
then go to Navn’s house and inquire if he knows
anything about the two men they have arrested.
As expected, he lies and says no. Lars knows that
he is lying, but he lacks evidence to back up his
claim and as a result, they leave. Meanwhile, the
same young lady who stole data from Lars’ laptop
is seen spying on them from afar. As soon as
they are gone, the lady approaches Navn and
reveals that she knows the woman his men fished
out of the sea. She attempts to blackmail him
in exchange for information, but he chokes her.
Surprisingly, she manages to counter-attack him,
saying that the jungle is not as
simple as he believes. Before leaving,
she says that she will suggest a
safer meeting place for conversation.
The next day, Lars visits Ingrid’s school to
discuss Marie’s disagreement about Ingrid’s
graduation celebration. He wants his daughter
to have a normal graduation. Ingrid also
sides with her father, allowing Lars to win
the discussion. Gregers, to their surprise,
appears to agree with Lars’ statement. On
the other hand, Nora meets with Tore once
more but the latter is still uninterested
in speaking with her. As soon as he leaves,
she notices an unknown car following Tore
and learns that he is in danger. Soon after,
she summons Alfhildr, and the two sisters set
out for Tore. Meanwhile, the men in the unknown
car lead Tore into an empty basement parking lot
and smack him with a rod. Tore asks who they are,
and they respond that they are Olaf the Stout’s
men. They are about to finish off Tore, but he
begs them to not do so. Tired of his whining,
the men decide to run him over instead. As Tore
lies on the floor, crying, he starts remembering
his past as a mighty warrior. Because of this,
he gets up with vengeance on his mind and beats
up the two thugs, causing them to flee. Soon,
the two sisters approach him, who asks them
to provide more information on Tore Hund.
Hearing this, the sisters finally realize
that Tore has actually lost his memory.
At the police station, the woman from the
trans-temporal community arrives with a man
who recognizes the deceased woman. He claims
that the woman came to his styling studio
to get her makeup done as she wanted to look
like a prehistorian. The man further reveals
that some days after her death, a man by the name
of Navn called him and inquired about the woman.
In the final scene, we see Navn on one of his
usual hunting trips. As he is after a rabbit,
a drone suddenly arrives and shoots him to death.
