trade of blood diamonds<\/a>. Martin frequently travels through Oslo and is linked to the distinctive pentagram-shaped diamonds that appear at the crime scenes. As the investigation intensifies, the evidence begins to point toward him as the serial killer: Martin\u2019s criminal background, his access to the diamonds, and his repeated presence in Oslo during the murders make him appear to be the perfect suspect.<\/p>\nBut Harry realizes that something about the murders feels artificial. The murders follow the pentagram pattern too precisely, almost as if someone deliberately designed them to point toward Martin.<\/p>\n
Then, the case takes a disturbing turn when police receive a finger in the mail that belongs to Lisbeth Barli, who disappeared earlier in the season. When investigators find biological material under Lisbeth\u2019s fingernails containing fennel seeds, they trace it to the restaurant Theatercaf\u00e9en, where her husband, the respected theater director Willy Barli, had eaten on the day she disappeared. Because fennel seeds take around 12 hours to pass through the digestive system, Harry realizes what Willy must have done. After killing Lisbeth, Willy cut off her finger and hid it inside his rectum before the police searched his apartment with a dog after he reported his wife missing.<\/p>\n
That explains how the seeds ended up under Lisbeth\u2019s fingernails\u2014and why the finger was later mailed to the police. For Harry, this becomes the technical proof linking Willy directly to Lisbeth\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n
Why did Willy Barli commit the murders?<\/p>\n
Harry secretly enters Willy Barli\u2019s apartment and accuses him of being responsible for the deaths of Marius Veland, Camilla Loen, Lisbeth Barli, and Barbara Svendssen, and Willy ends up telling the truth. Years earlier, during their honeymoon in Prague, Willy discovered that Lisbeth had been having an affair with Martin Aminov. Although he initially believed the relationship had ended, he later found letters proving that they were still in contact.<\/p>\n
The letters revealed that Lisbeth had secretly been sending money to Martin and was planning to leave her husband. Consumed by jealousy and humiliation, Willy murdered Lisbeth. But instead of simply covering up the crime, he devised a far more elaborate revenge plan.<\/p>\n
Pretending to be a buyer, Willy contacted Martin and arranged for him to deliver weapons and pentagram-shaped diamonds to Oslo every five days. This ensured that Martin would repeatedly travel to the city during the same period when the murders were taking place.<\/p>\n
While Martin unknowingly supplied the diamonds, Willy carried out the killings himself while disguised as a bike courier. By staging the crime scenes with severed fingers and pentagram diamonds, Willy constructed the image of a ritualistic serial killer and used Martin as a scapegoat.<\/p>\n
What happened to Lisbeth\u2019s body?<\/p>\n
When Harry confronts him, Willy admits that he kept Lisbeth’s body hidden inside his apartment the entire time. In a chilling attempt to preserve her body, he sealed it inside an air mattress filled with alcohol.<\/p>\n
Harry discovers another body: Lisbeth\u2019s sister Toya was in Willy’s apartment and found out what happened. Willy killed her too. Before Harry can arrest him, Willy flees onto the balcony of his apartment. In the chaos that follows, he falls from the building to his death. The Bike Courier Killer\u2019s reign of terror has ended\u2014but Harry\u2019s biggest threat is still alive.<\/p>\n
What is the connection between Tom Waaler and Martin Aminov?<\/p>\n
Throughout the series, Harry suspects that his colleague Captain Tom Waaler is hiding something. Tom appears to have connections to several criminal operations, and he even does business with arms smuggler Martin.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s operating in sort of a gray zone where he\u2019s able to justify for himself that what he\u2019s doing is morally right, even though the means to get there isn\u2019t exactly by the book,\u201d says Karlsen.<\/p>\n
In the later episodes, it becomes clear that Tom has been working as part of a larger criminal organization. This secret network orchestrates gang conflicts to eliminate rivals and profits from the resulting arms sales. Harry\u2019s relentless pursuit of the truth makes him a liability. Which is why Tom ultimately decides to remove him and Martin permanently.<\/p>\n
Why does Tom Waaler kidnap Oleg?<\/p>\n
In the final episode, Tom kidnaps Oleg Fauke, the young son of Harry\u2019s girlfriend Rakel, in order to force Harry into a confrontation. Earlier, Harry had arranged for Martin to be temporarily released from prison so they could prove that the arms smuggler was not the serial killer and expose Tom\u2019s corruption.<\/p>\n
Tom’s plan is simple: lure Harry to a secluded location, kill both him and Martin, and stage the scene so that it appears Harry murdered the smuggler before taking his own life. This way, Tom would get rid of two problems and prevent them from revealing anything. But Harry anticipates the trap. He arranges their meeting in a university dormitory hallway where surveillance cameras are still installed from the serial killer investigation, hoping to capture proof of Tom\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n
During the violent confrontation that follows, Harry manages to handcuff Tom to the elevator door as it begins descending. Tom\u2019s arm becomes trapped in the door frame and is severed as the elevator moves, leaving him to bleed to death. With Tom dead, Harry rescues Oleg and escapes the trap alongside Martin, who after returns to prison.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth Harry and Tom are three-dimensional. They don\u2019t always do the right thing, and sometimes they justify the wrong reasons for what they\u2019re doing. Harry isn\u2019t an easy guy to connect with, but he does make wrong choices. At the end of the day, you still feel that Tom is a bad guy and Harry is our hero. He\u2019s not a poster-boy hero, but he has a core in him that makes you root for him,\u201d says Karlsen.<\/p>\n
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How does Detective Hole end?<\/p>\n
In a secret meeting held after Tom\u2019s death, two masked figures gather to discuss the future of their organization. When the leader removes her mask, the audience discovers that it is Agnes Sj\u00f8lid\u2014one of Harry\u2019s own superiors inside the police department.<\/p>\n
The revelation confirms that corruption runs far deeper than even Harry knows. Tom was only one member of a larger network embedded within the institution meant to uphold the law. The group decides to remain quiet for now, waiting for the right moment to resume their operations.<\/p>\n
In a post-credits scene, Harry is searching for answers about Tom\u2019s past. He travels to the neighborhood where Tom grew up and speaks with a local shop owner known as Solo, whom Tom had previously described as his best friend. Solo, however, tells Harry that the two were never friends. Instead, he recalls Tom as a lonely child who grew up in a troubled household, with an abusive father and a difficult upbringing. The conversation also hints at lingering questions surrounding the suspicious death of Tom\u2019s father years earlier. <\/p>\n
Karlsen notes that Tom mirrors Harry in many ways. \u201cThey\u2019ve sort of fallen down on different sides of the knife\u2019s edge they\u2019re balancing on, but it could have been the other way around. A lot of the things that Harry does will make the audience go \u2018oh no, don\u2019t do that,\u2019 and then he does it anyway, and the same goes for Tom. They\u2019re more similar than your first impression of them, and in another world they probably could have been friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
The brief exchange leaves Harry with the sense that he never fully understood the man he had been chasing\u2014and suggests that the story behind Tom Waaler may be even more complicated than it first appeared. \u201cThe fact that Harry tries to figure out what happened to Tom after his death, and why he became the way he is, is also his way of trying to understand himself and how someone like Tom could have gone in a totally different direction and had a great career,\u201d says Karlsen.<\/p>\n
Will there be a second season?<\/p>\n
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