04x02 - Closed walnut

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- Isn't deLillos his favorite band?
- Yeah.

Write one based on "Kokken Tor"
or "Neste sommer," you two.

Eron, check with Månefisken.
A male choir could be cool.

{\an8}What about a gift? Wine, maybe?

{\an8}Not wine. He quit drinking after
Modum, the mental health clinic.

{\an8}- Totally?
- We need a marzipan cake.

{\an8}What the hell is he doing here?

{\an8}Didn't he meet with
Child Protection Services?

{\an8}I think so.

{\an8}Sit down. We're talking
about the Social Workers' Union.

{\an8}Okay. We need someone at AKAN
for the substance abuse side of it.

{\an8}- Madjid, is that something you could...
- Yes.

{\an8}- Hey.
- Hey!

{\an8}I won't interrupt,
but say hello to my successor,

{\an8}Bjørnar Berg Hansen.

{\an8}Yeah. He can introduce himself.

{\an8}Yes. Hi.

{\an8}Hello again to those I know.
And hello to all the new faces.

{\an8}I'm Bjørnar. I have two kids, twins.
A boy and a girl.

{\an8}I was a municipal lawyer.
That's how people know me here.

{\an8}FROM KRIPOS-KENNETH
IKEA TOMORROW? [I'LL BUY YOU MEATBALLS]

{\an8}Worked here and in Trondheim.

{\an8}LOVE IKEA! [IRONY]

{\an8}Really looking forward to
trying to fill these big shoes.

{\an8}It'll be great.

{\an8}Bjørnar will start this week.

{\an8}He'd like to be part of a team
that does home visits

{\an8}to see what it's like on the front line.

{\an8}That's great. So...

{\an8}- We won't interrupt anymore.
- That's okay.

{\an8}- I'll show you our lunch routine.
- Sure.

{\an8}I heard you're moving in with your guy.

{\an8}How nice. Congrats.

{\an8}- Thanks.
- See you.

{\an8}So much for a surprise party.

I don't think he saw anything.

Speaking of the union, weren't they
having their general assembly there?

Yeah. Sorry.

Hello.

- Hi. Is this Pernille Middelthon?
- Yes.

We've just received a patient
in ER at Ullevål...

What? Is it Dad?

PERNILLE

What did you say it was?

Anaphylaxis.
It's a severe allergic reaction.

But it's not.
All blood tests came back negative.

However, fainting on the subway is not
good, so we're keeping you overnight.

It could be Mondor's disease.

If you palpate, you'll see whether
I have a subcutaneous cord

on the right side of my abdomen
by the umbilicus.

It's not Mondor's disease.

You've had an orthostatic
blood-pressure drop, but it's fine now.

I'll see you on my evening round.
I have to go.

- Bye.
- Thanks.

Baby girl. How are you feeling?

Better now.
Just fatigue and severe myotonia.

In Norwegian?

Irritated muscles.
They're not able to relax.

What happened?

Was there an ambulance?
Did someone bring you here?

I was gone for a few seconds
and missed my stop,

but I got here myself.

Did you fall asleep because you're tired?

I know the difference between
falling asleep and fainting.

You're studying really hard
and have lots of exams and...

It just stresses me out
not knowing what's wrong with me.

Exams have never bothered me.

I'm just saying you're having a hard time.

I hope you're not saying
I'm too fragile to study medicine.

I'm the kid who bungee jumped at 13.

I'm not saying you're frail like a bird.

I'm just worried about you and
I want you to eat well and sleep enough

and maybe not drink so much...

Wanna come to Bikram with me and Grandad?

Bikram? It's called hot yoga now.

Do you realize Bikram was a sex offender?

No, but it's really good
for sore muscles and stuff.

One more piece of Shaman Durek advice
from you and I'm moving out.

That's not a real threat to me.

Maybe I won't move out,

but you have to believe I can do medicine.

Or I won't believe it myself.

But of course I believe in you. My God.

You're the smartest person I know.
I'm so proud of you.

I have to go to work, okay?
And you need rest.

- I need to call the new boss before...
- Is he cool? Like Yngvar?

You know him.
It's Bjørnar. Didn't I tell you?

Huh? Bjørnar-Bjørnar?

- Municipality?
- Mm-hmm.

Don't f*ck it up with Kenneth.

He's sweet and won't mess you up
like Bjørnar did.

No, how would that go?

It's been ages. Honestly.

Rest now. No studying.

What's up?

I got serious myalgia
from reaching for the juice.

I have a forensic interview.
I'll call you.

Do I have to repeat everything?

Isn't it enough that I spoke to you?

You do, because this case
is kind of on two tracks.

There's us, and then there's the police,

and the prosecuting authority
and the police have their own rules.

But they have the videos.

I don't get why I have to repeat it.

I know that it's a little complicated,

but they'll be able to explain it better
at the Children's House.

If they get convicted...

then my siblings won't have to live
with them. That's all I care about.

We can't promise that, Erika.

You're gonna meet your attorney now.

You can ask them
about anything you need, okay?

I hope that'll reassure you a little.

Make a hard noise.

Breathe in.

Use your throat when breathing.

Tighten your windpipe.
Make a gentle snoring sound.

Breathe out. Suck in your gut.

Use your abs.

Get all the air out.

Breathe in and fill up your lungs again.

We're filling ourselves up with prana.
Life energy.

Waking up our bodies.

They've checked for brain tumors
and everything,

so I agree with you.

I think she was tired
and fell asleep on the subway.

I'm just so worried.
She has so many exams.

She just has to stay the course.

She will. She's inherited
her grandpa's scientific mind.

I'm taking Sigrid to the game later.

Don't be disappointed if she quits, Dad.

They all do at that age.

They quit because
they don't make the main team.

I promise you one thing.

I'll teach Sigrid to stand there
like a wall in goal

if I just get some leeway as a coach.

She let in four goals last game.

Sure, she needs to work on her speed,

but that's all coming.

If you still played the piano,

you could have impressed everyone
at after-parties, right?

But you quit at 14.

First of all, I'm never at after-parties,

and secondly, my teacher was Mom,
who died when I was 14.

- Sorry. Bad example.
- I'm kidding.

But I am absolutely sure

that I'll make Sigrid great

if they put me
in charge of talent development.

If I had half of your confidence,

I'd be so happy.

Confidence is half of what's needed
to become good.

The rest is 10,000 hours of hard work.

Holy sh*t, 10,000 hours is a long time
to become good at Bikram.

- Nine?
- No.

- Sigrid?
- Am I alive?

Yes.

- Am I an artist?
- Artist? I'm actually not sure

Stop it!

Have you been living under a rock?
You're not an artist.

- Maia, your turn.
- Who's my mom?

- Yes or no questions only.
- Oh.

- Am I Norwegian?
- Yes.

Am I a woman?

No. Kenneth.

{\an8}- Am I dead?
- Dead as a doornail.

{\an8}PICK ME UP BEFORE 7 AM
NEED CLEAN CLOTHES FOR UNI.

{\an8}Not nice to be happy someone's dead.

I didn't mean that.
I'm just rooting for Dad.

{\an8}- Was I popular?
- Oh yes.

{\an8}- Don't laugh, Mom.
- Sorry.

{\an8}THUMBS UP

{\an8}I'm bad at celebrities.

- Dennis is a celebrity on TikTok.
- Your oldest brother, right?

No, half-brother. Not the oldest.

Jo is the oldest,
and then we have Kalle and Robin,

but they don't live with us.

Will it be cramped
if the four boys move in too?

- No.
- They're grown, they come to visit.

- They're not moving in.
- Good.

Dennis is cool.

I get his sponsorship stuff from TikTok.

Expensive shampoos Dad would never buy.

I read that expensive shampoos

aren't always better than the cheap ones.

- Am I royal?
- Yes!

You're a spoiled princess
who uses expensive shampoos.

- Princess Diana! Yes!
- Yes!

I'm not spoiled!

I didn't mean that, Maia. I'm sorry.

- Sorry.
- I'll talk to her.

It was a bad joke.

Does she seem spoiled to you?

Maybe she hates having
to move in here and play family.

Four nearly adult half-brothers,
and me and Hanna as well.

It's not cool to be the youngest
and never have any say.

{\an8}No.

{\an8}Hanna seems to be better, at least.

{\an8}YOU DON'T WRITE THUMBS UP.
YOU USE AN EMOJI.

I have to change schools too
because it's too far.

No, you don't. Mom still lives
close to your school,

and I can still drive you to school
every day for as long as you want.

The way we've always done it.

Oh dear.

Honey.

This one's good for Maia.
It has drawers underneath and...

We don't need to buy her a bed.

Of course she needs a new bed.

I had a coffee with Tanya today,
and we agreed that...

Damn it. I have to get back to work.

That arrest is nothing but stress.

We'll come back here tomorrow.

No, please.
I can't do IKEA two days in a row.

I can finish up here
and buy this bed for Maia.

I'll be a cool bonus mom
and get some brownie points and...

Maia isn't coming.

She's not moving in.

She'll stay with Tanya and come to visit.

I had a long talk with Tanya,
and we agreed...

I'm sorry. Shouldn't you and I
also have had a long talk about that?

I was going to do that now,
but I have to go to work.

Sorry. This got awkward.
But let's do it tomorrow. Please.

It's not my business what they do.

But if we're sharing kids,
I need to be in the loop.

He needs to inform me.

Now I've started smoking again.
Sorry, Hanna's calling.

- Hi, honey. Are you okay?
- Where are you? Do we have paracetamol?

Yeah, but could you help me
carry up some IKEA stuff, please?

No. I have a migraine.
Are you upset? You sound upset.

No, I'm not upset.

Jesus, I'm happy as a clam.

Do you think the migraine will get better?
Or the headache, as we call it.

Look in the bathroom cabinet.
I'll be right there.

- Okay.
- Fine.

This is Kenneth Larsen.
I've probably turned off my phone.

Leave a message.

Good morning. How are you?
You look a lot more chipper today.

I always look chipper.

I got lucky with my looks.
I got them from you. You're a MILF.

- You think so? I feel awful.
- Did you f*ck up with Kenneth now?

No, I'm just a bit angry at him.
It's just some grown-up stuff.

Peter from Liverpool sent me a message

wanting to see me again. As if.

How nice. He was so cute,
and he knows Nick Cave.

Works for. They're not besties.
This is the last thing I need right now.

Some hot guy f*cking with my head

while I'm being tested for
rare blood diseases and...

You're not being tested
for rare blood diseases.

You're healthy.
They said so at the hospital.

I'm not quite convinced.

If it's serious, the last thing I want
is to end up like that Camellia lady.

Finds love and
dies from aplastic anemia right after.

The Camellia lady died from tuberculosis.

Oh God, what if it's tuberculosis?

We thought it was eradicated but it's not.

Could you do me a favor?

Pick up a cake at Baker Hansen
before they close?

Yeah, fine.

Got everything?

Hi. Yes, got everything.
Do you have a couple of minutes?

Yes. Of course.

I... The other day
I couldn't help but noticing

that you're planning
a goodbye thing for me.

Yeah, sorry.

It was gonna be a surprise,
we thought you were away...

That's okay.

I just wanted to say...

I've planned many of these goodbye events
through the years,

and it's always been simple.

Cake, some lovely words,
flowers and that's the end of it.

I promise you that
it'll be a lot cooler than that.

That's exactly what I don't want.

I don't want anything grandiose.

The walnut cake is a symbol

of a closed chapter for me.

So, just walnut cake?

Because we thought we'd have
some tapas and a DJ and...

Yeah, but I don't want that.

The only thing I want is walnut cake.

Yes. Ordered by
somebody other than me, of course.

The one from Baker Hansen is the best one.

And then some nice words and...

Yes. And of course,

if someone's started writing a song,
then I don't mind that.

Just none of that overly ambitious stuff.

Because a closed chapter

equals a walnut marzipan cake.

Capisce?

Capisce. You'll get what you want.

- When do you take over at Hvasser?
- In a week.

- You should come in the summer.
- We'll be there. We've already booked it.

We haven't been there since Anne died.

I'm so happy you and Kenneth
are moving in together.

We went to IKEA yesterday.
It didn't go so well.

That's what's supposed to happen at IKEA.

Yeah, don't underestimate
the need for a stable relationship

even if it's not the love of your life.

Stability and friendship
are just as important.

How so?

You think he's not the love of my life?

I mean...
You said something at the Christmas party

about being friends
who sort of entered a relationship

but that it maybe wasn't true love.

But Jesus, you were drunk.

You were very drunk.
Never seen you that drunk.

Yeah. Thanks for the talk.

Yeah, thank you.

Hey, boys?

It's a bit of an abort mission situation.

Sorry. We need to
cool down the celebration,

so I've cancelled the tapas.

Seriously? We've blown up 600 balloons.

Fine, we can use those, but...

Yngvar wants a modest celebration.
He just wants cake.

I think you need
to cancel the choir, Eron.

- We've written a song and everything!
- We'll have to sing it, then.

He should know that life is
a little more than walnut cake.

Good work.

Hi, honey.

Good practice?

Oh my God! Are you just eating that cake?

Wasn't I supposed to?
Hanna said it was fine.

It says "Good luck, Yngvar" on it.

What didn't you get about that?

Don't blame me. Hanna said to eat it

because she ate the lasagna you put out.

Sorry if it was meant for someone.

It was for Yngvar,
but I'll buy another one tomorrow.

How are you, really?
Is there a lot of pressure at practice?

No, I think the opposite.
That you've not pressured me enough.

Everyone needs a push,
and now I think soccer is fun again.

- That's great.
- I'm gonna go to Grandpa's now.

We're gonna watch saves
by Bruce Grobbelaar and drink chai lattes.

Wow.

GO LUCK YNGVA

- It is over?
- Yeah.

They've both been convicted
of aggravated as*ault.

And they no longer have custody of you.

How long will they be in prison?

It will be less than the time
they spent in jail,

so they'll be out pretty soon.

Elida and Ingrid?

They didn't lose custody of your sisters.

All children are
autonomous legal entities.

- That means that...
- Huh?

All siblings are assessed individually.

In that case, it can happen

that they lose custody of you
but not your sisters.

What the f*ck is that good for?

If I can't watch over them?

We don't know what's going to happen.
CPS will make that decision.

But no matter what happens to them,

we'll make sure
you can have visitation rights.

I don't want visitation.
I want them to live with me

and not get burned
because they forgot a rule

and sleep under the bed because
they don't know how they'll be woken up.

No matter what, we'll keep a close watch.

But I'm not close.

I'm far away.
I promised them we'd be together.

- I promised!
- I know.

- I promised.
- Hey. Stop.

I promised that everything would be okay!

- Yes.
- I told them it would be fine!

It's pretty huge

that she's not moving in with you.

I don't get why
you didn't tell me right away.

I don't know.
I didn't want you to get cold feet.

You're used to 50/50.

What will it be like for her? And for you?

Is it so important
that we move in together?

It's fine as it is.

I need to know that it's you and me.

- Yeah, but it is.
- Is it, though?

Your kids always come first.

Last year we didn't go on summer vacation.

You had to have the kids
the week we'd planned for us

because Finn messed up the dates.

You didn't come to my birthday
because Sigrid had a game.

I don't mean to whine,
but I'm never your first priority.

Isn't it like that for you too?
That your kids come first?

That's what so hard about being ancient
and having lots of baggage.

The kids have to come first.

Yeah. You just
don't want to live together.

That's the problem. Not Maia.

I have kids with a man who did
exactly what you're about to do.

He moved away from the kids
to live with Iben.

I don't want us to do the same.

Are you comparing me to Finn?

No, but you're about to do what he did.

No, I'll be there for Maia.

I just don't want her needs
to always come before mine.

Kids have needs all the time,
and I was a dad for 20 years,

and I thought for once
I should make a choice for me.

That makes me wonder if we have
fundamentally different values.

I feel like the kids need to come first.
I don't want to make this relationship

even harder for Maia. Sorry.

Yeah. And I can't be in a "one foot in,
one foot out" sort of relationship.

I've tried it before. It was a disaster.

Maybe it's best that we split up now,
as friends.

That's how we started.
Maybe that's what we are. Friends.

I'll get something to drink, and then...

Do you want some walnut cake?

Apparently it's important
in order to close a chapter.

Do you see them?

I can talk to the staff
and ask them where they are.

I see them.

Elida!

Ingrid, they picked us up!

Are you picking us up?

I'm not.

I've come to say goodbye.
I'm gonna live somewhere else.

You can't come home again.

Mom said that when we saw her in prison.

I've got you a phone, so you can call me.

Don't tell Mom and Dad, okay?

Record videos with it
if something bad happens.

Bye-bye, sweetie.
Please give Ingrid a hug from me.

She didn't come over here
since you're sick in the head.

You burnt yourself on the stove
to ruin the family.

Give her a nose kiss from me.

Bye. I love you to the moon and back.

Be careful with it.

They've found
good foster parents for Erika,

but she's desperate

because her siblings are going back,
and it's hard to explain...

Yngvar will be here soon.

I'll put out the cakes
and see if Eron has the balloons.

Okay.

Hey...

- Are you okay?
- Why?

You just seem a little sad.

I understand if the burn case
has affected you,

but we'll keep following up
with that family very closely.

Yeah. It is what it is.

Every child has their case, so...

It's just a little hard
to explain for Erika

everything about
the protective services and...

It's absurd that
she's gone through all of that

to protect her siblings,

and now she's going to a foster home
while they're going back, and...

You need a proper debrief.

We have an occupational psychologist here.

No.

I think I'm just a little tired.

Maybe it would be good
to work with bureaucracy,

from the inside, with rules and...

And I broke up with Kenneth.

Oh. I'm so sorry.
Do you wanna talk about it?

No, no. I'm gonna polish up
the speech for Yngvar.

We need a proper boss who has our backs,

and you always did, Yngvar.

We'll see if the new guy
can follow in your footsteps.

You're a pillar of strength
when things happen.

I'll really miss you.

But as you always say,

"The best way to close a chapter
is to eat walnut cake."

Thanks for everything, Yngvar. I love you.

Likewise.

Let's do that song
that Eron and Madjid wrote the lyrics for.

Once there was an Yngvar in 1999

Who's always at the ready
And who's always happy

He was our boss and he worked hard
With all of us

One day he said, "I'll cast off"

When we will get there
Next summer

To see your new life

You'll be full of life and drive again

When we will get there
Next summer

- Are you okay?
- Yeah.

Nothing some cake won't fix.

We'll talk to each other...

- Look at him. I think he's moved.
- Yeah.

We'd like to say,
"Yngvar, what a great guy!"

Yngvar! Bravo!

- Yngvar!
- Yngvar!