It's unfortunate that the great start couldn't be followed through with a plot that made sense. Swiss cheese has less holes than this effort.
It's a wonderful beginning with Olle waking up on the ferry in an unfamiliar car and with a bag of money beside him and that leading to an entertaining chase as he escapes immediate arrest. You'd think that at some point during the 8 episodes of this series it might have been explained as to how that scenario came about and, more importantly, why it came about but, no, you'd be mistaken in that assumption. It never is really explained. Why would the bad guys set him up as possible "fall guy" for the robbery and especially why would they stick him with 1/2 of the takings from the robbery in order to make him the patsy? No explanation for this at all.
Another rather glaring hole is that Olle ends up with the bag of money and some of the bad guys involved don't seem too interested in pursuing the matter. Like, what did he do with it would be a start? Can we have it back please? Yes, early on one of the bad guys tries to recover it but that fails and that's interest the others show in what happened to all that money. By the second half of the series it's a case of Olle has the money, the other bad guys have the other 1/2 of the money and don't seem to remember that half of their takings from the robbery have gone missing. Odd that.
Other nonsensical twists follow but I don't want to give too much away in the way of spoilers so let's just throw one more in.
At one point in a key episode, Policeman A ends up shot and lying on the ground as the bad guy escapes with hostages. Policeman B is following in a separate car and comes across the seriously wounded "A" lying on the road. You'd expect that "B" would then call for backup and ambulance before giving chase to the bad guy with hostages but, again, you'd be wrong about that. Instead, in the following scene it is a wounded Policeman "A" who, alone!, pursues the bad guy with Policeman B absolutely nowhere to be seen. Yes "A" is still wounded with a gunshot through the stomach and is last seen slumping to the ground after the confrontation but ... seriously?
Despite all the massive caverns in the plot, I still enjoyed the series on a scene to scene basis but if you try to make sense of it all, you are going to be really frustrated.
It's a wonderful beginning with Olle waking up on the ferry in an unfamiliar car and with a bag of money beside him and that leading to an entertaining chase as he escapes immediate arrest. You'd think that at some point during the 8 episodes of this series it might have been explained as to how that scenario came about and, more importantly, why it came about but, no, you'd be mistaken in that assumption. It never is really explained. Why would the bad guys set him up as possible "fall guy" for the robbery and especially why would they stick him with 1/2 of the takings from the robbery in order to make him the patsy? No explanation for this at all.
Another rather glaring hole is that Olle ends up with the bag of money and some of the bad guys involved don't seem too interested in pursuing the matter. Like, what did he do with it would be a start? Can we have it back please? Yes, early on one of the bad guys tries to recover it but that fails and that's interest the others show in what happened to all that money. By the second half of the series it's a case of Olle has the money, the other bad guys have the other 1/2 of the money and don't seem to remember that half of their takings from the robbery have gone missing. Odd that.
Other nonsensical twists follow but I don't want to give too much away in the way of spoilers so let's just throw one more in.
At one point in a key episode, Policeman A ends up shot and lying on the ground as the bad guy escapes with hostages. Policeman B is following in a separate car and comes across the seriously wounded "A" lying on the road. You'd expect that "B" would then call for backup and ambulance before giving chase to the bad guy with hostages but, again, you'd be wrong about that. Instead, in the following scene it is a wounded Policeman "A" who, alone!, pursues the bad guy with Policeman B absolutely nowhere to be seen. Yes "A" is still wounded with a gunshot through the stomach and is last seen slumping to the ground after the confrontation but ... seriously?
Despite all the massive caverns in the plot, I still enjoyed the series on a scene to scene basis but if you try to make sense of it all, you are going to be really frustrated.