''Greyzone'' is a Swedish-Danish thriller drama series, co-created and written by Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund, Mikkel Bak Sørensen and Rasmus Thorsen that first broadcast on 22 February 2018 on

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. Starring

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West End ...

as drone expert Victoria Rahbek, ''Greyzone'' centres on the days leading up to a terror attack and Victoria's kidnap at the hands of a terror cell who require access to the technological arsenal of her employers, SparrowSat. The series also aired on

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in Sweden under the title ''Gråzon'', on

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in Denmark and on

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in the

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, premiering on 13 February 2019, and airing weekly at 10:45pm. The entire series was also made available to watch on

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Cast

as Victoria Rahbek, a Danish engineer for Swedish drone company SparrowSat *

Ardalan Esmaili Ardalan Esmaili (born 22 March 1986) is a Swedish actor. Biography Esmaili was born in Tehran, Iran, to an architect father and a teacher mother. Toward the end of the Iran–Iraq War, when Esmaili was two years old, his family moved to Sweden. E ...

as Iyad Adi Kassar, a Swedish-Syrian terrorist and former classmate of Victoria *Joachim Fjelstrup as Detective Jesper Lassen, Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) *

Tova Magnusson Tova Dorothea Magnusson (born 18 June 1968), also credited under her former married name as Tova Magnusson Norling, is a Swedish film and television actress; comedian; and film director. She is best known outside Sweden for her role in the Danis ...

as Detective Inspector Eva Forsberg, Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) *

Lars Ranthe Lars Kristian Ranthe (born 26 August 1969) is a Danish film and television actor. Selected filmography Selected television work }), , Daniel (psychiatrist) , , television series , - , 2021, , '' The Chestnut Man , , Nylander , , televi ...

as Henrik Dalum, Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) Head of Operations *

Johan Rabaeus Johan Rabaeus (born ''Carl Magnus Olof Johan Rabéus'' 31 July 1947) is a Swedish actor who was born in Stockholm but grew up in Paris and Geneva. He is known for portraying very unpleasant characters, such as Erik Ponti's sadistic stepfather in ...

as Major Lars Björklund, Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST) *Virgil Katring-Rasmussen as Oskar Rahbek Lindsbye, Victoria's son *Christopher Wollter as Johan Hedmark, Victoria's boss at SparrowSat *Özlem Saglanmak as Marjan Rajavi, Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) Intelligence Analyst *

Kida Khodr Ramadan Kida Khodr Ramadan (born 8 October 1976) is a German actor and director. He has won several awards for his portrayal of Ali "Toni" Hamady in the series ''4 Blocks''. Early life Kida Khodr Ramadan was born in 1976 in Beirut as the fifth child of ...

as Rami Wahim / Al-Shishani, the Lebanese leader of Islamic terror organisation Sayf *

Karin Franz Körlof Karin Franz Körlof (born Fransén Körlof, April 18, 1986) is a Swedish actress, playwright and director. Biography Körlof is the daughter of Anders Körlof and Anica Fransén, and the grandchild of lawyer Voldmar Körlof. She grew up in the Y ...

as Linda Laaksonen, Victoria's colleague at SparrowSat *Olaf Højgaard as Claes Palova, a Danish man working with Al-Shishani and Sayf *

Jessica Liedberg Jessica Martina Liedberg (born October 7, 1969 in Lindome, Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland Coun ...

as Christina Helander, Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) *

Morten Kirkskov Morten Kirkskov (born 28 March 1963, in Sønder Omme) is a Danish actor, theatre director and writer. He was appointed artistic director of the Royal Danish Playhouse for the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen in 2015. Career Morten Kirkskov g ...

as Major Andreas Tange, Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) *Thomas Niehaus as Martin Okmann, German Federal Intelligence Service (BND)

Episodes

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Detective Eva Forsberg accompanies customs officers to apprehend a truck carrying a suspected terrorist at the

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, however, a gunfight breaks out and the driver escapes. Police later discover a stolen

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bomb concealed in the vehicle, which results in SÄPO having to liaise with

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officer Lars Björklund. When the driver is caught on CCTV entering

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, Forsberg travels to

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to work alongside

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detectives Henrik Dalum and Jesper Lassen, making use of Lassen’s network of sources to try and locate the driver. She later receives information from Björklund that two bombs were stolen from the NATO base in

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, meaning another is still unaccounted for. It is believed they were due to be sold to

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separatists. In

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, Danish engineer Victoria Rahbek gives a presentation for Swedish

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company SparrowSat’s newest product. Although the company specialises in

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drones, the impressive technology results in SparrowSat being made a purchase offer by

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ZUW. At the conference, she meets with an old classmate Iyad Kassar, a tech journalist, and agrees to give him an interview. Later that evening back in Copenhagen she and Iyad conduct the interview, but he then drugs her and lets another man into the apartment, who installs various cameras and listening devices. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 2 , Title = First Mission , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Jesper W. Nielsen , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 3, 4 , ShortSummary = Victoria is threatened by Iyad and a masked man, who state if she doesn’t do what they say they will have their men kill her son Oskar (currently on holiday in

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with her ex-husband). She and Iyad travel to

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, where he forces her to extract information from her boss Johan’s laptop at SparrowSat headquarters. Eva and Jesper meet one of the latter's informants, a local

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named Naveed, who tells them unknown men have contacted him wanting transport for an injured man to

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. He meets with the men as part of a

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, where they agree on where he will pick up the injured driver. PET discovers the men are

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n and track them to an

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. The location is raided by the

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, but the driver escapes despite being chased by Eva. Afterward, Naveed is approached in his mosque by a man claiming he wants revenge for injustice, but after the two talk the man stabs him to death. Back in Copenhagen, Iyad speaks with someone via phone who informs him they have picked up the missing driver. He then tells Victoria he will be staying with her longer, and that she needs to show him the drone flight controller. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 3 , Title = The Return , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Jesper W. Nielsen , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 3, 11 , ShortSummary = Oskar flies back from

early after Victoria’s ex-husband is hospitalised in the city. Victoria is reluctantly forced to allow him to return, under the guise Iyad is an old classmate from

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion geofences so drones can be flown into various

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s and later demands she steal a prototype of the BAT flight controller during SparrowSat anniversary celebrations in Stockholm. When the truck driver is discovered dead,

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and

liaise with Andreas Tange of the

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, believing a terrorist attack is imminent. The German BND identifies the driver as a Chechen national named Hazdem Mukhamed, although can’t establish any terror links. Jesper and Eva bug the Albanians' apartment, where they identify Hazdem by another name; Rami Hussein. Returning to

to retrace the man’s movements, Eva is told in confidence by Björklund he has intel a terror group has set targets on

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. Examining the manifests of the flights taken to Stockholm by Hazdem, Eva discovers Victoria was also on all of them, bringing her to the focus of PET. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 4 , Title = A Chance , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Jesper W. Nielsen , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 3, 18 , ShortSummary = Jesper goes against orders and visits Victoria, pretending to be investigating burglaries. He quickly leaves but informs Eva something seems wrong with her. He is later taken to meet with a woman and baby in

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, revealed to be his family from an undercover relationship infiltrating a

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, now in hiding from the woman’s brother. PET recovers a text message from Hazdems phone, an ISO code linked to a shipping container. They track it to

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, but the second warhead has already been taken. At SparrowSat headquarters, Iyad uses the stolen data from Johan to hack into the

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system and cover Victoria stealing the BAT flight controller. Back in Denmark, Iyad reveals he came from

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to Sweden as a child, but his parents and sister did not make it and died. She later drugs him with

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and tries to escape, but is quickly recaptured. Iyad meets with Naveed’s killer, who tells him the plan is coming into place. Eva uncovers footage from

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showing Victoria trying to call for help when she and Iyad first travelled there and asks Jesper about his encounter with her. Examining the phone number she gave him, they uncover a secret

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saying “HELP”. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 5 , Title = Recruited , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Jesper W. Nielsen , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 3, 25 , ShortSummary = Iyad demands Victoria calibrate the BAT controller for military function, but she needs to travel back to Stockholm to acquire the

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disabling code from her colleague Linda at SparrowSat. She is met in secret by Eva at

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who makes her aware she is being tracked but is told to continue with the mission so they can later save both her and Oskar. PET attempts to track a woman tailing Victoria at the airport but loses her when she returns to urban

. PET discovers one of SparrowSat’s new projects is JADDE (Joint Alliance for Defense Drones, Europe). Björklund proposes to the team that instead of just rescuing Victoria, they use her as a resource to get to the heart of the terror cell before they carry out the attack. Police

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approves the decision, but Jesper remains concerned. Under the guise of visiting Oskar’s

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teacher, Victoria is again met by Eva and Jesper, who explain the plan to her. Victoria is angry and reluctant, but eventually agrees when she realises going into

would ruin hers and Oskar’s lives, and even if Iyad is arrested there may be more members of the cell who could track them down. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 6 , Title = Double Agent , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Fredrik Edfeldt , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 4, 1 , ShortSummary = Victoria’s apartment is put under surveillance, having previously agreed various covert alert signals with Eva and Jesper should her cover be blown.

discovers that Iyad was married with a child, but they (and according to official records, him also) were killed in a car accident in

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in 2013. Iyad demands Victoria run a simulation drone flight with the BAT controller on a military Pilgrim V11. She meets Eva and Jesper at Oskar's kindergarten and tells them, and is given a device to plug into Iyad’s phone to

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it so they can monitor his calls. The

claims to have information on Iyad post-2013, but refuse to provide it unless Sweden extradites a recently arrested

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businessman wanted in the UK for terrorist

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. Björklund convinces the Prosecutor-General to do so. Eva receives news her estranged daughter Tove has been hospitalised from drug use, and Jesper expresses his paranoia over the lack of information on Iyad's alleged death. The British intel reveals in 2014 Iyad was interrogated in a

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and Egyptian soldiers, but managed to escape with terrorist leader Al-Shishani, who was recently seen in

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and now believed to be in Scandinavia. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 7 , Title = The Sacrifice , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Fredrik Edfeldt , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 4, 8 , ShortSummary = Eva visits her daughter in the hospital but is rebuffed and asked to leave. Problems arise with the BAT controller, with it needing the newer version of the

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to function properly without bugs. Iyad forces Victoria to again return to

and obtain it. She is caught by her colleague Linda, who takes the hard drive, but Victoria convinces her she was only copying the information due to suspicions their boss Johan is committing

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in the lead up to SparrowSat’s acquisition by ZUW. Jesper tells Victoria she needs an excuse to see the drone in person so it can be located, as assures her

will protect Linda. Henrik reluctantly aborts a mission to extract Victoria and Oskar, as they cannot guarantee Oskar’s safety when he remains in the flat with Iyad. The woman from the airport follows Linda to her house, but Eva delays ground agents permission to enter, allowing the woman to kill Linda and escape with the drive. The team identifies her as Yoana Malak, a

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- Moroccan, and start to track her movements in Sweden. Later that evening, Iyad denies anything happened to Linda, but Victoria soon after is told of her death by Johan, causing her to break down and attack Iyad. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 8 , Title = Survival Skills , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Fredrik Edfeldt , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 4, 15 , ShortSummary = Meeting with Eva and Jesper, Victoria furiously admonishes them over Linda’s death but informs them only 24 hours more work is needed on the drone. The police

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states there is a risk Victoria has developed

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and lost faith in the team. Iyad takes Victoria and Oskar to a holiday park in

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where he tells her to finish calibrating the BAT with the new software. Jesper tells her to get close with Iyad to uncover the drone location, and a PET agent bugs the room. Iyad becomes considerably closer with Oskar, teaching him to dive and

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his own son in his place. Jesper and Eva visit Iyad’s in-laws in

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, where they discover Björklund questioned them immediately after the family’s death in

. Jesper then secretly meets with Aisha, the mother of his child in

. Eva’s boss Christina calls in a favour with the Jordanian General Intelligence Directorate to uncover more on the death of Iyad’s family. They discover it was not an auto accident, but a targeted

drone strike to kill a terrorist leader aboard the bus. Iyad, the only survivor, was imprisoned to keep quiet about the attack. Iyad tells Victoria the same information, and the two later sleep together. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 9 , Title = Simone , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Jörgen Bergmark , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 4, 22 , ShortSummary = Iyad promises Victoria she and Oskar will be free once she gets the drone in the air, but Al-Shishani tells him to kill them once the BAT is installed. The team identifies Iyad's accomplice as Claes Palova, a

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citizen, but refuse to raid his flat until discovering the location of the drone. Christina obtains unofficial information on the Jordan drone strike from

, indicating they previously knew of Iyad’s background. Claes leaves the apartment and a tech team enters. Transferring his data, they find maps of the Danish Ministry of Defence, ascertaining the group plans to attack a

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conference the following day. Claes realises the apartment has been entered, as the tech team returned the wrong pet cat once they left. Iyad moves to Plan B, taking Oskar and Victoria to a shop in the city where they meet Claes and Al-Shishani. The group escapes via a trapdoor, and an explosive detonates as Jesper and a

unit enter the building. Iyad speaks with Oskar, but when the boy doesn’t recognise the name “Simone” (who Victoria told him was the special needs teacher she kept meeting at the school), Iyad realises that she has been lying and working with the security services. , LineColor = {{Episode list , EpisodeNumber = 10 , Title = A New World , NativeTitle = , DirectedBy = Jörgen Bergmark , WrittenBy = Rasmus Thorsen, Morten Dragsted, Oskar Söderlund & Mikkel Bak Sørensen , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, df=yes, 2018, 4, 29 , ShortSummary = The group travels by ferry from Denmark to

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. Both the

Swedish Air Force The Swedish Air Force ( sv, Svenska flygvapnet or just ) is the air force branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. History The Swedish Air Force was created on 1 July, 1926 when the aircraft units of the Army and Navy were merged. Because of the es ...

and

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put fighter jets on standby, and the team prepares to extract Victoria. The group meets with Malak at the drone's location on a farm, where Al-Shishani tells Iyad they now plan to target the

Rigshospitalet Rigshospitalet (meaning ''The National'', ''State'' or ''Hospital of the Realm'', but not usually translated) is the largest public and teaching hospital in Copenhagen and the most highly specialised hospital in Denmark. The hospital's main buildi ...

. Iyad objects, feeling hospital patients are not guilty compared to military officials. The drone is activated and takes off, but remains off

radar Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (''ranging''), angle, and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, w ...

at low

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requiring a visual search. Eva and Jesper head to the launch location in

Småland Småland () is a historical province () in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means ''Small Lands''. The Latinized fo ...

. Claes moves to execute Victoria and Oskar, but Iyad kills him before he can do so. He tells the two to run and then returns to the farm, where Malak and Al-Shishani discover he recalibrated the drone to attack their location. Malak shoots him, but then he and the whole group are killed when the drone detonates. Iyad is identified as one of the terrorists in various news reports, but during her

debriefing Debriefing is a report of a mission or project or the information so obtained. It is a structured process following an exercise or event that reviews the actions taken. As a technical term, it implies a specific and active intervention process t ...

with Henrik, Victoria angrily rebuts his assumptions the drones change in location was a technical error. Eva decides to leave SÄPO and angrily confronts Björklund for covering up the

strike, accusing him of creating Iyad’s terroristic views and benefiting from the situation by being promoted to the

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. Jesper returns to work recruiting informants for PET. Victoria and Oskar visit Iyad’s family grave and place down a bunch of flowers. Oskar notices the incorrect date and asks if it is possible to die twice, to which Victoria replies no, but in a way that is what Iyad did. , LineColor =

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