Tense, thrilling, and unbearably suspenseful, the Swedish/Danish co-production series THE BRIDGE (BRON/BROEN) - partially directed by Charlotte Sieling (veteran of the Danish thrillers UNIT ONE and THE KILLING) - opens with a forty-five second power outage on the Øresund Bridge that marks the border of Sweden and Denmark. When the lights come back up, the workers and commuters discover the body of a woman positioned precisely half-way on the border marker with half in either country (and thus in both of their jurisdictions). Malmo police detective Saga Noren (Sofia Helin, ARN: THE KNIGHT TEMPLAR) and Copenhagen detective Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia, BLEEDER) both respond to the scene. Middle-aged Martin is happy to hand it off to extremely brusk Saga when she recognizes the body as that of the chairman of the Malmo City Council, until moving the body reveals that it has been cut in half with surgical skill. The Swedish coroner discovers that the bottom half of the torso has been deep frozen and does not belong to the victim, and Martin becomes involved in the official investigation when the second victim is revealed to be a Danish prostitute whose disappearance had been sloppily investigated and abandoned.

The bridge surveillance camera reveals that the car used to dump the body belongs to Swedish tabloid journalist Daniel Ferbé (Christian Hillborg, EASY MONEY), but he is ruled out as a suspect when he is found trapped in the car with a time bomb. The bomb turns out to be a fake, but it comes with a CD delivering a message to Saga and Martin about the perpetrator's future plans which he elaborates on at a website that has the media - lead by Daniel - dubbing him the Truth Terrorist and polarizing Swedish and Danish society against its levels of social strata. The killer plans to graphically illustrate five problems plaguing Danish and Swedish society. Other characters (and potential suspects) drawn into the case over the course of ten episodes include Martin's long-suffering wife Mette (Puk Scharbau, TERRIBLY HAPPY) and layabout son August (Emil Birk Hartmann) from a previous marriage, his publicity-minded superior Lillian (Sarah Boberg, IN YOUR HANDS), Saga's superior Hans (Dag Malmberg, IRENE HUSS) on whom she is dependent before Martin to explain social conventions, unethical but concerned social worker Stefan (Magnus Krepper, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE and his unstable sister Sonja (Maria Sundbom), wealthy widow Charlotte Soringer (Ellen Hillingsø,MIFUNE), software executive Sebastian Sandstrod (Lars Simonsen, BROTHERHOOD), schizophrenic Lasse Jonsson (Martin Noren, SCALP), neglected runaway Anja Bjork (Fanny Ketter, BITCH HUG), violent vagrant Bjorn (Morten Suurballe, THE KILLING), and embattled cops Henning Tholstrup (Ole Boisen, FEAR ME NOT) and Jesper Andersson (Henning Valin Jakobsen, AURUM). As the Swedish and Danish police attempt to foil each of the killer's plans and discover his identity, they remain always a step behind; with each successful rescue of a potential victim actually playing into the killer's hands, as his more personal motives and startling identity are revealed.