The Best Episodes Directed By Niels Arden Oplev

#1 - Assistance Report A-15/99

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2000

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Stig Thorsboe

#2 - Part 2: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/27/2010

As Mikael and Lisbeth join forces to solve the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, it may turn out to be much more deadlier than that, as they try to find out what connection Harriet had with five brutally murdered young women.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: N/A

#3 - Enter Sandman (2)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2024

Gibbs and the gritty ragtag team continue their investigation at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: David J. North

#4 - eps1.0_hellofriend.mov

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/2015

Elliot, a cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, is recruited by a mysterious underground group to destroy the firm he's paid to protect. Elliot must decide how far he'll go to expose the forces he believes are running (and ruining) the world.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Sam Esmail

#5 - The Greenlanders

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/25/2022

Plotting to avenge a massacre in England, Viking armies converge in Kattegat — but siblings Leif and Freydis exact a different kind of retribution.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Jeb Stuart

#6 - Friended

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2011

Carrie and Al’s investigation into the murder of a hard-partying heiress takes an unexpected turn when they discover that the woman apparently didn’t exist until 18 months earlier.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Sherri Cooper

#7 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/2013

The residents of Chester's Mill find themselves trapped under an enormous, transparent dome. Panic escalates as resources dwindle rapidly.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan

#8 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2011

A murder reunites former detective Carrie Wells with her ex-boyfriend and colleague; Carrie must use her rare ability to help solve the case.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Ed Redlich

#9 - Heroes

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2011

Carrie must put aside memories of her sister's death to help a young murder witness lead the police to a killer.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Sherri Cooper

#10 - Part 1: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/20/2010

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, convicted for slander, is hired by industrialist Henrik Vanger to solve the 40 year old disappearance of his niece Harriet, but Mikael soon finds out he's getting help in the case, from hacker Lisbeth Salander.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: N/A

#11 - Up in Flames

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2011

After an explosion destroys a crime scene, Carrie's memories become essential to the investigation.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Erik Oleson

#12 - Codename: Sisyfos (1)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2004

The enigmatic Hallgrim Hallgrimsson is on his way to Iceland to see his sick mother when he is called back because a policeman has been killed at Copenhagen airport. Four murders and a daring rescue later detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson, AKA The Eagle, accepts a position in the police commissioner's new team so he can work on solving the case.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Peter Thorsboe

#13 - Codename: Sisyfos (2)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2004

Hallgrim is still in hot pursuit of ex-KGB man Sergei Varsjinskij and Luka Ivanovitsj Budanov; a new face joins the team while the relationship between Marie and Hallgrim heats up.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Peter Thorsboe

#14 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2017

When Manfred, a powerful psychic on the run, seeks safe haven in the remote town of Midnight, Texas, he discovers a mysterious community of outsiders with secrets, both human and supernatural.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: N/A

#15 - Enter Sandman (1)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/2024

Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty ragtag team.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: David J. North

#16 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2018

After a bomb explosion devastates a residential apartment building, special agents Maggie Bell and Omar Adom “OA” Zidan of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigate a possible war between rival gangs – that is, until their prime suspects are discovered brutally murdered.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Craig Turk

#17 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2016

Jackson Brooks's life with his fiancee is thrown into turmoil after his childhood friends want him to help them avenge a 25-year-old wrong.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: N/A

#18 - Assistance Report A-21/99, part 1

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2000

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: N/A

#19 - Assistance Report A-21/99, part 2

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2000

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Writer: Iben Gylling