To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjordis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.

Evening Classes

Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjordis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.

The Test

When history starts to repeat itself, Rita retreats in self-defeat, until a loyal friend gives her the support she needs to figure out her future.

Home

Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.

The Role Model

A student in Rita's class falls hopelessly in love with her at the same time that her own first love, Tom, reappears in her life at a family baptism.

First Love

Rita finds drugs at school, but the accused student points Rita in the direction of her own son, Jeppe. Molly gets a job at a hospice.

The Hypocrite

During a field trip to Sweden, Rita rubs the local townsfolk the wrong way. Niels brings Jeppe back to Denmark, where Rasmus and Uffe help the two bond.

The Outing

Jeppe learns that Ole is going to propose to Camilla. A new student who leads the other pupils in a school strike reminds Rita why she became a teacher.

Chaos

A lonely Rita starts hanging out with Rosa. But all hell breaks loose when Rosa realizes that Rita was the one her dad was having an affair with.

The Mother

A pregnant Rita faces a difficult decision: She can keep the baby but never reveal who the father is, or she can get an abortion.

The Grown Up

Rita and Rasmus move in together, and Rita tries her best to act like an adult -- until Rasmus puts a rose bed in her beloved wilderness of a garden.

The Garden

It's sports day, and Helle wants to protect the losers from having an upsetting experience -- but Rita takes up the struggle for the right to win.

Team Player

Helle hires a motivational coach for the students. Meanwhile Jeppe moves in with his boyfriend, and Rita struggles with living on her own.

The Basement

Overcome by stress, Helle asks Rita to become the school's temporary headmaster, and Hjordis's class celebrates Saint Lucy's day with style.

The Leader

When one of Rita's first-graders doesn't want to take a turn bringing home 'Sharebear,' the class teddy bear, she visits his home to find out why.

You and I

When an odd new student suddenly pops up in class, Rita gets a moneymaking idea. Jeppe goes on a Tinder date. Attraction grows between Rasmus and Rita.

Do You Speak English?

Another teacher is terrorizing Rita's student, and Rita has to take up the cause -- but it's not easy when the teacher uses bureaucracy as a weapon.

I Love You

For the first time in her life, Rita has gone down for the count, but she has to rediscover her fighting spirit when Erik strikes a student.

Weeds

Rita tries to stop a shy student's parents from uprooting him to move to Greenland. Rasmus meets someone on Tinder. Hjørdis helps a student face a fear.

Hullabaloo House

Ricco's father-in-law turns out to be Rita's high school sweetheart. Meanwhile, Rita's battle at school with a 14-year-old know-it-all goes wrong.

The Idealist

Rita protects a troubled kid with ADHD from vandalism charges but forgets to fight for her own son when he's the victim of hate crime bullying.

The Protector

Rita "lends" her own grandchild to a pregnant girl in her class in an attempt to convince her to get an abortion, but the plan backfires.

And Baby Makes Three

Rita's fourth graders come down with head lice, and she decides to delouse them herself. Meanwhile, Helle faces evaluation by her peers.

Lice

Rita tries to keep the police in the dark when Hjordis decides on the perfect item to bury in a time capsule: marijuana.

Free Fall

Rita, who hates cooking, struggles to fill in as a home economics teacher. Hjørdis tries to help Allan overcome his fears about an upcoming field trip.

You Are What You Eat

A bomb threat scares the whole school — except Rita. Hjørdis worries that her and Uffe's strange hobbies will hurt their son socially when he's older.

Sudden Thaw

Lea invites Rita to join her family for dinner, echoing a day in 1985 when teenage Rita had dinner with Lea's parents and was called to Lea's rescue.

True Friends

To try to save the school from closure, the staff organizes a fundraiser, including a play by Hjørdis' class with Allan in the lead role.

Childhood Street

Bjørne can't bear to break the bad news to his staff and becomes self-destructive. The event in 1985 that led to Lea falling out with Rita is revealed.

Family

Uffe tries to avoid Pil. Rita worries that one of her night-class students might be a victim of domestic abuse. Jeppe learns Ole is still in the closet.

Hot Flash

A new student suffers socially when his parents demand a schoolwide ban on sugar. Meanwhile, Rita's estranged mother wants to get back in touch.

The Teacher

A problem student goes on a destructive rampage, Hjordis makes progress with her second graders, and a man from Rita's past shows up.

The Sponsor Kid

Jeppe's ex unexpectedly returns. Hjørdis helps a student whose parents use her as a go-between. Rita's friendship with Gerd becomes a problem in class.

Boundaries

When a school talent show forces Rita to re-evaluate her uncompromising relationship to truth, she realizes she's been doing some lying of her own.

The Anarchist

When Rita takes over a second-grade theater production, her own life story begins to blend with the fairy tale the kids are playing out.

The Princess

Inspired by local politics, Rita holds an election in her class. Uffe gets a job at the school, but it sparks conflict with Hjordis.

The Candidate

Rita has settled down in Molly's apartment and works in a burger bar, much to Molly's chagrin. When Molly, on behalf of Rita, sends a job application, Rita ends up with a job offer from her former primary school, which she reluctantly accepts. Hjørdis, out of concern for Rita, applies for a job at the same school, so she can be there for her.

Present/Past

Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.

The Whore

A young Holocaust denier creates a scare at Hjordis and Rita's school. Helle asks Rita to help Rasmus accept a hard truth. Uffe meets a kindred spirit.

Fake News

Rita struggles to process her overwhelming feelings of guilt. Ole reveals to Jeppe that he's met someone else - whom his grandmother approves of.

The Lake

Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.

All Episodes of Rita

Season 1

The Hypocrite

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/15/2012

The Mother

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/29/2012

The Idealist

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2012

The Protector

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/8/2012

The Teacher

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2012

The Anarchist

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2012

The Princess

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/22/2012

The Whore

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/1/2012