7.9/101,627 votes#1 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2011
The chair of the Malmo city council is found dead right on the Danish-Swedish border on the Øresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmo - the corpse cut in half at the waistline. Detective Saga Norén of Malmo CID is applied to the case and soon learns that the lower half of the corpse belongs to a yet unknown Danish woman. She is forced to team up with her Danish colleague Martin Rohde, who is slightly irritated by her unusual manners. At the same time, Göran Söringer is brought to Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet to receive a heart transplant.
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Writer: N/A
7.8/101,374 votes#2 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2011
The bomb in Daniel Ferbé's car did not go off. Instead, the car's CD player put out a disc that contains a message from the murderer, which is also published on a website. He deplores five grievances of society, the first of which shall be highlighted by the murders. Norén traces back the website of the murderer to a server of the Danish CID and Rohde reopens the case of the second victim, a Danish prostitute who disappeared more than a year ago, and obtains her diary. Eventually Charlotte Söringer manages to get her beloved husband his heart transplant.
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Writer: N/A
7.8/101,282 votes#3 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2011
To draw attention to the increased number of people falling through the cracks of society, the killer kidnaps a homeless man and demands a large ransom from four landlords for his survival. So what is the price of a human being after all?
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Writer: Morten Dragsted
7.9/101,226 votes#4 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/2011
Knowing the killer has carefully planned his crimes, Saga and Martin wonder whether they can catch him off guard by doing something he doesn't expect.
Director: Charlotte Sieling
Writer: N/A
7.8/101,191 votes#5 - Episode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/2011
The murderer has groomed a number of schizophrenics to commit carefully synchronized violent crimes on the same day in Malmo and Copenhagen.
Director: Lisa Siwe
Writer: N/A
7.9/101,167 votes#6 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/2011
A rogue policeman is killed by someone in uniform. The detectives believe that the killer for whom they are searching was the killer. They also now suspect that the killer may indeed be one of them - that he is actually is a cop.
Director: Lisa Siwe
Writer: N/A
8.0/101,170 votes#7 - Episode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/2011
A bus-load of children is kidnapped and are threatened to be killed. The police believe that the kidnapper is the killer, and the hunt continues.
Director: Henrik Georgsson
Writer: N/A
8.1/101,170 votes#8 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/2011
Because the detectives suspect that a policeman is involved, a profile of the killer is developed and several police fit the profile and a search among them begins. The hunt continues and a particular suspect is found.
Director: Henrik Georgsson
Writer: N/A
8.6/101,284 votes#9 - Episode 9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/2011
Things are brought closer to home when the criminal's mask is removed.
Director: Henrik Georgsson
Writer: N/A
8.6/101,363 votes#10 - Episode 10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/2011
The crime spree is resolved. However, many loose threads remain.
Director: Henrik Georgsson
Writer: Hans Rosenfeldt
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "The Bridge" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 1627 votes. Directed by Charlotte Sieling and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/2011. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2".