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The Best Episodes of Unit One

Every episode of Unit One ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Unit One!

Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning...
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Best Episodes Summary

"Assistancemelding A-19/01 (2)" is the best rated episode of "Unit One". It scored 8.4/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by Charlotte Sieling and written by Mai Brostrøm, it aired on 4/1/2002. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Assistancemelding A-19/01 (1)".

  • Assistancemelding A-19/01 (2)
    8.4/1067 votes
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    #1 - Assistancemelding A-19/01 (2)

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 4/1/2002

    The Indian has kidnapped Gaby, and La Cour and Fisher is on their tail, IP is trying to protect The Indian's ex-girlfriend who are also the murdered student's sister; this dramatic episode was supposed to be the end of the series, but as you can see below, two episodes were added later.

    Director: Charlotte Sieling

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-19/01 (1)
    8.3/1065 votes
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    #2 - Assistancemelding A-19/01 (1)

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/24/2002

    La Cour gets one of his visions and finds a murdered student at one of the most prestigious boarding schools in Denmark, this involves the unit in a case where they finally get clues to find the serial killer known as The Indian (because he cuts the pubes off his victims); meanwhile, Ulf has bad news for the team.

    Director: Charlotte Sieling

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-31/00 (2)
    8.2/1067 votes
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    #3 - Assistancemelding A-31/00 (2)

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/22/2001

    La Cour is taken into custody and is ordered home to Copenhagen. In the mean time, the investigation team contacts Karin, the sister of Andersen who tells them that the man that visited Andersen the night he was killed and had sexual intercourse with him probably is Sonny, a local male prostitute. Fischer is sent to the dumpster, where he finds a trash bag that contains Andersen's diary that contains information about the murdered boys and Cliff "Sonny" Jensen, whom Andersen raised into prostitution and lent to his friends. La Cour notices some ash buds and remembers what happened at Andersen's, paying Ulrik Gregersen, Andersen's brother-in-law a visit. He follows him to the dumpster where he arrests him and discovers that the trash bags he dumped there contained the body of Sonny.

    Director: Jørn Faurschou

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-11/00
    8.1/1082 votes
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    #4 - Assistancemelding A-11/00

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2000

    A young couple's wedding day is ruined by a murder. The killing seems unfeasible and the forensics experts are perplexed when Unit One arrives. Soon, many of the villagers are under suspicion. While IP's jealously grows, Johnny receives help from Gaby with his personal problems. Søren puts pressure on Ingrid to make a decision about their relationship. But all could be futile when Ingrid soon after receives a phone call from the hospital alerting her that Søren is in a serious condition.

    Director: Jørn Faurschou

    Writer: Iben Gylling

  • Assistancemelding A-15/00
    8.1/1082 votes
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    #5 - Assistancemelding A-15/00

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2000

    Ulla, a teacher from Roskilde, has celebrated her 30th birthday with a big party among friends and relatives. On her way home from the party she disappears without a trace. Her husband calls the police and Unit One is summoned. Evidence indicates that a crime has taken place, and Ulla's children also face danger. Ingrid is in an awful state following Søren's death and has incarcerated herself. Gaby and Johnny try to help, but in vain. However, IP has his own way of tackling Ingrid. Fischer receives a tempting offer from Ulf.

    Director: Peter Flinth

    Writer: Dunja Gry Jensen

  • Assistancemelding A-19/00 (2)
    8.1/1076 votes
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    #6 - Assistancemelding A-19/00 (2)

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2000

    (Fortsat).Det lykkes den hætteklædte gerningsmand, som overfalder ældre kvinder stadigt grovere, at slå til igen. Men hvordan kan han hele tiden være et skridt foran efterforskningen, som nu står i stampe? Ulf ankommer for at kræve resultater og bliver

    Director: Charlotte Sieling

    Writer: Stig Thorsboe

  • Assistancemelding A-31/00 (1)
    8.1/1070 votes
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    #7 - Assistancemelding A-31/00 (1)

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/15/2001

    The body of the 10-year-old is found in a stream in the woods just outside of Hellebæk. No boy of the description is missing. La Cour dreams of a bag that is found at the harbour and has exactly the same interior as in La Cours dream. A social licence from the bag reveals the boy to be Martin Simonsen. DNA samples proves that the killer earlier has murdered a young boy. La Cour talks with a conductor from Odense, Claus Munk Andersen, who claims he didn't see the boy. But through a vision and investigation of other witnesses, Andersen is taken into custody. A DNA sample proves him to be the killer, but when the police moves out to arrest him, they find him hanged in his house and La Cour's fingerprints all over the place.

    Director: Jørn Faurschou

    Writer: Stig Thorsboe

  • Assistancemelding A-6/01
    8.0/1074 votes
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    #8 - Assistancemelding A-6/01

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/2002

    A hotel is set on fire in Nyborg, killing 32 people. A local pyromaniac, Henning Jørgensen, is taken into questioning, but fails to answer where the fire started. In a side story, a little boy witnesses how a bespectacled man places the corpse of a young woman on a bench in a parking lot. In a picture from the local newspaper, a face is very faintly viewed in the background, and the police trace the person in the picture to be Otto Lykke Larsen, a mentally retarded man. Larsen is taken into questioning. In the videos found in Larsen's apartment, fires are videotaped and Unit One suspects that Larsen was the pyromaniac responsible. In other videos, Larsen has sexual intercourse with a woman, Britt Hjort Jespersen. In questioning, Larsen admits that he was the one who set fire on the hotel, along with all the other fires recorded in his videotapes. In the mean time, the corpse of the young woman is identified as Jespersen. Larsen admits he killed Jespersen.

    Director: Jørn Faurschou

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-16/01
    8.0/1062 votes
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    #9 - Assistancemelding A-16/01

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/2002

    A young girl is found murdered on Bornholm and the unit is quickly involved as it looks like the work of one of Denmark's infamous serial killers, known as The Indian; unfortunately, the story spins into a personal tragedy for Ingrid.

    Director: Jannik Johansen

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-05/03 (1)
    8.0/1078 votes
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    #10 - Assistancemelding A-05/03 (1)

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 12/25/2003

    When a black prostitute is found murdered and things indicate the Danish minister of justice, the unit is once again called together, although they are all busy with other work; soon we learn that things are not what they seem and we venture into the Danish biker scene.

    Director: Ole Christian Madsen

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-05/03 (2)
    8.0/1073 votes
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    #11 - Assistancemelding A-05/03 (2)

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2004

    Things are taking a turn for the worse when both Johnny and Fischer find themselves in grave danger; their cover has been blown and the bikers want them dead. This episode marks the end of the series.

    Director: Ole Christian Madsen

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-19-00 (1)
    7.9/1080 votes
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    #12 - Assistancemelding A-19-00 (1)

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2000

    En hel egn er opskræmt, efter en hætteklædt mand gennem længere tid har forgrebet sig på ensomt boende ældre kvinde – overfaldene bliver stadigt grovere, og alle frygter, at det næste gang ender med mord. Rejseholdet bliver tilkaldt, og dermed bliver

    Director: Charlotte Sieling

    Writer: Nikolaj Scherfig

  • Assistancemelding A-15/01
    7.9/1065 votes
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    #13 - Assistancemelding A-15/01

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/3/2002

    Jette Møller is found murdered in a fish boutique in Vordingborg. Finn Møller, her husband, is taken into custody, but nothing is gaining out of his answers. Her phone is tapped and when a suspicious phone call remind Fischer and La Cour about Strangers on a Train, Møller is put under surveillance. He escapes when he sails from Vordingborg to an island. The following day, the body of Putte Bech Lorentzen is found in a sauna. Unit One suspects Larsen and arrest him. Through evidence found in the garden of Bech Lorentzen, Unit One arrests Bertram Bech Lorentzen, the husband of Putte, for the murder of Jette.

    Director: Ole Christian Madsen

    Writer: Kari Vidø

  • Assistancemelding A-17/01
    7.9/1064 votes
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    #14 - Assistancemelding A-17/01

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/2002

    When Johnny finds a couple of Polish girls in the back of a truck near Slagelse the unit is getting involved in a case of human trafficking and quickly tie it to the Polish mafia.

    Director: Jannik Johansen

    Writer: Kari Vidø

  • Assistancemelding A-26/00
    7.8/1076 votes
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    #15 - Assistancemelding A-26/00

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/2001

    The owner of a chocolate factory is found murdered. Did his murder have something to do with his appetite for young women and kinky sex, or is there something else at play?

    Director: Martin Schmidt

    Writer: Stig Thorsboe, Ola Saltin

  • Assistancemelding A-6/00
    7.7/1084 votes
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    #16 - Assistancemelding A-6/00

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2000

    When an elderly lady is murdered in Nakskov, details emerge from her younger female lodger, who says she saw an unfamiliar man leave the house just after the crime. Fischer's relationship with the local force is complicated because of a previous case and the conflict between them resurfaces. IP is worried about Kirsten's whereabouts, and Ingrid's husband Søren surprises her just as she is on her way out with Boysen.

    Director: Jørn Faurschou

    Writer: Flemming Jarlskov

  • Assistancemelding A-17/00
    7.7/1080 votes
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    #17 - Assistancemelding A-17/00

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2000

    Fischer and La Cour have taken a holiday on the North Sea with Fischer's family. Their holiday is soon ruined when the local force receives an anonymous tip-off that a homicide has been committed in the neighborhood. The murderer is at large and could strike again at any time. Ulf is summoned when Fischer loses control while detaining a subject.

    Director: Peter Flinth

    Writer: Nikolaj Scherfig

  • Assistancemelding A-25/00
    7.7/1075 votes
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    #18 - Assistancemelding A-25/00

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2001

    A lawyer with a history of getting defendants to retract confessions uses the technique to exonerate the perpetrator of a crime that the team previously investigated. Then the lawyer and his family are threatened by an unknown attacker and the team is called in to protect him.

    Director: Jannik Johansen

    Writer: Mikael Olsen

  • Assistancemelding A-13/01
    7.7/1063 votes
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    #19 - Assistancemelding A-13/01

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/2002

    An entire family is brutally murdered and the case leads the unit into a tragic story of incest and violence.

    Director: Ole Christian Madsen

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistance Report A-21/99, part 2
    7.6/1093 votes
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    #20 - Assistance Report A-21/99, part 2

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2000

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    Director: Niels Arden Oplev

    Writer: Iben Gylling

  • Assistancemelding A-2/01
    7.6/1073 votes
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    #21 - Assistancemelding A-2/01

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 12/30/2001

    A psychology student meets up with one of her regular chat friends. After she disappears it takes six months before Unit One is on the case.

    Director: Charlotte Sieling

    Writer: Ola Saltin, Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-7/01 (1)
    7.6/1068 votes
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    #22 - Assistancemelding A-7/01 (1)

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/2002

    Just released from prison the entrepreneur called farmand (daddy-o) is found murdered in a Danish train to Århus, which puts the unit smack in the middle of hypnosis and crime and they meet one of the smartest criminals in the series so far. Kaare commits a robbery just after being released from State Prison in Horsens. He shoots three people and is arrested by Fischer. Unit One suspects that Ivan has masterminded the coup.

    Director: Martin Schmidt

    Writer: Mai Brostrøm

  • Assistancemelding A-7/01 (2)
    7.6/1069 votes
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    #23 - Assistancemelding A-7/01 (2)

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/2002

    The tragic case of Kaare and Ivan continues, who will break first the police or Ivan?

    Director: Martin Schmidt

    Writer: Kari Vidø

  • Assistance Report A-21/99, part 1
    7.5/1098 votes
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    #24 - Assistance Report A-21/99, part 1

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2000

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    Director: Niels Arden Oplev

    Writer: N/A

  • Assistancemelding A-24/00
    7.5/1083 votes
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    #25 - Assistancemelding A-24/00

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/2001

    A young boy is kidnapped on his 9th birthday. The team discovers him alive and well, but getting him back to his mother is not simple. Ulf and Kirsten take a trip to London.

    Director: Jørn Faurschou

    Writer: Iben Gylling