Based on the third series of the original Bafta-award winning television drama The Killing When Detective Inspector Sarah Lund is contacted by National Intelligence about an assassination threat to Prime Minister Troels Hartmann, attention is drawn towards the oil giant, Zeeland, run by billionaire Robert Zeuthen. But when Zeuthen's 9-year-old daughter, Emilie, is kidnapped the investigation takes on a different dimension as it becomes clear that her disappearance is linked to the murder. Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign, made all the more turbulent because of the mounting financial crisis. He needs Zeeland's backing. Lund needs to make sense of the clues left by Emilie's perpetrator before it's too late.