There’s nothing quite like the bleak landscapes and grisly murderers of Nordic noir. The subgenre of crime drama produced in Scandinavian countries has become especially popular in the streaming era, with shows like The Åre Murders, Deadwind, and Detective Hole capturing the attention of audiences globally.
It’s been five years since the first season aired, and you don’t actually have to have seen it to be up to speed with Hide and Seek (though we’d recommend watching the exceptionally gripping episodes). Many years have passed since the events of Season 2, and there’s been one big development since we last saw detectives Thulin and Hess: the pair became romantically involved, though Hess walked away from the relationship and from Copenhagen, leaving Thulin and her daughter Le (Ester Birch). But a new case, about a dangerous new killer, brings him back to the city and back into Thulin’s life. Their dynamic is the only connection from the past season to Hide and Seek.
Let’s break down the shocking, violent, and thrilling ending of The Chestnut Man: Hide and Seek.
Danica Curcic as Naia Thulin —Tine Harden—NetflixIn the penultimate episode of Hide and Seek, we learn of a shocking discovery: the DNA under the nails of Emma Holst matches that of Thøger Staal’s, the violent killer from the ‘90s murder that opened the season. But Thøger has been dead for over 30 years, meaning it has to be someone closely related to him. And the DNA belongs to a female, meaning that the killer is Thøger’s daughter, Thea. Except Thea changed her name when she was a child to protect her from always being known as the child of a killer. Turns out Thea is none other than Signe (Ida Cæcilie Rasmussen), Marie’s closest confidant.
As a child, Signe was bright, curious, and inquisitive. Her old teacher reveals to Hess that she was part of the school class that uncovered the dead body left behind by her father. The teacher long suspected that Signe was aware that her father committed unspeakable crimes, and the teacher was also suspicious that Signe once essentially crucified a dying chick, jamming sticks into its mouth and arms, though he never reported this. That means Signe has been deeply troubled ever since she was a young child.
The first person she killed, Emma, as Signe sees it, was responsible for breaking up the family she worked so hard to find after a lifetime of rejection. This is further emphasized when she confesses to Marie that she killed her daughter, saying, “It was Emma’s fault that my family was torn apart. I had to kill her.”
Sofie Gråbøl as Marie Holst —Tine Harden—NetflixWhat happens at the end of Hide and Seek?
In a conversation with a worker at the Agency for Family Law, Hess discovers that Signe would regularly spend time at her father’s old cottage—the same one where her father would torture children. Hess heads there and finds Signe—though before he arrived, she threw Marie into her empty pool in the backyard, leaving her to bleed out. A fight breaks out as Signe attacks with an axe (her signature murder weapon), striking Hess in the leg. He escapes into the marshes, and Signe follows, chanting the counting rhyme that she’d threaten her victims with.Signe finds Hess in the marshes and attacks. They fall into the water, and she attempts to drown him. As he fades from consciousness, he sees Thulin appear behind Signe. Naia, however, was killed in a jaw-dropping twist in Episode 3, leaving their relationship tragically unresolved, just as it seemed things were picking back up for the pair. It’s not actually Naia, of course—it’s Marie, who escaped from the pool to stab Signe several times, killing her, saving herself and Hess, and avenging the death of her daughter.
Two weeks later, we find Hess, standing over the grave of Thulin. He reconciles with her daughter, Le, who adored him before he left them, at the cemetery. She asks if he’s saying goodbye to her mother before going away again. Hess tells Le that he wants to show her something first. In a genuinely heartwarming twist, and one of the few joyful moments of a brutal season, Hess doesn’t actually want to run away. Instead, he’s bought a place in town and wants Le to move in with him, so he can be the father figure she desperately needs after losing her mother. The two share a warm embrace, as the season ends. Just like at the end of Season 1 of The Chestnut Man, the show wisely reminds us that even in the face of unthinkable cruelty and shocking realities, people are still capable of good.
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