Simon Kefas—Sonny Lofthus

Simon Kefas—Sonny Lofthus is a relationship of pursuit, anonymous assistance, and belated recognition: Simon is trying to catch Sonny, yet information attributed to Sonny helps Simon locate people held by Hugo Nestor’s network. Their connection is set against Simon’s history of corruption and a criminal enterprise that reaches into the police, prisons, and business. As Simon moves closer to the truth, the pursuer’s work and the fugitive’s intervention begin to converge.

A Rumor Behind the Pursuit

When Simon is asked about an old allegation, he says that for years there had been rumors of a police mole leaking information to the person who controlled much of Oslo’s drug and sex-trafficking activity. The account had never been proved, and Simon describes it as a long-ago story surrounded by talk but lacking evidence. Asked who the criminal was, he names the Twin. This exchange establishes the uncertainty that initially frames the relationship: the threat is known by a name, but its existence and the identity of its protectors remain difficult to establish.

The later revelations give that rumor a more concrete shape. In Ab Lofthus’s diary, Markus reads that the Twin’s operation involved two corrupt police officers rather than a single mole. The diary describes their reasoning: each partner could provide the other with an alibi, allowing both to escape suspicion. It also records their complicity in overlooking drug dealing, human trafficking, and murder. The difference between the rumor of one insider and the diary’s account of two is consequential: the problem is not simply an isolated leak, but a paired arrangement built to defeat suspicion.

Simon’s Pursuit and Sonny’s Message

Simon’s official pursuit of Sonny does not prevent Sonny from contacting him indirectly. While Simon is with a doctor, a text arrives from an unknown sender: “You’ll find Nestor’s prisoners in Enerhauggata 96. Hurry. The Son.” Simon treats the warning as actionable. He interrupts the conversation and calls Sivert Falkeid to request a Delta raid at the address, pressing for a rapid response despite being told that it is the middle of the night.

The exchange is an important reversal in their positions. Simon is the police officer seeking Sonny, but Sonny’s anonymous message gives Simon a lead that can help the authorities reach Nestor’s prisoners. The evidence identifies the text’s signature as “The Son,” not a sender Simon can independently identify at that moment. It therefore establishes assistance without turning the exchange into an open alliance: Sonny remains out of reach, and the message reaches Simon through an anonymous channel.

The relationship is also tied to the larger problem of hidden information. Simon acts on the text rather than waiting for confirmation from its unknown sender. That decision links his pursuit of Sonny to a broader effort against Nestor’s operation: the immediate purpose of the message is to direct attention to people being held at a specific address, while the personal identity behind the tip remains concealed.

The Network Simon Is Trying to Expose

Simon’s questions about the use of dogs against a young girl who tried to escape slavery clarify the moral stakes of his investigation. He asks whether allowing a dog to bite her is desirable behavior, then whether using dogs to inflict such harm should be punished. The exchange presents his confrontation with the network not merely as a contest over Sonny’s whereabouts, but as an inquiry into violence and accountability. Simon’s language is direct: the conduct demands judgment rather than euphemism.

The account of Yngve Morsand’s murder reveals how the network could arrange both a killing and a false explanation of responsibility. Morsand wanted his unfaithful wife killed but insisted on killing her himself; what he paid Nestor’s group to arrange was someone else to take the blame. Nestor agreed to the scheme for three million kroner. Arild Franck helped arrange Sonny’s day release and location, while a corrupt prison officer was assigned to accompany him. The plan made Sonny useful as a scapegoat, and it tied the framing operation to corruption inside the prison system.

Nestor’s calculations show why Simon’s pursuit is dangerous to the organization. Among the bad outcomes Nestor fears are Sonny killing members of the network, Sonny being arrested and identifying the real killers in cases for which he has served time, or Morsand being arrested and revealing what happened. Nestor sees finding and killing Sonny as the only favorable scenario. The relationship between Simon and Sonny is thus formed under pressure from a system that wants Sonny silenced, whether by capture, false attribution, or death.

From Anonymous Tip to Public Identification

After police find another body, Åsmund Bjørnstad asks Simon for help. The body, found among the remains attributed provisionally to Hugo Nestor, has not yet been confirmed by dental records. Kari explains that she sent patrol cars after receiving an anonymous text message. The officers first found Lae’s phone positioned on the gate as though it had been left to be traced; a police dog then led them into the forest, where they found the body. The sequence shows that anonymous information is guiding police movements beyond Simon’s own response to “The Son.”

Simon questions Lae about the hand in which a gun was held and takes the answer—left-handed—as a clue. He then identifies the suspect as Sonny Lofthus. The available evidence does not establish that this identification followed directly from the message to Enerhauggata 96, but it places Simon and Kari in the investigation as the evidence and anonymous tips accumulate. Simon asks for a description and a wanted-person notice and wants the photograph sent to NRK and TV2. His approach changes the pursuit from a private search into a public appeal, even as Bjørnstad doubts that anyone will recognize Sonny from the picture.

This moment sharpens the relationship’s central tension. Simon is willing to mobilize public attention to find Sonny, while the investigation around him has also benefited from messages whose senders remain hidden. Sonny can therefore be both the object of police pursuit and a source of information about the criminal network. The connection is not a straightforward partnership: the text points Simon toward Nestor’s prisoners, but Simon still seeks to identify and capture Sonny.

Corruption, Recognition, and the Relationship’s Meaning

Simon’s confrontation with Iver Iversen makes the criminal network’s business connections explicit. Simon says that Iversen Property dealt with the Twin, laundering money from drug and trafficking activities in exchange for fictitious tax-saving losses worth hundreds of millions of kroner. Iversen denies knowing the Twin; Simon calls the denial a lie and says he has evidence of their collaboration. The accusation expands the scope of what Simon must understand: the operation is sustained not only by street-level violence and information leaks, but by financial arrangements capable of concealing its proceeds.

The diary provides a counterpoint to Simon’s earlier uncertainty. Its writer describes the two officers’ corrupt partnership, their fear of discovery, their use of stolen computers and Hotmail addresses to communicate, and their secret exchanges of messages. The Twin, according to the diary, wanted the writer to advance in the police force so that he would have access to sensitive information and could be more useful. These details clarify the institutional mechanics behind the old rumor: access, concealment, and career influence serve the criminal relationship. They also show that the truth is disclosed through a record read by Markus, not through a confession made directly to Simon or Sonny.

Taken together, the evidence defines Simon and Sonny’s relationship through opposing but intersecting roles. Simon is the pursuing officer, confronting a history of police complicity and following leads that may expose the people behind the network. Sonny remains the wanted man, yet the anonymous message signed “The Son” makes him an indirect guide to Nestor’s prisoners. The evidence supports neither a settled reconciliation nor a fully declared alliance. Instead, it presents a charged dependence: Simon seeks Sonny, while information associated with Sonny helps Simon reach beyond him toward the system that has made the pursuit possible.