Simon Kefas—Kari Adel

Simon Kefas and Kari Adel’s relationship is a working partnership forged under pressure: Simon supplies experience and a willingness to revise his assumptions, while Kari independently tests the evidence and follows leads across cases. Their collaboration moves from uncertainty about a long-rumoured police mole to a joint investigation of Sonny Lofthus’s convictions, the trafficking network, and the danger facing its victims, culminating in Kari’s decisive role during a rescue and their public recognition as colleagues who have made progress against trafficking.

A partnership built around uncertain evidence

Simon first gives Kari an account of rumours that, years earlier, a police mole had leaked information to the person controlling much of Oslo’s drug and sex-trafficking activity. Despite extensive talk, no evidence had established that either the mole or the criminal figure existed. When Kari asks who the person was, Simon identifies him as the Twin. The story he offers is therefore not a settled case but an unresolved possibility, and their work begins with the problem of how to investigate a network whose existence has been difficult to prove.

Kari’s role is not simply to follow Simon’s lead. She searches for a possible connection between the Iversen murder and a triple homicide, examining both ordinary and unlikely links, and reports that she cannot find one. Simon agrees that the absence of a discovered connection does not rule one out, but Kari’s thoroughness makes the limits of the current theory plain. When Simon suddenly concludes that a suspect is not afraid the police will identify him but is instead worried about someone else, he offers a new interpretation for them to assess together. Their investigative rhythm alternates between Kari’s disciplined search and Simon’s efforts to read what a suspect’s apparent behaviour might mean.

Reopening Sonny Lofthus’s cases

At the art gallery in Høvikodden, Simon explains to Kari that he visited Fredrik to ask a single question, already expecting Fredrik to deny knowing whether Sonny had escaped prison. Simon says he needed to look at Fredrik while he answered, though Kari cautions that judging a lie from a person’s face is difficult. Simon acknowledges the limitation rather than treating his impression as proof. He then gives Kari a concrete task: review every one of Sonny’s convictions and find out whether other suspects had been considered in each case. Kari accepts, making clear that she will investigate the records rather than assume the convictions tell the whole story.

Her review complicates the picture. She finds that Sonny was convicted of killing an unidentified girl, possibly Vietnamese, who died from a drug overdose; Kalle Farrisen had initially been a suspect in that case. Sonny was also imprisoned for killing Oliver Jovic, a Kosovo Serb drug dealer found in Stensparken. Kari adds a third case: the killing of Kjersti Morsand, for which Sonny had also been suspected, while the investigation belonged to Buskerud Police. These cases do not by themselves establish a connection to Farrisen or Agnete Iversen, but they reveal a recurring possibility that Sonny may have been made to carry responsibility for crimes committed by others.

The possibility becomes more consequential when the criminal network’s own calculations are exposed. Nestor had arranged for Yngve Morsand to kill his wife and wanted Sonny to take the blame; the scheme involved coordinating Sonny’s day release, his location, and a corrupt prison officer. Nestor’s account identifies why Kari’s review matters: if Sonny confessed, he might expose the real perpetrators of the earlier murders, while a separate outcome could expose Yngve Morsand. Finding and silencing Sonny is presented within that network as the only safe option. Kari and Simon’s scrutiny of the convictions therefore threatens not merely an individual cover story but the protection linking criminals, prison staff, and compromised police officers.

From investigation to intervention

Simon’s concern extends beyond sorting out old cases. When he confronts Fidel Lae, he asks whether using dogs to attack a young girl attempting to escape slavery should be punished. The question connects their inquiry to the immediate harm sustained by the trafficking system and makes the stakes of the investigation explicit: identifying the people involved is inseparable from stopping what they are doing. The evidence supplied here does not establish every step of Kari’s work on the case, but it places her partnership with Simon within an effort that moves beyond suspicion toward intervention.

That intervention becomes visible when a van comes to a stop amid screams and barking. Simon’s attention fixes on Kari standing in its headlights in a long black leather coat, holding a shotgun; the van’s windscreen has been broken. Simon identifies himself as police and pulls the driver out, while Kari’s presence at the scene makes her an active participant in the operation rather than a distant investigator. The scene supplies a concrete counterpoint to their earlier uncertainty: the partnership that began by testing unproven connections has reached a moment in which they act together against the machinery of trafficking.

Recognition and significance

After the arrests, Simon directs journalists toward Commissioner Pontius Parr. Asked whether the operation represents progress on trafficking, Parr calls it an important step, says the issue has been prioritized, and congratulates Chief Inspector Kefas and his colleagues. His public statement recognizes the work as a collective police achievement, while the private tension between Parr and Simon remains evident. For Simon and Kari, the arrests provide an institutional result to an investigation that had begun in rumour and in the absence of demonstrable links.

The relationship’s significance lies in the division of labour it makes possible. Simon’s suspicions become more useful when Kari tests them against case files, and Kari’s findings acquire force when Simon connects them to the wider network and acts on what they reveal. Neither the early investigation nor the partnership rests on certainty alone: they proceed by distinguishing a missing link from proof that no link exists, and by treating convictions as records to examine rather than unquestionable explanations. Their eventual work against trafficking gives that method practical consequences, with Kari’s participation at the rescue and Parr’s acknowledgment of the arrests marking the shift from private inquiry to public action.