Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport serves as the threshold between Ewert Grens’s flight and the police meeting that follows. The arrival is marked by a small, awkward descent from the aircraft, then a short journey through the terminal to a familiar meeting room at the airport police station.

Arrival and Transfer

The steps from the SAS plane are made of aluminum and awkwardly proportioned: too shallow for a normal step, yet too high to descend two at a time. Ewert Grens watches fellow passengers struggle with them too as they make their way down to a small bus waiting to take them to the terminal. The scene makes arrival a practical transition rather than a grand entrance, with the passengers moving together from aircraft to airport transport.

After a brief welcome to Copenhagen, the car travels four hundred meters and stops at a door roughly midway along the terminal building. From there, Ewert Grens and his companions enter the airport police station. The short distance between the terminal and the station gives the airport a dual role: it is both an international point of arrival and the immediate setting for official business.

The Airport Police Station

Ewert Grens has visited the airport police station several times before, so he knows how to reach the meeting room at the back. Coffee and Danish pastries are already set out there. These concrete details establish a familiar, functional meeting place within the airport rather than an unfamiliar office elsewhere in the city.

The station’s position inside the airport also shapes the sequence of the scene. The journey from plane to bus, terminal door, and meeting room carries Ewert Grens directly from travel into police work, with little separation between the two.

Narrative Role

Copenhagen Airport is presented through movement and orientation: the difficult aircraft steps, the waiting bus, the short drive, and Ewert Grens’s confident route to the room. The setting’s significance lies in this efficient passage from arrival to meeting, while his prior visits distinguish the police station as a known working environment within the larger terminal.