From Kanopy you can stream 3 full-length episodes of this series of intense crime Danish dramas. Unfortunately each episode will cost you one viewing credit. There are many more Department Q episodes which are not available on Kanopy.
As you learn in the first episode, chief detective Carl Mørck is such an oddball, that the police assign him to a dead-end job in the basement running Department Q where he is supposed to merely catalog unsolved cases. Instead, he and his new partner Assad prove to be determined detectives doggedly solving difficult and ugly cases.
- The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013) 1 hour 36 minutes
Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad. They dig into a case about a missing woman.
- The Absent One (2014) 1 hour 59 minutes
The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
- A Conspiracy of Faith (2016) 1 hour 52 minutes
Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out.
All these stories involve brutal, ugly crimes. If you can stand the nasty tension, then
DO NOT MISS!