Mammon

Mammon

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NRK1 Ended Drama • Crime • Thriller

2 Seasons · 14 Episodes · Premiered January 1, 2014 · Ended February 14, 2016

Mammon is a thriller series in the spirit of "All the Presidents men". However, in this story not all journalists are good, and the hunt for truth far more personal. Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life's biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother's family.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

6 episodes
E01
Offeret
Wed, Jan 1 2014 8:30 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Uncompromising journalist Peter Verås pursues tips from an anonymous source about a scandal involving bribery and embezzlement at one of Norway's leading finance companies. When this leads to the suicide of a senior executive, who happens to be his brother Daniel, the grief-stricken Peter quits his investigative job at the Evening Times and takes up sports reporting. Until 5 years later, when he and his brother's widow Eva receive a mysterious posthumous message from her husband, implying that all is not as it seems. Then another executive, Åge Haugen, commits suicide in front of him, saying the word "Abraham."
E02
Oppvåkningen
Mon, Jan 6 2014 8:30 PM GMT+0000 60 min
The police suspect Peter of having something to do with the recent death, which like his brother's 5 years earlier, occurred on October 22nd. He continues his secret investigation, joined by economic crimes analyst Vibeke Haglund, digging deeper into ties with foreign companies, his suspicions deepening that there is a conspiracy of some kind.
E03
Nedstigningen
Mon, Jan 13 2014 8:30 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Peter and Vibeke receive an incriminating video from an anonymous source. After finding that both suicides were in possession of paintings referring to child offering in the Bible, Peter is sure that someone pushed them to suicide out of concern for the safety of their children. Peter's estranged nephew Andreas also starts to dig into his late father's past. At this point, attention turns to how financier Tom Lied rose so quickly to become one of Norway's wealthiest men.
E04
Pakten
Mon, Jan 20 2014 8:30 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Peter and the team from the Evening Times suspect a conspiracy that reaches deep into the corridors of power within finance, politics and media, involving bigger crimes than suicide. But if others are in his brother's situation, they are too afraid to reveal themselves. A mysterious whistle blower has been trying to warn Peter about what happened, and Peter must find him if he is to determine what started everything 25 years earlier.
E05
Drapet
Mon, Jan 27 2014 8:30 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Peter and Eva desperately try to find his nephew Andreas, who has disappeared. Going to the police will put his life further in danger. Then a coded message leads them and Vibeke to the discovery of a secret network.
E06
Dommedag
Mon, Feb 3 2014 8:30 PM GMT+0000 60 min
Peter is running out of options. With everyone who was helping him injured or killed, Peter is now Norway's most wanted man, pursued by both the police and the conspirators, as he races against the clock to rescue his nephew and uncover the truth behind the shadowy criminal cabal. Can he get help from his old boss, Frank Mathiesen?

Season 2

8 episodes
Jon Øigarden
Jon Øigarden as Peter
Nils Ole Oftebro
Nils Ole Oftebro as Frank Mathiesen
Trond Espen Seim
Trond Espen Seim as Michael Woll
Andrea Bræin Hovig
Andrea Bræin Hovig as Yvonne Haugen
Anders T. Andersen
Anders T. Andersen as Daniel
Andreas Cappelen
Andreas Cappelen as Sportsjournalist Bakke
Andrine Sæther
Andrine Sæther as Økokrimsjef
Anna Bache-Wiig
Anna Bache-Wiig as Inger Marie Steffensen
Hallvard Holmen
Hallvard Holmen as Åge Haugen
Hilde Hannah Buvik
Hilde Hannah Buvik as Elisabeth

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