The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai BrostrĂžm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland.
The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.
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Best Episodes of The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
Keres (1)
S2 Ep7
8.2
20th Nov 2005
Hallgrim's team is sidetracked in their search for a suspected suicide bomber who may be planning an attack at the wedding of an Iraqi professor's daughter, in Copenhagen.
Chronos (1)
S2 Ep1
8.2
9th Oct 2005
Hallgrim moves into the Opera Hotel to recuperate and, like the hero in the Hitchcock film Rear Window, becomes fascinated by a beautiful young woman in a flat opposite. When he sees a man enter and start beating her, he films the attack and he recognises the man as Benjamin Stern, an unscrupulous member of the Israeli mafia. He later discovers a disturbing connection with a child pornography ring.
Thanatos (2)
S3 Ep4
8.0
29th Oct 2006
The police locate Kyle, the murderer of the little Danish girl, on his honeymoon in Oslo.
Thanatos (1)
S3 Ep3
8.0
22nd Oct 2006
The murder and abuse of a little girl in Stockholm lead Hallgrim and his team to a world-wide paedophilia network and a mysterious man who calls himself "The Groom".
Keres (2)
S2 Ep8
8.0
27th Nov 2005
Hallgrim and his team try to stop a known terrorist called "The White Prince of Denmark" and Amina, a convicted criminal, from detonating a bomb on a school bus.
Codename: Sisyphus (2)
S1 Ep2
7.9
17th Oct 2004
Hallgrim is still in hot pursuit of ex-KGB man Sergei Varsjinskij and Luka Ivanovitsj Budanov; a new face joins the team while the relationship between Marie and Hallgrim heats up.
Codename: Hades
S1 Ep8
7.9
28th Nov 2004
After hovering between life and death, Hallgrim survives a knife attack. He and the team must now locate the perpetrator who is fighting to control the Balkan drug trade into Scandinavia.
Worst Episodes of The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
Ithaka (1)
S3 Ep7
6.5
19th Nov 2006
Thea Nellemann's team is organising a surprise party for Hallgrim to celebrate his 40th. But he goes missing when he finds out that he has fathered a little girl. In Iceland he meets up with a journalist, Linda, who is writing a story about the company Gentech. She's also interested in the jamming device that the former Serbian police commissioner Bosco allegedly has.
Codename: Sisyphus (1)
S1 Ep1
7.0
10th Oct 2004
The enigmatic Hallgrim Hallgrimsson is on his way to Iceland to see his sick mother when he is called back because a policeman has been killed at Copenhagen airport. Four murders and a daring rescue later detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson, AKA The Eagle, accepts a position in the police commissioner's new team so he can work on solving the case.
Codename: Nemesis
S1 Ep7
7.3
21st Nov 2004
Hallgrim and Marie attend a conference in Sweden where they locate the person behind the Lithuanian sex trade. A price is put on Hallgrim's head, and someone comes to collect.
When the police seize a consignment of enriched uranium, Hallgrim makes a deal with Sergei in order to discover its planned destination. Meanwhile, Frandsen's life hangs in the balance as he is checked for radiation sickness.
Codename: Ares (2)
S1 Ep6
7.5
14th Nov 2004
In trying to find the truth about a batch of uranium that was seized by the Danish police, Hallgrim befriends a Chechen scientist in Oslo who has a sinister mission in life.
Codename: Skylla
S1 Ep3
7.6
24th Oct 2004
A wealthy Norwegian businesswoman is found dead outside Hallgrimâs hotel and the team is led once more to Sergei Varsjinskij and an intricate money-laundering scheme.
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey Episode Guide
Codename: Sisyphus (1)
S1 Ep1
7.0
10th Oct 2004
The enigmatic Hallgrim Hallgrimsson is on his way to Iceland to see his sick mother when he is called back because a policeman has been killed at Copenhagen airport. Four murders and a daring rescue later detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson, AKA The Eagle, accepts a position in the police commissioner's new team so he can work on solving the case.
Codename: Sisyphus (2)
S1 Ep2
7.9
17th Oct 2004
Hallgrim is still in hot pursuit of ex-KGB man Sergei Varsjinskij and Luka Ivanovitsj Budanov; a new face joins the team while the relationship between Marie and Hallgrim heats up.
Codename: Skylla
S1 Ep3
7.6
24th Oct 2004
A wealthy Norwegian businesswoman is found dead outside Hallgrimâs hotel and the team is led once more to Sergei Varsjinskij and an intricate money-laundering scheme.
Codename: Ifgenia
S1 Ep4
7.7
31st Oct 2004
The trail of murders, including the crown witness, shows Hallgrim that he is getting dangerously close to Sergei. Nervous, Hallgrim worries for Marie's safety and spends the night at her apartment. Searching for clues in Beritâs effects Ditte receives a tip to look for the one thing that doesnât fit the normal pattern; a plastic card that contains a map leads the team to an industrial area in the harbour and some very dangerous goods.
Codename: Ares (1)
S1 Ep5
7.5
7th Nov 2004
When the police seize a consignment of enriched uranium, Hallgrim makes a deal with Sergei in order to discover its planned destination. Meanwhile, Frandsen's life hangs in the balance as he is checked for radiation sickness.
Codename: Ares (2)
S1 Ep6
7.5
14th Nov 2004
In trying to find the truth about a batch of uranium that was seized by the Danish police, Hallgrim befriends a Chechen scientist in Oslo who has a sinister mission in life.
Codename: Nemesis
S1 Ep7
7.3
21st Nov 2004
Hallgrim and Marie attend a conference in Sweden where they locate the person behind the Lithuanian sex trade. A price is put on Hallgrim's head, and someone comes to collect.
Codename: Hades
S1 Ep8
7.9
28th Nov 2004
After hovering between life and death, Hallgrim survives a knife attack. He and the team must now locate the perpetrator who is fighting to control the Balkan drug trade into Scandinavia.
