Annika (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (2021)

Jamie Sives: DS Michael McAndrews

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Quotes 

• DS Michael McAndrews : Looks like schist rock.

  DI Annika Strandhed : I think it looks pretty good!

  DS Michael McAndrews : It'll be a gag like that that got him stabbed.

• [first lines] 

  DI Annika Strandhed : [voice-over]  I don't know about you, but a high point at school was learning about the Scandinavian sagas, and there was one in particular where a man foraging in the woods discovers a cabin where twelve women are at work at a loom. And it's not one of those charming wood looms. It's this gruesome thing made out of men's heads and human entrails. And the women start singing a song where they choose who is to be slain at the upcoming battle.

  DS Michael McAndrews : [voice-over]  Police. Any souls on board?

  DI Annika Strandhed : [voice-over]  And at the end, they get on their horses and fly away.

  [on-screen] 

  DI Annika Strandhed : These women were known as Valkyries. Now, I haven't seen a loom or heard anyone singing, but someone made a choice about whether the person on this boat should live or die. And I only get called out for the second thing.