Northern Lights

A young cop investigates a series of bizarre murders in a small Icelandic town, and she discovers a global conspiracy

GENRE: TV. Limited Series. Sci-Fi. Drama. Mystery. Crime.

Hekla Egilsdottir is young cop in Seydisfjordur, a town on Iceland’s east coast that grew rapidly due to the success of Innoven Pharmaceuticals, a vaccine maker that cured a global pandemic. But prosperity brought crime, drugs, and now a series of bizarre murders that begin when a local woman’s domestic robot rapes and kills her.

Hekla investigates with the help of Jim Mason, an engineer sent by H.A.R., an American robotics company concerned about their liability and the pending launch of a new line of police bots.

Soon more victims are killed via “smart” technology, and clues at various crime scenes point to a reclusive, Neo-Luddite cult. But each suspect in the path of Hekla’s investigation is murdered, and she finds herself always one step behind. Until she and Jim hack into a huge financial transaction linked to Innoven Pharmaceuticals.

Soon the investigation implicates Hekla’s friends, family and superior officers. When evidence suggesting that her father’s suicide may have been murder, Hekla must confront emotional ghosts from her past as she struggles to expose the brutal truth: Innoven Pharmaceuticals manufactured the virus, and it escaped the lab. The company unleashed a global pandemic in order to sell the cure, and when the disease spread before vaccine supply was adequate, six million people died.

Billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains are at stake in addition to prison terms for the company’s executives and others complicit in the cover-up. Hekla’s life is soon in jeopardy, and she must use the skills and lessons learned in the course of the story to stay alive, protect Jim, and expose the conspiracy.