When Roger lets his guard down, Lotte attacks him with a knife, causing Roger to shoot and kill her in self-defense.
Lotte admits that she put the GPS gel in Rogers hair, and that she suggested dinner so she could introduce him to Clas since Roger ended their affair, Clas used a counterfeit Rubens painting to meet Roger through Diana. Roger turns to Lotte for help, only to discover she has always worked for Clas, who is still a HOTE executive and trying to steal Pathfinders secrets. Playing dead until Clas leaves the scene, Roger shaves his head and hides his hair on a body, then swaps clothes with a detectives disfigured body to fake his death. Remembering that Clas developed a nanotechnology gel that is very difficult to remove, Roger realizes that hes being tracked through GPS gel rubbed in his hair by Diana, and Clas is driving the truck despite Rogers protests, the officers ignore him, allowing Clas to ram the car off a cliff. Driving to the station, the officers pull over to block a truck reported stolen. Waking in a hospital, Roger learns the police think he is Ove, and arrest him for the farmers murder when he tries to escape. Roger, believing Clas is chasing him, drives erratically and falls from the tractor, only to find his pursuer is a stranger wanting to help. Trying to escape on a tractor, Roger is attacked by Clas dog, which he kills by impaling it on the tractors forks. Clas tails Roger to the farm with his dog and murders the farmer, but Roger evades them. Trying to lose Clas tracking devices, Roger switches his car for Oves and throws his clothes in a lake, changing into Oves spare uniform and fleeing to a farm where Ove used to stay. Finding Clas has followed him to Oves cabin, Roger narrowly escapes after a scuffle. Driving Ove to his cabin, Roger puts him in bed and ignores his demands for medical attention, as he does not want the police involved Ove pulls a gun in response, causing a shoot-out where Roger accidentally kills Ove.
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The next morning, Roger finds Ove in his Rogers car, apparently dead from a poison syringe embedded in the car seat when Roger dumps Ove in a lake, the water revives him, as he didnt get a full dose of the poison. Later, after a seemingly successful meeting with Pathfinder, an upset Roger flippantly informs Clas that the company may be looking for someone else to fill the position. Roger manages to steal it from Clas home, but he discovers Dianas cellphone beside Clas bed. Despite his misgivings, Roger meets with Ove to work out details on stealing the painting. Roger takes Clas to lunch to discuss the job at Pathfinder, and soon learns Clas used to be a member of a special forces unit that specialized in tracking people. Diana reveals that Clas has asked her to authenticate a lost Rubens painting he inherited that is believed to be worth millions. Rogers wife and art gallery owner, Diana Synnove Macody Lund, introduces him to Clas Greve Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, a former executive for GPS tech company HOTE, who wants to work for Pathfinder, whom Roger is recruiting for. Asked to dinner by his mistress, Lotte Julie Olgaard, Roger declines and ends their relationship.
Roger Brown Aksel Hennie, Norways most successful headhunter, supports his lavish lifestyle by stealing paintings from his clients his partner, Ove Eivind Sander, works at a surveillance company and deactivates security at the victims homes, allowing Roger to swap the art for a counterfeit.