Jana tells Ulrich everything is repeating after 33 years
At the rest home Ulrich's mother describes a dark figure in the forest and links Erik to his lost brother Mads; Helge chants that it will happen again.
Jana Nielsen
Every Dark moment featuring Jana Nielsen, in story order. Played by Anne Lebinsky.
9 moments · 10 min
Jana asks Tronte where he was last night
Jana presses her husband about his midnight absence and gets a thin story about bushes and a gas station, then says it all feels exactly like Mads.
Mikkel wakes in his own house with a stranger in it
Mikkel calls for his mother, but the woman who finds him does not know him and only wants to know where Mads is.
Egon accuses young Ulrich of killing the sheep
Egon barges in on teenage Ulrich, demands to know about the boy and the hoof, and Ulrich fires back that drinking cost him his brother.
1986: Jana's statement on the night Mads vanished
Old headlines about Mads Nielsen, then a recorded police interview in which his mother insists the whole family was home waiting.
Jana reveals Tronte's affair with Claudia Tiedemann
Over a memory of two brothers brawling at Christmas, Jana admits she lied to the police in 1986 and names the woman Tronte was with.
Egon tells Ulrich he knows that stare; Ulrich suggests cancer
The old policeman warns the released teen he can feel his guilt in his bones, and Ulrich fires back with a cruel one-liner.
1987: Jana outs Tronte's affair at Mads's empty-coffin funeral
At a burial with no body in 1987, Jana turns bitter condolences into a public accusation that Tronte was with Claudia when Mads vanished.
Young Tronte confesses to Jana he is glad his mother is gone
1954: Tronte tells Jana about the stranger who may be his father and shares a dark secret.