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The violent scenario last night, which Tom himself only barely survived,
has left the streets desolate. Even the regulars at the low-cost pubs, who are
usually willing to go through fire and water to fight their inner loneliness and
maintain their daily alcohol level, are staying indoors. The only signs of life in
Copenhagen is a handful of homeless people and gypsies going from trash to
trash, while rummaging through empty bottles and cans, looking for gold.
It's a gloomy Sunday night, and he's thinking with great horror about
how everything is going to unfold tomorrow when the whole country is
reopened and the state of emergency is being lifted. Train operations have been
halted for fear of bombings, as well as planes, buses and ferry operations, not to
mention the pressure at the border crossings, which obviously also have been
closed.
He sees with his inner eye, kilometre-long queues of people and vehicles
waiting to get back to work or cross borders. That’s not going to work.
The government have promised a solution by 6 AM tomorrow. Public
transport is completely up-and-running by then and the highway roadblocks will
be lifted so the traffic can flow through as normal. He's looking at his new ROLEX
watch. In principle, he never uses the car or the watch on his phone. He loves his
watches and he has many in his collection.
Tom stares at his newly acquired Rolex. He hasn’t worn it to work yet,
with the Tag Heuer being the work-watch. The Rolex watch has cost over
150,000 kr.; he wears it as a symbol of all his hard work. The steadily increasing
high salary, which only he, Bjørn and Olina has in the agency, is the means that
makes purchases like this possible.
As he’s looking at his timepiece, he realizes he doesn’t have much time,
and for a rare occasion he is totally in line with the rest of the organization, the
Danish police and state – time is fleeting. He is pondering on he and Bjørn are
going to promise to the entire nation, that the threat is no longer there. It should
very well correspond with the reality of the situation. It must be as set in stone,
that the agency guarantees security. This means that before 3 AM tonight night,
they give strong evidence, which indicates that the attacks are directly targeted
at the agency and the Danish police - not civilians.