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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.
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