Season 2
10 x 60’
WELCOME BACK
TO FORTITUDE
Fortitude was one of the most talked-about dramas
of 2015 – a beautiful, bold and tense Arctic thriller.
Following critical acclaim and hit ratings, Fortitude is
back for a second season. The brilliant Sophie Gråbøl and
Richard Dormer are joined by a new all-star cast; featuring
Dennis Quaid. As the skies above Fortitude turn blood
red, a new story unfolds. And if you know Fortitude,
you know nothing is ever as it seems…
SEASON 2 SYNOPSIS
After last year, Fortitude will never
be the same again….
The islanders have overcome the
parasite threat of season one
and they’re doing their best to
keep going. They’ve wiped out any
trace of the wasps - the source of
the contamination - but residents
are still leaving in droves and the
mainland is trying to suffocate
the town by cutting off its funding
and supplies. Those who stay are
doing so because their life is here
and they wouldn’t have it any other
way. Out in the wilderness, nature
is growing ever more restless and
unpredictable. When the sky turns
red, locals fear it is a bad omen
for the town.
Sheriff Dan Anderssen disappeared
soon after he shot Elena and is
now missing and presumed dead.
Meanwhile, Vincent remains
traumatised by his wasp attack,
but the fact that he and Natalie
have finally succumbed to their
feelings for each other means he
can’t leave Fortitude. Governor
Odegard and Eric are struggling
to hold on to their marriage,
and Odegard looks likely to be
the first to throw in the towel as
she grapples with an intrusive
government figure that threatens
both her office and Fortitude itself.
Ultimately, with Eric struggling to
step into Dan’s shoes, Ingrid and
Petra are left in charge of policing
a restless and fragile community.
New faces are pulled into
Fortitude’s vortex…
Michael Lennox, PC Ingrid’s
stepfather, is hell-bent on landing
every Arctic fisherman’s dream:
king crab, worth hundreds of
thousands for a big catch.
Michael’s wife, Freya, is dying but
he is desperate to raise funds
to buy medical treatment for her.
And desperate circumstances call
for desperate measures. At the
Fortitude Arctic Research Centre,
newcomer Dr. Surinder Khatri
spots an unrivalled opportunity.
Driven by her ambition, and
evidence of a scientific holy grail,
Khatri is willing to push both
medical and ethical boundaries
in the name of science. But then
there is another horrendous
death… What looks at first like
a careless accident by a snowplough driver, is soon revealed to
be a barbaric murder. And that’s
when Dan returns - drunk, babbling
and wild to the point of feral.
Just as his own police team is
trying to figure out who would have
beheaded someone, a strange new
figure appears in town, hell-bent on
destroying an evil force he believes
has descended upon Fortitude.
There’s a demon amongst the herd
and it has to be stopped, no matter
the consequences…
KEY FORTITUDE
RESIDENTS
IN SEASON
TWO
AMONGST THE RETURNING CHARACTERS
NEW CHARACTERS
DAN ANDERSSEN
Played by Richard Dormer
(Game of Thrones, ’71)
HILDUR ODEGARD
Played by Sofie Gråbøl
(The Killing, Accused)
ERLING MUNK
Played by Ken Stott
(The Hobbit Trilogy, Rebus)
DR. KHATRI
Played by Parminder Nagra
(ER, The Blacklist)
MICHAEL LENNOX
Played by Dennis Quaid
(The Big Easy, The Day after Tomorrow)
VLADEK KLIMOV
Played by Robert Sheehan
(Misfits, Love/Hate)
As we open on season two, Sheriff Dan
Anderssen is missing and presumed
dead. After shooting the woman he
loved at the end of season one, our
tragic hero became consumed with
guilt and disappeared into the
wilderness, leaving Fortitude without
a sheriff. As the weeks pass by, the
people of Fortitude begin to wonder
whether the deputy, Eric, can fill
his shoes… When suddenly, Dan
reappears, a wild, broken ruin of a
man, as a new body is discovered on
the other side of town. Dan makes a
miraculous recovery – but not everyone
in Fortitude believes in miracles...
Just who, or what, has Dan become?
Governor Odegard is struggling to
hold her beloved town together as
it recovers from the terrible events
of season one. After thwarting the
plague of pre-historic parasitic wasps,
Fortitude is now sheriff-less and
facing crippling cuts at the hands of
the Norwegian government. As a new
bureaucrat in town threatens both her
office and the town itself, Odegard
finds herself not only losing grip of
her town, but also her marriage.
Still hurting from the revelation of
her husband’s affair, she begins to
question her love for Deputy Sheriff
Eric, as he fails to step up to what
both she and Fortitude need.
Erling is a mid-ranking governmental
functionary from the mainland, and
he’s known Hildur - and Fortitude - for
years. Following the horrific events
in season one, Erling arrived as the
government representative. He’s been
at the forefront of the cuts to supplies
and fuel subsidies, and Odegard has
been fighting him tooth and nail. But
when Hildur finally rebels, and takes
action for the people of Fortitude,
Erling must make a stand. It is no
longer just Fortitude that is a problem;
Governor Odegard is becoming
one too, and Erling will silence this
troublesome town by any means
necessary.
A scientific prodigy, Khatri has had
a successful career after studying
medicine at Cambridge, and has
worked for many prestigious
institutions. After working on the
devastating Ebola outbreak, Khatri
accepted a new position running her
own lab at the Fortitude Arctic
Research Centre following the events
of season one, and she is now making
herself at home. But for Khatri,
Fortitude represents an unrivalled
opportunity: a small isolated community
with a captive population, in an
environment that is undergoing change
and upheaval due to pathogen activity.
Will her ambition push her to the edge?
Michael is the patriarch of the Lennox
family and stepfather to PC Ingrid.
New to our story, but not new to the
town, the Lennox family has been in
Fortitude ever since local girl Freya
married Michael nearly 20 years ago.
Michael is a fisherman. Lately he
has been struggling to make ends
meet but he’s intent on landing every
Arctic fisherman’s dream: king crab,
worth hundreds of thousands for a
big catch. His quest is made all the
more desperate as he struggles to
come to terms with the recent terminal
diagnosis of his wife. Freya is going to
die – but it doesn’t stop Michael from
trying anything to find a cure.
Recently arrived in Fortitude from the
equally cold and brooding Siberia,
Vladek is working as an electrician
whilst he waits for his greater calling.
For, it’s not just the police hunting down
a monster - this enigmatic figure has
come to town hell-bent on confronting
the evil force that has descended upon
Fortitude and its inhabitants. Elemental
and quietly charismatic, Vladek is
utterly committed to his cause: there’s
a demon amongst the herd and they
have to be stopped, no matter the
consequences… But will his surprising
relationship with Michael’s wife and
Ingrid’s mother, Freya, be the undoing
of him?
CREDITS
CAST
Richard Dormer (My Boy Jack, Good Vibrations)
Sofie Gråbøl (Flickering Lights, Aftermath)
Ken Stott (The Missing, War and Peace)
Darren Boyd (Spy, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man)
Verónica Echegui (Apaches, Cuéntame)
Edvin Endre (Vikings, Eddie the Eagle)
Michelle Fairley (Games of Thrones, Suits)
Sienna Guillory (Love Actually, Resident Evil)
Björn Hylnur Haraldsson (Trapped, Grafir & Bein)
Mia Jexen (Dual, 2900 Happiness)
Brian McCardie (Rebellion, Outlander)
Alexandra Moen (Dickensian, Hotel Babylon)
Paul Ready (Ripper Street, Utopia)
Robert Sheehan (The Road Within, The Borrowers)
Ramon Tikaram (Happy Valley, New Tricks)
Luke Treadaway (Unbroken, Clash of the Titans)
with Parminder Nagra (Bend it Like Beckham, Alcatraz)
and Dennis Quaid (Vegas, Far From Heaven)
Executive Producers
Simon Donald (Low Winter Sun, Beautiful Creatures)
Faye Dorn (Inspector George Gently, Truckers)
Patrick Spence (The A Word, Marvellous)
Frith Tiplady (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders)
Directors
Hettie Macdonald (Doctor Who, The Tunnel)
Kieron Hawkes (Ripper Street, Cuffs)
Metin Hüseyin (Outlander, Agent Carter)
Created by
Simon Donald
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