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 is growing ever more restless and and Odegard looks likely to be thousands for a big catch. death… What looks at first like be the same again…. unpredictable. When the sky turns the first to throw in the towel as Michael’s wife, Freya, is dying but a careless accident by a snow- The islanders have overcome the red, locals fear it is a bad omen she grapples with an intrusive he is desperate to raise funds plough driver, is soon revealed to parasite threat of season one for the town. government figure that threatens to buy medical treatment for her. be a barbaric murder. And that’s and they’re doing their best to Sheriff Dan Anderssen disappeared both her office and Fortitude itself. And desperate circumstances call when Dan returns - drunk, babbling keep going. They’ve wiped out any soon after he shot Elena and is Ultimately, with Eric struggling to for desperate measures. At the and wild to the point of feral. trace of the wasps - the source of now missing and presumed dead. step into Dan’s shoes, Ingrid and Fortitude Arctic Research Centre, Just as his own police team is the contamination - but residents Meanwhile, Vincent remains Petra are left in charge of policing newcomer Dr. Surinder Khatri trying to figure out who would have are still leaving in droves and the traumatised by his wasp attack, a restless and fragile community. spots an unrivalled opportunity. beheaded someone, a strange new mainland is trying to suffocate but the fact that he and Natalie New faces are pulled into Driven by her ambition, and figure appears in town, hell-bent on the town by cutting off its funding have finally succumbed to their Fortitude’s vortex… evidence of a scientific holy grail, destroying an evil force he believes and supplies. Those who stay are feelings for each other means he Michael Lennox, PC Ingrid’s Khatri is willing to push both has descended upon Fortitude. doing so because their life is here can’t leave Fortitude. Governor stepfather, is hell-bent on landing medical and ethical boundaries There’s a demon amongst the herd and they wouldn’t have it any other Odegard and Eric are struggling every Arctic fisherman’s dream: in the name of science. But then and it has to be stopped, no matter way. Out in the wilderness, nature to hold on to their marriage, king crab, worth hundreds of there is another horrendous the consequences… KEY FORTITUDE RESIDENTS IN SEASON TWO

AMONGST THE RETURNING CHARACTERS NEW CHARACTERS

DAN ANDERSSEN HILDUR ODEGARD ERLING MUNK DR. KHATRI MICHAEL LENNOX VLADEK KLIMOV Played by Richard Dormer Played by Sofie Gråbøl Played by Ken Stott Played by Parminder Nagra Played by Dennis Quaid Played by Robert Sheehan (Game of Thrones, ’71) (The Killing, Accused) (The Hobbit Trilogy, Rebus) (ER, The Blacklist) (The Big Easy, The Day after Tomorrow) (Misfits, Love/Hate)

As we open on season two, Sheriff Dan Governor Odegard is struggling to Erling is a mid-ranking governmental A scientific prodigy, Khatri has had Michael is the patriarch of the Lennox Recently arrived in Fortitude from the Anderssen is missing and presumed hold her beloved town together as functionary from the mainland, and a successful career after studying family and stepfather to PC Ingrid. equally cold and brooding Siberia, dead. After shooting the woman he it recovers from the terrible events he’s known Hildur - and Fortitude - for medicine at Cambridge, and has New to our story, but not new to the Vladek is working as an electrician loved at the end of season one, our of season one. After thwarting the years. Following the horrific events worked for many prestigious town, the Lennox family has been in whilst he waits for his greater calling. tragic hero became consumed with plague of pre-historic parasitic wasps, in season one, Erling arrived as the institutions. After working on the Fortitude ever since local girl Freya For, it’s not just the police hunting down guilt and disappeared into the Fortitude is now sheriff-less and government representative. He’s been devastating Ebola outbreak, Khatri married Michael nearly 20 years ago. a monster - this enigmatic figure has wilderness, leaving Fortitude without facing crippling cuts at the hands of at the forefront of the cuts to supplies accepted a new position running her Michael is a fisherman. Lately he come to town hell-bent on confronting a sheriff. As the weeks pass by, the the Norwegian government. As a new and fuel subsidies, and Odegard has own lab at the Fortitude Arctic has been struggling to make ends the evil force that has descended upon people of Fortitude begin to wonder bureaucrat in town threatens both her been fighting him tooth and nail. But Research Centre following the events meet but he’s intent on landing every Fortitude and its inhabitants. Elemental whether the deputy, Eric, can fill office and the town itself, Odegard when Hildur finally rebels, and takes of season one, and she is now making Arctic fisherman’s dream: king crab, and quietly charismatic, Vladek is his shoes… When suddenly, Dan finds herself not only losing grip of action for the people of Fortitude, herself at home. But for Khatri, worth hundreds of thousands for a utterly committed to his cause: there’s reappears, a wild, broken ruin of a her town, but also her marriage. Erling must make a stand. It is no Fortitude represents an unrivalled big catch. His quest is made all the a demon amongst the herd and they man, as a new body is discovered on Still hurting from the revelation of longer just Fortitude that is a problem; opportunity: a small isolated community more desperate as he struggles to have to be stopped, no matter the the other side of town. Dan makes a her husband’s affair, she begins to Governor Odegard is becoming with a captive population, in an come to terms with the recent terminal consequences… But will his surprising miraculous recovery – but not everyone question her love for Deputy Sheriff one too, and Erling will silence this environment that is undergoing change diagnosis of his wife. Freya is going to relationship with Michael’s wife and in Fortitude believes in miracles... Eric, as he fails to step up to what troublesome town by any means and upheaval due to pathogen activity. die – but it doesn’t stop Michael from Ingrid’s mother, Freya, be the undoing Just who, or what, has Dan become? both she and Fortitude need. necessary. Will her ambition push her to the edge? trying anything to find a cure. of him? CAST CREDITS

Richard Dormer (My Boy Jack, Good Vibrations) Mia Jexen (Dual, 2900 Happiness) Executive Producers Sofie Gråbøl (Flickering Lights, Aftermath) Brian McCardie (Rebellion, Outlander) Simon Donald (Low Winter Sun, Beautiful Creatures) Ken Stott (The Missing, War and Peace) Alexandra Moen (Dickensian, Hotel Babylon) Faye Dorn (Inspector George Gently, Truckers) Darren Boyd (Spy, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man) Paul Ready (Ripper Street, Utopia) Patrick Spence (The A Word, Marvellous) Verónica Echegui (Apaches, Cuéntame) Robert Sheehan (The Road Within, The Borrowers) Frith Tiplady (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders) Edvin Endre (Vikings, Eddie the Eagle) Ramon Tikaram (Happy Valley, New Tricks) Directors Michelle Fairley (Games of Thrones, Suits) Luke Treadaway (Unbroken, Clash of the Titans) Hettie Macdonald (Doctor Who, The Tunnel) Sienna Guillory (Love Actually, Resident Evil) with Parminder Nagra (Bend it Like Beckham, Alcatraz) Kieron Hawkes (Ripper Street, Cuffs) Björn Hylnur Haraldsson (Trapped, Grafir & Bein) and Dennis Quaid (Vegas, Far From Heaven) Metin Hüseyin (Outlander, Agent Carter) Created by Simon Donald www.sky.com/skyvision