Toll - Episode Guide

At Norway's largest airport, Gardermoen, Steffen in the drug section suspects that a traveler from Addis Ababa is trying to smuggle heroin into the country. And at Svinesund they land one of the year's largest seizures of heroin and cocaine.

In Svinesund, the seizure of several tens of liters of beer and spirits in a car leads to Eva Linn having to search the house of a man they suspect is engaged in resale. Changiz at the narcotics section at Gardermoen finds two large suitcases full of khat, and picks out two Israeli sisters as their owners.

At Norway's largest airport, hash tourists are a regular. But it's still not every day that Steffen meets someone who asks to be handcuffed. The Østland terminal is the largest reception for mail into Norway. Several million pieces of mail pass through this building every year. Here the customs officers seize knives, pills and drugs on a daily basis. David has worked during training here and is now finally getting distinctions on his shoulders and the title of Customs Inspector.

At Svinesund, customs officer Omar meets a man who lies and is caught with far too many liters of alcohol. Steffen at Gardermoen stops a stressed-out man from Amsterdam who he suspects is trying to smuggle heroin inside. It will be 1-0 to the customs officers when they finally uncover over a million Norwegian kroner hidden in the stereo system of a car.

At Svinesund, they continue to make large seizures. During this shift, Martine comes across a car from Romania which turns out to be filled to the brim with pill bottles. Changiz stops two ladies at Gardermoen from smuggling hundreds of narcotic pills in their abdomens.

Omar has a day out of the ordinary, this time he ends up in the middle of a conflict with a family that has chosen a very special way to smuggle food across the border. At the Østland terminal, David seizes several knives and a large batch of Viagra pills. A slightly different potency remedy that advertises as containing rhinoceros appears at Gine's at the Tollabatoriet.

The Norwegian national border is over 256 miles long. From Svinesund in the south to Grense Jakobselv in the north. In Polmak, we meet Silje and Mats on night duty at the border between Norway and Finland. Those who pass with goods or alcohol outside opening hours often have a plan to smuggle.

At Gardermoen, a new night watch offers arrivals from exotic countries - which could mean capture for Changiz at the drug section. We get to join Vaktlag 1 at Svinesund on a planned operation against a Polish liquor and beer smuggling gang.

The customs officers seize quantities of illegal goods every day, but the masterminds make sure to constantly recruit new couriers, and constantly change their methods of importation. Eva Linn at Svinesund hunts down a man with 50,000 cigarettes in the car.

In the customs laboratory, chemist Gine works to uncover both old and ever-new narcotic substances. We get to join Jørgen at Svinesund when he scans the cars of criminal couriers and masterminds. Somewhere in Norway someone has to manage without green pills at a party and more than a hundred thousand cigarettes are picked up on a scanner and never make it across the border.

At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Steffen from the drug section hunts black money. The Labor Crime Squad in Oslo hunts for illegal snuff and in the post office's department for large parcels they come across peanut butter with heroin!

As one of the richest countries in the world, there are many who apply to Norway. Some to get a better life, some to work and some with slightly less honorable intentions. At Svinesund we meet some destinies that need more care than punishment, and at Oslo Airport Gardermoen the drug hunter Changiz meets fortune hunters at both ends of the scale. One is fleeing his home country and the other has a suitcase full of illegal goods.

At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Steffen and his colleagues have to deal with a mentally ill man, and during a check at Svinesund, Thomas and the security team pick 1 person with too much alcohol in their cargo. Not everyone appreciates being taken in for customs control, but some take it in a better mood than others.

Most people know who they are going to meet and what the purpose of the trip is when they are on their way into Norway, but some have a slightly woolly agenda. A man with a strange travel pattern arouses the interest of Changiz and his colleagues at Oslo Airport Gardermoen. At Svinesund, Martine suspects that she has stopped a gang of burglars.

Among everyone who passes through Svinesund, lands by plane at Gardermoen or orders and sends packages in the post, there are many ignorant people. Some claim they don't know the rules for what they are allowed to bring in and out of the country, others think they should be allowed to take whatever they want with them. Some have a pocket full of money or a car full of beer.

A man tries to smuggle freshly butchered pork chops from Morocco to Norway. On a train from Sweden to Norway, a young man has bad luck as dog handler Susann and dog Jacko enter in search of drugs.

The drug hunter Steffen at Gardermoen takes in a man who claims he is 100 percent honest. Dog handler Susann has started on the long road to training her next drug dog, Billie. We join when the dog searches for cocaine for the first time.

Some come to Norway to buy something, others come to sell something. The tax collector Steffen is at work at Oslo Airport Gardermoen when he meets a man from Spain who buys phones on Finn.no, but he is also known to have sold drugs on the streets of Oslo in the past.

At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, some former acquaintances turn up on the same flight. Steffen finds five liters of liquor in the suitcase of a 16-year-old. Martine and partner Marte in Svinesund hunt down a suspicious car which turns out to be hiding drugs.

At Svinesund, Thomas and partner Bjørn Erik are out and about, picking up acquaintances who are constantly trying to bring drinks far in excess of their quota. A very drunk man shows up at Oslo Airport and can openly say that he smuggles amphetamines in his ass.

Ecstasy, rivotril, valium, tramadol, oxycontin... The mail is overflowing with medicines and narcotic tablets. The pills also appear at border crossings in Norway. At Gardermoen, Steffen stops two people who have been hoarding narcotic pills in Spain.

Norway has the world's second longest coastline and every year drugs enter Norwegian ports via ship traffic. In Bergen, a separate boat service in the customs office works with the control of large vessels that come from all over the world. At Svinesund, the customs officers keep up the pace and uncover large quantities of drugs - with a street value of NOK five million - in a car.

At Svinesund, a smaller trailer arrives that stands out, and the drug dog Jacko gets rid of drugs in the trailer. Back in Finnmark, Mats will soon have his last shift with Silje on the Finnish border, before he moves on to work on the border with Russia. The last shift should turn out to pay off well for the partner couple.

The last episode of the season is about people who lie. One thing that is true in customs officers' everyday life is that people lie - about everything. They lie about who they are, where they come from, what they are going to and, not least, what they have with them. Steffen picks out a dog and lots of pills in the crowd of travelers at Gardermoen. The customs officers at Svinesund catch one after the other in a lie and at the post office's eastern terminal they make discoveries of fake driver's licenses!

The corona pandemic has arrived in Norway. Although car traffic is at a low level, wagon trains and vehicles with goods are allowed to enter the country. As darkness descends over Svinesund, a Slovenian truck rolls in across the border. This will turn out to be hiding a record seizure. At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, the pandemic has also left its mark. Most of the planes are on the ground, but one flight will get the blood rushing through the body of customs officer Steffen.

After the pandemic spread like a blanket over the world and led to strict border controls, major changes have taken place in the drug trade. There has been a sudden cannabis drought in Norway, and at Oslo Airport Gardermoen the customs officer Changiz is always looking to reveal new methods for introducing drugs. In Oslo, the customs laboratory receives a batch of toys that turn out to be prepared with THC, which is the most important drug in cannabis products such as hashish and marijuana

It has gone from red to yellow level in Norway. The customs officers at Svinesund have more to do. At Østlandsterminalen, where the customs officers check mail from abroad, there are constantly new - and often strange - discoveries. Among these is synthetic urine, which is clearly also something Norwegians need during the pandemic. At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, customs officer Changiz comes across a suitcase with six million Norwegian kroner in cash.

The pandemic continues. It has become part of everyday life, but not everyone has caught on to the current rules. The smugglers continue at almost the same pace, and at Østlandsterminalen, where they check mail, they make a record number of seizures per day.

In the season's first meeting with the customs officials at Magnormoen, we meet Lars. He stops a trailer driver who doesn't want to tell the truth. If you tell the truth in customs control, the control goes faster. If, on the other hand, you choose to lie, you give the customs officer good reasons to spend a long time.

Where do you hide what is not to be discovered? For many smugglers, there are no borders. There are always spaces, pockets and small cavities for illegal goods in, for example, a gearbox, a bib or maybe just in your panties?

At Svinesund, the customs officials Martine and Marthe try to seduce with music, while at Oslo Airport Gardermoen Changiz does not let the bag of goodies pass without an additional check.

At Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Steffen stops a man with a hat and hash inside. At the border with Sweden, at Magnormoen, customs officer Lars suspects a well-grown man with art in the back seat.

At Gardermoen, a familiar plant from a familiar destination appears. Ten miles further north, at Flisa, a rarely packed car stops.

When criminals are not allowed to enter the country themselves, "goods taxi" can be the solution. Illegal, private transport of goods across the border. At Magnormoen toll station they are stopped and taken.

Many smugglers do not want to expose themselves to the risk of being caught, and get others to smuggle for them, such as a mother-in-law.

On a deserted forest road, close to the toll booths at Magnormoen, some young boys appear who cannot explain why they are there.

It is red level because of corona, but at Svinesund the customs officers stop a British citizen. He is in a hurry, going to Drammen to deliver a sofa.

The smugglers' nightmare is a scanner or X-ray machine that reveals hidden contraband. It is not always so easy to cope with being caught.

Boats are controlled from a boat in Ytre Oslofjord. Both large and small vessels can hide contraband, and we join the Norwegian Customs' boat service out to sea. In addition to the sea route, parcels via the post are also a favorite smuggling route. The oldest trick in the book is revealed and gives the customs officers a good hold on the goods terminal at Gardermoen this time.

Whether people know or don't know what they are allowed to bring into the country is so and so. But Norwegians order tons of goods for themselves. And in some of these packages, the customs officials uncover people's strange hobbies as they try to smuggle in illegal and endangered animal species.

The customs officers never work alone. In an unpredictable everyday life, it's nice to know you have a good partner with you. A flashlight can prove to be a dangerous weapon, and when the customs officers least expect it, a trailer can roll in that hides something different in the cargo than it pretends to.

A young man is caught at Oslo Airport with a few too many bottles of wine, at the same time a woman in a nice car is stopped on a small road near Svinesund. One of them hides drugs worth several million kroner.

For the criminal networks, the individual courier is only a pawn in the face of the customs officials. Who are these couriers and why do they take the chance to drive across the border with contraband or to fill up their suitcases with drugs? Some need comfort, others refuse until the last appeal.