Lilyhammer

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After Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in a small town in the Norwegian countryside called Lillehammer.







A sports fanatic, he had fallen in love with the place while watching the ’94 Winter Olympic Games. Now, he is hoping that “Lilyhammer”, as he pronounces it, will offer him more than “Clean air, fresh white snow and gorgeous broads”.







He knows that he is a marked man and figures nobody will ever find him there. That was his second mistake – the first was ratting out the Delucci Family…










But vengeful gangsters are only a part of his problems. Adjusting to the Scandinavian way of life is driving him crazy! At least he has a great Norwegian teacher, Sigrid, with whom he shares a passion far beyond books.








Of course, once a mobster, always a mobster – it is not long before Frank gets involved in shady dealings with the ex-Olympic “test jumper” Torgeir Lien and the local lawyer and businessman Julius Backe.








Here, cops are of an altogether different variety. Lillehammer’s calm and sensitive sheriff, Laila Hovland, is far more interested in crime prevention and education than solving cases… and boy can she bake! Yet another cop, Geir Tvedt, spends his spare time heading up the band “Geir Elvis and His Cell Mates”!






Of course, somebody has to try keeping Frank on the right path – a job that falls to his counselor at the local unemployment office, Jan Johansen, who specifically handles immigrants and asylum seekers, and who is a stickler for regulations!







Thrust into a brand new world forcing out a new side of his personality – and offers ample opportunities for an old one – Frank is confronted with a colorful cast of characters totally unlike the New York variety. But as he soon finds out, the past always has a way of catching up with you, especially when it concerns the Delucci family…