Lykkeland -state Of Happiness- - Season 1 -hc E... -

“Your father also said the Germans would never leave. He was wrong twice.”

“What if you’re wrong?” she whispered. Lykkeland -State of Happiness- - season 1 -HC E...

“I’m not trying to erase what we are, Anna. I’m trying to give us a choice. Right now, the only choice is fish or starve. But if Phillips finds what I think they will…” He let the sentence hang, heavy as a trawler’s anchor. “Your father also said the Germans would never leave

“Then I’ll be a wrong man with a right heart,” HC said. “But if I’m right…” I’m trying to give us a choice

“When you find your black gold… don’t forget that the sea gave it. And the sea can take it back.”

“When do you leave?” she asked.

He pulled a folded telegram from his inside pocket. It was brief, typed in the clipped language of American oilmen: HC ERIKSEN – SEISMIC PROMISING. EKOFISK STRUCTURE CONFIRMED. STOP. NEED LOCAL LIASON. STOP. YOU IN OR OUT? STOP. Anna read it twice. Her hand trembled slightly—from cold, or from fear, she didn’t know.