Ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is discovered in a burned-out summer house in the city of Esbjerg, Otto and his team begin to unravel an unusual murder mystery, uncovering power struggles and corruption among the city’s elite. Special Unit – The First Murder is a crime thriller that chronicles the origin of Denmark’s most famous police unit back in the 1920s.