Deadline Torp, also known as Torp-Dramaet, is a TV miniseries co-written by crime author Jo Nesbø based on the true events of the 1994 Torp hostage crisis.
[4] It tells the true story of the Torp hostage crisis that took place in Sandefjord, Norway.
Two men from Sweden robbed a bank in a small Norwegian town and a large police hunt was initiated.
The robbers eventually took two civilians and two police officers hostages.
The following morning at Sandefjord Airport Torp, the hostage drama came to a deadly end when a police chief, for the first time in Norwegian history, gave an order to shoot to kill.