Susanne is the main protagonist, who learns her new patient, John (Olaf Johannessen), under hypnosis, recalls details of killing young women.
[5] Holger receives a video depicting Christina's murder, which leads him to question own family members and business associates.
[6] The first two seasons have been adapted by Matt Baker for the British TV series version, Suspect (2022, 2024).
Bjørn deduces that Frank also falsified the time of death, to give him Susanne's alibi.
Charlotte confirms undocumented women have disappeared; she recalls Louise reported a kidnapped woman.
On the pretext of psychologically assessing Bjørn, Susanne visits his prison and learns Sebastian/Bjark owns Lady Love.
Susanne meets Sapphire, who eventually admits John kidnapped Julia for stealing from Lady Love.
Holding Maja at gunpoint, Susanne learns John has a boat back at North Harbour.
[2][7] The first season was co-written with Jakob Weis and produced by Jonas Allen and Peter Bose for Viaplay on TV3.
[2] According to Boe, he wanted "a crime show with no filler" and one which "cuts quickly to the heart of the matter in each episode.
[8] Christian Povlsen of Sound Venue observed, "Even though her character is already dead and gone from the first episode, she still haunts the story through flashbacks and video footage.
"[8] Danish website Sound Venue's Morten Kildebæk rates season one of Face to Face as four-out-of-six stars and praises its concept, "a complete, stylistically delicious and really interesting play with the classic interrogation situation of the crime genre.
"[2] Kelly Luchtman of Foreign Crime Drama gave it 85% and noticed, the format "is done well, but has some drawbacks... performances are excellent, [but] scenes are very talky".
"[4] The Sydney Morning Herald's Melinda Houston gave the first two seasons four-out-of-five stars and explained, "exquisite psychological thriller[, which] takes the idea Scandi-noir and sends it next level... [it's] incredibly ambitious and wonderfully clever, all in the most unassuming way.
"[10] Another Sound Venue reviewer, Lars R. Knudsen considered season three, which also got four stars and featured Mikkelsen, who "shows that he is one of the country's best actors, and [Boe] is uncompromising in his concept.