#it around (wrapping up the ekofisk tank storyline so they could focus solely on the statoil/oil capital storyline for the last three eps)

[folklohre-a]

anna hellevik    +    timeline  /  recap of series one of lykkeland.

stavanger is in crisis,   with its fishing industry slowing down and the oil adventure coming to a halt before it’s even begun as international companies begin to pull out.      anna,   an ambitious young woman,   finds herself in the center of it all.

i.   TREASURE HUNT.      summer 1969.

jonathan kay,   a lawyer for phillips petroleum,   is sent to stavanger to sublet their rig,   ocean viking,   to another company or facilitate a withdrawal deal.      anna hellevik,   a farmer’s daughter from dirdal,   celebrates her engagement to high school sweetheart christian nyman,   the heir to the nyman fishing and shipping company,   who due to his occupation as a diver on the ocean viking platform is offshore for long periods of time.      anna lands a job as politician arne rettedal’s secretary and transcribes his meetings with phillips petroleum’s ed young and jonathan kay.      after phillips decides to drill its final block on the ocean viking rather than pull out,   christian gets into a car accident with marius torstensen,   who sustains injuries he later dies of.      christian lies to the police and claims he was sober,   thus keeping the accident off his record.      soon after,   marius’ pregnant daughter toril is forced to marry a local man who has agreed to raise her illegitimate child as his own. 

ii.   SMOKING BAN.      late 1969.

anna’s parents,   hardon and oddfrid,   wonder if christian and anna are a good match,   claiming they’re too different,   and oddfrid isn’t sure she really loves him.      rein,   anna’s older brother,   is out of work and hopes to get a job on an oil platform.      meanwhile,   christian is offshore when Phillips Petroleum believe they’ve found oil on the 2/4 block.      in a meeting with rettedal,   ed and jonathan pretend they haven’t found anything of significance,   and name the block ekofisk.      christmas is just around the corner,   but nyman’s shipping company has to lay off several of its employees,   and christian’s father fredrik cuts his own salary by 20% to help the company,   which catapults his wife ingrid into a valium induced depressive episode.      when christian is flown back to shore in order to help his mother,   he tells anna that they’ve imposed a smoking ban on the platform.      smart enough to know that this means they must have found something,   anna shares this knowledge with rettedal and tries to convince her future father-in-law to enter the oil industry,   but her attempt is interrupted by toril,   marius’ daughter,   going into labour.      after the last day of work before christmas,   jonathan invites anna to the movies.      she declines,   explaining she has to get back to the family farm,   and he walks her to her bus.      on december 23rd 1969,   phillips petroleum finally finds oil on the ocean viking platform,   with claims it’s the largest underwater oil reservoir ever found.

iii.   THE SUMMER HOUSE.      spring 1970.

anna is in the midst of wedding planning with ingrid and fredrik at garnodden,   the family summer house,   but christian himself is a no-show.      fredrik is in need of a translator at a meeting with a possible buyer in england and asks anna to accompany him.      christian holds a party at his new apartment,   a purchase he has kept secret from both his parents and anna,   and invites friends and coworkers from the platform,   including jonathan.      while at the party,   christian and anna get into an argument about the family’s financial problems and their different priorities.      after christian storms off,   a conversation with jonathan makes anna realise that selling garnodden to phillips petroleum would help the nyman family from going into financial ruin.      the next day,   fredrik’s meeting in england is unsuccessful,   but after anna recommends turning their old trawling ships into supply ships for oil companies,   fredrik returns to stavanger with a new sense of hope.      when anna later tells fredrik that she took jonathan to garnodden so he could survey the plot,   he’s disappointed in her,   but after yet another unsuccessful meeting with the bank,   he decides to follow her advice and sells garnodden to jonathan and phillips petroleum,   against his wife and son’s wishes.

iv.   SIXTY NINE METRES DOWN.      spring / summer 1970.

anna’s role in the sale of garnodden has led to a falling out with both christian and his mother.      she hasn’t spoken to either of them in weeks,    but after running into fredrik while working for rettedal at the golf club,   he forces his son to apologise to her.      despite their bickering,   they make up.      the following week christian is involved in a traumatizing accident on ocean viking in which damon,   a close friend and colleague,   dies.

v.   DIRDAL VALLEY.      early 1971.

when phillips petroleum is looking to build a dry dock for the construction of the ekofisk tank,   jonathan notices anna’s family farm in dirdal on one of the possible building plans.      the land owners are to be given offers by norwegian contractors’ gunnar sandvik later the same day,   so jonathan drives anna to her family farm so she can convince her father to take the offer.      by the time they get there,   hardon has already refused the offer,   but after anna lies to her family about the other landowners accepting the offer,   her father changes his mind and accepts the offer.      after the meeting,   anna and gunnar meet for celebratory drinks at esso motor hotel,   where a moment between anna and jonathan is interrupted by toril,   who now works as a waitress at the hotel.      anna spends more time with jonathan,   while christian decides to start a diving company of his own with martin, a friend and fellow ocean viking diver.      meanwhile,   the stavanger city council has decided that the dry dock will be built in jåttåvågen rather than dirdal,   and anna’s actions has alienated her family from the rest of the village.

vi.   HOPE AND FRAUD.      march 1971.

while he struggles with financing his diving company c - max,   christian and anna continue getting into arguments over the smallest things.      fredrik sells his canning company to hastings,   the english company who turned him down the year prior,   in order to help christian with his company,   but lies about the production rate.      anna accompanies rettedal in a meeting with arve johnsen,   a labour party politician working on establishing a state owned oil company.      back at the office,   anna’s female colleagues think she’s beginning to sound like a politician,   and jonathan invites her on a road trip the following day.      christian offers rein a job with c - max,   but when anna returns to the family farm to share the good news,   she’s faced with the harsh realities her family is facing in dirdal.      rein turns down dhristian’s offer,   having been approached by phillips petroleum for a job at the platform.      hardon insists anna and christian’s wedding should be held at the family farm,   and won’t give her a suitable date for the ceremony.      anna then decides to join jonathan on his road trip around stavanger,   opening up to him about her struggles of feeling indebted to the nyman family.      back at the nyman house,   ingrid informs the family that hardon has finally agreed to hold the wedding at the atlantic hotel in stavanger in late june 1972.      when the father of toril’s son shows up to talk to toril,    christian reacts with jealousy and anna decides to spend the night at the family farm.      things have begun to settle in dirdal,   and the hellevik family is slowly but surely being included in the village again.      being at the family farm makes it clear that deep down anna is unsure about her engagement.

vii.   PARTY AT ESSO MOTOR HOTEL.      december 1971.

the norwegian state is considering moving the oil operation to bergen,   so rettedal asks anna to help him convince the state’s industry committee to choose stavanger as the oil capital of norway.      after taking the committee on a tour of the ekofisk tank,   jonathan invites anna on yet another road trip the very same night,   but she’s busy with work as rettedal is hosting a dinner for the committee.      when arve johnsen tells rettedal it’s unlikely the committee will vote for stavanger because it’s such a conservative and religious town,   anna is given the responsibility to organise a party at esso motor hotel to show the delegates that stavanger can be fun.      after the party,   jonathan tells anna he likes her and they spend the night together.      they sleep together again the following day,   but anna is conflicted.      after having dinner with rettedal at esso motor hotel,    anna goes home to christian to break off their engagement,   but finds herself unable to.      she calls jonathan,   who expects to hear good news,   but instead tells him she doesn’t know how christian would cope if she left him.      she tries writing a letter to end the engagement,   but can’t find the right words and instead goes back to christian,   ending her relationship with jonathan before it’s even begun.

viii.   THE OIL CAPITAL.      spring / summer 1972.

anna and christian’s wedding is only a few months away,   and planning is in full swing but at the wedding tasting,   anna finds herself arguing with fredrik over their differing political views, and her distaste for the family’s view on wealth only grows.   the next day,   jonathan and ed young have a meeting with rettedal which anna transcribes.      after the meeting,   jonathan,   who still has feelings for anna,   asks her to go for a drive but she refuses.      she rushes home to christian,   but is left annoyed at his drinking habits.      jonathan flies back to bartlesville.      meanwhile,   on june 14th,   the parliament votes on the establishment of a state owned oil company and the location of norway’s oil capital.      stavanger wins and is officially made the oil capital,   and the parliament votes to establish a state owned oil company,   which later becomes statoil.      jonathan is offered a senior position at the phillips headquarters in bartlesville.      later the same day,   anna and christian’s parents are finalizing seating arrangements for the wedding reception when anna finally breaks down.      a conversation with fredrik leads her to finally admit she doesn’t love christian anymore,   and she ends the engagement.      she then applies for a bachelor in economics at nhh in bergen.      in august,   jonathan turns down the senior position in bartlesville and returns to stavanger,   finding anna just as she’s about to move to bergen.      the two reunite and decide to enter a long distance relationship while she studies.