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RIDERS OF JUSTICE follows recently-deployed Markus, who is forced to return home to care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. But when a survivor of the wrecked train surfaces claiming foul play, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.

In theaters May 14 and on demand May 21 Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen http://ridersofjustice.com/

PLOT BELOW! DO NOT READ if you don’t want SPOILERS.

In the opening scenes an old man with a white beard and his young niece are looking at a red bicycle as a possible Xmas gift. The girl says she doesn’t want red but wants to wait and get a blue bicycle instead. The old man says that nothing is certain in life and Christmas is a long time away. Maybe she will get it, and maybe she won’t.

The bicycle shopkeeper makes a phone call. A white van stops in front of a train station where a blue bicycle is chained to a post. Two hooded men get out, cut the chain, put the bicycle into the van, and drive away.

Markus is a soldier in Afghanistan. He calls his wife, Emma, who says that their daughter’s bicycle was stolen at the train station and now the family car won’t start. Mother and daughter walk to the train station.

Otto and Lennert are at work presenting a worthless algorithm that they claim cam be used to predict future events. Otto says that all events are products of a series of preceding events, but because we often have insufficient data, we categorize events as coincidences. Their bosses aren’t impressed and fire them.

As Otto is riding the train home, he notices a tattooed man in the same car. Then he sees another man get up, throw a sandwich and drink in the trash, and exit the train. Mathilde and Emma get on the train. It is crowded, so Otto insists that Emma have his seat. The train then slams into another train which rakes the right side of the train car and kills Emma.

Markus comes home to console his grieving daughter. Mathilde and Markus find it difficult to come to terms with the tragedy, causing strain in their relationship. Mathilde thinks her father needs grief therapy, but he refuses.

Otto and Lennert approach Markus and inform him that the train accident wasn’t a coincidence but was a planned murder to eliminate a key witness (The tattooed man “Eagle”) about to give evidence against the head of Riders of Justice motorbike gang. Otto’s hacker friend Emmenthaler uses facial recognition software to identify the suspicious man who left the train seconds before the accident as an Egyptian from Cairo. Otto and Lennert make Emmenthaler lower the threshold of the facial recognition to 95 percent and look for matches with Danish addresses. The person with the highest percentage match in Denmark is Palle Olesen. Otto believes he recognizes him from the train.

Otto, Lennert, and Emmenthaler go to see Markus. Lennert is fascinated with Markus’s huge barn and asks that they go there to discuss the findings. They tell Markus that Palle Olesen is the brother of Kurt “Tandem” Olesen, president of Riders of Justice. The tattooed man on the train who was also killed in the wreck was about to testify against him.

The group goes to Palle’s house, intending to interrogate him for information about the accident, but he pulls a gun on them. They start to leave, but Markus loses control and kills Palle out of anger.

Lennart enters the house to dispose of the evidence and sees a young Ukrainian boy (Bodashka), naked and gagged, but says nothing and leaves him there.

At home Mathilde and her boyfriend try to get Markus to speak to a crisis psychologist about his grief and violent behavior, but he refuses. He sees on the news that Kurt Olesen is not convicted because the witness (the Eagle) died in the train crash. Kurt says that he is sorry that his brother Palle was murdered but celebrates his acquittal anyway.

Markus summons Otto, Lennert, and Emmenthaler to the barn and tells them to get all the information they can dig up about Riders of Justice. He plans to avenge his wife. Otto agrees to get the information but says they won’t kill anybody.

Mathilde sees Markus and his group leaving the barn together. She recognizes Otto as the man on the train and questions her father as to who they are. Lennart lies and explains that they are actually a therapy group attempting to help her father with his trauma. Lennert offers to be Mathilde’s therapist. He has seen 25 psychologists in 40 years and knows all of the terminology. Mathilde pours her heart out to him. It becomes obvious that Lennert has been sexually abused. In a barn.

The Riders torture Bodashka for information, leading to their identification of Emmenthaler. The Riders attempt a drive-by shooting on Markus and his group when they go to Emmenthaler’s apartment for some better computer monitors, but Markus is able to kill the attackers and rescue Bodashka who was handcuffed in the car. Somehow they manage to carry out all of this without any of the neighbors noticing the gunfire. Marcus collects all of the automatic weapons. They all go back to Markus’s house and stay there to hide from the rest of the Riders of Justice who are looking for them.

Using sticky notes, Mathilde makes a timeline on her bedroom wall of events relating to her mother’s death. She gradually works her way back to the day her bike was stolen at the train station. This single event seems to be first in the entire chain of events that followed.

Markus Otto, Lennert, and Emmenthaler drive to a place where they think they can kill Kurt and his associates. Markus manages to kill Kurt and three of the men with him.

Back at Markus’s house, Otto sees Mathilde’s wall with all of the events. He sees that it all started when her bike was stolen. If that hadn’t happened, the resulting cascade of events wouldn’t have happened, and her mother would be alive.

Bodashka explains to Lennert that Palle was not on the train that crashed because Palle and he were together and out of the country. Lennart and Otto had convinced Emmenthaler to accept a less accurate facial recognition result, and the suspicious man was actually an Egyptian tourist who resembled Palle, meaning that their crusade against the Riders of Justice was committed in error. The evidence they relied on was a simple coincidence that two men resembled each other. Upon learning this, Markus breaks down in anger and frustration, finally lowering his stony facade and crying.

The next day, the remaining Riders follow social media connections left by Mathilde’s boyfriend and attack the group at Markus’s house. Some of them are injured, Mathilde is taken hostage, and Markus is disarmed by the Riders. Otto, Lennart, and Emmenthaler, using weapons training Markus gave them earlier, ambush and kill the Riders, saving Markus and Mathilde.

The movie flashes forward to Christmas, where the entire group have joined to celebrate and exchange presents. Markus and Mathilde seem to have reconciled. Her Xmas gift is a new red bicycle.

At another house the girl from the opening scene receives Mathilde’s blue bicycle as her gift from the old man with a white beard.