Character Relationship Map: Jackpot

Characters

• Thor Eggen (played by Mads Ousdal) — protagonist

  Thor Eggen is one of Oscar Svendson's workplace football-pools partners and helps him transport Billy Utomjordet's corpse. He joins Oscar in hiding the body, deceiving customs officers, and attempting...

• Oscar Svendson (played by Kyrre Hellum) — protagonist

  Oscar Svendson is the central figure, found beneath a woman at a strip club surrounded by bodies and holding a shotgun. He recounts how the football-pools syndicate collapsed into violence, claims to...

• Solør (played by Henrik Mestad) — supporting

  Solør is the investigator who questions Oscar at the Østfold police station using a supposedly modern and friendly technique. He tests Oscar's account, discovers that the solarium does not contain Bil...

• Dan Treschow (played by Andreas Cappelen) — supporting

  Dan Treschow is a member of the workplace football-pools syndicate with Oscar Svendson, Thor Eggen, and Billy Utomjordet. After they correctly predict twelve matches and win 1,739,361 kroner, the grou...

• Billy Utomjordet (played by Arthur Berning) — supporting

  Billy Utomjordet is one of the four members of the winning football-pools syndicate. After the group's agreement over the prize money breaks down, Billy becomes a corpse that Oscar Svendson and Thor E...

• Gjedde (played by Fridtjov Såheim) — supporting

  Gjedde is a retired policeman from whom Oscar Svendson rents a room. He investigates the suspicious noises created when Oscar and Thor Eggen bring Billy's corpse through his home and try to cut it apa...

• Lasse (played by Peter Andersson) — supporting

  Lasse is involved in the struggle over the football-pools money and encounters Oscar Svendson at the strip club after Oscar identifies where the car was parked. Their meeting becomes part of the final...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Oscar Svendson → Gjedde (Professional Tenant And Landlord) — Oscar's tenancy creates the setting for a dangerous concealment attempt.

  Oscar rents a room from Gjedde, a retired policeman, and Oscar and Thor move Billy's corpse through Gjedde's home.

• Oscar Svendson → Solør (Professional Interrogator) — Solør investigates Oscar while Oscar attempts to present himself as a witness.

  At the Østfold police station, Solør questions Oscar about the violence and his account of events.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Solør → Lasse (Conflict Opposing Participants) — Solør and Lasse occupy opposing sides of the climactic police confrontation.

  The final confrontation entangles Oscar, Thor, Lasse, and the police in the same deadly dispute.

• Oscar Svendson → Lasse (Conflict Money Rival) — Their meeting places Oscar inside the wider dispute over the winnings.

  At the strip club, Oscar encounters Lasse, who is involved in the struggle over the money.

• Dan Treschow → Billy Utomjordet (Alliance Syndicate Partner) — Their relationship is part of the group agreement damaged by greed.

  Dan and Billy were included in the same workplace syndicate and were supposed to share its winnings.

• Thor Eggen → Dan Treschow (Alliance Syndicate Partner) — Their connection is established through the collective betting arrangement.

  Thor and Dan are both named as members of the syndicate that won 1,739,361 kroner.

• Oscar Svendson → Dan Treschow (Alliance Syndicate Partner) — Dan is one of Oscar's original partners in the disputed prize.

  Dan, Oscar, Thor, and Billy formed the workplace football-pools syndicate and intended to divide the winnings.

• Thor Eggen → Billy Utomjordet (Alliance Syndicate Partner) — Their partnership is later transformed by Thor's handling of Billy's corpse.

  Thor and Billy were part of the same four-person football-pools syndicate.

• Oscar Svendson → Billy Utomjordet (Alliance Syndicate Partner) — They are linked by the shared lottery winnings and the syndicate agreement.

  Oscar and Billy were members of the workplace football-pools syndicate that correctly predicted twelve matches and won money together.

• Oscar Svendson → Thor Eggen (Alliance Teammate) — They cooperate under extreme pressure despite their deteriorating trust.

  Oscar and Thor belonged to the workplace football-pools syndicate and later transported Billy's corpse together.

Story Analysis

A disputed football-pools fortune turns a workplace partnership into a chain of concealment, suspicion, and violence.

Plot Progression

1. A Fortune Turns Toxic — Oscar is found at a strip club surrounded by dead bodies and holding a shotgun. During interrogation, he explains how the football-pools syndicate won money before suspicion and greed destroyed its ag...
2. Witness Or Suspect — Oscar asks for a lawyer but agrees to accompany the investigators while calling himself a witness. The story shifts toward the desperate effort to conceal Billy's corpse.
3. A Body In The House — Oscar and Thor carry Billy's corpse through Gjedde's home and discuss using a circular saw. Suspicious noises, improvised excuses, and an alarm push the concealment toward exposure.
4. Resentment On The Road — The men deceive customs officials by pretending Thor is extremely drunk, but their effort to dispose of the corpse fails. Thor's anger exposes the bitter history behind their cooperation.
5. The Unfinished Standoff — Solør discovers that Oscar's account does not match the empty solarium. At the strip club, Lasse, the police, Oscar, and Thor are drawn into a gunman's demand for the money bag, ending in an unresolve...