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Lotte admits that she put the GPS gel in Roger's hair, and that she suggested dinner so she could introduce him to Clas since Roger ended their affair, Clas used a counterfeit Rubens painting to meet Roger through Diana. Roger turns to Lotte for help, only to discover she has always worked for Clas, who is still a HOTE executive and trying to steal Pathfinder's secrets. Playing dead until Clas leaves the scene, Roger shaves his head and hides his hair on a body, then swaps clothes with a detective's disfigured body to fake his death. Remembering that Clas developed a nanotechnology gel that is very difficult to remove, Roger realizes that he's being tracked through GPS gel rubbed in his hair by Diana, and Clas is driving the truck despite Roger's protests, the officers ignore him, allowing Clas to ram the car off a cliff. Driving to the station, the officers pull over to block a truck reported stolen. Waking in a hospital, Roger learns the police think he is Ove, who arrest him for the farmer's murder when he tries to escape. Roger, believing Clas is chasing him, drives erratically and falls from the tractor, only to find his pursuer is a stranger wanting to help. Trying to escape on a tractor, Roger is attacked by Clas' dog, which he kills by impaling it on the tractor's forks. Clas tails Roger to the farm with his dog and murders the farmer, but Roger evades them. Roger switches his car for Ove's and throws his clothes in a lake, changing into his spare uniform and fleeing to a farm where Ove used to stay. Finding Clas has followed him to Ove's cabin, Roger narrowly escapes after a scuffle. Driving Ove to his cabin, Roger puts him in bed and ignores his demands for medical attention, as he does not want the police involved Ove pulls a gun in response, causing a shoot-out where Roger accidentally kills Ove.

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The next morning, Roger finds Ove in his (Roger's) car, apparently dead from a poison syringe embedded in the car seat when Roger dumps Ove in a lake, the water revives him as he didn't get a full dose of the poison. Later, after a seemingly successful meeting with Pathfinder, an upset Roger flippantly informs Clas that the company may be looking for someone else to fill the position.

Roger manages to steal it from Clas' home, but he discovers Diana's cellphone beside Clas' bed. Despite his misgivings, Roger meets with Ove to work out details on stealing the painting. Roger takes Clas to lunch to discuss the job at Pathfinder, and soon learns Clas used to be a member of a special forces unit that specialized in tracking people. Diana reveals that Clas has asked her authenticate a lost Rubens painting he inherited that is believed to be worth millions. Roger's wife and art gallery owner, Diana (SynnГёve Macody Lund), introduces him to Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), a former executive for GPS tech company HOTE, who wants to work for Pathfinder (whom Roger is recruiting for). Asked to dinner by his mistress, Lotte (Julie Гlgaard), Roger declines and ends their relationship. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), Norway's most successful headhunter, supports his lavish lifestyle by stealing paintings from his clients his partner, Ove (Eivind Sander), works at a surveillance company and deactivates security at the victims' homes, allowing Roger to swap the art for a counterfeit.

Headhunters movie based on novel