Cecilie is a pyromaniac

Cecilie paces the study, musing that the task is all about psychology, and that anyone who just runs outside and builds the biggest flower they can has already lost the task (of course, the footage immediately cuts to show Hans running outside and searching for large objects).

She searches some drawers and pulls out a bag of sponges, saying that she can at least make a very quick flower out of its contents if need be. As she continues searching, she asks Mark if she’s allowed to make a Knæk Cancer flower out of fire. When Mark asks Cecilie if she enjoys fire, she enthusiastically replies that she does, and asks Mark if he’d ever set fires in his kitchen sink as a child, when his parents weren’t home.

Cecilie makes her way outside to the patio to start her construction, and as she does so, Mark asks her what other things she has set on fire. She admits to setting fires in her kitchen sink, but that as it was made out of steel, nothing ever happened. She also claims to have set fire to rusted out cars in a car graveyard, by soaking their back seats using blue petrol stolen from a nearby farmer (in Denmark in the 1950s, petrol was tax-free for farmers; to denote this, the petrol was coloured blue).

In footage that does not make the edit of her attempt, Cecilie completes the construction of her modestly-sized Knæk Cancer flower – which she has created using kitchen sponges, egg cups, and lollipops – and has started to light candles and sparklers as accents to her piece. As she does, she tells Mark that she also used to throw firecrackers out of the window of her room. Mark asks Cecilie if that ‘room’ was actually in a juvenile detention centre.

Cecilie lights the sparklers in the middle of her flower (which she calls “victory sparks”), and declares that they are united in a good cause. As Cecilie rejoices in her presumed victory, Mark carefully informs her that there is help available for her, if the voices in her head are still telling her to set things on fire.

As the maker of what is ultimately the smallest Knæk Cancer flower, Cecilie earns joint second place, and 2 points.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)