Poor Saga Noren, the Swedish detective with Asperger's Syndrome, figures it out and declares her love thus:
"When you're in love the brain's reward system releases neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. There's also an increase in the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin can affect memory and serotonin can cause sleeplessness. But mostly they give you euphoria. I think I'm in love with you."
She prioritises the scientific over the human giving an account (although perfectly true) which is incomplete and depersonalised. The whole truth lies elsewhere. In this way she perfectly represents the deficiencies and limitations of the purely scientific mind entirely dependent on 'research.'
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