Wallander Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Series 1, SidetrackedUnder a wide blue sky in a bright yellow rapeseed field, a young woman burns herself to death. Later, a former politician is found brutally murdered - killed with a single blow to the skull and scalped. Then a rich art dealer is killed in exactly the same way. As the vicious attacks increase, Wallander finds himself confronting the darkest aspects of society as he struggles to uncover the truth.
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Episode 1 - SidetrackedUnder a wide blue sky in a bright yellow rapeseed field, a young woman burns herself to death. Later, a former politician is found brutally murdered - killed with a single blow to the skull and scalped. Then a rich art dealer is killed in exactly the same way. As the vicious attacks increase, Wallander finds himself confronting the darkest aspects of society as he struggles to uncover the truth.
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Episode 1 - Series 1, Episode 1: SidetrackedUnder a wide blue sky in a bright yellow rapeseed field, a young woman burns herself to death. Later, a former politician is found brutally murdered - killed with a single blow to the skull and scalped. Then a rich art dealer is killed in exactly the same way. As the vicious attacks increase, Wallander finds himself confronting the darkest aspects of society as he struggles to uncover the truth.
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Episode 2 - Series 1, FirewallA taxi driver is brutally murdered by two young girls who seem to have no real motive for their actions. Elsewhere, a man dies of a heart attack in the middle of Ystad's main square. When Wallander discovers that these two seemingly separate cases connect, they lead to one conspiracy that stretches far beyond the borders of Sweden.
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Episode 2 - FirewallA taxi driver is brutally murdered by two young girls who seem to have no real motive for their actions. Elsewhere a man dies of a heart attack in the middle of Ystad's main square. When Wallander discovers that these two seemingly separate cases connect, they lead to one conspiracy that stretches far beyond the borders of Sweden.
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Episode 2 - Series 1, Episode 2: FirewallA taxi driver is brutally murdered by two young girls who seem to have no real motive for their actions. Elsewhere, a man dies of a heart attack in the middle of Ystad's main square. When Wallander discovers that these two seemingly separate cases connect, they lead to one conspiracy that stretches far beyond the borders of Sweden.
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Episode 3 - Series 1, Episode 3: One Step BehindThree teenagers in 18th century fancy dress are shot dead in a secluded wood on Midsummer’s Eve, and lie undiscovered for two months. As Wallander investigates, it becomes apparent that someone else has already been asking questions. When one of his colleagues is also found dead, it is clear that the cases are connected - but with a photograph of an unknown woman as his only clue, he always seems to be just one step behind.
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Episode 3 - Series 1, One Step BehindThree teenagers in 18th century fancy dress are shot dead in a secluded wood on Midsummer’s Eve, and lie undiscovered for two months. As Wallander investigates, it becomes apparent that someone else has already been asking questions. When one of his colleagues is also found dead, it is clear that the cases are connected - but with a photograph of an unknown woman as his only clue, he always seems to be just one step behind.
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Episode 3 - One Step BehindThree teenagers are murdered on Midsummer's Eve, each with a bullet to the head; their bodies lie undiscovered for two months. As Wallander investigates, it becomes clear someone else has already been asking questions - Kalle Svedberg, one of Wallander's colleagues. But before Wallander can speak to him, Kalle is found dead in his flat, a bullet through his head.
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Episode 4 - Series 2, Episode 1: Faceless KillersWallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse. A police leak of the wife's dying words leads to an outbreak of racist reprisals in Ystad. The fallout from the case leads Wallander to doubt everything, including his abilities as a police officer.
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Episode 4 - Series 2, Faceless KillersWallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse. A police leak of the wife's dying words leads to an outbreak of racist reprisals in Ystad. The fallout from the case leads Wallander to doubt everything, including his abilities as a police officer.
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Episode 5 - Series 2, Episode 2: The Man Who SmiledKurt Wallander is contacted by an old friend who is certain his father has been murdered. Wallander refuses to get involved as he is suspended from the police, but subsequent events convince him that there is more to the case.
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Episode 5 - Series 2, The Man Who SmiledKurt Wallander is contacted by an old friend who is certain his father has been murdered. Wallander refuses to get involved as he is suspended from the police, but subsequent events convince him that there is more to the case.
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Episode 6 - Series 2, The Fifth WomanAn elderly bird watcher falls to his death in a meticulously planned and brutal murder. In an apparently unconnected case a local man disappears and Wallander gets too close to one of the suspects. Wallander believes he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge.
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Episode 6 - Series 2, Episode 3: The Fifth WomanAn elderly bird watcher falls to his death in a meticulously planned and brutal murder. In an apparently unconnected case a local man disappears and Wallander gets too close to one of the suspects. Wallander believes he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge.
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Episode 7 - Series 3, An Event in AutumnWallander moves into a dream home with his new girlfriend. But his happiness is shattered when the skeleton of a girl is discovered in the garden. Wallander must try to get his new life back on track by finding her killer, but the case is not as cold as he thinks.
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Episode 7 - Series 3, Episode 1: An Event in AutumnWith the promise of a new start Kurt Wallander moves into a new home with his girlfriend Vanja. Their happiness is cut short when Wallander's dog unearths a skeleton buried in his garden. The body is of a murdered girl, dead for over ten years. Is this fate or coincidence?
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Episode 8 - Series 3, The Dogs of RigaAfter two Eastern European corpses are washed ashore on a raft in Ystad, Wallander travels to Latvia on the hunt for the killers. Thrown into a cold, alien world of police surveillance and lies, Wallander soon finds himself entangled in a web of corruption with no-one to trust.
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Episode 8 - Series 3, Episode 2: The Dogs of RigaTwo tortured corpses wash ashore on a life raft in Ystad. When the dead men are identified as Eastern European criminals a Rigan police detective, Karlis Liepa, joins Wallander in Sweden to investigate. However on his return to Riga, Karlis is murdered and Wallander feels it's his duty to find out why.
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Episode 9 - Series 3, Episode 3: Before the FrostAnna, a friend of Wallander's daughter, turns up out of the blue looking for help. When she disappears, Wallander is forced to break the silence with his daughter Linda. The investigations lead Wallander to a Christian cult, with a vendetta against modern society.
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Episode 9 - Series 3, Before the FrostA friend of Wallander's daughter comes begging for his help but then disappears. Meanwhile, an elderly woman's body is found cremated in a shallow grave, killed by a seemingly religious obsessive. Wallander must catch the culprit before he strikes again.
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Episode 10 - Series 4, Episode 1: The White LionessWallander is attending a police conference in Cape Town when he's asked by the South African police to help with the case of Inga Hedeman, a Swedish voluntary worker in the townships who's been missing for ten days. Wallander becomes deeply involved in the search for the missing woman - at times alongside local detective Sergeant Grace Thembu and at times on his own. A combination of gut instinct and inspired police work lead Wallander first to a deserted farmhouse where he finds evidence of Inga's presence and a severed finger...
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Episode 11 - Series 4, Episode 2: A Lesson in LoveThe search for an elderly woman who has recently gone missing from an old people's home, leads to the discovery of another murdered woman. Wallander searches the murdered woman's house, where there has clearly been a struggle but there is no sign of her daughter, Hanna, although they do find her blood. The police fear that the daughter has been kidnapped, as Wallander learns that Hanna's mother Erika had an ongoing feud with some local bikers, whom she was campaigning to get evicted. Meanwhile, journalists are beginning to sniff around, desperate to learn more about the missing 16 year old.
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Episode 12 - Series 4, Episode 3: The Troubled ManHakon von Enke, a retired high-ranking Swedish naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest one morning. Hakon is Linda's father-in-law so when Wallander is approached by his distressed daughter, he can't help but investigate further. From talking to Hakon's old friend, Norlander, Wallander learns about a submarine incident in 1980 where there were rumours of Russian submarines trespassing in Swedish waters that were never exposed. Hakon had become fixated on this cover-up. Had he ruffled the wrong feathers? Is there a chance he was murdered for speaking out?
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