Kurt Wallander and the other police officers try to find the connection between a horrible murder that took place in Ystad and the kidnapping of one of the police force's daughters. It also seems someone has infiltrated the police and controls every move the police make.
Acting
Krister Henriksson's world-weary humanity against procedural grimness
Direction
Flinth's patient unravelling of bureaucratic dread
Writing
Mankell's clockwork plot that respects your intelligence

Director
Peter Flinth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This launched the Henriksson Wallander era, the definitive Swedish incarnation that ran 2005-2013.
Johanna Sällström, who plays Linda, tragically died by suicide in 2007; her final performance carries unbearable weight in retrospect.