The Best Episodes of Wallander

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7.7/10(771 votes)
#1 - The Troubled Man
S4:E35/22/2016
His memory is going to pieces and he is no longer officially on duty, but Wallander draws on all his resources to find Linda’s missing father-in-law, a former top official in the Swedish navy, obsessed with a decades-old submarine mystery. Slowly losing his grip on reality, Wallander is desperate to solve this one last case.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.5/10(1521 votes)
#2 - Firewall
S1:E212/7/2008
A body is found at a cash point, the apparent victim of a heart attack. Two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver, he begins to unravel a plot much more involved complicated than he initially suspected. The two cases become one, and lead to a conspiracy that stretches beyond the borders of Sweden.
Director:Niall MacCormick
Writers:Richard Cottan, Richard McBrien
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Director:Niall MacCormick
Writers:Richard Cottan, Richard McBrien
7.4/10(1417 votes)
#3 - One Step Behind
S1:E312/14/2008
Three youngsters are shot dead whilst having a woodland picnic in fancy dress. The corpses are found, and a friend of the victims is also slain, having told Wallander that his workmate was really gay, and that he is a transvestite, and a wholly murderous one, who adds to his toll of dead by killing a further trio of innocents.
Director:Philip Martin
Writer:Richard Cottan
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Director:Philip Martin
Writer:Richard Cottan
7.4/10(1110 votes)
#4 - The Man Who Smiled
S2:E21/10/2010
Wallander decides to resign from the police after killing a man in the line of duty. A solicitor-friend asks Wallander to investigate the suspicious death of his father in an apparent car accident.
Director:Andy Wilson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Andy Wilson
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(1074 votes)
#5 - The Fifth Woman
S2:E31/17/2010
Wallander investigates the murder of an elderly bird-watcher, found impaled on sharpened bamboo poles. When another man is reported missing, Wallander realise he is looking for a serial killer.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(1020 votes)
#6 - An Event in Autumn
S3:E17/8/2012
Wallander 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.
Director:Toby Haynes
Writer:Peter Harness
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Director:Toby Haynes
Writer:Peter Harness

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7.3/10(771 votes)
#7 - A Lesson in Love
S4:E25/15/2016
A woman’s knife-slashed corpse leads Wallander on a chase for the victim’s missing daughter, inciting him to a grievous oversight. In his private life, he bonds with Linda’s father-in-law, a retired naval officer, who gets a menacing birthday greeting. Convinced that something is not right with his brain, Wallander sees a doctor.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Writer:Unknown
7.3/10(997 votes)
#8 - The Dogs of Riga
S3:E27/15/2012
After 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.
Director:Esther Campbell
Writer:Peter Harness
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Director:Esther Campbell
Writer:Peter Harness
7.3/10(1169 votes)
#9 - Faceless Killers
S2:E11/3/2010
Wallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse.
Director:Hettie Macdonald
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Hettie Macdonald
Writer:Unknown
7.2/10(898 votes)
#10 - Before the Frost
S3:E37/22/2012
A 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.
Director:Charles Martin
Writer:Peter Harness
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Director:Charles Martin
Writer:Peter Harness
7.2/10(1832 votes)
#11 - Sidetracked
S1:E111/30/2008
What connects the shocking suicide of a young woman and the vicious murder of a government minister? Inspector Kurt Wallander's investigation uncovers wrongdoing and corruption that extends to the heart of the Swedish establishment.
Director:Philip Martin
Writer:Richard Cottan
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Director:Philip Martin
Writer:Richard Cottan
7.1/10(837 votes)
#12 - The White Lioness
S4:E15/8/2016
Wallander becomes involved in the search for a missing Swedish woman while in South Africa for a police conference. At the same time, he finds himself experiencing worrisome blackouts and dizzy spells.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Unknown
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