The BEST episodes directed by Stephan Apelgren
#2 - The Darkness
Wallander - Season 1 - Episode 4
A white car is parked by a side road in the beautiful landscape of Scania in southern Sweden. A child sits alone without an adult in sight. The child's father has been reported as missing, while the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Kurt Wallander's failing health sees Linda take the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited and humiliated. Alternativ name: / The Overdose
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#3 - Svartlien 2010
Pistvakt - Season 1 - Episode 3
Jan-Erik har bett två män från Svenska OS-kommittén att komma till Svartlien för att få veta hur utmärkt det skulle vara att ordna OS i Svartlien. De två männen har dock svårt att ta Svartlien på allvar. Samtidigt drar en flock på några hundra vargar runt i skogarna.
#4 - The Secret
Wallander - Season 1 - Episode 13
Eleven year old Johannes is found dead in a crevice. The postmortem shows that the boy has been sexually abused and beaten to death. Detective Stefan Lindman is a member of the same shooting club as the victim's father and they are also friends. Therefore he becomes the one that has to tell the father what has happened to his son (Johannes). When the father finally understands what has happened he demands that Stefan personally gets the one responsible. Stefan is since a previous case being accused for abuse, because the internal investigation Stefan has to go on paid vacation, and he is not allowed to continue his investigation. But because of personal issues he continues the investigation anyway. He has a dark secret, a secret that has the answer to why he came to Ystad in the first place.
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#5 - The Joker / The Forger
Wallander - Season 1 - Episode 12
Carina Olsson provides the Malmo police information on drug deals comitted at her restaurant. She does this after being promised anonymity by the police. Two days later Carina is found shot. The execution is witnessed by Carina's seven-year old daughter Cleo. Cleo manages to escape and is hospitalized in a state off shock. The murder happens on the outskirts of Ystad and is thus, assigned to Kurt Walander and his colleagues. With the connections to Malmo the Ystad police receives help from Frank Bork (Malmo Police). For PSI Stefan Lindman, who has already displayed signs of mental instability, working with Frank Bork leads to a round-trip to hell. Frank teaches Stefan what it means to stand up for your colleagues, no matter what.
#6 - The African
Wallander - Season 1 - Episode 5
The national election is approaching, and the Ystad town square is plastered with election posters with local labour party candidate Kenneth Nillson, a politician fighting the fear of immigrants as his electoral focal point. He sees it as his duty to clean Skane's reputation as being racist. At the same time a train rolls into the train station in Gdansk, Poland. On the train the police find a African male with most of his face shoot away. As the man was murdered in Ystad, the starting point of the train journey this becomes a case for Kurt Wallander and the Ystad police. For Kurt Wallander the case takes an unexpected turn as the murder weapon has ties to a childhood friend.
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#7 - The Black King / Bound by Blood
Wallander - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Ystad Police finds a boat in Ystad harbour resembling a slaughter house. There is blood everywhere, but no bodies. Soon there after a dead woman’s body floats ashore. One of the clues in the investigation leads to Oskar Ung, an old love of Linda Wallander. Their previous relationship hinders Linda's work with the case, and Kurt demands that she leaves the investigation But that turns out to be easier said than done. Old love never rusts.
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#8 - The Priest
Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 6
A parish priest is found shot outside of a hostel in what apears to be a cold blooded execution. Wallander and his colleguaes are searching for clues while the priest, who is believed to be able to identify the perpetrator, is fighting for his life in hospital. The police pursues the crime as a crime of passion after discovering that he has had an extra marital affair. Bur where is the weapon, and which of the betrayed parties has the strongest motive?
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#9 - The Cellist
Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 5
A Russian concerto Cello player is the victim of a bomb attack after a performance in Ystad. The woman turns out to be a lead witness in a murder charge against a member of the Russian mafia, the son of one of their leaders, Leb Munchin. Wallander and his colleagues find themselves in the middle of a war against a powerful international opponent with ruthless methods. But Walalnder suspects that Leb Munchin’s motives aren’t about money and a quick profit, rather they relate to something much deeper. Eventually Walander stands eye to eye with an aged criminal who is ready to fight his last fight with all the means at his disposal.
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#10 - Årets vackraste dag
Pistvakt - Season 1 - Episode 2
Från Stockholm kommer en försäljare av en digital väderstation tillsammans med Gunnel. Hon visar sig vara en gammal flamma till Jan-Erik från Kalle Anka cup 1978. Väderstationen visar sig inte kunna överträffa Sven-Erik att förutsäga vädret.
#11 - The Witness
Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 13
Corrupt businessman Filip Pasolic stands trial for bringing illegal workers into Sweden and using them as slave labour. Wallander is injured by a car bomb intended for Kristina,who is prosecuting Pasolic and she is given police protection. At the same time pressure on the illegal Lithuanian work force to re-build Ystad's recycling centre in time for it to get an E.U. grant results in two men being killed,one of whose little sister,Natalia,sees construction manager Zoran bury the corpses. She goes to the police and implicates Zoran but takes off again with Zoran in pursuit. Wallander can link Zoran to Pasilic and needs to find him before he gets to Natalia in order to strong-arm him into testifying against Passilic. He also has to dissuade Katarina from resigning as,due to witness intimidation,the case is going against her.
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#12 - The Collector / The Dun
Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 12
Isabelle and Pontus pass out as police officers but he is dismayed when she says she wants to put their affair on hold in order to travel.Her plans are cut short when she joins the investigation into the death of her friend from the gym,Therese,murdered by burglars. Therese's loser ex-boyfriend Fabian is in debt to very heavy people and offers them her jewels but is he the killer? Violent boxer and ex-con Patrik Lippowski,a former lover of Isabelle,who fled from him and changed her name from Rebecka to Isabelle to escape him,is another suspect,but he is murdered with Isabelle's gun. In finding the killer Pontus's love for Isabelle is put to the test whilst Wallander advises Katarina when her bitchy teen-aged daughter starts stealing.
#13 - The Heritage
Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 11
When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski,with whose wife Manfred was having an affair but Jan is found hanged - later evidence suggesting foul play. Benjamin Wilkes,an ex-psychologist who helped Manfred select redundancy candidates,is killed in the same way as Manfred,putting disgruntled ex-Brada employees in the frame but a third slaying implicates a former patient of Wilkes,who has connections to the Stjarne family. A newly loved-up Isabelle and Pontius start to fool around whilst on surveillance,taking their eye off the ball and allowing this suspect to confront Claire.
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#14 - Besök från Vargvallen
Pistvakt - Season 2 - Episode 2
Sven-Erik som man aldrig brukar se sjuk drabbas av smittfebran, och det just när saker drar ihop sig på ett högst olycksbådande sätt. I Svartlien uppenbarar sig nämligen en obehaglig trio, som påminner om halvt glömda händelser i det förflutna. Det är de tre bröderna Näslund, själva pistvakter i grannbyn Vargvallen, som har kommit för att göra Svartlien osäkert. Jan-Erik tar upp den kastade skidvanten och nu startar en livsfarlig kamp om äran och sanningen.
#15 - Flytande inspektion
Pistvakt - Season 1 - Episode 4
Yngve Bäck från länspolisen kommer till Svartlien för att kontrollera att reglerna för utskänkningstillståndet följs. Han upptäcker dock snart att det bränns eget och att bokföring saknas. Ett under krävs för att han inte skall stänga stället.
#16 - The Invasion
Beck - Season 5 - Episode 3
A dead man is found buried outside Stockholm. The Beck group believes that the man may be victim of a conflict within an Islamist terror group. The tracks point to a company which seems to offer black labor to Stockholm's unscrupulous construction companies.
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#17 - The Hospital Murders
Beck - Season 5 - Episode 4
A woman diagnosed with ALS dies in a hospital in Stockholm. However, it seems as if she had been exterminated. The son of the woman is accusing the doctor Johan Fors for the deed. But when Johan Fors is found dead, the suspicions are directed against the womans son. But even Johan Fors' colleagues seem to hide things from the Beck group.
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#18 - Lavinbjärn
Pistvakt - Season 1 - Episode 1
Två unga damer från Bromma, Mia och Pia, kommer till Svartliden och det minst sagt rustika pensionatet. I ett brev hotar Svenska Turistföreningen att stryka dem från katalogen på grund av dåligt bemötande av gästerna. När lavinen går kommer den beryktade lavinbjörnen fram men Sven-Erik tar hand om honom.
#19 - Doris är död
Pistvakt - Season 1 - Episode 5
En OBS-klass från Danderyd kommer till Svartlien, ledd av lärarinnan Jenny. Både Sven-Erik och Jan-Erik förälskar sig pladask i henne. När klassen håller på att frysa ihjäl under en tipspromenad måste Sven-Erik rädda dem.
