The WORST episodes of Beck
Every episode of Beck ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Beck!
Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes.
#1 - The Ad Man
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/2003
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex.
#2 - Gunvald
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2016
An investigative journalist is found murdered in his home, along with the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector. The journalist had been threatened by right-wing extremists, but it is the victim's work with a book about 'society's dark side' that captures the interest of Beck and his team. The case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, and suddenly there is much more at stake than finding the journalist's killer. Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.
#3 - The Last Day
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/2/2016
When traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding they are shot at and one of them is killed. Beck and his team lead an extensive search for the ruthless killer.
#5 - End of the Road
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/2016
An ex-policeman is found murdered in his house, along with his wife and child. Beck and his team take on the case and find that there is a hidden security room in the victims' house, containing stolen weapons. They find fingerprints from a criminal who was involved in a robbery, after which he shot his accomplices and disappeared with the money. The question is how the former police officer ended up with the weapons and how he is connected to the thieves. The case stirs strong feelings at police headquarters and takes highest priority.
#6 - The Pearl Hotel
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/19/2000
Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.
#7 - The Recluse
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/2003
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered, and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction.
#8 - Steinar
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/2016
An unidentified body is found in the remains of a trailer after a fire at a run-down caravan park. The owner of the trailer, a young drug-addicted woman, is missing, but is she really the victim? And what role has the local so-called neighbourhood watch played? Police supervisor Klas Freden decides to go over Martin Beck's head and recruit charismatic Norwegian homicide investigator, Steinar Hovland. The newly-structured Beck group face a power struggle, and Martin struggles to find his way back to his old self.
#9 - Night Vision
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/7/2000
A serial killer who decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.
#10 - The Cartel
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/2003
A Greek restaurant owner is brutally tortured and killed. Beck and his team investigate, and are drawn into a world of smuggling, threats, and violence.
#11 - The Man with the Icons
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/19/1999
Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported.
#12 - Unknown Sender
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2003
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.
#13 - The Revenge
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/12/2003
Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge.
#14 - The Boy in the Glass Bowl
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/2003
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.
#15 - The Monster
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/2000
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?
#16 - White Nights
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2000
When the police uncover a narcotics smuggling operation, the driver is shot dead. The man turns out to be Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and steps away from the investigation but later returns at his colleagues request.
#17 - The Decoy
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/12/1999
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has happened. But he does not know when or where. He has no body, motive or a crime scene, not a single trace. All he has is some teeth and a mysterious Internet address...
#18 - The Vulture
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/2010
Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with the man whom she dined with him the evening before he vanished. When they find out Veden was a gambler with heavy debts battling his addiction the case leads Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and freshly returned Lena Klingström into Sweden's illegal gambling scene. And Veden was planning to expose his own addiction and his party's huge financial profits from gambling in a confessional book - which his political allies got wind of via illegal data theft. With several people having an interest that Veden stays missing the team tries to find the politician and the true perpetrator while Beck is grappling privately with his ambivalent feelings about working with ex Lena again.
#19 - The Japanese Painting
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/2010
Martin Beck gets a phone call from his German colleague, Hans Sperling, who is in Stockholm to buy a painting at auction. Sperling has found a dead woman in his hotel, and needs Martin's help. The murder investigation leads them into a dark world of art fraud.
#20 - The Hospital Murders
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2015
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.
#21 - The Silent Scream
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/5/2010
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do this and why? Martin Beck and his team start following the step backwards in order to figure out what has happened. With good and intensive police work they find man side trails from the main path.
#22 - The Man without a Face
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/2003
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The shocking thing is that his face has been removed. Upon questioning, his wife describes their marriage as having been "stable." She also states that a mysterious foreign man had knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.
#23 - Room 302
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2015
A young woman is found strangled in a hotel room. The investigation leads Beck and Gunvald to Stureplan, Stockholm's nightlife and its downsides.
#24 - The Attorney
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/2010
A famous Swedish lawyer is brutally murdered in his apartment. Martin Beck and his team find a clear murder motive. Hansson had a good chance of winning a case against a multinational company. But it appears Hansson was not completely honest and had several links with the underworld.
