The BEST episodes written by Stefan Thunberg

The Secret
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8.24
51 votes

#1 - 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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The Joker / The Forger
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8.22
51 votes

#2 - 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.

The Sniper
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8.09
44 votes

#3 - The Sniper

Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 8

A sniper is Ystad in horror and his victims are persons connected to a jewel heist. Wallander soon understand that there are links to a criminal organization. In a failed attempt to shoot the last two that are linked to each other's coup Wallander's colleague, Pontus into a race to the death. Wallander is now forced to conduct an investigation in which the shooter list has been expanded with a name - Pontus Young.

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The Courier
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7.50
154 votes

#4 - The Courier

Wallander - Season 2 - Episode 3

A motorcycle rider is found murdered by the police, and the trail leads them to a local MC Club. The Club uses other riders to smuggle drugs across the Öresund bridge. Wallander believes that players outside of the MC club are trying to claim the local drug market when all clues indicate that the victim was one of the couriers. Only when Wallander's colleague Isabel gets violently assaulted in her home does he understand the lengths they will go to to achieve their goal.

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Death in Samarra
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7.44
27 votes

#5 - Death in Samarra

Beck - Season 7 - Episode 3

A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm following a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague. One of the witnesses worked with Alex when she was stationed in the Middle East and they have an attraction to each other that makes Josef think she should stay out of the investigation. Meanwhile, Klas Fredén is pressuring the group to resolve the politically charged case before SÄPO takes over.

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The Lost Son
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7.08
26 votes

#6 - The Lost Son

Beck - Season 7 - Episode 4

A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out it has been recently moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years. His mother, well-known author Cecilia Eklund, has just managed to put his disappearance behind her. Martin Beck was investigating the disappearance but Alex thinks the case is unusually thin and not worth Martin pursuing further, although he thinks differently.

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End of the Road
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6.33
9 votes

#7 - End of the Road

Beck - Season 5 - Episode 7

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.

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