This episode involves the connection among a group of motorcycle guys, most of whom are legitimate, and a foreign drug runner. It has to do with Wallander and his growth, even at age sixty, toward a true understanding of the people who work with him. While on a drug run, a young man dies when his bike goes over a cliff. It turns out that his neck had been broken before he actually hit the bottom. There is a scene where the young new woman cop is attacked in her apartment and threatened. It's all about trying to get to the big fish. There is a terrifying scene where on young guy is put in a pit and wet concrete is dumped on him and his pregnant girlfriend are threatened in order to get him to do the will of the drug lords. Solid episode.
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Drug running bikers
Tweekums11 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
When a motorcyclist is found at the bottom of a cliff with a broken neck it looks like it was either suicide or an accident however the same bike had fled customs inspectors at the border only an hour before when the rider was clearly wearing a backpack and there was no sign of the bag on the body. The investigation suggests a link between drug smugglers and motorcyclist, both competitive riders and a local bikers' gang. When one of the bikers sets a dog on Svartman the only other police witness is recruit Isabell who finds herself confronted by a masked thug who tells her that she and her sister will be harmed if she testifies. Put in an impossible situation she tells Wallander that she plans to resign from the police. With the courier dead the drug dealers find themselves in need of a new rider and force a top rider to do the job.
This was another good episode in the series which helped develop the character of new girl Isabell, it also showed some nice interaction between Wallander and Martinsson as the latter wants to go on a course that will put him in position to try for Wallander's job when the latter retires in three years. The story itself was exciting enough although it was a bit of a coincidence that the drug dealers were found because they were in a church Nyberg happened to go to when looking for his missing mother.
This was another good episode in the series which helped develop the character of new girl Isabell, it also showed some nice interaction between Wallander and Martinsson as the latter wants to go on a course that will put him in position to try for Wallander's job when the latter retires in three years. The story itself was exciting enough although it was a bit of a coincidence that the drug dealers were found because they were in a church Nyberg happened to go to when looking for his missing mother.
The courier
jotix10020 April 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The opening of this chapter begins with a motorcyclist, all dressed in black, going through a city at night. He is headed for Sweden. As he goes through customs, he is told to go to the policemen that examine bags. Instead of stopping, he accelerates and eludes the revision. We realize what his precious cargo is: drugs. The delivery takes place on a lonely site.
A group of young school children are seen in an outing on the hills that overlook the beach. One boy separates from the group, going to the end, where he spots the body on the sand. The police arrive; they discover the body is that of a noted local cyclist who often races in different events. Nyberg, the medical examiner, determines the dead man's neck was broken with force, showing cruelty; he is also intrigued with the vehicle, found next to the dead man.
Kurt Wallander now living on a beach house surprises a person on a motorcyclist going back and forth on the sand. He scolds the intruder, who turns out to be Katarina Ahlsell's son trying on his new present. Martinsson, is seen at a cocktail lounge speaking to a friend. He is told he has good chances to succeed Karl Wallander, but he needs his boss' formal recommendation.
At the station, the new recruits, Pontus and Isabelle, are well received by Wallander and the staff. Isabelle and Svartman are sent to investigate people with a particular breed of attack dogs, which brings them to Mats and Kolt's place, two former convicts. Their dog is indeed a ferocious animal, as Svartman tries to get closer to the animal, Kolt orders an attack where the policeman is bitten in the leg.
The dead man is Erik Strah, a motorcyclist. The police want to question Johannes, another race biker in connection with the death of Strah. Johannes has also worked as a smuggler, but now he is doing some good riding. Johannes had worked in the past for Jovan Brankovic, the boss of the Serbian mafia operating in Sweden. He is told to cooperate, or else he will suffer. Isabelle is visited one night by a masked intruder who tells her to abstain from giving evidence against Kolt. She decides she has had it, telling Wallander she is resigning.
Nyberg figures a way to render Johannes' motorcycle useless as he goes to customs. He had gone to get a new shipment. The police is on alert at the border and tell Johannes to cooperate. Delivery is to take place in the church where Mats and Kolt use as the base for their illegal activities. A special police force is awaiting for the criminals, where Misco and Jovan are also expecting the drugs and they are overpowered.
A good episode in the latest "Wallander" series. Directed by Leif Magnusson, and written by Stephan Apelgren and Stefan Thunberg, adapting it from a Henning Mankell story. The creators get good all around performances from the regulars and guest cast. Krister Henriksson plays Wallander with his usual style. Lena Endre, who played in the "Millennium" saga is seen as the public prosecutor.
A group of young school children are seen in an outing on the hills that overlook the beach. One boy separates from the group, going to the end, where he spots the body on the sand. The police arrive; they discover the body is that of a noted local cyclist who often races in different events. Nyberg, the medical examiner, determines the dead man's neck was broken with force, showing cruelty; he is also intrigued with the vehicle, found next to the dead man.
Kurt Wallander now living on a beach house surprises a person on a motorcyclist going back and forth on the sand. He scolds the intruder, who turns out to be Katarina Ahlsell's son trying on his new present. Martinsson, is seen at a cocktail lounge speaking to a friend. He is told he has good chances to succeed Karl Wallander, but he needs his boss' formal recommendation.
At the station, the new recruits, Pontus and Isabelle, are well received by Wallander and the staff. Isabelle and Svartman are sent to investigate people with a particular breed of attack dogs, which brings them to Mats and Kolt's place, two former convicts. Their dog is indeed a ferocious animal, as Svartman tries to get closer to the animal, Kolt orders an attack where the policeman is bitten in the leg.
The dead man is Erik Strah, a motorcyclist. The police want to question Johannes, another race biker in connection with the death of Strah. Johannes has also worked as a smuggler, but now he is doing some good riding. Johannes had worked in the past for Jovan Brankovic, the boss of the Serbian mafia operating in Sweden. He is told to cooperate, or else he will suffer. Isabelle is visited one night by a masked intruder who tells her to abstain from giving evidence against Kolt. She decides she has had it, telling Wallander she is resigning.
Nyberg figures a way to render Johannes' motorcycle useless as he goes to customs. He had gone to get a new shipment. The police is on alert at the border and tell Johannes to cooperate. Delivery is to take place in the church where Mats and Kolt use as the base for their illegal activities. A special police force is awaiting for the criminals, where Misco and Jovan are also expecting the drugs and they are overpowered.
A good episode in the latest "Wallander" series. Directed by Leif Magnusson, and written by Stephan Apelgren and Stefan Thunberg, adapting it from a Henning Mankell story. The creators get good all around performances from the regulars and guest cast. Krister Henriksson plays Wallander with his usual style. Lena Endre, who played in the "Millennium" saga is seen as the public prosecutor.
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