Indrivaren (22 May 2010)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Kathrine Windfeld

Writers:

Henning Mankell (story), Stefan Thunberg

Stars:

Krister Henriksson, Lena Endre, Sverrir Gudnason

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Krister Henriksson	...	Kurt Wallander
Lena Endre	...	Katarina Ahlsell
Sverrir Gudnason	...	Pontus
Nina Zanjani	...	Isabelle
Fredrik Gunnarsson	...	Svartman
Mats Bergman	...	Nyberg
Douglas Johansson	...	Martinsson
Stina Ekblad	...	Karin
Marianne Mörck	...	Ebba
Henny Åman	...	Hanna, Katarinas dotter
Emil Forselius	...	Patrik
David Dencik	...	Leo
Rafael Edholm	...	Revera
Fredrik Hiller	...	Fabian
Robin Stegmar	...	Johan Sköld

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

police | investigation

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

22 May 2010 (Belgium)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Yellow Bird Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Lifetime (2012)

User Reviews

We protect the ones we love: theme of a superior episode

Wallander returned to excellent form in this standout episode.

Ironies abound in this well-written and tense story. Most of them illustrate that we protect the ones we love, and we break the rules in doing it. Life is filled with paradoxes and that is also illustrated here.

In order to pay off a gambling debt, two masked robbers enter an apartment. One kills the woman who lives there when she accidentally comes home. The trail leads to an athletic or boxing club. Isabelle is recognized by one of the boxers who was her lover 5 years earlier, and that leads to a knot of complications.

Meanwhile Catherine's daughter has stolen some cell phones as a misguided protest against her mother for having moved to Ystad. This subplot will tie in morally with the rest of the story.

Wallander is restored to a major position in the story, although much of it centers around Isabelle and Pontus.

The remaining characters both at the boxing club and to whom is owed money add plenty of tension.

This episode has slightly less use of the cell phone. I've been meaning to point out that the cell phone use was getting awfully, awfully heavy in the last few episodes. This permits fragmentation of scenes, but it also cuts down on the face-to-face scenes that are often the most telling.