As the episode starts, we find a couple in bed. A door bell rings and the man goes to see who is outside. As he looks through the peep hole, someone outside shoots him.
Kurt Wallander is seen in the audience, attending a concert by a Russian cellist. She is the woman at the beginning of the story. At the end of the performance, as people are applauding, a man tries to get out by squeezing past where Kurt has been sitting. He is carrying his overcoat in his arm and a wallet falls. Noticing it on the floor, Wallander picks it up and goes after the man. The wallet will be important later on in the story.
Outside the concert hall, Kurt is getting ready to leave. Seeing Irina, the cellist, go by he thanks her for her interpretation. As the woman tries to start the car, it explodes. Kurt rushes to the spot and pulls her out of the burning car. She has burns in her hands and he gets burned after his attempt to rescue her.
Unknown to the police, the assassin of Irina's boyfriend is Yuri, a notorious Russian mafioso, whose father is the notorious Leb Munchin. Yuri was caught and now awaits trial and Irina will be instrumental in sending him to prison for quite a while. It will take the cooperation of the Ystad police with special agent Jens Riis to solve this mystery in which the blood thirsty Russians will do everything to get to Irina first so that Yuri can be spared of a long sentence in jail.
Stepahn Apelgren and Lars Lundstrom wrote the screenplay based on the material by Henning Mankell. Mr. Apelgren directed. The episode is one of the bloodiest in the "Wallander" series. The Russians prove to be criminals that will stop at nothing to get what they want. Good performances by Krister Henriksson, Lena Endre and the excellent Magnus Roosmann.
Kurt Wallander is seen in the audience, attending a concert by a Russian cellist. She is the woman at the beginning of the story. At the end of the performance, as people are applauding, a man tries to get out by squeezing past where Kurt has been sitting. He is carrying his overcoat in his arm and a wallet falls. Noticing it on the floor, Wallander picks it up and goes after the man. The wallet will be important later on in the story.
Outside the concert hall, Kurt is getting ready to leave. Seeing Irina, the cellist, go by he thanks her for her interpretation. As the woman tries to start the car, it explodes. Kurt rushes to the spot and pulls her out of the burning car. She has burns in her hands and he gets burned after his attempt to rescue her.
Unknown to the police, the assassin of Irina's boyfriend is Yuri, a notorious Russian mafioso, whose father is the notorious Leb Munchin. Yuri was caught and now awaits trial and Irina will be instrumental in sending him to prison for quite a while. It will take the cooperation of the Ystad police with special agent Jens Riis to solve this mystery in which the blood thirsty Russians will do everything to get to Irina first so that Yuri can be spared of a long sentence in jail.
Stepahn Apelgren and Lars Lundstrom wrote the screenplay based on the material by Henning Mankell. Mr. Apelgren directed. The episode is one of the bloodiest in the "Wallander" series. The Russians prove to be criminals that will stop at nothing to get what they want. Good performances by Krister Henriksson, Lena Endre and the excellent Magnus Roosmann.