For what that’s worth.)Īxel and Inga work with ex-offenders.
#White lioness serial
(If I might digress for a sec, Axel is played by Alex Ferns, who EastEnders fans from the early 2000s will remember as Trevor, a serial wife-beater and one of the baddest baddies in EastEnders history. So he goes to talk with the woman’s husband, Axel Hedeman, to find out what’s what. Wallander, of course, knows none of what we know. When something like that happens at the start of a show, you can be fairly confident it won’t end well for the nice lady. Having taken a wrong turn while driving, she stopped to ask for directions, wandered into a decrepit building, and encountered a man with blood on his hands. We, wise viewers, already know that things don’t look promising for the missing woman. Can Wallander intercede to settle the husband down? Her husband, also Swedish, is kicking up a fuss. The police haven’t been able to find her. A Swedish woman living in South Africa has gone missing. Over cocktails on a veranda, a local police official surprises Wallander by asking for his help with a case. But this is Wallander, a man of steady habits, most of them bad. If this were anyone else, we might think we’re watching a man ready to glide into his golden years. Then he backspaces and corrects: “ nearly 40 years.”
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“I have been a police officer for 40 years,” he types on his laptop.
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More uncharacteristic than that, Wallander is soaking in the sunshine, jogging, inhaling…smiling. For one thing, our Swedish detective friend Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) is in South Africa for some sort of international police conference. The final series of Wallander on Masterpiece Mystery has an uncharacteristic start.