Young Wallander

Season 1 - Young Wallander

First broadcast: September 3, 2020 on Netflix - 6 episodes

Kurt Wallander has just graduated from police school and, together with his friend and colleague Reza, is on his first patrols, dealing with complaints about disturbances and other minor offenses. After work, he returns to his apartment in Rosengård, a problem neighborhood in the Swedish city of Malmö. One evening, he hears noise from the neighborhood football field and finds a young light-skinned man tied to a fence and gagged with tape. The crowd makes fun of the man. Wallander identifies himself as a policeman and is about to disperse the crowd when a man tears the tape off the gagged man. A grenade is revealed in his mouth, the detonation mechanism of which was triggered by the removal of the tape and which explodes a few seconds later in the victim's mouth.

As Wallander knows his way around the crime, he is transferred to the criminal investigation department in place of Reza, who was originally assigned to the case, and put in charge of the investigation under Inspector Hemberg. The public searches for those responsible for the attack among immigrants who are accused of hating Sweden. A public discussion about xenophobia and right-wing extremism ensues. Wallander does not believe in a hate crime, but is confronted with the racist bias of his police department and Commissioner Hemberg in particular.

Season 2 - Killer's Shadow

First broadcast: 17.02.2022 on Netflix - 6 episodes

Kurt Wallander retired from the police force after the events of the first season. Now he fears for his future and has lost sight of his goal in life. But then an opportunity arises for him to return to the police force after all. In the meantime, Samuel Osei has taken over as head of the criminal investigation department and makes Wallander an offer. He returns to duty and tries his hand at a seemingly simple case involving an accident outside a nightclub.

However, the case quickly becomes more complex than expected. Because it turns out that there is a connection between the accident victim and a notorious murder case. And Wallander's superior Frida Rask, of all people, worked on this case a few years ago. Kurt Wallander senses a conspiracy and does everything he can to bring the truth to light. During his investigation, he ends up having to suspect the very people who could end his career in the police force.