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Yes?

The Midsummer Murders

We've got three young adults.

Svedberg thought they were off interrailing.

They sent postcards to their parents from all over Europe.

- Where is Svedberg? - No idea.

Sorry.

Sorry for what?

What do we know?

Hello, Kalle! Is he there? Did you find them?

They're for you. It's time to tell him.

Tell him everything!

When you're done get them to forensics, -

- so we can find out if it really is them.

And not next week - they've got twenty-four hours!

- So what do you make of it? - Early twenties.

Buried here since midsummer.

Each with a single bullet to the head.

Pure execution.

- How's it going, Svedberg? - What about the wigs?

And they were having wine and food. Listening to Bellman.

I think you should go home.

Have you got your car keys?

Kurt?

No, go on home. I'll call you as soon as we know anything.

Come on!

Take it easy, Kurt.

Well, we need him. We've seen worse than this before.

Have we?

Come over here!

Shot them and then buried them...

Put them in fucking bags... Waited for them to rot.

- And then dug them up again? - Just like Svedberg said.

Who the hell does something like that?

- Hi there! - Thanks.

- Hi, Maja! - HC!

Hi...

- What are you doing here? - Kurt Wallander.

Hans-Christian Mller. Copenhagen Police Department. Homicide division.

Karl-Evert rang me.

Karl-Evert Svedberg. He's the one in charge here, right?

Yeah... right.

He called and said you had found Lene Norman and her two friends.

We don't yet know who we've found...

Who's Lena Norman?

Lene, she's Danish. That's why I'm here.

By the way, I have brought this...

Another postcard from Lene to her parents.

Probably also a fake. Shall we take a look at them?

How's the salsa going? You should come to Copenhagen.

There are 30 of us who meet once a month.

I usually dance with a woman who's fifty-five-

- with as ass like this, but she's a great dancer!

How do you know him?

From that police seminar in Malm� you didn't want to go to.

Police co-operation in the �esund region. Jesus...

This one must be Martin Boge, I guess.

But then which of them is Lene and which one is Ester?

- Have you got the photos of the kids? - What photos?

The photos Karl-Evert got from the parents.

No...

Where is Karl-Evert?

Svedberg?

Want some coffee?

No thanks. I'm fine.

The postcards and photos-

- we're supposed to have gotten from the parents...

They're here.

This is the worst thing I've ever seen...

Do you need to talk?

There's this crisis group you can call.

We've got some sort of deal with them.

I think they're psychologists who...

I'll see you then!

Goodbye...

The soil was disturbed over here. So we started digging and...

You can see for yourself.

Looks like there was supposed to have been one more.

That there should have been four of them? Good...

You've reached 0411-21132.

I can't answer now but leave a message and I'll call you later.

Listen, do you know if there was supposed to have been-

- a fourth person there maybe?

Anyway, there's a briefing at five o'clock. See you then.

That's all.

Can you feel it coming?

Svedberg, are you there?

Open up!

Svedberg?

What's the procedure when it's a suicide?

Well, he's not married, but... Did he used to be?

Don't suppose he has any children. Does he?

He worked here for over twenty years, for God's sake.

We must know something about him?

What about that woman... the one we met at the hospital once?

Who else should we get in touch with?

Who else?

Well, you two were cousins. What other relatives should we...

No, the two of us were the only ones left in our family.

Friends?

Well, I guess there was that guy at the bank. Bror Sundelius.

They saw quite a lot of each other. But nothing like you two.

This must be very hard on you. The two of you were so close.

No! No! No! No!

This identification viewing that we're...

There's something we have to ask you.

I need to find out-

- if somebody else was supposed to have been there with them.

Obviously there was somebody else there.

Somebody who did it and who you should have caught by now!

I was thinking more like a friend.

Shouldn't we be the ones asking that? You're in charge of this investigation!

See we found four graves. We only found three bodies.

Isa.

Isa?

- Yes, it must be... - Isa Edengren.

Do you know where this Isa lives?

Outside Skillinge, but...

If she had come in 15 minutes later, I don't think she would have made it.

She was in here.

- What do you mean, was?! - That's why we called the police.

That is why you're here, isn't it? Because she ran off last night.

Don't you keep this place locked up at night?!

Somebody must have helped her.

- Her parents? - No, they're in Spain.

I told them that their daughter had tried to commit suicide.

They thanked me for getting in touch with them, -

- and continued their vacation.

She should be here somewhere...

The door's been left open; that's not supposed to happen.

I mean, that's... Run that bit.

There, stop!

That's Isa. Dressed as a nurse.

Where the hell did she get those clothes from? Go back again!

Somebody's helping her?

There! Stop!

He had the clothes with him.

The resolution isn't great...

Go back there!

That's Svedberg...

Well, what is there to say really. What does one feel?

Sadness, because Karl-Evert is gone.

Anger, because we don't understand what sort of...

...internal eruption causes a person to take his own life.

A colleague and, for many of us, also a close friend...

...has left us so... suddenly.

Perhaps Kurt would like to...?

A minute of silence for Karl-Evert.

Hi, it's from the medical examiner's office.

I'm a little busy right now.

It's just that we removed the bullet from your colleague.

He shot himself with his service pistol, is that right?

He didn't have any other weapon? Hello?

Yes, he shot himself with his service pistol.

No, he did not have any other weapon.

Are we done?

The bullet we pulled out is smaller.

It also looks very similar to the ones we found in the kids.

So last night he was first out in Marsvinsholm forest...

He must have known that they were there...

Because a few hours later he drove Isa to the psych ward-

- and a few hours later he got shot. He must be involved.

I don't want to hear that kind of talk about Svedberg!

He worked with us for over twenty years!

We're dealing with somebody who kills police officers and kids.

- How did he know this Isa? - I don't fucking know!

There are a lot of questions...

Everybody shut up!

You went out there, to his apartment when you found him.

Why did you go out there?

I wanted to ask him something.

Can I say something?

I know you all feel badly that you couldn't be there for him.

But now that you all know that it wasn't suicide, -

- well, then there was nothing you could have done.

I know how difficult it is to work on the murder of a colleague-

- and a friend, so I'd like to offer you my assistance.

As an observer, of course. I'm sure Copenhagen won't mind.

Thanks! Neighbouring police districts and CID will also be sending people.

We'll need all the help we can get.

Hang on to that. We're investigating the murder of a policeman now.

We have to account for every hour between midsummer and now:

What did Svedberg do? Where was he? Who did he meet?

What was he thinking, what did he feel - everything!

We've got to find out everything.

- When did the report first come in? - 1:14 am.

He called me in the afternoon, seven to eight hours before he found them.

He told me to come out there.

He was pretty sure he knew what had happened to Lene Norman.

I was working late, but he wanted me to come, -

- even if it was in the middle of the night.

He knew something.

Did he get a tip-off? Did he work it out somehow...?

Somehow he knew that they were here...

And the simplest explanation for that...

What if it was for him?

How do you mean?

That they were lying here for him. And he knew it.

Right then when he stepped out...

It wasn't the kids he reacted to. He didn't look at them.

It was when he caught sight of...

Caught sight of...?

Well... when he caught sight of me.

No...

What if he did in fact know something? That he wanted to say something.

- But couldn't. - Or simply chose not to.

His cousin called. Said it was suicide.

Yeah, that's what we thought at first, too.

Well... I don't know what to say? It's awful.

What was he like? Do you think?

Meticulous. Knowledgeable.

Always took his coffee black.

We mostly met up at the club.

Incredible marksman.

You must have been very proud of him in the police force.

Club champion seven times in the past ten years.

It's hard.

I realise it must be hard for you too.

Perhaps especially for you.

You were so very close, I understand.

Store-room

I'm talking to a man here at the post office.

He thinks the postmarks are fake too.

Thinks?

Apparently they're so well made it's hard to tell.

The postcards could just as well have been sent from Sweden.

We'll have to see what the lab says.

This guy here thinks whoever did this made his own postmark stamps.

- He's thorough... - The shooting club.

We've got to check up on everything. The shooting club.

And then that banker guy. Thoroughly.

But Martinsson is already on to that.

What are you doing?

- It was nothing. - HC wants to speak to you.

Hi, it's HC. I was checking up on Isa Edengren's address;

Her mail is being forwarded to her summer cottage or something.

According to the postcode it should be in...

I think it's an island. It's in Blekinge.

Bj�kesk�?

- What is it? - It's just Maja.

She's good fun.

She told me you two had a relationship.

I just wanted to say that there's nothing going on between us.

What was his relationship to women? Did he like young girls?

I was just thinking of Isa; a young girl, confused, -

- parents not wanting anything to do with her.

Maybe she needed a father figure.

Svedberg saw that and maybe he used that to get her into bed...

Up next we'll have a summary of the news and weather.

The meteorologists have promised us warm summer weather all day...

Kurt! Where are you?

Are you in here?

Who are you afraid of?

He often talks about you.

Who?

Kalle.

Svedberg?

Isa, who did you think we were?

Who did you think I was? You nearly pissed your pants!

He says you're a good policeman. And a good friend.

Yeah, so was he.

A good policeman or a good friend?

Both.

You talk about Kalle as if he was...

Isa!

I need your help.

Did anyone know you were going to be there for midsummer?

No.

How can you be so certain?

Because we never tell anyone. Even I didn't know exactly.

Why not?

We usually only decide the place two days in advance, -

- and I got sick on... the Tuesday, I think.

Anyway, I couldn't make it this time.

So how do you go about it when you arrange to meet, -

- like now, for midsummer?

Usually we write to each other.

- E-mail? - No.

Good old-fashioned letters. You know, pen and paper.

Those are the rules.

Because things were better back then? Is that why you put on costumes?

We don't put on costumes, we dress up.

Create another reality, another world... for a few hours.

Right now we're kind of into Gustav III.

You know, powdered wigs, stinking of sweat and stuff.

And listening to Bellman.

Listening to Bellman?

Yes, that's what they had on the CD player.

Martin probably tried to play guitar or lute-

- or something like that, -

- but they would never have brought a CD player with them.

Not very 18th century, is it?

Maja, take a look at the CD-player the kids had at the crime scene.

Isa claims it shouldn't have been there.

Here it is.

So how did you and Svedberg become friends?

- Through Martin. - Martin Boge?

Kalle had been a great support to Martin.

Sort of like a mentor, or whatever you want to call it. Helped him.

With what?

Well, you know... With the most difficult thing of all:

Learning to like yourself.

He made a lot of progress with Martin.

More than with me... But that's not so strange, really.

I'm manic-depressive, -

- so it was impossible for Kalle to keep up with my mood swings.

Kalle and Martin were sort of similar. They had gone through the same thing.

- The same thing? - If it hadn't been for Kalle...

...Martin would never have dared admit openly that he was gay.

His parents are like total country-club fascists, -

- who want everything to be so damn prim and proper-

- and who think that anything that's a bit odd or different is sick.

And Kalle never told his parents-

- and I guess he didn't want Martin to make the same mistake, so...

You didn't know about it, did you? That Kalle was gay?

And you're the one who's going to try and solve all this...

There was more on the CD than just Bellman.

There are short film sequences too.

- So what do they show? - Svedberg.

Must have been taken last spring.

That's the kid. Martin Boge! They knew each other!

- He and Svedberg knew each other! - Yes, I know.

How's it going? Are you okay?

Yeah, I'm all right. Nothing else?

No... Well, you know it's one of those homemade ones.

CD recordable, 700 megabytes, the usual kind.

And somebody's written the number one on it.

It's one of those multi-speed CDs.

In Svedberg's apartment, in the stereo there, -

- you'll find another one with the number two on it.

- When are you coming home? - Tomorrow morning.

We have to prepare some kind of protection for her too...

She could be in danger, there were four graves after all.

Hello? Are you there?

Christ, Maja! What's going on?

He filmed them just before... and he filmed them as he shot them.

That's exactly where he'd always stand when he came to visit. Kalle...

- What did he come out here for? - It's beautiful. Isn't that enough?

Here, you can borrow my cassette player.

It's for you.

I often record people.

I'll let you listen to it. But only you.

- So you're not at all worried then? - Why should I be worried?

Because they haven't been in touch. With either you or me.

That's not like them, especially not like Martin.

Maybe he met someone. He's crazy and in love.

Just hasn't thought to get in touch.

That could be.

Let's hope so.

And otherwise? How are you feeling?

- How are you doing? - What do you mean?

- Well, finding out that he was gay? - How am I supposed to feel?

I don't know what you think about gays, so...

What difference does that make! I don't give a shit!

I'm going to go to bed. Isa's probably already asleep. Good night!

...crazy and in love. Just hasn't thought to get in touch.

That could be.

Let's hope so.

And otherwise? How are you feeling?

Last week I danced naked on the beach-

- in front of all the families.

So then the police came and took me away.

But now I've been given some new medication that seems to work.

That's good.

Yeah, now I just get depressed over perfectly normal things.

Like globalisation, the greenhouse effect, -

- AIDS in Africa, stuff like that.

- Now you sound like Kurt. - Like Kurt?

A good friend of mine.

When he tries to sound cynical... But he's actually just a big romantic.

He's a good policeman though.

Best I've ever worked with... the best I've ever met.

He's fifty years old now-

- and yet he still goes around waiting for life to begin.

He's a good man.

Unfortunately I don't think he...

...thinks so himself.

Where are you going?

I just have to get a breath of fresh air...

Where's Isa?

He's here!

- Just stay calm! - I am calm, damn it...

Isa! Wait for us!

- What the hell did you say to her? - I didn't say anything!

It was Svedberg who...

- What are you doing, Isa? - I don't want to be here.

- Don't you understand? He's here! - What the hell are you doing?

Just calm down!

You can't leave without us, Isa!

- Calm yourself now! Look at me... - But he's here!

Who's here? Come ashore now!

Then the three of us can leave tomorrow instead!

No...!

The first CD that was found-

- shows sequences of Svedberg together with the victims.

And especially of Svedberg with Martin Boge.

We've dated them to last spring, perhaps as late as June.

Everything was filmed in secret.

Except for... here.

The final sequence when the murderer reveals himself to them.

And the other CD, which was found in Svedberg's stereo...

It was taken about a year ago. It's all of Svedberg.

And then of you, Kurt.

We just can't understand why he's filming you two.

Kurt...

Kalle and the four victims... They were just kids...

You think you can keep going?

So Svedberg had a relationship with Martin Boge?

According to Isa they were just friends.

What if this madman thought they had a thing going?

But would that be enough?

Wouldn't be the first time jealousy drove someone mad.

Could be the other way around too. Some homophobe who blew a fuse.

So he takes out Boge and Svedberg, just 'cause they were gay.

And the two girls into the bargain - because they were straight, right?

According to Isa they were.

Svedberg must have known who it was.

Or at least suspected.

Whatever it was, Kalle couldn't get himself to tell us about it.

Kalle?

You called him Kalle. When he was alive it was always Svedberg.

You knew he was homosexual.

The two of you had a relationship, didn't you?

Daddy! Who are they?

- Are you done already? - No, but it's not working.

Kalle and I... we were together for seven, almost eight years.

But our situation being what it was...

- You have a family. - Yes, but it wasn't that.

I gave and gave and gave, but he...

I was there for him, he knew that.

I was grateful for whatever I got in return from him.

It's difficult to love someone you know you can never get.

We want to put you under close surveillance.

Am I a suspect?

My colleague here will take the first watch.

Love someone you can never get...

- That must... - Hurt? Yes.

Then there's this freeze frame. That's the last of it.

We knew each other for twenty years.

If he considered me to be his best friend, -

- as he went around claiming, why didn't he say anything?

You're not very good at opening up either, are you?

Do you think it could have been you and me?

If I had been better at opening up?

If I... had been different?

Have you met somebody?

That's not something I'm obliged to tell you about, is it?

- So you have met somebody then. - No.

I haven't met anybody.

But it's not you and me anymore anyway.

What's this?

No idea.

- Hasn't anyone looked at this before? - We thought it ended back there.

What the hell?

It must have been before Christmas.

Eight months ago he was in your apartment filming you and Maja.

We have to show this to the others as well.

Now that people from outside are coming in. We don't understand all this.

- We need to have a meeting soon... - Maybe he was in love with you?

You mean the murderer...?

No, Karl-Evert. Kalle.

No, he wasn't.

- How do you know? - Surely it's obvious.

I would have noticed it, wouldn't I?

I'm just thinking out loud: If the murderer was jealous-

- and had been watching you for a long time...

I'm just thinking out loud.

Well, it does makes sense.

Will you cut it out!

He's been after you for a long time. You're the one he wants to get at.

The murderer knew Svedberg loved somebody he could never get.

It was you, Kurt!

Maybe it was you Svedberg was in love with.

Hi!

- Coffee? - No thanks.

- You're in uniform? - Yeah, came straight from traffic duty.

Bound to scare somebody off.

Malm� I thought I was supposed to be relieved at six?

They said five to me.

- You'll take it from here then, right? - Sure thing!

So it's your turn now?

- Coffee? - No thanks.

- Would you like to ride with me? - Thanks, I'll ride with you.

You're here again?

Yeah... I don't know...

I just can't find...

Find what?

He was issued with a uniform. His mobile telephone is also missing.

What do you mean?

I was going to double check a few of the numbers on it, -

- but somebody had already picked it up.

Where had you put it?

In the evidence room, of course! But it wasn't there.

Because Martinsson said...

Fuck!

Awful business that policeman getting murdered.

You knew him too, didn't you? That's why I'm sitting here now.

He was a good man. I miss him.

Me too...

With all the chaos around here now, -

- if he's got a uniform he can get in anywhere he damn well pleases.

I'll call you later.

Yes?

Hi, Kurt.

Who am I speaking to?

Bror sends his regards.

I want you to...

...feel it.

Why are you doing this?

Look in the bureau.

Middle drawer, furthest in.

Yes, that's it. For your eyes only.

Stop!

I'll shoot!

God damn it!

Where the hell are you?

There, that's enough running.

Where are you?!

Patience, Kurt.

Where are you?

You missed Bror, in the car.

Well, the first bits; I assume they're to show off his power.

Show us that we all have secrets.

And the last one... For those of you how have joined us from outside-

- I should probably explain that Maja Thysell and I...

...used to have a relationship...

...which she chose to break off.

If it is jealously that's driving him-

- then I suppose he simply wants to make me jealous.

In any case, we can assume that whoever did this-

- had some kind of romantic involvement with Svedberg.

When... did he shoot the last sequence?

Last Tuesday.

Those sequences are part of an investigation that I'm working on...

...and that you ought to perhaps try taking an interest in-

- instead of running around screwing every colleague!

God damn it, Kurt!

- You lied to me! - We're both adults!

I do what I want, okay?! You've got to be able to...

Damn it, Kurt!

I was thinking...

If Kalle had told you, -

- and you had understood what he felt for you...

Do you think you could have been friends in the same way after that?

Don't you think there would have been a thin barrier between you?

That you would have started thinking about what you said, -

- and how you behaved when you were together with him;

that you would have been afraid of hurting him?

Don't you think things would have been different somehow?

Like between us you mean?

I just thought maybe that's why he never said anything.

You really think he'd be stupid enough to show up here?

He filmed you inside your apartment. And me!

He could turn up any place.

I have been asked to deliver a greeting-

- on behalf of someone who unfortunately could not be here today.

See you soon! Yours always, Ake Larstam.

- The uniform? Who gave it to you? - I don't know his name.

- Where did you meet him? - On the square!

I haven't done anything!

Nobody here.

Loads of fingerprints, but that doesn't help us find out where he's hiding.

I found this.

Why did he want to bring us here?

We'll know that as soon as we've found it.

He works at the post office! He often fills in there as a mailman.

That explains the postmarks on the postcards.

He could slip the cards into the outgoing...

Why in the hell didn't anybody check out the post office then?

We did.

Not the temps.

Don't go on your own.

Come down to the basement!

This is the only photo we've been able to find of him.

It's from 1987 when he got a new passport.

He hasn't renewed it since then, nor his driver's license, nothing.

He hasn't had a job in eight years, -

- except for filling in at the post office, which he...

- Where are you? - Kurt.

I thought we could meet for a little chat, just you and me.

- Where is Maja? - Patience, Kurt.

Get into your car, on your own.

Head north along the coast. I'll call you in two hours.

Maja is waiting for you.

Where's Maja?

Where are they?

Coffee?

Didn't you ever notice anything? When he looked at you?

It took two years, after we got together.

Two years before I understood that he actually wanted somebody else.

And then another full year before I understood that it was you.

Do you know how much it hurts to love someone you know you'll never get?

You can answer me now that you're here. Speak to me at least.

You don't understand. Kalle and I, we were good together.

I was happy with what I had, I didn't want to screw it up but...

Where are they?

When I saw him with others...

He couldn't put up with my jealousy, so he left me.

Where are they?

Put them on!

The key.

When you were in my apartment filming me while I was asleep...

- Why didn't you take me out then? - I wanted to get to know you first.

And I want you to understand Kalle.

What you meant to him.

And why I took Martin and Bror.

Where's Maja?

Didn't you try to win him back?

I tried everything.

I dug them up, I left messages so that he'd find them.

So that he'd really understand that Martin was gone.

And then he lied.

He said that they had only been friends. As if I would fall for that.

Then he was going to turn me in. I guess that was just as well.

I could never have gotten him back, not in this life, but...

It's different for you though, isn't it?

We've got a match on the prints.

He's got a gun license, but no gun registered in his name.

Has anybody seen Kurt?

- Hey boss, where are you? - He's driving my car!

- Where are you? - He forgot to take my telephone.

- Kurt! I can't hear you! - Can you hear me?

I can't hear!

Kurt! Leave your mobile on, we're tracking you. Leave it on!

Good, Kurt. Good.

Hello, can you hear me? Who is it?

Hello?! Kurt! Hello?!

Come on, answer goddam it! Hello?!

Okay! Thanks!

They seem to have stopped up ahead!

Maja?

Take the gun!

She'll never find out that it was you who fired the shot, of course not!

Here's your chance.

You don't even want to try.

You're not ready to sacrifice anything for her, are you?

Ake!

Maja!

Can you feel it now, Kurt? How much it hurts?

That's enough now.

Stop it...

Do you feel it?

Maja... Maja...

That went quick, didn't it?

Can you feel how much it hurts?

Now there's only one thing left to do.

What the hell are you doing? Leave him be!

What are you doing?

Go help HC. He's up in the earth cellar.

And call for help!

Come on! Live you bastard!

Larstam is going to make it, they said.

He'll have serious brain damage, but he'll survive.

You didn't want him to have things his own way, did you?

You didn't want him to be together with Kalle again like he wanted.

That depends on whether you believe in that...

But that was what you wanted, wasn't it?

Well, Kalle, having two funerals is a bit out of the ordinary.

But then again, you were no ordinary colleague.

No ordinary friend.

And we did get interrupted last time we were here.

By work.

I know you, if anyone, understand why we had to rush off...

...but now we're all gathered here again.

Damn, we miss you!

And I... I miss you...