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The Best Episodes of Wallander

Every episode of Wallander ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Wallander!

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This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Wallander Season 1 Episode 2 - Firewall
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #1 - Firewall

    S1:E2

    A body is found at a cash point, the apparent victim of a heart attack. Two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse. Two open and shut cases. At first these two incidents seem to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the girls murdered the cab driver, he begins to unravel a plot much more involved complicated than he initially suspected. The two cases become one, and lead to a conspiracy that stretches beyond the borders of Sweden.

    Director:Niall MacCormick
    Writers:Richard Cottan, Richard McBrien

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  2. Wallander Season 2 Episode 3 - The Fifth Woman
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #2 - The Fifth Woman

    S2:E3

    Wallander investigates the murder of an elderly bird-watcher, found impaled on sharpened bamboo poles. When another man is reported missing, Wallander realise he is looking for a serial killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Wallander Season 4 Episode 3 - The Troubled Man
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #3 - The Troubled Man

    S4:E3

    His memory is going to pieces and he is no longer officially on duty, but Wallander draws on all his resources to find Linda’s missing father-in-law, a former top official in the Swedish navy, obsessed with a decades-old submarine mystery. Slowly losing his grip on reality, Wallander is desperate to solve this one last case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Wallander Season 2 Episode 2 - The Man Who Smiled
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #4 - The Man Who Smiled

    S2:E2

    Wallander decides to resign from the police after killing a man in the line of duty. A solicitor-friend asks Wallander to investigate the suspicious death of his father in an apparent car accident.

    Director:Andy Wilson
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Wallander Season 4 Episode 2 - A Lesson in Love
    7.1/10(10 votes)

    #5 - A Lesson in Love

    S4:E2

    A woman’s knife-slashed corpse leads Wallander on a chase for the victim’s missing daughter, inciting him to a grievous oversight. In his private life, he bonds with Linda’s father-in-law, a retired naval officer, who gets a menacing birthday greeting. Convinced that something is not right with his brain, Wallander sees a doctor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Wallander Season 1 Episode 3 - One Step Behind
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #6 - One Step Behind

    S1:E3

    Three youngsters are shot dead whilst having a woodland picnic in fancy dress. The corpses are found, and a friend of the victims is also slain, having told Wallander that his workmate was really gay, and that he is a transvestite, and a wholly murderous one, who adds to his toll of dead by killing a further trio of innocents.

    Director:Philip Martin
    Writer:Richard Cottan

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  7. Wallander Season 3 Episode 3 - Before the Frost
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #7 - Before the Frost

    S3:E3

    A friend of Wallander's daughter comes begging for his help but then disappears. Meanwhile, an elderly woman's body is found cremated in a shallow grave. Killed by a seemingly religious obsessive, Wallander must catch the culprit before he strikes again.

    Director:Charles Martin
    Writer:Peter Harness

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  8. Wallander Season 3 Episode 1 - An Event in Autumn
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #8 - An Event in Autumn

    S3:E1

    Wallander moves into a dream home with his new girlfriend. But his happiness is shattered when the skeleton of a girl is discovered in the garden. Wallander must try to get his new life back on track by finding her killer, but the case is not as cold as he thinks.

    Director:Toby Haynes
    Writer:Peter Harness

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  9. Wallander Season 3 Episode 2 - The Dogs of Riga
    6.7/10(8 votes)

    #9 - The Dogs of Riga

    S3:E2

    After two Eastern European corpses are washed ashore on a raft in Ystad, Wallander travels to Latvia on the hunt for the killers. Thrown into a cold, alien world of police surveillance and lies, Wallander soon finds himself entangled in a web of corruption with no-one to trust.

    Director:Esther Campbell
    Writer:Peter Harness

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  10. Wallander Season 4 Episode 1 - The White Lioness
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #10 - The White Lioness

    S4:E1

    Wallander becomes involved in the search for a missing Swedish woman while in South Africa for a police conference. At the same time, he finds himself experiencing worrisome blackouts and dizzy spells.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Wallander Season 2 Episode 1 - Faceless Killers
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #11 - Faceless Killers

    S2:E1

    Wallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse.

    Director:Hettie Macdonald
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Wallander Season 1 Episode 1 - Sidetracked
    6.0/10(13 votes)

    #12 - Sidetracked

    S1:E1

    What connects the shocking suicide of a young woman and the vicious murder of a government minister? Inspector Kurt Wallander's investigation uncovers wrongdoing and corruption that extends to the heart of the Swedish establishment.

    Director:Philip Martin
    Writer:Richard Cottan

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Best Episodes Summary

"Firewall" is the best rated episode of "Wallander". It scored 7.2/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Niall MacCormick and written by Richard Cottan, Richard McBrien, it aired on 12/7/2008. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Fifth Woman".