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 the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
The best episode of "Wallander" season 3 is "An Event in Autumn", rated 7.4/10 from 946 user votes. It was directed by Toby Haynes and written by Peter Harness. "An Event in Autumn" aired on 7/8/2012 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Dogs of Riga".
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
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
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