Later he and loyal sidekick, Anne-Britt Hoglund ( Sarah Smart), go to his parent’s home where his father is burning the easel and the furniture from his studio. Well, that’s what he might like to think his few grunts communicated. As we might expect, Wallander is full of thanks and eternally grateful, making these Good Samaritans feel they have done the right thing. Appropriately, immigrant farm workers took pity on him and took him to the hospital where Jamal is on hand to translate (I forgot to mention that Jamal is a doctor). Richard McCabe makes a breakthrough and talks with WallanderĪnd adding to his problems, Gertrude Wallander ( Polly Hemingway) telephones to report Povel Wallander ( David Warner) has been found wandering around the countryside in his pyjamas. Or perhaps it’s a metaphor for Wallander who feels trapped and inadequate and wants to range free across the farmlands of picturesque Sweden without responsibilities. As a metaphor for the news escaping, the white horse keeps appearing on the horizon as Wallander makes repeated visits to the farm to try to work out who could have killed the couple. Needless to say, right-wing extremists use this as an excuse to start harassing and killing immigrant workers. Unfortunately what should have been kept confidential is leaked to the press by Peters ( Tom McCall), a naive young police officer. As an aside, a white horse kept on the farm has broken loose. It could have been “Farmer” or “Philip II of Spain” even though he’s been dead a few centuries. In the aftermath of his daughter (and himself) accusing him of being a racist, he doesn’t want to believe he’s misinterpreting what the dying lady said. He then spends the rest of the episode agonising over whether she uttered the word, “Foreigners”. Her lips and teeth move in a way that suggests the word will begin with an “f” but the camera cuts as the breath comes out of her mouth and before he can say, “What? Speak more clearly, please.” she’s been and gone and died on him. The wife is clinging on to life as Wallander asks her, “Who did this to you?” Our old thing does her best. We start off with the brutal torture and murder of an old couple in a run-down farm house. For the record, in the novels, Wallander is a liberal on most political issues including immigration and isn’t a racist. Indeed, the rest of the episode then takes the notion of racism and beats it over the head with a blunt instrument until it’s presumed dead. Indeed, both daughter and Daddy accuse him of being a closet racist - to avoid ambiguity here, the “him” in this sentence is Daddy accusing himself of racism. This is Daddy’s second meeting with the suitor and, because Daddy has the social skills of a brick, the meeting is not exactly the success the daughter would have liked. We start off with Linda Wallander ( Jeany Spark) and her new Syrian boyfriend, Jamal ( Arsher Ali) having a bite to eat and a little alcohol with Kurt Wallander ( Kenneth Branagh). We spend the entire episode existentially trapped inside this manic depressive’s head with everything filtered through his warped view of the world. As adaptations go, it requires considerable surgery to make it fit into the series produced by Yellow Bird since we’ve already killed off one of the detectives who features in the novel, our hero’s daughter won’t speak to him, and his father’s illness is nowhere near dementia.Īs a result, this episode is what my grandmother would have called a dog’s breakfast in that it takes a number of disparate elements and mixes them together in a somewhat haphazard fashion. It’s called Mördare utan ansikte in the Swedish. Wallander: Faceless Killers (2010) is the fourth adaptation to be shown but it was the first novel written by Henning Mankell in the Wallander series.
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