Wallander

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

Mea culpa.

Quia peccavi nimis cogitatione verbo, et opere...

Mea culpa, mea culpa,

mea maxima culpa, mea culpa.

Mea culpa, mea culpa...

Look out! Look out!

Crazy! Learn to drive!

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Mea culpa, me...

Arrgh!

# Tram wires

# Cross northern skies

# Cut my blue heart in two

# My knuckles bleed

# Down the tattered street

# On a door that shouldn't be in front of me. #

Kurt?

Hello, Sten.

At the guesthouse... the landlady said you'd be down here.

She said you're always down here - every day, for months.

Ever since...

They said my father must have been driving too fast.

Lost control or skidded off the road, killed outright.

But...I just can't accept that.

The car key was on the floor of the car.

How does that happen?

Car keys don't just fall out of car ignitions,

even after a crash.

You turn the key through four positions -

it's now locked in the starting position,

so how did it fall out on the floor?

Somebody from the emergency services pulled it out.

OK, but they said he must have been speeding.

You knew Gustaf, Kurt.

He was an old man. He drove like an old man.

My father drove like an old man even when he was a young man.

Kurt, please.

All I'm asking is... just look over the file. For me.

I know you're...

I'm sorry, Sten.

Can't help you.

Not any more.

How was it?

Hmm?

Oh, it was lovely. That was, er... Thanks. Yeah.

What's wrong, Kurt?

Miles away.

It was that guy, wasn't it?

Last week.

You've been brooding ever since.

Who was he?

Old friend.

A solicitor.

His, um...his father was killed in a car accident.

And?

A couple of things that didn't add up.

He asked me to look over it. I... Anna...

I thought you were going to resign. You'd made your mind up.

I have. I...

I'll see you in the morning.

Go back, Kurt.

You're no good to anyone until you sort this out.

I don't know if I'm ready to go...

Go.

Just go.

Please.

Phew!

'Hello. You've reached the mobile phone of Sten Torstensson.'

'Please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.'

Er, Sten, it's Kurt...er, Wallander.

I'm back. Er, I'm in Ystad.

I've got to go to the station,

so if I hear anything about your father,

I'll, um...I'll let you know.

Er...er, right.

Put the date on it. And can I see your driver's licence, please?

Hey, Thomas, where are you going with that box?

Thanks a lot, guys(!) Sorry, man.

Kurt?

Kurt!

Are you all right?

Lisa. Um...

What are you doing here? We didn't expect you back for weeks.

Yeah, I need to talk. I've been, um...

Well, do you want to come through?

Say, who... who's that lady?

I recognise her.

That's Helene Duner, Sten Torstensson's secretary.

Look, I'm afraid there's bad news, Kurt. Sten's dead.

No. Sten... Gustaf's dead, Sten's father.

Gustaf was killed in a car accident. Sten hanged himself last night.

Mrs Duner found his body this morning.

Kurt Wallander.

He said you were his last hope.

Where were you?

Gustaf Torstensson's car. Mm-hm.

Is this exactly how it was brought in?

Yeah.

Hello?

It arrived some weeks ago.

I said Sten should take it to the police.

"You will all die and who will profit then?

"You are worthless."

Sten said it must have come from some old client, someone with a grudge.

He wanted to throw it away. I kept it.

Something about it felt...unfinished.

And now this. Father and son.

Where did Sten, er...?

At his office.

That's something else I don't understand.

To do that, knowing I would find him...

You should show this to the police.

I'm showing it to you, Kurt.

You can't walk away again.

Right, let's see if I've got this.

You examine Gustaf Torstensson's car

and you don't think the key fell out during the accident.

You then found the boot was locked.

When you opened it, you found a three-legged kitchen chair in it.

You then found the missing chair leg at the site of the accident,

which means - and stop me from getting carried away here -

somebody must have put the chair in the boot after the car crash

and not realised the leg had broken off.

So the car accident was a set-up.

Old man Torstensson had his neck broken

and then whoever did it

rolled the car down the hill with the old man in it?

And put a kitchen chair in the boot,

which, presumably, he brought along to have a bit of a sit down,

cos murder can actually be quite exhausting.

Magnus. No, I'm sorry, Lisa.

This was my case. Everything was quite clear. Everything adds up.

What about the son? Sten.

I suppose we've missed another one there.

That could mean anything.

This is all a bit circumstantial, Kurt.

Kurt, we should talk in the morning.

You know, we can review this again.

I'm sure there's something in what you say.

It's really good to see you, Kurt.

Are you OK?

Sten Torstensson.

The larynx and the windpipe were both crushed.

Now, obviously, you'd expect severe constriction injuries, but look.

The hyoid bone, it lives here.

I got them to resect it.

Fractured in five places.

Sten was hanging from a beam - that would indicate a vertical drop,

which would dislocate the upper vertebrae of the spinal column

resulting in death.

But a fractured hyoid...

that's usually caused by a blow.

In the old days, bare-knuckle fighters, very common injury -

a rabbit punch to the throat

resulting in a crushed windpipe and suffocation.

Martial arts competitions, that's where you see it nowadays.

Of course, it would all make perfect sense

if Sten had pitched forward before the drop.

I just wondered what you thought.

What was the cause given for the old man's death?

Gustaf? Broken neck.

Wearing his seatbelt?

It can happen.

That's what I told Sten.

Where's the old man's body?

It's going to be a long night, isn't it?

Hello?

Kurt, it's me, Nyberg.

Gustaf Torstensson - hyoid fractured in four places.

OK, thanks for that.

'Yeah, see you tomorrow.'

Yeah, in the morning.

You had no authority

to ask for another postmortem on Gustaf Torstensson, you know that.

I don't understand.

You suddenly appear after months away, God knows where.

No warning.

This was Magnus's case.

You've got no right doing this.

Sten came to see me.

He knew there was something wrong.

I turned him away and I...

..I just think that I should try to...just put this right.

OK, Kurt.

But what about you?

Huh?

Are you in a fit state?

Look at you, you're sweating.

You were shaking last night, we all saw it.

Now, you chose to take sick leave.

There's no way you can breeze in here

and take over someone else's investigation.

You should have a full medical examination.

Don't want to try and take over anyone's investigation,

I just, uh...

..want to help.

I'm...I'm fine. Fine, really. Are you?