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Hello?

Hi.

I'm looking for the...

Tram wires

A 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

Ah!

HI} Dad.

Oh, hi. Hi, hi, hi...

You made it.

- How is it? - Uh, it's, uh...

It's sunny.

It'd be good if you were here. How's Klara?

'She's good. She's at nursery..

When '5 your speech?

Uh, my speech is, uh, not till Saturday.

Wear your nice suit.

Yes. And I have shaved.

- Are you nervous? - Um...

No, Ijust...

Not quite sure how to pitch it.

Just say what you feel.

Yeah, I don't want to waste anybody's time is all.

Well, you've got good instincts, Dad, just follow them.

Sure, I will. Ijust, uh...

You know, I want it to...

I've come all this way, Ijust want it to,

- uh, mean something. - Remember what...

Hello. Hello?

Hello?

Buggen

Ah...

- What are you doing here? - Uh, Mr Hedeman, please.

Huh? Why are you wasting time here?

This is not the time or the place.

- Where's my wife? - Mr Hedeman, please.

We have a conference. Can we deal with this later?

Please, sir, we are investigating the case, we're doing the best we can.

Well, then, find her! She's out there somewhere!

- Why aren't you doing anything? - Remove him.

Get off me!

Take your hands off me! I said get off me!

Hi.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

So, today, day two,

we have another gentleman to speak to you.

He's something of a legendary person here on the Western Cape.

One-time communist, firebrand, freedom-fighter.

Joining us today in his capacity as Chair of the Tourism Committee,

please welcome Mr Max Khulu.

- Welcome. Thank you. - Thank you.

Thank you.

Please. Please.

Thank you.

- Thank you, Colonel. - You're welcome.

50 looking out of the shining windows of this brand new hotel,

one of many hundreds,

it is not hard to see how tourism provides

one in every 12 jobs in South Africa today.

You good-looking foreigners want to come here

and spend your good-looking money.

I think it's a brilliant idea.

But we must be considerate hosts.

We must take care of our guests.

If our guests do not feel that they will be safe,

they will not come.

It is the duty of our police force to ensure that never happens.

We in this pro Vince...

Hi.

- Julian van Heerden. - Kurt Wallander.

I have a gentleman, a Swedish gentleman,

living out at Sir Lowry's Pass. Axel Hedeman.

- His wife's been missing for 10 days. - Yeah, I read about it.

To be blunt, he's causing us a lot of difficulty.

And he's refusing to cooperate, he's talking to the press.

Ithink you saw he brought them here.

Well, it's never easy just waiting for news, as you know.

Look, uh...

Look, we both know this is not about PR. He's hampering our work,

he's stopping us from finding his wife.

I was wondering, uh, if you could maybe talk to him?

You know, countryman to countryman, I...

I think he needs some reassurance that we're not just corrupt amateurs.

Well, I'm sure ultimately, he understands this is...

I... I would really, really appreciate this.

I'd be grateful.

Um, could I see the case notes?

Yeah, of course.

I will even get someone to drive you out there,

I mean, my sergeant could meet you...

Case notes will do. If you give me the address, I'll drive myself.

You do understand that his wife is missing, 50, uh,

we're not closing down certain avenues.

Understood.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

- Detective Inspector Wallander? - Sergeant Mathembu.

- Mthembu. - Mthembu, sorry.

We appreciate this.

Uh, there was no mention in the file of a background check on Hedeman?

We did put in a request.

We're still waiting to hear back from the Swedish police.

The one place in the country you know she isn't

and here you are.

This is Detective Kurt Wallander.

Uh, I'm from Sweden. Ystad Police.

Good.

It's about time.

Maybe you can do something about finding my wife.

Come on, guys, don't just leave them there,

take them inside and put them on the counter, yeah?

Otherwise they'll be stinking the next time we use them.

Most of them are ex-offenders.

Uh, what do you do for them, sir?

Gym, soccer, some kind of male role model.

That's my side.

And your wife? What did, uh...

Inga? She's a teacher.

That's a nasty cut you have there.

I teach them boxing.

Don't look at me like that, that's the way they look at me

when they're not helping. Not looking.

Why aren't they looking? How can there be nothing after...

This type of enquiry is very difficult to...

After 72 hours you're not looking for a person any more,

you're looking for a corpse. Right?

It's been more than 247 hours now.

- Mr Hedeman. - I've seen the case notes

and Sergeant Mthembu and her colleagues are doing everything they can.

I know it's frustrating.

But if you talk to the press and not the police,

it's getting in the way of the investigation.

You may be decreasing the chances of them finding your wife.

- You think she could still be alive? - Yes, of course she could.

Right.

Right, well...

thank you.

Come on, guys, off you go. I'll see you at the centre.

We'll be in touch, sir.

- That was helpful, thanks. - Oh, you're welcome.

Yeah, um... Enjoy the rest of your conference.

Oh, uh... That's right. Thanks.

Oh, great.

- Nice to meet you. - You, too.

Sorry, uh... Where Inga was going that day,

is that somewhere that she'd been before?

No. It was an outreach centre.

She went to pick up some textbooks they weren't using any more.

She never got there.

Do you have an address?

- I've got the directions somewhere. - Right, thanks.

- This is the place. - Thanks.

This... This is a faith-based programme, yes?

Everything here is faith-based, one way or another. You need it.

Ithought being here might challenge my faith.

- Has it? - It has.

But not in the way I was expecting.

Thank you for this.

Yeah, I need you to chase up an information request.

- Sure. - For the local police here.

- Do you have a name? - Yeah, the name is Axel Hedeman.

He's from fiverberga.

Okay, leave it with me. I'll call you back.

Yeah, as soon as possible.

Hello!

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

- Hello? - Hi, Grace. It's Kurt.

How did you find this place?

I got lost.

Uh, the map's wrong.

Maybe Inga did the same thing.

Hedeman never gave us this.

Gave us an address, that's all.

Hedeman could have hired somebody to do his dirty work.

She could have been followed.

Way better.

Cutting the fingers off,

does that mean anything in tribal or...

Tribal?

It means something to the man who has his fingers cut off.

Good shot.

Everyone out here has a gun.

Let's talk to Hedeman.

- Yeah. Hello. - HI} Kurt.

I have the information you wanted on Axel Hedeman.

Neah. - He has a previous conviction.

Right. Uh, okay. Hold on a second, let mejust, uh...

Yeah?

Yep.

Uh, anything since?

Okay. Thanks. Okay, bye. Bye.

He's not here.

So, Hedeman has a criminal record in Sweden.

Um, aggravated assault.

Uh, 10 months' suspended sentence.

Uh, he broke his girlfriend's arm when he was drunk.

It was 2001.

It wasn't his wife?

Nothing reported since.

He did say he was going to the community centre.

Shall we?

Put the ball over in the net!

The ANC has forgotten its principles.

And we have forgotten our promise.

- Yes! - The basic and fundamental promise

that the worst of this country...

Municipal elections.

His name's Bernie Meyiwa.

ANC, Max Khulu's protégé.

The ANC has been...

Six months ago, a white student tried his luck with a 9mm.

- We have abandoned our principles. «(mummy

Men who think that they can come here and lie to you and fool you

with lazy, costly words and rhetoric.

- Instead of building luxury houses... - Yeah.

Luxury hotels where rich foreigners can line their pockets

with your money, right next door to your community,

we should be building new affordable homes.

We should make sure that you can feel our wealth.

You can feel the improvement.

You can feel that there is somewhere new

for all of us to go.

So, is he going to get in?

Well, I'm going to vote for him.

Come on, keep your guard up!

Keep your guard up!

Mr Hedeman.

Do you recognise this, sir?

Yes, I recognise it.

Where did you find it? She never takes this off.

It was found in an old stock farm of a road your wife would have taken,

according to a map you gave the Detective Inspector here.

What?

Did you find the car?

There was a wrong turning on the map, so Inga might have got lost.

Why didn't you give the map to us, sir, when you reported you wife missing?

It would have helped.

No,

1 gave you the address, 1 didn't th'mk...

You have a history.

We all have a history. Some of us overcome it.

Grace. Excuse me. Hi.

No other sign of her?

No. No, nothing.

Okay. Okay.

What's the name?

She, um...

It was the first time she drove.

On her own, yeah.

She was afraid of being on her own.

Being lost.

- I... - Excuse me. Sorry.

I have a match on the prints.

Belongs to a lower-level gang member, a tsotsi.

Mr Hedeman, we'll find her.

Sergeant.

- You have something for me? - Yeah.

Boy's name is Victor Mabasha.

- Member of the 265. - It's a prison gang.

Interviewed in 2012 in Pollsmoor about the murder of a prison guard.

His initiation into the 265, not charged, lack of evidence.

What else?

Well, he's nothing big. A foot soldier.

- Well, he'sjust a kid, isn't he? - They're alljust kids.

I mean, they don't live long enough to grow up.

He hangs out at a shebeen. Bomba's, near Khayelitsha Station.

- Is this reliable? - As reliable as any of the other leads.

Right, so we take a detachment out there,

you see if there's any connection between Mabasha and the Hedemans.

Specifically see if he was one of their projects.

Mmm-hmm.

Do you want to come with me to Bomba's, some real sightseeing?

It's fine, Sergeant. Thanks for your help.

We need a statement concerning the stock farm.

- I could send someone over to the hotel. - Sure. Sure.

- Enjoy the rest of the conference. - All right, thanks.

Sergeant? - '{ es.

The n ks, Kurt.

The subscriber you have dialed is not available.

- Excuse me. - Good day, sir.

Do you know where, um, Khayelitsha Station is?

Um, Bomba's?

Bomba's?

- Excuse me. - Yeah.

Left up there. Up there.

- Okay. - Left.

Right. Thank you.

Easy on them combos, yeah? Okay.

All right.

Hello.

Do you have sparkling water?

Yes, yes, yes.

Thanks.

- Police? Who are you? - I... I'm not...

I'm just, uh... Kurt. My name's Kurt.

- Go sit there. - 0kay.

Sit.

- I'm not South African... - No.

I'm not South African. I'm just showing you my ID.

It's okay. It's just, uh...

Ijust want to talk.

Just talk. That's all. You take the money. We can talk.

You recognise her?

Hey, just listen.

Listen. What happened out there at the stock fa rm?

How did that happen?

You must be in real... In real pain.

Just... Ijust want to find out what happened to her.

- That's all. - Where do you come from?

Where am I... From Sweden.

So does she. I come from a country called Sweden.

We both come from Sweden.

501.4...

Look out!

Victor.

We're pursuing several lines of enquiry

but yes, I can confirm this location was linked to one of the leads.

Witnesses say that there were several gunshots

and three men fled the scene. 15 that correct?

We're still gathering evidence.

Once we have all the information, I'll be holding a press conference.

Do you believe that Mrs Hedeman could still be alive?

Absolutely.

Thanks.

We remain positive that we will find her.

I can assure you that we have our best team out there looking for her.

What are you doing here, Kurt?

Ijust, uh...

I thought that you'd be, uh...

I'm sorry.

I tried to call.

Yeah?

So you should've waited for a reply.

We have people.

You know about surveillance, huh?

Khulu wants to see you, both of you.

- Get Max off my back, for God's sake. - Sir.

There have been reports of a shootout in Khayelitsha

involving a Swedish national this afternoon.

Reports suggest that the shootout is linked to the recent disappearance...

Sir, was I wrong in assuming that the purpose of your involvement

was to limit bad news stories?

Max, try to be polite.

They are guests.

Behave yourself.

Behave? These Swedes should behave themselves.

Max has a habit of talking to people

like he's addressing a public meeting.

Take your pills, clear.

Pleasure meeting you.

- Thank you. - Thank you very much. Thank you.

So, uh,

how did our Swedish friend know to search for this boy at the Flats?

Sir, I was just looking for my own...

- Did you see the shooter? - He was wearing... I can't...

No, I... I know that he was white.

- And registration number? - No, didn't get it.

Do you think it was the husband?

Axel Hedeman does have a history of violence.

So he hired this boy Mabasha to kill his wife for him?

It's a possibility.

These are cut from the plants I kept in the garden at Pollsmoor Prison.

This tsotsi has been in Pollsmoor?

Yeah.

How much would you get for a life?

Next to nothing.

10,000 rand?

So that's what a man sells his freedom for.

years ago.

Do you have anything more?

No.

I appreciate you taking the time to come here, Sergeant.

Keep us informed.

I think we'd all like to put it to bed as soon as possible.

As much as it has been a pleasure, Mr Wallander,

I don't expect we'll be seeing each other again.

Oh, I'm having friends, family over.

Food, drink. Come.

I wouldn't mind keeping an eye on you.

Thank you very much. Thanks.

Hi! Hello.

How are you?

So sorry we're late.

Hiya. Hello. Nice to see you.

Oh, is that for me? Thank you very much. Thank you.

I'm Kurt. Yeah. Nice to see you.

Hello. Very nice to see you. Yeah.

Hello, nice to see you.

Hello.

I'm going to go change, okay?

Thank you.

Bernie Meyiwa is going to fight corruption

and he's going to freeze every major development in the Western Cape.

Okay, but then meanwhile...

Hello. Hi. Hi.

I'm just going to put this down here, if I may.

All right, thank you. Thanks.

"Her sisters were"

"older and felt"

"that a lady..."

Oh, hello.

- Who are you? - Normalanga.

Normalanga. Oh! And who... Who do you belong to?

Mummy.

Oh! Oh, right. Okay.

Who do you belong to?

Who do I belong to?

Well, I have a daughter and a little granddaughter like you

so I suppose I belong to them, really.

You look like a white lion.

Beam? '?

Oh, she has a thing about white lions.

White lions and a boy in her class called Gazza.

Is itjust you with her or is there, uh...

My husband was a police constable.

He was shot while trying to stop an armed robbery in Claremont.

He died six days before she was born.

Yeah, it'sjust me and her.

- What about you? - Uh...

Divorced. I have a daughter and granddaughter.

- Hi. - Hi.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

You think Mabasha was paid by Hedeman to kill his wife?

Oh, I don't know. You know, it happens.

A lot of kids around like him.

No interest in the future. Theyjust take what they can get.

But can you blame them, considering the kinds of places they come from?

You know, nobody forces them to do what they do.

You can'tjust pin it on society.

It's the individual's choice.

Do you think everybody is equipped to make that choice?

I grew up half a mile from that shebeen.

My mother died of HIV when I was 12.

Things can get better.

Be made better.

By all of us.

Bit by bit.

- Mama! - Coming.

You know, the white lion is a symbol of hope.

Oh!

Sorry, I'm one of the... From...

I've lost my room keys, 107. Sorry.

Okay. No problem.

All right. Sorry about that. Night. Thanks. Thanks.

Okay, put the gun down.

Put the... I'll talk to you if you put the gun down.

- What... What are you doing? - Let's go.

Let's go!

Tu rn right.

- Victor, where am I driving? - You don't need to know. Just drive.

Drive on.

You need help, Victor.

You need medicine.

- Water. We both need to eat... - Quiet!

- Why'd you bring me here? - Shut up.

Victor, you... You came to me for some reason.

You're keeping me alive for some reason.

So you tell me what that is, we can do something about it, yeah?

- Listen to me. - You're Swedish, yeah?

- Yeah, yeah. - The snow.

You come from the snow, no?

'Yeah, 1... 1 can he“; you..

I want to help you, right?

You're going to help me. I want to go there.

What happened to the white woman?

If you tell me that, I... I can help you. We can go.

Bad spirits.

Bad spirits took her.

They led her to that place.

Is she dead?

I didn't touch her. I didn't kill her.

She screamed. She shouldn't have screamed!

- He was angry. - Who? Who was angry, the...

Was that the man who tried to shoot you, the man who cut your hand?

1 don't know why 1 Wed to he“; your Mend.

But you did? You tried to help her?

- He took her away. - Where'd he take her?

Victor, is this even safe?

Does this man know where you might have gone?

My mama was killed by witchcraft.

My uncle took me into the city.

To his friend, so I could have a second chance.

Victor, who was this man? You tell me who this man was.

Where did he take my friend?

Victor, wait, wait.

Okay, okay, okay.

If you go to...

If I sorted it so that you could, uh,

come to Sweden with me,

you'd see plenty of snow.

Sweden's a good place.

We try and help people who've been hurt.

You can't help me.

- You won't help me. - Then, what's this for, then?

I'm going to help you! I said I'm going to help you.

That's all I've said.

I can't help if you don't tell me what I need to know.

Why were you there?

Iwas training.

- He was training me. - Training?

Training for what?

To shoot?

To shoot who?

The black man.

100,000 rands.

That's how much the lives of important people are.

Who?

Victor, who were you trying to shoot?

Call the police.

Tell them that...

that I'll do it.

Tell them that we have a deal.

Go to Sweden.

I'm coming to Sweden with you.

Hello, SAP. How can I assist you?

Yeah, yeah. My name is Kurt Wallander.

1 need to speak urgently to Sergeant Grace Mt'nem'ou.

- Sergeant Mthembu? - Yeah.

Just bear with me one moment. I 11 see if she's at her desk.

Come on, out of the car. Out of the car, come on, please. Come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on. Come out of the car. Come on, come on. Come out of the car!

Out of the car!

Friday...

- Friday. - It's okay. It's okay.

Friday.

There's never a dull moment with you, is there, Kurt?

The bike's registered to a man called Meyer.

Ex-army, mercenary.

Victor said he was training to shoot someone,

at the farm, a black man.

Someone important.

Friday.

- Hmm? - It was the last thing he said.

"Friday."

It has to be the day of the shooting, doesn't it?

Friday?

Yeah, there's a big election rally on that day at Five Sisters.

- Bernie Meyiwa? - Yeah.

- Hello? - Yeah I need to speak

to van Heerden, now.

If this man wanted me dead, why train up a boy like that?

Why not do it himself?

With all respect, sir, a white man kills you, it's a tragedy.

- A black man kills you and... - It's political.

People will blame the ANC.

Thirty years ago, would you have listened to this?

Thirty years ago I was in prison.

It's the same fight, Max.

Ifl don't go up on that stage, they'll say I'm a coward

and they'll be right.

They need to see that I can face these battles

and I can win.

If you're dead, you're no use to anyone.

I will not be silenced by a white man with a gun.

You will catch this man

and I will speak

and I will win. \

Okay. Yeah, you, too.

They found Meyer's flat.

Sergeant.

He was a security guard part-time, Western Cape Homes.

He's been working there since October 2013.

Get over there. Take a unit with you.

This is the company that's involved in one of the developments

that Bernie Meyiwa is trying to stop.

So, do we need to...

The security detail on the Five Sisters rally has been told.

Kurt, get some rest.

I'll call you.

Hmm? Your keys.

Our role as a police force is simple.

Maintain social order by fighting crime.

Keep our community safe to live as well as safe to visit...

- Hello? - Grace, it's Kurt, Ifound Meyer's car.

It's near his flat and I've got his sat nav.

Now, he's been making repeated trips

to somewhere called Pinelands, it's near Forest Drive.

That's Department of Defence land. It's a disused military base.

Could be where he took Inga. I'll see you there.

Wait, Kurt, why don't...

Oh!

“MOTORBXKE STOPS“

Kurt!

Wallander!

Kurt!

Inga Hedeman's body is back there in one of the water tanks.

Are you okay?

- Hello? - 1 need to speak to van Heerden.

Of course. Please hold the line.

Meyer! What the hell is going on?

What is it?

Khulu.

That doesn't make any sense.

It's him.

I heard the peacocks in the garden.

- Are you sure? - I'm sure, Grace.

Okay, anything else you'd like to add to the statement?

No, that's it.

Right.

Are you okay?

Yeah. I need to go through this.

You need to get some sleep. Call you tomorrow?

Yeah.

- You just take ca re, yea h? - Yeah.Yeah.

Max Khulu set up a trust,

run by a holding company registered under his mother's maiden name.

It holds a 75% stake in Western Cape Homes.

It has done since just before the company bid

for a new luxury housing development out in Sir Lowry's Pass.

The trust also owns the land being developed.

Borrowed millions of rands just to buy it up.

He's put absolutely everything into this.

Past evidence says that it'll quadruple in value,

making Max Khulu a very rich man.

Unless of course Bernie Meyiwa is elected

and puts all these developments on hold.

So 100,000 rand doesn't seem like very much

to invest in having Bernie Meyiwa killed.

Well, I used to...

He... Max Khulu came to open the clinic where my mother was.

Ijust thought he was different.

- We'd like to talk to your husband. - About what? What's the matter?

I wasn't expecting to see you again, Mr Wallander.

We just want to talk to you about one or two things, sir.

I have to go to the rally. Perhaps tomorrow?

Your trust owns a stake in Western Cape Homes, is that correct?

Through a holding company registered in your mother's name?

I believe they're part of the trust portfolio.

Western Cape?

A few shares, I think.

To me it seems as though the trust is the majority shareholder.

No.

I don't believe so. Your information is wrong.

Were you aware that the man who trained Victor Mabasha

also works for Western Cape as a security guard?

Tell Colonel van Heerden that I will see him at the station

at his convenience

and answer any further questions.

- But right now... - May we see your phone?

That's not the one you used, is it?

It's not the one you used to call Meyer.

I don't know of anyone by that name.

You should know he's dead.

He's dead

and Bernie Meyiwa is going to stop that development.

Was there anything else?

Bernie Meyiwa stands for everything you fought for, sir.

That's why I will stand beside him today

and make sure that he wins.

The car is ready, darling.

The maid will see you out.

How many million rand has he got invested in this?

Couple of hundred.

When's Bernie Meyiwa scheduled to speak?

- Twenty minutes. - Why is he so calm?

Comrade Khulu!

Khulu! Khulu! Khulu! Khulu!

“mum: Thank you!'!

Thank you.

Thank you, my people!

Thank you! Thank you, my friends.

Today is the day for my friend.

- My colleague. - Yes!

- My hope! - Yes!

- Our hope! - Yes!

Comrade Bernie Me yiwa!

Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!

Grace!

Why did Meyer need a second training ground?

- Practice? - But he's a professional, why have two?

Maybe he was training another kid.

- He would have needed a back-up. - Exactly. Let's find him.

Grace! Grace!

- Grace! - Thank you, my friends.

Thank you for coming!

What is my promise?

'I will make sure that you have a share'

in the wealth of this country.

They say that Bernie Meyiwa is simplistic and idealistic.

I say, What the hell is wrong with that?

Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, Meyer's dead.

There's no money.

1 know who you are. 1 know why you're here.

There was another boyjust like you, maybe... Maybe you knew him.

His name was Victor. He was another boy with a gun.

He's dead, he's dead now. You can live.

Listen to that man.

Listen to what he's saying.

That's who you'll be killing.

You'll be killing him for nothing.

sometimes are all we have to sustain us!

When we have been caged and trapped for so long,

'we need to show our young men and women'

that there is still hope!

We owe them this hope!

{That we will deliver'

that hope to them, together.

Just walk away.

Walk away.

Walk away.

Free Africa! Free Africa!

Free Africa!

I promise you that there will be a change coming.

And when we decide that it is time for change together,

when we have made up our minds that we will stand shoulder to shoulder!

Free Afr/ca! Free Africa!

There is no force in this wonderful land of ours,

there is no force in this world that can stop us!

Kurt?

- The shooter? - He's gone.

So is Khulu.

Do we make a difference?

Maybe.

Sometimes.

Not much.

What! do know

is that we should never stop trying.

And we need to remember that every little counts.

met a young man called Victor Mabasha.

He was just a boy, really.