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ls there time for me to wash my car before you close?

- No problem. - No snuff today?

- l'm trying to quit. But it's hard. - Tell me about it.

Annika Runfelt.

What's up?

l see. Tell her l'll be there in half an hour.

Bye.

Hi, l'm at the gas station. The home called.

Mom's fallen out of bed again. She didn't hurt herself, but she's confused.

l'm going to pop by there after l've washed the car.

What? No, nothing. Call you later. Bye.

- l read about it. You smear a bit ... - Gross!

But good. l'll wheel in the carts.

BURlED ALlVE

She woke up at 5:30 already, so we're going to the park now.

- l want to go on the swings. - Run along. l'll be right there.

l thought l'd let you sleep.

No, she ran ahead to the swings.

See you later. Love you.

Lova!

- Lova! - Yes.

- Sweetie, what are you doing there? - There was a big man on the swing.

- well, he's gone now, so go ahead. - l want to dig in the sandbox.

Okay.

Mom ... Mom!

What is it, sweetie?

- l can hear a sound. - what?

A sound?

Let me see.

- what is it? - l don't know.

Yes.

Okay.

Pick me up.

Martin.

lt's Runfelt.

- Some bastard finally got to her. - Hi.

- Have you examined her? - Briefly.

- Cause of death? - She may have suffocated in there.

- ln there? - Runfelt.

- l can see that. - what did the mother say?

She didn't see anything, but her daughter says there was a big ...

- The mother didn't see anything? - No.

- And the girl's only six ... - Later.

Beck speaking. l want to see Stina Ålund in 15 minutes.

She'll just have to cancel. Tell her to gather all Runfelt's biker cases.

Now!

- Are you surprised? l'm shocked. - Me too, but l'm not surprised.

ln the three years l've monitored the gangs, everything's escalated.

The violence between the gangs, their threats to the authorities -

- the shootings, the bombing ...

- which cases was she working on? - The toughest one is Matte Larsson.

- She put him behind bars. - For fraud.

- But he's done far worse things. - Such as?

Drugs, instigation to murder, illegal import of banned substances.

- He's never been convicted of it? - No.

l think Annika was close to nailing him for much more than plain fraud.

- For which he is in prison. - He was released on Monday.

- Did you see her drive off? - Yes.

l saw her leaving the car wash at around 10, just as we closed up.

- Did you see her in the car? - well ...

l saw her drive into the car wash and get in the car before the wash started.

- How? - There.

Does it record too? We'd like the tape then.

She was injected.

See the needle mark?

- With what? - Ketalar.

Originally a veterinary sedative, but it s used on humans too now.

- How does it work? - lt puts you to sleep within minutes.

When you wake up, you"re paralyzed, but conscious.

- This was the case with Runfelt. - What makes you think that?

She had fragments of plastic and tree fibres under her nails.

- The murderer put her in the coffin ... - She clawed.

She was desperate. Two of her nails are broken.

He probably gave her a shot just before he put her in the box -

- so she was out while he buried her. And then she woke up.

- And? - She suffocated.

The box was hermetically sealed with plastic. She ran out of oxygen.

Buried alive, so to speak.

Yvonne Lennerholm from the DA s office is with us.

Any comments on the murder of Annika Runfelt?

lt s a tragedy, and my thoughts are with her family and relatives.

Professionally, she wasn t just any DA -

- but one of the toughest and most reputable this country has ever seen.

She devoted her last years to biker-related crime.

An area most people are afraid to deal with nowadays.

This makes her murder an even greater blow to society.

He attacked her in the car.

Go back.

Here she s in the store presumably buying the wash.

Presumably.

There. Stop.

Go back and zoom in.

- That face is impossible to identify. - Yeah, could be my grandma.

- Her car? - Torched. Forensics have it.

- Any luck with the door-to-door? - Yes.

Ruth Hansson, 3 Blecktornsstigen, was awake around 3 a.m.

She saw a black Chevy van parked in the park near the sandbox.

Too dark to see any activities, but we re checking up on black Chevys.

- Forensics? - Oskar, punch it up.

The coffin is well-built from new wood.

Some of the boards are marked "PL ".

The lumberyard or the supplier s mark, presumably. We re running a check.

Mats Larsson.

Police. We d like to ...

- We re looking for Mats Larsson. - He isn t here. He"s out celebrating.

- Celebrating what? - What do you think?

- You tell me. - The death of that stupid cunt!

Where?

- Are we gonna need weapons? - Hope springs eternal.

l"m looking for Matte Larsson.

Did l say something funny?

l"m looking for Matte Larsson. Has anyone seen Matte Larsson?

Can you help me?

- With what? - Are you retarded or something?

- Hey ... - Don"t touch me.

- The john s right outside. - Matte Larson is in the john?

No, but your girlfriend looks like she s got the runs.

With or without protection? Your choice.

Fistfight. You don"t need weapons. Come on.

When you see Matte Larsson, tell him Gunvald is looking for him.

Fucking cop, give me back my phone!

See ya.

- You re insane. - What do you mean?

- What if ... - But that didn t happen.

Right?

Sometimes you gotta make your mark.

- l hate situations like that. - The violence?

- l don t know what l"d do ... - You d do the same as me.

- Do you think? - Yes.

- What are you doing? - Finishing that guy"s message.

Rattling Matte Larsson s cage.

Hi.

- You look rested. - l"m on leave.

Not anymore.

Nasty business with Runfelt. Does it mean war?

On the biker gangs? Presumably.

Another sardine tin.

- But that s him. - Who?

Matte Larsson. l m sure of it.

Film the crowd over there. Discreetly.

He had this in his pocket.

- Same same, it seems. - What happened to his face?

lt looks like some kind of acid, and there"s another needle mark.

"The cops are at the bar. Stay away.""

"Afraid to show your tattoed fairy ass?

"Beware of the baseball bat in the hall. The cop."

- Well, there goes the biker lead. - Or at least Matte Larsson.

So, somebody murdered a DA and a biker who are somehow connected.

- Why does he put them in coffins? - He? Maybe there s more than one.

- Those coffins are heavy. - What s on your mind?

The acid. Why did he pour acid in his face?

- Because he s a sadist. - Why didn t he do it to Annika then?

BlKER GANG LEADER MURDERED

- Anyone we know? - No.

Dead end. Why am l wasting my time?

We ve checked with every lumberyard and supplier in the Stockholm area.

- Nobody uses " PL" . Do we extend ... - Yes, nationwide.

Hello.

Do you deny the connection between Annika Runfelt and Matte Larsson?

- And the link to biker-related crime? - No.

When we return, inspector Beck will explain -

- why he doesn t think biker gangs are behind the coffin murders.

What is the focus of your investigation?

- The perpetrator. - Any theories about him or her?

- lt"s a he. - How do you know?

My experience tells me so. Theories?

At present we re trying to form a picture of him.

why he uses coffins ...

- Could it be a serial killer? - we don't know yet.

what does your experience tell you?

That we re dealing with a sick person committing sadistic crimes.

- Are you going to catch him? - Oh yes.

- Thank you. - You re welcome.

- They"re locked on that biker lead. - Sure. lt works well in the media.

But this isn"t about bikers. lt s about coffins.

Torture, acid, Ketalar. l think he s trying to say something.

The coffin is a symbol.

- Thank you. - Bon appétit.

- A symbol of what? - Something someone did to him.

- You think he was buried alive? - Maybe not physically, but mentally.

The murderer wants to show us -

- he s buried his victims and not only murdered them.

Take the playground. lf you place a victim in a place like that -

- you must want it to be found quickly.

Otherwise you"d bury it ... Well, in the wood or somewhere.

- Do you want it all at once? - Yes. ls that a problem?

- lt"s quite a lot. - l know. l m going away.

Not quite same same. He s been here for a while.

Oh? l think he looks perky.

- How long do you think? - A couple of months.

So if it s the same perp, this would be the first victim, even if he is the third.

- What are you doing? - Hell, there you are.

Why don"t you open? l"ve rung the doorbell 1 5 times.

- What did you want? - Suck dick. Suck dick.

- Excuse me? - Tourette s Syndrome.

- You have that? - l was just testing. Feeling my way.

l got a call from a TV channel.

They"re making a docu-soap. "Lonely Men Seeking Pet.

1 2 guys competing over a stuffed goat.

They picked me out using my zip code. Get it?

- No. - And that s why they didn t pick you.

- They only want real characters. - With Tourette"s Syndrome.

For instance. Hey, Martin, you could play the role of the goat.

- No. - Got any good stuff in the bag?

- How are you, Tommy? - Fine.

- Wait. Do you two know each other? - Hi. Tommy Jansson.

- Martin Beck. - He s a cop.

And he"s in construction. So now you know each other.

- Well, l won"t say no to ... - We could all ...

Alfa, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda -

- mu, nu, omicron, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.

- What are you on about? - That s the Greek alphabet for you.

- Didn"t know that, did you? - No.

- He s playing the goat. - l see.

See you.

Wait! Where"s everyone going?

Just because l live downstairs. What s going on?

Not being very neighborly, are you?

ADDlNG SENSE TO THE PUNlSHMENT

- Either he taped Annika, or this is ... - A new victim.

- And he knows where you live. - You never should have gone on TV.

On the contrary. That put us in contact with him.

- This matches the pattern. - What?

Of an organized serial killer.

The victim is 40-45, blond, 5" 1 1 ".

No significant marks apart from the stab wounds.

- Buried for two to three months. - Run a missing persons check.

- Coronor"s report? - Preliminary.

No needle marks, no signs of Ketalar, no PL on the boards, no plastic.

Cause of death: Stabbed three times in the chest.

- Not like the others. - And this coffin was buried deep.

- The others were placed so we"d ... - l know.

- What do we know about the victim? - He s not the screamer on my tape.

- Let"s put a guard outside your home. - He s insane. He might ...

He s making me a pawn in his game.

He made contact with me. lf he sees a guard, we may lose him.

- As it is, he may ... - Attack you. l ll set up a guard.

- You look haggard. - Thank you.

- Are you worried about ... - No!

- Having trouble sleeping? - No.

No, well ...

lf you can t sleep, take one of these pills before you go to bed.

The prescription is valid for one more jar.

- Toothpicks? - Right over there.

Thanks.

- The hyenas are crowding round. - Make sure to film them.

Martin, we found a set of tire tracks.

- Might be from that black van. - Any news on that?

We ve narrowed it down to about 20 vans and are checking up on them.

Okay ... Who"s this then?

Maybe the woman screaming on the tape.

There. Stop and go back.

Punch up the footage from the biker club.

Stop.

And the other one.

Same guy.

- Who is he? - Some nosey bastard.

- Should we issue his picture? - lnternally.

lf we go public, we may scare him off.

Beck.

Okay. They found traces of Ketalar in the woman in the graveyard.

- Same perp. - Third victim.

- Or fourth. - Three men match the buried guy.

One i Örebro, 8 Fabriksgatan, one in Gothenburg ...

See if their dental records match the victim.

Hi, this just came in.

Astrid Stierncrona, 52, professor of psychiatry, didn t show up at work.

A concerned coworker called the police.

Her description matches the woman in the graveyard.

- Any photo? - No, but l"ll get one.

- Family? - Two children living abroad.

Address?

- Engmark. Hi. - l"ll be right back.

- Want me to go with you? - No, l ll just see if she"s in.

Sure, no problem.

l"ll find out and call you back.

Hello.

ls anyone home?

Hello.

Hi, you ve reached Astrid. Leave a message, and l ll call you back.

No, police inspector Martin Beck -

- l"m not a sick person committing sadistic crimes.

That"s not what this is about.

lt s about adding sense to the punishment.

This is Martin Beck. Hello! Who was the man in the first coffin?

l"ll call it in.

Are you insane?

- How could you? - What?

- Go in alone! Are you crazy? - Engmark was in ...

He was in the car! What if the killer had been inside?

- You d have been furious, if we ... - Lena ...

Don"t let me interrupt anything.

- Does the entire squad know ... - About their boss blunder? Sure.

- You heard his voice. Any accent? - No.

- What did he talk about? - Adding sense to the punishment.

- Anything a little more useful? - No.

"Adding sense to the punishment." That"s what it said on the tape.

l know that expression from somewhere.

Annika Runfelt was a DA. Maybe it"s someone she nailed.

- Like Matte Larsson. - You think it"s biker-related?

l don"t think so. But find out who Annika put behind bars.

Sure. lt s gonna take me a while.

You think he knew his victims?

They aren t random.

Mom, it"s me.

Remember Stella?

- Having trouble sleeping? - Yes.

- You too? - No.

No ...

- Well, good night. - Good night.

Not a word about how l look, okay?

- You look terrible. - Martin.

One of our officers thinks he knows the guy on the photo we sent round.

He doesn t have a name, but he drove him to the psychiatric ER a while back.

PSYCHlATRlC EMERGENCY ROOM

Yes, he s been in here. Let"s see.

- Here he is. Peter Lind. - PL. "

He was admitted on ... He suffers from multiple personality disorder.

Who the hell doesn t?

He manages okay on medication, but he s been depressed for a while.

- ls he dangerous? - Not if he s on medication.

- Does he have a job? - Carpenter, but he"s on sick leave.

Has he been in contact with professor Astrid Stierncrona?

Yes, two years ago she treated him.

- Where does he live? - 26 Finntorpsvägen.

Thanks.

- What s going on? - We re with the police.

- We re looking for Peter Lind. - He hasn t done anything.

- Good. Have you got a key? - Sorry.

The door"s open.

- Are you going to shoot him? - Please don t be alarmed ... Lena.

He might be in his workshop.

Shouldn t we call for backup?

- No! - What?

Look.

Acid.

He s preparing for a new victim.

There"s someone in it.

He s got a pulse.

"You were too late. l"m done.""

"Sense has been added to the punishment.""

- When can we talk to him? - l can t say.

He took an overdose of his schizophrenia medicine.

lf he survives, he won"t be able to talk to anyone for a few days ...

Beck.

The Hudiksvall police found a dental match.

The victim in the wood is Sven Garman.

That"s solved then. Case closed soon, huh?

- Are you going home? - l have to go to a bookstore.

l see.

And l have to drive.

- Adding sense to the punishment? - l know l ve read it somewhere.

"The Morality of the Crime" by Stig Ljungman. Fascinating book.

- Have you got it? - Just a moment.

Thank you.

Thanks for the ride. And now you don"t have to babysit me anymore.

- Not fond of protection, are you? - No, are you?

The police think this is where the murderer built his coffins.

The man allegedly tried to commit suicide and is now in hospital.

Police inspector Martin Beck said ...

Hey, people!

- l took the liberty of sleeping in. - Martin.

The hospital called. Peter Lind died last night.

l see. Back to square one without a motive.

A sick bastard committing sadistic crimes. Need any more motives?

We need a motive for the victim in the wood. Sven Garman.

We lack the forensic evidence to nail Peter Lind for his murder.

Maybe he didn t do it. Lena.

Hudiksvall is sending over the files on a nine-year-old murder case -

- in which Sven Garman was involved. Look over them. l have a lunch date.

Sorry, but you"ll have to celebrate without me.

- You look beat. - l got caught up in a book last night.

- What about? - Adding sense to the punishment.

l"m not a complete idiot, but please elaborate.

Thank you. lt"s about a man who was wrongly convicted and sent to jail.

After his release, he decides to add sense to the punishment.

By committing the crime he didn t commit. what was the crime?

- A murder. - why else would you read all night?

Do you ever read non-murder literature?

Sorry, but l got the case files, and l thought you might be interested.

ls it about a murder? ln that case he s very interested.

So long, Dad. You can have my dessert.

- Did l interrupt anything? - Don"t worry about it.

Here.

- Matte Larsson s been in these jails? - Yes.

And the Stella Brosten murder case in which Sven Garman was involved.

Stella was murdered in her student apartment nine years ago.

Sven Garman, an acquantaince, was questioned, but released.

- How was Stella murdered? - She was stabbed.

How?

- Three stabs to the chest. - Like Sven Garman, huh?

- Yes. And? - who was the DA involved?

Annika Runfelt.

- who was convicted of the murder? - Her boyfriend at the time.

- Erik Stark. - where was he imprisoned?

Erik Stark. Where was he imprisoned?

At Kumla. When was he released? Six months ago. Okay, thanks.

Matte sat in Kumla too. They must have been there at the same time.

- l"d like to talk to Erik Stark. - what have you got in mind?

- Something doesn't add up. - what?

- The book. - what book?

l m going home to read the report.

- Beck. - Hi, it s Lena.

l can t find Erik Stark. He didn t return to his address after his release.

- Maybe he changed his name. - l'll check. Are you still reading?

Listen to this expert s assessment of Erik Stark at the trial.

"Throughout childhood had to clean up manic-depressive mother's mess."

"Kept home spick and span."

"Compensated for family chaos by becoming an A student -

- and was predicted a glorious future." And finally:

"l find Erik Stark to be fully aware of his actions and eligible for prison."

Guess who wrote that. Astrid Stierncrona.

She was a member of the National Board of Health and welfare.

Runfelt, Stierncrona and Garman were all involved in Erik Stark's conviction.

And Matte Larsson sat in jail with him.

- Do we have a photo of Erik Stark? - The Hudiksvall police probably do.

- Have them e-mail us one. - want me to put out an APB on Stark?

- No, let's wait. - l'll check if he's changed his name.

Hi, Gunvald.

Hi, you old fart. Want to go grab a beer?

- why? - To celebrate.

Must there be an occasion? l'll get Lena to come.

- She can sit on your lap. - l know who the coffin killer is.

- Me too. He's in the hospital morgue. - lt wasn't him.

- lt wasn't Peter Lind? - No, l think we got the wrong guy.

Oh, come on! We were in his workshop.

- we saw all the evidence. - l'll explain later.

l'm waiting for a photo. Pick me up in half an hour.

- well? - No beer.

Martin wants me to pick him up in half an hour. He found a new killer.

- Erik Stark? - who is he?

- Lena is looking for him. Find him? - Only his mom.

And Martin is sure it's him?

Either that, or he laced his Calvados with sleeping pills. Nervous?

- Hi. ls this a bad time? - No.

l've got a leaky pipe in the bathroom. Have you got a large spanner?

- l forgot my tools at work. - l think so. Come in.

Let's see.

Here you go.

- Perfect. - Great.

- l'll be back with it. - Fine.

- Can't you find him? - There are a lot of files to check.

- That's just a little bit annoying. - Huh?

- Got the crabs? - No, l just ...

- Go and interview Stark's mother. - l wanna be here when Martin comes.

After l pick him up, he'll want to go to the drug store, then back for his cell.

You'll be back before us. Get going.

You can drum in your car.

And he's scared of violence.

Martin.

Martin, l'm here.

- You? - Seen Martin?

Sure, only yesterday. Ever played the Finnish cucumber game?

- Any word from him? - No.

Maybe it's Erik Stark. He changed his name to Anders Erik Hjort.

- Any address? - No. why did we call off the guard?

- Because we found Peter Lind. - But he never believed it was him!

We'll fix this. Calm down.

The black van. Engmark, where's the list of black van owners?

Downtown!

Anders Erik Hjort owns a black Chevy.

- Address? - 4 Tallstigen, Ågesta.

Martin's slightly claustrophobic.

He was trapped four hours in a narrow concrete corridor at the age of 1 1 .

What a great time to tell me.

That bastard Sven Garman murdered Stella, not me.

But he got off, and l was convicted.

l was innocent, but went to jail for nine years.

This wasn't part of the plan.

l just wanted to deal with the people who ruined my life.

Add sense to the punishment and then serve you up a perpetrator.

The psycho whose workshop l rented.

But you didn't buy his "suicide".

You've left me no choice.

Tallstigen is a cul-de-sac. His house is in the wood.

Let's go round this way. Spread out.

Matte Larsson.

He wanted me to be his prison whore.

l refused.

So he returned with his pals and a little brown bottle.

After that l was his whore every day for six months.

"... now l've added sense to the punishment."

- Clear! - Search the area.

Hello. Mrs. Stark?

l'm with the police.

Martin!

He's dead.

Martin!

No!

Yes.

Okay.

Well, l'll be damned.

- Thank you. - Hang on.

Bing-bing.

- Oskar ... - Uh-oh, speech time.

- Thank you. - Cheers.

You were right. when it comes down to it, everyone is as tough as you.

- l said that? - Yes.

l hit him with the spade and shot him in the leg ...

Someone's at the door. l thought l heard the doorbell.

Don't mind him. You made him very proud.

Cheers.

- Martin. - Coming.

- l'm taking the next week off. - Okay.

- what are you ...? - London.

- Sure. - Madame Tussauds and all that.

- You never go wrong with that. - No.

Now there really is someone at the door.

The scent of champagne reached my ears.

- Your ears? - The cork! Did l miss anything?

Friends, get ready for Technicolor. How about a snifter?

Subtitles: Helle Schou Kristiansen