Young Wallander (2020) s02e05 Episode Script

1 I would practice two or three times a week.
Early, around six.
The pool would be closed when I got there.
No one else around.
And then he would arrive.
He gave me a key to the staff entrance.
I wasn't supposed to tell anyone 'cause I'd get in trouble.
We'd work on my technique, turns, position in the water, for about an hour.
Then after practice, he'd Sometimes I'd be able to get out of it when school started early.
I'm so sorry.
I never told my mum.
She loved him.
I wanted to protect her.
But I regret that now.
It wasn't your fault.
You were just a child.
[Alexia.]
But what if he did it to other girls? Alexia, none of this was ever your fault.
Did you know Elias Fager? No.
He was in the seventh grade, but his big brother was in my class.
So you've never written a letter to Elias? No.
Do you know if anyone else had the same access to the pool as you? I'm not sure.
There were a few of us who were training to compete, but I don't know.
[theme music plays.]
The letters are from a victim of Moberg's thanking Elias for protecting her.
So it seems, yeah.
But not Alexia? I mean, we can't rule it out, but I don't think so.
I think she was telling me the truth.
If she didn't write them, then who did? And what, if anything, has this got to do with Elias's death? We're working on it, sir.
- Hey, where you going? - Come on.
- Where? - Going to see Rask.
Again? You want to get us all fired? She needs to know about Alexia and Moberg.
All right.
We did all the usual background checks.
Signs of abuse, it's the first thing we look for.
You know that.
We followed all the protocol.
There was no sign of it.
Ugh, how did I miss this? Suppose that Elias Fager knew what JÃrgen Moberg was doing? But why keep it a secret? What do you mean? Elias was crucified by the press.
He had to go into hiding.
He could have avoided that if people only knew what kind of man Moberg was.
Well, didn't SÃren say that Elias wanted to tell him something? Yeah, that's right.
Is that why Elias was killed? - To keep him quiet about Moberg? - Moberg's dead.
Who else would suffer if the truth came out? - Whoever wrote those letters.
- Exactly.
SÃren never mentioned anything about Moberg being a pedophile either.
Plus the guy breaks into Rask's apartment demanding information.
Maybe even he didn't know.
Yeah, but why join in the attack? The report says he was drunk, high.
I mean, SÃren hated Moberg enough.
[Reza.]
Wherever he is, he'll be looking for answers now.
So we need to find him before he finds the killer.
Or before the killer finds him.
Did you speak to Fred? Yeah, there's an APB out on SÃren.
Patrols are checking city missions, shelters, mates from prison.
Border Police have his photo, but nothing yet.
What do you wanna do? I'll have a look at Elias's old classmates again.
Then I'll go back to the hit-and-run.
[thunder rumbles.]
[Rask echoing.]
All right, I'm gonna ask again.
What happened next, SÃren? [SÃren.]
I don't remember.
[Rask.]
You don't remember? [SÃren.]
I just told you, I don't remember.
[Reza.]
This guy knew exactly what he was doing.
Come again? - The break-in at the garage.
- [Kurt.]
Yeah.
In and out, four minutes.
No alarm.
No trace.
It's like the guy is flipping us off.
You know, he breaks into our garage, steals our untraceable car, and then uses it as a weapon to commit a murder.
Now we can't find him anywhere.
Kurt, we've been running round in circles, man.
[Reza sighs.]
And I think that we should start looking at our own.
Disgruntled officers, you know.
People who've been slapped on the wrist or even fired.
Do it.
[car door closes.]
[door closes.]
[Kurt.]
Hey.
Sorry I'm so late.
What's going on? It's this appeal we've been working on.
Turns out our boy lied about his origin to have a better shot at asylum.
He grew up in Iran, but with Afghan parents, so he'll be sent back.
I'm sorry.
You know what it's like for Afghans in Iran? He was beaten every day, and it will just keep happening.
If that's the case, shouldn't he get asylum anyway? No.
You lie at the border, your application automatically gets rejected.
So now what? He was abused.
Of course he would lie to save his life.
Some people just don't get a chance.
You know? Yeah.
[SÃren.]
Something I have to tell you.
There's things you don't know.
"Thank you.
You saved my life.
" "I am eternally grateful to you.
" Who was he trying to save? [Kurt.]
Rask? - Hey.
- What are you doing here? Just taking a trip down memory lane.
Didn't occur to me for a second there might be more to it.
[Kurt.]
It didn't occur to anyone.
- Except you.
- [Kurt.]
Come on.
Eight years later, with hindsight and a completely different perspective.
Don't do that.
Any joy with the letters? The girl? Working on it.
We're gonna call Elias's old classmates, see if they know about the letters.
- Will you let me make the calls? - I honestly don't Please.
I can't stop you, can I? I just need a chance to try and put some of this right.
This is the staff entrance you wanted to see.
How many keys to this door? Uh, staff have one each.
I have one, so do the cleaners.
And there's a spare, so six.
- [Elias.]
And then I stole the key.
- [Rask.]
To the staff entrance? Mr.
Moberg kept a spare in his office.
[Rask.]
And the Halloween masks, when did SÃren buy those? [Elias.]
We picked them up on the way.
We waited for him in the changing rooms.
Mr.
Moberg came in, and SÃren came from behind and hit him in the head.
[Rask.]
With the broom? [grunts.]
[Elias.]
He tried to get away, - but SÃren hit him again.
- [grunts.]
[Rask.]
And what did you do? [groaning.]
- [Elias.]
I kicked him.
- [grunts.]
Mr.
Moberg tried to hide in the sauna, but but SÃren kept hitting him.
[grunting.]
[Rask.]
SÃren locked Mr.
Moberg in the sauna, didn't he? [Elias.]
He'd been drinking.
He passed out.
I dragged him out of there.
Then he woke up, and we walked home.
Could you just show me Moberg's old office? Yeah, sure, but it's not much to see, really.
[sighs.]
Yeah.
Thanks.
Okay.
[Elias.]
He left it unlocked sometimes.
Does this door always lock when it closes? - Yes.
- It was the same when Moberg worked here? Yeah.
[Kurt.]
The office Elias claims he stole the key from has a self-locking door.
It did when Moberg was around too.
It's unlikely that Elias could've slipped in there, and I've just seen the municipality's locksmith.
JÃrgen Moberg signed for two extra keys in three years.
One for Alexia and one for someone else.
I don't think Elias ever stole that key.
- I think someone gave it to him.
- [Rask.]
Okay.
I'll narrow in on the swimming team, anyone Moberg was coaching at the time.
Sounds good.
[Osei.]
Detective Abd Al-Rahman.
Quick word? Close the door? Yeah.
Please come and have a seat.
[clears throat.]
How's it going? You settling in? Yeah.
Yeah, it's, uh It's great, actually.
Good.
It's been a while coming.
It certainly has, sir.
I just got in this report from your fellow officer on the joyrider pursuit.
There was an incident mid-chase.
Yeah.
Yes, sir.
Um Uh, we were in pursuit, and a kid jumped out in front of us.
Nightmare.
Yeah.
Well, says it was touch and go, but that you handled it well.
[heartbeat.]
[distorted.]
And how are you feeling? It must've been a shock.
No.
Good.
I mean, that's when the training comes in handy.
It's been a rough few weeks for you.
[indistinct distorted speech.]
Okay, that was all.
[SÃren coughing.]
Jesus.
[sighs.]
Hi, my name is, uh, Douglas Bergmark.
I'm a relative of an old classmate of yours.
Elias Fager.
He, uh He recently passed.
Yeah, thank you.
We were just clearing out his flat, and we came across some letters that I think you wrote to him when you were both in school.
It's quite personal letters.
Listen, they're of no importance to us.
I was just wondering if you'd like to keep them or if we should throw them away.
You didn't write them.
No, no.
There must've been a mistake.
Thank you.
Hi.
My, uh My name is Douglas Bergmark.
I'm a relative of an old classmate of yours, Elias Fager.
We found some old letters, some personal letters.
Just wondering if you would like to keep them? No.
I must've made a mistake.
Thank you.
[upbeat music plays.]
- We're all gonna be going electric soon.
- And then I'll be out of a job.
Oh, let's hope not.
Detective Abd Al-Rahman.
Petterson.
What can I do for you? I'm here to follow up on a few things about the break-in.
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah, I mean, it's just formalities.
Uh, I'm the new guy in the office, so, uh, they sent me to do the donkeywork.
[chuckles.]
But it'd be great if you could help me fill in a few blanks.
- Like what? - Just timeline stuff.
You know, for instance, what time you came in the morning after the break-in.
- You know, I'm not too sure.
Let me check.
- Yeah, sure.
Let's see.
Let's see.
Around nine, opened the place up.
Nothing seemed off then.
And when did you leave the night before? Around 9:00, 9:30.
[Reza.]
Well Did you see anything or anyone lurking around? No.
And I guess after a long shift, you went straight home.
[Peterson.]
Oh, yes.
And was anybody else here then? Colleagues maybe? No.
Hmm.
- Well, this was a waste of time.
- [chuckles.]
- [Reza.]
Thanks for helping me out.
- Anytime.
Kurt, come and have a look at this.
Staff car park behind the station.
This Jeep here belongs to Joel Petterson, who works in this building.
This was taken the night of Elias's death, one hour after he was killed.
The Jeep isn't picked up until the next day, here.
Kurt, it was parked there all day and all night before Elias dies.
Okay.
And then picked up in the evening the day after.
So how does Petterson go home the night Elias dies? Uh Took the bus, maybe got a ride.
- Oh, come on.
- Walked? Kurt, the guy lives 20 kilometers away from MalmÃ, in the middle of nowhere! Why didn't he just take his car? Could be several reasons.
[sighs.]
Read this.
Petterson applied to the police academy three times in the 2000s.
Never got in, not once.
He's a reservist and served in Afghanistan.
He's an army man.
Not anymore.
He damaged his hearing during a land-mine incident.
He's had conflict with HR.
They tried to get rid of him for drinking on the job, but the union stopped it, provided he go to AA meetings.
And what exactly does he do here? He's one of our mechanics, Kurt.
Here, in the police garage.
Come on.
He has inside knowledge and a reason to hate us.
- You're right.
- Yeah.
Petterson knew that the car never had a dashcam or a GPS.
Do you think he faked the break-in? I've watched that CCTV footage again and again.
He's built like a tank.
- He's our guy! - Gotta be careful now, Rez.
Did you find any ties to the Fagers? I mean, the guy's been online screaming about our justice system, saying that we treat criminals like babies.
- He'd probably love to see Elias dead.
- But no real connection? Come on, man.
We should bring him in and put some pressure on him.
- I don't think we can, not yet.
- [Reza.]
Why the hell not? We have no evidence.
We can't hold him.
He could disappear on us.
The guy's lying! He says he went home that night when we can prove his Jeep was here! Wait, wait.
You haven't talked to him? I asked him a few questions about the break-in.
Just to make sure the timeline was solid.
What were you thinking? I find the killer, and that's a problem? It's a problem if he suspects something and starts cleaning up, yes.
We can't afford any more slipups in the investigation, Rez.
Well, I ain't the one who slipped up not bringing Katja Nilsson in.
We have a strong suspect for the killing, sir, and he works in this building in the garage.
His name is Joel Petterson.
He's a former military man.
He knows our procedures, he had access to the car, he knows that car can't be traced, and he's angry with the police because we tried to fire him.
But? I mean, we don't have a clear connection between him and Elias Fager yet and no obvious motive.
We don't know if he's linked to the secret mentioned in the letters, but what we do know is that Joel Petterson is lying about his movements on the night of the killing.
Keep an eye on him, discreetly.
Do you think it's possible to get a wiretap? Put together what you have.
I'll talk to the prosecutor.
I will, sir.
Good work.
Thanks, but Detective Abd Al-Rahman did it.
[Kurt.]
Hey, Rask, have you found anything? [Rask.]
Yeah, maybe.
What do you have? One of the swimmers I talked to, she remembered a girl that Moberg was coaching, seventh-grader.
A seventh-grader? - Alexia was in the ninth grade, right? - [Rask.]
Kid hadn't made the team yet, but apparently he was really invested in her.
But it turns out this girl, she was in Elias's class.
Only problem is the person I spoke to can't remember her name.
I'm gonna look into it.
[Kurt.]
Okay, I'll call you tomorrow.
Yeah.
- All right, kid.
Get some sleep.
- [Kurt.]
Yeah.
Goodnight.
I asked around the estate.
Nobody saw Petterson dump the car.
How's it going? Pretty much like this all day.
- And the wiretap? - Osei's working on the prosecutor.
Well, you know what I think? [Kurt.]
I know you want to act now, but we have to wait.
Hard evidence.
That's how we get him.
[door closes.]
- Hey, Jaz.
- [Jaz.]
Kurt, hey.
- Do you have a minute? - [Jaz.]
Yes, of course.
Is everything okay? I'm worried about Rez.
[Jaz.]
Why? Did anything happen? He's not himself.
[Jaz.]
Yeah, I know.
I'm worried too.
He's been so moody at home, and he won't even talk to me about it.
And you know that this job is so important to him.
I don't know what to do, Kurt.
Hi.
My, uh My name is Douglas Bergmark.
- I'm a relative of Elias Fager.
- [woman.]
What do you want? We found some personal letters in his flat.
If you don't want them, I'll get rid of them.
[woman.]
That's okay.
You can throw them away.
So you do remember the letters? No.
I know that you know something.
You should tell me.
[phone clicks.]
Fuck! [cell phone buzzes.]
[whispers.]
Hey.
[Kurt.]
Hey, Rez, where are you? - I'm at Petterson's house.
- [Kurt.]
What? [Reza.]
Yeah.
He got a call and drove straight here.
[Kurt.]
I told you we have to be careful! - [Reza.]
Kurt, he's up to something.
- [Kurt.]
Okay.
Keep your cool and your distance.
I'm on my way.
Rez.
- Rask.
You can't be here.
- [cell phone ringing.]
- You're still suspended.
- I found the swimmer.
- The seventh-grader Moberg was coaching.
- Not here.
Look.
It's Amelia Holmgren.
The daughter of the Fager boys' defense lawyer, Edwin Holmgren.
- The attorney general? - Yes.
Look, I don't care if I get fired.
I have to take this to Osei.
- No, no, no, I'll do it.
You go home.
Go.
- [cell phone ringing.]
- Rez.
- Kurt.
I gotta take him.
- He's got a fire going.
- Don't do anything.
- But he's burning evidence.
- Just stay where you are.
I'm on my way.
Rask! Rez? I'm sorry, you need to take a look at this.
[cell phone buzzing.]
Yeah? I think he's burning evidence, Kurt.
I'm going in.
[Kurt.]
No, Rez, stay back! - I'm taking him in before it's too late! - Don't go.
That's an order, Rez! Oh sh [Kurt.]
Rez, where's Petterson? Did he leave? [Reza.]
Yeah, he left.
Are you all right? The evidence is gone, Kurt.
We need to go.
I had him red-handed, Kurt.
- He could've been burning anything.
- He was burning fucking evidence, Kurt! Calm down, okay? We can't chance anything right now.
Rez, we need to You wanted to come in like the fucking cavalry! Why would I wanna do that? We're running an investigation here.
Come on.
Okay? No, don't touch me! You've been holding me back this whole time! This isn't about you, Rez.
You've made that pretty fucking clear.
Rez.
[cell phone chimes.]
[cell phone chimes.]
[cell phone swishes.]
[Mia.]
A detective.
That's exciting.
[mysterious music playing.]