Peter Harness who wrote the whole of series 3 returns to write for A Lesson in Love the second in the final series of Wallander and we are back in Sweden after the previous episode's jaunt to South Africa which was oddly structured as it had a new writer and we were also in unfamiliar territory.
In some ways in this episode Kurt is happy walking with his grand daughter telling her about his trip to South Africa. His daughter is happily settled married to a wealthy family. His love life improves as Baiba his Latvian girlfriend drops by. Things are looking up.
However at the age of 55, Kurt is having trouble focusing his mind and is getting forgetful. This presents problems in his latest case. Kurt is called to a care home to look for a missing elderly patient. It is the same home that treated his father when he suffered from dementia.
They find the missing elderly woman but the search leads the body of another dead woman and her teenage daughter is missing. Suspicion falls on a motorbike gang who leased some farm buildings from the dead woman. Kurt thinks that the head of the gang is protecting his son who has something to hide. The motorbike gang are far from happy that they are the subject of police enquiries.
We realise in this episode that the Wallander mysteries have taken course over a number of years and Kurt is heading for retirement age which is going to become more rapid due to his memory problems. The mystery is not up there with the previous series and the episode also lays down the groundwork for the final episode when his daughter's father in law reveals a government cover up dating back to the early 1980s.
In some ways in this episode Kurt is happy walking with his grand daughter telling her about his trip to South Africa. His daughter is happily settled married to a wealthy family. His love life improves as Baiba his Latvian girlfriend drops by. Things are looking up.
However at the age of 55, Kurt is having trouble focusing his mind and is getting forgetful. This presents problems in his latest case. Kurt is called to a care home to look for a missing elderly patient. It is the same home that treated his father when he suffered from dementia.
They find the missing elderly woman but the search leads the body of another dead woman and her teenage daughter is missing. Suspicion falls on a motorbike gang who leased some farm buildings from the dead woman. Kurt thinks that the head of the gang is protecting his son who has something to hide. The motorbike gang are far from happy that they are the subject of police enquiries.
We realise in this episode that the Wallander mysteries have taken course over a number of years and Kurt is heading for retirement age which is going to become more rapid due to his memory problems. The mystery is not up there with the previous series and the episode also lays down the groundwork for the final episode when his daughter's father in law reveals a government cover up dating back to the early 1980s.