Wallander embarks on his last case, which hits close to home, just as he is diagnosed with the onset of dementia.
His daughter Linda's father-in-law has disappeared, and Linda asks her father to investigate along with Detective Yttenberg.
Kurt learns that Haken was a submariner thirty years earlier, and perhaps was keeping secrets from that time of his life, even from his wife. Haken also had a disabled daughter whom he visited secretly. Kurt also knows that Haken received a card on his birthday that disturbed him.
The detective fights his dementia as he attempts to find evidence from the 1980s in order to learn what Haken was involved in, and if it is connected somehow to his disappearance so that he can close his last case.
It's a sad episode as Kurt endures bouts of dementia and finally has to tell Linda the truth. That scene is very touching. It is disturbing to watch his moments of horrible confusion - I can't agree with one of the reviews here that it wasn't realistic. Even in the beginning of the disease, there are times of both confusion and clarity. I thought Branagh gave an excellent performance.
A moving ending to a fine series.
His daughter Linda's father-in-law has disappeared, and Linda asks her father to investigate along with Detective Yttenberg.
Kurt learns that Haken was a submariner thirty years earlier, and perhaps was keeping secrets from that time of his life, even from his wife. Haken also had a disabled daughter whom he visited secretly. Kurt also knows that Haken received a card on his birthday that disturbed him.
The detective fights his dementia as he attempts to find evidence from the 1980s in order to learn what Haken was involved in, and if it is connected somehow to his disappearance so that he can close his last case.
It's a sad episode as Kurt endures bouts of dementia and finally has to tell Linda the truth. That scene is very touching. It is disturbing to watch his moments of horrible confusion - I can't agree with one of the reviews here that it wasn't realistic. Even in the beginning of the disease, there are times of both confusion and clarity. I thought Branagh gave an excellent performance.
A moving ending to a fine series.