Mikael Persbrandt

How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...

A paparazzi photographer is found dead, his apartment ransacked. When Beck's superior Margareta Oberg goes through the evidence, she reacts strongly to two of the images left behind, going so far as to hide them from the team.

Responding to an anonymous threat, the Stockholm bomb squad detonates a suspicious suitcase. Inside the tattered remains, they discover the body of an infant. Beck leads the investigation to hunt down the man responsible for the grizzly set-up, a man the newspapers call The Monster.

Martin Beck gets a phone call from a German colleague visiting Stockholm for an art auction. He's found a dead woman in his hotel, and needs Martin's help. The murder investigation brings Beck's team into the world of art fraud.

Beck and his team investigate the murder of an accountant at an airport parking lot. Meanwhile, a reporter receives an anonymous tip regarding the embezzling of funds earmarked for repairing nuclear reactors.

The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage. Martin Beck and Lena Klingstrom find evidence which brings new light to the investigation – but who's pulling the strings?

A man is found stabbed to death. The man's widow claims a mysterious foreigner knocked on their door the day before the murder, but is that the real story?

Two girls are hit by a train and killed instantly. Martin Beck and his team have to figure out if it was murder or double suicide.

A young girl dies after being hit by a car driven by Beck's trusted deputy Gunvald Larsson. Meanwhile, a taxi explodes at a ferry terminal on the Baltic coast. Beck needs Gunvald's help to crack the case — but he needs to bring him back from the brink.

A rapist and murderer is targeting women through personal ads on public bulletin boards. Beck's not comfortable with it, but he lets Alice go undercover and pose as someone answering the latest ad.