Beck - Beck: Volume 2 (Episodes 04-06) - DVD

(In Swedish with English Subtitles) He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. He'll do anything to get information from a suspect, including enhanced interrogation techniques. It's classic good cop/bad cop, and together with their team they bring down dangerous criminals lurking in the seedy Stockholm underworld. Beck's a loner but he's not anti-social; he regularly sees his daughter, with whom he now has a much better relationship than when he was neglecting her growing up. And at the end of a workday, there's always an interesting conversation and a nightcap with a neighbor who gives new meaning to the word quirky. EPISODE 4 SERIAL KILLER - a serial killer is on the loose. All the victims are women, and all attended the same school. Beck digs deep into a past no one wants to re-live, in an effort to unlock the mind of a deranged lunatic, and to prevent the ultimate act of revenge. EPISODE 5 THE PEARL HOTEL - 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 can he bring him back from the brink? EPISODE 6 THE MONSTER - Responding to an anonymous threat, the Stockholm bomb squad detonates a suspicious suitcase. Inside the tattered remains of the bag, they discover the body of an infant. Beck leads the investigation to hunt down the man responsible for this grizzly set-up, a man the newspapers are calling the Monster.