Plot

It is night. A police car pulls over near a van with a flat tire on a desolate highway, where two young men are changing the tire. The police officers step out of the patrol car and offer their help. Suddenly, a third person gets out of the van. One of the officers reacts instantly - this man is a well known criminal, he understands he is recognized. He has also robbed a military camp ten minutes ago, and the van is loaded with explosives and assault rifles. The situation is tense. Later on, the two police officers are found shot dead in a way that looks like an execution. Martin Beck is working on the case and gets all resources he needs to get the unknown murderers. A hunt that gets complicated, because Martin's partner, Gunvald Larsson, was a close friend to one of the killed police officers and he is literally ready to use any methods to find the killer...

Cast

• Peter Haber as Martin Beck
• Mikael Persbrandt as Gunvald Larsson
• Sophie Tolstoy as Sara Beijer
• Marie Göranzon as Margareta Oberg
• Per Morberg as Joakim Wersén
• Jimmy Endeley as Robban
• Mårten Klingberg as Nick
• Rebecka Hemse as Inger (Martin Beck's daughter)
• Ingvar Hirdwall as Martin Beck's neighbour
• Shanti Roney as Dag Sjöberg
• Matti Berenett as Victor Bengtsson
• Martin Aliaga as Santos Golenza
• Peter Hüttner as Oljelund
• Johan Kustus as Rickard Gudmundsson
• Ingela Olsson as Martina Gudmundsson
• Anders Byström as Leif Gudmunsson
• Fredrik Myrberg as Sten Eriksson
• Bengt Magnusson as himself (news journalist; uncredited)

Reception

The film has been criticized for the similarities with the Murders at Malexander in 1999, but Rolf Börjlind has said that the draft of the film was finished in 1997.^[2]

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