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MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! Wallander: Season 4 (The Final Season)

Sir Kenneth Branagh as Kurt Wallander.
Courtesy of Steffan Hill/Left Bank Pictures (Television) Limited/Yellow Bird 2015
Sir Kenneth Branagh as Kurt Wallander.

Airs Sundays, May 8-22, 2016 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn”) returns as Inspector Kurt Wallander in the Swedish sleuth’s farewell episodes, bringing the beloved, Emmy®-nominated series to a poignant end. As age catches up with the peerless crime-solver, he’s getting dangerously careless. Could there be a connection to his father’s Alzheimer’s? Based on the novels of Henning Mankell, the Wallander series was recently praised as “satisfyingly twist-filled and chilling in every sense” by Entertainment Weekly. In the final mysteries, Branagh gives a heartbreaking performance of a gritty cop starting to lose his grip.

MASTERPIECE Podcast: Inside the WALLANDER Theme Song

Back in 2008, Australian native Emily Barker and her band, The Red Clay Halo, recorded their song, "Nostalgia," in relative anonymity. But when the crime drama WALLANDER premiered accompanied by the song, "Nostalgia" became an instant hit. As told by Emily Barker herself, this podcast is the story of "Nostalgia"--from its chilly inception to its eventual fame.

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EPISODE GUIDE:

Episode 1: “The White Lioness” airs Sunday, May 8 at 9 p.m. - The case of a missing Swede in South Africa leads Wallander down a dangerous path. Worst of all, he's having blackouts.

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Episode 2: “A Lesson in Love” airs Sunday, May 15 at 9 p.m. - A knife-slashed corpse takes Wallander on a chase for the victim’s missing daughter. Increasingly forgetful, he breaks a cardinal rule of policing.

Episode 3: “The Troubled Man” airs Sunday, May 22 at 9 p.m. - With his memory failing, Wallander draws on primal instincts to crack a decades-old submarine mystery. But is it finally curtains for Kurt?

WALLANDER - The Final Season, is a Left Bank Pictures, Yellow Bird, TKBC series co-produced with BBC, MASTERPIECE, TV4, FiSK and Copenhagen Film Fund. Made with support from Region of Skane, City of Ystad and Ystad-Osterlan Film Fond, Sweden. In cooperation with ARD Degeto. It is adapted from two original novels by Henning Mankell. Episode one is written by James Dormer. Episodes two and three are written by Peter Harness. The director is Benjamin Caron. Executive Producers are Andy Harries, Daniel Gylling, Kenneth Branagh, Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Rebecca Eaton, Matthew Read, and Åsa Sjöberg. The co-producers are Ralf Ivarsson and Thomas Gammeltoft. The producer is Sanne Wohlenberg.

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