Hello?
Hi.
I'm looking for the...
# Tram wires
# Cross Northern skies
# Cut my blue heart in two
# My knuckles bleed
# Down the tattered street
# On a door that shouldn't be
♪ In front of me. ♪
'Hi, Dad.'
Oh, hi, hi, hi.
'You made it?
'How is it?'
Er... It's, er... sunny.
Be good if you were here.
How's, how's Klara?
'She's good, she's at nursery. When's your speech?'
My speech is, um...
not till Saturday.
'Wear your nice suit.'
Yes, and I have shaved.
'You nervous?'
Um...
No, I'm just... not quite sure how to pitch it.
'Just say what you feel.'
Yeah. I don't want to waste anybody's time is all.
'You've got good instincts, Dad. Just follow them.'
Sure - I will. I just, you know, I want it to...
I've come all this way.
I just want it to, um... mean something. 'Remember...'
Hello? Hello?
Hello?
Mr Hedeman, please...
Eh? Why are you wasting time here?!
This is not the time or the place.
Where is my wife? Mr Hedeman, please.
We are at the conference. Can we deal with this later?
You've got all these extra staff now.
Please. We are investigating the case. We are doing the best we can.
Well, then find her!
I said get off me!
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
So today - day two - we have another gentleman to speak to you -
something of a legendary person here in the Western Cape.
A one-time communist, firebrand, freedom fighter,
joining us today in his capacity as Chair of the Tourism Committee,
please welcome Mr Max Khulu.
Thank you.
Please, please.
Thank you.
Thank you, Colonel. You're welcome.
So, looking out of the shining windows
of this brand-new hotel, one of many hundreds,
it is not hard to see how tourism provides
one in every 12 jobs in South Africa today.
You good-looking foreigners want to come here
and spend your good-looking money.
I think it's a brilliant idea.
But we must be considerate hosts.
We must take care of our guests.
If our guests do not feel that they will be safe,
they will not come.
It is the duty of our police force to ensure that never happens.
We in this province...
Hi. Julian Van Heerden.
Kurt Wallander.
I have a gentleman -
a Swedish gentleman living out at Sir Lowry's Pass - Axel Hedeman.
His wife's been missing for ten days.
Yes. I have read about it.
To be blunt, he's causing us a lot of difficulty
and he is refusing to co-operate - he's talking to the press -
I think you saw he brought them here.
Well, it's never easy just waiting for news, as you know.
Look, um...
Look, we both know it's not about PR.
He's hampering our work - he's stopping us from finding his wife.
I was wondering if you could maybe talk to him,
you know, countryman to countryman -
I think he needs some reassurance that we are not just...
corrupt amateurs.
Well, I am sure ultimately he understands that...
I would really, really appreciate it. I'd be grateful.
Could I see the case notes?
Yeah, of course. I'll even get someone to drive you out there.
My sergeant could meet you.
The case notes will do. If you give me the address, I'll drive myself.
You do understand that his wife is missing,
so, er, we're not closing down certain avenues.
Understood.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Detective Inspector Wallander?
Sergeant Matube. Mthembu.
Mthembu.
We appreciate this.
There was no mention in the file of a background check on Hedeman.
We did put in a request.
We're still waiting to hear back from the Swedish police.
The one place in the country you know she isn't and here you are.
This is Detective Kurt Wallander.
I'm from Sweden. Ystad Police.
Good. It's about time.
Maybe you can do something about finding my wife!
Come on, guys, don't just leave them there.
Take them inside - put them on the counter, yeah -
otherwise they'll be stinking next time we use them.
Most of them are ex-offenders.
What do you do for them, sir?
Gym, soccer - some kind of male role-model, that's my side.
And your wife, what did, er...
Inga - she's a teacher.
That's a nasty cut you have there.
I teach them boxing.
Don't look at me like that.
That's the way that they look at me.
When they're not helping, not looking.
Why aren't they looking? How can there be nothing after...
This type of inquiry is very difficult to rush.
After 72 hours you're not looking for a living person any more,
you're looking for a corpse, right?
And it's been more than 247 hours now. Mr Hedeman...
I've seen the case notes and Sergeant Mthembu
and her colleagues are doing everything they can.
I know it's frustrating,
but if you talk to the press and not the police,
it's getting in the way of the investigation.
You may be decreasing the chances of them finding your wife.
Do you think she could still be alive?
Yes, of course she could.
Right.
Right, well, thank you.
Come on, guys, off you go.
I'll see you at the centre.
We'll be in touch, sir.
That was helpful, thanks.
Oh, you're welcome.
Yeah. Enjoy the rest of your conference.
Oh, that's right. Thanks.
Oh, great. Nice to meet you. You too.
Sorry. Er...
where Inga was going that day - is that somewhere she'd been before?
No. It was an outreach centre.
She went to pick up some textbooks they weren't using any more.
She never got there.
Do you have an address?
I've got directions somewhere.
Right. Thanks.
This is the place. Thanks.
This - this is a faith-based programme, yes?
Everything here is faith-based, one way or another. You need it.
I thought being here might challenge my faith.
Has it?
It has. But not in the way I was expecting.
Thank you for this.
I need you to chase up an information request
for the local police here. Do you have a name?
Yes, the name is Axel Hedeman. He's from Degeberga.
OK, leave it with me. I'll call you back.
Yeah, soon as possible.
Hello?
'Hello?' Hi, Grace, it's Kurt.
How'd you find this place?
I got lost. The map's wrong.
Maybe Inga did the same thing.
Hedeman never gave us this -
he gave us an address, that's all.
Hedeman could have hired somebody to do his dirty work.
She could have been followed.
Where better?
Cutting their fingers off - does that mean anything in tribal, or...
Tribal?
It means something to the man who has his fingers cut off.
Good shot.
Everyone out here has a gun.
Let's talk to Hedeman.
Yeah, hello?
'Hi, Kurt, I have the information you wanted on Axel Hedemen.' Yeah.
'He has a previous conviction...'
Right. OK. Hold on a sec - let me just, er...
Yeah.
Yep.
Anything since?
OK - thanks.
OK - bye. Bye.
He is not here.
So Hedeman has a criminal record. In Sweden. Um... Aggravated assault.
Er... ten-month suspended sentence.
He broke his girlfriend's arm, when he was drunk.
2001.
It wasn't his wife?
Nothing reported since.
He did say he was going to the Community Centre? Shall we?
Put the ball in the net!
The ANC has forgotten its principles.
And we have forgotten our promise.
The basic and fundamental promise
that the wealth of this country...
Municipal elections.
His name's Bernie Meyiwa. ..belongs to this nation.
ANC. Max Khulu's protege.
The ANC has been dominated by men...
Six months ago, a white student tried his luck with a 9mm.
...who have abandoned our principles.
Men who think that they can come here and lie to you and fool you,
with lazy, costly words and rhetoric.
Instead of building luxury houses, luxury hotels,
where rich foreigners
can line their pockets with your money right next door to your community...
...we should be building you affordable homes.
We should make sure that you can feel our wealth.
You can feel the improvements.
You should feel that there is someone better for you.
For all of us to go.
So is he gonna get in?
I'm gonna vote for him.
Come, on keep your guard up.
Keep your guard up!
Mr Hedeman.
Do you recognise this, sir?
Yes, I recognise it -
where did you find it?
She never takes this off!
It was found at an old stock farm
off a road your wife would have taken,
according to a map you gave the Detective Inspector here.
Why would she have been...? Did you find the car?
There was a wrong turning on the map so Inga might have got lost.
Why didn't you give the map to us, sir,
when you reported your wife missing?
It would have helped.
No, I... I gave you the address -
I didn't...
You have a history.
We all have a history.
Some of us overcome it.
Grace... Excuse me... Hi.
No other sign of her?
No. No, nothing.
She, erm...
That was the first time she drove - on her own, yeah.
She was afraid of being on her own. Being lost.
Excuse me, sorry.
I have a match on the prints.
Belongs to a low-level gang member. A tsotsi.
Mr Hedeman, we'll find her.
You have something for me?
Yes.
The boy's name is Victor Mabasha. Member of the 26s.
It's a prison gang.
Interviewed in 2012 in Pollsmoor about the murder of a prison guard.
His initiation into the 26s. Not charged.
Lack of evidence. What else? Well, he's nothing big - a foot soldier.
He's just a kid, isn't he?
They're all just kids.
I mean, they don't live long enough to grow up.
He hangs out at a shebeen - Bomba's. Near Khayelitsha station.
Is this reliable?
As reliable as any of our other leads.
Right, so we take a detachment out there -
you see if there's any connection between Mabasha and the Hedemans -
specifically see if he was one of their projects?
Do you want to come with me to Bomba's? Some real sightseeing?
It's fine, Sergeant.
Thanks for your help.
We'll need a statement concerning the stock farm.
I could send someone over to the hotel.
Sure.
Enjoy the rest of the conference.
Thanks. Sergeant.
Yes. Thanks, Kurt.
'The subscriber you have dialled is not available at present.'
Excuse me. Good day, sir.
Do you know where - er - Khayelitsha station is?
Hi. Um... Bomba's?
Left up there, up there. Left.
Left, right, thank you. Easy on the Umqombothi, OK?
All right.
Do you have a sparkling water? Yes.
Police?
I'm not. I just... Who are you?
I'm just a... Kurt. My name's Kurt.
Go sit there. OK. Sit!
I'm not South African. No!
I'm not South African. I'll show you my ID.
It's OK. It's just...
I just want to talk.
Just talk. That's all. Take the money - we can talk.
Do you recognise her?
Just listen. Listen.
What happened out there at the stock farm?
How did that happen?
You must be in real pain.
I just...
I just want to find out what happened to her.
That's all.
Where do you come from?
Where...? From Sweden.
And so does she.
I come from a country called Sweden. We both come from Sweden.
I...
Look out!
Victor.
Thanks.
What are you doing here, Kurt?
I just...
I thought that you'd be...
I'm sorry.
I tried to call.
Yeah?
So you should have waited for a reply.
We have people!
You know about surveillance, huh?!
Khulu wants to see you. Both of you.
Get Max off my back, for God's sake.
Sir!
There have been reports of a shoot-out
involving a Swedish national this afternoon.
Reports suggest that this shoot-out
was linked to the recent disappearance...
Sir, was I wrong in assuming that the purpose of your involvement
was to limit bad news stories?
Max, try to be polite. They're guests - behave yourself.
Behave? These Swedes should behave themselves!
Max has a habit of talking to people
like he's addressing a public meeting.
Take your pills, dear.
Pleasure meeting you.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
So how did our Swedish friend know to search for this boy in the Flats?
I was just looking for my own...
Did you see the shooter?
He was wear... I can't...
No! I know that he was white.
And, er... Registration number?
No. I didn't get it.
Do you think it was the husband?
Axel Hedeman does have a history of violence.
So, he hired this boy Mabasha to kill his wife for him?
It's a possibility.
These are cut from the plants I kept in the garden at Pollsmoor prison.
This tsotsi has been in Pollsmoor.
Yeah.
How much would you get for a life?
Next to nothing.
10,000 rand?
So that's what a man sells his freedom for.
I wish we'd known the price 30 years ago.
Do you have anything more?
No.
I appreciate you taking the time to come here, Sergeant.
Keep us informed.
I think we'd all like to put it to bed as soon as possible.
As much as it has been a pleasure, Mr Wallander,
I don't expect we'll be seeing each other again.
Oh, er... I'm having friends - family - over. Food. Drink.
Come.
I wouldn't mind keeping an eye on you.
Thank you very much. Thanks.
Hi, how are you? So sorry we are late.
Hello, nice to see you.
Oh, is that for me?
Thank you very much.
I'm Kurt. Nice to see you.
Hello, nice to see you.
Hello. I am going to go change.
He is going to fight corruption and he is going to freeze every
major development in the Western Cape.
OK, but meanwhile all the foreign investors are going to
pack their businesses up...
Hello.
Hi. I am just going to put this down here if I may.
Thank you. Thanks.
Oh, hello. Who are you?
Nomalanga.
And who do you belong to?
Mummy.
Oh, right. OK.
Who do you belong to?
Who do I belong to?
Well, I have a daughter and a little granddaughter like you
so I suppose I belong to them, really.
You look like a white lion.
Really?
She has a thing about white lions.
White lions and a boy in her class called Qukeza.
Is it just you with her, or is there...?
My husband was a police constable.
He was shot while trying to stop an armed robbery in Claremont.
He died six days before she was born.
Yeah, it's just me and her. What about you?
Uh... divorced. A daughter.
And grand-daughter. Hi.
Cheers.
Do you think Mabasha was paid by Hedeman to kill his wife?
I don't know.
You know, it happens.
A lot of kids around like him.
No interest in the future. Just take what they can get.
Can you blame them? Considering the kinds of places they come from?
Nobody forces them to do what they do.
You can't just pin it on society.
It's the individual's choice.
Do you think everybody's equipped to make that choice?
I grew up a half mile from that Shebeen.
My mother died of HIV when I was 12.
Things can get better.
They can be made better.
By all of us.
Bit by bit.
Mama!
Coming!
You know, the white lion is a symbol of hope.
Roar!
Sorry, I'm Wallander.
I've lost my room keys. 107.
OK, no problem.
All right, sorry about that. There you go. Thanks.
OK. Put the gun down. I'll talk to you if you put the gun down.
What are you doing? Let's go.
Let's go.
Turn right.
Victor, where am I driving?
You don't need to know. Just drive.
Drive on!
You need help, Victor.
You need medicine.
Water. We both need to eat.
Quiet!
Why did you bring me here?
Shut up.
Victor, you came to me for some reason.
You're keeping me alive for some reason.
Tell me what that is and we can do something about. Listen to me...
You're Swedish? Yeah. Yeah.
There is snow?
Where you come from, there is snow?
Yeah, I can help you. I want to help you, right?
You're going to help me. I want to go there.
What happened to the white woman?
If you tell me that, I can help you, we can go.
Bad spirits.
Bad spirits took her.
They led her to that place.
Is she dead?
I didn't touch her. I did not kill her.
She screamed. She shouldn't have screamed.
He was angry. Who? Who was angry?
Was it the man who tried to shoot you, who cut your hand?
I don't know why I tried to help your friend.
But you did, you tried to help her?
He took her away.
Where did he take her? Victor, is this even safe?
Does this man know where you might have gone?
My mum was killed by witchcraft.
My uncle took me into the city.
To his friends, so I could have a second chance.
Victor, who was this man? Can you tell me who this man was?
Where did he take my friend?
OK, OK, OK!
If you go to...
If I sorted it so that you could...
...come to Sweden with me...
...you'd see plenty of snow.
Sweden is a good place.
We try and help people who have been hurt.
You can't help me. You won't help me.
Then what's this for then?!
I said I'm going to help you! That's all I've said!
I can't help you if you don't tell me what I need to know!
Why were you there?
I was training.
He was training me. Training?
Training for what?
To shoot?
To shoot who?
A black man.
100,000 rand.
That is how much the lives of important people are.
Who?
Victor, who were you trying to shoot?
Call the police...
Tell them that...
...that I'll do it.
Tell them that we have a deal.
Go to Sweden.
I'm coming to Sweden with you.
'Hello, SAP, how can I assist you?'
Yeah.
My name is Kurt Wallander...
I need to speak urgently to Sergeant Grace Mthembu.
'Sergeant Mthembu?' Yeah.
'Just bear with me one moment, I'll see if she's at her desk.'
Come on, out of the car! Out of the car, please!
Come on, please! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!
Come on, come on, get out of the car!
Friday.
What?
Friday...
It's OK, it's OK.
Friday.
There's never a dull moment with you, is there, Kurt?
The bike's registered to a man called Meyer.
Ex-army. Mercenary.
Victor said he was training to shoot someone.
At the farm.
A black man.
Someone... important.
Friday...
Hm?
It was... the last thing he said.
Friday.
It has to be the day of the shooting, doesn't it?
Friday?
There's a big election rally on that day. At Five Sisters.
Bernie Meyiwa? Yeah.
'Hello?' Yes, I need to speak to Van Heerden. Now.
If this man wanted me dead, why train up a boy like that?
Why not do it himself?
With all respect, sir, a white man kills you, it's a tragedy.
A black man kills you...
It's political. People will blame the ANC.
30 years ago, would you have listened to this?
30 years ago I was in prison.
It's the same fight, Max.
If I don't go up on that stage they'll say I'm a coward.
And they'll be right.
They need to see that I can face these battles.
And I can win.
If you're dead, you're no use to anyone.
I will not be silenced by a white man with a gun.
You will catch this man,
and I will speak.
And I will win.
OK, yeah, thank you. They've found Meyer's flat.
He's ex-military...
He was a security guard part-time. Western Cape Homes.
He's been working there since October 2013.
Get over there. Take a unit with you.
This is the company that's involved in one of the developments
that Bernie Meyiwa is trying to stop.
So do we need to...
The security detail on the Five Sisters rally's been told.
Kurt, get some rest.
I'll call you.
Your keys.
Our role as a police force is simple.
Maintain social order by fighting crime...
'Hello?'
Grace? It's Kurt. I found Meyer's car.
It's near his flat and I've got his sat nav.
He's been making repeated trips to somewhere called Pinelands,
it's near Forest Drive.
That's Department of Defence land. It's a disused military base.
Could be where he took Inga. I'll see you there.
Wait, Kurt! Why don't...?
Kurt!
Wallander!
Kurt?
Inga Hedeman's body's back there, in one of the water tanks.
Are you OK?
'Hello?' I need to speak to Van Heerden.
'Meyer, what the hell's going on?'
What is it?
Khulu.
That doesn't make any sense.
It's him.
I heard the peacocks in the garden.
Are you sure? I'm sure, Grace.
Is there anything else you would like to add to your statement?
No, that's it.
Right.
Well, you know, signature at the bottom.
Are you OK?
Yeah. I need to go through this.
You need to get some sleep.
I'll call you tomorrow.
Yeah.
You just take care, yeah? Yeah.
Max Khulu set up a trust, run by a holding company,
registered under his mother's maiden name.
It holds a 75% stake in Western Cape Homes.
Has done since just before the company bid
for a new luxury housing development out in Sir Lowry's Pass.
The trust also owns the land being developed.
Borrowed millions of rand just to buy it up.
He's put absolutely everything into this.
Past evidence says that it'll quadruple in value...
...making Max Khulu a very rich man.
Unless, of course, Bernie Meyiwa's elected
and puts all these developments on hold.
100,000 rand doesn't seem like very much,
to invest in having Bernie Meyiwa killed.
I used to...
He... Max Khulu came to open the clinic where my mother was.
I just thought he was different.
We'd like to talk to your husband.
About what?
What's the matter?
I wasn't expecting to see you again, Mr Wallander.
We just want to talk to you about one or two things, sir.
I have to go to the rally.
Perhaps tomorrow.
Your trust owns a stake in Western Cape Homes. Is that correct?
Through a holding company registered in your mother's name.
I believe they're part of the trust portfolio.
Western Cape?
A few shares, I think.
To me, it seems as though the trust is the majority shareholder.
No.
I don't believe so.
Your information is wrong.
Were you aware that the man who trained Victor Mabasha
also works for Western Cape as a security guard?
Tell Colonel Van Heerden that I will see him at the station
at his convenience, and answer any further questions,
but right now...
May we see your phone?
That's not the one you used, is it?
It's not the one you used to call Meyer.
I don't know anyone by that name.
You should know he's dead.
He's dead,
and Bernie Meyiwa is going to stop the development.
Was there anything else?
Bernie Meyiwa stands for everything you fought for, sir.
That's why I'll stand beside him today, and make sure that he wins.
The car is ready, darling.
The maid will see you out.
How many million rand has he got invested in this?
A couple of hundred.
When's Bernie Meyiwa due to speak? 20 minutes. Why is he so calm?
'Khulu!'
Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you, my people.
Thank you!
Thank you, my friends.
Today is the day for my friend.
My colleague,
my hope!
Our hope!
Comrade, Bernie Meyiwa!
Grace? Why did Meyer need a second training ground?
Practice?
But he's a professional! Why have two?
Maybe he was training another kid.
He would have needed a back-up. Exactly! Let's find him.
Grace! Grace!
Grace!
Thank you, my friends.
Thank you for coming.
What do I promise you?
I will make sure that you have a share in the wealth of this country.
They say that Bernie Meyiwa is simplistic and idealistic.
I say, what the hell is wrong with that?
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait!
Meyer's dead, there's no money.
I know who you are, I know why you're here.
There was another boy, just like you.
Maybe you knew him. His name was Victor.
Another boy, with a gun. He's dead. He is dead now.
You can live.
Listen to that man.
Listen to what he's saying.
That's who you'll be killing.
You'll be killing him for nothing.
...sometimes are all we have to sustain us.
When we have been caged and trapped for so long.
We need to show our young men and women that there is still hope.
We owe them this hope!
And I... No, we...
will deliver that hope to them together!
Just walk away.
Walk away.
Iafrica! Iafrica!
I promise you that there will be a change coming.
And when we decide that it is time for a change together.
When we have made up our minds that we will stand shoulder to shoulder.
Iafrica!
Mayibuye!
Iafrica! Mayibuye! Iafrica!
Mayibuye!
There is no force in this wonderful land of ours.
There is no force in this world that can stop us. Amandla!
Kurt?
The shooter? He's gone.
So has Khulu.
Do we make a difference?
Maybe.
Sometimes.
Not much.
What I do know
is that we should never stop trying.
And we need to remember that every little counts.
Recently I met a young man called Victor Mabasha.
He was just a boy really.