Beck - Episode Guide

A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has happened. But he does not know when or where. He has no body, motive or a crime scene, not a single trace. All he has is some teeth and a mysterious Internet address

Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported.

When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns.

In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden. An obvious connection is that all the victims are women, and they were all in the same class, and Beck thinks that a scandal back in the past has something to do with the murders. But no one wants to talk about the past and it becomes a struggle to find the perpetrator before the final murder - only one woman is still alive.

Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.

The Stockholm police bomb squad blows a briefcase to pieces after what looks like false alarm, but a baby was hidden inside, which is thus executed by shocked cops. As if the PR disaster weren't bad enough, the press gets wind of enough to cry cover-up. Soon after, young mother is targeted. Beck tries to link her to the baby by its biological father Ove Lundin, thus the prime suspect, but still lacks a motive for the sadistic MO, and the fiend 'Monster' isn't done.

Inconspicuous precinct officer Nordmark apparently shoots himself, but Beck, once his first partner, finds he led a secret life as lusty closet gay, the MO doesn't fit, nor does the suicide note - it was staged by someone who ignored his reading disorder. The commissioner wants all efforts to collaborate with the financial crimes unit to arrest tax-sinning crime king 'Money Man' Gavling, but Beck's team finds Normark must have been his precinct informer. The keys to the case are gay club bird Leonard, who recently dumped Nordmark, and Beck's first case, when Gavling still did his own dirty jobs. The gloves come off on both sides.

A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.

Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge.

A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The shocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.

As a restaurant owner is murdered, Martin Beck and his colleagues are pulled into the criminal catering industry.

An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction.

Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.

A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex.

Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.

A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are once again drawn into the darkness.

Beck and his team are not afraid to go beyond simple homicide cases and reach across borders. They find themselves at odds with the Intelligence service, as they discover seedy underworld transactions and links.

A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?

Swedish Sports Minister John Vedén has disappeared. Beck and his team investigate, and discover a connection to the world of organized gambling.

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 Klingström find evidence which brings new light to the investigation - but who's pulling the strings?

Martin Beck gets a phone call from his German colleague, Hans Sperling, who is in Stockholm to buy a painting at auction. Sperling has found a dead woman in his hotel, and needs Martin's help. The murder investigation leads them into a dark world of art fraud.

A girl is found by her parents raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and Gunvald to catch the criminal.

Two girls are hit by a train and killed instantly. Was it murder, or double-suicide? Martin Beck and his team must answer the question of whether the pressure and intimidation faced by these young women in their everyday lives led to their deaths.

A paparazzi photographer is found dead, his apartment ransacked. When Beck's superior Margareta Oberg goes through the evidence, she reacts very strongly to two of the images left behind, going so far as to hide them from the team. Who was in the photographs, and was the motive for the murder revenge, blackmail or something even more sinister?

When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder. The dead woman was wanted internationally and a member of a group of militant eco-activists carrying out attacks around the world. Gunvald sets out on his own to find the woman's murderer, with Säpo on his heels. Martin Beck is ordered to arrest Gunvald and his loyalty to his colleague is now put to the test.

In a playground in the middle of urban idyll found a buried wooden box containing a known and respected prosecutor. Beck & co suspect first a rough criminal MC-leader of the deed, but you can quickly re-evaluate the case when the MC-leader is found murdered in a similar wooden box. Pretty soon discovered a number of wooden boxes and the police realize that you are in a cat and mouse game with a crazy serial killer.

A young woman is found strangled in a hotel room. The investigation leads Beck and Gunvald to Stureplan, Stockholm's nightlife and its downsides.

A well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family.

The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. When another man is murdered, police discover new evidence that soon leads them to an Islamist terrorist cell.

An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an incurable disease. Her son though refuse to believe that it was the disease that was the primary cause of her death.

An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim's work with a book about "society's dark side" that captures the Beck group's interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist's killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.

An unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down caravan park. The owner of the trailer, a young drug-addicted woman, is missing, but is she really the victim? And what role has the so-called neighborhoods watch from the nearby community played? The case is difficult to solve, with everyone involved guarding their secrets, regardless of social class. Furthermore, police supervisor Klas Fredén decides to go over Martin Beck's head and recruit charismatic, Norwegian homicide investigator, Steinar Hovland. 

Three brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police officer, his wife and their 10 year old son. The Beck group takes on the case and find that there is a hidden security room in the victims' house, containing stolen weapons. They find fingerprints from a criminal who was involved in a robbery 4 years ago. After the robbery, he shot his accomplices and disappeared without a trace, along with their haul of 6.3 million.

Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing one of the officers in cold blood. A national alert is issued and an extensive search for the ruthless killer begins, with the Beck group at the lead. Neither the officer's shocked and wounded colleague nor any of the witnesses have seen anything helpful to the police. Finally, they find the car registration number using a surveillance camera. But, when they enter the car owner's apartment, they find him shot to death. The first day of summer is a long one for the Beck group, as the killer has more victims on his list.

A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since Martin Beck has quit, Steinar Hovland leads the search for the missing girl. But Martin is drawn into the case when he decides to help the national Security Police investigate a suspected terrorist. They soon realize that they are in a race against time to stop a catastrophe.

Simon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death. Does the murder have something to do with his side project: teaching unaccompanied refugee children to ice skate? This undertaking has certainly not been appreciated by everyone in their small, sheltered community. Martin Beck, who has returned in a more senior position, struggles to find a replacement for the temporary head of the group, Steinar Hovland. But the Norwegian is becoming more and more interested in keeping his new role. The question is whether Martin can trust

A girl finds her mother lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Is it an accident or murder?

A Dane enters a restaurant and argues with the owner. He shoots the owner. No one "saw" the killer. The police team, now led by Alex, investigates. The Dane finds it useful that his lawyer is Alex' brother.

A young man has been found murdered and the Beck group's work with the murder points in the direction of a drug network. Klas Fredén has been spying on this network for a long time, and he does not want his investigation, which is in a critical phase, to be jeopardized. However, he allows the Beck group, led by Alex Beijer, to work with the murder investigation in parallel with the reconnaissance. This causes Alex to end up on a constant collision course with Fredén. The conflict causes Martin Beck, now Rotel chief, to become involved in the work of his former group, something that enlivens him. Steinar is having a harder time, torn between work and longing for his children in Oslo. The pressure on the Beck group becomes fierce during the season, both with tough investigations and emotional changes in the group.

During an intervention, a macabre find is made in the trunk of a car and the Beck group quickly ends up in the firing line for a seemingly cold-blooded killer. But things are not what they seem. The group is the subject of a stressful internal investigation and Oscar ends up in a really difficult dilemma. Alex's task is to solve both an unusually and unimaginably cruel murder mystery, while the Beck group risks collapsing from within. Martin Beck is doubtful about her way of handling the case, at the same time as he himself seems to be undergoing a personality change. The pressure on the Beck group becomes fierce, both internally and externally when the media hears about the failed police operation and the sad finding in the tailgate. This should prove to be one of the group's most emotional cases.

A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague. One of the witnesses worked with Alex when she was stationed in the Middle East and they have an attraction to each other that makes Josef think she should stay out of the investigation. But Klas Fredén is pressuring the group to resolve the politically charged case before SÄPO takes over. Martin Beck is on sick leave but continues to go to work waiting for a diagnosis. He, Oskar and Jenny are forced to relate to the growing tensions within the group and it soon turns out that several of those involved carry dangerous secrets.

A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years. His mother, well-known author Cecilia Eklund, has just managed to put his disappearance behind her. Martin Beck was investigating the disappearance, but Alex thinks it is unusually thin and not like Martin's usual work. But Martin is very secretive and reluctant to talk about the case. Fredén, on the other hand, does not hesitate to blame the bad work on Martin. There is a lot that is not true. Martin is on sick leave and everyone knows how sick he really is. Fredén, on the other hand, immediately takes the chance and offers Alex Martin's service. He wants new blood in the corps. But Alex seems to have completely different plans. Something that Joseph notices.

A body, belonging to a 39-year-old Danish citizen, has been found floating in the water near Liljeholmen. The person seems to have been a member of a notorious Danish drug gang where the league leader is in a Swedish prison, and the only one he agrees to talk to is Steinar.

A murder in a wooded area and a man who died suddenly in a heart attack after being awakened in the middle of the night by a masked burglar. Can the events have any connection? The Beck group is facing another tough case where internal tensions and loyalties are being put to the test.

Alex Beijer will participate in TV's morning program, but it all develops into a nightmare when an unlikely hostage drama arises in the TV studio. Alex can use all his experiences from the years in the Middle East at the same time as the rest of the group needs support to find a solution to the situation.

The police authority is under heavy media pressure after a fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence degenerates and the police have to take further blame. Some time later, a massacre takes place on a bus outside the Police Academy. A discovery made by Martin's grandson Vilhelm who goes to school will be an important piece of the puzzle to lead the Beck group further in the investigation.

Vilhelm Beck is a police aspirant and out on his first internship in the real world. He and his supervisor Trine are routinely called to a burglary. At the crime scene, Vilhelm is the one who discovers a dead 17-year-old boy and the mission goes directly to the Beck group. Vilhelm feels deeply affected by the situation and wants to contribute to the investigation, more than his supervisor says ok to. At the same time, Martin Beck tries to ensure that he gets to be part of Vilhelm's development, something Vilhelm doesn't appreciate as much.

The Beck group receives a seemingly routine murder case that takes an unexpected turn when Säpo takes an interest in the investigation.

Josef is suspended, pending an internal investigation of his alleged assault of a Säpo agent. Klas Fredén, who has climbed to even higher heights within the police organisation, offers to help - but nothing in life is free.

The Stockholm police are called out to investigate the killing of a man who was brutally murdered in his own home.

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