Following the murder of two under-age foreign boys, Commissioner Beck investigates a child pornography ring which uses the Internet as a recruitment agency for paedophiles.
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 neighbourhood watch from the nearby community played? 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. The first day of summer is a long one for the Beck group, as the killer has more victims on his list.
Beck and his colleagues track a smuggling ring that uses refugees hoping for a new start in Sweden.
After a suitcase is left outside a police station in Stockholm, the bomb squad detonate it, but get a nasty surprise when they discover that a baby was hidden inside it.
Gösta Ekman
Martin Beck
Kjell Bergqvist
Lennart Kollberg
Rolf Lassgård
Gunvald Larsson
Peter Haber
Niklas Hjulström
Benny Skacke