O agente especial Carl Hamilton (Mikael Persbrandt) embarca infiltrado em uma missão nos bastidores da máfia russa para desmembrar uma organização que está planejando vender armas para grupos terroristas. No entanto, no meio da transação, um grupo de homens fortemente armados surge e mata todos os presentes, exceto Hamilton, levando as armas com eles. Em busca das respostas, o agente passa a caçá-los ao redor do mundo, seguindo pistas que levam a crer que se trata de uma verdadeira conspiração internacional.
A girl goes missing somewhere in Ystad. It is obvious that she has seen something terrible and that someone wants her silenced. At the same time, a trial of human traffickers begins.
A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer Pontus notices that his colleague is nervous. Isabell carries around a dark secret: one of the suspects, in this case, has a means of pressure against her in her hand. Commissioner Wallander has a great deal on the capable young policewoman, whose loyalty to her fatherly superior is subjected to a hard test of endurance.
Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group. With help from one of the terrorists, the young Nazir, Rikke manages to escape. On her return, she is soon declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and her career is launched into the spotlight. All the while Nazir flees from Afghanistan, heading for Denmark. When he finally seeks out Rikke, she is shocked and torn. Is she willing to help the man who threatened to kill her, and to jeopardize her new-found career? Their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons and a nation driven by a hunger for sensation and political populism.
