History Monster / Wallander

->'''Kurt Wallander''': How in the hell can you live like this... you kill innocent children for money!
->'''Alfred Hardeberg''': We don't kill any children. We tested how it worked by hiring some subcontractors who were willing to do such things. But that's why people do BETA-testing, to see the problems.
->'''Wallander''': Call it whatever you want. You're still killing a bunch of innocent children.
->'''Alfred''': In 10 years TLL will be sending bodies twenty-four seven all over the world and no one will care at all how it was done.

* Alfred Hardeberg and his daughter, Kristina, from "The Man who Smiled", are the masterminds behind TLL, a program they use to [[OrganTheft take organs]] from poor, desperate people and sell them to the wealthy. The latter also [[WouldHurtAChild murders children]] to harvest organs from their deceased bodies. When the former's business dealing with Sten Torensson and his father goes badly, he hires assassins to kill them, blowing up the entire buildings they are in to murder them.
* [[SmugSnake Heinrich Böhle]], from "The Pyramid", was introduced in a flashback in which he shoots up a elderly man's home and kills one of Wallander's best friends as he escapes. Returning after 25 years, Böhle uses a helicopter to fire upon innocents, and when a drug dealer under Ygnve Holm causes an overdose, Böhle begins targeting Ygnve's acquaintances to save himself from the police. Killing both of Yngve's sisters with a bomb, Böhle goes on to murder Ygnve's right-hand man and kidnap his daughter, trying to blow her up as well.

* The drug dealer Hosse, from season 1's "The Container Lorry", is contracted to smuggle drugs in a truck filled with immigrants, whom, despite orders to keep alive, he kills all nine of. Later driving another truckload through a checkpoint, Hosse captures undercover agent Karin, bragging to her about his plans to kill the immigrants he is transporting while threatening her to remain silent. Engaging with the police in a firefight when they try to stop him, Hosse fights to the end, murdering Karin before finally being gunned down himself.
* Former police commissioner Rolf "Roffe" Liljeberg, from season 1's "The Secret", is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who hides his monstrosity under [[FauxAffablyEvil the guise of a friendly retiree]]. Seemingly helping the protagonists find the man who killed a young boy, Rolf's true colors are shown in flashbacks in which he heavily abused and molested Stefan, even scarring him. When Stefan confronts him for his past abuses, Rolf laughs at Stefan's threats to kill him, knowing Stefan could never get away with doing so, eventually driving Stefan to suicide. Revealed to be the true killer of the aforementioned boy, Rolf tries to murder yet another child before finally being stopped.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Leonard Belker]], from season 2's "The Leak", is a thief who uses terrorist attacks to cause dread, then steal in the midst of the horrific distraction, starting the episode with one such attack killing countless people. His henchmen capturing Pontus, Belker sets Pontus's car on fire, trying to painfully burn him to death. Launching yet another terrorist attack, Belker has many more innocents killed while he smugly smiles at his handiwork, uncaring as the police kill off his followers. Stringing along a man named Sven as his mole, Belker blackmails him by threatening to murder his wife if he does not comply and eventually shoots her through the spine before escaping alone.
* SerialRapist and SerialKiller, Victor Nilsson, from season 3's "Missing", is an utterly loathsome monster. Using false charm and wealth to build relationships with women, Victor rapes and murders them, keeping their bodies in plastic bags kept in his basement, even doing the same to a little girl. Trying to murder the girl's mother and his own former lover, Wallander deduces Victor's true nature and confronts him in his home, sickened by the sight of dozens of bodies.

* Åke/Louise, from season 1's "One Step Behind", is a psychopathic SerialKiller who begins relationships with people, only to betray and murder them while their guard is down. Formerly having a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, Åke is enraged with Karl's embarrassment at dating Åke for being transgender and [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]]. Going on to kill a group of girls, any sympathy for Åke's rejection by Karl is smashed with the revelation she had killed long before meeting him. Stalking a newlywed couple to a private island, Åke gleefully murders them and their photographer. Kidnapping Wallander's daughter, Åke attempts to draw out suffering from both of them before finally killing them to satisfy her sadism.
* This incarnation of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Alfred Hardeberg]]--Harderberg in this version--from season 2's "The Man Who Smiled", is even more monstrous than the original. Using his position as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-connected philanthropist]], Harderberg murders African civilians to greedily [[OrganTheft sell their organs]] on the black market. When his defense attorney, Gustav Torestensson gets too close to the truth, Harderberg murders him and his son to avoid detection. Murdering two kind-hearted philanthropists for trying to get him arrested, Harderberg smugly tells Wallander the people he harvests are his "family" and he chooses when they die. When one of his assistants turns on him in horror at Harderberg's operation, he kills him before finally being arrested.

-->--Alfred talking about his organ trafficking, ''The Man who Smiled'' (2003).

* Alfred Hardeberg and his daughter, Kristina, from ''The Man who Smiled'', are the masterminds behind TLL, a program they use to [[OrganTheft take organs]] from poor, desperate people and sell them to the wealthy. The latter also [[WouldHurtAChild murders children]] to harvest organs from their deceased bodies. When the former's business dealing with Sten Torensson and his father goes badly, he hires assassins to kill them, blowing up the entire buildings they are in to murder them.
* [[SmugSnake Heinrich Böhle]], from ''The Pyramid'', was introduced in a flashback in which he shoots up a elderly man's home and kills one of Wallander's best friends as he escapes. Returning after 25 years, Böhle uses a helicopter to fire upon innocents, and when a drug dealer under Ygnve Holm causes an overdose, Böhle begins targeting Ygnve's acquaintances to save himself from the police. Killing both of Yngve's sisters with a bomb, Böhle goes on to murder Ygnve's right-hand man and kidnap his daughter, trying to blow her up as well.

* The drug dealer Hosse, from season 1's ''The Container Lorry'', is contracted to smuggle drugs in a truck filled with immigrants, whom, despite orders to keep alive, he kills all nine of. Later driving another truckload through a checkpoint, Hosse captures undercover agent Karin, bragging to her about his plans to kill the immigrants he is transporting while threatening her to remain silent. Engaging with the police in a firefight when they try to stop him, Hosse fights to the end, murdering Karin before finally being gunned down himself.
* Former police commissioner Rolf "Roffe" Liljeberg, from season 1's ''The Secret'', is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who hides his monstrosity under [[FauxAffablyEvil the guise of a friendly retiree]]. Seemingly helping the protagonists find the man who killed a young boy, Rolf's true colors are shown in flashbacks in which he heavily abused and molested Stefan, even scarring him. When Stefan confronts him for his past abuses, Rolf laughs at Stefan's threats to kill him, knowing Stefan could never get away with doing so, eventually driving Stefan to suicide. Revealed to be the true killer of the aforementioned boy, Rolf tries to murder yet another child before finally being stopped.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Leonard Belker]], from season 2's ''The Leak'', is a thief who uses terrorist attacks to cause dread, then steal in the midst of the horrific distraction, starting the episode with one such attack killing countless people. His henchmen capturing Pontus, Belker sets Pontus's car on fire, trying to painfully burn him to death. Launching yet another terrorist attack, Belker has many more innocents killed while he smugly smiles at his handiwork, uncaring as the police kill off his followers. Stringing along a man named Sven as his mole, Belker blackmails him by threatening to murder his wife if he does not comply and eventually shoots her through the spine before escaping alone.
* SerialRapist and SerialKiller, Victor Nilsson, from season 3's ''Missing'', is an utterly loathsome monster. Using false charm and wealth to build relationships with women, Victor rapes and murders them, keeping their bodies in plastic bags kept in his basement, even doing the same to a little girl. Trying to murder the girl's mother and his own former lover, Wallander deduces Victor's true nature and confronts him in his home, sickened by the sight of dozens of bodies.

* Åke/Louise, from season 1's ''One Step Behind'', is a psychopathic SerialKiller who begins relationships with people, only to betray and murder them while their guard is down. Formerly having a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, Åke is enraged with Karl's embarrassment at dating Åke for being transgender and [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]]. Going on to kill a group of girls, any sympathy for Åke's rejection by Karl is smashed with the revelation she had killed long before meeting him. Stalking a newlywed couple to a private island, Åke gleefully murders them and their photographer. Kidnapping Wallander's daughter, Åke attempts to draw out suffering from both of them before finally killing them to satisfy her sadism.
* This incarnation of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Alfred Hardeberg]]--Harderberg in this version--from season 2's ''The Man Who Smiled'', is even more monstrous than the original. Using his position as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-connected philanthropist]], Harderberg murders African civilians to greedily [[OrganTheft sell their organs]] on the black market. When his defense attorney, Gustav Torestensson gets too close to the truth, Harderberg murders him and his son to avoid detection. Murdering two kind-hearted philanthropists for trying to get him arrested, Harderberg smugly tells Wallander the people he harvests are his "family" and he chooses when they die. When one of his assistants turns on him in horror at Harderberg's operation, he kills him before finally being arrested.

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* Åke/Louise, from season 1's ''One Step Behind'', is a psychopathic SerialKiller who begins relationships with people, only to betray and murder them while their guard is down. Formerly having a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, Åke is enraged with Karl's embarrassment at dating Åke for being transgendered and [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]]. Going on to kill a group of girls, any sympathy for Åke's rejection by Karl is smashed with the revelation she had killed long before meeting him. Stalking a newlywed couple to a private island, Åke gleefully murders them and their photographer. Kidnapping Wallander's daughter, Åke attempts to draw out suffering from both of them before finally killing them to satisfy her sadism.

* [[SmugSnake Heinrich Böhle]], from ''The Pyramid'', was introduced in a flashback in which he shoots up a elderly man's home and kills one of Wallander's best friends as he escapes. Returning after 25-years, Böhle uses a helicopter to fire upon innocents, and when a drug dealer under Ygnve Holm causes an overdose, Böhle begins targeting Ygnve's acquaintances to save himself from the police. Killing both of Yngve's sisters with a bomb, Böhle goes on to murder Ygnve's right-hand man and kidnap his daughter, trying to blow her up as well.

* Alfred Hardeberg and his daughter, Kristina, from "The Man who Smiled", are the masterminds behind TLL, a program they use to [[OrganTheft take organs]] from poor, desperate people and sell them to the wealthy. The latter also [[WouldHurtAChild murders children]] to harvest organs from their deceased bodies. When the former's business dealing with Sten Torensson and his father goes badly, he hires assassins to kill them, blowing up the entire buildings they are in to murder them.

* The drug dealer Hosse, from season 1's "The Container Lorry", is contracted to smuggle drugs in a truck filled with immigrants, whom, despite orders to keep alive, he kills all nine of. Later driving another truckload through a checkpoint, Hosse captures undercover agent Karin, bragging to her about his plans to kill the immigrants he is transporting while threatening her to remain silent. Engaging with the police in a firefight when they try to stop him, Hosse fights to the end, murdering Karin before finally being gunned down himself.
* Former police commissioner Rolf "Roffe" Liljeberg, from season 1's "The Secret", is a sadistic [[WouldHurtAChild pedophile]] who hides his monstrosity under [[FauxAffablyEvil the guise of a friendly retiree]]. Seemingly helping the protagonists find the man who killed a young boy, Rolf's true colors are shown in flashbacks in which he heavily abused and molested Stefan, even scarring him. When Stefan confronts him for his past abuses, Rolf laughs at Stefan's threats to kill him, knowing Stefan could never get away with doing so, eventually driving Stefan to suicide. Revealed to be the true killer of the aforementioned boy, Rolf tries to murder yet another child before finally being stopped.

* Åke/Louise, from season 1's "One Step Behind", is a psychopathic SerialKiller who begins relationships with people, only to betray and murder them while their guard is down. Formerly having a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, Åke is enraged with Karl's embarrassment at dating Åke for being transgendered and [[DisproportionateRetribution murders him]]. Going on to kill a group of girls, any sympathy for Åke's rejection by Karl is smashed with the revelation she had killed long before meeting him. Stalking a newlywed couple to a private island, Åke gleefully murders them and their photographer. Kidnapping Wallander's daughter, Åke attempts to draw out suffering from both of them before finally killing them to satisfy her sadism.
* This incarnation of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Alfred Hardeberg]]--Harderberg in this version--from season 2's "The Man Who Smiled", is even more monstrous than the original. Using his position as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-connected philanthropist]], Harderberg murders African civilians to greedily [[OrganTheft sell their organs]] on the black market. When his defense attorney, Gustav Torestensson gets too close to the truth, Harderberg murders him and his son to avoid detection. Murdering two kind-hearted philanthropists for trying to get him arrested, Harderberg smugly tells Wallander the people he harvests are his "family" and he chooses when they die. When one of his assistants turns on him in horror at Harderberg's operation, he kills him before finally being arrested.

* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Leonard Belker]], from season 2's "The Leak", is a thief who uses terrorist attacks to cause dread, then steal in the midst of the horrific distraction, starting the episode with one such attack killing countless people. His henchmen capturing Pontus, Belker sets Pontus's car on fire, trying to painfully burn him to death. Launching yet another terrorist attack, Belker has many more innocents killed while he smugly smiles at his handiwork, uncaring as the police kill off his followers. Stringing along a man named Sven as his mole, Belker blackmails him by threatening to murder his wife if he does not comply and eventually shoots her through the spine before escaping alone.

* Alfred Hardeberg and his daughter, Kristina, from "The Man who Smiled", are the masterminds behind TLL, a program they use to take organs from poor, desperate people and sell them to the wealthy. The latter also [[WouldHurtAChild murders children]] to [[OrganTheft harvest organs]] from their deceased bodies. When the former's business dealing with Sten Torensson and his father goes badly, he hires assassins to kill them, blowing up the entire buildings they are in to murder them.

* Originally just another simple drug dealer, [[LackOfEmpathy Hosse]], from season 1's "The Container Lorry", becomes something much, much worse and manages to stand out in the end. Hired to deal drugs by smuggling them in a truck filled with immigrants, the plan was to drive the truck and keep the immigrants alive in order to distract the police, something Hosse ignores, so he kills all nine of them anyway. However, at the climax of the episode, Hosse makes his already-high body count even higher. While driving in the customs station with the truck, using the same way as he previously dealt them, Karin, who is now a spy for the police who poses as an associate for Hosse and his leader Oskar, is seen by Hosse. Hosse notices that she's with the police, so when she walks by his truck, he viciously grabs her and pulls her into his truck. He demands her to be silent and hide so that the police doesn't see her, or else he'll kill her. Once he's done with the customs station, Karin asks what he'll do with the immigrants. Hosse just answers that he'll kill all of them, gloating about it. Once the police realize that Hosse is holding Karin hostage, they confront him and start shooting. Hosse is behind the truck, but instead of accepting defeat, Hosse stops hiding and grabs Karin. He puts her at gunpoint, and kills her just before he dies himself.
* [[WouldHurtAChild Rolf "Roffe" Liljeberg]], from season 1's "The Secret", is a pedophilic [[DirtyCop retired commissioner]] who at first seems like a really nice guy who is enjoying his retirement after a long career as a police officer. He helps the protagonists find the man who killed a boy named Johannes, the suspect being one of Rolf's friends Magnus. He manages to keep a [[FauxAffablyEvil really good façade]], but his true colors are shown when Stefan remembers how he was heavily abused by Rolf as a child, and a flashback scene is shown where Stefan is running away from Rolf and gets his scar. Stefan goes home to Rolf, and constantly points his gun against Rolf and is willing to shoot him. Rolf laughs and wants Stefan to kill him, since he'll never get away with it. He also states that no one else has successfully tried getting away with similar things previously either. A picture can be seen of a young Stefan naked in Rolf's house. All of this is too much for Stefan to handle, so he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]]. It is also now revealed that Rolf is behind the murder of Johannes as well. In his last scene, he kills one of his friends for revealing to much information to the police and tries killing her child as well, but fails. Even in a series like ''Wallander'', where all of the main antagonists have murdered at the very least one person, Rolf stands out in the series as the most sadistic and violent pedophile, and the only one portrayed as a sadist who commits his crimes for fun.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Leonard Belker]], from season 2's "The Leak", is a well-known mass murdering terrorist. The episode starts with one of Belker's henchmen shooting an innocent, random old man who was jogging, [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. The next day, Belker launches a massive terrorist attack, injuring, if not killing, many people. Belker himself is shown a bit later in the movie after trainee Pontus got caught by Belker's henchmen. They trap Pontus in his own car, and Belker finally shows up. He sets the car on fire and leaves Pontus to slowly die, just barely failing to kill him. The next time Belker is shown on screen, he launches another massive terrorist attack in the city, injuring many people, while Belker smugly smiles while innocent people die and the police slowly eliminate every single one of his minions. The leaker, Sven, is shown to have been heavily blackmailed by Belker, and once he is supposed to have his money for his work as the leak, Belker only gives him half the money, and threatens to kill his wife Mette by putting a photo of the two in the bag where the money is in, and then aims with a laser gun on the photo from behind. Belker doesn't lie, and betrays Sven at the climax of the episode, where he shoots Mette through her spine, before getting away scot-free.
* Victor Nilsson, from "Missing", is a sociopathic SerialRapist and SerialKiller, and the only season 3 MonsterOfTheWeek who has no sort of redeeming qualities whatsoever. At [[FauxAffablyEvil first]] appearing to be the nicest person in the episode, he uses his position as a wealthy local grocery store owner in order to get a good relationship with people living nearby, primarily women. After he has built a good, personal relationship with them, he rapes them and puts them in plastic bags, which he collects in his basement. He is also behind the disappearance of a little girl. He even tries raping and killing the girl's mother, who he has previously had a loving relationship with. When Wallander realizes that Victor is behind everything and goes to Victor's basement to save her and his own daughter [[ActionGirl Linda]], who Victor had also tried killing, over twenty bodies are shown, much to Wallander's disgust.

* Åke/Louise, from season 1's "One Step Behind", is a manipulative psychopath and transsexual SerialKiller who is the human equivalent of a parasite; he befriends people and manages to get extremely personal with them, only to later kill them [[ForTheEvulz for no reason but sadism]]. He had a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, but Karl was embarassed with falling in love with a transvestite, upsetting Åke. Instead of talking things through, the latter [[DisproportionateRetribution kills Karl]]. Åke then kills three more people--a group of girls--but is confirmed to have been truly evil before he was rejected by Svedberg when the police find a brutally murdered, seemingly innocent man buried in the woods; this man had been murdered by Åke long before Karl. He gets an extremely personal relationship with a couple, even going as far as to get to follow them to the private island where they were going to take their wedding photos. After taking a bath, he shoots the photographer and the couple, with barely any emotion at all but happiness. In his final moments, he kidnaps Wallander's daughter Linda and keeps her hostage when Wallander comes home, giving a MotiveRant about how Svedberg treated him as "something filthy and diseased", before taunting Wallander about the same thing. Wallander himself, who normally sympathizes with the criminals, states that Åke is overly sadistic and that simply killing Wallander would be too easy, and instead killing his daughter fulfills his sadism. Aside from his sizable body count, Åke also manages to be a personal enemy to the entire police.

* Alfred Hardeberg and his daughter, Kristina, from "The Man who Smiled", are the masterminds behind TLL, a program they use to take organs from poor, desperate people and sell them to the wealthy. The latter also [[WouldHurtAChild murders children]] to harvest organs from their deceased bodies. When the former's business dealing with Sten Torensson and his father goes badly, he hires assassins to kill them, blowing up the entire buildings they are in to murder them.

* Alfred Hardeberg and his daughter, Kristina, from ''The Man who Smiled'', are the masterminds behind TLL, a program they use to take organs from poor, desperate people and sell them to the wealthy. The latter also [[WouldHurtAChild murders children]] to harvest organs from their deceased bodies. When the former's business dealing with Sten Torensson and his father goes badly, he hires assassins to kill them, blowing up the entire buildings they are in to murder them.

* [[SmugSnake Heinrich Böhle]], from "The Pyramid", is a criminal mastermind who is seeking to destroy drug dealer [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Yngve Holm]]'s entire life after a drug deal gone wrong. Introduced during a flashback scene during Wallander's early police career, [[EstablishingCharacterMoment a gunshot can be heard inside an old man's house]] while Wallander is having a fun time with one of his best friends outside. Wallander hears this, and sees Böhle, who manages to escape the scene, killing Wallander's friend in the process. Twenty-five years later, Böhle meets Wallander again, but is even more sadistic and evil this time around. He is this time around introduced shooting an helicopter with two people in it for fun. After one of Yngve Holm's drug dealers accidentally causes an overdose, Böhle, scared that he might get caught by the police, targets Holm's family and friends. He starts out by kidnapping Yngve's sister, and taping her around a chair, he puts a heart rate monitor on her, so that if she tries escaping her heart rate will go up, and a bomb will explode, blowing up the entire house. Her sister comes and tries saving her, but the house blows up, killing them both. Böhle then meets with Yngve's right-hand Frank, and kills him as well. To complete his killing spree, he kidnaps Yngve's daughter who he [[StrappedToABomb puts a bomb on]]. He puts a heart rate monitor on [[DeadManSwitch himself]] this time so that if his heart rate goes below 50 or over 90, the bomb will explode. Despite murder being a very common aspect in the ''Wallander'' series, and something to expect coming into the episodes, Böhle truly stands out in being a [[ArchEnemy personal enemy]] to ''Wallander'' and the final villain in the Lassgard series.

* This incarnation of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Alfred Hardeberg]]-—Harderberg in this version--from season 2's "The Man Who Smiled", is even more monstrous than the original. Using his position as a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-connected philanthropist]], Harderberg murders African civilians to greedily [[OrganTheft sell their organs]] on the black market. When his defense attorney, Gustav Torestensson gets too close to the truth, Harderberg murders him and his son to avoid detection. Murdering two kind-hearted philanthropists for trying to get him arrested, Harderberg smugly tells Wallander the people he harvests are his "family" and he chooses when they die. When one of his assistants turns on him in horror at Harderberg's operation, he kills him before finally being arrested.

* Åke/Louise, from season 1's "One Step Behind", is a manipulative psychopath and transsexual SerialKiller who is the human equivalent of a parasite; he befriends people and manages to get extremely personal with them, only to later kill them [[ForTheEvulz for no reason but sadism]]. He had a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, but Karl was embarassed with falling in love with a transvestite, upsetting Åke. Instead of talking things through, the latter [[DisproportionateRetribution kills Karl]]. Åke then kills three more people--a group of girls--but is confirmed to have been truly evil before he was rejected by Svedberg when the police find a brutally murdered, seemingly innocent man buried in the woods; this man had been murdered by Åke long before Karl. He gets an extremely personal relationship with a couple, even going as far as to get to follow them to the private island where they were going to take their wedding photos. After taking a bath, he shoots the photographer and the couple, with barely any emotion at all but happiness. In his final moments, he kidnaps Wallander's daughter Linda and keeps her hostage when Wallander comes home, giving a MotiveRant about how Svedberg treated him as "something filthy and diseased", before taunting Wallander about the same thing. Wallander himself, who normally sympathizes with the criminals, states that Åke is overly sadistic and that simply killing Wallander would be too easy, and instead killing his daughter fulfills his sadism. Aside from his sizable body count, Åke also manages to be a personal enemy to the entire police.

* Originally just another simple drug dealer, [[LackOfEmpathy Hosse]], from "The Container Lorry", becomes something much, much worse and manages to stand out in the end. Hired to deal drugs by smuggling them in a truck filled with immigrants, the plan was to drive the truck and keep the immigrants alive in order to distract the police, something Hosse ignores, so he kills all nine of them anyway. However, at the climax of the episode, Hosse makes his already-high body count even higher. While driving in the customs station with the truck, using the same way as he previously dealt them, Karin, who is now a spy for the police who poses as an associate for Hosse and his leader Oskar, is seen by Hosse. Hosse notices that she's with the police, so when she walks by his truck, he viciously grabs her and pulls her into his truck. He demands her to be silent and hide so that the police doesn't see her, or else he'll kill her. Once he's done with the customs station, Karin asks what he'll do with the immigrants. Hosse just answers that he'll kill all of them, gloating about it. Once the police realize that Hosse is holding Karin hostage, they confront him and start shooting. Hosse is behind the truck, but instead of accepting defeat, Hosse stops hiding and grabs Karin. He puts her at gunpoint, and kills her just before he dies himself.
* [[WouldHurtAChild Rolf "Roffe" Liljeberg]], from "The Secret", is a pedophilic [[DirtyCop retired commissioner]] who at first seems like a really nice guy who is enjoying his retirement after a long career as a police officer. He helps the protagonists find the man who killed a boy named Johannes, the suspect being one of Rolf's friends Magnus. He manages to keep a [[FauxAffablyEvil really good façade]], but his true colors are shown when Stefan remembers how he was heavily abused by Rolf as a child, and a flashback scene is shown where Stefan is running away from Rolf and gets his scar. Stefan goes home to Rolf, and constantly points his gun against Rolf and is willing to shoot him. Rolf laughs and wants Stefan to kill him, since he'll never get away with it. He also states that no one else has successfully tried getting away with similar things previously either. A picture can be seen of a young Stefan naked in Rolf's house. All of this is too much for Stefan to handle, so he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]]. It is also now revealed that Rolf is behind the murder of Johannes as well. In his last scene, he kills one of his friends for revealing to much information to the police and tries killing her child as well, but fails. Even in a series like ''Wallander'', where all of the main antagonists have murdered at the very least one person, Rolf stands out in the series as the most sadistic and violent pedophile, and the only one portrayed as a sadist who commits his crimes for fun.
* [[TerroristsWithoutACause Leonard Belker]], from "The Leak", is a well-known mass murdering terrorist. The episode starts with one of Belker's henchmen shooting an innocent, random old man who was jogging, [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. The next day, Belker launches a massive terrorist attack, injuring, if not killing, many people. Belker himself is shown a bit later in the movie after trainee Pontus got caught by Belker's henchmen. They trap Pontus in his own car, and Belker finally shows up. He sets the car on fire and leaves Pontus to slowly die, just barely failing to kill him. The next time Belker is shown on screen, he launches another massive terrorist attack in the city, injuring many people, while Belker smugly smiles while innocent people die and the police slowly eliminate every single one of his minions. The leaker, Sven, is shown to have been heavily blackmailed by Belker, and once he is supposed to have his money for his work as the leak, Belker only gives him half the money, and threatens to kill his wife Mette by putting a photo of the two in the bag where the money is in, and then aims with a laser gun on the photo from behind. Belker doesn't lie, and betrays Sven at the climax of the episode, where he shoots Mette through her spine, before getting away scot-free.

* Åke/Louise, from the premiere "One Step Behind", is a manipulative psychopath and transsexual SerialKiller who is the human equivalent of a parasite; he befriends people and manages to get extremely personal with them, only to later kill them [[ForTheEvulz for no reason but sadism]]. He had a relationship with Wallander's best friend and colleague Karl "Kalle" Svedberg, but Karl was embarassed with falling in love with a transvestite, upsetting Åke. Instead of talking things through, the latter [[DisproportionateRetribution kills Karl]]. Åke then kills three more people--a group of girls--but is confirmed to have been truly evil before he was rejected by Svedberg when the police find a brutally murdered, seemingly innocent man buried in the woods; this man had been murdered by Åke long before Karl. He gets an extremely personal relationship with a couple, even going as far as to get to follow them to the private island where they were going to take their wedding photos. After taking a bath, he shoots the photographer and the couple, with barely any emotion at all but happiness. In his final moments, he kidnaps Wallander's daughter Linda and keeps her hostage when Wallander comes home, giving a MotiveRant about how Svedberg treated him as "something filthy and diseased", before taunting Wallander about the same thing. Wallander himself, who normally sympathizes with the criminals, states that Åke is overly sadistic and that simply killing Wallander would be too easy, and instead killing his daughter fulfills his sadism. Aside from his sizable body count, Åke also manages to be a personal enemy to the entire police.

[[caption-width-right:350:Meet Victor Nilsson: Grocery store owner, SerialRapist, Serial Killer.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Grocery store owner and SerialRapist: meet Victor Nilsson.]]

->'''Wallander''': How in the hell can you live like this... you kill innocent children for money!
->'''Alfred''': We don't kill any children. We tested how it worked by hiring some subcontractors who were willing to do such things. But that's why people do BETA-testing, to see the problems.

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[[Series/{{Wallander}} Kurt Wallander]] has faced numerous foes. The following are [[CompleteMonster especially vile]].