As 1936 comes to a close, 165 Eaton Place is in turmoil: the king is about to abdicate, Agnes is about to give birth, Persie (Claire Foy) toys with fascism, and Sir Hallam makes a shocking discovery about his past.
A German-Jewish refugee comes to 165 Eaton Place as a maid, prompting a range of reactions from upstairs and down. Her experiences culminate in a crisis tied to the fascist movement sweeping Britain.
Sir Hallam (Ed Stoppard) and Lady Agnes Holland (Keeley Hawes) move into 165 Eaton Place and hire former parlormaid Rose (Jean Marsh) to assemble a staff. The servants are soon put to the test during a party that threatens to destroy Sir Hallam’s career.
Wallander's investigation of a macabre murder is interrupted when daughter Linda's childhood friend appears out of nowhere, distraught, and then just as suddenly vanishes. Jeany Spark (Tess of the d'Urbervilles) also stars.
The gruesome appearance in the Baltic Sea of two corpses floating in a raft prompts Wallander to pursue justice in an eerie post-Soviet Latvia rife with corruption. Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Prime Suspect 6) guest stars.
Wallander's peaceful new start is disrupted when investigations of two murdered, anonymous girls take him far from home... and to the very heart of it. Saskia Reeves (Page Eight) co-stars.
During an investigation of a brutal bludgeoning, what seems to be a blackmail plot gone wrong turns into a case much more dark and sinister.
When a student is found dead during a clinical drug trial, the motives of an enigmatic professor are questioned. Douglas Henshall (South Riding, Collision) co-stars.
A controversial American academic is found strangled after a guest lecture at Oxford, drawing Lewis and Hathaway into a criminology department rife with murder suspects and a long list of motives.
Lewis and Hathaway enter the darker side of Oxford to investigate the murder of a suburban babysitter.