Wallander Season 1 Episode 2

Wallander: (after Ella's murder by her partner) Why did you have to kill her?
Kristian: You stopped her believing.

Kristian: (regarding Wallander) You like him?

Ella: He's a good man.
Kristian: Ours is a good cause. You are still strong, aren't you?
Ella: Yes,yes, I'm still strong...

Wallander: (heartbroken upon realising his girlfriend was a spy all along) I've seen her a couple of times and she... obviously, she's been tapping me for information. I didn't realise... I thought... Christ! What did I think?

Holgersson: (regarding Wallander's cybercrime theory) Stockholm think it's just a fantasy.
Wallander: Yeah, well, what do they think about two mangled corpses? Is that a fantasy?

Ella: Shouldn't you try to remember the good that you do? The bigger picture?
Wallander: I don't really think that there is a bigger picture. This is where we live. Here. Now. These are out lives and they're fragile, precarious and miraculous. And all we have. And for Sonja and Jonas... it doesn't really seem fair.

Nyberg: (holding a bucket of bloody goo - the corpse) God only knows what I'm supposed to do with this. He's been put through the bloody crusher!

Nyberg: (holding a bucket of bloody goo - the corpse) God only knows what I'm supposed to do with this. He's been put through the bloody crusher!

Robert: (staring at computers full of code) Wow! What is this?
Wallander: Can you crack it?
Robert: Take a while...
Wallan: How long?
Robert: Hard to say. I'm gonna need some serious snacks.

Wallander: (To the hacker he once arrested) So you've stopped hacking into other people's computers then?
Robert: Mostly... That community service stuff... Met loads of people - bad people, obviously - but kind of interesting.

Nyberg: (digging a bullet out of a wall that just missed Wallander when he tripped) It's a hollow point bullet. A dum-dum. It wold have taken your head off.
Wallander: You know I just tripped on the blood rug.
Nyberg: Clumsy bastard.

Wallander: (Discusses his mentor) ...He used to talk to me when I was starting out. I used to go blundering into these places, and he'd hold up his hand and say, "Shut up and stand still. Absolutely still. Just listen to the room".
Ella: To a room?
Wallander: Well, obviously not to the actual room, but what it was telling you about the people who'd been there. Listen and you can hear them. You can hear people when they're not there, you just have to listen.

Wallander: (Discusses his mentor) ...He used to talk to me when I was starting out. I used to go blundering into these places, and he'd hold up his hand and say, "Shut up and stand still. Absolutely still. Just listen to the room".
Ella: To a room?
Wallander: Well, obviously not to the actual room, but what it was telling you about the people who'd been there. Listen and you can hear them. You can hear people when they're not there, you just have to listen.

Ella: (Offering Wallander alcohol) Are you on duty?
Wallander: I'm not sure I know the difference anymore.

Morgue worker: (Showing the area a corpse was stolen from) Pathologist put him in here about nine-thirty last night.
Wallander: And it was ten hours before he was missed?
Morgue worker: We don't usually check them when they're in here. They tend to stay put.

Linda: (To Wallander) Does there always have to be something more important than you having a life?

Wallander: (Having used an internet dating site) Oh yeah, I went on a date tonight.
Linda: You replied? Oh my God! What happened?
Wallander: I was late. She chucked me.

Wallander: (After informing parents of their daughter's death) I always think, when I have to do that, what if it was me? What if some faceless policeman came and told me you'd been hurt? Or killed?
Linda: You're not a faceless policeman.
Wallander: I am to them.

Ann-Brit: (investigating Sonja's corpse sizzling on a power transformer) What was she doing here? Some kind of bizarre suicide?
Wallander: It's a possibility. Everything's a possibility...
Nyberg: So are we calling this a crime scene then? Only, I've got half of Skane waiting for the lights to come back on.

Ann-Brit: (investigating Sonja's corpse sizzling on a power transformer) What was she doing here? Some kind of bizarre suicide?
Wallander: It's a possibility. Everything's a possibility...
Nyberg: So are we calling this a crime scene then? Only, I've got half of Skane waiting for the lights to come back on.

Wallander: She's escaped from custody earlier. She's on the run. So where would she go?
Jonas: Anywhere.
Wallander: Well, that's not massively helpful.

Wallander: (investigating a man's death) Magnus, check with the pathologist will you, and dig around a bit. There might be something.
Martinsson: Dig around what?
Wallander: His life, Magnus! The thing he just lost.