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Kenneth Branagh's performance as Swedish cop Kurt Wallander makes it the third time when a famous Swedish movie/television cop gets portrayed by an actor who is not from Sweden/speaking Swedish. The first two are Walter Matthau as Jake Martin (Jake Martin is the americanized version of Martin Beck) in The Laughing Policeman (1973) and Derek Jacobi as Martin Beck in The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980).
Wallander's father couldn't understand how he would want to be a policeman. This situation is reflected in the original Swedish series, Wallander (2005), when the highly talented trainee Pontus is plagued for similar reasons by his father, a highly successful lawyer.
This episode contains two actors who play regular characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Tom Hiddleston (Magnus Martinsson), who plays Loki in the MCU, and Nicholas Hoult (Stefan Fredman), who plays Hank McCoy / Beast. This series's lead actor, Kenneth Branagh (Kurt Wallander) also directed an MCU movie, Thor.
Sarah Smart (Anne-Britt Hoglund) & David Warner (Povel Wallander) also worked together on The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012) as Magda Cribben & Percy Judd respectively.
Jeany Spark (Linda Wallander) & Sarah Smart (Anne-Britt Hoglund) also worked together on episode 1.5, Death in Paradise: Spot the Difference (2011), of Death in Paradise (2011) as Emilie Saunders & Suzie Park respectively.
"[last lines] Povel Wallander: When you were a boy you used to ask my about my work, the painting. "Why are they always the same, Dad?" "Why don't you do something different?" I could never explain. You see, each morning, when I start, I think I'll do something else. This morning I'll paint a seascape. This morning I'll do a still life, maybe an abstract, just splash the paint, see where it takes me. And then I start, and every time, I paint the same thing. The landscape. Whatever I do, this is what comes out. What you've got is your painting. I may not like it, you may not like it, but it's yours. Povel Wallander: You know what I'd like before I lose what's left of my mind? I'd like to go to Rome. I'd like that. Look at the paintings. Other people's paintings. Can we do that? Kurt Wallander: Yeah. Yes, Dad. We can do that."
"[first lines] Kurt Wallander: [holding up his badge] Wallander. Farmer: Thought they would have sent a police car. Lights. Flashing. Kurt Wallander: There was an accident on the Svarte Road. Cars with lights are all taken."
