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Van der Valk (Original)

A Sudden Silence

A cynical Dutch detective, Commissaris "Piet" Van der Valk (Barry Foster), and his colleagues investigate criminal activities including violent murders, unsolved kidnappings and worrying political corruption in the city of Amsterdam.

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A Sudden Silence

Season 3 Episode 3 | 102m 35s | CC

A Dutch government minister is found murdered. But strangely enough, all of the ID on the body is in a different name, which suggests that the minister was about to flee with a false identity. Van der Valk must search for the secrets to this double life, and why someone killed him for it.

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