AMC finally changed its mind and will broadcast the third season itself, thus heralding the return of lead actors Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman. The story will pick up a year after the end of the Rosie Larsen affair. Investigator Stephen Holder calls his former partner Sarah Linden, who has quit her job, to solve a new case, a series of murders linked to one of her old investigations.
The first two seasons of The Killing drew an average of 1.9 million viewers.