Everything to Remember Ahead of 'Van der Valk' Season 4

Except for 2021, Van der Valk has reliably returned to PBS every September since the beginning of the 2020s. The series, a remake of the 1970s/1990s Dutch mystery of the same name and based on the characters from the novels by Nicholas Freeling, has modernized what was a gentle show about a happily married man who had cozy family dinners when he wasn't out solving crimes. Piet Van der Valk (Marc Warren) is a widower. His wife from the novels, Arlette, drowned in a car after being run off the road by Theunis Visser, Van der Valk's old boss and mentor, who he discovered was corrupt and brought to justice. His assistant, Johnny Kroon, became Job Cloovers (Elliot Barnes-Worrell), still a naive innocent, but one with a heart of gold, who left after Season 2.

Van der Valk's first two seasons focused on solving Arlette's death and Cloovers' family situation. It also focused on the ensemble, with backstories for second-in-command BFF, Lucienne Hassell (Maimie McCoy), boss Hoofdcommissaris Julia Dahlman (Emma Fielding), and drunken pathologist Dr. Hendrik Davie (Darrell D'Silva). Pretty-but-dumb Sgt Brad de Vries (Luke Allen-Gale), often paired with Cloovers and also exited after Season 2. In their place, a new pair of underlings boarded the series: Django Chan-Reeves as Sgt Citra Li and Azan Ahmed as Sgt Eddie Suleman, contending with meetings held in the establishment of barkeep Cliff (Mike Libanon) and answered to mysteries provided by the barfly patron known as Homeless Frank (Peter van Heeringen).

However, more changes are afoot for Season 4. Let's review everything we should remember ahead of it's arrival.