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Inspector Woods (Vladimir Burlakov) with colleagues Baumann (Brigitte Urhausen, left) and Heinrich (Ines Marie Westernströer): showdown on the Saar.
Photo: Manuela Meyer / SR
The scenario:
Detectives suspected of murder.
The father of inspector Adam Schürk (Daniel Sträßer) is found shot dead in his house, the son himself was with him shortly before he died.
Colleague Leo Holz (Vladimir Burlakov) has to investigate his old friend and becomes aware of the toxic relationship between father and son.
Did the boy actually make short work of the brutal old man?
Or did the old man kill himself to blame the hated boy?
The highlight:
Hate never sleeps: with patience, a family drama was built up over several episodes for the Saar »crime scene«, which is now reaching its cruel climax.
Background: When he was a teenager, Hoelz had beaten his friend Schürk's violent father into a coma, and the two covered up the act with a fire.
In the first Saar episode, when the old friends met again in the newly established homicide squad in Saarbrücken, the old man (Torsten Michaelis) was in a coma;
in the second he had awakened in the hospital and left the two boys in the dark as to whether he remembered the fatal events.
Now comes the showdown in this immaculately horizontally developed crime thriller.
The picture:
A poison frog glows brightly.
The amphibian, whose deadly secretion plays a central role in the case, watches the murderous goings on in the toxic family unmoved from its terrarium.
The dialogue:
Inspector Holzer in conversation with the forensic doctor, in the background lies the father who has been sawed open:
Doctor: »Time of death was around four o'clock last night. The bullet perforated the jejunum, which is part of the small intestine, and missed the aorta.”
Woods: "That means exactly what?"
Medic: That means he bled to death in agony for four or five hours. I rule out suicide. The direction of movement of the bullet in the body does not allow this. Do you want to have a look?'
The song:
"Wonderful Life" by Black.
The 1980s motivational mantra grinds out of the radio while the coroner cleans the circular saw in the occlusion room that she used to open the father's corpse.
The review:
7 out of 10 points.
Despite dramaturgical weaknesses in the secondary strands: a blatant swan song to a sick family.
The analysis:
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"Crime scene: The heart of the snake",
Sunday, 8.15 p.m., the first
