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Bönisch (Anna Schudt) and Faber (Jörg Hartmann): »Be careful what you wish for!«
Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR / Bavaria Fiction GmbH
The scenario:
dance of the dead
In a burial forest, corpses are dug up that have no place there.
The decomposed bodies belong to women who were thought to be missing – and who bore an eerie resemblance to Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt) during their lifetime.
However, the inspector has other problems: the coroner, with whom she had an affair, is after her and threatens her.
Colleague Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) also feels persecuted by her mother, a terrorist of the last RAF generation who went into hiding.
The wanted woman murderer probably also has a problematic relationship with his mother;
In any case, in the course of this "crime scene" you see scenes again and again in which a psychopath tinkers with children's birthday decorations and plays pop anthems to mom.
The highlight:
Suddenly everything falls into place - but nothing for the better.
This is the third Dortmund "crime scene" in three months.
Finally, the narrative threads fluttered loosely through the falls, here they are tied together.
For example, the sudden longing for closeness of the cynic Faber, which attacked him in the November episode »Masken«.
Or the one about Bönisch's fateful affair, which was already a topic in »Greed and Fear«.
Torsten C. Fischer, who also staged the elegant last Cologne crime scene, directed it;
the book comes from Jürgen Werner, who started the Dortmund TV area ten years ago.
So the circle closes, so the horror is taken to the extreme.
In many respects, this case is reminiscent of the last Rostock "police call",
The picture:
The kiss we've waited ten years for.
As in so many episodes before, Bönisch and Faber empathize with the murderer, and in the dialogue about hating and longing for the other, their own feelings suddenly dissolve.
Soft, warm light and gentle, tentative approach – then the lips meet.
A tender moment that we cherish in memories.
If only because it will probably not be repeated in the tough, fatalistic Dortmund area.
The dialogue:
Bönisch and Faber sit in the car while observing a suspect and talk about Bönisch's affair with the coroner.
Faber: "Isn't everyone an asshole like Haller!"
Bönisch: »I usually hit the bull’s eye.«
Faber: "I'm still here too."
Bönisch: »Be careful what you wish for!«
The song:
"A Song For Mama" by Boys II Men. The ode to the mother, sung by the soul troupe in 1997 with lots of falsetto and emotional outbursts, is heard in one of the scenes that features the psychopath's ghostly child's birthday party setting.
You don't give away too much when you say: someone here has a gigantic mother complex.
The review:
8 out of 10 points.
A kiss for eternity and a crime that reverberates devastatingly when the credits have already rolled: This is the preliminary highlight of ten years of Dortmund "crime scene".
»Crime scene: love me!«,
Sunday, 8.15 p.m., the first