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Commissioner Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zürcher, left) with test participant (Anouk Petri): Collapse as a side effect?
Photo: Sava Hlavacek / SRF
The scenario:
Pill spinners and right-wing twisters, united in contempt for human beings.
A pharmaceutical company with the eerie name of Argon is conducting a series of tests on a new drug, and the lawyers from the law firm Clement & Widmer use dark legal advice to intimidate the pharmaceutical victims who want to sue in court.
Now a lawyer (Sabine Timoteo) is dead in Lake Zurich.
With due moral indignation, Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) and Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) investigate between pharmaceutical and legal bigwigs.
The highlight:
Sorry, there is none.
There are no double bottoms, surprising twists or moral ambivalences here.
Disappointing when you compare the episode with the strong first "crime scenes" from Zurich.
The picture:
The Zurich Prime Tower.
The high-rise looks like a black peg rammed into Zurich's otherwise delicate skyline.
Appropriately, the crass evil pharmaceutical company resides here.
The dialogue:
Inspector Ott pushes her bike past the black luxury limousines in front of the office and grumbles about the lawyers involved in the murder.
Ott: »If I see the carts there, I could throw up.«
Grandjaean: "Concentrate on your instincts!"
Ott: »Reva is lying, they were more than just work colleagues. Follow the money or the sperm. One of the two usually leads to the perpetrator.«
The song:
»Laisse toi aller« by Sens Unik.
The song is not played, but Grandjean raps the 1990s hit to get closer to a young pharmaceutical victim who has a poster of the Swiss hip-hop group hanging in his youth room.
The only smooth moment in this leaden crime thriller.
The review:
2 out of 10 points.
Feel-good "crime scene" for simple minds.
The Analysis:
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