It’s scary to walk across the moor, especially when there’s a handsome but pretty much dead naked man lying there. He turns out to be the leader of a hippie commune that’s all about sex and vegetables and drugs. Inspector Thiel (Axel Prahl) and forensic doctor Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) soon breathe in non-standard life at the Erlenhof, where primal screams, drumming and tantra are practiced. The situation in Catholic Münster has been clarified: Gomorrah is behind the gate of the Bauwagenburg, order in front of it in the new housing estates with cherry laurel. Every now and then someone changes sides, rarely forever. “That doesn’t fit into the picture,” says one woman, who almost chokes on sorted life, but knows what the neighbors and the bishop want to see.
There’s a little less banter, but enough for fans of frontal humor
So much doesn’t fit into the picture in this one crime scene “Rhythm and Love” by Elke Schuch (book) and Brigitte Maria Bertele (director). Friends of the frontal brother-in-law’s humor will continue to be served, you don’t want to scare anyone, but there will be less jokes than usual. The second row steps forward, forensic assistant Haller (Christine Ursprechen) and police assistant Schrader (Björn Meyer) may be more this time than just the punching bag of their bosses, admit to missteps and provide the foil to the big question of this episode: “How do I get out of this number?” Thiel escapes a witness who knows the murderer. Boerne argues about his fallibility because of a plagiarism procedure against him, it also happens in real life that you first fluff up and then have to maneuver out.
It is also about sexual morality, about questioning certainties and hierarchies. And there is also a second dead person. Lots of stuff for one Crime scene, even Thiele and Boerne are exhausted. And so, with rare unity, they pour red wine in the dissecting room, at some point straight from the bottle, wearing purple cloths around their shoulders that look like chasubles in the liturgical color of the Penitential Period. Time for Boerne to report on the Dunning-Kruger effect, which says something like this: if you’re stupid, you’re too stupid to realize that you’re stupid and therefore consider yourself particularly smart. It happens.
It’s not thrilling to the bones, but a well-made crime thriller, in which the usual type parade in Münster is broken up. It’s worth it for that alone.
Repeating the crime scene from 2021: Das Erste, Sunday, 8:15 p.m.