Sometimes he tells crime scene a real-life story continues, with a new punch line. Commissioner Borowski reopened the Barschel case years ago, Batic and Leitmayr were on the trail of a revenant of the Libyan dictator’s son Saif al-Arab Gaddafi and reconstructed his wild years in Munich. In the NDR case “Tyrant Murder” global politics is now being broken down again. Screenwriter Jochen Bitzer was inspired to this adventure by a press release about the North Korean potentate Kim Jong-un, who is said to have been housed in a Swiss boarding school under a false name. In this crime scene The young Juan, son of the President of Orinaca, a state ruled with hard bandages from the realm of fantasy, disappears from the noble boarding school: Orinaca does not really exist, but it could exist. Kind of like Lummerland.
What does it tell us that Falke has to be recolored with milk and a Hüsker Dü shirt?
Thorsten Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) gets the young provincial policeman Felix Wacker (Arash Marandi) at his side, and he is so overzealous that it’s annoying. “Digga, I think you babble a lot,” says Falke, known to be a gentle roughneck. In this episode, Falke drinks milk again (symbol for gentle) and wears a Hüsker-Dü shirt (symbol for roughneck). Falke took up his duties almost ten years ago, and if the character still has to be painstakingly recolored after all this time, that’s a sign that she’s remained surprisingly pale and hasn’t become a matter of course.
The investigator had to work through many average cases with his various colleagues, and this episode by Christoph Stark does not go beyond solid mediocrity, which is not due to the fact that it is told conventionally as a whodunit. The question “Who is the killer?” After all, the audience is interested. The problem is an enormous number of people, none of whom come close at all. And these clichés: the political decision-makers are smooth and the boarding school operator opposes the badness of the world with well-worn social studies wisdom: “Juan can’t help it at all that his father is a dictator. Just as little as the child who, as a working-class child, went to the world is coming.” When the gentle, tough hawk sums it up at the end: “Everyone should get a decent education, not just those with money,” the pedagogical index finger is almost as high as Ballauf and Schenk used to have at their sausage stand in Cologne. And even they have since worked on themselves.
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