You haven’t seen them like this before. This time, Gorniak and Winkler set out on a wild night, after the Dresden investigators were off duty. Hair on, glitter tops, balloons with flashing lights, and then drive the car into the dusk, Bronski Beat sings beguilingly melancholic about the Smalltown Boy, a scene like it was stolen from big rough American cinema. The fact that instead of going to Gorniak’s birthday party they have to go to a villa on business with a lot of blood on their marriage bed doesn’t change the fact that they go all out, energetically and theatrically, for the whole film.
The director Anne Zohra Berrached, who already has the Case from Bremen staged last week and has now also written the screenplay together with Christoph Busche, has the Dresdencrime scene properly aired and decidedly made a woman’s thing. The men cry, allow themselves to be hit, or hit themselves; and Commissariat Manager Schnabel (Martin Brambach) proves to be an ardent fan of the “happiness seeker” who talks about the large warm circle full of positive energy on YouTube “and you are in the middle”. Privately, however, the woman was rather unhappy with her husband and his big dog, now she has disappeared, apart from the blood on the bed there is also old blood in the bathroom. Simon Fischer, the husband, shows his desperation in a rather disturbing way.
“The cold house” is a smart home hell
The episode “The cold house” cites the horror factor typical of Dresden crime novels, but it has a wonderful over-the-top streak, to which “Simo”, the voice control assistant in smart home hell, contributes a lot. Above all, however, the case is a celebration for Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) and Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel). They often had to investigate seriously and concerned, here they are allowed to be human, the party mood does not want to go away like a curious form of hangover. The fight is tough nonetheless, the public prosecutor and the mayor work to keep the entrepreneur Fischer out of the investigation, they put pressure on Schnabel, who puts pressure on Gorniak in his clumsy, grandpa-like way. Unsuccessful, because the tension in the team is right this time too.
In a great moment, Simon Fischer (great: Christian Bayer) calls his employees to look for his wife. He distributes warning clothing, stands on the hill in front of his villa and now gives a sentimental motivational speech in front of all the yellow vests. Television is also the best theatre.
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