Sometime still pretty much at the beginning of this special Dortmunder crime scene Martina Bönisch stands in a burial forest, looks around and says: “I would like it in such a place. It’s so peaceful here.” Hm. Behind her, a corpse is being transported away, which came to lie rather unpeacefully in this burial forest. Only a minute earlier, Bönisch herself had lost control completely during an argument with her ex, the toxic stalker Haller from forensics. And now, just so lightly, a beautiful thought under the trees.
It is therefore absolutely necessary to say how wonderfully surprising this person played by Anna Schudt is in all her impetuous restlessness and autonomy. In any case, Faber now looks at her as if she were a sumptuously framed picture. He looks like someone who is walking around on john’s feet with daisies in his mouth. He waits for her leaning against his manta every morning on the side of the street opposite her door, his heart pounding in his eyes. The love thing happened!
It is remarkable in this context that Faber (Jörg Hartmann) and Bönisch, who are both strange people, use the first name. That creates distance, that’s what they’ve been doing since the time when Faber still tended to go crazy and throw papers off his desk. (Bönisch: “Have you been writing again?”) “Love me” quickly develops into a creepy thriller that sometimes reminds you of certain people from Kiel crime scenes remembered (Has anyone sworn in again?).
In the burial forest lies someone who did not go there voluntarily.
(Photo: Thomas Kost/WDR/Bavaria Fiction GmbH)
A serial killer looks for victims via a dating platform on which Bönisch – profile name “Bönische Villages” – also likes to travel. Views of a strange room haunt the film (written by Jürgen Werner, directed by Torsten C. Fischer), a kind of doll’s house, birthday cake with dusty icing. However, far too many stories have to be negotiated here: the new young colleagues Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) and Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon) also get their story, and ultimately the whole case serves primarily as a drama accelerator in the Dortmund police family, which has grown considerably . But somehow it manages to keep the whole thing together neatly – right up to the nasty finale.
You don’t give too much away when you say that Bönisch says “du” to Faber at the end.
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