From the crime scene Kiel doesn’t necessarily lead seven bridges to Peter Maffay straight away. Wrongly! As shown by the return of the serial killer Kai Korthals, who is played for the third time by Lars Eidinger. There is Maffay’s Howler “You”, 1970, the perfectly melodramatic six-eighth showdown soundtrack. “You – tadada – are everything – tadada – that I have – tadada – in the world” – pompous swing with staccato chopped up, flickering obsession. Great.
In the first few minutes, the prison inmate Korthals turns a spray can into a flamethrower, pumps compressed air into someone’s lungs, cycles past the police unrecognized because he has the long blonde hair of a woman who has just scalped on his head. But that Korthals wants to be loved in a kitsch way, as fervently as it can only be done in a Maffay song, this thriller pulls through in a nerve-racking ride up to the very last scene (book Sascha Arango, directed by Ilker Çatak). Korthals rescuing a beaten dog (owner has to suffocate on sausage rolls). Korthals curiously brushing the teeth of the blind young woman who is not afraid of him.
The most exciting question: Who is that you who is everything for Korthals? But not something Borowski?
Brief review: Korthals kidnapped Inspector Borowski’s girlfriend Frieda in an earlier episode, Frieda barely survived, the relationship did not. But Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) now has, well, a relationship with Korthals.
Even more exciting than human or love or dog is therefore the question of who – we come back to the hit song – that is you, that is everything for Korthals? One guess: Could be Borowski. Klaus, as Kai calls him: “Klaus is my friend.” Klaus has been acting differently since he found out that Korthals was at large. “I want him to disappear from the world,” he says to his colleague Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik). And: “Please be quiet. Thank you.” At his home there is a pile of unopened letters from “Kai”. That Borowski last in some crime scene-Episodes looked like he was actually somewhere else, suddenly makes sense, how good!
Eidinger, on the other hand, looks as if this wharf, in which he is in there, is just his most beautiful toy. Victoria Trauttmansdorff has a fine, small role as a robust angel who likes to sort books, angels probably do something like that. “Borowski and the good person” is – tadada – the perfect thriller.
The first, Sunday, 8.15 p.m. The episodes “Borowski and the silent guest” (2012) and “Borowski and the return of the silent guest” (2015) are available in the ARD media library.