In the beginning, a woman whispers to her newborn child, “Everything will be okay.” But that’s never true.
Although: Inspector Borowski (Axel Milberg) could have a good time, this episode from Kiel is his penultimate case, after twenty years of service there is a feeling of farewell in the scenery. The inspector is actually on vacation, and when he is asked where he would most like to go, he says: “Into the dark. I’ve never been there before.” Until that happens, he’ll go to it again crime scene called, the child from the beginning is dead, and in this case of hardship, colleague Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) needs all the support. When Borowski appears on the scene, they both go to work together and repeatedly discover something light in the tragic.
Borowski: “You know that? You see something that is almost perfect. But you still can’t help but feel that something is wrong.”
Sahin: “Example?”
Borowski: “A trophy. One love. A liver sausage.”
“Borowski and the Innocent Child from Wacken” by director Ayşe Polat (book: Agnes Pluch) takes place in the most famous metal village in the world, where the child’s mother is suspected, but no one pays attention because the festival itself isn’t even there yet has started. Wacköööön fans will have expected more of a Holy Ground atmosphere, but Wacken is primarily a tableau of suspects. The metal fan and podcaster Lenny Jensen, son of the village police officer, is the main suspect of many suspects, simply because he looks like a devil brother. And because his cave looks like it smells bad.
Wasn’t this Bourne designed to be a misanthrope?
A classic whodunit: Borowski and Sahin ask here and ring the bell there. Wasn’t this Bourne designed to be a misanthrope? That happened, he found his center long ago. Although his strongest time was already a decade ago. The episodes “Borowski and the Woman at the Window”, “Borowski and the Silent Guest”, and “Borowski and the Angel” written by Sascha Arango were highlights, precisely because Arango would never have underchallenged his Borowski with a whodunit. He had bigger things in mind. What does the crime make of the perpetrator? What does murder do to the murderer? And the intellectual commissioner figure Borowski was the right person to search for the answer to such questions. The Wacken-Borowski has special moments, but does not rise to such heights. It’s an art to make light of the tragedy – but the portrayal of the metal fans arriving is silly, and the commissioners’ final flare-up of heavy metal enthusiasm seems artificial.
There will be one last Borowski, they are already filming in January. Before he sets off on his journey into the blue – a unique story with a unique TV inspector.
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