After weeks of partially derailed experiments, this one is crime scene from MDR once again a more conventional piece. Sarah Monet (Deniz Orta) comes to in a blood-stained bed, with her stabbed boyfriend lying next to her. She had a broken film because she doesn’t remember anything, she doesn’t know what happened that night, but it looks like she was the perpetrator. Occasionally she has flashbacks in which the past flickers, but too briefly and vaguely to be able to see anything.
Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) and Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) investigate, and in this first part the tension of the episode “What you don’t see” develops from strong dialogues and the precise description of plausible investigative work. Sarah Monet says: “What if it was me? I have no idea. I wasn’t there. Maybe my body, but not me.” Finally, a forensic scientist expands the field of possible perpetrators: “We found particles of a brass alloy in the lock of Monet’s apartment door” – possibly from a counterfeit key.
The artificial rush at the end doesn’t match the precision of the first part
This is the deeper story that director Lena Stahl tells; she also wrote the book together with Peter Dommaschk and Ralf Leuther. As in the Borowski episodes with the silent guest, someone gains access to the apartments and lives of young women, drugs them with knock-out drops, and abuses them. He was there, but because he leaves no trace, he wasn’t there either. He leaves behind scarred people. And he didn’t just sneak into Sarah Monet’s life, there are other victims. In one scene, a woman states what happened to her; she was unconscious and had to reconstruct everything. She says, still shaken: “He must have washed me.”
The crime scene touched as long as he makes defenselessness noticeable. As long as he thinks about the nightmare in which a person is trapped who only has a physical memory of an event. To the pain of doubt. But then, in the last third, the plot is given a thriller finale, scenes in slow motion, flickering looks in the basement. This artificial rush does not match the precision of the first part. The noise overwhelms the silence crime scenewho would have been better off keeping to himself.
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