This crime scene from SWR builds bridges, so to speak, from the past to the futuristic. After 25 years of continuous service, the secretary Edith Keller and the forensic scientist Peter Becker, played by Annalena Schmidt and Peter Espeloer, are now a thing of the past. The two of them say goodbye in this episode, they have rendered services to the hunt for perpetrators in the Electoral Palatinate and also to the care and preservation of the dialect in Ludwigshafen crime scene. “I’m just working out the arrangements for our farewell drink,” says Becker, who has revealed little about himself in the past quarter century, but now reveals that he wants to devote himself to archeology as a hobby after his retirement. “That’s what I’ve always wanted to do: dig up bones that are so old that they never smell.”
The futuristic, at least in crime scene-Dimensions: how chats and deep fakes and artificial intelligence affect the fight against crime, but unfortunately also how crime occurs. The finding that children quickly trust people online who are not trustworthy is actually not very original. However, “Avatar” (directed by Miguel Alexandre, written by Harald Göckeritz, cinematographer Cornelia Janssen) does not tell the stale story of the danger that lurks on the Internet again. In this crime scene You can also find solace in the digital world because you can settle the very last things with people who no longer exist. And even courage (even if only the courage of desperation): Because false identities not only allow crimes to happen, but can also cut a path to revenge for these crimes.
You look through foggy windows and feel the cold, even inside a person
Julia da Borg (Bernadette Heerwagen) has lost her stepdaughter and feels guilty about her death. Heerwagen will be known to most viewers from her original ZDF role in “Munich Murder”, where she impressively plays a dead woman. She lives in a loft-like dwelling, between flashing screens and beeping systems and smartphones of dead people. You look into this room through fogged-up windows and feel the cold of the moment, the cold also inside a person who seeks revenge and wants revenge. For this – and only for this – she keeps her body in good shape.
Years ago, the adventures of Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) with her colleague Johanna Stern (Lisa Bitter) were characterized by extreme boredom; people there liked to stir coffee cups. In the meantime, their cases are at the top of their game in terms of visual design; chat processes are briefly shown in this episode, for example, where a lot of things would have been talked about in the past. This creates a crime thriller that keeps the suspense right until the end. And who manages to say goodbye to the past without any effort. Secretary Keller and forensic scientist Becker, two heroes of the Electoral Palatinate, are preparing for their farewell party and thinking about what remains of them, and at some point Becker says: “Mer could reappear as avatars.” Because the digital world ensures that nothing gets lost. Not even the folklore.
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