Dortmund.
She tackles: Rosa Herzog, the new commissioner. Faber and Böhnisch are once again busy with themselves in the crime scene “Heile Welt”.
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That’s typical. “The world is on fire and Faber is sleeping,” rages Chief Detective Inspector Bonisch while she tries to blow out the flames that are glowing in every corner. Once again, her colleague is not there when he is needed.
To be fair, one has to say: In the current 19th case, it can Faber nothing for the fact that he is unavailable. Unconscious, he lies on the floor in the middle of the escalating demo frenzy and is lucky that he is not trampled to death after his knockout.
In the tanner center in Dortmund-Scharnhorst – the film was actually shot in an empty shopping center in Leverkusen – the devil is going on right now: Extreme right and left attack each other. A hundred police intervened with batons and tear gas. Stones fly, so do fists. “Ideal world” is different.
“Ideal world”: Again, questionable investigation methods
Even without the current rampage, the job is that “Tatort” commissioners from Dortmund hard. Since Faber (Jörg Hartmann) and Bönisch (Anna Schudt) started their service in 2012, they often investigate in a team of four in socially disadvantaged areaswhere there is quite a bang between different milieus.
The crime scene produced by WDR is notorious above all because of the often questionable methods of its unpredictable chief investigator Faber. Blood often flows unnecessarily out of anger, and more than understanding.
That is why two young commissioners have already resigned in the last two years: In 2018, Chief Commissioner Daniel Kossik (Stefan Konarske) switched to the LKA Düsseldorf after he was critically injured in an exchange of fire in “Sturm”. And only now, on New Year’s Day 2020, will High Commissioner Nora Dalay (Aylin Tezel) also quit after a witness died in the anniversary crime scene “In der Familie”. One fatal wrong decision too many, she justified her departure.
Tatort from Dortmund: is Faber in love?
In fact, Faber has been off the trail since his family were killed in a car accident. Since then he has lived alone for his job, always at the limit, constantly in chaos – and with a dangerous tendency to arbitrary kamikaze actions. Everyone grieves differently, and Jörg Hartmann puts his investigator – quite understandably – on as a desperate bully who can never talk about his mental needs.
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He’s been setting the tone recently: Faber has bought a new car that perfectly matches his Prolo image. With the old one GTI blanket he then picks up his colleague Bönisch – as a pleasant surprise – before the start of work. While Laid Back’s cheerful sunshine reggae trills from the CD player, he carefully looks to the side: “Gimme gimme, gimme just a little smile” …
Well, won’t she give him a smile after all? It almost seems as if Faber has fallen in love with colleague Bönisch. Unfortunately, someone else has it in mind right now: Jonas Zander (Thomas Arnold) from SpuSi. The forensic doctor, known as sarcastic, has been trying to get her around since “Rabies” (2018) at the latest.
Crime scene: Bönisch comes under pressure
Now that Martina Bönisch has officially left her husband and children, Jonas Zander gets a chance. Anna Schudt leaves your figure in vague doubt as to whether this is the right choice. In any case, the detective does not like the new freedom as a single: Constantly irritable and lonely, she also tends to overreact and in this episode comes under massive pressure from a shit storm as a “Nazi overnight”.
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The new, which the team is strengthening with immediate effect, has not yet seen through these complicated family ties. For that is Pink Duke too patent and practical: stable in physique and psyche, she is the only one who works properly in this episode anyway. And ensures that something is determined somehow.
The Austrian theater actress Stefanie Reinsperger, currently involved with the Berliner Ensemble, she plays with fresh energy and her own subtle quirks: when she has to wait, i.e. kill time, she impatiently slips a hair tie. Or crack your fingers.
Pawlak’s wife has suddenly disappeared
In any case, she has to watch in her new office how she gets along on her own. Because also the rather pale-looking colleague Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon), mostly private concerns. While his little daughter was kidnapped (and found again) in “Monster” almost exactly a year ago, his wife Ella – an ex-junkie – has now disappeared.
Whether and how his wife will reappear may be clarified in the next Dortmund case. Of the WDR keeps the private entanglements of his crime scene investigators discreet, but then gladly over several episodes.
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