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Rick Okon as Inspector Pawlak: Last appearance

Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR

He had previously thrown the police ID on the table to his superior, then he picked up his little daughter in the car to look for her mother, who had gone into hiding in southern Europe. Next stop: Seville. So Rick Okon left the Duisburg “crime scene” on Sunday after six years as Inspector Jan Pawlak.

In his farewell performance, he was initially seen as a washed-up cop who tried to numb the pain of his broken family with football bets in a betting shop - but in a spectacular twist in the last third of the film, this turned out to be a cover: Pawlak was spying on it as a supposed betting junkie area of ​​influence of a criminal Turkish businessman. And that for a competing department at police headquarters.

So the “crime scene” also became a crime story about two hostile investigation teams. The sympathetically desperate group around Pawlak and Faber (Jörg Hartmann), who again had to struggle with all sorts of private injuries, was opposed by a group around an ambitious, ruthless career detective. Bitter tension at the end: the head of the other unit came to replace Pawlak, who had fled from the Kummer commissariat. Actress Alessija Lause will still be seen frequently in “Tatort” from the pot.

In our criticism we wrote: »Pain doesn't go away, anger has no expiry date. These are the rules in the Dortmund “crime scene”. The storytelling skill that those responsible for this TV area repeatedly use is demonstrated by how they recall the investigators' traumatic experiences, some of which were long ago, in order to then combine and reinforce them in a new episode. A ›crime scene‹ from the pot is potentiated existential despair. And perfectly formed serial storytelling.«

We gave it 9 out of 10. What is your opinion about the crime thriller?

A first “crime scene” with Dortmund newcomer Alessija Lause in the now permanent role of Commissioner Ira Klasnić has already been filmed. It has the title “Made in China” and was directed by director Jobst Oetzmann, who had previously shot the Munich time travel “crime scene” in Agatha Christie style.

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