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Lina Beckmann as Inspector Böwe: Investigations with mistakes

Photo: Christine Schroeder / NDR

In the end there was a duel between the philistine mother and the junkie mother.

The bourgeois mother had already murdered an old woman, but now she spontaneously decided to also kill the junkie mother who had witnessed her crime.

So she pressed one of her couch cushions into her face in her Schöner Wohnen home to suffocate her.

The junkie mother's daughter stood outside the large, cleaned living room window and watched.

Inspector Böwe (Lina Beckmann), who rushed over, finally took care of the little one.

This is how a “police call” came to an end, which showed various dysfunctional family relationships.

At the end, Inspector König (Anneke Kim Sarnau) also had to say goodbye to her father.

The scrounger, who had hoped to find shelter with his daughter, was taken back in by his partner.

Suddenly your own child was no longer so important.

And Tom Waits weakly sang "I'm going away."

In our criticism we wrote: “This “police call” is interesting when it goes into moral gray areas.

And this time Commissioner König is exploring it.

In the previous episode she met her father again after over 40 years.

Now she keeps the old man, who is a bit pushy and noisy, at a distance.

In general, she tries to keep the whole world at a distance.

Quite different is colleague Böwe, who listens to her feelings in crucial moments - and therefore fails in the investigation.

So she lets herself be fooled by the junkie mother.

King contemptuously: 'You can't be an asshole, can you?' It almost sounds as if being an asshole is an art form.

That's a strong performance from Sarnau when she plays the hardened loner who reacts irritably to aggressively to all attempts to get close."

Another “Polizeiruf” episode with the team around Böwe and König is already finished.

It's about a radical animal rights activist who is found dead in the forest.

The working title is “Born Evil.”

The director was Alexander Dierbach, who had also directed the stirring Rostock episode “Fischerkrieg”.

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