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Actors Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers: Paranoia in a cute way

Photo: Thomas Kost / WDR

The scenario:

Composting and conspiring: The body of an elderly woman who has apparently committed attacks all over the world is found in an allotment garden.

During their investigation, Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) and Thiel (Axel Prahl) find the body of a police officer under the carrot patch of the dead, who made the hearts of revolutionaries beat faster 30 years ago as “Horst, the Red Bull”.

When digging around in the ecologically correct allotment garden, left-wing activities and agent terror emerge.

The highlight:

The arbor is not enough.

It's amusing how the Spießerschollen becomes the base of operations for a terrorist network of Bondian proportions - with interesting parallels to contemporary history and the immediate present: One trace leads to the two-plus-four discussions that took place in 1990 at a meeting of the then German Foreign Minister Hans -Dietrich Genscher with his Soviet counterpart Eduard Shevardnadze in the town hall of Münster.

And the terrorist network with a seal of approval in the gazebo is a bit reminiscent of the Berlin biotope of the RAF woman Daniela Klette, who has just been busted.

The picture:

My garden, my poison cupboard.

Forensic doctor Silke Haller (ChrisTine Urwurf) wanders through the murder victim's arbor beds and tells her colleague Boerne on the phone what's growing there: black belladonna, autumn crocus, angel's trumpet.

Boerne's reaction: "Did this lady plant anything that isn't deadly?"

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The dialogue;

The proll Thiel was attacked in the victim's arbor, the snob Boerne tends to his wound.

Boerne: “Ambushed in the allotment garden?

These were once proletarian oases of shirt-sleeved camaraderie, where hard-working workers lovingly cut fruit on the espalier and wrested turnips from the barren ground for the evening stew.

And what's going on today?

There are some neglected people doing urban gardening.”

Thiel: »You always surprise me, Boerne.

That you, of all people, are setting yourself up to be the little man’s advocate.”

Boerne: "If the little man knows where his ice ends, then the big man has peace on the golf course of life."

The song:

“Little Drop Of Poison” by Rebecca Bakken.

The gothic jazz, which the Norwegian singer interprets loosely based on Tom Waits, is played when the investigators dig up the second body at night in the poisonous allotment garden.

The review:

8 out of 10 points.

Paranoia in a cute way: This toxic “crime scene” joke can contain traces of truth.

The analysis:

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