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Scene with Gisa Flake, Piotr Witkowski (M.) and Frank Leo Schröder: New episode, new staff

Photo: Christoph Assmann / rbb

The scenario:

From lawyers and other pigs. During their joint mission, Alexandra Luschke (Gisa Flake) and Karl Rogov (Frank Leo Schröder) have to deal with two opposing social groups: a bunch of ambitious lawyers who shoot around on a hunting trip until one of them ends up on the Oder with a bullet in his body and with farmers in the neighborhood who are threatened with losing their livelihoods due to African swine fever.

The highlight:

New episode, new staff. In the inhospitable border area with Poland (swine fever! Mining twilight! Fish dying in the Oder!) apparently none of the investigators can survive for long. After the high-profile departures of Maria Simon and Lucas Gregorowicz, André Kaczmarczyk, who has just joined the team, is now taking a break from investigative work. Gisa Flake and Frank Leo Schröder, who previously had smaller sidekick roles, take his place. The two thankfully forego all personal frills and coolly and taciturnly dive into the German-Polish cold chamber.

The picture:

Organic makes you lonely. Where 1,000 pigs once grunted, the gates are now almost empty. After the Polish farmers had to cull all animals because of the disease, they have now shut down the operation and switched to organic farming. However, they cannot live on the few dozen organic animals.

The dialogue:

Inspector Luschke interrogates one of the young lawyers about the deadly evening that got out of hand:

Lawyer: “We then drank a little.”

Luschke: »Haha, drank a little. Was there a specific reason? Or is it completely normal to shoot yourself off like that... bad wording in that context... give you the edge?"

Lawyer: “We had a passionate exchange about corporate strategies.”

The song:

"Breathe" by The Prodigy. After a night of drinking and playing mind games, one of the lawyers sits distraught in his car and lets the technopunks' big beat number blast him. You can also hear it as a comment on the snots' toxic games: "Breathe the pressure, / come play my game, I'll test ya / Psychosomatic, addict, insane."

The review:

6 out of 10 points. Swine fever and plague of lawyers: The “police call” is a risky, toxic mixture and it works somewhat.

The analysis:

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