In Thallingen/Thallion, a bilingual Swiss community in the Bernese Jura, everyone knows everyone.

Time moves slowly, but history, as will be shown in dramatic twists and turns in the six hours of the atmospherically dense second season of the Swiss crime series "Wilder", should better stay the same as progress: outside.

If it's up to those with something to hide, and that's a lot of the locals.

Most of the men work at the Mulligers' sawmill.

Senior boss Charles Mulliger (Ueli Jäggi) rules the village, caring like a patriarch.

One has to lose a reputation as a moral authority.

His father earned respect by supporting Jewish refugees.

Sophie Barth (Nikola Weisse), the last survivor on site, can bear witness to the generosity of the Mulligers.

She recorded Thallingen's story in diaries.

History that she guards like a life insurance policy.

The village is less friendly with the new refugees from Kosovo.

The Kabashi's pizzeria has been struggling to make sales since anti-immigrant slurs have accused the family of drug dealing.

Threats are part of everyday life for Enver Kabashi (Edon Rizvanolli), his wife Jeta (Elda Sorra) and their three children.

When the morning after the 150-year anniversary celebration of the Mulliger company, three dead bodies were found who had been shot, the case seemed clear to the regular bartender of the village pub owner Rolf Steiger (Christoph Gaugler). Faton Berisha (Dardan Sartikaj) and Artan Kabashi (Mark Harvey Mühlemann), two of those murdered, clashed with dealers. The third dead person, Corinne Steiger (Olivia Lina Gasche), daughter of the host and geriatric nurse, does not fit into the picture.

The village policeman Leo Mott (Caspar Käser) makes evidence disappear.

For investigator Rosa Wilder (Sarah Spale), the mission becomes complicated.

Especially since her professional ex-partner Manfred Kägi (Marcus Signer) appears at the station with his nephew Simon (Gilles Marti) and his sister Laura (Doro Müggler).

Locked in the trunk of a car at the scene of the crime, Simon heard the shots and was able to escape.

What you saw as a spectator at the beginning.

But you haven't seen everything.

After a rather deliberately developed beginning, the pace of the investigation picks up.

We see flashbacks, which again don't tell the whole truth.

Statements, individual stories and entire storylines make dramatic turns, such as the drug story that leads to Rosa Wilder's collaboration with the French investigator Jamel Jaoui (Raphael Roger Levy), or Manfred Kägi's suspension.

The greatest crime - along with other evil deeds come to light - leads into the past.

Ultimately, it's about what crime does to entire families, even after generations.

Almost everyone has something to do with everyone.

Mulliger's children Frank (Pascal Ulli) and Helen (Anna-Katharina Müller) more intensely than they would like.

Rosa Wilder's difficult family relationships also play a role,

While 3sat is showing the second season of "Wilder", Swiss television SRF is already showing the last one, which brings the story to a close.

As a viewer, you don't necessarily need the context of all events.

“Wilder II” is complex in its own right, in a classic crime thriller way.

The German dubbing smoothes out some of what sounds even more edgy in the original, in Bernese German.

After all, 3sat broadcasts the French-language dialogues in the original language.

It takes a while before the merits of the series devised by Béla Batthyany and Alexander Szombath (directed by Pierre Monnard) are revealed.

They show up in the finale of "Wilder II" at the latest.

Wilder II

runs on Wednesdays at 10:25 p.m. and in the 3sat media library.