Get up, collect, look straight ahead, move on.

Above all, no self-pity.

Sascha Bukow has been gone for two months in the new Rostock "Polizeiruf".

In the last case, "None of us", his dark family past caught up with him, just as he and Katrin König (Anneke Kim Sarnau) wanted to make their love official with plastic flowers and an improvised ring.

Now she gives herself commands in the morning, listens to motivational podcasts and kneads sourdough, that's supposed to relax.

The sourdough doesn't really work

But not king.

If her beaten up sourdough were a suspect, one would have to worry about her civil service, as in the past.

Which is why Henning Röder (Uwe Preuss), paternal superior, picks her up personally and drives to the next crime scene.

He offers her the position of team leader in the car.

Work was and has always been the safe bet for König.

In "You Can't Choose Your Family," she gets signs of a fresh start, possibly as a boss.

The case: a double murder in the single-family suburban hell.

The victims are a mother and her severely disabled son.

She is stabbed in the kitchen, her child David (Paul Ahrens), paralyzed since a mountain bike accident, in his special bed, died of a stroke because nobody changed his infusion in time.

The father moved out a year ago because he could no longer stand the misery of the only child and the 24/7 care needs.

The explanation seems clear.

Max (Alessandro Schuster), David's friend and foster child of the neighboring family Genth, has fled.

Jule Genth (Susanne Bormann), heavily pregnant, and her husband Holger (Jörn Knebel), a rather tearful type, found it difficult to cope with the foster son who was addicted to medicines and drugs.

Whoever finds the sixteen-year-old has solved the case.

Maybe, maybe not.

Katrin König is annoyed when an old acquaintance stands in front of her in the Genths' house and takes over the search for the boy.

Melly Böwe (Lina Beckmann) from the Bochum Kripo not only knows König, but also the audience.

In the episode "Sabine", Böwe appeared as Bukow's half-sister at the funeral of their father Veith.

The tensions between the estranged siblings were palpable.

It was adjourned to sometime-once.

It's too late for a debate now.

The new beginning was successful

The screenplay by Florian Oeller (who also penned the episode “Sabine”) only has a temporary use for König's irritation.

Determination and solution are more important than sensitivities.

Röder whistles the Rostock back once.

Max is in witness protection and is being looked after by Böwe.

Pöschel (Andreas Guenther) and Thiesler (Josef Heynert) should rather ask the dead mother's numerous dating acquaintances.

The round of occasional sex limbs is remarkable.

Rike Sommer was apparently not picky when it came to moments of distraction from care.

König makes it clear that the days of crude comments in the Presidium are over.

She is also not available for a catfight.

Just like the more emotional, softer Melly Böwe,

who baked muffins for her daughter, who was almost grown up, before driving to Rostock.

With love, but apparently without expertise, as König later realizes.

When the detectives are already on Max's trail together and track him down in the boathouse of the terminally ill Ursula (Anika Maurer).

The director Stefan Krohmer, known for rather soberly filmed relationships and family dramas, and Carol Burandt von Kameke's camera work convincingly implemented Oeller's screenplay as a varied family constellation.

Not the Rostock underworld, not organized crime or a psychopathic perpetrator, but different relationships between (foster) children and parents, quasi-familial chosen affinities, gifted caring, obligatory dependencies and assumption of responsibility (or the absence thereof) are at the center of "Your family can be don't choose".

All of the female figures act almost too clearly in kitchens, the sorrowful place of families.

Even activities such as baking can have different intentions and effects.

First you learn enough about Melly Böwe and more about Katrin König.

She too was a foster child, trying to live up to the expectations of her – loving – foster parents.

Having to be the perfect child, she says in a survey, is something you owe to those who couldn't have one of their own.

In the future she will have to deal with a single mother as a colleague who will always remind her of her love Bukow.

At the end of this “police call”, the women are already attached to each other.

The new beginning was successful.

However, there will be no mere cuddly relationships in Rostock.

Police call 110: You can't choose your family

, Sunday, 8:15 p.m., in the first.