The dubbing studios can go to great lengths: the original is the better choice for many series.

The charm of the Spanish bank robber fairy tale "House of Money" is only conveyed to a limited extent in the dubbed version, the Israeli political thriller "Fauda" loses its shimmering almost completely, the urban epic "The Wire" lacks with its own slang exactly what a cultural expedition should into modern America.

And even with the Scottish series "Crime" you should rely on the original sound.

The rough story from "Edinbrah" would come across as an all-world crime story without the tongue-lashing of its actors.

The focus is on the angry investigator Ray Lennox, who has become a mental wreck through life and profession - breathless, on the verge of collapse embodied by Dougray Scott, who comes from Glenrothes north of Edinburgh and was last seen as the father of "Batwoman".

There's a reason he's passionate about the game: Ever since he got his hands on Irvine Welsh's 2008 novel Crime, Scott has reportedly seen himself playing Lennox, and he and Welsh have wanted to work together for much longer.

However, it took years for the two to find a producer for their project: "Dougray was like a dog with a bone - he wouldn't let go," says Welsh in an article in The Scotsman.

No one-to-one adaptation of the template

Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh are writing the screenplay.

It hasn't become a one-to-one adaptation of the template.

Most of the book's action is set in Florida: Ray Lennox (a character who first appeared in the 1998 novel Dirty Pig about Edinburgh police officer Bruce Robertson) is on vacation with his fiancée, Trudi.

He urgently needs to switch off because the sex murder of a schoolgirl has shaken him.

The series doesn't care about America.

It illuminates the story of the girl in Edinburgh, and this Edinburgh comes across as cooler than it actually is due to the many dark blue objects in the backdrop: blue garage doors, blue computer lights, blue shirts, blue shelves, a blue glass during interrogation.

Right in the middle: Lennox, who hunts the "monster" and at the same time fights his addiction to alcohol and cocaine.

Ever since 13-year-old Britney Hamil was dragged into a van on her way to school that blocked the view of a security camera, the Detective Inspector has been on edge.

He believes there is a connection to a serial killer who is said to be in prison.

Ever harder, ever fiercer

But he still has to convince colleagues like the pale Amanda Drummond (Joanna Vanderham) or his choleric boss Bob Toal (Ken Stott), while the time to rescue the abductees runs through the hourglass - until Britney's body is found.

Her tormentor dropped her between the pillars of the National Monument on Calton Hill.

Lennox now speaks harder and harder, he looks out of his suit and trench coat more and more fiercely.

And he researches as if his life depended on it.

A pedophile known to the police with respiratory problems huffs and puffs, a key leads to a torture chamber that seems to be waiting only for captured girls.

A politician opposed to Scotland's independence aspirations comes under suspicion.

The atmosphere becomes more and more oppressive.

The fact that Irvine Welsh is the man who once wrote "Trainspotting" can be seen in "Crime" above all from the rough dialogues, the drugs and a handful of hard-hitting scenes.

At times one would hardly mistake him for the author of this stereotypical Nordic thriller-style quest for a serial killer.

But that doesn't speak against the series.

On the contrary: the crime thriller set up by James Strong (who has just trimmed "Vigil - Tod auf Hohe See" to high tension) and David Blair works with well-known motifs as nimbly as a band that loves the blues scheme and trusts it - and the virtuoso Guitarist in this case is Dougray Scott as Lennox, a tough cop with a battered soul, and when he gets angry he puts on an avenging angel face.

Crime

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