This episode opens with the sight of a group of young children watching a burning house. After this prologue we see Borowski's boss, Roland Schladitz, attending the St Lucy's day festivities at the Danish School in a town near the border. The candlelit procession is shockingly disrupted when the school's headmaster comes out of the building engulfed in flames. Borowski and Brandt attend the scene at the invitation of local policewoman Frau Einigsen and are surprised to see Schladitz there. It turns out Schladitz was there at the invitation of the dead man, at least he assumed it was him who sent the invitation. This invitation came in the form of a photograph of a group of children; his childhood friend. Schladitz and Brant head to see two of the people in the picture hut are involved in a serious crash, which puts Schladitz in hospital, on the way. Borowski and Einigsen head to the couples house and discover another murder scene; one person has been shot and another burnt alive. It is clear that somebody is targeting the people in the photograph but who and why remains a mystery.
This was another solid episode with a good central mystery and some nice character development. The motive isn't much of a surprise, the opening scene was obviously there for a reason, but the identity of the killer isn't too easy to guess. There is plenty of tension, especially when it becomes clear that Schladitz is almost certainly on the killer's list of people to murder. Away from the central mystery Borowski continues to worry that Brandt's epilepsy is a danger and appears to doubt her claims that Schladitz was driving at the time of the crash. The cast do a fine job, I especially liked the guest appearance from Lisa Werlinder, as Einigsen; her scenes with Axel Milberg, Borowski were a lot of fun when he thought she was trying to seduce him it was both embarrassing and hilarious.
The episode was also fascinating because it was informative; everybody knows about the post-war division of Germany but I hadn't really thought about the internal refugees, a key plot point, and certainly didn't know that some people in that part of Germany wanted the area to become part of Denmark at the time.
These comments are based on watching the episode in German with English subtitles.
This was another solid episode with a good central mystery and some nice character development. The motive isn't much of a surprise, the opening scene was obviously there for a reason, but the identity of the killer isn't too easy to guess. There is plenty of tension, especially when it becomes clear that Schladitz is almost certainly on the killer's list of people to murder. Away from the central mystery Borowski continues to worry that Brandt's epilepsy is a danger and appears to doubt her claims that Schladitz was driving at the time of the crash. The cast do a fine job, I especially liked the guest appearance from Lisa Werlinder, as Einigsen; her scenes with Axel Milberg, Borowski were a lot of fun when he thought she was trying to seduce him it was both embarrassing and hilarious.
The episode was also fascinating because it was informative; everybody knows about the post-war division of Germany but I hadn't really thought about the internal refugees, a key plot point, and certainly didn't know that some people in that part of Germany wanted the area to become part of Denmark at the time.
These comments are based on watching the episode in German with English subtitles.
