2024-02-18 10:48:39
The “crime scene” could currently be mistaken for a sinking dream ship. More and more employees are leaving the ship. Entire police stations are closed. Even the Dortmund office is not spared from the Sunday evening crime erosion. Now – “Cash” is the name of the case – Inspector Pawlak is leaving. It is his 13th case.
The departure was planned for a long time, says Rick Okon, who was Commissioner Pawlak. And „Cash“ shows that where there is farewell, hope also grows. For the Dortmund team, that’s out for now Jörg Hartmanns Faber and Stefanie Reinsperger’s Rosa Herzog exists. For Dortmund in general. And for everyone who watches “Tatort”. A “crime scene” story in seven life lessons.
There is something you can do if it all becomes too much for you
Of course you can try to breathe everything away first. Get out into the air, blow hard when life’s stuff gets to you or your boss gets on your nerves, you can also say “pfffffff” when he’s standing in front of you. But that’s not always enough. That has never been enough in Dortmund. Jürgen Werner is primarily responsible for this. He usually writes the scripts and, when he’s not doing that, he pulls the plot strings behind the scenes. And as the god of his team around the poor Inspector Faber, he provides them with so much of life’s stuff that they need harder things than taking a deep breath, more tangible things.
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Nobody knows this better than Faber, whom Werner has really tormented in a way that hardly any screenwriter has tormented a “crime scene” character. And because Rosa Herzog is now apparently going to take over the police station, which will cause a huge mountain of life’s stuff, Faber gives her the tip that is crucial for all of us. We need a baseball bat and a broken-down small car from a junkyard. And then you take a step back and think to yourself, as Faber told Herzog, almost exactly in the middle of “Cash”: “Your mother won’t forgive you for your betrayal, Pawlak lied to you and took advantage of you, I’m getting on you, our bosses are letting you starve to death, asshole Haller is back, the weather sucks too – find a reason.” And then you strike. You can see how liberating it is, how life-changing, on Stefanie Reinsperger’s face when she beats up a poor old Twingo.
Streamline your life
The Sunday evening crime thriller from Dortmund was always a place where fates crossed. However, there were nowhere as many horizontal stories as in Faber’s office. Everyone (there were four, sometimes five) had to link their own with the respective blood-red main thread on each of the Dortmund Sundays. Pawlak was accused of having a drug-addicted girlfriend, a mother-in-law who anyone would have murdered at her first appearance, and a daughter whose custody he is fighting for. Faber’s trauma from the death of his family and the murderer, whom he was unable to catch for a long time, is well known. And Rosa Herzog was saddled with a mother who – because she was a former RAF terrorist or not – repeatedly reported herself from the underground.
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They clung so tightly to the strings of their past that you could almost hear them groaning and the investigation was therefore making rather slow progress. We don’t want to know what it was like for the scriptwriters who had to work with these threads. Apparently this (his own) knitting basket has now become too much for even Jürgen Werner. After the once again partially bulletproof and tight-knit “Cash”, Pawlak’s position (like that of Nora Dalay and that of the still mourned colleague Bönisch) will not be filled. So whoever writes scripts for Dortmund in the future can make airier stitches. What do we learn from this: Cleaning up, getting rid of things and stories is always good. On Sunday evenings and for the dirty rest of the week.
Find a real opponent
Learning with Faber means learning to win. Also towards life. Some higher authority, let’s call it fate, likes to throw someone at your feet who makes you despair and from whom you want to run away. In recent years, Faber has repeatedly had some pretty disgusting guys thrown at his feet by his higher authority, let’s call her Jürgen Werner. Is he desperate, has he run away? No. Oh well. He was already desperate. But whenever his script god gave him a real opponent, you could almost see how Jörg Hartmann – after a short phase of paralysis – appeared in his green parka as if he were the Hulk of the Ruhr area. And then it started.
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Then he dances it, the whole big show of sarcasm and cynicism. This is what actually makes the Dortmund “crime scene” the Dortmund “crime scene”. In “Cash,” script god Werner pits him against two old enemies, which is one of the main fun of this investigation. And then Werner pulls someone else out of the hat, after an hour he shows up, who we suspect has come to stay and be at least as annoying as Faber’s murderer or as Haller, the forensic scientist, whom Faber accuses of being him was to blame for the death of his beloved colleague Bönisch, who we all missed. Which is why we’re getting a bit flowery. And what do we learn: Let’s just take the meanie from the office and from the neighboring property as an opportunity to grow from him. It will work. You don’t need to buy a parka either.
Leave on time
When things are at their best, they say, you should go. Applied to investigative careers, this means: If you don’t have the crazy fantasy of hunting down more murderers than Leitmayr and Batic, you should talk to the editorial team in good time about how you can get out of the Sunday evening crime story elegantly and honestly and as lively as possible the rising sun of the future career rides.
Rick Okon did it. 13, he thought to himself at some point, is his lucky number; the 13th would be a nice way to say goodbye. And so now he has to go through Jürgen Werner’s meat grinder again, is tormented by his mother-in-law, exploited by the criminal system and thrown away. But he walks tall and proud and with… Of course we can’t reveal that. Which is why you should not only leave on time, but also avoid switching off early if possible.
Avoid betting shops
Good. You usually do that anyway. However, if you have even the slightest inclination to bet money on football games or horse racing, Cash is just the therapy for you. Pawlak sits in the betting office for at least three quarters of an hour, squanders huge sums of money and watches how the business works. In the end, you know that to some extent. It’s not all very clean.
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Betting providers not only exploit people’s addictive behavior at least as shamelessly as tobacco manufacturers, beer brewers or drug dealers. By postponing games, especially in the lower leagues where no one is paying close attention, they are making the whole game dead, like the corpse that lies dead in his apartment with a trophy at the very beginning of “Cash” due to, among other things, postponed games. That’s why, as a football fan, you could learn another lesson from “Cash”: Don’t just throw tennis balls onto the lawn against an investor in the DFL at the weekend, but against the windows of betting shops all week long.
Avoid Dortmund
The last thing you want to do is wake up one morning and be on duty in a “crime scene” police station. There is, there is no other way to call it, a toxic relationship with loyalty and decency. You can trust your superiors – prosecutors, police chiefs – even less than you do your actual superiors in real life.
The Dortmund district actually shoots the bird in this regard. And “Cash” delivers a real masterpiece. It becomes downright disturbing when you see how trust is lost, how employees are paraded around and exploited. You want to take a baseball bat and hit the flat screen. It would affect the wrong person. In addition, we are a long way from drawing conclusions about an entire city from the Sunday evening crime scene. Because of this:
Go to Dortmund
In Dortmund, perhaps not all BVB fans can agree, the world is still coming to order. This may come as a surprise after the previous episode. At least there are places where the chaos that is the world in Dortmund’s “crime scene” can be somewhat brought back into balance. Maybe just for a few minutes, but still.
At least at Faber and Co., perhaps the most grounded, close to life and everyday life of all police stations, the myth of the little pub on our corner still works. Then, like sometime halfway through “Cash,” you meet for a Pilsken, just like the people of Cologne met for years for a currywurst at the little stand opposite the cathedral, and do what we now call team building. And that even works. Oh well. At least halfway.
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