Director Mike Marzuk (“The Young Chief Winnetou”) and screenwriter Timo Berndt dive deep into the world of corona deniers, poisoned by paranoia and fake news. What drives seemingly normal citizens into these milieus? The two brothers David (Lasse Myhr) and Mark (Kjell Brutscheidt) lost their parents to Corona, and their successful restaurant in the port of Hamburg did not survive the lockdowns. But is that why you attack people and pursue the armed overthrow of the government? One of the brothers has an undercover police officer on his conscience, and that’s why Sarah Kohr, who hasn’t mutated into a lateral thinker, has infiltrated the gang. The situation escalates when the unscrupulous chief ideologue Morgenroth calls for a big attack.
There is only few bright spots in this dark, explosive TV thriller, which, in addition to political explosives, also offers plenty of action. Sarah’s mother Heike (Corinna Kirchhoff) appears a few times as an emergency doctor to the rescue. With her gripping humanity, this woman embodies the exact opposite of all the egomaniacal agitators. But the sadness and even helplessness clearly outweighs this episode, which of course is also due to the protagonist, who mourns the loss of her great love and is plotting revenge. The TV audience still likes this rather simply knitted investigator figure, who solves her cases between smacks and kickboxing interludes. 6.49 million viewers (21.6 percent) were interested in the last episode “Ghosts of the Past”.
And so Sarah Kohr and her slightly self-pitying partner Anton Mehringer, who has since been promoted to senior public prosecutor, will probably meet up on the park bench more often after work – not like an old married couple, more like old friends who can’t let go of each other.
