Bregenz (dpa) – Garlands of lights shine in the dark. Drums set the pulsating beat. Beings made of fur dance a dance. They wear masks with bizarre faces and bared teeth. Some have horns, others have antlers on their heads.
In the conglomeration of the narrow streets of the old town, someone pulls out a knife. Stabs. The victim collapses. The man dies.
The uncanny: Den Murder Lisa Schwegelin foresaw the annual ghost dance in Bregenz – the festival hadn’t even started then. The young woman sits in dismay at the police station and reports to the inspectors Micha Oberländer and Hannah Zeiler. While he may hardly believe the stories, she has far fewer doubts and wants to investigate the matter.
Suddenly the investigator finds herself at the party that has since started. And despite the warning, she witnesses that very murder. But the perpetrator escapes her, leaving the flickering blue light between the narrow houses. And for the team of the ZDF series “Die Toten vom Bodensee” the new case “The Second Face” begins – to be seen on Monday evening (10.1.) From 8.15 p.m. It is the 14th time that Nora Waldstätten and Matthias Koeberlin have played the leading roles.
It all started at the end of 2014. Since then, the Mainz broadcaster has been showing cases of spooky, occult and mysterious things in loose order, most recently with two new films each year. On average, more than seven million people watch.
Due to the mystical touch, the cases are often quite abstract and far from the everyday crime world. In “The Second Face”, too, the clairvoyant abilities of Lisa Schwegelin suddenly take center stage. Especially when she reports of another dead person – who the commissioners actually find in the lake.
When she was a child, the mother killed herself. Her big brother took her out of school and now looks after her on his alpaca farm. Accuses the girlfriend of smoking weed with his sister, which is incompatible with her epilepsy medication.
Now, for the police, Schwegelin is an involuntary witness to acts that are yet to happen. “Why do I see all this?” She asks. “Everything is fine with me, isn’t it?”
Anna Herrmann plays the more and more torn woman convincingly. Especially when the story unravels bit by bit and the background to the acts becomes clearer. Frequent crime suspects will, however, quickly guess what the authors Jeanet Pfitzer, Frank Koopmann and Roland Heep have come up with to resolve the case. After all, the story is taking a clear turn.
The Commissioners Zeiler and Oberländer meanwhile continue to work on their cooperation. Above all, she targets his relationship with a former prisoner. Somehow the two seem to be getting closer, but they keep their professional distance. However, this should only be noticed by the regular viewers of the series. For everyone else, it will be skirmishes on the verge of the fall.
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