The new team of investigators from Switzerland goes on the hunt for criminals for the first time. How are the new commissioners from Zurich doing?
Switzerland has a new "crime scene" investigative team. On Sunday, October 18 at 8:15 p.m. in the first, the actresses Anna Pieri Zuercher (41) and Carol Schuler (33) will be the new police officers on a hunt for criminals in Zurich. Was it even worth repainting and moving from Lucerne to the largest city in Switzerland?
That's what it's about
On her first day at work, the profiler Tessa Ott (Caro Schuler) is thrown into the deep end: a body on fire with a head-shot wound was found near Lake Zurich. At the crime scene, Ott is greeted frostily by her new colleague Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pierie Zuercher). The policewoman is certain that the inexperienced Ott only got the job thanks to vitamin B. Because the young colleague comes from a long-established Zurich family and seems to know everyone.
Reluctantly, Grandjean includes the profiler in the investigation. But she soon notices that Ott has little practical experience, but makes up for this with persistence and analytical mind. And as different as the two women are, they complement each other ideally in the murder investigation. It seems almost impossible to find out the identity of the corpse. But the thin track leads the investigators back to the turbulent Zurich of the 1980s.
In the time of the so-called opera house riots, when street battles between the police and the youth movement were the order of the day. The crowd of suspects consists almost entirely of members of the 80s movement who are now of retirement age; including a punk musician, a journalist and a loner who never got over the tragic events of that time.
A drug addict friend of Tessa Ott is also considered suspect. Grandjean and Ott meticulously put their investigation puzzle together, but when a human skull arrives as a package at the farewell party for the departing police commander, the case is catapulted into a new dimension. And instead of one, the police officers are suddenly confronted with two murder victims …
Is it worth switching on?
Yes absolutely. Especially those who did not like the previous Swiss crime scene should give the new edition another chance. The new team has a modern focus, has two strong women in management positions and is in tune with the times. The first case is also told in an interesting way, even if it is not yet the big hit. The new characters are still given a little too much space, whereby the actual plot moves somewhat into the background.
But the makers should still eradicate minor teething problems: The alleged punk musician seems very keen to live up to her cliché. At no second does she lose her role as a rebel. The child's room of the dead, which has been abandoned for decades, also looks unrealistically clean and not aged, almost like something from an Ikea catalog. Nothing is yellowed, worn, or dusty. Not even the inside of an actually inaccessible secret compartment. A little more attention to detail and a love of realism could be found here. Otherwise a successful start!