In the penultimate “crime scene” in Kiel with Axel Milberg, there is initially no body. Rather, Tobias Exner (Pétur Oskar), the husband of the wealthy entrepreneur Greta Exner (Cordeliawege), a constantly cheating pretty boy, has suddenly disappeared without a trace. The last camera shots show him on a boat dock, from where he actually wanted to set off on a trip lasting several days with a friend.
But he was driving alone, as it turns out. The small dinghy is missing. In “Borowski and the Revenant” (Sunday, 8:15 p.m., Das Erste), investigators Klaus Borowski and his colleague Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) go on a search.
The viewer soon notices that there is something fishy about this. In the first minutes of the “Tatort” episode, Greta Exner can be seen sneaking through her house at night, obviously woken up by a suspicious noise, and shortly afterwards hitting someone with a trophy. The scene changes to the celebration of this very statue. Exner became “Entrepreneur of the Year” in Kiel and is celebrating in her living room with friends. But there is a tension there. The husband looks gloomy, but puts on a good face to face evil – shortly afterwards he can’t be found.
In this episode, the director combines the “satire about rich people” genre, which is popular in film and television, with a crime that we don’t know for a long time whether it actually took place. Or whether the Filou simply ran off with some online beauty. Because Greta comes from a wealthy but icy, cynical entrepreneurial family, which soon makes it clear that they don’t take the prevailing financial laws very seriously. The father Konstantin Exner (Greg Stosch) and his Swiss assistant Pascal Rütli (Caspar Kaeser) joke about loopholes in the law, while the mother (Karin Neuhäuser) is particularly worried about the company’s reputation in light of the disappearance.
The actual case almost fades into the background behind the caricature – but unfortunately so does the tension. Of course, the Exners act towards the investigators Borowski and Sahin as if Tobias was like their own son – but behind closed doors they gossip about the “entertainer, masseur, charmer”. The sentence slips out of the father’s mouth: “Who would want to murder him, that pipe!” out of here. The dialogues expose the decadence and moral depravity of the upper bourgeoisie.
Cordelia Wegen, on the other hand, manages to add many facets to her role as the first humiliated, then abandoned entrepreneur’s wife, who probably didn’t have much to laugh about in her childhood neglected by affluence. You can see the believable pain on her face when it dawns on her that the disappeared man didn’t marry her for herself, but for her wealth.
It soon turns out that Tobias was apparently planning to get rid of his wife with an unknown internet acquaintance, and of course this is where things get interesting. The title of the episode already suggests it – an ominous revenant appears. Unfortunately, this doesn’t carry the entire episode, which – without a corpse – goes around in circles for too long in terms of content. The fact that Greta’s good soul Wittek, another possible character, enters the opaque game doesn’t change anything.
