Day 9: Favorite Spatort side character
Question is: are we looking for a regular side character? Or just-around-for-one-or-two-episodes-character?
I'm gonna name two and give a few shoutouts at the end.
Henny Wenzel
She is a smart pathologist giving me auntie-vibes. To Leo she seems caring, like an older relative (providing coffee and advice at any hour of the day. At work she's calm and willing to consider and explain alternative hypotheses.
What I find ambivalent though: she is the author's stand-in (talk about Gary Sue's) by Hendrik "Henny" Hölzmann, haha. So ofc she looks after her main characters and gets to support them. But I appreciate that he wrote his stand-in as a woman.
2. Manuela Baron
If she ever were to reappear again, she'd make for a great villain. She seemed supportive towards the football gang. I feel like I saw a little 'I ship Esther and Jay-Lou' twinkle in her eye right there. It is also unclear if she actually hates Adam... or what she thinks about Adam and his 'inheritance'. She also genuinely seemed to want to help Andreas Schneider (the victim in Ep04) to see his daughter because Alina wouldn't let him.
I will say though, that, as villains, Roland and Boris delivered as well.
Leo's sister Caro (Ep. 01)
(Who the audio description falsely declares to be his girlfriend. amateurs.)
2. Rainer (von der Steuerfahndung, stock image) (Ep. 01, mentioned)
Because it's a very fandomy-thing to be like: hey, remember the dude who was mentioned one fucking time by one of the characters? Yeah, here's a whole bunch of lore I imagined around him. (Which is hilarious, considering Leo maybe just made him up on the spot).
3. Vincent Ross (Ep. 01, not even mentioned)
Honestly, at this point, I can't even... Whoever came up with that - thank you! I'd live and die on the hill of that Polizeiruf-crossover (still wishing for that episode where Leo, Adam, Pia and Esther need to work together with Vincent, Alex, Wiktor and Rogov to find Adam Raczek).
