Theresa Wolff - Lost (2024)

Forensic pathologist Theresa Wolff is called away from a lecture to a crime scene. The body of 17-year-old Emilia Geissler has been discovered in a vacant building used as a youth center. At first glance, it is unclear whether this was a homicide or a suicide. As Theresa Wolff is about to begin the autopsy, an armed young man storms into the examination room, where Wolff is joined by her intern Jost and staff member Zeidler. Agitated and visibly at a loss, Latif Lahani demands safe passage for himself and his girlfriend, whose body is on the examination table and whom he calls his wife. When Zeidler tries to overpower the hostage-taker, Lahani shoots him in the struggle, making the seriousness of the situation clear to everyone. Theresa Wolff, who refuses to be intimidated, tries to talk the man down and make him understand how hopeless his situation is. Meanwhile, the SEK tactical unit arrives on the grounds outside. Its commander, Nikola Meyer, is determined to end the hostage situation—even if that means taking a targeted shot at Lahani. Chief Inspector Bruno Lewandowski, who believes that not only the hostage-taker but Wolff as well is unpredictable in her own way, offers himself in exchange for the hostages. The incident commander rejects his offer. Theresa Wolff still refuses to let Latif Lahani intimidate her, and even manages to persuade him to use her time to find out the true circumstances of his girlfriend’s death. In her view, it is not clear that Emilia really took her own life. Lahani begins to calm down, and when his attention slips for a moment, Jost Breitling knocks him out, allowing all three hostages to move to another room and get to safety. Shortly afterward, the SEK manages to gain access to the premises, but Wolff steps in front of Lahani to shield him from being shot immediately. Both she and her intern choose to stay; only the injured Zeidler is taken out of the danger zone. Back in the examination room, Wolff sets out to uncover the truth. According to Lahani, Emilia was an active gymnast and often suffered severe pain; that was why she would often pull a plastic bag over her head to get relief from the euphoria caused by the resulting lack of oxygen. This gives Wolff pause. She takes CT scans of Emilia and discovers countless old, now-healed bone fractures. Her parents had pushed their daughter into sports from childhood, though they refuse to see it that way. Her ambitious father even persuaded Emilia to have an abortion. The situation threatens to escalate when the victim’s father gets involved and provokes Lahani. But Konrad Geissler is only trying to deflect attention from his own culpability: he had pressured his daughter into the abortion, which she had found very difficult to cope with. With too much pain medication in her system, she had been unable to pull the plastic bag off her head that evening and suffocated. Because he did not want her to be found in her room, her father moved her during the night to the place where she was later discovered, hoping people would blame her boyfriend for the crime.