In the end, we will all be judged by the courage of our hearts

Babylon Berlin, episode 9, 2x01

This scene is so cute especially if you only keep your eyes on Gereon. 😂😃🤣😁

she’s a whip-smart extrovert who hides her pain under a facade of sharp wit and careless hedonism, while he’s more of a “keep the pain wrapped up in my snazzy three-piece suits and morphine habit” kind of guy but she makes him smile* like nobody else; they’re genuinely buddy cops - they’re a great team and they work brilliantly together and in the male-dominated world of the 1920s Berlin police, Gereon treats Charlotte as a sometimes exasperating colleague, questioning her method occasionally, but never questioning her intelligence or observational skills or suggesting she’s less capable because she’s female; she knows some of his darkest secrets (his shell-shock and drug dependence) - when she (for entirely understandable reasons) betrays that secret to someone who doesn’t wish him well, he’s incredibly hurt but … he forgives her pretty quickly and goes right back to trusting her and her alone; when she’s hurting (in this scene) he automatically moves to comfort her and she drops her shell and lets him do it; they are comfortable showing their vulnerabilities as well as their strengths to one another and they are obviously physically attracted and palpably yearn for one another - but there are so many complications.

* By “smile”, I mean “grin like an adorable idiot.”