Tatort
Thiel - 05 - Mörderspiele
S2004 · E12Times reflect the original schedule reported by the data source and are converted to your time zone. Streaming availability may vary by country.
Episode details
- Original air date
- Your local date and time
- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2004 / 12
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
- Data last checked
Overview
Inspector Frank Thiel is investigating a spectacular murder case. While playing at the Aasee, children discovered a headless corpse. Shortly before her death, the young woman must have consumed vast amounts of red wine and truffles. The autopsy report by forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is unequivocal: The circumstances are the same as in the Rohrbach murder that caused a stir in the 1950s, which was never solved and is still considered an unprecedented judicial scandal today. The pressure on public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm and her team is correspondingly great. First, the identity of the corpse must be clarified. Inspector Thiel is investigating a missing persons report by student Laura Schott . Is the body your friend Solveig Helmhövel? The bookseller Sigbert Helmhövel and his sister Monika are surprised. You think Solveig is on holiday in Madeira. Meanwhile appears with Dr. Oleg Buykov a very influential Ukrainian businessman on the scene. Even the Federal Ministry of Economics warns the investigators to exercise extreme discretion. The personal description of the dead from Lake Aasee fits his wife exactly, the traveling salesman puts it on record. Is the Russian mafia involved here? In fact, a little later Buykov identified the corpse as Olga Buykova. But Thiel remains skeptical. Then a second murder occurs.
About the show
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria, and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on November 29, 1970. The opening sequence for the series has remained the same throughout the decades, which remains highly unusual for any such long-running TV series to date. Each of the regional TV channels that together form ARD, plus ORF and SF, produces its own episodes, starring its own police inspector, some of which, like the discontinued Schimanski, have become cultural icons. The show appears on DasErste and ORF 2 on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and currently about 30 episodes are made per year. As of March 2013, 865 episodes in total have been produced. Tatort is currently being broadcast in the United States on the MHz Worldview channel under the name Scene of the Crime.
Open show