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Tatort

Borowski - 05 - Borowski in der Unterwelt

S2005 · E25
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2005 / 25
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

A new case confronts Commissioner Borowski with grisly finds. Remains of human bodies appear in the sewers in Kiel – teeth, hair, hip joints. They come from several bodies, and show clear traces of acid. Inspector Borowski and his colleagues are puzzled: where did the remains come from, how did they end up in the sewers and how many people did they belong to? Investigations begin with the unsolved cases. Some cases from years ago. But the 19-year-old student Doreen Winter has only been missing for two days. The commissioners are alarmed. In the middle of the difficult investigation, the perpetrator turns himself in: Father Albert Benz, who heads a small Catholic community in Kiel. Who preaches, accompanies the dying and hears the confession. A pastor as one wishes for him. But Benz insists that he is the culprit. A confession, not a confession. Because Benz takes the blame on himself, but then nothing more can be gotten out of him. Borowski doesn't believe a word of Albert Benz. He's looking for a motive. Not for a motive, but for Benz's motive to lie. Absurdly, Borowski spends his time trying to prove that a confessor is not the perpetrator. The priest and the policeman, two in search of meaning. When Borowski has conjured up the decisive rapprochement between him and Benz, the priest himself becomes a victim. The desperate father of the missing Doreen shoots at Benz and seriously injures him.

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.

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