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Tatort

Odenthal - 55 - Tödliche Häppchen

S2012 · E1
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Episode details

Original air date
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2012 / 1
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Original synopsis

Overview

The body of young Steffi Pietsch has been lying by the side of the road for a few hours and it actually looks like a suicide. But the cut clothes speak a different language. It is particularly depressing for Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper that they picked up the dead woman's daughter the night she was looking for her mother. It quickly becomes clear that this is a murder disguised as a suicide. It must have been someone who knew her well. This means that both Steffi's ex-husband and his girlfriend Claudia are the focus of the investigation. In order to establish better contact with Claudia, Mario Kopper even takes dance lessons at her dance school. A particularly commendable effort. Together, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper are also investigating at Steffi's employer "Metropol", a slaughterhouse with a large kitchen attached. You learn that the dead girl wasn't particularly popular with her colleagues. She was a rebel who almost suffered from paranoia because she saw deplorable things everywhere. The murdered woman had enough enemies. The only question is who did she offend so badly that it led to murder.

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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