Tatort
Thiel - 21 - Hinkebein
S2012 · E10Times 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
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2012 / 10
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
- Data last checked
Overview
Inspector Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) and forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) are investigating the case of a former police officer who was found dead on the street – wearing only panties. Boerne found no traces of violence on the woman's body. Inspector Frank Thiel from the homicide commission takes over anyway: Because why did Katja Braun run onto the street almost naked and then die of heart failure? At the Kripo, the victim is no stranger. Katja Braun used to be a police officer. Now her death has parallels to a case she once investigated. A prostitute had been strangled at the time. Their pimp Heinz Kock, also known in the scene as Heinz Hinkebein because of his walking disability, was considered an urgent suspect. He went into hiding shortly before his arrest. Has he now taken revenge on the former commissioner? Or is Katja Braun's death more attributable to her alcohol problem? As a result, the relationship with her ex-husband Jörg Braun and her daughter Marie was obviously very tense. Meanwhile, a delegation of Russian police officers, under the supervision of police spokesman Michael Hausner, is trying to familiarize itself with local investigative practices.
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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