Tatort
Flückiger - 2 - Skalpell
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Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2012 / 18
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
The investigation into the murder of a pediatric surgeon requires a great deal of sensitivity from Flückiger and his new police colleague Liz Ritschard. Because the closer the inspectors get to the truth, the more tragic is the family drama that unfolds before them: Sunday afternoon in Lucerne. At the solidarity run for a children's charity, Dr. Lanther (Benedict Freitag), the medical director of the Pilatus Clinic, and his deputy Marco Salimbeni (Thomas Sarbacher). In the middle of the run, Lanther is murdered. A scalpel is stuck in his throat. Urine samples from the forest floor prove that Salimbeni and Lanther briefly paused the run and relieved themselves just meters apart. Inspector Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) and his team focus their investigations on the private environment of prominent pediatric surgeon Lanther. His wife Imelda (Regula Grauwiller) had an affair with Salimbeni, which Lanther had obviously discovered and which led to a rift between the two doctors. But then the tragedy in the family of a police officer scratches the image of the infallible doctor. Suddenly, Lanther's little patients and their parents play a role in this murder case.
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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