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Tatort

Thiel - 25 - Der Hammer

S2014 · E15
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Episode details

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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2014 / 15
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

This corpse fell from the sky: When Inspector Thiel arrives at the crime scene, the bus driver who was driving Dr. Wolfgang Öhrie almost ran over him while still in shock. The influential contractor had been killed with a hammer in his office and thrown out of the window onto the street. Öhrie's company is responsible for a very controversial construction project in Münster, because many suspect that the planned Waikiki oasis will not be a conventional wellness and adventure pool, but a huge brothel. There is already a citizens' movement that is demonstrating massively against the "big bang". The activist Gunnar Roth spoke particularly loudly at the protest. The pimp Bruno Vogler was killed in a Münster parking garage. Again, a hammer was the murder weapon, knows the medical examiner Prof. Boerne. But the video recorded by the surveillance cameras in the parking garage comes as a surprise: the perpetrator is masked. He disguises himself as a superhero. And there are signs that a third murder is imminent. Does he present himself as a fighter for justice? Background information: In their new case, Commissioner Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) and Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) have to track down a serial killer disguised as a superhero who kills his victims with a hammer. The body fell from the sky. When Inspector Thiel arrives at the scene of the crime, the bus driver, who was Dr. Wolfgang Öhrie almost ran over him while still in shock. The influential contractor had been killed with a hammer in his office and thrown out of the window onto the street. Öhrie's company is responsible for a very controversial construction project in Münster, because many suspect that the planned Waikiki oasis will not be a conventional wellness and adventure pool, but a huge brothel. There is already a citizens' movement that is demonstrating massively against the "big bang".

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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