
Tatort
Lessing - 03 - Der treue Roy
S2016 · E16Times 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
- 2016 / 16
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
The body of Roy Wei slot, who worked at the tapping plant, is discovered in the blast furnace slag of a steelworks near Weimar. Inspectors Kira Dorn and Lessing quickly realize that he was murdered. Roy lived with his sister Siegrid, with whom, according to Siegrid, he had a close relationship. But the commissars find out that there was a war between the siblings, against which the battle of Jena and Auerstedt was a lesser dispute. Siegrid apparently hated her brother. She blamed Roy for her destroyed happiness in life with her ex-fiancé Karsten aka "Flamingo", who lost a leg through Roy's fault. This tragic event was the beginning of an unprecedented downward spiral for Karsten. Now he lives as an alcoholic wreck in an abandoned gas station. And Karsten worked an extra shift at the blast furnace on the night of the murder, he is a possible culprit, as is his buddy Frank. He is connected to the prostitute Irina Kratochvílová, alias Vanessa Fink, who works in a mobile home on the outskirts of town. The detectives find out that Irina was hired by Frank and Karsten, who wants revenge on Roy, to extort money from Roy. The investigation is made more difficult by the fact that the inspectors have different ideas about the domestic future of their small family. Lessing has the unsettling thought that Kira might want to leave Weimar. In addition, the inspectors have to deal with their new colleague Ganser from forensic technology, who, as their boss Kurt Stich aptly puts it, is "a real ass cracker".
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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