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Tatort

Rubin - 06 - Dein Name sei Harbinger

S2017 · E33
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Episode details

Original air date
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2017 / 33
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

In their sixth joint case, the Berlin "Tatort" investigators Nina Rubin (Meret Becker) and Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) are called to the outskirts. A body was found in a burned-out van. Rubin and Karow quickly determine that there were three other, older cases with a similar course of events. They were never enlightened. Is it a serial killer? Another link leads to Berlin-Wannsee: all victims were conceived with the help of in-vitro fertilization in a fertility clinic. Managing Director Dr. Irene Wohlleben (Almut Zilcher) and her laboratory manager and life partner Hanneke Tietzsche (Eleonore Weisgerber) recently handed over the management of the clinic to Irene's son Dr. Handed over to Stefan Wohlleben (Trystan Pütter). He was born in the 1980s as one of the first test tube babies in Germany. During their investigations, the inspectors also come across a loner named Harbinger (Christoph Bach). As a 16-year-old he attacked Irene Wohlleben, today he runs a key service in a Berlin subway station. Harbinger used to be called Werner Lothar and, according to his psychiatrist, suffers from borderline syndrome. Robert Karow uses unusual methods to try to gain the eccentric man's trust and lure him out of his reserve. Anna Feil (Carolyn Genzkow), now a candidate for the detective, makes an unbelievable discovery on her own behalf in this case. And on the fringes of the investigation, Nina Rubin has a serious argument with her older son Tolya (Jonas Hämmerle). In addition to the commissioners, Berlin again takes on the third leading role. This time the perspective changes: The film shows Berlin's underworld under Alexanderplatz and under Steglitzer Schlossstrasse and also leads to places such as an iron foundry in Wilhelmsruh, which was available for filming for the first time.

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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