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Tatort

Brix - 8 - Der Turm

S2018 · E36
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2018 / 36
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Brix (Wolfram Koch) are called to a crime scene at night. A young woman, scantily clad, a plastic bag pulled over her head, lies dead at the foot of one of Frankfurt's bank towers. While Janneke arrives early at the secured and cleared crime scene, Brix is late. The KTU isn't there yet either. Janneke goes into the tower alone and gets a first impression of the crime scene, taking photos as so often. Suddenly she hears footsteps behind her. She instinctively grabs her camera. A flash light illuminates the scene a couple of times, then a bang. When Brix finally arrives, he finds Janneke unconscious in the elevator. She is taken to the hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Brix goes alonegets to work and quickly reaches the limits of the hermetically sealed tower. When Janneke regained consciousness in the hospital, she can only remember vaguely. She is also under strong medication and no longer trusts her own head. Only her photos give her something to hold on to in her extremely hazy memories. The perpetrator himself cannot really be seen in any of the images, only cutouts, blurred details, overexposed fragments. Together, Brix and Janneke try to put together a clear picture of the crime from the contradictory scraps of memory, the photos and witness statements. All threads come together in the tower. The commissioners have to gain access again.

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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