Heike Teichmann (Tanja de Wendt) runs a successful nursery together with her daughter Nadine (Kristin Suckow) and her son-in-law Patrick (Nico Rogner). One morning, the 53-year-old storms into the company in a fit of rage. A little later she lies dead in the flower bed. The focus is on the autistic employee Juri Novak (Alexander Schuster) – he is on the run and his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. It was Yuri – who else? The Dresden commissioners Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) and Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) hear this statement several times. In the course of their investigations, they find out that things in the family business are not as harmonious as they seem at first glance. When the suspect Yuri then becomes a victim himself, the case takes on a completely new twist.
The story plods along quite slowly at first. But after about 40 minutes the film takes a 180 degree turn and gets more dynamic. More murders happen, a harmless family thriller turns into a veritable psychological thriller in which everyone involved is misled. As a viewer, too, one increasingly questions the plot and the people involved. The surprising resolution comes at the very end. What the film lacked in excitement at the beginning, the film makes up for in the end.
The “crime scene” is strangely divided into two parts: a lengthy part and an exciting part. At the beginning you see the same people over and over again in identical surroundings, the plot and dialogues sometimes seem very constructed. It all just distracts from the actual story, which deserves more time and attention. Without revealing too much: Screenwriter Kristin Derfler based her first “Tatort” on crimes that took place in the GDR era and about which little is still reported.
The last mission ended dramatically for chief Peter Schnabel (Martin Brambach). In the “Cat and Mouse” case, he was kidnapped and badly wounded. Now it is clear: He survived and is back on duty. Despite this, his colleagues Winkler and Gorniak worry about him when he shows signs of weakness at work. Otherwise, private things are left out this time: the investigators are simply doing their job.
If you don’t want to do without the “crime scene” on Sunday evening, you are welcome to tune in. But the film is not compulsory.
The Dresden commissioners Gorniak and Winkler also investigated these cases:
