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Maria Furtwängler as Inspector Lindholm: “You are free to make your way home to Hanover.”

Photo: Christine Schröder / NDR

The department head was a bully and his wife had become his victim. At the end of the "crime scene," Inspector Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) stepped in front of the door of the homicide department in Göttingen, which had brought her so little luck - and released two balloons into the sky. Attached is a photo of the abused, deceased woman.

Previously, the public prosecutor had announced in front of the entire team: "Ms. Lindholm, you are free to return home to Hanover."

This marked the end of a rather bleak “Tatort” chapter: after four episodes together, Lindholm and Inspector Anaïs Schmitz, played by Florence Kasumba, will no longer investigate together. How was that supposed to work after Lindholm had chosen the colleague's husband for one of her inevitable one-night stands in the current case?

In our review we wrote: “This case seems as if a malicious AI had mixed up all the narrative threads and then randomly tied them together again. It's difficult to solve with logic, which is why Inspector Lindholm gets through the investigations primarily with, well, female intuition. Meanwhile, Inspector Schmitz is busy looking grim because she naturally suspects that her colleague is not only negligently trying to take over the case, but also her own husband. So there is a lot of amok and amore in this farewell episode. (...) It cannot be assumed that the two investigators value meeting each other again in their lives."

We gave it 2 out of 10 points. What do you say about the crime thriller?

For future “Tatort” episodes, Maria Furtwängler will actually be working from Hanover again as Charlotte Lindholm. She began her “Tatort” career there more than 20 years ago.

Florence Kasumba will at least appear once again as Commissioner Schmitz - alongside Federal Police Officer Falke, portrayed by Wotan Wilke Möhring. The episode has already been shot, is about artificial intelligence and is titled “The Coldest Machine.” The broadcast is planned for 2025.

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