"Tatort" from Franconia: He was lucky for many

Detective Chief Inspector Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) attaches great importance to being a friendly and empathetic investigator.

His smile doesn't always match serious thoughts, sometimes just bravely covering them up.

But he smiles politely when the person opposite makes a weak joke, says “thank you” more clearly than others when he rings the bell somewhere and is allowed to come in.

Telephone calls abroad end with an attempt to say at least one word in the local language out of respect.

And Voss also strives for an appreciative style in office conversations (until his collar bursts over sloppiness and then again quickly).

He absolutely wants to say the right thing, do the right thing, be seen as a good person.

How dangerous it is to do the right thing and want to be a good person is shown in the new "crime scene" from Franconia by a popular young guy who one night lies in the blue light with a slit throat and a crushed face.

For what reason?

That is the question here as in every crime novel, but hardly anyone gets it to the point in the title like this eighth case, simply called "Why", about the pleasant Mr. Voss, the straightforward Paula Ringelhahn (Dagmar Manzel), the hard-working Wanda Goldwasser (Eli Wasserscheid) and Sebastian Fleischer (Andreas Leopold Schadt), who tends to be an underperformer.

“Why” is not the only question asked by the investigators who set the police machinery in motion after the body was found.

Rather, it is precisely the mother of the dead man, the teacher Marie Keller (Valentina Sauca), who is looking for explanations for the incomprehensible in this sensitive drama by Max Färberböck and Catharina Schuchmann, albeit sometimes unnecessarily strongly pushing emotions.

Keller had actually expected her 27-year-old son Lukas to have dinner on the evening of the murder and was looking forward to the meeting as only a loving mother can look forward to the visit of her fledgling son.

When she heard the news of her death, she collapsed.

Keller can no longer speak and must be given medication.

But when the words are back, she wants to reconstruct the case on her own, supported by the troublemaker qualities of her ex-husband Fritz (Karl Markovics).

After Luke's departure, neither of their lives made any real sense.

Now they are completely destroyed, which neither Fritzen's bees and deer nor Marie's students can compensate for.

The victims and the bereaved

One suspects: In this drama, there is a lot of sad looking around, awkward speech and sometimes screaming.

The screenwriters emphasize that the victims of a crime always include their relatives.

And so cameraman Georgij Pestov also gets close to Mia Bannert (Julie Engelbrecht), Lukas' girlfriend who lives with a child from another relationship.

She seems to know who could be behind the murder: "You did it right, I know that," she said to Lukas during the last whisper in bed.

However, an anonymous caller, who sounded a little like debt collection in Eastern Europe, told the young woman to remain silent: no police.

The Franconian team of investigators therefore has to do without any information from Mia.

And it doesn't miss him either, because it only took two minutes to question her and another lead is more tempting: Voss thinks a homeless man (Ralf Bauer) is the perpetrator and even hopes for a confession from the fallen financier (what else). : "He was lucky for many people, do you understand that?"

After the honey woman from the market (Maja Beckmann) turned Vossen's head for an evening and Paula Ringelhahn washed it on an official matter, the sleazy freight forwarder Karl-Heinz Weinhardt (Götz Otto) gets the attention that one such prominently occupied and that's why suspect figure deserves.

Weinhardt was Lukas's boss and is extremely friendly.

But a smile like that, in this old-fashioned case, which is based on proven patterns and unfortunately can only touch on the "why" with a few explanatory sentences and flashbacks with few images, can sometimes be the sign of a guy who is ready for anything, anything can be rolled off.

A facade.

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