This much is certain: Bibiana Dubinski (Ulrike Krumbiegel) is no longer alive.

But what else?

Hard to say.

The new "crime scene" from Mainz is a strenuous mystery that can only be solved with patience, and that even applies to the first, so incomprehensible appearance of the inspectors.

At the start of this case, Ellen Berlinger (Heike Makatsch) and Martin Rascher (Sebastian Blomberg) are not, as usual, called to a crime scene dominated by Spusi colleagues and coroners.

Rather, they return to the villa of the dead two weeks after the body of wealthy senior citizen Bibiana Dubinski was found.

Talking about things they missed when they first visited the crime scene.

The prosecutor is in a bad mood

Then the events overturn: Our noses come across a man in the building who immediately tries to flee, follow him and arrest him.

It is the ex-con Hannes Petzold (Klaus Steinbacher), whom Berlinger has obviously suspected for a long time.

The bad-tempered public prosecutor Jasmin Winterstein (Abak Safaei-Rad) is still angry about the arrest: "What was not to understand about 'proceedings closed'?"

Flashbacks set in, with the story taking on more contours - time jumps galore.

The starting point is: Bibiana Dubinski was a lonely woman.

She had a friend of the same age, the cultivated Charlotte Mühlen (Michaela May), and together the two seniors spent fun hours with and without champagne at the pool.

But Dubinski longed for a man—one made of flesh and blood.

A young lover, like the one Mühlen was able to show one day in the person of the slick dog undertaker Hannes Petzold.

"I have a garden too!" she breathed out at Petzold when he operated shirtless in the garden of her friend Charlotte Mühlen with a water hose.

Was that her undoing?

Or was the death of the diabetic Dubinski just a tragic accident?

In this third "crime scene" from Mainz, which is not particularly exciting in terms of content but is formally challenging (by Thomas Kirchner, directed by Tim Trageser), there are at least two people who could be responsible for the death of Bibiana Dubinski out of jealousy or greed: Mühlen and Petzold .

Steinbacher and May keep their characters so in limbo that you think everything is imaginable.

And along the way, we don't just experience Ellen Berlinger getting drunk or Martin Rascher having a hunger pang, not just a team that keeps coming together and getting better and better together, but also a sex scene that you rarely see on television in this combination of age and gender brought before your eyes.

Crime scene: In his eyes

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