Heike Teichmann is beside himself.

She falls out of the car, leaves the car door open, handbag and keys on the passenger seat and storms into the greenhouse of her large nursery.

The youthful assistant Yuri, mentally at the level of a five-year-old, watches them, climbs into the car and paints her face with her lipstick.

A little later he has real blood on his cheeks, Heike Teichmann lies dead in the bed.

Her son-in-law Patrick sees Juri fleeing the scene of the crime.

Teichmann's daughter Nadine rushes over screaming.

Michael Hanfeld

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The case seems clear when the commissioners Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski), Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) and their boss Peter Michael Schnabel (Martin Brambach) inspect the situation.

The manhunt for Yuri (Alexander Schuster) is on.

But the matter may not be quite as clear as it seems.

There is an ice age between Nadine (Kristin Suckow) and Patrick Teichmann (Nico Rogner), but he warms up to Swetlana Novak (Lara Feith), a worker at the garden center and sister of the fugitive Juri, which the inspectors do not miss.

And then there is the coroner's note that Heike Teichmann died from severe blows to her head, but also suffered from broken heart syndrome.

Finding out what broke her heart is now the task of the investigators.

That's the only way, every "Tatort" viewer knows, that they'll solve the case.

Who's roaming the house?

It's amazing that the crime thrillers in the ARD series, which began in 1970 with "Taxi nach Leipzig", achieve the highest ratings with every episode, no matter how conventional it may be, as conventional as this "Tatort: ​​Totes Herz".

The suspects make themselves suspicious, the two inspectors ask questions, run from A to B, their boss, Schnabel, is thin-skinned as always and covers up with macho sayings how attacked he is - after all, he was recently almost himself from a serial killer who took him hostage , was killed.

From time to time, the three of them say what they know to everyone who shouldn't have come along.

And that's almost it, what the screenwriter Kristin Derfler, the director Andreas Herzog and the cameraman Marcus Kanter, who has a soft spot for interspersed close-ups (one eye really big, a harvestman climbing over a lemon), present to us .

That would be it - almost, if the story didn't take a half turn that takes us back to the time of the GDR and a little to the inner-German conditions in which the said "Taxi to Leipzig" was on the way.

There are more and more indications that something is wrong with Nadine Teichmann.

But what?

Who is roaming around the Teichmanns' house, stalking the desperate Juri, poisoning the dog?

And what does the message "Blue miracle, red scarf" that Heike Teichmann wrote down on a piece of paper mean?

The three Dresden investigators are slowly getting on the funnel, in the end the screenwriter Derfler and the director Herzog prove that they understand something about building up suspense (the "Tatort" community will certainly generously ignore implausible twists).

And Kristin Suckow in particular can show what she can do as an actress: Sunday evening in the first, with the "crime scene", as usual, and with a few broken hearts.

The scene of the crime: Totes Herz

runs this Sunday at 8:15 p.m. on ARD.