Vienna (dpa) – Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) has drawn a number and is waiting in the heat of Vienna for his first interview at the employment counseling. Eisner has fallen out of favor as an investigator in the new “Tatort” from Austria, at least suspended, if not already resigned.
And according to the consultant, at his age and with his knowledge he has little chance of a new job. So it’s good that the drugs on the counselor’s desk arouse his instinct for investigators and get him on track. “Conspiracy” is the name of the episode, which revolves around intrigues, nepotism in politics and two murders.
With this, screenwriter Ivo Schneider invents a story that probably works not only in Austria. In many dialogues and scenes he stirs up the suspicion that relationships are the most important thing in a career or its possible end.
“The Wagner case is closed,” dictates Police President Ernst Rauter (Hubert Kramar) the end of the investigation into the death of the top official in the Ministry of the Interior, Willi Wagner (Stefan Fent), which is desired from high above. Old dust could be stirred up around a real estate affair in which the head of unit and many others in the ministry were involved.
The scandal uncovered by the press had – as is typical in Austria – very manageable consequences. Only one of Wagner’s colleagues had to leave. The vain, arrogant ex-colleague Dr. Leytner (Matthias Franz Stein) quickly turns out to be a possible main suspect. As a lobbyist, he heads an association whose presumptuous title is alarming: “Association for a secure future”.
Not only did he have a common career with the victim, but also a passion for running marathons – and they were neighbors in a dreamy hillside location on the vineyard just outside the city. Wagner’s wife (Lili Epply), who seems to have a relationship with a sports doctor with excellent connections to the doping scene, cries noticeably often for her husband. His ominous last words, reminiscent of paranoia, were: “They want to eat me!” Then a second murder occurs and many things suddenly appear in a different light.
Major Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) once again garnished an appearance with obstacles from everyday life. In previous episodes she was tormented by insomnia or a stubborn lover, this time it is water damage in her apartment. The phone calls with the fitter seem at least as important to her as the case. The final, which is life-threatening for her, should not be missing again.
Pleasing for the viewer: While the past episodes mostly played in the interchangeable gray of industrial areas and apartment blocks, this time the eye is spoiled with a lot of green. And quarry lovers will also get their money’s worth on Sunday (May 9th) at 8.15 p.m. in the first.
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