Dresden. A murder in the parking lot of a discotheque, the trail leads to a dating portal – and the investigators on an undercover mission in matters of love. Don’t be surprised if this sounds familiar. The ARD will repeat the sixth case of the Dresden “Tatort” team on Pentecost Sunday at 8:15 pm under the title “Who is alone now”.
The reason for the repetition is the weekend of Pentecost. The ARD broadcast a new “crime scene” on Monday evening – then with the investigators from Bremen.
It might still be worthwhile to tune in on Sunday evening because the thriller drew almost eight million viewers in front of the screens when it was first broadcast three years ago. The “Tatort” from May 2018 had a market share of 25.4 percent.
“Tatort” from Dresden: The plot at a glance
Why is? The killer lurks in the dark. In panic, a young woman runs from the disco to her car. But security is deceptive, a masked man pulls the driver’s door open again: the man brutally strangles Doro in a few seconds. “What does a 22-year-old do at an over 30s party?” Ask the inspectors Henni Sieland (Alwara Höfels) and Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) a little later next to the corpse.
The investigation requires all your efforts, to the annoyance of your boss Schnabel (Martin Brambach). No usable traces, no eyewitnesses, just a traumatized friend of the victim. Laura had spoken to the student on the phone, involuntarily overheard the murder – and is now in danger herself. From her, the police found out that Doro, as “Birdy” in the online dating portal “Love Tender”, was flirting with more mature men, “who didn’t want a steady relationship right away, she loved their freedom”.
Some followed Doro and wanted the money back that “Birdy” brought her with false promises of love. “But Doro had long since deleted her account,” says the friend. Someone must have hacked Birdy and cashed it on her behalf. But the deceived, who call themselves “bird hunters”, stick to Doro. Two of them were at the over 30s party on the evening of the crime – and have no alibi. But Schnabel wants evidence.
Investigators Henni Sieland (l, Alwara Höfels) and Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) question Thomas Frank (Bernd-Christian Althoff), managing director of Love Tender. © Wiedemann & Berg / MDR / Daniela Incoronato / dpa
Sieland sees only one chance: undercover work. And she and her colleague register with “Love Tender” without further ado. She herself feels like “Kinki” Patrick and Gorniak as “Star” Andreas. “It is perfectly clear that this is dangerous,” her boss annoys, stunned by the naivety of the girls. Even the report does not help, according to which the perpetrator must be a psychopath.
On the hunt for the murderer, the single women Sieland and Gorniak find themselves in completely different worlds: the uptight Patrick lives in a run-down house on the outskirts and cares for his terminally ill mother, Andreas is a smart Narcissus with a stately villa and fast cars. Both are lonely and seek closeness, but in different ways.
For Sieland, abandoned by friend Ole and unintentionally pregnant, the evening ends with arrest. The single parent Gorniak, meanwhile, succumbs to the suspect’s charm. He doesn’t hesitate and gives her family jewelry after the first night. The love game in the pool on the following evening turns into a showdown of the thriller, told emotionally and with great depth, in which a lot of blood flows. (dpa / SZ / hej)
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