Tatort Maleficus

Heinz Hoenig in a psychothriller about a vanished wheelchair user and ambitious brain researchers.A wheelchair stands on the bank of the Rhine. Its owner has vanished, leaving only a wallet behind. A suicide? A tragic accident? Or a crime after all? Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern look into the medical history of the missing man and find: everything points to suicide. But then the body of a doctor is found who worked in brain research, where people with disabilities are meant to regain their mobility with the help of electrical brain stimulation. Lena and Johanna wonder whether the self-assured, Nobel-Prize-calibre boss of the young junior doctor is mixed up in their case …8 September 2019, ARD, 8.15 pmSüdwestrundfunk for Das Erste.Written and directed by Thomas Bohn