“Tatort” today from Zurich: Three dead, and the only witness is six years old

“Tatort” from Zurich
Three dead and the only witness is six years old: an emotional case for Grandjean and Ott

An entrepreneur couple and their bank advisor were murdered. Was it about money or old connections from the nineties? The Zurich commissioners Grandjean and Ott expect complex investigations in their new case.

What’s the matter?

“It looks like an execution,” says Inspector Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) as she inspects the crime scene with her colleague Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler). Three people were killed with a targeted headshot in a parking lot on the edge of the forest: the business couple Julie Perrier (Samia von Arx) and Marco Tomic (Patric Gehring) as well as their bank advisor Jakob Bachmann (Uwe Schwarzwälder). During the on-site investigation, the detectives notice that there is another person in the victims’ car: Ella, Perrier and Tomic’s six-year-old daughter. The girl managed to hide, but saw the murders before. While Grandjean looks after the traumatized child and tries to find out something about what happened, Ott investigates the background. The entrepreneur Tomic and the credit advisor Bachmann were not only linked by a business relationship, but also by a shared past during the Balkan War in the 1990s.

Why is the “Blind Spot” case worth it?

The crime thriller uses the classic whodunit. In the search for the perpetrator, there are always false leads and surprising twists, which keeps the tension high until the end. The fact that six-year-old Ella is the only witness and is therefore still in the perpetrator’s sights adds an additional layer of drama.

What bothers?

As has often been the case, the Zurich crime thriller wants too much and opens up a wide range of themes and protagonists. Keeping track of everything over 90 minutes isn’t easy. If you don’t pay close attention for a while, you’ll lose the thread. Some of the characters are also exaggerated in a cliché manner, such as a tech entrepreneur named Ken Rumpf (Jarreth Merz). The screenwriters Claudia Pütz and Karin Heberlein try to create a balancing act between past events in the 1990s and future scenarios with futuristic drone technology. That doesn’t always work. To bring everything together, the solution to the case ends up seeming pretty contrived.

The commissioners?

In this case, Isabelle Grandjean and Tessa Ott work as a team, albeit with distributed roles. While Grandjean takes care of the murdered couple’s daughter and develops maternal feelings, Ott does the actual investigative work in her usual matter-of-fact manner.

Turn on or off?

Fans of the Zurich investigators are welcome to tune in, everyone else can do without this “crime scene”.

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