Overview
- The episode premiered on ARD on December 7 at 20:15 and is available to stream in the ARD Mediathek.
- The case begins at a Hobrecht & Hobrecht unveiling, where a transport crate reveals a freezer containing a frozen corpse instead of the touted prototype.
- Series leads Frank Thiel and Prof. Karl‑Friedrich Boerne investigate a family‑entangled homicide that draws on Münster’s cycling identity.
- A central subplot features a claim that the modern bicycle originated in Münster in 1882, countering the commonly cited 1884 England attribution.
- Mechthild Großmann’s Staatsanwältin Wilhelmine Klemm takes a bow after more than two decades, with reports noting she has not ruled out occasional surprise returns.