Overview
- Das Erste schedules the episode for December 26 at 20:15, positioning it as the Munich team’s latest holiday broadcast.
- The case begins when young actress Nora Nielsen collapses during a performance and an apparent suicide is soon treated as homicide.
- Detectives Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic focus on the theater ensemble, uncovering affairs, rivalries and a potential link to a prior onstage death months earlier.
- Director Andreas Kleinert emphasizes desire as a unifying theme and visually blends rehearsal, performance and police work.
- Bayerischer Rundfunk says the story is officially the 97th case but airs as the 98th, with cases 99 and 100 already shot for 2026.