Overview
- ARD airs the episode on Sunday at 20:15 as the year’s final Tatort, with a simultaneous stream and subsequent availability in the ARD Mediathek.
- The story follows a comatose mother after a custody dispute and a missing five-year-old, as Kommissar Felix Murot attempts to probe her mind via an experimental device.
- Critics describe an inventive, genre-defying approach featuring theatrical staging and surreal imagery, alongside tonal inconsistency and noted logical gaps.
- Commentary questions the depiction of a pseudoscientific, medically risky procedure that is framed as effective despite institutional pushback.
- Guest appearances include Christian “Flake” Lorenz and Heinz-Rudolf Kunze, while Christiane Rösinger withdrew, and director Dietrich Brüggemann’s past #allesdichtmachen role informs reception.