Overview
- The feature-length adaptation airs Saturday at 20:15 on ZDF, with streaming available since 20 December on ZDF’s platform.
- The story opens with 15-year-old Cosmo collapsing from poisoning on a North Sea beach, followed by his mother’s death.
- Investigators learn that suspect Marvin is the Lower Saxony interior minister’s grandson, prompting the minister to assign an overseer to the case.
- Marvin is abducted and the minister is blackmailed, which he keeps from police as kidnappers demand within four days a list of undercover informants in three states.
- Links emerge to a government-advising consortium tied to arms dealers and a Mexican cartel already under Interpol and LKA scrutiny, pressuring the team to balance operational constraints with a risky rescue plan.