Admittedly: Despite the exciting case, the latest Dortmund "Tatort: Monster" is not necessarily something for newcomers. In the past, this episode digs too much for the psychologically badly hit Commissioner Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann). And his eternal rival Markus Graf (Florian Bartholomäi) appears again. But how was the story again?
Faber lost his wife and daughter in a traffic accident and has been a broken man ever since. Born in Dortmund, he returned to his hometown in Lübeck after ten years to head the homicide team there. As a rule, Faber makes no secret of his devastating condition and likes to infect him. However, over the years his condition seems to have partially stabilized. He has great respect for his colleague Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt), to whom he is drawn.
Who is the kidnapper count?
Already in the fourth episode of the Dortmund team "Auf ewig Dein" it becomes clear that the fatal traffic accident of Faber's wife and daughter was a perfidious murder attack. Markus Graf, the son of a man whom Faber put behind bars many years ago, was behind this crime. After Faber has succeeded in convicting Graf and taking care of his imprisonment, he prepares to break out after some time. In "Rabies" he succeeds through a clever plan. From then on, Faber's aim was to seize Markus Graf. Graf now appears for the third and last time in "Tatort: Monster".
What accident is Graf talking about?
Graf mentions Faber's alleged accident twice and asks if he wanted to kill himself. what does he mean with that? In the "Tatort: Inferno", which was broadcast in April 2019, the otherwise very skeptical Faber trusts a supposed head doctor of a clinic, a respected psychiatrist.
In the course of the film, however, it turns out that the alleged medical doctor falsified both his state examination and all medical approvals and murdered it because his lies were about to collapse. At the end of the film, Faber poses the fleeting murderer, rams his escape vehicle at high speed and is seriously injured. It is not clear in the film whether Faber wanted to injure himself or even kill himself with this action, or whether he really only wanted to face the perpetrator.
Who plays the scary count?
In all three episodes, the uncanny but eloquent and intelligent Markus Graf was played by actor Florian Bartholomäi (33). "In real life I get on really well with Jörg Hartmann, we have a lot of fun shooting," says the native of Frankfurt. The 33-year-old has already played in numerous German film and television productions. Most recently in the VOX series "Rampensau" or also in the ARD crime series "Die Füchsin". In the cinema he was seen in the film adaptation of the gemstone trilogy as Paul de Villiers and in the Oscar-nominated film "Work without an author" (2018) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (46).