S6 • E3 Apr 5, 2017 45m
8.8
When Sonja Wirth accompanies an agitated customer to the "Lange leben" farm shop to file a complaint, she makes a horrific discovery: For owner Thomas Lange, the motto of his business has clearly not been fulfilled - he is lying dead on the floor. Dr. Anja Licht can find no direct evidence of external violence. When Hubert and Staller, who were involved in the lengthy and complex "TÜV for Car 3" case, arrive at the scene, the investigation gains momentum: Hubert appears to be the only one able to detect the bitter almond smell of cyanide. Staller initially doubts his colleague's poisoning theory - naturally also out of hurt vanity, as his own nose for sleuthing seems to have let him down in this case. A bag of organic food found on the dead man can be traced back to his business rival, Markus Till. However, a test on the living object shows that the goods are not poisoned. When Hubert and Staller discover that the health food store's financial situation doesn't seem particularly rosy, the dead man's wife, Sabine Lange, comes into focus: The expected proceeds from her husband's life insurance policy could be a legitimate motive. But there are also surprising revelations about Marcel Wiesner, the farm shop's only employee. Just as Hubert and Staller are about to zero in on a perpetrator, they come across more cyanide-laced goods at Café Rattlinger: a dietary supplement that the victim had also taken. So, is a dangerous criminal on the loose in Wolfratshausen, or has the manufacturer perhaps circulated contaminated pills? Police Commissioner Girwidz makes the matter a top priority. Just when it's literally a matter of life and death, the station's telephone system breaks down. But ultimately, it's his colleague Riedl who proves that sometimes things don't go so badly for something to malfunction.
