Wotan Wilke Möhring fights against the Mocro Mafia in the furious “Tatort”.

Traces of blood in an empty camper van in the German-Dutch border region, which point to the mysterious disappearance of undercover investigator Carsten Kellmann aka Joe Glauning. Federal police officer Thorsten Falke and his new colleague, cyber criminal Mario Schmitt, are supposed to investigate.

Together with their Dutch colleague Lynn de Baer (Gaite Jansen), Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) and Schmitt (Denis Moschitto) find evidence of a bloody act of violence, not knowing whether the undercover investigator was kidnapped or whether he defected to the Mocro mafia and its feared boss, the imprisoned Ahmed Saidi.

Two countries, two investigators, two episodes – NDR is launching an XXL edition to introduce Falke’s new colleague: “Crime Scene: A Good Day/Black Snow” (Sunday, ARD 8:15 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.) and blows up the story about drug trafficking, money laundering, gangsta rap and a father-son conflict in the mafia clan.

At the end of the first episode, the German-Dutch investigative trio work together to find the severely tortured and now apparently crazy Kellmann (great at changing his identity: Andrei Viorel Tacu), who appears to have killed a partner on behalf of the Mocro Mafia.

Falke (Wotan Wilke Möhring) is late for the appointment. New colleague Mario Schmitt (Denis Moschitto, right) begins the collaboration with a reprimand.

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In connection with further contract killings, the investigators track down a planned business run by the Mocro mafia in Emden. This was initiated by Karim Saidi, the rapper son of the imprisoned godfather of the Mocro Mafia, which the undercover investigator Joe Glauning came across during his research.

They don’t take us seriously. And they despise the state.

Falke’s colleague Lynn de Baer about young contract killers and the Mocro mafia, which is active in drug trafficking, kidnappings and contract killings from the Netherlands, also in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.

There have been easier jobs for Falke/Möhring, and not just because of the long “crime scene”. The new colleague Schmitt, with his penchant for vanilla tobacco, power naps and in-ear headphones at work (he listens to U2’s thinking music, which is supposed to stimulate the prefrontal cortex), takes at least as much getting used to as the apparently crazy, but possibly defected undercover investigator imprisoned in the psychiatric hospital, who should hold the key to the mafia.

The whole thing seems slightly crazy, bigger than life, but it is based on a “Spiegel” cover story by Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​who wrote about the threatening developments in our neighboring country, the Netherlands, in connection with a failed drug policy. Keyword: “War on drugs”.

Torture, assassinations, explosions, young contract killers, the murder of star journalists and lawyers, a horrendous disregard for the state in connection with illegal drug deals – you can hardly have it smaller. At least a plausible background for 180 classically told, exciting “Tatort” minutes, routinely staged by “Tatort” newcomer Hans Steinbichler.

The resolution of the case is great cinema. However, it will be interesting to see how Falke, the tough dog with a soft core and the “Rolling Stones” ringtone on his cell phone, copes with the mental music of his new nerdy colleague. Stomach and head rarely go well.

 

By Editor

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