Tatort S2020E28 - Lannert - 26 - Der Welten Lohn

In "Tatort: Der Welten Lohn" the two Stuttgart "Tatort" inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz find themselves in a fight between a power-conscious CEO and his ex-employee who has become a pariah. When the HR manager of a Stuttgart company is found dead in the woods, inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begin their investigations into the company. They are told that there are no special incidents – CEO Joachim Bässler is keeping secret his conflict with former employee Oliver Manlik. For more than three years, the company's pawn victim was in prison for corruption in the United States. Now he's back in the country and wants his life back. His private life is in ruins, his wife Caroline has lost all trust in him and his son also avoids him.
At least at the company, Oliver Manlik wants to achieve something. Reinstatement and compensation for the time spent in prison are the minimum for him. Bässler's consistent rejection, trimmed for efficiency, fuels his feelings of revenge more and more. When an explosive attack is carried out on the CEO's car, he is convinced that Manlik is the perpetrator. Suddenly it suits him that Manlik is the inspector's main suspect in the HR manager's case. However, Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz have not yet found any evidence of this.
But it is clear to them that they must prevent the fight between the increasingly desperate Oliver Manlik and the unscrupulous Joachim Bässler from escalating... Screenwriter Boris Dennulat and director Gerd Schneider involve the Stuttgart commissioners in an ever escalating fight between a company boss, whose value system is completely geared towards business success, and a former employee who did not expect this value system to be directed against him. Barnaby Metschurat plays this failed man between self-destructive implosion and desperate explosion, which is broken by Stephan Schad's believable mixture of cool heat.