Tauber's anguish (8/12)

Tauber's anguish (8/12)

Detective Jo Obermaier and her husband Tarik are on a private outing to a wedding in the country. But then her mobile rings and Jürgen Tauber gleefully informs Jo that a murdered body has been found in the river Isar. The young woman was the Ukrainian high-class call-girl Zusana Lebedova. At the scene of the crime they discover that the victim had been strangled elsewhere and her dead body later tossed into the Isar. The trail leads to Hermann Denninger, a business man who Zusana visited just before her death in his hotel. Tauber would like to arrest him at once, but there is not enough hard evidence. Annoyed by this, Tauber decides to set a trap for Denninger with a tie-pin that was found near the corpse. This seemingly easy plan, however, turns into a nightmare for Tauber. Furious at being messed with, Denninger attacks Tauber and throttles him until he loses consciousness. Tauber survives the attack, but mentally he is no longer the same person: he suffers from angst and panic attacks and is hardly able to work. Denninger takes advantage of Tauber's weakness; together with his brash lawyer, he drives him ever further into a corner. And what role is played here by Miriam Ganter, the murdered woman's boss, who later retracts her statement that Denninger was into throttling and bondage games, claiming it was a misunderstanding?  Fortunately for Tauber, Jo Obermeier doesn't desert him in his hour of need and stands by him with her common-sense approach. But can she also help him out of his private misery?