The senior boss of a sawmill is killed in the forest, his son is involved in illegal business with Russia. And then thieves are up to mischief, stealing entire piles in the forest and taking them abroad by truck. In the new Erzgebirge thriller, everything revolves around forests and wood. Forester Saskia Bergelt (Teresa Weißbach) is on top form - not only as a co-investigator, but also in her liaison with Inspector Winkler (Kai Scheve). He lives right next door to her in the forester's lodge. But does the trail of money lead the investigators to the murderer or the murderess?
The new episode "Mordholz" (7.3., ZDF) doesn't waste any time. After just half a minute, the dead man is brought into the picture and the viewer is served a selection of suspects in fade-ins: from the son and junior manager of the sawmill to the forestry trainee and the vicar with bloody hands.
A possible motive, as the investigation shows, obviously has some and the investigators come across many inconsistencies. Why, for example, did the vicar sell the wood from the church forest cheaply to the sawmill? What is the forestry trainee hiding? And then there's the new registrar: she once trained at the sawmill but then left head over heels.
