Overview
- The installment aired on Feb. 2 at 20:15 on ZDF after weeks of early streaming availability.
- Jan Josef Liefers returns as attorney Joachim Vernau, who wakes up accused of killing a long-sought nightclub owner and must find missing heiress Juliane Halstenberg.
- The story intertwines present-day investigation with a decades-old secret from Berlin’s club scene, framed through frequent flashbacks noted by reviewers.
- Josef Rusnak serves as both writer and director; the cast includes Stefanie Stappenbeck, Rike Schmid, Walter Kreye, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Winfried Glatzeder and Nikolai Kinski.
- A ZDF spokesperson says a tenth Vernau film is in script development and is expected to shoot next year.