A Regular Murder (21/49)

A Regular Murder (21/49)

Young Leah Berger committed suicide, so she is buried at the back of the Jewish cemetery. Then a call reaches the Munich homicide department: A corpse in the new synagogue. The D.A. in charge warns inspectors Batic and Leitmayr to use discretion, but the two old vets treat the politically sensitive case as any other murder. The dead man is Leah's father. He died of a broken neck. Was he pushed? Then things start happening very quickly: Rabbi Grünberg's protege Aaron, mentally handicapped due to meningitis, threatens to leap from a balcony. Apparently he can't handle the disruption in his daily routine caused by the police investigation. But then inspector Batic manages to win the boy's trust, gaining more and more insight into the unfamiliar Jewish religion. They find Jonathan, who has a police record for assault, but turned his life around with the Rabbi's help and is now married with three children. Leah gave them a place to live since they're short on money. After Leah's death, however, her father sent them an eviction notice, giving Jonathan a powerful motive for the killing. The investigators discover Leah was having an affair with her father's married business partner. Their child would have been illegitimate. The Rabbi points the cops in the right direction with a medieval law stating that, "a Jew who is about to betray a fellow Jew is free game." Is that what happened to Berger...