Marisa Burger Final Episode of Die Rosenheim-Cops, Digi Mart USA News: “I’ll believe it when she’s sitting on the plane.” Chief Criminal Inspector Anton Stadler (Dieter Fischer) is not yet ready to accept the inevitable. He still hopes that Miriam Stockl (Marisa Burger), the beloved heart of the Rosenheim precinct, will somehow remain with the team.
Fans share his disbelief at the departure of the series veteran.
Sad but true: the 608th episode of Die Rosenheim-Cops since the show began almost 25 years ago is the last for Marisa Burger and her character, who has become a television icon. Will she once again say her legendary line “Es gabat a Leich”?
How does the precinct say goodbye? Are there many tears?
And who will succeed her? All these questions are answered in the farewell episode, titled “Es gabat an Abschied” (in standard German: “Es gäbe einen Abschied”).
The episode airs on ZDF on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:25 p.m. and is available in the ZDF Mediathek from today.
Spoiler warning for readers who want to watch first.
Miriam Stockl’s penultimate workday begins with a phone call that she takes at the desk of Christin Lange (Sarah Thonig). Stockl is so taken aback that she gives Michi Mohr (Max Müller) a “wrong line”: “Imagine, Michi, Frau Lange has found a body.” Only when Michi politely asks her to repeat it does she say her famous line once more, which became a television legend: “Es gabat a Leich.”
The final episode is filled with the colleagues’ grief at her departure. “Who will say ‘Es gabat a Leich’ from now on?” asks Marie Hofer (Karin Thaler).
Michi gives Stockl his “Lieb-hab-Bär” mug. Police Director Gert Achtziger (Alexander Duda) sighs that Frau Stockl “cannot be replaced.” “It would take a miracle.”
Naturally, things become hectic for Stockl. Her designated successor suddenly withdraws, and the files of the other applicants have been sent for shredding.
Stockl must therefore take charge of finding her own successor, but the miracle Achtziger longed for is not in the files; it has been sitting in the police station for a long time.
Christin Lange has secretly passed her examination as a certified specialist in office and project management. While trying to view her exam results, she stumbles across the body of instructor Leonore Klinger at the administrative academy.
When Lange is profiled in the press as the top graduate, Stockl and Marianne Grasegger (Ursula Maria Burkhart) quickly arrive at the ideal solution. Achtziger hesitates at first (“That could be the solution”), but Stockl speaks plainly: “That is the solution!”
In the end, everyone is happy. Stockl beams because her australian knight Tom (Kai Schumann), the reason for her departure from Rosenheim, came to Rosenheim to take her to Melbourne.
Tom is mischievously pleased that she had no idea. The team is delighted that, despite the stress, they manage to organize a surprise farewell party for Stockl.
Not everyone is happy: Roland Schuster (Julian Bayer), the caretaker of the administrative academy, is the killer. He murdered the instructor because she discovered he had sold exam questions to students for money.
“She freaked out. What was I supposed to do?”
But what is a crime-series murder compared with the heartbreaking loss of Frau Stockl? In the end, the ten members of the precinct stand under balloons and a banner reading “Servus Stockl” and shout it in unison.
Miriam stands there with shining eyes that fill with tears, unable to do anything but nod speechlessly. And into the minor tones of a Bavarian squeezebox quietly mixes a didgeridoo, not intrusive but somehow definitive.
