[Ulrike Folkerts] celebrates her jubilee for 30 years portraying commissar Lena Odenthal. In the [Tatort (1970)] series this is the 70th case for investigator Lena Odenthal. Hence this episode takes place in the same fictional village 'Zarten', as Odenthal's third case [Tod im Häcksler (1991)] from 28 years before. Odenthal meets her colleague and friend Stefan Tries again, who is repeatedly played by [Ben Becker].