The Verdict

German Luftwaffe (air force) Major Lars Koch stands trial for shooting down, against explicit orders, a passenger plane -killing all 164 aboard- in order to prevent the Jihadi terrorist hijackers carrying out their threat to make it crash on a football stadium with 70.000 potential casualties. State attorney Nelson first challenges the lack of alternative, almost shifting the charge to Koch's superior, Lauterbach, and questions if the passengers might still have overtaken the fiends. Then she and the defense, both attorney Herr Biegler and the major himself, bicker over morality, political positions and legal rulings, arguing whether the absolute value of human life under he German constitution prevents it being weighed against many lives and in how far the rule of law is absolute.