Crime scene: Blue Lady

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Blue lady
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 237
First broadcast December 9, 1990 on German television
Rod
Director Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
script Charlie Bick , Erhard Schmied
production Telefilm Saar GmbH
music Jürgen Wolter
camera Diethard Prengel
cut Monika Solzbacher
occupation

Blue Lady is the 237th television film in the crime series Tatort and the fourth case with Commissioner Max Palu as an investigator. It's about a manslaughter in the phone sex environment.

action

Jutta is sitting at the bar with her friend Anne and making remarks to her. A mature gentleman is sitting opposite and seems to be watching them - with a glass of pastis in hand. The reason why the ladies split up in an argument is not apparent to the observer. In the video store where Jutta is employed, she reports the incident to the boss Rainer Seifert. Anne enters the video store - coincidentally together with the Pastis drinker - and threatens to inform the police about the "matter". On the way home, Anne is given by Rainer to get involved in the matter. She rejects him. Then Anne receives a late visit.

Chief Detective Max Palu is called to Anne's apartment, where she lies dead on the floor. Palu looks carefully at a photo of the dead with Rainer Seifert and meets Jutta, Rainer's sister, in his apartment. She denies having known Anne. When Rainer is back home, they call a Wagner about the "matter" and threaten to send the tape to his chief doctor. Rainer Seifert is under pressure because of late payments.

The dead died of a fracture of the neck vertebra caused by a fall - but she also had slight strangulation marks on her neck. A large amount of cash and notes with family names, phone numbers and amounts of money were found in her home. Palu had already made these kinds of notes on Jutta.

Commissioner Spies chases Jutta into a house, and Palu follows Rainer Seifert while the legendary World Cup round of 16 against the Netherlands is broadcast on the car radio . Seifert drives to the city hospital in Trier, where he talks to the senior physician Dr. Wagner, the pastis drinker, waits - but does not speak to him. Spies finds out that Jutta operates a phone sex line in the apartment building. That increases the number of suspects enormously. However, the student, truck driver and salesman can plausibly explain their motivation and innocence.

In the meantime, Jutta and Rainer intensify the blackmailing of Wagner and double the amount. After initially there was no reaction, Ms. Wagner is played a cassette with erotic whispers on the phone. The ambitious wife asks the imaginative doctor to settle the matter. He gets in touch with Jutta to hand over half of the requested amount of money. Palu's investigations meanwhile indicate that it was not Anne but Jutta that Dr. Wagner was wanted - and he promptly intercepts it. He tells her about the crime at gunpoint. Jutta is able to escape at first, but is then overwhelmed again. At the Dr. Wagner hoped to hand over the cassette to Jutta's apartment, but Palu is already waiting in the armchair.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene only mediocre with "solid murderer search with weaknesses".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: Blue Lady short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 22, 2016.
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