Crime scene: poison
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Poison |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
NDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| classification | Episode 42 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | July 21, 1974 on ARD |
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| Director | Peter Schulze-Rohr |
| script | Friedhelm Werremeier , Peter Schulze-Rohr |
| production | Wolfgang Kühnlenz |
| music | Friedrich Scholz |
| camera | Nils-Peter Mahlau |
| cut | Karin Baumhöfner |
| occupation | |
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Gift is a German television thriller from NDR and was broadcast on German television on July 21, 1974. It is the 42nd episode of the crime series Tatort and the 7th case of Chief Inspector Paul Trimmel , played by Walter Richter . Trimmel was involved in a murder related to illegal toxic waste disposal.
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Metal hunters discover a male corpse at a garbage dump. Trimmel notes that he was shot of quite a large caliber, from a distance. When searching the area, poison barrels are discovered that were illegally disposed of there. A piece of paper is found in his pocket with a name on it, "Annika Boll". The man is between 27 and 30 years old and has been dead for about three days, except for the gunshot wound, there are no other signs of violence. Annika Boll can be found living in Kiel, she has a criminal record for intercourse theft. Petersen has already informed Finke about the LKA, but she has disappeared without a trace. The poison comes from the Toxex company and could have caused serious damage if it had got into the groundwater. It is used for steel hardening. The boss of the Toxex company, Susanne Knabe, stops a truck with poison barrels and asks the driver to follow her. Meanwhile, Trimmel’s assistant, Mr. Binder, visits a manager of the Toxex company. This states that the poison only goes to the landfill after it has been burned, i.e. after detoxification. The poison from the truck is meanwhile dumped in the forest by Susanne Knabe with the help of the truck driver.
Meanwhile, Finke finds out from her roommate that Annika Boll worked for a company called "Metallin" until she disappeared. Trimmel's assistant Petersen interrogates the dump keeper who says that he illegally dumped poison barrels for a small bonus from Toxex. Frau Knabe suspects her husband, from whom she is divorced, to have something to do with the murder, but he denies that he has no interest in harming her business because that would only bring him disadvantages in the divorce . Meanwhile, Trimmel suspects that the missing Annika Boll is also dead in the landfill. The truck driver Scholz, who illegally dumped the poison barrels in the forest at Frau Knabe's behest, shows Dr. Stephan, the owner of Metallin, explains the location of the poison barrels. Stephan then shoots the truck driver. He then faked the act as suicide. A young couple gets in his way, but he goes undetected.
Trimmel and Finke inspect the crime scene together the next day. Finke notices that the dead man lost very little blood for the caliber. The weapon appears to be the same one used in the murder of the first man, but in this case everything looks like suicide. Stephan appears at the scene, introduces himself to the inspectors and is dismayed by the death of the driver. Dr. Stephan says that he hired the Toxex company to properly dispose of the poison. Petersen goes to Frau Knabe and asks him about the dead driver. Knabe says that the Colt that was used in the murder and the apparent suicide could have come from her. She received it as a present from her American business partners when she bought the blast furnaces for burning poison there. She sold the Colt to Dr. Stephan sold. Petersen informs Finke accordingly. Finke is looking for Dr. Stephan, who denies having ever owned such a weapon, on the other hand, Scholz is a gun fanatic. Finke does not believe Stephan. Trimmel takes the dead man's landlady from the landfill, Ms. Keller, to forensic medicine to identify the body. Ms. Keller identifies the deceased as her tenant Wönterra, who worked as a private detective in Hanover. The coroner says he must have used a gun just before he died. In addition, Scholz must have been shot by a smaller-caliber weapon than the weapon and projectile that were found. Petersen informs Trimmel about his suspicion that Mrs. Knabe had a relationship with the driver Scholz. Furthermore, Trimmel and Petersen suspect that Wönterra was commissioned by Mr. Knabe to find out and was therefore murdered. An environmentalist informed Trimmel that he suspected Metallin knew about the illegal dump. Wönterra was said to have been put on both Metallin and Toxex at the same time. There is a competitor of Metallin in Hanover, but they denied having heard the name Wönterra at all. Trimmel points out that Toxex is solely responsible for the illegal dumping under criminal law and therefore has the best motive for the murders. The environmentalist, on the other hand, refers to the missing Metallin employee, Ms. Boll. He also informs Trimmel that barrels with poison went out at Metallin when Wönterra was found on the dump, but they never reached the landfill. He suggests that Trimmel look for the barrels between Kiel and Hamburg.
Dr. Stephan telephones Susanne Knabe and warns her that the police will look for the barrels, but only dead Scholz knows where the barrels have ended up. Annika Boll's roommate is with Dr. Stephan, because he wanted to prove to her with the phone call with Mrs. Knabe that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of the young woman. He gives the roommate DM 3,000 for her silence. Due to the warning from Dr. Stephan with a few people, better to hide the barrels. Ms. Knabe observed the large-scale search operation by the police, which began shortly thereafter, from a safe hiding place. The police find a stuffed animal that Dr. Stephan used after the murder of Scholz to fake the act as suicide in order to catch the wrong ball. Petersen also finds the real weapon. A policeman discovers Ms. Knabe watching the search and asks her to come along because she cannot identify herself. Shortly afterwards, the police discovered the barrels. The policeman brings Frau Knabe to Trimmel, Petersen and Finke. Trimmel confronts Ms. Knabe that her footprints were found at the crime scene and that she must have been there at least twice. Trimmel also found the other employees who were still alive and who helped Frau Knabe to dump and hide the barrels. Knabe admits to having illegally used the poison, but she denies the murders. She repeats that she passed the Colt to Dr. Stephan sold. She points out that she could not have known that Wönterra had a helper in Mrs. Boll. She has only been dumping poison for three months because her blast furnaces are defective.
Finke prefers Dr. Stephan as the perpetrator and wants to arrest him. Trimmel thinks this is absurd. Finke informs Trimmel that he has the statement from the roommate that Annika Boll has a relationship with Dr. Stephan had and that Stephan paid the roommate hush money. Dr. Stephan, who was taken from a train, says that he has to travel urgently. Finke confronts Dr. Stephan with the fact that he had a relationship with Annika Boll and that she had had another boyfriend recently. Dr. Stephan denies the relationship. Finke also claims to know that Boll was madly jealous. Trimmel's assistant Höffgen informs Trimmel that the real weapon with which Scholz was shot belonged to Wönterra. Finke asks Stephan about his alibi for the two murders. Trimmel asks Stephan to lower his pants. When the latter reluctantly does so, Trimmel and Finke discover a gunshot wound there that he suffered in the shooting with Max Wönterra. Finke is surprised at Trimmel's inspiration. Trimmel tells Finke of his thesis that Dr. Stephan Wönterra did not shoot, he just stood by and got a bullet. Finke discovers a woman at Stephan's patio door who runs away when the inspector sees her. He pursues them and can catch them. It's Annika Boll. She had asked Dr. Stephan waited. Dr. Stephan states that he has always been generous towards Scholz, but that Scholz has always wanted more. When the blast furnaces failed, he suggested simply dumping the poison into the landfill. Dr. Stephan was initially against it, but Scholz laughed at him. In order to maximize his personal profit he would have dumped poison from Metallin on the landfill for a long time and in today's “witch hunt” for environmental offenses, Dr. Stephan, anyway nobody believes that he didn't know anything about it.
Dr. Stephan knew that a detective had found out about them, but supposedly didn't know who the leak was that informed the detective. While the poison was being dumped, Scholz saw a car, the door was thrown open, and Wönterra jumped out with a gun in hand. He hit Stephan in the leg with the gun. When Stephan fell, there was a second bang, this time Wönterra collapsed, fatally hit. Stephan was shocked that Scholz even had his Colt with him. Scholz acted out of lust for murder. He also shot when the car that Wönterra had jumped out of suddenly started driving after the shot. Annika was behind the wheel. Since Scholz had followed the car with Stephan's car, Stephan was alone with the corpse and took the gun from Wönterra. He wanted to shoot Scholz when he returned because he had shot his lover Annika, but he couldn't. Scholz had missed Annika. Scholz had announced that Annika would still be caught. Dr. Stephan knew that Annika was doing industrial espionage with him and was now staying in his holiday home. He knew that she had not got involved with Wönterra willingly, but that he had blackmailed her with her past and the intercourse theft. Stephan should have silenced Scholz because he didn't believe him and suspected that Stephan knew where Annika was. He was afraid for her, so he should have killed Scholz. Frau Knabe would have known about all of this, she would have called Stephan and asked about Annika, although normally she would not have known about her. In order to end the situation, Stephan asked Scholz to show him the location of the dumped poison barrels. There he shot Scholz with Wönterra's weapon and then faked a suicide with his own weapon.
Dr. Stephan also remembers that Ms. Knabe, Mr. Binder, he and Scholz were out and about in Hamburg. Because Scholz had no money with him, he, Dr. Stephan, paid for the gun for Scholz. Knabe said to Scholz "You know how it works!" Annika was the only one who knew everything from Wönterra and Knabe knew this. So this was a request from Knabe to Scholz to murder Annika. Frau Knabe is now being visited for inciting Petersen's murder. Your arrest warrant for the environmental crimes has just been overturned, but Petersen is presenting a new arrest warrant. Susanne Knabe is being returned to the prison she has just left.
Audience rating
The episode achieved a market share of 55.00% when it was first broadcast.
Web links
- Poison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gift at filmportal.de
- Summary of the plot of poison on the ARD website
- Poison in the crime scene fund
- Gift at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for crime scene: Poison . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Gift on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on July 20, 2014.
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