Crime scene: Without evidence
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | With no evidence |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
SWR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 606 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | August 28, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jürgen Bretzinger |
| script | Martin Pristl |
| music | Markus Lonardoni |
| camera |
Immo Rentz Ralf Nowak |
| cut | Roswitha gracious |
| occupation | |
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A television film from the crime series Tatort is without evidence . The episode was produced by Südwestrundfunk under the direction of Jürgen Bretzinger and first broadcast on German television on August 28, 2005. It is the 606th episode of the crime scene and the 35th episode with Ludwigshafen investigator Lena Odenthal ( Ulrike Folkerts ). It is the 26th case for her colleague Mario Kopper ( Andreas Hoppe ).
A former LKA investigator suspected of manslaughter kidnaps Commissioner Lena Odenthal and flees with her from his persecutors.
action
The former LKA official Luis Münchau has been investigating an organization of protection rackets privately since his release for an official offense. In one of these actions he gets into a shootout in which a man is shot and later succumbs to his injuries. Since Münchau is held responsible for this, he should be arrested. During his escape, he consciously takes the inspector Lena Odenthal hostage. With this action he hopes to be able to follow his lead to the backers of the protection money mafia, because he has already come very close to his goal and does not want to endanger it under any circumstances. However, this exaggerated ambition for justice has already cost him his job as he illegally used force after an interrogation. Now he is also accused of murder.
With the help of investigator Dirk Hofmann from the LKA, Kopper tries to help his colleague, who is being driven from Münchau across Ludwigshafen. Lena always gives the police little clues like on a “ scavenger hunt ”, and she can even put her mobile phone down without being noticed. Yet the fugitives are still one step ahead of their pursuers.
Kopper manages to track down Münchau's secretary, Christiane Weiß. From her he learns the working methods of modern protection racket, in which not only bodyguards collect the money, but small entrepreneurs are forced to enter into contracts with other companies and from whom they regularly have to purchase the goods at excessive prices. The protection money mafia of today acts as an independent company and has connections right up to the police. Münchau wanted to uncover this hole in their own ranks and has since been hunted by his ex-colleagues.
Münchau confides in Odenthal on his escape, so that she too can understand his motives. She learns that he had come threateningly close to those behind them and that shortly afterwards his wife allegedly died of suicide by jumping out of the window. In his opinion, however, she was pushed, which he has not yet been able to prove. Since his release, he has also been deprived of custody of his son, who now lives with his aunt. Therefore Münchau is determined to bring its hunt to an end. The man he is said to have killed was an informant who wanted to bring him important evidence against the protection money mafia and only had a graze on the arm. In his opinion, someone helped the man's death to accuse Münchau of the murder. Odenthal gets the impression that Münchau is telling the truth and begins to work with him. She uses a ruse and calls Kopper to spread the news to the police headquarters that Münchau has evidence against the mafia and a lead to the mole in the ranks of the authorities. Odenthal wants to lure the guilty party out of the reserve. In addition, she staged that she was shot by Münchau when she tried to snatch the alleged evidence from him.
Münchau now calls the public prosecutor Dr. Philip Urbat to pretend to blackmail him. At the agreed meeting point, the public prosecutor Münchau wants his ally, the police officer Heinze, to be shot from an ambush. However, Odenthal anticipates this and puts Heinze out of action. Unfortunately for her, she has no other witnesses and so her allegations against the prosecutor are without evidence. Odenthal hopes to find the informant's documents in his car and comes just at the right time when police officer Marc Stüsser tries to secretly take the documents for himself.
This is how the protection money mafia and its backers succeed in uncovering and rehabilitating Münchau.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast in Germany on August 28, 2005, 8.49 million viewers saw the episode Without Evidence , which corresponded to a market share of 27.10 percent.
criticism
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm just give the thumbs up for this crime scene and believe that this crime scene only shows a “weak plot with wooden dialogues” and that it would be “quite superficial” this time.
Web links
- Crime scene: Without evidence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Without Evidence on the ARD website
- Without evidence from the crime scene fund
- Without evidence at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Without evidence, audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on August 24, 2016.
- ↑ TV feature film : An ex-colleague puts police officer Lena Odenthal (Ulrike Folkerts) in danger.Film review accessed on August 24, 2016.
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