Crime scene: Rendezvous with death

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Rendezvous with death
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MDR ,
Saxonia Media
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 791 ( List )
First broadcast February 20, 2011 on Das Erste
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Director Buddy Giovinazzo
script Clemens Schönborn ,
Meike Hauck
production Ulrike Zirzow ,
Jan Kruse
music Susan DiBona
camera Henning Jessel
cut Katja Dringenberg
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Rendezvous with Death is an episode of the German crime series Tatort from 2011. The film from Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on February 20, 2011 on Erste . It is the 791st crime scene episode and the tenth case with the Leipzig investigator duo Saalfeld and Keppler . In their new case, the commissioners are investigating a series of murders of men and a missing person case of a woman.

Saalfeld is concerned with suicide without a corpse. Keppler is investigating the case of a man who was found tied up and dead in the bathtub. But only Saalfeld realizes that both cases are related ...

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You see a couple in bed supposedly making love, but in the end the woman is dead, the unknown man removes her corpse. Meanwhile, Saalfeld says goodbye to her new friend, the doctor Dr. Holsten, whom she has known since her last case, Tatort: ​​Schön is different , and Keppler is applying for a management position at the BKA in Wiesbaden. In Saalfeld's car, Keppler discovers Dr. Holsten, he reacts with snappy remarks. Both are called to a side canal of the Elster , where a jogger has found a car with the doors open on a bridge. Police divers search the river for a possible corpse, Menzel speculates that it could be a suicide. In the car there are papers from a Carla Schütz, a 52-year-old woman from Leipzig . There are also sleeping pills in their things. Saalfeld and Keppler now also suspect suicide. Keppler is called to another case, he says that Menzel could do this routine thing on his own, but Saalfeld does not see the case as routine. She is puzzled that the trunk of the car is so clean, you don't clean your trunk if you want to kill yourself. Saalfeld and Keppler now go to the site in the other case.

Since Saalfeld and Keppler quarrel on the way, Saalfeld drives alone to Carla Schütz's apartment, while Keppler has to make his way to the other case on foot. So the two investigate separately in their cases. Saalfeld and Menzel find a letter in the apartment that could be interpreted as a farewell letter, the apartment was thoroughly cleaned. Menzel reports to Saalfeld that a body was transported in the trunk of the car. Saalfeld sees herself and her feeling confirmed, the apartment and the trunk were probably cleaned so thoroughly to remove traces. Menzel also knows how to report that Keppler applied to Wiesbaden, he sees this as good news. Keppler wants to be head of the commissariat. Saalfeld acts as if she knows about it. Meanwhile, a man enters Carla Schütz's apartment, when he notices Saalfeld and Menzel, he runs away. Outside by the garbage cans Saalfeld can finally put the man, it was a neighbor of Carla Schütz, who was just curious. Meanwhile, Keppler visits the house in which a man's body was found. The man's name was Jürgen Hahn. Hahn was tied up in his own bathtub. His ex-wife Birgit, who seems unimpressed by the death of her former husband, says that she last saw him alive four weeks ago, they both used to live together in Dresden , she still lives there today, but he is after moved to Leipzig after the divorce. She doesn't know if he was in a new relationship. His safe is open and empty, apparently he has been robbed. Keppler asks her to stay in Leipzig until the investigation is over.

Carla Schütz's neighbor, Mr Müller, says that he met Carla Schütz through a partner search portal, it was a funny coincidence because they both lived across from each other. He shows Saalfeld the profile of Carla Schütz. She rejected him because he was not honest in his profile. In addition, “another man was faster”. He denies having observed Ms. Schütz, but Ms. Schütz and the man can be seen on his video camera. Keppler visits the piano teacher whose business card he found in Jürgen Hahn's house. She testifies that she was in a relationship with the dead man and that she left him last month because of different views on life. She has not had any contact with him since then. The relationship with his ex-wife was good. Keppler tells her that she has called him every day for the past few weeks, she explains that she still had things with him and therefore had telephoned him. When he asks for her fingerprints, she gives him a used glass and says that should be enough. The coroner has now established that someone must have rammed a syringe into Jürgen Hahn's throat, the needle broke off and was still stuck in his throat. The injected agent had a strong sedative effect, but that was not the cause of death, he died of dehydration, so he was left to die of thirst in his tub. He lay in the tub for ten days and was still alive the first week. That is, he had been given something to drink for the first week, and only then was he allowed to die of thirst. The maximum amount was withdrawn from his account every day during this time.

Carla Schütz also withdrew larger amounts of money from her account in the days before she disappeared. Saalfeld suspects that her Internet acquaintance exempted her financially before he killed her. In the presidium, Saalfeld speaks to Keppler about his transfer plans, he says he wants to make a career, the position would bring more responsibility and a higher rank. In addition, Saalfeld no longer wants to work with him anyway. The comparison of the fingerprints from the glass of the piano teacher Marion Schubert shows that her fingerprints were everywhere in Jürgen Hahn's house, which does not mean anything. Keppler arranges a DNA comparison between the traces found on a pair of tights on the corpse and Marion Schubert's DNA. Meanwhile, Saalfeld is checking Carla Schütz's profile on the partner search portal. She wants to create a profile as a decoy and uses a photo of her mother. Meanwhile, Keppler finds writing in the dead man's apartment that can only be read under UV light. It says "murderer" there. He goes to see Marion Schubert, who reacts irritably when he tells her that she could have become a famous concert pianist, but now only works as a piano teacher. She is just now realistic about her options. He indicates that she was with Hahn for financial reasons, he was after all completely unmusical and a lot older. She asks Keppler to leave her alone in the future.

Saalfeld is looking for a man who had contact with Carla Schütz via the portal. He has a wife who needs care and she suffers from Parkinson's. He met Carla Schütz a few weeks ago, but he is no longer looking for contacts in this way. He was at home on the evening of the crime and his wife could testify to this. Schütz was depressed and not particularly entertaining. He wanted to meet her to distract himself a little from his own problems. Saalfeld seeks out the next married man, who also says that he only met her for coffee a few weeks ago. When he told her that he was married, she went away angry. Keppler has since found out that the dead man got divorced because of Marion Schubert. Keppler housed the widow in the pension where he also lives. He doesn't get much out of her, though. At night Birgit Hahn sneaks out of her room in jogging clothes. Meanwhile, Keppler finds out that Marion Schubert was pregnant by Jürgen Hahn, but Jürgen Hahn had forced her to have an abortion. Keppler calls Menzel in the middle of the night, who reports to him, drowsy, that the DNA comparison was positive, the blood in Hahn's house comes from Marion Schubert, and the DNA traces on the tights on Hahn's corpse also come from her. She was also hospitalized four weeks ago for a suicide attempt. The next morning the officers are still looking for the body of Carla Schütz. Keppler is looking for Marion Schubert again, this time with a search warrant. He's arresting her for the time being. In her apartment he also finds Jürgen Hahn's credit card, as well as syringes and the drug with which he was sedated. Saalfeld meets one of the Internet acquaintances she met through the decoy profile. The man was one of Carla Schütz's last contacts, but has an alibi.

Keppler interrogates Marion Schubert, she denies that she was the one who used the credit card that Keppler found on her to withdraw the maximum amount that went from his account at the time of his agony. She admits she loved him. She never thought of suicide for a second, she cut her wrists in his apartment and enjoyed the fact that he was completely helpless in this situation because he couldn't handle emotions. Meanwhile, Saalfeld visits Michaltschik again, who could have something to do with the disappearance of Carla Schütz. Since she doesn't find him again, she forcibly opens the door. She finds him in the bathroom in the same situation in which Jürgen Hahn was found dead. Saalfeld tries in vain to save his life. Meanwhile, Keppler continues to interrogate Marion Schubert when Saalfeld calls him. Keppler arrives at the scene, but Michaltschik died a few hours ago. Saalfeld and Keppler combine that Jürgen Hahn must also have met Carla Schütz, so Keppler arrested the wrong person. Carla Schütz would therefore not be the victim, but the perpetrator, who only faked her suicide in order to go into hiding. Apparently, she met with men to gutt them and then kill them. Saalfeld believes that Schütz had an accomplice. Meanwhile you can see another man being tortured in his bathtub, in the same situation in which Jürgen Hahn and Michaltschik were found dead. Keppler searches Birgit Hahn's room and finds a large amount of money in her pocket. His landlord says that Mrs. Hahn had been away all night, but was back at the pension for breakfast. Birgit Hahn returns to the pension. When she sees that Keppler is searching her room, she escapes, but he can catch her. She accuses Marion Schubert of being the murderer. Meanwhile, Menzel informs Keppler that the Hahn and Michaltschik murders are obviously different perpetrators, as DNA material from a man was found in the latter. Keppler is certain that Carla Schütz had an accomplice. He picks up Birgit Hahn. She reports that a lawsuit was pending between her and her ex-husband because he had not paid her enough alimony for years because he had secret income in court. That's why she went to see him, through the back door she saw a woman fleeing. She took her husband's computer because she needed his correspondence with his lawyer, so she was no longer interested in the woman. Birgit Hahn says that the woman was not alone, that a man was with her. The police would have had that long ago.

Saalfeld finds out that Michaltschik was given the same drug as Hahn by syringe. Meanwhile, Keppler seeks out Peter Munz, whom Saalfeld had also heard briefly. He asks him to come to the presidium. The man wanted to flee, Keppler was able to confront him at first, but was knocked down by the wife who allegedly suffered from Parkinson's. Meanwhile, Saalfeld learns from Menzel that the drug that has been injected into the victims is only prescribed for cancer or Parkinson's patients or other chronically ill patients. Keppler lies handcuffed on the floor while Carla Schütz, who is said to be the woman with Parkinson's disease, and her accomplice argue. The man says they should have stopped long ago while she explains that the man she is trapped in his bathtub still has € 100,000 in Switzerland and is about to talk. Schütz notices that Keppler is no longer unconscious, she announces that she wants to kill him. She laughs and tells us that when they thought they could buy their way out, their victims suddenly became generous. She had purposefully searched the internet for wealthy men. She thinks that they deserve it no other than to slowly "die", because all their lives they have done nothing but exploit others. She tells Keppler that her accomplice Peter Munz is the only honest person she has met. He only released his wife, Beate Munz, from her pain, she slipped into their role after they had faked their suicide. Keppler tries to swear to Carla Schütz and Peter Munz that their turn so far has only been for manslaughter, but if they killed him they would be guilty of murder. They throw Keppler unmoved into a hole in the ground while Saalfeld drives up to Munz. She climbs onto the property, but Carla Schütz and Peter Munz pretend they are not at home. Keppler lies tied up and gagged next to Beate Munz's body. Saalfeld goes through the cellar into the house. She finds signs of battle in the house before she meets Munz. She asks him about Keppler, whereupon he pretends to be clueless. However, Saalfeld hears Keppler's cell phone ringing in the house.

At this moment, Saalfeld is attacked by Carla Schütz. During the tussle, Peter Munz was hit in the leg by a bullet and thereby incapacitated. Saalfeld overpowers Schütz and arrests her. After Munz and Schütz were handcuffed and called for reinforcements, she asked for Keppler, but both refused to give evidence. Finally she finds Keppler in the ground. Reinforcements arrive and Keppler is released. Munz and Schütz continue to refuse to testify. Keppler thinks feverishly where the surviving victim of the two could be. Keppler finds the victim's credit card, Saalfeld and Keppler drive to his apartment. You break open his apartment door and can save the last victim just in time. Saalfeld wants to say goodbye to Keppler because he is now going to Wiesbaden. She asks him to stay, but he replies that everything is too hot for him here. He wants to get on the tram , but then decides to stay. He says he can't leave her alone.

background

The shooting for this crime scene took place in Leipzig and the area around Leipzig.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Rendezvous with the Death on February 20, 2011 was seen in Germany by 9.27 million viewers and achieved a market share of 24.3% for Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Filming locations and audience ratings on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on August 31, 2014.
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