Crime scene: Requiem
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | requiem |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bremedia |
| length | 89 minutes |
| classification | Episode 607 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | September 25, 2005 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Thorsten Näter |
| script | Thorsten Näter |
| production | Kirsten Lukaczik |
| music | Frank Buermann |
| camera | Achim Hasse |
| cut | Elke Schloo |
| occupation | |
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Requiem is an episode of the crime series Tatort , which first aired on September 25, 2005 . It is the 14th case of Inga Lürsen. In this episode, she has to deal with a serial killer in the police force, who brings her and her daughter into his power and thus in mortal danger. He even fakes her death.
action
A man is followed at the beginning. He desperately asks what the pursuer wants from him. When it comes to the takeover, you can talk about everything in peace. Then he asks the pursuer, whom he does not recognize, whether he is Ludwig, and then he is shot.
Lürsen and Stedefreund arrive at the place where the corpse was found; the dead person is Gerd Walberg, a well-known businessman. His brother Ludwig Walberg's house is searched, and Gerd Walberg's blood is found in his car. Ludwig Walberg is arrested, he denies the act and says that he loved his brother. Both were equal managing directors of the Space Park in Bremen and had differences about the management. For Lürsen, the solution to the case is too simple and she asks the coroner Martin Lohmann whether it is possible that the traces were deliberately laid. But he doesn't believe that. A radar photo identifies Ludwig Walberg as the driver of the car in which the blood was found on the evening of the crime. He describes the photo as a fake, only Lürsen believes him. He tells her that he wanted to keep the Space Park, but that many speculators wanted the Space Park to go down and that he disliked Gerd Walberg's business philosophy. Shortly afterwards he had a heart attack . When Lürsen gets into her car, a bomb placed there explodes.
A few days later, Lürsen's funeral takes place. Lürsen's daughter Helen Reinders tells Stedefreund that she is sure that her mother is still alive. In fact, Lürsen wakes up tied up in a white room, next to her lies the coroner Martin Lohmann, who tells her that he caused Ludwig Walberg's death through contact poison. He admits that he also killed Gerd Walberg and tells her that he always wanted to be close to her.
Stedefreund learns from his colleague Charly that the explosives had been seized by the police and suddenly disappeared before they were destroyed. Since no one had access to the explosives from outside, the perpetrator can only come from police circles. Stedefreund's superiors confront him with alleged "evidence" that he owns Walberg shares in a secret foreign depot and that he also has financial problems. They accuse him of killing Lürsen himself and suspend him from duty.
Meanwhile, Martin Lohmann admits to Lürsen that he also forged the radar photo in order to incriminate Ludwig Walberg. He also tells her that decades ago he killed the girlfriend of a fellow student whom he felt ignored in order to point the way to him. He then hanged himself in prison. In total, he murdered over twenty people. When Martin Lohmann threatens to kidnap her daughter as well, Lürsen knocks him down, but her attempt to escape fails because she cannot escape from the hiding place. However, she can call her daughter, but is knocked down by Martin Lohmann after a few seconds. But Helen Reinders now knows that her mother is still alive and reports the call to Stedefreund. On her way home, Martin Lohmann speaks to her and gains entry into her apartment under the pretext of having new knowledge that her mother was not in the car after all. He gets her to write that she can't stand it, that nobody should look for her. Then he drugged her with a stun gun and left the bogus suicide note.
Helen Reinders wakes up with a broken arm in Space Park next to her mother, who by now has realized that Martin Lohmann's main concern is the satisfaction of the power he exercises over people. The profits from the Walberg speculations are only a minor matter for him. In addition, Lürsen should review his old cases to check whether he had made mistakes. Everyone should learn of his genius in this way. Lürsen tries to climb into a ventilation shaft with the help of her daughter, but she breaks through and ends up in Martin Lohmann's archive room. She can free her daughter from the other room and both try to escape, but in time she sees a booby trap on the door.
Silke, Helen Reinders' roommate, goes to Stedefreund and shows him the "farewell letter". He realizes that this cannot be genuine, because the signature is also missing. In the meantime he has also found out that the nightly call came from Martin Lohmann's cell phone. He goes to see him, but he claims that he wanted to share the DNA results with Helen Reinders. Meanwhile, Silke learns from a neighbor that Helen let an older man into her apartment last night. In a photo she recognizes Martin Lohmann as this man.
Lohmann comes back to the hiding place. Lürsen tries to trigger the fire alarm, but the attempt fails because Lohmann has switched off the alarm. She continues to talk to him over the radio while looking for a way outside and finds explosives that can blow up the entire Space Park.
Stedefreund looks around in Martin Lohmann's laboratory and finds the template for the formulation that Helen Reinders' suicide note was supposed to construct. Charly tells him that Lohmann is very interested in forensics and explosives. You will also find a piece of glass that could have come from the Space Park. The provider also informs Stedefreund that the nightly call came from the Space Park.
Meanwhile, Martin Lohmann informs Lürsen that booby traps are waiting for Lürsen's colleagues. Lürsen flees from Lohmann, who can get up and pursues Lürsen and her daughter. Stedefreund and Helen's roommate arrive at the Space Park and let a security man give them access. Lürsen burns Lohmann's beloved files to distract him and defuses his explosives in good time so that Stedefreund can get through the door safely. Martin Lohmann wants to shoot Lürsen, but she can tip acid in his face.
Helen Reinders wakes up in the hospital with her mother with her. Lürsen tells her daughter that Martin Lohmann is in the sick bay of the remand prison and, since he has deleted his files, will be charged with the whole range of his acts. Lürsen and her daughter are reconciled at the bedside.
Audience ratings
The scene of the crime, Requiem, saw 8.34 million viewers aged three and over when it was first broadcast in Germany, which corresponds to a market share of 23.7%.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tatort-fundus.de/web/haben/chrono/2000-bis-2009/2005/607-requiem.html , accessed on September 5, 2014.
Web links
- Crime scene: Requiem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Requiem on the ARD website
- Requiem at the crime scene fund
- Requiem at Tatort-Fans.de
- Requiem on kino.de
- Requiem on the Radio Bremen website
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