Crime scene: who dies twice
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Who dies twice |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Bavaria Film and Telepool on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 240 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | March 3, 1991 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ilse Hofmann |
| script |
Thomas Wesskamp , Stefan Cantz |
| production |
Wolfgang Hesse , Silvia Koller |
| music | Andreas Koebner |
| camera | Wolfgang Dickmann |
| cut | Elke Schmid |
| occupation | |
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Who Dies Twice is a TV movie from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Telepool and Bavaria Film for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1990 was broadcast for the first time on March 3, 1991 in the first series as the 240th episode in the series and was the second case for Munich inspectors Batic and Leitmayr . The duo has to investigate in the milieu of the Munich cocaine scene and solve a total of three murders.
action
Jürgen Siebrich's body is found on a waste incineration plant; he was killed by a shot in the neck. Batic and Leitmayr go to his apartment, which must have clearly been the crime scene. Using the redial button, the officers found out that the deceased had tried several times in the last hours before the murder to contact the financial advisor Georg Zenker. When the two officers want to visit Zenker, they are intercepted by their colleagues in the drug search . They explain to Batic and Leitmayr that Siebrich was a police spy and that they tried to convict Georg Zenker with his help, whom they consider to be one of the greatest masterminds of the Munich cocaine trade . When Georg Zenker leaves his office, he can depend on his colleagues on the drug search. Batic and Leitmayr arrest him because they assume that he wants to go abroad. Zenker is clueless and claims that he only wanted to meet with his brother Hugo. On the Bureau 's lawyer surfaced Dr. Heider and says that he represents Zenker, but he has not appointed a lawyer and does not want to speak to him. When asked by the officials, Dr. Heider, that he is the legal advisor of the investment firm von Osswald, a business partner of Zenker; Osswald had Dr. Heider sent to Zenker's presidium. Batic seeks out Osswald, who is slippery and clueless, he seems surprised by the allegations against Zenker and cannot imagine Zenker's involvement in the drug scene.
Zenker, who doesn't even want to see his wife Elisabeth and his little son Klaus, is threatened by a fellow inmate who tells him that his “friends” are slowly becoming “impatient”. Batic asks his friend Ingrid, who is a friend of Elisabeth, about Zenker; she considers him a good family man and by no means a criminal, but she doesn't know him any better. Due to the threats, Zenker now wants to make himself available as a key witness. When he is transferred, he is ambushed in front of the presidium by the professional killer Jose. Leitmayr meanwhile locates Zenker's brother Hugo; This sits in Nuremberg in custody after a traffic accident at him kilograms of cocaine had been found. Hugo Zenker tells the officials that he was in need of money and therefore tried to bring the cocaine from Munich to Hanover for his brother. Batic suspects that Georg Zenker knew that he was being observed and that the syndicate, behind which Batic Osswald suspects, wanted to believe that Siebrich had made the cocaine disappear, but that this would have made Zenker disappear in order to sell it later when the police surveillance ends would have been. Batic now wants Osswald and his cronies to believe via a press release that Zenker survived. Hugo Zenker, who looks very much like his brother, is supposed to act as a decoy. Ingrid goes to Osswald, whom she also knows through her gallery and her friendship with Elisabeth, and explains to him that Zenker exchanged identities with his brother, Hugo died in the attack while Georg is in custody. Osswald senses his chance to get hold of the cocaine that Zenker has suppressed.
Zenker contacts Osswald and claims to have escaped from the prison hospital. He was ready to hand over the cocaine and would like to meet Osswald in Ingrid's gallery. Hugo Zenker loses his nerve in the run-up to the meeting, which Osswald does not come to after all, and flees. Meanwhile, Jose, who murdered Georg Zenker, kidnaps Zenker's little son Klaus. Zenker reports to Osswald and agrees to get the cocaine, then he takes a gun from the hiding place in which he has also stashed the cocaine. Meanwhile, Batic notices that Ingrid had received conspicuously high transfers from Osswald's company. He confronts Ingrid because it is obvious that Osswald washes drug money by buying art from Ingrid's gallery, but Ingrid claims that she neither knows anything about the origin of the money nor works for Osswald. When Batic learns of the kidnapping of Zenker's son, he goes to Osswald and tells him that Georg Zenker is dead. He appeals to Osswald to arrange the release of Zenker's son, but Osswald reacts indignantly and rejects the allegation of child abduction. When Batic left, Zenker comes out of his hiding place, he now has Osswald under his control. Batic watches as the two men come out of the house and get into the car, he follows them unobtrusively. Meanwhile, Ingrid drives with her friend Elisabeth to a Wild West Park, where Jose is with Klaus. She apologizes to Elisabeth and explains that she is afraid of Osswald herself. Jose hands over her son to Elisabeth, and Ingrid von Zenker is supposed to take the case with the cocaine.
Zenker and Osswald arrive at the park, Zenker wants his wife and his son step by step against the cocaine, Batic appears and wants to disarm Zenker, who is ambushed by Jose and Ingrid is shot. When Jose wants to flee and also wants to shoot Batic, Leitmayr arrives and saves his partner's life by shooting Jose. Osswald claims not to know the man and is allowed to go home unmolested while Zenker and Jose are taken to the hospital. When Zenker has recovered, he offers himself to Batic and Leitmayr as key witnesses. Batic picks up Zenker from prison and drives him to Osswald's property. There he chains Zenker to the steering wheel, sits in the back seat and forces Zenker to honk. As expected by Batic, the amateur shooter Osswald appears with his shotgun and, when he recognizes Zenker at the wheel, opens fire on him. However, the projectiles bounce off the bulletproof pane, so that Batic can arrest Osswald for attempted murder. Batic is annoyed that Zenker goes unpunished as a key witness, he has still hidden the cocaine after all. Without knowing it, he and Leitmayr drive past the burning bar where the cocaine hidden by Zenker is burning.
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of Who Twice Dies on March 3, 1991 was seen by 11.70 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 44.90% for Das Erste .
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate the crime scene positively and say: "Batic's coolness is particularly required here".
Web links
- Who twice dies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Who dies twice in the online film database
- Summary of the plot of Who dies twice on the ARD website
- Anyone who dies twice in the crime scene fund
- Who dies twice at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience rating on tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 10, 2016.
- ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 10, 2016.
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