Crime scene: ... and then it's payday

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title ... and then it's payday
Country of production Germany
Production
company		 NDR
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 65 ( List )
First broadcast August 15, 1976 on ARD
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Werner Jörg Lüddecke
production Rudiger Humpert
camera Frank A. Banuscher
cut Inge Bohmann
occupation

… And then it's payday is a TV film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by NDR and broadcast for the first time on July 6, 1976. It is the 65th episode in the crime scene series, the third with Commissioner Brammer . The script was based on the detective novel The Payday by Joachim Jessen and Detlef Lerch .

action

Six years ago Ewald Merten and Otto Wollgast attacked the money messenger at the Schürmann supermarket . When Wollgast took up a weapon, Merten thwarted the attack. Merten only got a short sentence and was hired by Schürmann as a chauffeur . Wollgast is coming out of prison years later . The police suspected that the two had a well-informed man behind them. Wollgast contacted him and broke into Schürmann's villa in Hanover . After only finding an empty safe , he knocks down the caretaker who discovered him shortly before he escaped.

Schürmann, who is currently in Heiligenhafen on the Baltic Sea , is informed of the incident by Brammer. However, the senior doesn't seem particularly upset. Meanwhile, Wollgast ended up in Heiligenhafen, where he contacted his source of information by phone. He tries to borrow money from Merten, who now lives there. Merten blocks and does not want any contact with him. A couple of lovers who startled Wollgast while sneaking up on the villa recognized him in Brammer's criminal record . Since Inspector Brammer is going on vacation, he asks his colleagues to contact Chief Police Officer Hesse, who is on vacation in Heiligenhafen.

Hesse interviewed Schürmann Senior and Junior. Before that, however, the junior found out from his father that he was broke and that there was nothing in the safe. Nevertheless, the senior wants to stick with the fact that his assets have been stolen, but which he has long since sold due to his financial difficulties. Schürmann Junior currently lives in an unfinished apartment building and urges his father to stick to the truth.

Meanwhile, Hesse made friends with the Merten family. But suddenly Merten's daughter Angelika is kidnapped by a stranger. Merten suspects Wollgast. The kidnapper demands that Merten raid the Kreissparkasse the next day and hand over the money to a meeting point. Only then will his daughter be released. Fearing for his daughter's life, he raids the savings bank, but the police quickly surround it. At the same time, a stranger raided the club's bank a few streets away and escaped with 200,000 DM . He turns out to be Schürmann Junior, who gave Wollgast and Merten the tip for the supermarket robbery six years ago. He releases Angelika and returns to the apartment building. There he surprised Wollgast, who had blackmailed him for years. He is now demanding the whole loot. An argument breaks out between the two men, with Schürmann trying to flee.

Angelika was found by Hesse and brought home. Then he discovers yellow color on the little one's stuffed animal. He immediately realizes that this comes from Schürmann's construction site. He goes there immediately with the local officials. However, you are late. Schürmann drowned Wollgast in the water in front of the building during the fight. When Hesse asks him why he committed the robbery, he admits he was blackmailed by Wollgast. He no longer knows what he needed the money for.

background

In this crime scene, Knut Hinz can only be seen at the beginning as Chief Inspector Brammer. The rest of the episode is taken over by Uwe Dallmeier as Chief Police Officer Hesse.

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