Crime scene: The decision maker

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title the decider
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 347
First broadcast November 24, 1996 on German television
Rod
Director Martin Buchhorn
script Jochen Senf
Michael Syefried
production Telefilm Saar GmbH
music Jürgen Wolter Title song sung by Kirsti Mirjami Alho «Dein neue Land»
camera Klaus Peter Weber
cut Monika Solzbacher
occupation

The decision maker is the 347th television film in the crime series Tatort and the 14th Tatort produced by Saarland Radio . It was first broadcast on November 24, 1996. It is the eighth case with Commissioner Palu as an investigator. Palu has to do with the murder of an asylum seeker, diplomatic entanglements and illegal organ trafficking.

action

The Kurdish asylum seeker Erman Özay, who worked as a journalist critical of the government in his Turkish homeland, is being put under pressure by the Turk Murat. Shortly afterwards, Murat meets with a high-ranking German government official and makes it clear to him that Özay should under no circumstances get asylum in Germany because of potentially explosive publications. When Özay brought his heavily pregnant wife Hanife from Turkey to catch up shortly afterwards, the couple made the acquaintance of Palu and his girlfriend Ingrid on the plane, who were on their return journey from vacation. At Saarbrücken airport, Palu and Ingrid witness the brutal arrest of the Özay couple. One of the officers explains to Palu that Özay is a dangerous terrorist. Özay is released a few days later, Murat goes to his asylum seekers' accommodation and learns there that Özay is in the hospital with his wife, who is about to give birth. A short time later, in a junkyard in France, the homeless Jean watches how Özay is thrown out of a car and shot by strangers. Since he was carrying Palu's business card, his French colleague Fèvre Palu calls the crime scene, who recognizes him as the man from the plane. His wife Hanife, who has just given birth, tells Palu that her husband told her that he found a way to get asylum after he was approached by a man in the asylum seekers' home, after which she did not see him again. She also tells Palu about her husband's journalism activities in Turkey and that he was arrested and tortured back home, and that her husband's colleagues have disappeared without a trace.

Meanwhile, Murat does not find Özay's documents he had been looking for in the home, as he had hoped, and wants to go to Hatife, immediately afterwards Palu appears in the home and speaks to the home manager Kont on Özay, who says he does not remember him can. Palu inspects Özay's personal belongings and finds that they have been searched by a stranger, but Kont plays that fact down. Palu's assistant Schröder seeks the asylum “decision maker” Erwin Schmitz, who testifies that Özay was wrongly suspected of being a terrorist, that he was a critical Kurdish journalist and that he was entitled to asylum. At Schröder's allegation that Özay should be deported, he was surprised that he had credibly documented his threat. He believes that the Turkish state eliminated Özay. Palu learns from his French colleague Fèvre that Özay was born with only one kidney and that his only kidney had been professionally removed a few days ago, so that he would have died that way within a very short time. Murat kidnaps Hatife from the hospital. Ingrid, who had visited Hatife shortly before, identifies Murat, whose photo is in Palu's investigation file, and tells him about a brief encounter with him in the hospital. Palu and Ingrid rush to the hospital, but arrive too late to prevent Hatife's kidnapping. The doctor in the hospital can also identify Murat as the kidnapper. Schröder finds out that Murat works as a killer for the Turkish government and is responsible for numerous human rights violations, but that he enjoys diplomatic immunity. Meanwhile, Ingrid kidnaps Hatife's baby from the hospital without further ado when she learns that the child could possibly be deported to relatives in Turkey or to a home.

The new police chief calls Palu over and wants him to investigate his wife instead of Murat. Palu refuses, hands him his service weapon and ID card and continues to investigate privately. He gets an Algerian passport from his friend Marcel and officially enters Germany as an asylum seeker. As planned by him, he is brought to the home run by Kont. While Murat is torturing Hatife to get her husband's documents, Kont Murat calls and informs him that he has the documents and that they would be sold to Murat. When the two of them meet, Kont indicates that he now knows that the Turkish government is involved in drug deals and that anyone in Germany who is greased up is demanding DM 500,000 for the documents. The French colleague Fèvre gives Palu's assistant Schröder the idea to screen the asylum seekers in Saarland to see whether they have received an offer similar to the one Özay had spoken of before his death. Meanwhile, the "Algerian" Palu is approached by Rufer that he could help him with his asylum application. At Schröder's request, Marcel starts his own investigation and learns from a girl that she saw Murat at a pond. Meanwhile, Rufer tells Palu that he should talk to the medical officer Dr. Meet Marx for dinner. There the doctor tells him that she could get Palu asylum if he were willing to donate one of his kidneys. When Palu breaks into Schmitz's office in the evening, he is caught by Kont, whereupon the detective chief inspector identifies himself and forces him to cooperate. Kont is supposed to let Schmitz know that he knows about the organ business. Schmitz meanwhile becomes nervous and terminates the cooperation with the organ dealer Rufer, he already no longer wants to cooperate in the case of the "Algerian" Palu. Palu meets with Schröder and agrees that his colleagues should unobtrusively follow Palu to the transplant in order to get to the people behind the trade.

Kont informs Schmitz that he expects DM 50,000 from him for his silence about the organ trade, meanwhile Murat is declared a person non grata and expelled. Due to the expulsion being under time pressure, Murat meets with Kont to hand them over, who only gives him some of the documents, which means that Murat kills him without finding out where the other documents are. Rufer and Schmitz bring Palu out of the home for a transplant without the latter being able to notify his colleagues. He is in the secret operating room by Dr. Marx forced to Alsace. Meanwhile, Marcel is able to free Hatife at the last minute, who shoots Murat's assistants in self-defense. In the operating room, Palu learns that Schmitz murdered Özay because he wanted to unpack about the organ trade, while Fèvre and Schröder have meanwhile independently determined the location of the operations through their investigations and storm him at the last minute with a French special unit after they have come across a Wiretapping bug had overheard the conversation between Palu and the organ dealers. Schmitz shoots himself before the other gang members can be arrested. The body of Kont, who had nothing to do with organ trafficking, finally disappears when an industrial ruin is blown up, while Murat leaves Germany undisturbed forever for Turkey. Meanwhile, the relieved Hatife gets her baby back from Ingrid.

Audience and production

When it was first broadcast on November 24, 1996, an audience of 8.39 million was achieved, which corresponds to an audience rating of 22.06%. The episode was filmed in Saarbrücken and the surrounding area as well as in Alsace.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively, but comment in contradiction to it: "Trister" politically correct "mishmash".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tatort-fundus.de: audience share and production
  2. ↑ [1] on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 8, 2016.
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