Crime scene: the dead man by the roadside
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The dead man by the roadside |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
Saarland radio |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 656 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | February 18, 2007 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Schübel |
| script |
Fred Breinersdorfer , Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer |
| production |
Wolfgang Esser , Andrea Etspüler , Peter Lohner , Inge Plettenberg , Joachim Schöneberger |
| music |
Detlef Petersen , Nico Fintzen |
| camera | Christopher Rowe |
| cut | Ursula Höf |
| occupation | |
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The dead from the roadside is the title of the second Tatort episode with Maximilian Brückner and Gregor Weber as the new Saarbrücker Tatort team. The 656th Tatort episode first aired on February 18, 2007 on Das Erste . This time the commissioners have to deal with the case of a mathematician whose death should be disguised as an accident. Kappl also witnesses how Dr. Rhea Singh, whom he is interested in, is stalked by her former boyfriend.
action
The dead person found on the roadside is the graduate mathematician Kurt Nagel. Forensic doctor Dr. Rhea Singh discovers that he died of carbon monoxide poisoning . The chief detective commissioners Franz Kappl and Stefan Deininger, who are in charge of the investigation, gain access to the dead man's apartment by deciding that there is imminent danger . In Nagel’s documents you will find lists that register which number was dropped in roulette when .
Horst Jordan, the head of forensic investigation, found tampering with the deceased's car, which allowed carbon monoxide to penetrate into the driver's compartment, which then led to the man being poisoned. Since technical failure of the vehicle can be ruled out, Nagel was murdered. This is also supported by the fact that the window of his car cannot be opened. Jordan explains that a 10 liter gas cylinder is enough to cause a person's death. Kappl adds that this is probably a murder that has been planned for a long time and that the perpetrator has scouted the situation beforehand and must have good local knowledge. The secretary, Mrs. Braun, is of the opinion that someone has eaten his hatred into himself and is now trying to reduce it through such an action. The team assumes that the perpetrator is a 30-65 year old man with a high IQ, who is tech-savvy, a loner who carefully planned and carried out a murder.
Further investigations reveal that Nagel called a Rabnik seven times three days before his death and had contact with a Lischki. Kappl and Deininger learn from Reinhard Lischki that Nagel did not go well. He had tried again and again to get him off the gimmick, but it was easier to remove a drinker from the bottle than a player from the roulette table. Nagel did not pump him, he was a pensioner.
The officers reconstruct the case, with Kappl taking Nagel's position in the car and terrifying the colleagues for a short time. The perpetrator passed a cannula through the rubber lip in the rear window, which allowed the gas to enter the driver's compartment. It is also explained that carbon monoxide can only be obtained in Germany with a specific permit. Kappl thinks that the perpetrator assumed that the victim's death would pass as an accident, which almost succeeded.
At the Saarbrücken Institute for Process Engineering , Kappl and Deininger learned from Nagel's former superior, Hanke, that he had to be fired because of his gambling addiction, even if he was an excellent mathematician. When Reinhard Lischki was still at the company, Nagel kept shooing around. The investigations also reveal that a Dr. Ute Richter, who was Hanke's deputy, Nagel's lover. During research in the casino, in which Nagel was a regular guest, it turns out that he was there with Ute Richter more often. When questioned, Richter said that Nagel was a brilliant mathematician who believed he had found a surefire system. In the beginning, he also won enormous sums of money. She even sold her parents' house for his stakes at roulette. But then Nagel fell, just played and became completely numb. In the end he even beat her and kept asking for money. Although she then hated him, she did not kill him.
As it turns out that Nagel was in the casino with Lischki shortly before his death, they ask him about his paid life insurance of 80,000 euros. He keeps the money in a self-installed safe at home because he doesn't trust any bank. When the commissioners temporarily confiscated the 80,000 euros, he said they were no better than the Stasi . Lischki sat at that time three years in the GDR for escape assistance in prison.
Further investigations in the institute reveal that Ute Richter is said to have infected Nagel with the gimmick and not turned around. A secretary tells Kappl that Richter earns over 10,000 euros a month. Their investigations also lead the commissioners to Dr. Alexander Rabnik, whose father, who died six months ago of heart failure while swimming, was a colleague of Nagel's. He had loaned Nagel 5,000 euros, but when he wanted more he meant that he wanted his money back first. Since Kappl suspects that old Rabnik has also been poisoned with carbon monoxide, he arranges for a house search in the Rabnik house as well as at Ute Richter's workplace. Richter is told that one of the cannulas in her drawer was the murder weapon. Kappl, however, is not convinced of Richter's guilt, he rather has the impression that someone is working through a death list. It turns out that only part of the money in Lishki's safe came from life insurance, and part from extortion.
When Kappl and Deininger visit Lischki, he tells them bitterly that he had sat because of “these pigs” and then he had to watch how these people had creamed here. Now it is time to fight back. He manages to lock the inspectors in the garage. When they smell gas, they know what the old man is up to. With the last of their strength, they manage to break the window using an old sink. They look for Lischki, slightly dazed, but come too late, he has also poisoned himself with carbon monoxide.
Production and Background
The shooting for this crime scene episode took place from September 19 to October 20, 2006 in Saarbrücken , Göttelborn and the surrounding area. Telefilm Saar acted as the production company, the production broadcaster was Saarländischer Rundfunk on behalf of ARD , Degeto Film . The script for the episode comes from Fred and Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer, who also wrote the script for the first episode From the dream of the new team.
Elisabeth Brück , who later succeeded Gregor Weber and Maximilian Brückner as Chief Detective Lisa Marx together with Devid Striesow as Jens Stellbrink, can be seen in the role of a secretary at this crime scene .
The team's private life: In this episode, Dr. Rhea Singh dealing with stalking . Her former friend, the lawyer Dr. Rainer Woltermann, pursues and watches them. For example, in disgust, she unintentionally reaches into a used condom in her car . When she goes out to eat with Kappl, who is interested in her, Woltermann watches them both through the window and tries to contact Singh first via mobile phone and then via the restaurant's phone. When Kappl brings her home and they both hug, he is amazed that her apartment door is secured several times. Woltermann also got a requested secret number after two days. At her workplace, the doctor finds an envelope that contains her own obituary notice, which makes her cry in exasperation. When Kappl arrives later, while Woltermann is pushing her again, she tells him that she had been with him for two years, in the beginning it was nice, but then he started to control her, it got worse and worse and at some point I could not anymore and left him. Although she tried again and again to cover her tracks, he always found her. Shortly afterwards Woltermann provokes Kappl by making rude remarks. He always calls Singh “deer”. However, she does not want Kappl to do anything, although he thinks she should report him, stalkers would not just stop on their own. Instead, Kappl is confronted with a complaint from Woltermann for assault in office. However, Kappl manages to expose the lawyer as a blackmailer. The judge promises to get hold of the stalker for severe coercion, since stalking is not a criminal offense in Germany.
Kappl finally finds an apartment with a hard of hearing elderly lady, where he can also play his beloved tuba again. At the end of the episode, Singh, Kappl and Deininger celebrate the inauguration, Kappl plays tuba and Deininger bagpipes .
reception
Audience ratings
The dead from the roadside was switched on when it was first broadcast by 7.21 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 19.8%. When it was repeated on August 16, 2009, 6.11 million viewers watched on ARD (market share 24.4%). The ORF2 market share was 23%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm gave one of three points each for humor, action and suspense, which corresponds to an average rating and came to the conclusion: “The young 'Tatort' team is plowing through a case that the father and daughter Breinersdorfer are just as good for the old men could have written. "Conclusion:" Sympathetic duo in a home-made story. "
Franz Solms – Laubach from Der Welt was of the opinion that Kappl and Deininger “already don't want to be without in the 'Tatort' series.” […] “Instead of boring scenes in the police office, we would like the latest here criminalistic methods criminal profiles created, which include the whole department in the work. S [t] att dull dialogues about the victim, the young inspectors got down to business so self-deprecatingly and freshly that as a spectator you feel as if you know the two of them from a visit to the corner pub. ”Solms came next –Laubach concludes that the author duo have managed to “write a funny and at the same time really exciting 'crime scene' from beginning to end.” The summary then also read: “Definitely see. It is the best crime scene in a long time. ”[…]“ Top crime thriller with wild detective agents and a beautiful forensic doctor ”.
Web links
- The dead from the roadside in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Dead from the Roadside on the ARD website
- The dead person from the roadside at the crime scene fund
- The dead person from the roadside at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene: The dead person from the roadside at kino.de. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ^ "Tatort" Saarbrücken Elisabeth Brück is Lisa Marx . In: focus.de of December 10, 2012. Retrieved on August 11, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: The dead person from the roadside at efi-de.com. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: The dead from the roadside TV crime thriller. Bajuwaren – Cop Kappl solves case no. 2 in Saarbrücker at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
- ↑ Crime scene: The dead from the roadside Franz Solms-Laubach: victims of stalking, rope teams and serial killers In: Die Welt on February 18, 2007. Accessed on August 11, 2013.
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From the dream… (2006) | The Dead by the Roadside (2007) | The Black Grave (2008) | Bitter Grapes (2009) | Helpless (2010) | Home Front (2011) | Abducted (2012)