Crime scene: the second man

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The second man
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 393 ( List )
First broadcast August 16, 1998 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Sylvia Hoffman
script Christos Yiannapoulos
production Dirk Eickhoff
music Ralf Zang , Klaus Badelt
camera Jürgen Heimlich
cut Haike Brewer
occupation

The second man is a television film from the crime series Tatort on ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the SFB and first broadcast on August 16, 1998. It is the eleventh case of the investigative duo Roiter and Zorowski and the 393rd crime scene episode. Roiter and Zorowski have to solve a robbery on a jewelry store and the subsequent murder of the main culprit of the robbery.

action

A jewelry store is robbed, the robber loots valuable jewelry, during the robbery he shoots a security guard who tries to set off the alarm and takes a customer hostage . The dissolved jeweler cannot give Roiter and Zorowski any information about the perpetrator or the hostage. Meanwhile, the hostage Melissa Kranach reports to the police, she says that he had not spoken a word to her, a second man joined them at some point, and shortly afterwards she was released. Furthermore, she can only describe a white van as a getaway car. While Zorowski is annoyed about the thin information, Roiter is understanding and brings the young woman home.

At the Schlachtensee in Grunewald the getaway car is finally found, the driver of it lies shot in it. The dead man who was shot with the murder weapon from the jewelry store had no fingerprints known to the police, and the face is unrecognizable from the shot at close range. Melissa Kranach, cannot provide any useful information to Roiter and Zorowski about the second man the next day either, Zorowski can later locate the witness who found the body and secure a wristwatch from him that the perpetrator could have lost at the scene, however, no usable traces can be found on this.

On the basis of a phantom image finally created with the help of Kranach, Zorowski can identify a suspect and arrest him after a short pursuit, but the latter denies the crime and gives an alibi . However, in a confrontation, Kranach can identify him as the perpetrator, in contrast to Roiter, Zorowski has doubts about their statement. Huber, however, the officers learned shortly thereafter that the arrest warrant was lifted against the suspects, the alibi is an undercover agent of the LKA , which allows officials to the fence scene wanted to approach. Roiter and Zorowski interrogate Kranach again, she becomes entangled in contradictions, Roiter blames her state of shock, while Zorowski becomes suspicious.

After evaluating the video of the robbery, Roiter suspects the jeweler, who eagerly packed the jewelry, of having organized the robbery on her shop herself. Afterwards he meets Melissa after a call from her. She apologizes for her hasty identification of the suspect and makes it clear that she trusts him. She reports that she has been repeatedly threatened by phone by a stranger to stay away from the police and feel that she is being watched. Melissa testifies to Roiter that she saw the second man go into a house today, Roiter finds that the jeweler lives in the house indicated, Zorowski meanwhile determines that the sum insured was significantly higher than the jeweler stated to the officials . The pathologist, meanwhile, tells the officers that the robber's murderer with the second shot in the head obviously wanted to thwart any reconstruction of the skull in a very professional manner.

Roiter and Zorowski go to the jeweler and show her the wrong information, who says they could not have foreseen the damage after the attack, and she rejects any suspicions. In the evening Roiter visits Melissa, whom he has liked, and cooks for her. While Roiter spends a night of love with Melissa and she confesses her love to him, Zorowski finds out by reevaluating the video material that the watch was worn by Melissa during the attack, so she must have been at the scene even though she says she was taken off beforehand or lost the watch in the car and kept it quiet. In response to Zorowski, Melissa claims that she has never seen the watch and that she never wears a watch. Zorowski discovers a newly bought watch from her and wants to take Melissa with him to the presidium, but Roiter, who is in love, prevents that and dismisses Zorowski's theory that she was perpetrated. After the breakdown, Huber is also cautious with the first suspect.

Meanwhile, the jeweler’s documents do not reveal any irregularities, but Roiter stays with her anyway. Roiter asks Melissa where she got the watch from, she tells him that she got it from a patient in her clinic, she doesn't know when she lost the watch. Zorowski visits Melissa Kranach's mother in the country. She claims that she no longer has any contact with her daughter, since she moved to a big city and had a relationship with a married man, she was no longer good enough for her daughter.

Since Roiter finds a photo of Melissa with another man, she tells him about her great love for the married man, who would have lied to her. When Roiter reacts jealously, Melissa reassures him of her love and that her ex-boyfriend will definitely never show up again. Shortly afterwards, Zorowski reports to Roiter that Melissa worked in pathology and is therefore familiar with human anatomy and that she did not give her mother a ring, as Melissa stated when she visited the jewelry store. Zorowski presents Roiter his thesis that she carried out the attack together with her boyfriend and then killed him.

The next morning, Melissa Roiter, scared, reports that the unknown man is threatening her again and that she should meet him at the Nikolassee S-Bahn station. The worried Roiter goes there for her, but he doesn't meet anyone there. Worried about her, he immediately drives back to her apartment, where he meets her burning photos and letters from her ex-boyfriend. She pretends to have done this as a token of her love for him, but Roiter finally realizes that Melissa wanted to use the time to destroy evidence so that the identity of her ex-boyfriend could no longer be traced. With a heavy heart he arrests her for the time being. During the interrogation, Roiter and Zorowski accuse her of having carried out the deed together with their ex-boyfriend and then murdered him. Melissa can deal with the contradictions and a. that she supposedly wanted to buy a ring for her mother in the store, but then Colliers asked for it to be shown, not clarified.

The next morning, Melissa's lawyer presents her ex-boyfriend, who is not only alive but also has an alibi for the time of the crime. Roiter later visits Melissa's ex-boyfriend again in the hotel, who tells him when asked that after the separation, contrary to her assurances to Roiter, Melissa fell directly into a relationship with a Michael Gubsch. Zorowski is able to find out that Gubsch has moved away unknown and that a year earlier he had done a reserve exercise with the Bundeswehr in the barracks, from which the weapon of the attack was stolen at exactly the same time. The meanwhile released Melissa digs up the booty of the attack at the Schlachtensee . A former neighbor of Gubsch can give Roiter and Zorowski a package that Gubsch had forgotten when he moved out. In the package the officers find photos of Gubsch and Melissa,

Roiter realizes that Melissa has deliberately cast suspicion on her ex-boyfriend Sven in order to then present him as alive and innocent. Melissa is just about to leave Tempelhof Airport when Roiter and his colleagues appear there. After a short chase, the officers are able to catch her, she admits to Roiter that she carried out the attack, but, contrary to what was agreed, Gubsch took a loaded gun and shot the guard. She then killed him because he was nervous and wanted to surrender. Melissa is taken away.

production

The crime scene The Second Man is a production on behalf of the SFB for Das Erste . The film was shot in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on August 16, 1998, The Second Man had 5.78 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 22.01%.

The twelve films of the SFB with Winfried Glatzeder were not recorded on conventional film material, but with the help of Betacam video cameras, which resulted in a video clip aesthetic of the films that has been widely criticized. Police call 110: Seven Days of Freedom , produced by the SFB in 1995 , was also recorded in this format and also criticized.

criticism

TV Spielfilm assessed the film negatively and commented: "For this crime there is the maximum penalty."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​The second man at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ The Roiter era - 12 crime scenes from Berlin. at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ The second man tv feature film
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