Crime Scene: The Reckoning (1996)

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title The billing
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Production
company		 SF
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 332 ( List )
First broadcast May 12, 1996 on SF 1 , Das Erste , ORF 2
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Director Markus Fischer
script Markus Fischer
music Markus Fischer
Markus Fritzsche
camera Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
cut Bernhard Lehner
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The accounting is an episode of the crime series crime scene from 1996. The film was produced by Swiss television under the direction of Markus Fischer and is the seventh Tatort series produced by Swiss television . It is crime scene episode 332; it was first broadcast on May 12, 1996.

Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) solves a murder from a bank robbery a year ago.

action

The bank robber Peter Fuchs, who was abandoned by his accomplices and shot a bank employee, is released after fifteen years in prison for good conduct, although he persistently refused to reveal the names of his accomplices. Under the eyes of Markus Gertsch, he is picked up by his brother Sepp, the two manage to outrun Gertsch, Peter Fuchs immediately seeks out his then accomplice Alfons Mettler, who now lives in an old people's home, and demands his share of the booty of two million Swiss people Francs a. Mettler swears that as the driver of the escape car he was forced by the accomplice to abandon Fuchs in the face of the approaching police, but Fuchs shoots him after Mettler gave him the address of accomplice Bruno Lamont. Von Burg and Gertsch are called to the crime scene the next morning, von Burg notices that Mettler was one of the suspects in the bank robbery at the time, but he had an alibi. An employee of the old people's home identified Peter Fuchs as the last visitor to Mettler, but several hours before the crime he had faked his visit and sneaked in during his actual visit, so that the evidence is too thin for an arrest of Fuchs, who is now under police surveillance again. Sepp Fuchs also gives his brother Gertsch an alibi. Meanwhile, von Burg and his intern Magda Raimondi observe Sepp Fuchs, who is visited by a woman and receives an envelope, who can be identified as the hotel owner Miriam Langer, she is married to a Bruno Lamont.

The next morning, Raimondi can research that Miriam was once the secretary of Peter Fuchs in his music agency, which then went bankrupt. Bruno Lamont was a good friend of Peter and played with him and Mettler in a band. Lamont was the original operator of the hotel and had transferred it to his wife after Fuchs' company went bankrupt. While Magda is renting the hotel with Burgs' disapproval, Peter Fuchs turns up there, surprised that his ex-lover Miriam Bruno has married. Peter takes on Bruno, who also denies having betrayed Peter, Mettler lost his nerve at the time. Peter apparently believes Bruno and suggests he start working in the hotel business, Bruno is reserved. Bruno tells Peter that most of the hidden loot has disappeared, someone must have discovered the money and taken it away. The next day, Peter comes to the hotel again and sleeps with Miriam, Magda, who observes this, makes sure that Bruno learns about the adultery. Miriam leaves Bruno because Peter has told her about the attack and drives to Peter, meanwhile the officers find out via DNA comparison that the traces on the murder weapon come from Peter. Von Burg instructs Gertsch to bluff in front of Peter and to pretend they have nothing against him, while Miriam offers Peter a compensation payment for his share of the booty, Gertsch arrives and arrests Peter, but he is calm. Meanwhile, von Burg finds out that Mettler, contrary to his own statements, never inherited the origin of the money for his expensive retirement home is therefore unknown. Peter confronts his brother Sepp because he had accepted money from Miriam to keep Peter away from Bruno. In a fit of anger, Peter causes an accident in Sepp's workshop, which kills him. Back at the campsite where he lives, he wants to sexually abuse Magda, but she knocks him down with a bottle and returns to Bruno.

When Sepp's body was found, von Burg had Peter searched for, he went to Magda in the hotel and observed the reconciliation between Bruno and Miriam, he now knew that Bruno was Peter's accomplice. Miriam assures Bruno that Fuchs was killed by her self-defense attack, but Bruno wants to be on the safe side and goes to see Peter, von Burg cannot follow him. Bruno finds the apparently unconscious Peter and turns on his gas tap, but Peter notices this and follows Bruno, who causes a gas explosion by shooting Peter's caravan and thinks Peter dead. Von Burg and Gertsch discover that the caravan is empty and the explosion in the meantime, Magda watches as Bruno returns to the hotel with his rifle. While Bruno confesses to Miriam that it was actually he who forced Mettler to drive off and leave Peter in the lurch and the two decide to flee, Peter appears at the hotel and reveals Magda to be a policewoman when she is just thinking about it prevent the couple from escaping. When Magda wants to disarm Peter, he accidentally shoots her down. Startled by the shot, Bruno reaches for his rifle before Peter can shoot Bruno, shoots the injured Magda Peter down, who, however, like Bruno and Miriam, can escape. When the police arrive at the hotel, Magda dies shortly before the ambulance arrives in von Burg's arms. Von Burg receives a reference to the couple's holiday home in Valais from a hotel employee. While the officers rush to the holiday home, Peter followed the couple straight away and overheard Miriam confessing to her husband that it was she who took the loot from the hiding place because of the hotel debts and has already used some of it. The officers surround the house, while Peter threatens the couple in the house and has the money handed over to him, but the loot is Yugoslav dinars, which are no longer worth anything due to the breakup of Yugoslavia. He shoots an officer, then leaves the house with the worthless booty and shoots himself in resignation, Bruno and Miriam are arrested.

Background and audience rating

For detective sergeant Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) it is the fourth case, for his assistant Markus Gertsch ( Ernst C. Sigrist ) the fifth.

The first broadcast of Die Abrechnung took place on May 12, 1996, the film was shot in Bern and the surrounding area and in Valais, where the episode attracted 6.04 million viewers, which corresponds to a rate of 19.04%.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The billing at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on March 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Tatort: Die Abrechnung Kurzkritik on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 1, 2016.
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