Crime scene: the trap
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | The trap |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 679 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | November 11, 2007 on Das Erste |
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| Director | Hajo Gies |
| script | Hans-Werner Honert |
| production | Jan Kruse |
| music | Günther Illi |
| camera | Thomas Etzold |
| cut | Gabriele Hagen |
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The Trap is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on November 11, 2007 in the Das Erste program . It's about the crime scene episode 679. For Ehrlicher and Kain , played by Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade , their 45th and last joint case is about the death of a single mother and the murder of a building contractor as well as private entanglements Cains in this context.
action
Bruno Ehrlicher is in the middle of the preparations for the celebrations of his upcoming retirement. He actually shies away from it, but all of his colleagues and friends positively urge him to do it. While he was still talking to Frederike about details of his farewell party at the end of the day, he was called to a murder case. Veronika Klein's corpse lies in the bathtub in a noble family home; evidence shows that it had been hanged before. There are signs of battle in the house and Klein's friend, Rudolf Hahn, who called the police, is still visibly in shock. He claims that he knew that she made her living from sexual services and that he wanted to help her get out of the business. It looked like suicide to him, so he would have tried to revive her.
While Cain is enjoying the family idyll with his girlfriend Eva Sauer, her son and parents, Ehrlicher asks the neighbors. This includes the family of Cain's new girlfriend and Ehrlicher is surprised to find his colleague there.
Ehrlicher and his colleagues doubt the suicide as the battle marks seem clear. Meanwhile, Rudolf Hahn testifies that he got into the Klein’s grocery store after Veronika was left by her husband and left with debts. He bought her house at a favorable price, but let her live in it and then became a partner in her shop. Hahn fell in love with her and wanted to marry her, even though she had already earned money with sexual services at the time. Cain questions the employee in the Klein grocery store, who cannot imagine her boss's suicide. During the interview, the building contractor Hans Meier enters the shop and asks about Veronika Klein. She should contact him, otherwise there would be trouble. Before Cain can confront the man, he has already disappeared again, so he wants to see him in his company "Frohsinn". When Meier comes home, Eva Sauer is waiting there. She owes him and wanted to ask him to reduce the installments. But he becomes intrusive and she has to fend off him massively. She pushes him away and runs out of the house.
Kain wants to visit Meier in the company and meets Rudolf Hahn, who is the company's authorized signatory and partner of Meier. Assuming that Cain is there to see Veronika Klein's documents, he has the secretary give them to him. Ehrlicher now learns that almost all the residents of the settlement bought their houses through the building contractor Meier and therefore owe him. When the investigators want to visit Meier in his house, they find him lying dead on the floor.
You obtain a search warrant for the construction company von Meier and Hahn. There, the officials find out that Meier also ran a brothel. Heidi Sommer, the secretary at the company "Frohsinn", is the managing director. The ladies who work there are all indebted to Meier. Veronika too, but she had refused to continue buying for Meier. Ehrlicher arrested Heidi Sommer during a search of the brothel.
Eva tells Kain that she had a business relationship with Meier because after her husband's death she was no longer able to service the loans at Meier. Her parents helped her financially and moved in with her. She also tells him that she had been to Meier the day before. He wanted to waive her three installments if she would show her gratitude for them. She then pushed him away and killed him. Cain is upset at first, but if she has acted in self-defense, he wants to help her. Shortly thereafter, Ehrlicher revealed to his colleague Kain that he would now lead the investigation. The first thing he does is to release Heidi Sommer after an interrogation because he is of the opinion that there is nothing to be proven against her under criminal law. Ehrlicher does not agree with this, but has to accept it.
In the meantime, the police can track down Benni Klein, Veronika's missing husband. He was abroad and only returned to Germany the day before. He is therefore eliminated as a perpetrator. Cain, on the other hand, would like to pin him down as a suspect. But surprisingly, the final autopsy of Veronika Klein reveals that her death was clearly a suicide. Meanwhile Hahn realizes that as bank director he overvalued Meier's real estate and thus contributed to driving his customers into ruin. Meier had given him 25% of his empire for it. But now he is being blackmailed by Sommer because he has no alibi for the time of the murder of Meier.
Since Cain's behavior has become noticeable recently, Ehrlicher worries and wants clarity. More honestly, he goes to the Sauer, uses a ruse to gain access to the bathroom and secretly takes a hair sample from Eva's hairbrush to compare it with the woman's hair that was found on Meier's corpse. In the meantime, however, Cain manages to make the hair samples disappear from Meier's corpse. Then there are genuine doubts about Cain's loyalty. He drives to Meier's house with Eva and Cain, where Eva collapses and confesses. Cain explains to him that Meier wanted to rape her. Ehrlicher says that he doesn't cry a tear after someone like Meier. He hunted criminals and saw a lot of justice, but also a lot of injustice. Maybe the judge will recognize self-defense, but Ehrlicher doesn't want to leave it to a judge. He declares the investigation ended with no results. Cain asks Honesty for forgiveness for not trusting him. Eva doesn't let her conscience rest. Nevertheless, she comes to the presidium and confesses to the killing of Meier. Now the investigators can no longer keep the matter secret. However, he (honest) is no longer responsible.
Ehrlicher will take off your well-deserved retirement with a big ceremony in the Presidium. Meanwhile, Cain quits his job. He also feels that he has been in the police force long enough and when the law is no longer fair, he no longer wants to be a police officer. And certainly not without his old colleague. Ehrlicher and Kain end up going on a ride with Eva's son and Ehrlicher is riding towards his retirement like in a western.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast, this Tatort episode had 7.95 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 21.10%.
particularities
The 45th was also the last case of Bruno Ehrlicher and M. Kain after 15 years. Contrary to the expectations of some fans, one did not find out the first name of Cain in this last episode, when the sign with both names is unscrewed from the door, one sees only the "M" again. At the end of the episode, Ehrlicher retires and Kain quits.
Web links
- The trap in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of The Trap on the ARD website
- The trap in the crime scene fund
- The trap at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
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previous episode October 28, 2007: Satisfaction |
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next episode November 25, 2007: Before it gets dark |