Crime scene: a million mice

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title A million mice
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 88 minutes
classification Episode 190 ( List )
First broadcast February 22, 1987 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Gerd Angermann
production Bertram Vetter
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

One Million Mice is the 190th episode of the Tatort television series . By the South German broadcast episode was first produced on February 22, 1987 in the first program of the ARD broadcast. For Kriminalhauptkommissar Hans Schreitle ( Horst Michael Neutze ) it is the first case as a chief investigator after he replaced him in the course of the last case, One Saw the murderer of his predecessor Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ), after Lutz was suspended from duty. It is about a bank robbery seven years ago and the murder of two people in this context.

action

Horst Kramer is released from prison after seven years imprisonment for bank robbery. Although the police leadership did not order an observation, Schreitle, who was entrusted with the case at the time, secretly observed Kramer's first steps in freedom. Kramer's accomplice was killed while trying to escape, Kramer was caught a few days later, but the loot of millions remained gone. In front of the prison, Kramer is approached by Lemmy Lehmann, who is unknown to him, who hands him half of a torn ten DM note as an identification mark, whereupon Kramer climbs into his car. In addition to Schreitle, a young woman is following the two of them. Lehmann notices the pursuers and drives into a parking garage to change to another car, but Kramer distrusts Lehmann and senses a trap. It prevents you from switching to another car, so that you leave the parking garage in the same car. Schreitle, who followed the two of them into the parking garage, witnessed a car bomb attack on the car they were supposed to get into, while Kramer got out of Lehmann's car and shook it off. The victim is the public prosecutor Dr. Matuschek, the officers discover an explosive charge on the starter of the car, he usually never leaves his car at this time.

Shortly thereafter, the local newspaper received a call to confess that the attack was allegedly carried out by the Turkish terrorist organization AGTA because Matuschek had brought proceedings against two members for illegal possession of weapons. Schreitle investigates the matter and learns from the LKA that an organization with this name does not exist. He therefore assumes that the perpetrator is more likely to be found in Matuschek's environment, the person must have had access to his car. Inspector Lukas has since found out that the car with which Kramer was picked up is registered on Lemmy Lehmann. Lukas seeks out Lehmann, who is known to the police, who claims to be an old friend of Kramer's and to have picked him up as a favor. In response to further questions from Lukas, Lehmann finally admits that Kramer mistrusted him in the parking garage and ran away from him shortly afterwards. A client he did not know entrusted him with taking Kramer to a certain address, they were supposed to change to another car in the parking garage, Lehmann gave Lukas the key, the car description matches Matuschek's car. Meanwhile, Kramer is being pursued again by the young woman who had already followed him when he was released from prison, it is Nicole Rohde, the girlfriend of his late accomplice at the time. She offers him an overnight stay for the next few days, but demands that her deceased friend's share of DM 500,000 in the robbery is made. Kramer promises her to pay out her share as soon as he gets the money.

Schreitle and Lukas have found out that Lehmann's key actually fits Matuschek's car, so it is clear to the two officers that the attack did not apply to Matuschek, but to Kramer. Ms. Matuschek tells Schreitle and Lukas that only she and her husband had a key to the car, but the car was inspected by customer service the week before. Workshop foreman Kurak explains to Schreitle that the key is in the workshop with the car during the inspection and will then be kept in the office. Schreitle drives to the address to which Lehmann should have brought Kramer, as he has already learned from Lukas, there is only the shell of a residential building, there he notices a couple who are obviously planning to move into a condominium there. Then Schreitle wants to visit Lehmann, but his girlfriend Iris explains to him that he has gone away and that she does not have an address. Even at Schreitle's suggestion that Lehmann could be in danger, she insists that she does not know his whereabouts. Using a trick, Schreitle was able to write down the telephone number of a guesthouse that Iris had noted down, and shortly afterwards Iris informed Lehmann of Schreitle's visit. Schreitle is looking for Kramer's lawyer at the time, Dr. Wendel, who says he is no longer in contact, Kramer had withdrawn his mandate during the process. He doesn't know anything about Kramer's contacts, he only remembers Nicole Rohde from that time, who Kramer must have known as a friend of his accomplice, Kramer had a sister, but she was abroad at the time. Schreitle then has Nicole observed, but with a trick she succeeds in diverting the suspicion of an accomplice with Kramer from the officers. Schreitle learns from Lukas that Kramer's sister is now married to a Kurak, Schreitle pricks up his ears because he is the workshop manager from the dealership where Matuschek's car was repaired.

Schreitle and Lukas watch Kurak drive to Kramer's allotment garden and try to dig for something there. The officers arrest him because they suspect that he wanted to dig for the booty. However, Schreitle cannot obtain an arrest warrant because of the thin evidence, and Kurak is released immediately. Meanwhile, Lehmann tells his girlfriend by phone that he has recognized the man who gave him the car key and that he is expecting the business of his life, immediately after which he is murdered in his pension room. When Schreitle goes there the next morning to pick Lehmann up for a confrontation with Kurak, he realizes that he was too late. The officers heard from Iris about Lehmann's call shortly before his death. Since Schreitle did not find Kurak at the company the next day, he went to his wife at her workplace. He recognized her and her boss as the lovers from the construction site, but did not speak to her about it. He learns from Mrs. Kurak that she is divorced from her husband and therefore does not know where he is. Shortly thereafter, Kurak reports to Schreitle and Lucas, someone has excavated his brother-in-law's allotment garden, the officials believe they know that the loot was hidden there and that Kurak is apparently not the culprit.

Lukas has found out that the boss and lover of Kramer's sister is deeply in debt, and Ms. Matuschek is a regular customer in his hairdressing salon, so he could have gotten Matuschek's car key, and he also has a branch in Schwarzach, where Lehmann was murdered. Kramer, who did not get the booty but the murder weapon out of his hiding place, shoots his lawyer Dr. Wendel as a threatening gesture into the window before he looks for it and asks him about the loot, who says he has deposited the money in a numbered account in Switzerland. Kramer accuses him of having fooled him and finally trying to get him out of the way in order to keep the prey to himself. Kramer wants to shoot him, but Wendel makes it clear to him that in order to get the money, Kramer also needs a code word that only he knows. Schreitle has now also come across Wendel because he noticed the golf clubs in Wendel's car, and Matuschek and his colleagues had played golf in the same club, so he could have got the keys to Matuschek's car. Schreitle re-studies the files in the Lehmann murder case and discovers that an article about Wendel was printed in the newspaper that was lying on Lehmann's boarding-house table, that is how Lehmann recognized his client. Schreitle and Lukas go to Wendel, who is about to leave for Zurich with Kramer, and arrest Wendel for two murders. Kramer gives Schreitle the account card for the loot deposited in Zurich in resignation.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 17.42 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 44%. The episode was filmed in Stuttgart and Mannheim between September 22 and October 29, 1986.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene only mediocre and comment: "Standard" crime scene "based on the 80s pattern".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​One million mice data on the 190th Tatort at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Tatort: One Million Mice Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 25, 2015.
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