Crime scene: a surefire thing

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title A surefire thing
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 MR
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 37 ( List )
First broadcast February 17, 1974 on ARD
Rod
Director Thomas Fantl
script Herbert Lichtenfeld
production Dieter von Volkmann
music Eugene Illinois
camera Willy Sedler
cut Elke Herbener
occupation

A surefire thing is a television film from the crime scene crime series by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by HR and first aired on February 17, 1974. It is the 37th episode in the crime scene series, the fourth case for Inspector Konrad ( Klaus Höhne ), who is supported by his assistant Robert Luck (this time, however, played by Manfred Seipold ), as in the episode Password Gute Reise . Konrad and Luck investigate a kidnapping case.

action

The industrialist Georg Moll works on Sunday mornings in his villa's study, his young wife Isabell says goodbye to him because she wants to visit her sister in Wiesbaden. He tells her that he will finish his work around noon and then relax in the garden. Shortly after making himself comfortable, he gets a call that his wife has been kidnapped. The anonymous kidnapper demands 100,000 DM and that the police not be involved. He'll get back to you later. Georg Moll calls his sister-in-law, who gives him the reassuring information that Isabell is with her, but has just left for half an hour. Since she had only left half a minute earlier, a kidnapping seems impossible. Around the same time, the angler Norbert Großmann comes home from fishing earlier than expected.

Ingeborg, Isabell Moll's sister, tries all the time to reach her sister by phone, obviously the claim that she was visiting her sister was false. Ingeborg finally reaches Dr. Pechelt, whom she wanted to visit. However, it did not reach her. Moll meanwhile goes to his sister-in-law Ingeborg, who admits to have lied to him and admits that Isabell was not with her. She pretends not to worry him. Moll tells her about the blackmail call. Moll calls the police, while Ingeborg's husband reproaches himself and his wife for covering Isabel's affair with her husband's chief designer. Ingeborg is looking for Dr. Pechers and informs him about the kidnapping. She makes it clear to him that it should not come out that she has covered up her sister's affair and therefore wants to coordinate with him in order to avoid contradicting statements.

The caller contacts Moll again, as proof he has thrown Ms. Moll's driver's license in the mailbox. He repeats his ransom demand and announces that he will announce the time of the money delivery later. Moll, who has called the police, is visited by Inspector Konrad and his assistant Luck. Moll gives the inspectors his driver's license and explains the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping of his wife. Meanwhile, after calling Moll, Großmann comes home in a good mood from a phone booth and announces to his wife that they will soon have a lot of money. Konrad seeks out Ingeborg, the kidnap victim's sister, and asks her. She also hides her sister's affair from him. An interception circuit is installed for Moll's telephone. Meanwhile, Mrs. Moll's car is found at a remote location. Großmann, who works in the pathology department of a hospital, is meanwhile warned by an indiscreet article in the press about the interception circuit. Großmann calls Moll again, Großmann claims to have accomplices, so that his arrest would not save Ms. Moll, Moll denies having called the police. The interception was unsuccessful because the police arrived too late at the phone booth.

The analysis of the fingerprints shows that the prints in Ms. Moll's car, those on the door, come from an unknown person. However, the stranger's fingerprints were on the handles of both car doors. Großmann calls Moll again and announces that the ransom has doubled to DM 200,000. Meanwhile, the police discover that the fingerprints on the car are identical to those found on a holiday home near where the car was found. You belong to Dr. Pechelt, who is now the main suspect for Konrad. Konrad confronts Moll with this suspicion, which Moll dismisses as ridiculous. If this were the culprit, Moll would have recognized him by his voice. The police shadow Pechelt as this woman visits Moll's sister. Konrad's assistant Luck rings the doorbell and takes Pechelt with him for interrogation. Konrad confronts Pechelt with finding his fingerprints. This states that he found the car. He then refuses to testify. When Konrad Pechelt confronted Frau Moll's found bikini and the realization that Pechelt's neighbor had identified it as being worn by a woman in Pechelt's company, Pechelt finally admits to having a relationship with Frau Moll and denies the kidnapping.

Großmann's wife is worried about her husband. She senses that something is going on and tells him that she is afraid for him. He reassures them that what he is doing will bring prosperity to both of them and is "a surefire thing". Konrad reports to Moll about his wife's relationship with Pechelt. Moll has meanwhile received Moll's wife's wedding ring from the kidnapper. Moll receives the kidnapper's instructions that they should be thrown out of the window on a forest path. Konrad plans a trap to arrest the kidnapper. Großmann meanwhile lurks in a hole in the ground waiting for the ransom. After Moll has thrown the money out of the car, Grossmann comes out, Konrad sees him from the observation post and gives instructions to only watch him, but not to access him. Grossmann returns to the forest with the money and crawls back into his hole in the ground. Later he comes out confident of victory and disguises himself as a harmless berry hunter without a ransom. Then he gets in his car and drives away, the police quietly following him. He parks his car and walks over a pedestrian bridge and from there home. Beaming, he shows his wife the DM 200,000 in the plastic bag. Later, when he was calmly working in the garden, Konrad and Luck came to see him and asked about Frau Moll. When he pretends to be unsuspecting, the two arrest him. Großmann gives up and points to his barn. There the officers find Ms. Moll's body. Großmann states that she was already dead when he found her. Großmann claims to have gone fishing. Suddenly he heard a woman scream and he found the body under the Katzenbach rocks. When he discovered that it was the wife of the industrialist Moll, he spontaneously decided to fake kidnapping in order to exploit the situation and to fake the ransom extortion.

Konrad has an arrest warrant for Pechelt obtained. Meanwhile, a neighbor of Großmann confirms his information. Finke contacts Konrad and tells him Großmann's previous convictions, which he had committed in his old place of residence in Kiel, all of them harmless petty offenses. Pechelt seems to be dismayed by the death of his lover. Konrad is certain that Großmann found Frau Moll before Pechelt was at her car. Konrad bluffs Moll by telling him that his wife is doing “according to the circumstances”. Then he has what appears to be Mrs. Moll, sitting in a wheelchair from behind. Moll immediately says that his wife is dead or that it is a doll. When the woman gets up, he exclaims in surprise that she “survived”. Then the woman, a policewoman disguised as Frau Moll, turns around. Konrad explains to Moll that he made a big mistake - he never asked for his wife on the phone with the kidnapper, every husband of a kidnapped woman would have asked for this to make sure that she was still alive. Moll declares that he had no intention of killing his wife. He took advantage of the opportunity, like Grossmann himself. He was working that Sunday morning. By chance - the tape recorder he uses to record all calls did not turn off, so he recorded a call between his wife and Pechelt. That's how he discovered his wife's affair. He found it a tremendous breach of trust that his wife, who owes him a life in luxury, and his colleague, whom he trusted unconditionally, betrayed him in such a way. In particular, he became angry because she continued to play the caring wife. So he drove after her to catch her red-handed, but was ready to forgive her for having indeed neglected her. He confronted her and she lied again. The fact that he knew everything and wanted to forgive her seemed to leave her indifferent. When he wanted to grab her, the accident happened and she fell down. He drove home in a trance, but instead of receiving the police call he was expecting, he got the blackmail call and got involved in the game.

Minor is carried away.

Audience ratings

This episode achieved a market share of 65.00% when it was first broadcast.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A surefire thing at tatort-fundus.de
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