Crime scene: One saw the murderer

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title One saw the killer
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 178 ( List )
First broadcast February 23, 1986 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Fritz Eckhardt
production Werner Sommer
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

One Saw the Killer is the 178th episode of the Tatort television series . The premiere of the South German Radio result produced on February 23, 1986 at the First of ARD . For chief detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ) it is his 16th and last case. With this episode, the last crime scene inspector of the "early days" of the crime scene, who is suspected of murder himself, steps out of line.

action

Lutz, who for once arrives at the office much later than usual, receives the message from his colleague Schreitle that a woman Lisa Kern has been found dead in her apartment. Lutz reacts nervously and wants Schreitle to take care of the case, but then drives to the crime scene. Lutz's assistant Wagner is approached in the stairwell by Kalmus, the neighbor of the shot Mrs Kern, who claims to have seen Lutz before around the time of the crime. Lutz rang Mrs. Kern's doorbell and was received by the married woman in a bathrobe. Wagner confronts Lutz with the witness, when he repeats his testimony, Lutz vigorously denies having visited her today, but admits that he knew Lisa Kern. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Kern appears, Lutz and he also know each other. Lutz Wagner later explains that he had known Frau Kern for many years, they had a short relationship, but Lisa had then met her future husband, whereupon she and Lutz lost sight of each other until Lutz happened to meet her in Stuttgart with her husband hit the road. Lutz now also admits to having visited Lisa in the morning, but not at the time of the crime, but an hour earlier. He wants to ask his supervisor to release him from the case.

When Lutz went to his superior the next day, he had already been informed by the press that Lutz was already being treated as a suspect. Lutz is released from the case and Schreitle is entrusted with the investigation. He asks Lutz, who admits that he has been to Lisa several times, but denies a relationship. He was with her at nine o'clock on the day of the incident for ten minutes, after which she was seen alive by a neighbor. He then went home and after some delays for which he has no witnesses, came to the office. After the questioning, Lutz had a jewelry dealer reproduce a necklace that Lutz wanted to sell there on commission. Schreitle seeks out Kern, who had taken out life insurance for his wife. Kern says that he does not need the sum insured, he took out this insurance at the insistence of his neighbor, the insurance agent Kalmus. Kern's secretary Dolly Kinast confirms that your boss has been in the office all morning. Kern later reports to Schreitle that a valuable necklace from his wife has disappeared.

When Kern shows Schreitle the necklace's empty hiding place in the apartment, Lutz suddenly appears in the apartment. When Schreitle approaches him, he says that he accidentally put the cleaning woman's apartment key in the day before and that he has come to bring it back. Kern doesn't believe him and suspects his dead wife's relationship with Lutz. Shortly afterwards, Lutz deposited the necklace in a safe deposit box, while Wagner found out that Lutz had beaten Lisa's brother years earlier because he had interfered in the relationship between the two, but the brother had withdrawn the complaint. Meanwhile, Lutz is investigating on his own and observing how Kern and his secretary intimately leave the company. Lutz then speaks to a typist from Kern's office, who confirms that Kern and his secretary Dolly, who has been working there for a year and a half, are a couple shortly after Dolly started there. Kern just signed over to Dolly a condominium that belonged to his wife. Lutz then made an appointment with Kalmus, who was found shot dead in his apartment shortly afterwards. While the caretaker excitedly calls the police, Lutz flees the apartment unnoticed and removes the murder weapon. In the apartment, Wagner finds Lutz's phone number in the dead man's notes. The weapon is found, the ballistic investigation shows that both dead must have been shot with this weapon.

Schreitle considers Lutz suspicious after another questioning, shortly afterwards he learns that the murder weapon is Lutz's private weapon. Schreitle obtains an arrest warrant against Lutz, when his colleagues visit him, Lutz can successfully hide with a neighbor. He takes the necklace out of the locker again and seeks an old friend, Pastor Bernhard, and asks him for help. With a thoughtless cue from Bernhard, Lutz remembers a cassette that Kern's lover Dolly and the typist had argued over, and Dolly Kern was holding it. He goes to see her, but she refuses to give him the cassette, but Lutz can take the tape, on it is a recording with which Kern played his presence in his office for his typist while he was secretly through the back door left and drove home. When Lutz and Schreitle confront Kern about it the next day, Kern denies everything. Lutz then reproaches Kern for the fact that Lisa couldn't take him anymore because he cheated and hit her. She wanted to emigrate and gave the necklace to Lutz so that he could sell it for her. Kern denies everything and objects that the murders were committed with Lutz's gun. He could not have known this because it was not mentioned in the press, Lutz explains that he had given Lisa the weapon a year earlier because she felt threatened. Kern took the gun and shot his wife and Kalmus because he saw Kern at the time of the crime and Kern then deliberately left the weapon with Kalmus to cast suspicion on Lutz. Kern continues to deny everything, Kinast confirms her alibi, but Schreitle and Lutz present him the postman who saw Kern at the time of the crime.

Kern finally collapses and confesses that Dolly Kinast tries in vain to stop him, as the alibi was her idea to blackmail Kern. Lutz is then put back into active duty, but he immediately acknowledges this because he can no longer. He had experienced firsthand what it was like to be suspected of being innocent and was therefore no longer able to practice the profession. Wagner goes with him because he can become independent through his bride.

Special features and audience rating

The former Saarbrücken crime scene inspector Dieter Eppler (Liersdahl) plays the murderer in this episode, while the later inspector Bienzle , Dietz-Werner Steck , plays a supporting role as the pathologist.

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted viewers with a market share of 52%, which corresponds to an audience of 20.7 million. The episode was filmed between September 23 and October 25, 1985 in Stuttgart and Lichtenstein / Honau.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: "Crime with psychological depth".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Crime scene: One saw the murderer data for the 178th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ^ Tatort: One saw the murderer Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 26, 2015.
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