Crime scene: explain chimera
Explain Chimera is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film was produced by WDR and premiered on May 31, 2015. It is the 27th case with Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers as Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne . This 949th episode in the crime scene series is about two murders that were committed to cover up another crime and some confusion in Boerne's family.
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Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne, Chief Inspector Frank Thiel and the newly appointed Inspector Nadeshda Krusenstern celebrated together at the end of the day. As soon as they want to call a taxi, Thiel's father appears and explains that there has been an accident with a hit and run. His colleague Tine Haemmer would have observed everything and so he brings the three straight to the scene. The victim is a homeless man who is seriously injured and rushed to hospital and dies soon after. Thus the matter is not only a case for the traffic police, but also for the homicide squad.
Thiel and Krusenstern first have to take care of another case. The 25-year-old gay South American Luis Bênção is found murdered in a former slaughterhouse that is part of an inn. His neck shows a large cut in the throat, but Boerne discovers that the man had previously suffocated after swallowing something sharp-edged.
Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne has announced a visit from Florida. His homosexual heir-uncle Gustav von Elst comes to visit him in Münster, which is why Boerne pretends to be married to Thiel. The chief inspector doesn't think that's funny, but he owes Boerne a favor, as Boerne recently saved his life by cutting his trachea . When von Elst learns of the Bênção murder investigation, he is shocked. Von Elst obviously had an affair with the murdered man.
Thiel learns from his father that one of his colleagues Luis Bênção had driven to a wine shop. He asks the owners Isolde and Ewald Schosser, but cannot get any further information. He didn't want to sell wine to the traders either, but old champagne bottles from 1829, which are worth a small fortune. Gustav von Elst tells his nephew about the dives that he and Bênção had undertaken off Cuba. They found six boxes of the valuable bottles and did not hand them all over to the Cuban government, but secretly kept one that Bênção wanted to sell here in Germany. At the same time, he wanted to thank the sponsors of the “Blue Circle” who are based in Germany and support orphanages in South America, where Bênção himself grew up.
Thiel asks the Schosser wine merchants again, who claim to have bought goods from Bênção for 250,000 euros. For the investigators, this suggests a robbery, because Bênção drove to the train station and most likely deposited the money in a luggage compartment. Thiel opens all compartments, but doesn't find anything suspicious. Boerne is certain that Bênção was being followed and wanted to swallow the key out of fear. But he choked on it and the perpetrator took the key with a bold cut. The only ones eligible for it seem to be the Schossers. During interrogation they are initially silent. They want to protect their drug addict son Tom, who may have overheard the deal. When Thiel and Krusenstern want to question Tom Schosser, he runs away. Investigators can clearly identify the boy on the surveillance videos from the train station. It is obvious that he followed Bênção, but oddly enough, when you open a locker, he is not seen. But Tom's DNA traces are found in the former slaughterhouse, which speaks for his guilt. When they finally find the boy, he admitted to having followed the Brazilian, but when the Brazilian swallowed the key and threatened to suffocate, he fled in a panic.
Thiel's father is considering giving up his taxi company and joining his colleague Tine Haemmer. When he finally made it through and wants to deliver the news to her, he finds her fallen dead from a bridge. Boerne can secure traces of DNA that, strangely enough, match those of Luis Bênção, who has been dead for two days. The theory of a possible twin brother fails, but Boerne discovers that Bênção had blood cancer in childhood that was cured with a stem cell transplant . For Boerne, this explains the congruent DNA in the blood, which is called a chimera in modern medicine . Thiel is clear that the blood on the bridge comes not only from the murderer, but also from the donor of the stem cells for Bênção. He could also have taken the key from him, since Tom Schosser strictly denies the act. The traces of blood found were therefore only assigned to Bênção.
Prosecutor Klemm gives the impetus that her acquaintance, Dr. Thomas Jehle, who was a founding member of the “Blue Circle” from the very beginning, was the stem cell donor for Luis Bênção at the time. After Thiel sets a trap, Jehle admits that he had overheard the conversation between Bênção and Tom Schosser for around 250,000 euros and that Bênção cut his throat after Tom Schosser fled.
Doctor Jehle was also the murderer of Tine Haemmer, who watched him run over the homeless man and then tried to blackmail him for 100,000 euros.
Shortly before Boerne's uncle leaves Münster, he explains to his nephew that he has decided to leave his legacy to the “Blue Circle”.
background
The shooting took place between October 15 and November 14, 2014 in Münster , Cologne , Monheim and the surrounding area. The vehicle Boerne is traveling in is a Wiesmann MF3 .
reception
Audience rating
The first broadcast of Explanation Chimera on May 31, 2015 was seen by 13.01 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 37.2% for Das Erste . The result was the TV show with the third most viewers in 2015.
criticism
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv thinks: “With their tenth screenplay for the 'Tatort' from Münster, Stefan Cantz and Jan Hinter, the inventors of Thiel and Boerne, achieved the almost perfect combination of crime and comedy. The case is complex and tricky, without ever becoming confusing, the comical moments are thought out lovingly and integrated into the story in an exemplary manner. Explain chimera exactly characterizes the mood of the film: The rhyme signals the wink, the medical term chimerism provides the solution ... "
Focus-online judges: “The crime story is gradually made up of a tricky mosaic, the fragments of which are sometimes a bit far-fetched. But the Münster “Tatort” never takes itself that seriously. The merging and parallels between the crime story and the story of Boerne and Thiel are particularly successful in this episode. "
“Sometimes the Münster 'crime scene' is really good. […] Often the Münster 'crime scene' is also really bad. Then those responsible reject one weird idea after the other and don't even manage to make any connection between these ideas. In short: This 'crime scene' is really a tough, erratic, unsympathetic matter. "
“The infantile is part of every joke, the infantile often turns into silly in Münster too, but in this piece by director Kaspar Heidelbach everything is quite balanced. […] The case is not too complicated, but it is also not as succinct as it is sometimes, they dug up Christian Kohlund as godfather again, and with the issue of gay marriage, as has just been observed, one can also deal more tense . "
Web links
- Explain chimera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Explain Chimera on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the episode Explain Chimera ( memento of April 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the first, accessed on April 30, 2015.
- ↑ Announcement of the crime scene 'Explain Chimera' by ARD, accessed on April 30, 2015
- ^ "Monheimer" Tatort comes on May 31st in the first
- ^ Owner angry: Boerne's luxury car damaged during a crime scene shoot . NRZ , June 2, 2015, accessed June 24, 2015.
- ↑ Sidney Schering: Primetime check: Sunday, May 31, 2015.quotemeter.de , June 14, 2015, accessed on June 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Jens Schröder: The TV year 2015: No winner in the station top ten, Münster “Tatort” defeated all football games , meedia.de from January 4, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2016.
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Prahl, Liefers, Cantz, Hinter, Heidelbach. Boerne & Thiel say yes. Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 22, 2015.
- ↑ So the Münster “crime scene” on Sunday at focus.de, accessed on August 22, 2015.
- ^ Christian Buß: "Tatort" as gay slapstick. Münster makes it gay. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , May 29, 2015, accessed on May 31, 2015 : "The Münster" crime scene "as an upside-down version of" Charley's aunt "- hideous."
- ↑ Holger Gertz: marriage to whom marriage is due. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 31, 2015, accessed on May 31, 2015 .
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