Crime scene: Escape to Miami
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Escape to Miami |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 274 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | April 18, 1993 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Stark |
| script |
Niki Stein , Jacki Engelken |
| production | Veith von Fürstenberg |
| music |
Joachim-Franz Bartzsch , Birger Heymann |
| camera |
Manfred Ensinger , Jürgen R. Schoenemann |
| cut |
Tatiana Fedoroff , Felicitas Lainer |
| occupation | |
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Escape to Miami is a television film from the crime series Tatort . It is the fourth case of the Düsseldorf investigators Flemming, Koch and Ballauf and the 274th crime scene sequence. The report produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on April 18, 1993 on Das Erste . Flemming and his team deal with the murder of an indebted housewife who was coerced into prostitution.
action
Loan shark Kampen, owner of "SOS-Kreditvermittlung", grants loans at completely excessive interest rates through retiree Kurt Schoenflies, who is supposed to force the desperate housewives to borrow as much as possible. Schoenflies dreams of being able to afford an evening in Miami with the money he has earned. Nora Fray is murdered in a model apartment, in which she is buying, when Kampen comes out of the apartment, he drives away with the Schoenflies waiting in the car. The next morning, an unknown woman's corpse is discovered in the trunk of an old car in a junkyard, the body must have been deposited there that night. Meanwhile, Kampen is putting his debtor, the housewife Gohlke, under pressure to buy something to pay off his debts, and later a pimp threatens him to stay out of the business. Shortly afterwards, Kampen learns from his financier, the bank director Sartorius, that Kampen's investment in a holiday resort was a failure and he will have to write off the money. Sartorius is also putting pressure on him to collect repayments and interest from the debtor more quickly and to pass them on to him. Schoenflies tells Kampen that he has booked a vacation and therefore needs his fee, Kampen then takes his plane ticket from him in order to have some leverage against Schoenflies.
The autopsy of the meanwhile identified Nora Fray shows that she was strangled, there are no signs of a sexual offense, her husband had reported her missing the day before. Max Ballauf, who went to school with Rainer Fray, visits him together with his colleague Miriam Koch and brings him the sad news. Koch has the apartment searched without consulting Ballauf, the officers find a loan agreement between Noras and “SOS Loan Mediation” for DM 20,000 that is well hidden in the bathroom, and her husband knows nothing about a loan. Schoenflies reads about Nora's death in the newspaper, he secretly takes the key to the model apartment, which Kampen kept in his desk, and goes into the apartment. He searches it and finds a necklace with "Nora" engraved under the bed. Ballauf and Koch, meanwhile, go to Kampen, who says that he is arranging the loans so that the debtors can get the loans they need through him even if the creditworthiness is poor. Despite the apparently completely excessive loan fees of 49%, the officials cannot do anything against Kampen, as his business conduct is legal. At night, Ballauf broke into Kampen's business premises, but was knocked down and attacked by Kampen's people. Koch then calls Flemming out of vacation, Flemming confronts Ballauf, who informs Flemming that Kampen’s customer Gohlke, like Nora, is behind schedule with the repayment, but Ballauf is withdrawn from the case and is lucky that Kampen has not filed a criminal complaint.
Due to Ballauf's tip, Flemming and Koch lie in wait for Ms. Gohlke and actually watch how Kampen drives to her. Ms. Gohlke cannot service the loan sufficiently, whereupon Kampen gives her lingerie and the key to his model apartment. The officials look for Ms. Gohlke after Kampen has left, she is desperate and tells the officials about the nice old Mr Schoenflies, who initiated the credit business, that she is inevitably caught in the trap that Kampen is now forcing her into prostitution, Flemming conceals and cook. Schoenflies deposited the found necklace in a locker and then called Kampen. He demands his outstanding fee and the plane ticket, otherwise he goes to the police and informs her that Kampen had forced Nora into prostitution and had been with her in the model apartment shortly before the murder. Ballauf observes how a pimp he knows beats Kampen's people with a henchman, he confronts the pimp and learns that Kampen has recently been involved in housewife sex in the red light district. Ballauf is looking for Ms. Gohlke, who is buying for Kampen for the first time, in his model apartment, Flemming and Koch, who have been monitoring Ms. Gohlke, join them and ask her to tell her everything about Kampen and the credit. When Kampen picks up his money from Mrs. Gohlke that evening, Flemming and Koch are there and arrest him, but his lawyer manages to get his release. At Kampen, the officials also find the plane ticket from Schoenflies to Miami. Flemming visits him the next morning, he initially denies working for Kampen, when Flemming shows him the ticket, he admits his work as a “customer advisor”, he claims not to have known anything about Nora Fray or the love services of the indebted women.
The officers go to Rainer Fray, who is outraged that the officers are accusing his murdered wife of prostitution, and that he continues to have no knowledge of his wife's credit or activity. Koch has meanwhile had Nora Fray's loan checked, Kampen has charged her more money for residual debt insurance in the event of death than he had to pay to the bank. Bank director Sartorius confirms the suspicion to Flemming and Koch. Schoenflies meets with Kampen and has his fee paid out; he doesn't want the chain to be sent to him until he's on the plane to Miami. At home, Schoenflies is expected by Flemming, who confronts him with the fact that he knows about the contracts. Schoenflies finally confesses and states that he wanted to get out, but was pressured by Kampen to continue; Kampen killed Nora Fray. Flemming has Kampen arrested again, he finally confesses to having forced Nora into prostitution, but asserts that he has already found Nora dead. He took the body away because he was afraid that he would be suspected. He goes on to say that Schoenflies blackmailed him with the gold chain, but the officers found another chain on the corpse with the engraving "Reiner". Flemming and Ballauf find out that Schoenflies has booked another flight to Miami for today and rush to the airport. You miss Schoenflies at the airport, he is on the plane to Miami and is having a good time, but has left an envelope with the Nora chain for the officers at the counter. Flemming and Ballauf conclude that the couple exchanged chains with their names and that this must be Rainer's chains. Rainer finally confesses to having followed his wife and observed her, after all he rang the doorbell at the model apartment and killed his wife in an affect when she stood half-naked in front of him and was obviously expecting the next suitor.
background
After his attempted break-in, Ballauf was sent to the "Hallenbad Mitte" for duty. This is the municipal indoor swimming pool on Münsterstrasse, known as the Münster-Therme since the renovation in 2003 .
Schoenflies arranged a meeting with Kampen in the art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia . Advertisements for Richard Serra's 1992 exhibition can be seen on the facade of the building .
reception
Audience ratings
The first broadcast of the crime scene Escape to Miami on April 18, 1993 was seen by a total of 10.95 million viewers in Germany and thus achieved a market share of 33.00%.
Reviews
The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm assess the episode positively and comment: "The case goes like this, but Lauterbach gives everything"
Web links
- Crime scene: Flight to Miami in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Escape to Miami in the online movie database
- Summary of the plot of Escape to Miami on the ARD website
- Escape to Miami at the crime scene fund
- Escape to Miami at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audience ratings at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on January 31, 2016.
- ^ Escape to Miami Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 31, 2016.
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