Crime scene: Fluppy's scam

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Fluppy's scam
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
SFB
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 145 ( List )
First broadcast February 6, 1983 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Luderer
script Joachim Nottke
Karlheinz Knuth
production Horst Borasch
camera Hans Hessel
cut Katja Schmiljan
occupation

Fluppy's scam is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on February 6, 1983 on ARD. It is the fourth crime scene with Commissioner Walther, who has to solve the murder and robbery of a jeweler .

action

Fluppy, a Berlin crook who specializes in robberies in jewelry stores, spies out another store for his crime.

Jeweler Richard Malcher is in the process of dumping his mistress when he receives an alleged call from the criminal investigation department . Fluppy, who pretends to be a criminal investigation officer, tells Malcher that a robbery is planned on his business and that he should hand over what the perpetrator requested and not raise the alarm, as the criminal investigation authorities are waiting outside to find the perpetrator to be caught in the act. Malcher promises to obey the alleged police orders.

Shortly afterwards, Fluppy puts on a balaclava to pull off the attack. When passers-by enter the jewelry store, Malcher lies dead on the floor while the masked Fluppy robs the store. He manages to escape using a firearm with which he threatens passers-by.

Inspector Walther and his assistant Hassert come to the crime scene. Walther notes that the safe was open, but there is still cash in the safe. Nevertheless, the case seems clear enough that it is a robbery. Walther and his colleagues discover two champagne glasses that had been used, one of them by a lady.

Mr Becker, Mr Malcher's employee, has meanwhile compiled a list of the missing items, including a. missing family jewelry. The dead woman's widow, Mrs. Malcher, claims not to know this jewelry. Only Mr. Malcher would have a key to this safe. The jewelry had obviously been loaned with DM 150,000, the jewelry belonged to a married couple Wrangels. Ms. Malcher can testify that Ms. Wrangel is a former “acquaintance” of her husband, who has been called Wrangel since her marriage.

Walther and Hassert visit the Wrangel couple. Ms. Wrangel confirms that the jewelry is family heirloom, some of which have been in the family for two hundred years. She loaned the jewelry because her self-employed husband was in financial difficulties.

Then Walther and Hassert interrogate Malcher's former employee, Vera Diekmann. This is the mistress Malcher dumped shortly before his death. She claims to have received the ring on her finger from Malcher. She also confirms that she was in the store's office at the time of the robbery. She continues to report the alleged phone call from the police immediately before the attack. She saw the man through the surveillance monitor, but could not describe him because the image quality was too poor. However, Malcher took a step towards the perpetrator, and she could no longer follow what was going on because it was outside the camera angle. She testifies that Malcher was still alive and injured after the attack. He had sent her away because both of them had expected the police to arrive soon after the previous call and they wanted to avoid unpleasant questions about their just ended affair.

Due to the perpetrator's approach of calling beforehand and pretending to be a police officer, the police come across Norbert Zwingli, known as "Fluppy", who has carried out acts based on this pattern in the past. Based on testimony, Fluppy could soon be arrested near the last crime scene. He swears that he had nothing to do with the death of the jeweler but that he came into the shop by chance and took advantage of the situation by stealing jewelry.

Walther and Hassert don't know who to believe, Vera Diekmann, Fluppy or neither. The two also consider it possible that both are telling the truth, that Malcher was actually still alive when Vera Diekmann left and was already dead when Fluppy arrived. According to this, an unknown person should have killed Malcher, and this should also have stolen the family jewelry, because Fluppy had stated that he had only taken cash, but no family jewelry.

Vera Diekmann is questioned again by Walther and Hassert after Malcher's funeral and can remember that when she left the shop she was almost hit by a car that hit it very quickly. Mr. Wrangel is identified as the holder.

Walther and Hassert go to Wrangel and confront him with the allegation that the latter stole his wife's jewelry because he was in great financial difficulties. Wrangel has no alibi and refuses to testify, so that he is provisionally arrested for the murder of Malcher. Wrangel hangs himself in his cell shortly afterwards.

Fluppy takes the chance and instead of Wrangel lies down in the coffin. During the transport he manages to escape.

Walther has to deliver the news of his death to Frau Wrangel. Since she doesn't want to go home, where everything has been searched by the police, Walther lets Mrs. Wrangel stay with him. Fluppy seeks out Ms. Wrangel and wants to suggest a "deal" to her because her husband would have ruined his tour by killing Malcher and stealing jewelry.

Walther's superiors speculate about another attack by Fluppy after his known scam in order to get money for an escape from West Berlin . Meanwhile, Ms. Wrangel appears at the Presidium and testifies that her husband killed Malcher and stole the jewelry. She doesn't know what he did with it. But neither Hassert nor the superiors believe her.

Hassert can determine that the jewelry didn't belong to the Wrangels at all, but to an old lady named Homberg. Walther and his colleagues visit Mrs. Homberg, who says that Mrs. Wrangel is her great niece. Mrs. Homberg has just returned from a trip to New York, while Mrs. Wrangel had a key to the apartment. When Walther informs her that the jewelry has been stolen, she shows him the jewelry that is in the right place in the apartment.

Walther and Hassert combine that the Wrangels secretly loaned the jewelry while the old lady was away. When the lady, who actually wanted to stay in New York for six months, announced her early return, the Wrangels had to get the jewelry back sooner. Since they did not have the financial means to buy the jewelry, but they did not want to be disinherited by the old lady, Mr. Wrangel forcibly took back the jewelry.

When Walther wants to fly from Tegel Airport to the course in West Germany, he accidentally discovers Fluppy at the airport, whom he arrests. Walther discovers a telephone number at Fluppy, which belongs to a jewelry store. Walther realizes that Fluppy wants to carry out another robbery according to his own scheme, but this time someone else has the robbery carried out.

Hassert and his colleagues set a trap for the perpetrator, who turns out to be Ms. Wrangel. During the interrogation, Walther asks what Fluppy has in hand against her. Ms. Wrangel confesses to having committed the attack on Malcher herself, and her husband tried to protect her with his silence and suicide . She saw no other option because her great-aunt would have disinherited her if she had learned that the jewelry had been borrowed behind her back. Her husband didn't know anything, including that Mrs. Wrangel had secretly borrowed the jewelry.

However, Ms. Wrangel says that she hit Malcher only once with the candlestick and only hit him lightly. He was just dazed when she escaped from the business. According to the autopsy , Malcher had received a light and a severe, fatal second blow.

Walther believes her and suspects that the shot mistress Vera Diekmann, who was upstairs at the time of the attack, took the opportunity to kill Malcher in revenge. He arranges a local appointment with Ms. Diekmann. This demonstrates how she left the shop through the back door. She didn't have a key, so she didn't lock the back door. When Fluppy tried to escape, the door was locked. The only one who has a spare key for the back door is Ms. Malcher, who immediately confesses the act after Walther and Hassert arrives and has already packed her suitcase for detention. She knew the police would find out about her.

Audience rating

When it was first broadcast, this episode was able to reach 19.27 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 53%.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm judge this crime scene: "This TV scam lacks sophistication".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for the crime scene: Fluppy's mesh . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 177920 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. scene: Fluppys mesh data 145. crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  3. Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 10, 2019.