Crime scene: free swimmers
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Free swimmers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
MDR |
| length | 87 minutes |
| classification | Episode 612 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 30, 2005 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Metzger |
| script | Mario Giordano , Andreas Schlueter |
| production | Günter Klebingat |
| music | Mick Builder |
| camera | Peter Nix |
| cut | Margrit Schulz |
| occupation | |
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Freischwimmer is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The contribution produced by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk was first broadcast on October 30, 2005 in the Das Erste program . It's about the crime scene episode 612. For Ehrlicher and Kain , played by Peter Sodann and Bernd Michael Lade , their 39th joint case is about the death of a young man with Down's syndrome and diabetes in a swimming pool.
action
Summer in Leipzig : young people have fun in the outdoor pool. Alexandra and her boyfriend Mike retreat behind the changing rooms to get intimate. Alexandra's brother Leo, a teenager with Down syndrome, is being teased by a group of youngsters. Shortly afterwards, Leo lies dead in the swimming pool, he drowned. Nobody in the swimming pool wants to see anything. Cain asks Leo's sister Alexandra, Leo went to the outdoor pool with a supervised group for young people with Down syndrome. Leo's mother Bettina Stein, a city councilor in Leipzig, told Ehrlicher that there were threats against the disabled youth in the district. Ralf Salchow and his group harassed the young people. Ehrlicher and Kain question the pool employee, Lutz Baader, who pulled Leo out of the pool. He didn't see anything, but also says that Ralf Salchow's group was constantly causing trouble in the outdoor pool. Lutz Baader was once an Olympic swimmer and won bronze for the GDR in Seoul in 1988 , after which he was banned from the swimming team. The lifeguard says that Leo wrangled with the youngsters, but Leo could always have defended himself because he was strong enough. He and the supervisor both say that Leo was an excellent swimmer. Cain questions Mike Bader, the only one from Ralf's group who did not escape when the police arrived, but Mike supposedly knows nothing.
There was a case against Ralf Salchow for assault, Walter finds out that Leo should have testified as a witness against Salchow. Cain seeks out Salchow's father, who says that he can hardly get close to Ralf, but he doesn't trust him to murder. Ralf comes home, but flees when he sees Cain, but Cain can still arrest him. Ralf says that although he and his people annoyed Leo, he didn’t do anything to him, the “Mongo” was probably “too stupid to swim”. He also denies having threatened Leo's mother Bettina Stein anonymously. Walter reports to Ehrlicher and Kain that it was an atypical drowning because only chlorinated water was found in his lungs. Normally, a drowning person comes to the surface again and can breathe air. So Leo must have been pushed under the water surface. Leo was diabetic and was given too much insulin shortly before he died, causing him to feel slightly dizzy. Meanwhile, Ralf and Mike have an argument. Since Mike is in a relationship with Alexandra, he does not want to participate in Ralf's war against the Stein family, which Ralf accuses of trying to accuse him of murder. Ehrlicher and Kain visit the Steins, Ehrlicher informs Bettina Stein about the overdose of insulin that Leo had been given. Bettina shows Ehrlicher the threatening letters and repeatedly accuses Ralf Salchow of having killed her son. Alexandra tells Kain that Leo was able to inject insulin himself. Maybe he injected himself because his supervisor wanted to buy him an ice cream. Martin Stein, the teacher at the school that Salchow's clique also goes to, testifies that the latter despises everything that is alien to him, including people with disabilities.
Meanwhile, Lutz Baader, Mike's father, visits Bettina Stein and talks about an agreement that both of them have. She harshly rejects him, saying they have no agreement. Meanwhile, Leo's supervisor says that Leo didn't know he was getting an ice cream, so it wouldn't make sense to inject more insulin. The supervisor believes Leo made an accident. The director of Stein's school tells Cain that Martin Stein was psychologically attacked. He and his wife wanted to get a divorce. The students danced on his nose that the quality of his lessons had deteriorated because everything at home would depend on him. That's why he was on sick leave. Shortly thereafter, Stein asks the principal to withdraw the leave of absence, but the principal urges Stein to get help and recover before returning to school. Stein disappears but is later admitted to hospital after attempting suicide. Ehrlicher and Cain question him and accuse him of lying to her. He had testified that he was in the school library when his son died. He admits to having been in the swimming pool. But he left it shortly before the death of his son. Afterwards, Cain hypothesized that Alexandra injected Leo and Mike drowned him to get rid of him. Meanwhile, Salchow wants to win back Mike for his clique and threatens to tell Alexandra that he was also present in the attack on the autistic Ben, which Leo had prevented. Mike is beaten up by the gang, Alexandra comes to her boyfriend's aid.
Cain looks for Alexandra and tells Alexandra on the head that she injected the overdose. She admits it crying, but says that she did not want to kill her brother under any circumstances. She just gave him an overdose because he was so overdriven. She bought him an ice cream immediately afterwards to make up for the overdose. Cain questions Ben because he was angry with Leo because of a misunderstanding. But his supervisor intervenes and informs Kain that Ben cannot even swim. Ehrlicher learns from a female bather that Bettina Stein was also in the outdoor pool shortly before the death of her son, she had discussed something with Lutz Baader, Mike's father. He doesn't want to say what they'd discussed, though. Bettina Stein looks up more honestly, she admits that she was in the swimming pool with Lutz Baader, she left the bath immediately afterwards without having seen her son. She was also flashed on the way back to the town hall. Ehrlicher and Kain can verify this shortly afterwards. Salchow and his gang meanwhile set fire to the home for the disabled. At the scene of the crime, the young people leave Mike Baader's cell phone behind.
Kain can determine that Bettina Stein campaigned for a handicapped project in the district, but Lutz Baader was against it because he was speculating on the construction of a luxury hotel where he could have taken over the wellness area. Lutz Baader is unemployed and works in the outdoor pool as a 1 euro jobber . In addition, Lutz Baader and Bettina Stein were together in the GDR swimming squad at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . Baader was then excluded from the team, allegedly because he got along too well with the West German swimmers. Kain suspects that Bettina Stein could have something to do with his expulsion and the end of his career. Ehrlicher and Kain find Mike's cell phone at the scene of the arson attack. Cain seeks out Mike, who testified that he and Ralf Salchow had annoyed Ben and that Salchow had freaked out and became violent. Leo recognized Mike, but kept silent because he is her sister's friend. Mike denies a motive for the murder of Leo both for himself and for his father. Bettina Stein asks more honestly, she admits that she and Lutz Baader had a relationship. She was jealous because he had hooked up with a West German swimmer at the Olympic Games. She said this to the coach, which is why Lutz Baader was kicked out of the team. She later regretted this and often helped Baader, but it was like a “car without a motor”, you could push so much, but after a few meters it stopped again. So she didn't want to help him anymore, Baader was angry about it.
The witness Heidi, who Ehrlicher met in the swimming pool, testifies that Baader had come out of the water with Leo and yelled “ambulance, ambulance”, but she did not see that he jumped in. Mike and Salchow clash again in the swimming pool, Lutz Baader comes to his son's aid and pushes Salchow under water for a few seconds. The autistic Ben, who is present, testifies that Baader Salchow pressed under water for 21 seconds, Leo had held Baader under water for 53 seconds. Ehrlicher and Cain interrogate Baader, who denies the act and states that the testimony of a mentally disabled person is worthless. Mike Baader arrives and says he saw his father in the water. He asks his father if he had killed Leo, who just keeps silent about his son. Bettina Stein would have taught her son to call him "garbage man". Lutz Baader was furious about this and pushed him under water to give him a lesson. Since he did not know about the insulin overdose, he had expected resistance, which did not materialize. Lutz Baader is being led away.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast, this Tatort episode had 8.19 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 22.90%.
Web links
- Free float in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action of free swimmers on the ARD website
- Free swimmers at the crime scene fund
- Freischwimmer at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freischwimmer data at tatort-fundus.de
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