Crime scene: dangerous bedbugs

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Dangerous bedbugs
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 95 minutes
classification Episode 43 ( List )
First broadcast September 29, 1974 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Wolfgang crowd
production Reinhart Müller-Freienfels , Gottfried Deker
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Willy Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

Dangerous Bugs is the 43rd episode of the Tatort television series . The premiere of the South German Radio result produced took place on 29 September 1974 First of ARD . For Chief Detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ) it is his fourth case. It's about the outbreak of two prisoners, industrial espionage and a murder in this context.

action

The gangsters Scholl and van Ammen, who have just broken out of the Bruchsal prison , knock down a driver in a motorway parking lot and rob his car. Scholl was convicted of robbery and grievous bodily harm, van Ammen was convicted of murder. Scholl wants to go to Karlsruhe ; as van Ammen does not want to take him there, contrary to the agreement, the two gangsters quarrel, Scholl grabs van Ammen in the steering wheel, the car comes off the lane and lands upside down in the ditch. Scholl climbs out of the car, slightly dazed, takes the gun and coat from the motionless Van Ammen and disappears without bothering about his previous accomplice. Shortly afterwards, Scholl takes a driver hostage in order to continue his escape. He can be taken until shortly before Karlsruhe, takes the money from the woman and threatens her in the event that she informs the police or anyone else about the incident. Lutz and his colleagues appear at the scene of the accident; the driver from whom the car, jacket and coat were stolen is also there. Van Ammen is dead. The lack of the coat that Scholl is now wearing is discovered. Scholl also took the driver's papers with him. Lutz is able to reconstruct the facts and suspects that Scholl did not want to leave the motorway in the direction of Frankfurt, but rather at this point in order to change direction to the south.

Scholl visits an oil refinery near Karlsruhe and sneaks onto the site. Lutz is there too, who wants to speak to the head of the security service there, Mr. Wöhrle. Wöhrle and Lutz know each other from before, as Wöhrle used to be with the police. He had to quit the police service because he was violent against Scholl as a suspect. Lutz asks Wöhrle if he knew that Scholl had fled. At the time, he threatened to finish Wöhrle as soon as he was out again. Lutz fears that he can carry out the threat now, but Wöhrle is not afraid. Scholl takes part in a tour of the refinery premises. Lutz's superior, Oberrat Mangold, is convinced that Scholl has fled to France; Lutz, on the other hand, is convinced that Scholl is still in Germany and wants to take revenge on Wöhrle. In addition, Scholl does not speak a word of French, so that he cannot work or live in France. Mangold does not listen to Lutz and concentrates the search on the French border. Scholl is meanwhile looking for a restaurant, but he only finds one that is closed. The landlord Witkowsky lets him in anyway and cooks for him. Witkowsky has recognized Scholl as an escaping convict, but does not show anything. Scholl notices that Witkowsky is remarkably well dressed for a landlord and has an expensive watch. Scholl wants to pay, but Witkowsky invites him. Meanwhile, Lutz calls Wöhrle and informs him that the car driver who Scholl had forced to take him with her has reported as a witness. This confirms Lutz in his conviction that Scholl wants to Wöhrle, and he urges his former colleague to be careful.

The next morning, however, Scholl was found dead in front of a police station in downtown Karlsruhe. Apparently he was run over, but there are no signs of an accident, so Lutz assumes that the body must have been run over on purpose and then deposited in front of the station. Senior Councilor Mangold reprimanded Lutz for classifying the obvious traffic accident of a violent criminal as murder and thus neglecting other cases. Lutz still follows the trail with his assistant Bechthold. He goes to the area where he last suspected Scholl to be near the refinery, and both of them go to the few restaurants in the area because he must have eaten something. However, the investigations remain without result.

Lutz goes to Wöhrle again and tells him that he is convinced that Scholl was murdered. He couldn't have been stupid enough to walk around in front of a police station. Lutz routinely asks Wöhrle whether Scholl had found him; Wöhrle denies this. Lutz assures him that he believes him. However, there was sand on Scholl's shoes that can only be found at the refinery. So it doesn't look good for Wöhrle. Lutz takes a soil sample at the refinery. Meanwhile, Bechthold is turning on the radio and can hear voices from the refinery's laboratory that are apparently bugged. Bechthold informs Lutz about his discovery. Lutz is looking for the manager of the refinery, Dr. Stockinger, and demonstrates to him that the laboratory and possibly also the executive offices are bugged. Dr. Stockinger meets with Lutz in a bug-proof restaurant, but says that he cannot imagine the competition using such means. Besides, they don't have very many secrets. Haferkamp's assistant Kreutzer is brought to the meeting by Lutz. He has been a specialist in radio technology since the Second World War and screened the laboratory for bugs. Meanwhile, Lutz has another conversation with Wöhrle. He says his alibi is not watertight, he was alone that evening and theoretically could have left the site over the fence past the gatekeeper. Lutz continues to believe in Wöhrle's innocence, because he would hardly have deposited the body in front of the police headquarters.

Lutz notices an unknown man outside and tries to follow him. But they learn from the porter that it is Dr. Benz, a chemist employed there, is acting, who must have forgotten something. Meanwhile, Kreutzer discovers the bugs. The bugs would have an operating time of 50 to 60 hours, which means he must have regular access to the refinery. Lutz asks Wöhrle about Benz; he is a bachelor, seems to be wealthy “inherently”, dresses elegantly, drives expensive cars, affords expensive vacation trips and previously worked at the headquarters in Hamburg. Mangold is once again upset about Lutz's investigation and cannot see any connection between the "accident" at Scholl and the industrial espionage case. Lutz takes the hypothesis that Benz installed the bugs and that Scholl knew about industrial espionage. Obviously, Scholl wanted to earn a little, so Benz had to get Scholl out of the way. Lutz travels to his colleague Trimmel in Hamburg to do research on Benz's past. Trimmel knows, however, as a criminal record for Dr. To report Benz only one because of drunkenness in traffic, which Lutz does not go further. However, it is strange that Benz was transferred from Hamburg to Karlsruhe in the same position, i.e. without having received a promotion for the change of location. Meanwhile, Bechthold and Kreutzer are looking for the receiving station for the micro-transmitters. Kreutzer thinks that a motorboat can also be used as a mobile station, as you could escape when things get tough. Lutz seeks out a specialist in bed bugs whom Trimmel recommended and who shows him the latest technology and shows him the consequences of industrial espionage. The man gives Lutz some tips on how to better monitor his suspect with technical help.

Back in Karlsruhe, Lutz and Kreutzer bring the transmitter he brought with him from Hamburg to Dr. Benz on. Lutz speaks to Wöhrle, but he cannot help him with the lives of other employees at the refinery because he works for an external company. Lutz informs him that he still lists him as a suspect in the death of Scholl. Benz nervously phoned his girlfriend, whom he urgently wanted to speak to. Then he leaves the refinery, Lutz and Kreutzer are on his heels. Dr. Benz drives to the nuclear research center and meets his girlfriend there in the canteen. He doesn't want to be seen with his girlfriend for a while, because the police suspect him of industrial espionage. His girlfriend doesn't understand because she doesn't consider her research to be a secret. She always passed the documents about her results on to Benz without hesitation and had never thought that he could make any money with them. She seems to be starting to suspect. Lutz asks a woman from the cafeteria staff who this woman is; it was the employee of the research center, Miss Melchinger. Benz and Melchinger get into an argument, but she finally agrees to forward her documents to him because he needs them for his research. Lutz seeks out the managing director of the nuclear research center; but he trusts his employee Melchinger.

Benz visits the landlord Witkowsky, whom he obviously knows well and with whom he seems to be working. Lutz and Kreutzer, however, followed Miss Melchinger because she is driving Benz's car while Benz is taking a taxi. On instructions from Benz, Melchinger drives to Witkowsky, whom she does not know. Witkowsky asks her to hand over the requested documents, but the matter seems strange to her. Witkowsky and Melchinger come from Witkowsky's restaurant and drive away in his car. Lutz recognizes Witkowsky, but cannot assign him. You follow the two. Lutz remembers that Witkowsky is the host of the Rhine Terraces. Lutz and Kreutzer follow them to a hut on the Rhine; Lutz wants to access there. Witkowsky flees, but after a short chase steers his car into the Rhine. Lutz frees Miss Melchinger, whom Witkowsky has locked in the hut. Benz is there too. Benz claims that Witkowsky killed Scholl, he saw it himself. Lutz arrests them both, Benz assures his girlfriend that he has nothing to do with industrial espionage, Melchinger states that she only gave him the information for his habilitation. Bechthold informs Lutz that Witkowsky is probably dead, divers are requested. Benz receives a phone call that Lutz overhears.

Lutz goes to Wöhrle. Lutz heard that it was he who called Benz. Thus it is proven that Wöhrle was involved in industrial espionage, but he has nothing to do with the murder of Scholl. At the time, Lutz had observed how Wöhrle had warned Benz. Wöhrle must be the main culprit, because Benz also had a bug in his phone. So Benz had nothing to do with the bugs, everyone had put them up. Wöhrle does not deny any of the allegations; he also admits that Benz worked for him and his accomplices. He is unmoved because there is no complaint about industrial espionage. Lutz takes Wöhrle to the Presidium, where Mangold is quite angry about Lutz's investigative work. Lutz, on the other hand, presents Wöhrle as the boss of the gang, who, however, cannot be harmed much because there is no complaint for industrial espionage. Mangold then informed Lutz that a complaint had been received, whereupon Lutz said that this was the first time that he had heard positive news from Mangold.

Special features and audience rating

In the crime scene dangerous bugs two later crime scene investigators are involved. Dietz-Werner Steck , who twenty years later played the Stuttgart crime scene inspector Ernst Bienzle , can be seen as the gatekeeper, while Karl-Heinz von Hassel , who later became the Frankfurt inspector Edgar Brinkmann , played an escaped prisoner. Furthermore, the later Matula Claus Theo Gärtner from the ZDF series Ein Fall für Zwei plays an escaped prisoner and the later director Göttmann of SOKO 5113 , Werner Kreindl , an industrial spy. The director of many Tatort episodes, Rolf von Sydow , can also be seen as an industrial spy.

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted viewers with a market share of 59%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Dangerous bugs data for the 43rd crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
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