Crime scene: In sight

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title In sight
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
classification Episode 548 ( List )
First broadcast November 23, 2003 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Peter Fratzscher
script Sabine Bühring
Peter Fratzscher
production Bernd Burgemeister
music JJ Gerndt
camera Alexander Fischerkoesen
cut Dirk Göhler
occupation

The aim is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The report produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk was first broadcast on November 23, 2003 as the 36th case of the investigative team Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger in the first program of ARD .

action

The building contractor and CEO Max Claudius is shot in his Jaguar in front of the garage of his villa after a business lunch with his sister Veronika and his house banker Robert Malberg . The masked perpetrator shot the man who was just returning home. The inspectors Batic and Leitmayr are called to the crime scene and investigate. First, they inquire at the victim's company and learn of economic difficulties. For larger companies, the Claudius works represent a certain amount of competition, but hostility that extends to murder is unlikely.

Michael Hirlinger is out with his sister Lisa in the early morning and finds a pistol in an overturned garbage can. Without thinking too much, he takes it, although his sister warns him. On the same day, the owner of the garbage can is targeted by the investigators, because the farmer Benedikt Moosbach had recently assaulted Claudius. After a land sale, he became a small co-shareholder and felt betrayed by the victim. After a balaclava , a jammer that presumably put Claudius' garage door out of order, and gloves were found in his garbage can and the investigators learned that Moosbach's brother had recently hanged himself because of the money lost at the Claudius factory, they wanted to arrest him, but he takes flight and goes into hiding.

Michael Hirlinger, who has just become unemployed, had the idea of ​​robbing a bank when he owned the gun. Since his sister works in the “Malbergbank”, he lets her in on his plan, and in order to finally escape the simple social milieu into which she was born, she agrees. However, the bank robbery does not go as smoothly as Hirlinger thought it would. So he holed up in the bank building and took the employees hostage. The elite police officer Hannes Mross, whom Leitmayr still knows from the police school, also belongs to the incoming SEK , headed by Police Director Huber. He is also in charge of the practical operations management and has the surveillance cameras in the bank tapped so that he can “see” the hostage situation. The weapon is quickly analyzed and linked to the murder of Claudius, which means that Moosbach is now believed to be the hostage-taker. The fact that the “Malbergbank” is the house bank of Claudius AG also speaks for it. Police director Huber therefore calls in Batic and Leitmayr.

A first attempt to storm the bank goes wrong and Hirlinger shoots one of the SEK officers in the leg. The bank employee Gabi Grünberg then suffers a severe asthma attack from excitement. In exchange for the sick woman and an accompanying person, Leitmayr goes to the bank. He quickly notices that the hostage-taker is not Moosbach and is actually overwhelmed with the situation. So he tells him about the murder of Claudius and that he would now also be taken for a murderer.

Meanwhile, Batic finds out that Moosbach is innocent and can track him down. With this information he wants to influence the strategy of the SEK to use the final rescue shot , which does not seem to succeed, because the hostage-taker is still held responsible for the brutal murder of Claudius. Since the requested getaway car is ready, everyone is preparing to end the hostage situation, which could be fatal for Hirlinger. Leitmayr can get the hostage taker to give up at the last moment.

Batic finds out that Albert Potter, the current managing director of Claudius AG, wanted to get the old boss out of the way in order to run the business himself. The DNA comparison with the balaclava and gloves proves this, so he admits it. At the same time he accuses Veronika Claudius of instigating him to murder, which he can also prove. Both are then arrested.

reception

Audience ratings

The first broadcast of Im Visier on November 23, 2003 was seen by 9.36 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 26.3% for Das Erste .

Reviews

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm give the thumbs up on this crime scene and say: "At first only solid investigative work, but then the tension builds up." Conclusion: "Three fates, three milieus, good crime thriller."

“There is simply a lot in it 'in this 36th' crime scene 'by Batic and Leitmayr: the usual murder, a meticulously portrayed bank robbery, a SEK mission, the escape of a suspect and in the end even the conscience-plagued Leitmayr can be made hostage. 'In Sight' is the classic 'crime scene' for use. No prize contender, just good crime thriller entertainment with a sympathetic and courageous, but never too humane investigative duo and two tragic characters who bind the viewer emotionally to the film. "

- Rainer Tittelbach : Tittelbach.tv

Depiction of police tactics

The spokesman for the Munich Police Headquarters, Peter Reichl, criticized the betrayal of tactical details that a SEK showed in a bank robbery with hostage-taking .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In sight. Crime scene fund, accessed on May 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ TV feature film : TV crime thriller, murder, hostage-taking and a chain of circumstances. Film review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on August 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Series "Tatort - In the Visier". Tittelbach.tv, accessed on May 19, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jörg Schallenberg: Nothing but the truth. taz , November 26, 2003, accessed on May 22, 2015 : “Seen 'crime scene'? The police too. And she's not amused: He was too realistic for her. "
  5. ↑ Christian Rost: "Tatort" reveals no secret at sueddeutsche.de.
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