Scene of the crime: No tricks, Mr. Bülow

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title No tricks, Herr Bülow
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 219 ( List )
First broadcast May 28, 1989 on German television
Rod
Director Jürgen Roland
script Harald Vock
production Andrä Kubaile
music Birger Heymann
camera Axel de Roche
cut Friederike Badekow
occupation

No tricks, Mr. Bülow is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on May 28, 1989 on ARD. It is the fifth crime scene with Chief Detective Bülow, who this time has to solve the kidnapping and murder of an acquaintance and a series of rape and murder.

action

Four armed gangsters raid a bank in downtown West Berlin . When a police officer happens to come into the bank trying to withdraw money, the gangsters open fire on him and seriously injure him. With the last of his strength, he can drag himself outside and alert his colleague waiting there, who calls for reinforcements. When this arrives, the gangsters take the bank employees and customers hostage. The injured policeman is, however, out of danger. Bülow can save the situation by approaching the hostage gangsters, informing them that they have not killed anyone and that he wants to persuade them to give up. Two of the gangsters want to shoot Bülow, but they are overwhelmed by their two accomplices, who are willing to give up, so that the hostage situation can be ended.

Back in the office, Bülow discusses a rape series with his new assistant Jellineck, for which he wants to use her as a decoy. While Bülow is having dinner with his colleague Brinkmann, Bülow is approached by a friend, Franziska Gellert, who has felt persecuted for weeks. On the same evening, another young woman is raped and murdered, the scene of the crime, as with the previous acts, is an allotment garden colony. Bülow makes it suspicious that the perpetrator did not attack the decoy, but immediately struck the next potential victim. He and his team therefore suspect that the perpetrator could be found in their own ranks, and Bülow orders a review of the officers. Meanwhile, an officer finds Franziska Gellert's abandoned cabriolet in the middle of Berlin. Bülow seeks out Franziska Gellert's sister, Nicole Mathern, who looks paralyzed and tells Bülow that her sister has been kidnapped. She claims to have received a call from the kidnapper asking for a ransom of two million Deutschmarks. Mr Gellert, who is trying to sell one of his nightclubs, reproaches his sister-in-law for informing Bülow that he strictly wanted to follow the kidnapper's instructions not to use the police. Since Bülow already knows, Mr. Gellert agrees to cooperate.

Chief Detective Jellineck is again a decoy through the allotment garden colony, always in the eye of her colleagues. Again the operation is aborted without result. The next morning, Bülow and his colleagues go to Villa Gellert to monitor the handover of the money to the kidnapper, as Mr. Gellert has decided to pay. The kidnapper sent a tape with a message from Ms. Gellert explaining the terms of the handover of the hostage. Mr. Gellert pleads with Bülow not to use any tricks. Shortly afterwards, Gellert receives a letter regarding the delivery location. Bülow and one of his assistants discover that the sandbox for the winter emergency service, in which the money is to be deposited, has a hole and that the box was placed over a manhole cover, as the kidnapper is obviously planning to use the sewer system to remove the money from the sandpit to pick up. Bülow and his men succeed in setting a trap for the kidnapper and arresting him. It is one of Gellert's domestic servants, Leo Kussow. When looking through the suitcase, it turns out that Gellert actually only provided the first note of the bundle of money with real money and the rest with paper, although he himself had asked Bülow not to commit any tricks. Kussow says that he had nothing to do with the kidnapping, but only took advantage of the kidnapping and the fact that the kidnapper did not contact him to get money. Gellert claims to have committed the trick with the money because at the last moment he was no longer sure that it was the real blackmailer. However, Gellert has received another message with specific handover arrangements at the Schlachtensee S-Bahn station and has already carried it out because the kidnappers had noticed that the police had been involved. However, despite the handover, the woman is still not free. In the meantime, Chief Detective Jellineck found out that the phone booth at the Schlachtensee S-Bahn station has been out of order for three days, so the information provided by Mr. Gellert cannot be correct.

Bülow also gets ahead in the rape case, because it is noticeable that a witness Otto Patschke was a witness in all cases. Patschke is the fiancé of the typist Ms. Heinemann from Bülow's office and thus came up with the deployment plans for the "decoys". Bülow plans to set a trap for Patschke. Jellineck goes to Patschke's house at night and pretends to be lost and to ask for directions. But again the action fails, Patschke does not take the trap. When Jellineck received the message over the radio and left Patschke's house, she was suddenly attacked by the masked rapist. The colleagues come to the rescue at the last second, but the perpetrator tries to escape, but is provided by Bülow. Under the mask of the serial rapist and murderer, there is actually Patschke. He finally admits and claims to have followed an assignment from the Lord, since the young women were all dressed "shamelessly" running around to arouse the men, so he had to do it. The next day, Franziska Gellert was found shot dead on the Berlin Wall . Brinkmann continues to inform Bülow that the location is not the crime scene. Bülow is horrified because he thought the kidnapping was just a fake.

Bülow and his team listen to the last call from Mrs. Gellert to her husband and hear the bell of an egg man in the background, which they track down. Jellineck asks the egg man where he had sold his eggs the day before, he says that the day before he only sold the street he was on, i.e. the street where the Gellerts live. Bülow goes to Gellert and arrests him on suspicion of faking a crime and murder. Bülow holds him against his debts, because of which he is close to bankruptcy. He accuses Gellert that he and his wife faked the kidnapping and that the blackmail tapes were recorded in the house. Gellert then asks for a lawyer and refuses to give further evidence. Bülow has Gellert taken away and then confronts Mrs. Gellert's sister, Nicole Mathern, with the accusation that she was involved in the simulated kidnapping and had shot her own sister because she was targeting her brother-in-law. While Gellert is packing up his things for pre-trial detention, he manages to knock down the police officer guarding him and flee. Mathern finally admits to having participated in the fake kidnapping and states that this was her sister's idea. However, she had nothing to do with the murder, that was the act of her brother-in-law. Meanwhile, Gellert tries to leave West Berlin, but fails because the city is an island. At Tegel airport police officers are already at passport control and also at the border crossing Dreilinden and the Bahnhof Zoo already search officials after him. Nicole Mathern finally admits to having had a relationship with her brother-in-law Gellert, she continues to deny the murder. In conclusion, she indicates that Gellert has a second home, in which he is not registered. The police finally storm this apartment, but there is no trace of Gellert at first. However, Bülow discovers that someone must have been in the apartment recently and that the window is open. Gellert stands outside on the ledge of the outside facade. Bülow wants to drag Gellert, who does not have a head for heights, into it, but he falls to his death. In his hand he had the money case with the alleged ransom with which he had wanted to solve his financial worries.

background

The episode was filmed in West Berlin between October 1 and November 6, 1987.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "Too many tricks for an exciting case".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the crime scene: No tricks, Mr. Bülow . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 801 V).
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​No tricks, Mr. Bülow data on the 219th crime scene at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 23, 2014.
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