Crime scene: crooked dogs

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Crooked dogs
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 Colonia Media
on behalf of the WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 699 ( List )
First broadcast May 18, 2008 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Manfred Stelzer
script Stefan Cantz
Jan Hinter
production Sonja Goslicki
music Lutz Kerschowski
camera Marco Uggiano
cut Bernd Schriever
occupation

Crooked Dogs is a television film from the crime series crime scene . The film was produced by WDR and Colonia Media and was broadcast for the first time on May 18, 2008. It is the 13th case with Axel Prahl and Jan Josef Liefers as Münster investigators Thiel and Boerne . This 699th episode in the crime scene series is about two murders that were committed to cover up the illegal machinations of a company owner and about some confusion in Boerne's family.

action

A male corpse is found in a construction pit, wearing only underpants and puncture wounds in the back. Since the man fell face down in acid, he cannot be identified. However, he wears a striking, fresh dog tattoo on his neck and a large Great Dane watches over the place where it was found, which "Alberich" takes care of personally.

Boerne succeeds in reconstructing the deceased's facial features with a computer program, and Thiel immediately notices an amazing resemblance to the professor. Boerne himself is surprised and discovers a special birthmark on the corpse that has been inherited in his family for generations. Since his wealthy uncle is about to celebrate his 100th birthday, Boerne speculates that a potential inheritance should possibly be eliminated here, and immediately suspects his cousin Henriette.

When Alberich is taking “Wotan” for a walk, she discovers a memory card in his legacy. After this has been cleaned, there are intimate photos on it, which could indicate that the dead man worked as a detective or wanted to blackmail someone. One of the photos shows a taxi. This enables Thiel to determine who was photographed there. The trail leads him to the villa of the entrepreneurial family Rummel. In the marriage of Sabine and Markus Rummel, it seems to crumble despite the clean facade. After all, the photos taken by the detective show that the family man and his new assistant Christine Schauer have more in common than just an employment relationship. The dead person is identified as the private detective Peter Mang, who used to work for Rummel in the security department. So he can also find out its address and looks around there. It appears that he was stabbed in his apartment. Just as Thiel finds a Belarusian newspaper on the floor, a young man comes into the apartment, who immediately runs away when he sees Thiel. With Boerne's help, however, he can arrest him. It's about the tattoo artist Jan Cievic. The latter admits to having had an argument with Mang, but the cause was no reason to kill him.

Thiel visits Markus Rummel in his company and asks him about Peter Mang, but he initially denies that he was monitored and blackmailed by this detective. However, he later admits it. Because Rummel was about to clean things up with his wife, Mang could not blackmail him. Thiel met Alfred Wesskamp, ​​a former factory worker and older friend of the Rummel family, several times. From him, Thiel learns that the company, under the leadership of Markus Rummel, has got into financial difficulties. Surprisingly, Wesskamp is found dead in his gazebo a short time later. Barbiturates in connection with alcohol are also found here as the cause of death, similar to Peter Mang. He was apparently on the trail of industrial espionage. There are signs of wiretapping between Rummel and business partner de Bruin, a man known for spectacular corporate takeovers. Wesskamp was also explicitly against a company sale.

Since Professor Boerne looks very similar to the murdered private detective and this fact continues to concern him, he is investigating this case again on his own. So he finds photos of Mang and his mother in Mang's apartment, whereupon Boerne asks his uncle about the lady. Henriette also has to admit that Mang called a few days ago and wanted to speak to his father. So she met with him in his apartment and had to accept the striking birthmark as proof that she belonged to the family. Mang wanted to be recognized as a prodigal son at the birthday party. However, Boerne's uncle confesses to his nephew that he has been unable to conceive since he was 15 due to an "X-ray accident" and that he therefore cannot be the father of this detective.

Boerne wants to interview Peter Mang's mother directly, who lives in a retirement home, but she is currently in a clinic. On the cupboard is a photo of her and Boerne's father, which convinces him that the dead man was his half-brother. He learns that Mang entrusted his mother with an audio cassette, which Boerne then steals. When he wants to tell Thiel about it, he can only speak to him on the mailbox, which, however, is tapped and deleted by Christine Schauer, Rummel's secretary. When she tries to take the evidence from Boerne, she almost kills him. On the tape is a conversation between Hendrik de Bruin and Christine Schauer. Accordingly, she wants to sell him the company's patents for twelve million in Rummel's name. In this way the two wanted to raise a considerable amount of capital before bankruptcy. In view of the looming burden of proof, the hype and showers want to move abroad, but Thiel can prevent the escape. Schauer admits to having committed both murders. Mang had wanted to blackmail them directly with the cassette and Wesskamp had found out about the illegal deals and wanted to make it public. Therefore, she silenced both men in the same way as she had murdered someone in Flensburg in 1998, as Thiel and Boerne were able to investigate on the side.

background

The episode was shot in Cologne as well as in Münster and the surrounding area. Gymnich Castle near Erftstadt served as the backdrop for the uncle's retirement home, both inside and outside .

reception

Audience rating

When it first aired on May 18, 2008, the Tatort episode, Crooked Dogs, chased a total of 7.85 million people, corresponding to an audience rating of 23.4 percent.

Reviews

Kino.de describes this crime scene episode as “entertaining thriller (s)” and says “this time too, the story has so many side scenes to offer that it almost goes beyond the scope”. This means Thiel's lost bet, the actions of his father, prosecutor Klemm's attempts to quit smoking, the problems with the telephone system and of course Karl-Friedrich Boerne's snappy and funny comments.

"Of course, Karl-Friedrich Boerne has the best dialogues again, who encourages his short assistant to ride to work on Wotan."

- kino.de

Tittelbach.tv finds that the crime case actually counts less than the subplots. Also, “the exchange of blows between the two fighters” turns out to be much more cautious than usual, which is quite good and opens up other scenes “to make you smile”. It is fascinating "the abstruse-comic web of this story" from many subplots, such as, among others, "the cultivated legacy of Börne or the unraveling of the relationship with the dead", which provide an "absurd keynote".

"Crime milestones are not to be expected from the 'Tatort' from Münster, but an entertaining TV evening seems almost certain when Grumpy Bear Thiel and Oberschnösel Börne go on a murder hunt."

- Rainer Tittelbach : tittelbach.tv

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus
  2. ^ Film review at kino.de , accessed May 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ Crime scene: Crooked dogs at tittelbach.tv . May 18, 2008, accessed May 12, 2013.
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