Crime scene: lousy tricks

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Lousy tricks
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company
SDR
length 93 minutes
classification Episode 169 ( List )
First broadcast May 26th 1985 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
production Bertram Vetter
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Christa Kemnitz
occupation

Lousy Tricks is the 169th episode of the Tatort television series . The episode produced by Süddeutscher Rundfunk was broadcast for the first time on May 26, 1985 in the first program of ARD . For chief detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ) it is the 15th and penultimate case. It's about a bank robbery and the alleged hostage being involved in it.

action

In the Intercity from Hamburg to Karlsruhe, Erich Wessel meets the accountant Gerda Pommer. When she goes to the toilet for a moment, he reads her address from her suitcase, he later invites her to dinner on the train and takes her home by taxi in Karlsruhe before he says discreetly goodbye to her. In the near future, Wessel observes Gerda and can thus reconstruct her daily routine. One evening he stands in front of her door with flowers and spends the evening with her. When Gerda Pommer enters a bank branch some time later, it is attacked by a masked gangster, who takes her hostage. In front of the bank, the perpetrator shoots a young man who stands in his way. He unmasked himself in the car he was using to escape, it was Erich Wessel. He lets her drive him to a parking garage, there he releases her and gets into his own car, with which he continues the escape. Gerda Pommer notifies the police, Lutz, who was entrusted with the case with his assistant Wagner, asks them, Gerda only gives Lutz a vague description of the person, that she recognized the bank robber, she does not tell him. Lutz is surprised that the gangster knew which car she had to flee in, he suspects that the perpetrator observed her in front of the bank and targeted her as a hostage. Wagner is puzzled that Gerda only notified the police thirteen minutes after her release, but Lutz, in shock, considers this to be normal. Shortly thereafter, Wagner finds out that Gerda Pommer did not have an account at the bank, but Lutz considers this to be unsuspicious.

Gerda Pommer is approached shortly afterwards in a restaurant by Friedel Grossmann, who is small and who wins her trust. Lutz's Sandhäuser employee, who has Gerda in mind, observes this and reports the encounter to Lutz. Wagner sees in this the proof that Gerda was an accomplice of the perpetrator, Lutz assumes a coincidence, meanwhile Gerda and Grossmann get closer, observed by Sandhäuser, Grossmann brings Gerda home. Lutz and Wagner brood over Grossmann's motive to approach Gerda, Grossmann has several criminal records as a marriage swindler. Grossmann meets with Gerda in the evening and shows her an allegedly inherited chemical formula that can be used to preserve cut flowers and shows her that he needs start-up capital for this. She is enthusiastic about the business idea and brings her ideas to the table. Gerda then contacts Wessel and demands her share in the bank robbery because she wants to get into Grossmann's business, although Wessel had agreed with her not to apportion the money until one year after the bank robbery. The money transfer takes place in the tram under the eyes of Sandhäuser, but he was unable to register Wessel for a personal description.

Under the eyes of the police, Gerda Pommer drives to the casino in Bad Dürkheim and plays a little to disguise the origin of the money and make it look like a casino win. Then she wants to set up a company with Grossmann to market his business idea, she demands two thirds of the shares for herself, Grossmann agrees. When Gerda wants to open the business account with Grossmann at the bank, she is arrested by Lutz and Wagner, but the officials cannot prove anything to Grossmann because he obviously knew nothing about the bank robbery and the evidence for another marriage fraud he planned is insufficient. Lutz and Wagner hold against Gerda that, based on the observation, they could understand that she had not actually played in the casino, but had always placed her chips in such a way that she got exactly her stake back. Gerda does not want to reveal the identity of her accomplice, as she gives him credit for having paid her the agreed share instead of disappearing with the booty alone. Lutz reveals to the surprised Gerda that her accomplice had by no means paid out a third of the loot to her, as the two had agreed, but only gave her ten percent. In the press, the amount of the loot was deliberately lower than that of imitators to animate. The disappointed Gerda does not give the name of her accomplice, but promises the officers to lead her to him because she wants to be there when the arrest is made. She brings the officers to Erich Wessel's apartment. When trying to escape, Wessel shoots an officer before he can be shot. Mortally injured, he assures Gerda that he had not cheated on her. Lutz thereupon admits to having tricked her and telling her the wrong amount of booty in order to find out from her the identity of her accomplice.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 12.95 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 37%. The episode was filmed in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Bad Dürkheim between March 12 and April 13, 1984.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: "Crime with a subtle perpetrator-victim theme".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Lousy Tricks data for the 169th Tatort at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ^ Tatort: Lousy Tricks Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 13, 2015.