Tatort: ​​Order is half the battle

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Order is half the battle
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SFB
length 87 minutes
classification Episode 165 ( List )
First broadcast January 6, 1985 on German television
Rod
Director Wolfgang Tumler
script Detlef Michel
production Horst Borasch
music Christian Kunert
camera Gérard Vandenberg
cut Friederike Badekow
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Order is half the battle is an episode of the ARD crime series Tatort . The episode produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB) was first broadcast on January 6, 1985 on ARD. It is the sixth and last crime scene with Commissioner Walther, who has to solve the death of a woman who led a double life.

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The bank employee Ulrich Wilpert reports his wife Irene to the police as missing. However, the police sent him home because he had only been waiting for his wife for five hours and they found his concern to be excessive. The next day a walker gives Wilpert Irene's handbag, which he found while walking in Grunewald. As this increases his concern, he seeks out Inspector Walther, who and his assistant Hassert arrange for the location of the handbag to be investigated. To their surprise, the officers learned that the handbag must have been lying there for two weeks, and the walker who found the handbag explained that he had cleaned it so that all potential traces should have been erased. Walther and Hassert look for Wilpert in his bank, who has no explanation for the long time the bag was lying in the Grunewald. There are also no friends with whom his wife could be, he and Irene lived very withdrawn.

When he is stuck in a traffic jam on the city freeway in the evening rush hour, Wilpert sees Irene in an unfamiliar house on the freeway, she is standing there half-naked at the window. He drives to the apartment building, but cannot find his wife there. Now convinced that Irene has left him, he removes all photos of her from the family album and burns them. The next morning Wilpert calls Walther and Hassert into the underground car park of his house, there lies the body of the dead Irene. While Walther is looking around the apartment, the coroner Hassert explains that the woman's throat was cut the night before and that she was completely bled out. Since there is hardly any blood in the underground car park, the crime scene must be somewhere else. Meanwhile, Walther is surprised that Wilpert is still setting the breakfast table for himself and his missing wife four days after his disappearance. Otherwise he left everything as it was before Irene disappeared. Walther asks Wilpert about his alibi for the time of the crime, but he doesn't have one. Wilpert denies having anything to do with the death of his wife and tells Walther that he has confidence in Walther's work, that he will find the perpetrator. Walther tests Wilpert by asking him what was on TV the previous evening, since Wilpert had stated that he was watching TV at the time of the crime, but Wilpert cannot give any information about the previous evening's TV program and explains this with his lost thoughts about the disappearance of his wife. Wilpert also gets entangled in contradictions in other ways, Walther doesn't believe a word he has, but lets him go because he cannot prove that he is sufficiently suspicious of a crime. Hassert, on the other hand, considers Wilpert, unlike his boss, innocent.

The next morning, Walther and a dozen officers storm Wilpert's apartment to secure evidence. Wilpert is outraged. Walther notes that the photos of his wife had been removed from the photo album; Wilpert explains that he is dealing with the loss of his wife in his own way. Walther, convinced of Wilpert's guilt, has Wilpert arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife. Walther and Hassert question Wilpert's environment without any knowledge. The judge makes it clear to Walther that destroying his wife's photos is not enough as a reason for imprisonment and orders Wilpert's release. Walther and Hassert then follow Wilpert every step of the way, who goes to his bank in a good mood and takes a leave of absence for a while. Wilpert then drives to the house next to the city freeway where he saw his wife at the window. Since he is approached there by the caretaker, he quickly leaves the house. Walther and Hassert then go in there and question the caretaker's wife. The officers learned that Wilpert was in front of the door of a Miss Gronau who lives there. When Walther and Hassert show her photos of Irene Wilpert, the caretaker recognizes her as Miss Gronau. The officers get the key from the property management and inspect the apartment. In the kitchen, Hassert discovers a huge pool of blood and other traces that clearly show that Irene Wilpert was murdered there. Walther suspects that Wilpert wanted to remove the traces of his murder. The neighbor says that "Fräulein Gronau" alias Irene Wilpert had a man visit twice a week. The forensics department finds out that there were fingerprints but no evidence of combat, Irene Wilpert must have known her killer. Walther concludes from this that it must have been Wilpert, while Hassert suspects the unknown lover to be the murderer.

In the middle of the following night Walther received a call that someone had broken into the apartment of "Fräulein Gronau", he and Hassert, who had also been summoned, went into the apartment and met the drunk Wilpert there. The latter expresses himself sarcastically about his wife's double life and asks Walther whether he already had his wife's cold-blooded murderer, which he affirms, and Walther arrests him again. Walther, however, has doubts and asks his assistant Hassert, who had doubts about Wilpert's guilt from the start. Hassert says that Wilpert's defensive attitude towards his feelings and the fact that Wilpert does not defend himself caused him doubts. Hassert points out that only the fingerprints of the unknown lover, but not Wilpert's, were found in the “Fräulein Gronaus” apartment. In addition, Hassert makes us think that Wilpert was calmly drinking wine in the apartment when he and Walther found him. The next day Hassert goes back to the apartment while Walther interrogates Wilpert. Wilpert tells Walther that he saw his wife from the city motorway in an apartment and claims to have found her in her apartment and to have confronted her. There was a quarrel and he killed her emotionally. He then left her body in the underground car park to cover up her double life.

Walther, however, has doubts about Wilpert's confession, because in his confession he usually gave details that he had previously learned from Walther. At Walther's request, Wilpert gets involved in further contradictions, including a. he claims to have killed his wife with a kitchen knife, Walther confronts him with the fact that the murder weapon was a razor. Meanwhile, Walther is informed that Irene Wilpert's lover has reported, who is waiting in Walther's office and presents a solid alibi. Walther informs Hassert that he was wrong. When Hassert left Irene Wilpert's apartment, the caretaker's wife, whom he and Walther had asked the day before, asked what happened to Wilpert. Hassert pricks up the ears because she shouldn't even know the name Wilpert and confronts her with it. At the station, she confesses that she did not want to kill Irene Wilpert, but only wanted money. She had found out that "Miss Gronau" led a double life and only had the apartment to meet her lover. She followed her to the marital apartment and then blackmailed Irene Wilpert for a year until Irene Wilpert decided to leave her husband and move in with her lover. This was when Wilpert started missing his wife. As a result, Irene Wilpert wanted the caretaker to have the money extorted back and threatened the police with the police. Thereupon the dispute broke out, which ended fatally for Irene Wilpert.

Walther informs Wilpert about this painful truth for him and releases him. The neighbors had left the corpse in the underground car park of the marital apartment to draw suspicion on Wilpert. Wilpert leaves the prison depressed. The next morning, early in the morning, Wilpert calls Walther and Hassert and rushes to him because he sounded strange on the phone. In the underground car park, Walther and Hassert meet Wilpert, who is aiming a gun at Walther and thus commits a " suicide by cop " when he is then shot by Hassert. In retrospect, Wilpert's weapon turns out to be a toy pistol.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode reached 14.22 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 38%. The film was shot in West Berlin in June and July 1983.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV-Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatort: ​​Order is half the dying data for the 165th Tatort at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on January 11, 2015.
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