Crime scene: Peggy is scared

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Peggy is scared
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SWF
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 148 ( List )
First broadcast May 23, 1983 on German television
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Director Wolfgang Becker
script Norbert Ehry
production Polyphonic production
music u. a. Warning with Why Can the Bodies Fly and Helen Schneider with When the Dream Is Over
camera Heinz Hölscher ,
Valentin Kurz
cut Jean Marc Lesguillons ,
Martina Butz
occupation

Peggy is Afraid is the 148th episode in the TV series Tatort . The episode produced by Südwestfunk (SWF) was first broadcast on May 23, 1983 on First German Television . For Chief Detective Hanne Wiegand ( Karin Anselm ) it is the third case. It's about the murder of a missing young woman and the protection of her friend, who is also in the sights of the unknown perpetrator.

action

The photo model Natascha Berg takes a taxi to the swimming pool, while she flirts with the taxi driver Stefan Gabler. When she forgets her bikini in the taxi, Stefan follows her into the swimming pool to bring it to her. Natascha and Stefan arrange to meet at the cinema and then spend the night together. The next morning Natascha notices that Stefan apparently rates the night together higher than her and wants to say goodbye to him, but he can persuade her to spend the day with him and to cancel her friend and roommate Peggy, with whom she had an appointment . Around noon, however, Natascha wants to say goodbye after all, because she has a meeting with her boss Scheuring. Stefan reacts jealously, assumes that she is having a relationship with him and locks the apartment door to prevent Natascha from leaving. The two of them have an argument when Stefan is briefly in the bathroom, Natascha calls Peggy, but she cannot tell her Stefan's address. During the phone call, Stefan comes into the room and kills Natascha with heavy tongs. Peggy hears Natascha's death screams on the phone and loud music in the background. When she asks her friend in panic to continue talking to her and not to hang up, Stefan interrupts the line. Thereupon Peggy seeks chief detective Wiegand. You believe this, but since there is no further evidence of a crime and no clues about Natascha's whereabouts, you cannot investigate. Meanwhile, Stefan disposes of Natascha's body at night.

The next morning Wiegand visits Peggy to pick up a photo of Natascha and to look around her room. Peggy tells her that Natascha had many male acquaintances and was tolerated by the men, she was only enrolled at the university because of the health insurance. Shortly afterwards, Stefan sees the police call for witnesses in the newspaper to look for clues about Natascha's disappearance. He looks at a photo of Peggy in a magazine that Natascha had shown him and takes Peggy's phone number from Natascha's pocket. He calls her but claims he is wrongly connected. Because of the call for a witness, Schade reported to the police, he had met Natascha in the swimming pool and made an attempt to get closer to her, which she ended when Stefan came up. With his help, a phantom picture of Stefan can be made. However, this is useless. Stefan's neighbor and landlady Mrs. Heckelmann calls Wiegand anonymously. She saw Stefan come home with Natascha and is now afraid of Stefan. She demands protection before revealing her identity and providing clues. When Wiegand explains to her that no reward has yet been offered, Heckelmann ends the conversation. Meanwhile, Stefan watches Peggy and follows her into the Italian café where she works. There he plays the rock song from the jukebox that was playing in the background of his apartment when Natascha called Peggy. Peggy is scared, but can't make out who ordered the song.

Beaming with joy, Stefan tells Ellen, the wife of his boss Joe, that he has met a woman. In the evening Peggy finds, secretly observed by Stefan, an anonymous letter with a lyric text by Charles Baudelaire , with which he suggests the murder of Natascha. She suspects that the sender is Natascha's murderer and hands the letter to Wiegand. Ms. Heckelmann will contact Wiegand again. Since the reward that has meanwhile been offered is still not enough for her, she hangs up because it is not worth the risk to her. Meanwhile, Peggy feels cornered more and more, runs away from a drunk man and finds another letter pushed under her door, like the first one with a poem related to violence by Baudelaire. Peggy goes to Wiegand. This assumes an intelligent perpetrator and offers Peggy to spend the night with her. Meanwhile, Stefan seeks out Frau Heckelmann and wants to kill her. She suffers a heart attack and dies. In order to simulate a robbery, he takes all the valuables from her house and throws them in a suitcase into the Rhine. The next morning Wiegand is called to Mrs. Heckelmann's house. Since she can no longer take care of Peggy, who has stayed with her, Wiegand's assistant Korn organizes a taxi for Peggy and waves to the neighboring Stefan, of all people, who is about to leave in his taxi. Peggy and Stefan start a conversation, Stefan tells her that he is looking for a job as a graphic designer, Peggy then introduces him to her boss Scheuring. In the meantime, the murder investigation in the Heckelmann case has been discontinued, as Ms. Heckelmann died without any outside influence and is only being investigated for a break-in. Because Scheuring has hired Stefan, he thanks Peggy and invites her to spend a carefree day with his boss Joe and his wife Ellen. When Stefan brings her home, he notices that the police are standing in front of her house and are watching her, but Peggy asks Stefan anyway to spend the night with her.

During the night Peggy and Stefan get closer. A few days later, Peggy introduces Stefan Hanne Wiegand and explains to her that she is no longer afraid, and she has also received no more anonymous letters. When he waits for Peggy in front of the café that evening, Schade recognizes him and follows Stefan. However, this succeeds in putting down Schade and escaping. While Peggy finds out that Stefan used to be in psychiatry and tries to understand him, Wiegand and Korn get stuck. Korn suspects that Mrs. Heckelmann was the anonymous caller, which Wiegand dismisses as pure speculation. Peggy discovers books of poetry by Charles Baudelaire from Stefan and wants to see Wiegand, but shrinks from it at the last moment. Korn pursues his assumption and plays a tape with the call from Mrs. Heckelmann to the caretaker. This actually identifies her voice and says that Mrs. Heckelmann had trouble with her tenant Stefan Gabler, Wiegand immediately remembers that this is Peggy's new boyfriend. Meanwhile, Peggy confronts Stefan and asks him why he killed Natascha, but he explains to her that he doesn't remember. He is surprised that she did not inform the police when she now knows everything. She implores him to flee together, but he refuses. He admits that years ago he wanted to kill himself with a loved one of his, but she was the only one who died, he was then in the psychiatric hospital, but had fled from it. Shortly afterwards he notices police officers in front of the house and thinks Peggy has betrayed him after all. Peggy tells him to flee over the roof while she stops the officers. Peggy goes to Wiegand and explains to her that Stefan is not a murderer, but Wiegand makes it clear to the disappointed Peggy that it could only have been Stefan. Wiegand's colleagues pursue Stefan.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted 17.86 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 47%. The episode was shot in Mainz and the surrounding area between September 7th and October 8th, 1982.

criticism

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene positively and comment: “No frills and close to reality”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Crime Scene: Peggy is scared . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 057 V).
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Peggy is afraid of the 148th Tatort data at tatort-fundus.de
  3. ↑ Tatort: Peggy is afraid Short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
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