Crime scene: creeping poison
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
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| Original title | Creeping poison |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
RBB |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 682 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | December 9, 2007 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Janson |
| script | Thomas Kirchner |
| production | Askania Media film production |
| music | Curt Cress |
| camera | Philipp Sichler |
| cut | Florian Drechsler |
| occupation | |
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Creeping Poison is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The film was produced by the RBB and first broadcast on December 9, 2007. It is the 17th case of the investigator duo Ritter and Stark , after Dominic Raacke had previously solved six cases with Stefan Jürgens as Hellmann and Ritter , and the 682nd crime scene episode. Ritter and Stark have to clarify the death of a department head in the Federal Ministry of Health and the involvement of the pharmaceutical lobby.
action
The bicycle courier Mischka had an accident on the way from an order in the Federal Ministry of Health, the driver who hit him stole his courier bag and drove on. The next morning, Ritter and Stark are called to the Ministry, Dr. Joseph Feinlein, head of the judicial department, was found dead there, and according to the first signs Feinlein was poisoned. According to the personal assistant Julia Jansen and the typist Simmonis, the working day with Feinlein was normal yesterday, the porter tells the officers that a bicycle courier from a foreign courier service had visited Feinlein the previous evening. When Ritter and Stark visit the widow, Ritter notices that they are being watched by a stranger. Rebekka Feinlein claims that she slept the entire night until the officers arrived because of her MS. The officers show her a suicide note that they found in her husband's office, but Ms. Feinlein does not believe in suicide. During the visit, Ms. Feinlein received an anonymous call. In pathology, Ritter and Stark learn that Feinlein was poisoned and the poison was administered orally. Metastases had formed in Feinlein’s body and he would probably have died within the next six months anyway.
In Dr. The officers found Feinlein his doctor's records, apparently withholding his own fatal illness from his sick wife. Although the documents documented the bicycle courier's visit, Julia Jansen testifies that no bicycle courier appeared in the office. His employees did not know anything about his cancer either, obviously there were differences between Dr. Feinlein and his deputy Dr. Winning for political orientation in your department. The next morning Weber received the toxicological findings, Dr. Feinlein died from a nicotine overdose, and the ministry's surveillance video also shows the bicycle courier leaving the building in front of Jansen with an envelope. The officers go to the courier service "City-Pedal", from which the courier came. There they learn that the driver Mishka, who is identified as the man on the surveillance video, was a victim of a hit-and-run accident and is in the hospital, his bag has disappeared. He obviously carried out the job at the ministry on his own account, as this is not recorded in the company computer and the driver has officially finished work. Ritter and Stark drive to Mishka's hospital, where Ritter again sees the man in front of Feinlein’s house, who behaves conspicuously and runs away from Ritter. After unsuccessful persecution, he orders Mishkas to be guarded in the hospital. Mishka is meanwhile in an artificial coma and cannot therefore be questioned.
Ritter and Stark, who are still pondering how Feinlein’s death and the courier’s mysterious accident could be connected, drive to Frau Feinlein’s. She introduces her sister, the doctor Maria Abt, to the officials, who did not speak well to her brother-in-law. While looking through the estate of her brother-in-law, Maria found extracts from an apparently secret account that she gave to the officials. Ritter drives to the ministry and witnesses a dispute over a bill between Dr. Siegen, the acting Dr. Feinlein's department has taken over, and Julia Jansen. Jansen told Ritter that Feinlein always made the tea with which he consumed the poison himself. When asked, she rules out that Feinlein had a sideline or a private affair. Meanwhile, in the hospital, Stark meets the courier dispatcher, Marielle. This states that Mischka also had a number of customers of his own who had booked him past the company, who she does not know who they are. The next morning, Weber informs his colleagues that there are considerable cash deposits documented on the bank statements. At the same time it turned out that the signature on Feinlein's farewell letter is real.
Wiegand sees the case as closed and unrelated to the Mischka accident, but Ritter and Stark continue to investigate. Mishka has now woken up and can tell the officer the name of his client, he should drive to the ministry for the journalist Hendrik Koch. Ritter can identify Koch as the stranger from the hospital, Koch shows the officials the result of his research. Feinlein, like most ministerial officials, was influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, but Feinlein wanted to unpack and work with Koch. In the evening, Mischka picked up a list signed by Feinlein of the Ministry employees who work for the pharmaceutical lobby, which has now disappeared since the dubious accident. Koch also does not believe that Feinlein will commit suicide. With Koch's photo, the officers confront Dr. Siegen, who is currently with Dr. Marcus Böhler, a lawyer and pharmaceutical lobbyist, eats, this can also be seen in the photo. Böhler and Siegen are unimpressed by the officials, even when they are presented with the photo. The officers then go to Julia Jansen's home and show her the photo; she can tell Dr. Feinlein and Dr. Identify Siegen, she doesn't want to know the other men. She describes lectures by ministerial officials in front of interested parties as normal, the receipt of money by Dr. Feinlein cannot explain it.
Ritter and Stark visit Ms. Feinlein again to take her fingerprints, and when asked, she admits that the pharmaceutical industry had made it possible for her to use expensive therapies in the USA that the health insurance company would not have paid for her. The financing went through a law firm, in return Josef Feinlein had to prepare an expert opinion against his own draft law, so that it had to be rejected. Ritter and Stark explain the state of the investigation to Wiegand and make it clear to him that a stranger must have had a hand in it. In view of his imminent death, Feinlein apparently wanted to unpack about his and Siegen's lobbying activities and therefore had the bicycle courier commissioned to deliver the incriminating material to Koch. At a time when Feinlein must have been dead, the hard drive of his computer was erased, and the courier was obviously run over on purpose and the documents stolen. There are no fingerprints on Feinlein's farewell letter, even at the crucial points; a stranger must have folded it with gloves. On the surveillance video, officers see Dr. Siegen, like this one at the time of Dr. Feinlein’s poisoning returns to the ministry again, although the latter had testified that he had previously left the building for the evening. Ritter and Stark watch a lobbyist meeting, from Koch they learn that it's about who is on the fine list and who has it. The officials gain access to the event and confront Böhler and Siegen with their investigations, Böhler then withdraws his alibi for Siegen and drops it, the officials take Siegen with them to the police station.
Mishka can now remember that two security people offered him money for the documents, when he refused, they drove him up. Thanks to the information provided by Mischka, the security people can be located and confess that Dr. Böhler was their client, Ritter and Stark visit him and can ensure the fine list with him. Through Dr. Böhler's statement turns out that Julia Jansen was his informant that evening that Dr. Böhler informed about the sending of the list to Koch and thus enabled him to intercept the bicycle courier. She expected to be on his list of lobbyists herself, but Feinlein had removed her name, apparently out of sympathy, to keep her out of the revelations. When the officers gave Koch a copy of the list at Ms. Feinlein's behest, they found out, based on Koch's secretly taken photos, that Julia Jansen was also at the lobby meeting. The officials find out that Jansen's husband has been insolvent for six months, which is probably why Jansen bought himself. During a further review of the surveillance video, Ritter and Stark discover that it was not them, but someone else who left the building at the specified time before Feinlein’s death. They suspect that Jansen killed Feinlein and drive to her house, where she is also drinking a deadly nicotine solution. Ritter and Stark can prevent their suicide at the last moment, so that Julia Jansen can be held responsible.
production
The Tatort Creeping Poison is a production on behalf of the RBB for Das Erste . The film was shot between April 28 and May 29, 2007 in Berlin . When it was first broadcast on December 9, 2007, Creeping Poison had 7.51 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 20.80%.
criticism
TV Spielfilm rated the film positively and commented “High voltage in the government district”.
Web links
- Slinky poison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Creeping poison in the online film database
- Creeping poison in the crime scene fundus
- Creeping poison at Tatort-Fans.de
- Summary of the plot of Creeping Poison on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: Creeping Poison at tatort-fundus.de
- ^ Creeping poison tv feature film
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