Crime scene: Top secret mission
| Episode of the series Tatort | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Top secret mission |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Production company |
WDR |
| length | 88 minutes |
| classification | Episode 398 ( List ) |
| First broadcast | October 11, 1998 on Das Erste |
| Rod | |
| Director | Markus Fischer |
| script | Markus Fischer |
| production | Sonja Goslicki |
| music | Markus Fischer Markus Fritzsche |
| camera | Philippe Cordey |
| cut | Vera van Appeldorn |
| occupation | |
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Top Secret Mission is a television film from the crime series Tatort . The film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and directed by Markus Fischer , was broadcast on October 11, 1998 on ARD's first program. It is the 5th case of the Cologne team of investigators Ballauf and Schenk and the 398th crime scene sequence.
action
Dr. Jonas Reinhardt is working on a top secret assignment. At the end of the development of a new neurotoxin, he notices that important documents are missing. He has to tell his superior, Dr. Korber, report the loss of the component list and is convinced that his assistant Petra Klein stole the documents. He visits her and learns that she works for the Israeli secret service . He takes the documents from her and hands them to Dr. Korber, who passes it on to his Arab customer Nadhila without looking.
In her fear, Petra Klein calls Max Ballauf, whom she met at the last city reception. Before he gets to her, she receives a "visit" from two contract killers. Although she is being monitored by the BKA , no one comes to her aid because the people do not want to have their cover exposed. When the inspectors Ballauf and Schenk arrive at Klein's, nobody opens the door.
As a warning to Dr. Jonas Reinhardt, lay the body of Petra Klein for him with the note: Traitors will die in his apartment. He secretly takes her to the banks of the Rhine and hides with his wife and son. After the corpse is found and Ballauf and Schenk take on the case, Ballauf reproaches himself for not having rushed to his friend immediately.
After evaluating the first clues, Ballauf and Schenk find clues about Klein's work as an agent. A bug in her apartment indicates surveillance by the BKA. You can get information from the project manager of the BND in Bonn, Elmar Sattmann. So they learn that both BKA and BND are monitoring the company in which Dr. Jonas Reinhardt is working on a new type of poison gas. It should be prevented that the formula of this new warfare agent leaves the country and is used in Arabia for war purposes. He calls the death of Petra Klein an "industrial accident of the opposite side". He wants Ballauf and Schenk to hold back on their case until the BND has successfully concluded its affairs. Their professional honor and ambition dictate that the two of them won't put up with it. They even go so far as to expose the unsympathetic satan in the embassy in front of all his guests. As a result, Sattmann wants to help the police to the extent that he forwards possible clues about Klein's murderer to Ballauf and Schenk. Based on the surveillance photos taken by the BKA, the suspicion initially falls on Reinhardt. However, this seems too easy. He asks his friend Leo Mantenga to hack into the BND's computer system and so they find further surveillance recordings that show the two bodyguards of Nadhila during the murder of Petra Klein.
Ballauf and Schenk have to intervene directly in Sattmann's work again in order to bring the Arabs down. In the showdown between the police, the BND and Nadhila's people, Ballauf shoots Petra Klein's murderer, Schenk arrests Nadhila as the instigator of the murder and Dr. Jonas Reinhardt is shot. Sattmann himself will have to answer in court for preventing punishment.
background
Top secret order was produced by Colonia Media on behalf of WDR . The shooting took place from April 16 to May 19, 1998 in Cologne and the surrounding area.
reception
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on October 11, 1998, the episode Top Secret Order was seen by 7.13 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 20.04 percent.
Reviews
"The duo mixes up BKA and BND - bravo!" Said the critics of TV Spielfilm . Furthermore, they state with approval: "The two commissioners are bracing themselves against the authorities with a curvy snout and chubby charm."
Web links
- Crime scene: Top secret order in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the plot of Top Secret Mission on the ARD website
- Top secret assignment from the crime scene fund
- Top secret order at Tatort-Fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Location and audience rating at fundus.de, accessed on March 22, 2016.
- ↑ TV crime thriller. Ballauf and Schenk deal with poison gas and secret services. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on March 20, 2016.
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