Crime scene: time-out

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Time-out
Country of production Switzerland
original language Swiss German
Production
company		 SF
length 86 minutes
classification Episode 519 ( List )
First broadcast September 23, 2001 ( SF 1 , ORF 2 ) and December 22, 2002 ( Das Erste )
Rod
Director Bernhard Giger
script Peter Purtschert
Stefan Witschi
production Theres Scherer-Kollbrunner
music Peter von Siebenthal
camera Edwin Horak
Christian Schläpfer
cut Christof Schertenleib
occupation

Time-Out is an episode of the crime series Tatort from 2001. The film was produced by Swiss Television under the direction of Bernhard Giger and is the twelfth Tatort episode produced by Swiss television . It is the series 519; it was first broadcast on September 23, 2001 in Austria and Switzerland and on December 22, 2002 in Germany.

Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) has to do with the murder of an ice hockey coach in his last case.

action

Great joy for Philipp von Burg: After eight years of service with the Bern police force, he can return to London and begin his service with the International Department of Scotland Yard. Meanwhile, the former ice hockey player and current coach of the up-and-coming ice hockey club EHC Biel, Fred Cortesi, discovers that his partner Alberta Cerda is still using cocaine. He disposed of their stocks in the toilet. During training, the talented young player Reto Knop, who is also being watched by the manager of SC Bern and former playmate Cortesis, Arsène Renweg, goes crazy and is released from further training by Cortesi. Knop then drives to Alberta, with whom he is having an affair. In the evening, Fred Cortesi was killed by a masked man in the stadium during the follow-up training. After they are found, von Burg is called to the crime scene; the officers find a large amount of cocaine in Cortesi's locker. Von Burg and Gertsch go to Alberta and bring her the news of her death. She is shocked, but she has no alibi for the time of the crime. She can't explain the cocaine in Cortesi's locker. Von Burg noticed that she obviously used cocaine herself. He learns from his assistant Gertsch that Cortesi had to end his career because of drug problems. Knop went to Alberta that evening and protested his innocence to her.

The next morning von Burg visits the EHC Biel Lauener president. He explains to him that Cortesi was injected fit because of injuries and therefore became a drug addict. When he applied as a new coach three years ago, he seemed to have overcome his problems and was therefore hired. Meanwhile, von Burg and Gertsch learn from the players that Reto is said to have had a relationship with the girlfriend of his murdered coach. Reto Knop, who did not show up for training, is arrested by von Burg and Gertsch. He admits he found Cortesi but failed to inform the police. He denies a relationship with Alberta.

Von Burg and Gertsch go to EHC Biel's patron, Jimmy Leutenegger. He explains that SC Bern has often poached talent from its club, but that this has no longer worked since Cortesi helped the club to flourish. The officials then go to Alberta. She openly admits to using cocaine from time to time. She claims to know both Reto and his brother Herbert, a small drug dealer. Von Burg explains to her that Herbert's fingerprints were found on the cocaine in Cortesi's locker, for which she has no explanation. In the evening, the officials watch a SC Bern game and then question their manager Renweg. He admits that he is interested in Reto Knop and that he is in contact with other Biel players. He suspects the motive for Cortesi's death to be in the drug environment. During the time of the crime, he claims to have been on his way back to Bern, his club president Alex Kerger has an alibi.

The next day, von Burg learned from the laboratory that Reto had recently used cocaine. He claims to do this in order to be able to have sex better. He denies sport doping, otherwise he refuses any cooperation. Von Burg believes that Reto would like to cover his brother and has a search for him. In the evening Herbert runs into the arms of the police on the run from creditors. Meanwhile, Gertsch visits Alberta in their restaurant. She suspects the killer of her partner in the ice hockey business. Alberta seduces Gertsch. When he secretly searches her apartment for drugs that night, she throws him out. Meanwhile, Herbert tells von Burg that he is not acting as a dealer, but only as a supplier. He also states that his brother has a relationship with Alberta. Reto then admits the relationship and says that he was with Alberta on the evening of the crime and sniffed cocaine. He has no alibi for the time of the crime. Herbert also admits to have supplied Alberta now and then, also shortly before the crime. After Cortesi's funeral, Kerger told his manager Renweg that he wanted to take advantage of the unsettled rival Biel and turn it into a talent factory in the second division for SC Bern. Meanwhile, von Burg and Gertsch are interrogating Alberta, they hold against her that Cortesi had taken the coke that Herbert had delivered from her and that she had killed him for it. Alberta denies the fact that she drove aimlessly through Bern alone at the time of the crime. Kerger meanwhile fails with his takeover offer to Lauener and swears to Renweg that he will still get the EHC Biel under his control or destroy it. Meanwhile, von Burg's employee Max Münger finds the perpetrator's gloves near the stadium, only one shop in the area sells these gloves. In the store, the officials learned that the gloves on the ring finger were changed on request, the buyer was Alberta. This says that she bought the gloves as a gift for Arsène Renweg. He had a fracture in his ring finger, which is why a glove had to be changed for him.

In a further questioning by Burg, Herbert admits that he had also sold Renweg cocaine and that Renweg had given him a plane ticket abroad. Von Burg and Gertsch seek out Renweg and confront him with the fact that he wanted to give Cortesi the drugs and was caught by him. Renweg insists that Cortesi did not want to kill, it just happened. Renweg then flees and drives to his death, shortly before he sends evidence of financial manipulation by his President Kerger to the sports journalist Karl Schubiger, who makes it public shortly afterwards. Von Burg is bid farewell to London by his superior Eva Schwab and his assistant Markus Gertsch.

Background and audience rating

For detective sergeant Philipp von Burg ( László I. Kish ) it is the ninth case, for his assistant Markus Gertsch ( Ernst C. Sigrist ) the tenth, for both it was also the last assignment.

With the crime thriller Time-Out , Switzerland is saying goodbye to the ARD series Tatort . (...) As editor-in-chief Susann Wach reported on Friday, the Swiss television DRS decided to withdraw from the co-production community with ARD and the Austrian ORF after eleven years. The background is a planned budget change in favor of a separate series of television games of different genres. "In addition, the Swiss episodes enjoyed lower ratings compared to those on ARD," said Wach.

The first broadcast of Time-Out was scheduled for September 23, 2001, but only took place on that day on ORF and Swiss television, as ARD changed its program at short notice due to the events of September 11, 2001 and this episode was canceled. It was first broadcast on ARD 15 months later on December 22nd, 2002, when the episode attracted 5.41 million viewers, which corresponds to a rate of 15.30%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time-Out - last Swiss crime scene at swissinfo.ch, accessed on July 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ Time-Out at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on July 17, 2016.
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