Crime scene: death trip

Episode of the series Tatort
Original title	Death ride
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Production company	MDR
length	87 minutes
classification	Episode 491 ( List )
First broadcast	January 20, 2002 on Das Erste
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Director	Udo Witte
script	Christian Limmer
production	Jan Kruse
music	Jo Barnikel Stefan Wildfeuer
camera	Dieter Krug
cut	Trevor Holland
occupation
Peter Sodann : KHK Bruno Ehrlicher Bernd Michael Lade : KHK Kain Claudine Wilde : Dr. Catharina Kühn Francis Fulton-Smith : Tobias Kühn Cosma Shiva Hagen : Vanessa Singer Julius Jellinek : Felix Kühn Naomi Krauss : Doris Singer Horst Schulze : Professor Balthasar Wolfgang Häntsch : Uwe Zander Andreas Günther : Siggi Zander Annekathrin Bürger : Frederike Walter Nickel : Walter, forensic scientist Cornelia Hudl : Singer's secretary Marcus Schäfer : Marcus, drug squad Beatrice Manowski : Office hours assistant

Death trip is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD , ORF and SRF . The film was produced by MDR under the direction of Udo Witte and first broadcast on January 20, 2002. It is the crime scene episode 491. For detective chief Bruno Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain it is the seventh case in which they are investigating in Leipzig .

action

Seventeen-year-old favorite Sebastian Zander falls unexpectedly at the finish line at the Leipzig cycling track and is brought to the clinic. Dr. Catharina Kühn, his doctor in charge, is on the spot immediately, but she cannot prevent the boy from falling into a coma after this circulatory collapse and later dying. After she quarreled with her husband Tobias, who works as a sports supervisor, she suffers a fatal traffic accident the next day. The forensic technician finds a manipulated brake line and calls the criminal police. Commissioner Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain investigate and consider a connection with Zander's accident to be possible. Evidence shows that the athlete had too much hemoglobin in his blood, which suggests illegal use of medication. As a doctor at the sports club, Catharina Kühn should have known that. After breaking into her office and searching through various documents, this suspicion is confirmed.

Commissioner Ehrlicher speaks to Doris Singer, who works for the pharmaceutical company for which Catharina Kühn tested preparations. She is also close friends with the Kühns, which puzzles the inspector. However, she states that a Sebastian Zander was not registered as a test subject for the company.

Cain asks his son, Felix Kühn, about his mother's enemies and receives information about an unpleasant motorcyclist who turns out to be Sebastian Zander's brother. Siggi Zander admits that he threatened the doctor and that he also committed the break-in to bring material against Dr. Bold to collect because he wanted to report them, but he did not kill them. His father also accuses Tobias Kühn of having given the blood preparation to his son. Forensic technician Walter inspects all of the Zanders' knives and tools, but he doesn't find any that were used to cut the brake line of the accident vehicle.

After the preparation in Sebastian Zander's body is clearly identified as that of the pharmaceutical company Doris Singer works for, a house search is carried out on her. Walter finds a pocket knife in the suspect's car, which on closer examination clearly turns out to be a murder weapon. Doris Singer then admits to having cut the brake lines because she was having a relationship with Tobias Kühn. Honestly, this confession comes too promptly and he insists. Not she has a relationship with Kühn, but her daughter. Ehrlicher and Cain arrest Vanessa Singer after ascertaining that she was last using the knife.

reception

Audience ratings

When it was first broadcast on January 20, 2002, the episode Todesfahrt was seen by 7.13 million viewers in Germany, corresponding to a market share of 18.50 percent.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm only gave this crime scene a medium rating and wrote: "A bike thriller that doesn't get off the ground."

Location

The crashed car was turned on the A 38 coming from Leipzig under the B 91 , where the Leuna junction is, thus clearly in Saxony-Anhalt . The final scene was filmed at this very point on the northbound lane of the B 91 on the bridge.

Web links

• Crime scene: Death Ride in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Summary of the plot of the journey of death on the ARD website
• Death trip at the crime scene fund
• Death trip at Tatort-Fans.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audience rating at tatort-fundus.de, accessed on December 18, 2015.
2. ↑ TV thriller with the Leipzig investigative team Kain and Ehrlicher. Short review at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on December 18, 2015.

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