Crime scene: two knots

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Two kinds of knots
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 SDR
length 85 minutes
classification Episode 102 ( List )
First broadcast July 29, 1979 on ARD
Rod
Director Theo Mezger
script Karl Heinz Willschrei
production Werner Sommer
music Jonas C. Haefeli
camera Justus Pankau
cut Hans Trollst
occupation

Two knots is the 102nd episode of the TV series Tatort . By the South German Radio result produced for the first time on 29 July 1979 at the First Channel of ARD broadcast. It is the ninth case for chief detective Eugen Lutz ( Werner Schumacher ). It is about the murder of a young girl shortly after the release from prison of a woman murderer with a criminal record.

action

Wenzel Hirmer, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the sex murder of two young girls, became prison director Dr. Münzer called, who handed him the pardon. Hirmer owes his freedom to a report by the psychiatrist Prof. Pabst, who attests that Hirmer was successfully treated by him. Hirmer agrees to stay in contact with Prof. Pabst, the institutional psychologist Dr. Steffen, on the other hand, has strong reservations about the release of the strangely introverted Hirmer, but cannot assert himself with this against the appeal for clemency. Freed again, Hirmer seeks out Prof. Pabst to continue therapy voluntarily; he has already found work and accommodation. In the evening Hirmer goes to a prostitute, but is inhibited, when the prostitute feels threatened by him, Hirmer flees. The next day he seeks Pabst and tells him that he wandered aimlessly through Mannheim at night and was looking for something vague, he also tells him about the failed visit to the brothel and that he would like to return to the prison. Shortly afterwards, Hirmer phoned Pabst in the evening and told him that there was a murdered young woman in his apartment, Hirmer protested his innocence, but was on the run because no one would believe him.

Pabst, who recorded the call, notifies the police and plays the tape to Lutz and Wagner. The officers drive with Pabst to Hirmers allotment arbor, where they actually find a dead young woman, Pabst can identify her as Anja Küppers, the friend of his son Mark. Like the two young women, she had been stabbed to death. Pabst is now convinced of Hirmer's guilt, but when Hirmer calls him again, he asserts that he believes Hirmer and makes an appointment with him. When meeting Hirmer, Pabst urges him to surrender, but Hirmer would rather die than go back to prison. When the police called by Pabst arrive, Hirmer flees onto a crane and wants to throw himself from there to his death, but Lutz can arrest him at the last moment. Wagner is looking for Kriminalrat a. D. Vogel, who had investigated the Hirmer murders at the time. Wagner points out that Hirmer had buried his victims in the forest back then, but this time the body was in his apartment. Vogel tells Wagner that he had convicted Hirmer at the time because of two seaman's knots with which he had tied the hands and feet of both victims. Hirmer, meanwhile, continues to plead his innocence during interrogation with Lutz and claims to have been at the Mannheim inland port at the time of the crime and for the entire hours before, when he came home late that evening he found the body in his arbor. He did not know the girl, but when Lutz presented a photo, he remembers seeing the dead woman come out of Pabst's house.

Lutz then collects traces on the barge Hirmer claims to have been on. Pabst, on the other hand, does not understand Lutz's doubts about Hirmer's perpetration, he shows Lutz how Hirmer had been negatively charged with an act like this during his detention, so that he had to commit it again. In response to Lutz's suggestion of why he was able to support Hirmer's dismissal with this knowledge, Pabst only explains that he reproaches himself for it. Meanwhile, Wagner seeks out Hirmer in custody and asks him to tie up Lutz's secretary, Miss Porz. As expected by Wagner, he ties her with the two sailor's knots, like his two victims back then, while Anja was found tied with simple knots. Wagner gives all of these facts to Lutz for concern, but Lutz believes in Hirmer's perpetrator, while Wagner finds Pabst's role in the case doubtful. He considers Pabst himself suspicious and can imagine that he could have had a relationship with his son's girlfriend. The officials go to Pabst and ask him how Anja should have gone with Hirmer, saying she was very shy. Pabst answered the question about the differences in the bondage knot scientifically by saying that Hirmer had deliberately forgotten them because of the deeds in prison at the time and therefore tied Anja differently. He refuses to interrogate his son Mark, and now Lutz is also pensive, but the Public Prosecutor wants Lutz to recognize Mark Pabst's inability to interrogate. Pabst visits Hirmer in prison and tries to convince him that he has forgotten the knots in custody. During Pabst's visit, Lutz and Wagner go to Hirmer again and ask him to tie up their secretary. Due to Pabst's influence, Hirmer ties the secretary up with simple knots. Lutz now also considers Pabst to be suspicious and confronts him with the fact that Hirmer was able to knot the knot a week ago during the first test by Wagner.

Pabst goes to the station with Lutz and Wagner and makes a confession. Since she was under psychiatric treatment with him, he had started a relationship with her, she had ended this on the day of the act, whereupon he killed her because of the deep offense and put her in Hirmer's allotment arbor, since he knew from the meetings that Hirmer were at work - and sometimes wandering aimlessly through the city for days. Wagner enjoys the triumph, while Lutz continues to doubt. Pabst was relatively unimpressed during the conversation and suddenly made the confession without need when the officials again urged his son to be questioned. The officers then go to Villa Pabst and urge a conversation with Mark. They inform Mark of his father's confession, then Mark reports that Anja broke up with him on the day of the incident, he got drunk and wanted to commit suicide, at his urging Anja came to him again. When she said to his face again that she had started a relationship with another man, Mark killed her in an affect. When he then wanted to try to kill himself, his father came home, saved him and he confessed to killing Anjas. Thereupon he persuaded his son that he was not to blame for Anja’s death and deposited the body tied up in Hirmer's gazebo in order to postpone his son’s murder.

Audience and background

When it was first broadcast, this episode attracted viewers with a market share of 46%. The episode was filmed between August 9 and September 20, 1978 in Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg, Mannheim and in Studio 4 of the SDR.

criticism

The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm rate this crime scene as mediocre and comment: "This case has already set in dust."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tatort: ​​Two kinds of data nodes for the 102nd Tatort at tatort-fundus.de
  2. ↑ Tatort: Two kinds of nodes short review on tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 21, 2015.
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