• Tatort ('Crime Scene' - 'The Death of a Burglar'- english). 'Tod eines Einbrechers' 49th episode 6x3, Tatort TV-Series 1970-

    From bruce bowser@bruce2bowser@gmail.com to rec.arts.mystery on Tue May 11 11:18:01 2021
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.mystery

    STORY LINE (in english):-a
    While Harald Oppermann is on a business trip, his wife Birgit Oppermann lets her lover Siegmar Frick, a business partner of her husband Harald, spend the night in her home in Baden-Baden.-a-a
    A burglar sneaks through the house probably looking for valuables-a He seems surprised by the two in bed together and he attacks them both.-a Siegmar is injured but they manage to kill the burglar, take away' and hastily hide 'the body and cover up the break-in'.-a-a
    Siegmar seems to talk to Harald like nothing has happened when he returns.-a Harald looks briefly at the door and windows.-a-a
    Workers are at the house moving books, papers and boxes.-a Another man sits at the table unusually quiet, folding and pocketing papers.-a-a
    Later,-a the Baden-Baden police senior commissioner Wilhelm Gerber investigates where the body is found by an elderly couple near shrubs on a sidewalk.
    Meanwhile, Her husband is shown at the airport in a business-ahelicopter.-a Then, he goes by to see Birgit at home. Another man reassures her that everything is going as planned.-a SIegmar is looking for a certain bag at Birgit's house. She is always wary about those around or near her hose.
    Harald talks to the police about a man who was found dead.-a He sees the picture and hears that he had a bad head wound.-a
    Birgit reads the paper in her car and reads about the burglar death incident.-a It hasn't lead-ato her home,-ayet.
    An anonymous blackmailer later demands 50,000 in Deutschmarks from Harald Oppermann.-a He seems to know something about the break-in and wrongly associates Harald with it.-a When the latter wants to ignore the demands, Birgit and-aSiegmar decide to pay the 50,000 DM themselves then kill her husband Harald and attach the crime to the blackmailer.-a After the murder, however', Gerber's police assistant Ihle finds out that Harald himself was the alleged blackmailer.-a The police had 'found out about the secret couple through contradictions in talk about the break-in and wanted to test both of them' possibly to make the two pay a financial price 'this way.-a-a
    Since Harald Oppermann' had paid the money back to Siegmar's account and added a corresponding note before being killed.-a-athis gives enough clues to commissioner Gerber.-a As he visits them at home. Siegmar finishes his cigarette.-a Birgit fixes him a cognac. They sit down. Siegmar has another cigarrette. After their talk. He leaves,-abut is still outside. Siegmar and Birgit try to flee. He takes them in.
    SOURCE: (updated)from Wikipedia Germany, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia ---ahttps://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Tatort_(Fernsehreihe)#Liste_der_Tatort-Folgen (see: 'Main article : List of crime scene episodes') ---ahttps://www.tatort-fundus.de/
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