STORY LINE (in english):
'New commissioner Brammer, a passionate' amateur 'musician, attends a concert by Udo Lindenberg and his Panic Orchestra before moving to Hanover the next day, where his new office awaits him. After work he moves into his new room with a wealthy widow
who is happy to have a policeman in the' home.
Meanwhile, beer truck driver Hermann Kohltasch is sitting in his local pub and has the bar person call the old widow Anna Schmidt to make an appointment with her. He has a relationship with the much older woman, which her stepson and his wife do not'
approve of. He can't 'make an appointment with her for the weekend because she wants to' go somewhere else. He hangs up the phone. '''Isn't she is too old for you?", asks the bar person, "That's my business", he answers.
'The next morning Marga Höfer, the wealthy owner of a men's outfit shop, comes back from a trip surprisingly early and catches her husband in bed with the much younger saleswoman' at 'her shop, Ms. Waller. "is it you?" is all Mr. Höfer can
immediately ask. "Yeah, me" she answers not even looking unhappy about it. Ms. Höfer lets kindly lets Ms. Waller dress and leave. She reminds him that without her he would have ended up in the gutter, yet he can no longer' stand to 'hear these
reproaches' because 'he feels degraded. He feels like a puppet. "Get out" Ms. Höfer says, quietly. "We're still married", he protests. When she announces that she wants a divorce, he' opens the bird cage and 'kills her favorite bird to
threaten her, and throws its body at her feet.
Later, inland boatman Ossi Lörring is in a bad mood' arguing with his girlfriend on a dutch-flagged boat. He leaves 'and wants to go to the pub, his girlfriend Eva Meinert follows him,' there. They stop in the street and hug.
Meanwhile, Brammer is preparing for a debut' at his new police station job 'and happily reports to his wife on the phone that he likes' it and asks about hos boy, Mattias. Meanwhile, Brammer's new police assistant Henkel, is also sitting in the bar
frustrated because his new department head Brammer is much younger than him. He' might have even wanted the position, himself. 'Some youngster with a funny hat on comes in here and says: 'i'm your new sevice leader', Henkel laments to the bar tender
who is also drinking. 'All other colleagues are looking forward to working with Brammer' as they sit around talking, telling jokes and drinking.
In the middle of this when he is about to play guitar for his new friends, Brammer is called to his first assignment, an older woman has been found dead in the park. The woman was strangled with a stocking, the offense occurred one to three hours
earlier. The woman's wallet is empty, but the dead woman wears expensive jewelry, which does not fit in with a robbery. The dead person is Anna Schmidt. Her lover Hermann found out about the murder in the newspaper the next day and looked upset.
Brammer and his colleagues ask around, they learn that Ms. Schmidt has led an unsteady life since the death of her husband, often met with significantly younger men and was mainly in pubs where she got to know these men.
Inland boatman Ossi is' awoken 'by his boss and his girlfriend, he is suffering a' hangover 'after a night of partying.' Then, a narrator cuts in and says of Ossi: "I once asked him why he hit his son. I don't know', he responded.
Meanwhile, Mr. Höfer tries to stay with his lover Ms. Waller because his wife has thrown him out.
Another narrator cuts in and says of Ms. Schmidt:' "I had been her friend ... She was a high, upstanding woman, who I never saw drunk." Brammer asks Schmidt's stepson' - wearing a business suit and tie up in a high rise - about his stepmother 'Ms.
Schmidt. He says that he doesn't know why she was inclined to alcohol and male acquaintances after his father's death. She says these pub acquaintances came from bad backgrounds.' When seeing them, he often discouraged (or felt discouraged by)
these men, if when Anna Schmidt took them to her room.
Meanwhile, Hermann Kohltasch searches his room in the place that he and his mother live in for jewelry and cash and quickly leaves the place.
Police assistant Henkel interviews the landlady of Anna Schmidt's favorite bar and asked her about Ms. Anna's contacts the last time she went to the bar. She reported, among other things, about a bar and' a man and 'his girlfriend who had been to the
bar several times and who had contact with Ms. Schmidt that evening. In addition, a man she does not know by name was sitting at the bar. The description fits Mr. Höfer, who is meanwhile shown running onto a bus and sweating after he sits down.
The landlady' mentions to Henkel about 'a dispute between the husband and wife Anna Schmidt. The two knew each other and Höfer wanted money from her, said landlady. But, she refused him. The landlady said that after the argument, the man looked
distraught and just stared off into space. Brammer finds out from this man's son-in-law that he had bought her a condominium and that she should move in next month to avoid further conflicts. He will inherit DM 100,000 more in his his company's
equity in relation to a music book. He has an alibi for meeting a friend that evening.
Meanwhile Eva discovers scratches on the hand of her boyfriend Ossi, but he refuses to answer' 'where he got them from. He gets mad and throws something at a cat.
Höfer is shown sneaking around his wife's house,
'Meanwhile, Kohltasch breaks into a small mobile home. Henkel and a colleague visit the' elderly Ms. Kohltasch at her place, where 'she lives with her son. They tell her that in his abandoned room they find the empty money box and traces of blood on
the sheets. The officers take the sheet to the KTU. Kohltasch himself is in the' broken-into 'caravan, obviously in fear of the police. He didn't show up for work either.
Between Ossi Lörring and his girlfriend Eva, there is a disagreement because she often has to think of her two children, whom she left with her ex-husband in order to be able to go on the dutch-flagged vessel with Ossi' where he lives.
Brammer and Henkel question the dead' woman's stepson 'again; according to witness statements, he is said to have beaten his stepmother often. He is also said to have tried to incapacitate her and put her in a home. The dead woman's stepson Horst
Schmidt, then refuses to' talk 'and protests' in favor of 'his innocence. Shortly afterwards, Brammer found out in the pub that the man described by the landlady, who had argued over money with Mrs. Schmidt, was a Mr. Höfer. Meanwhile, Höfer seeks
a lawyer and asks him for help. He is no longer allowed to enter his wife's house' due to a court injunction saying so.
'Meanwhile, a hunter watches the fugitive Kohltasch as he enters a small mobile home and breaks in with bags.'
Meanwhile, a lock keeper gives police officers a hint about Ossi Lörring and his girlfriend, which could match the officers' personal description. He tells the officers which ship they are sailing on and when they will moor again.
Later, Brammer' and his assistant Henkel both 'visit the Höfer's shop to speak to Mr. Höfer. However, Ms. Waller can only tell them that neither he nor his wife are in the shop. They will then visit the mobile home site after the hunter reported
his observations. Since Kohltasch is not in the little mobile home, Brammer and Henkel lie in wait, there.
Brammer and Henkel meanwhile manage to arrest Kohltasch from inside the mobile home, where he tries to flee. Later, Kohltasch' states during 'his interrogation that he was afraid of the police because he knew Anna Schmidt and was out with her a few
times. But, it had nothing to do with her death.
In the meantime, Höfer is stopped in front of his wife's house by two officials who want to take him to the presidium (police station) for a few questions, but Höfer actually flees, by car and gets away with it.
Kohltasch becomes entangled in contradictions during his interrogation. However, he can name a witness who drove him home. When asked why he was afraid of the police, he replied that he had brought Anna Schmidt home often and he feared that he
would not be believed. But, since he has no explanation for the traces of blood on his bed sheet and could have reached the crime scene from home on foot, Kohltasch stays in custody.
A resident from the mobile home area reports as a witness named Jacob who claims to have seen Mr. Schmidt while driving around the park in his car. When asked how he knew it was Schmidt, he replied that he used to work as an unskilled worker at Schmidt'
s place, but that he had been thrown out because he had asked for a raise. He said he only now realized that his observation could be important. Henkel seeks Mrs. Höfer, she suspects her husband to be with Miss Waller. He asks her if he knew
Anna Schmidt, but she doesn't know anything about it.
Kohltasch's statements regarding his last meeting with Anna Schmidt have been checked and identified as untrue.' He said he was in a fight. 'Kohltasch says he was afraid of the police because he had already thought that they could see a motive for
murder in the' course of things. He said that he and Anna did not have a sexual relationship, she was too old for that. However, it turns out that the blood on the sheet comes from Kohltasch himself, so he is released to go home.
Meanwhile, Brammer and Henkel visit Höfer at his girlfriend's house. He states that he' wanted 'to become self-employed and that he' then won over 'Mrs. Schmidt as a partner. Suddenly, she refused him the money. He claims he knows nothing about Ms.
Schmidt's murder.
During lunch, Brammer is just staring at this food.
Eva Meinert decides to leaves Ossi, but he begs for her to come back.
Later, Police assistant Henkel visit the dead woman's step-son Horst Schmidt again with his wife there, to check Jacob's information. Ms. Schmidt gives her husband an alibi, the car was in the workshop at the time, which turns out to be correct, so
Jacob's statements are refuted. Now, the officials consider Jacob himself suspicious and have him watched.
Ossi, who has meanwhile been able to bring Eva back, is in Kiel with his boss's ship, so Brammer and Henkel visit their Kiel colleague, commissioner Finke.
Meanwhile, an officer asks the innkeeper about Höfer, who confirms that Höfer was there on the evening of the crime. However, he stayed there until two or three o'clock, so that this could well be the perpetrator.
Brammer and Henkel go on board the “Albatross” and ask the captain about Ossi Lörring. Assistant Batke from commissioner Brammer's team in Hanover makes a discovery while studying files and immediately' alerts 'Finke. Lörring's friend Eva
Meinert tells Henkel that she called her children from the phone booth and that her boyfriend talked to Ms. Schmidt outside. 'Suddenly, both of them were gone. Of course, Lörring does not tell Brammer about it and claims that he was only waiting for
his girlfriend. Then, he went away alone. He says he hadn't seen Ms. Schmidt, again. Ms. Meinert says that she was then in another pub so' she couldn't really say. Thus, 'he has no alibi. He' says he 'was looking for her and then hours later
they went back to the ship together.
Finke visits commissioner Brammer and Henkel on the ship and tells him what' assistant 'Batke has found out in Hanover. Finke demonstrates to Brammer that Ms. Schmidt was murdered with a "mast throw", a sailor's knot. Brammer confronts Lörring, who
continues to deny the murder and arrests Lörring.' Among the locals concerned, 'Lörring is cornered even more, because he is told by Brammer that he the only suspect who has anything to do with shipping' and thus this style of knot-tying. 'Henkel
also confronts him with the fact that he had often strangled his girlfriend when she resisted him. Did Ms. Meinert tell them this? And that he had scratches on his hands?
Meanwhile, Höfer is thrown out of the apartment by his friend Miss Waller,' telling him that "its better if you leave". because of suspicions.
Brammer, Batke and Henkel' put the screws to Lörring 'even more, after all he would become more violent when he was drunk, and that was the case on the night of the crime.
When he realizes that his girlfriend has left him, gone back with her kids and he will never see her again, he finally confesses to the murder of Anna Schmidt. He says did it out of aggression, because she had exchanged tenderness with him at first,
but then no longer wanted to, he says. He strangled her with his bare hands, he later used the stocking to help, and' that 'he only took the money' just 'to make it look like' a 'robbery. Then Lörring hits one of the police, runs away and actually
manages to flee. But, before Brammer and Henkel can catch up with him as he leaves the park, he runs into 'the main street and right in front of a truck, killing him.'
SOURCE: (updated)
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