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Tatort ('Crime Scene' - 'Death Makes You Inventive'- english). 'Tod macht erfinderisch' 174th episode 16x12 Tatort TV-Series 1970 -

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STORY LINE (in english):'Hamburg police senior commissioner Hans Georg 'Bülow returns to his old office in West Berlin after the death of his wife after eight years in Hamburg.  His former boss from the police board, Mr. Stegmüller whom he plays chess with, had wanted him in Berlin 'because Gerhard Maschke, whom Bülow had once arrested for fatal hostage-taking in connection with a robbery, has now been set free because of' terminal 'cancer.  

"It was my last case and Leuschner's first", explains Bülow to a West Berlin police assistant named Öllerink regarding the the Gerhard Maschke case.  West Berlin senior commissioner Matthias Leuschner is now also back on the case.  Bülow worked on it right before he was transferred to Hamburg.  Gerhard had a lot of bad luck in life and was employed as a night watchman' at 'the company of his wealthy brother Klaus Maschke.  

According to the files,'Bülow explains to Öllerink over a cigarette that, Gerhard took his brother and his wife hostage at the time, prepared a dummy bomb on his brother Klaus' yacht and forced Klaus to hand over the entire contents of his safe.  Meanwhile, Gerhard's sister-in-law, who is Klaus' wife was tied up and gagged on the yacht, suffocated while trying to free herself while gagged.  On the way to the airport, Gerhard had a car accident so that he could be arrested on purpose.

A few days before Bülow is called to West Berlin, the police receive an anonymous letter that Gerhard was up to something new.  'In contrast to Leuschner, with whom he was working on the case at the time, Bülow takes the letter seriously and believes that Gerhard wants to take revenge on him and Leuschner.  

Bülow shadows Gerhard and then visits Klaus at Klaus' place at Dahlem.  Bülow goes to the doorbell and yells: "Hello?  Is anybody there?"  Then, he walks around to the back of the house and scares and 'meets Klaus' new wife Bettina, who invites him into the house.  He has a cigarette, takes off his coat and walks around a bit.  'She tells him that she met her husband Klaus about five or six years ago.  

After they talk some more, Bettina shows Bülow a letter that Gerhard sent her husband after he was released.  

Bülow then visits Klaus Maschke at the marina on his yacht, Klaus is no longer interested in his brother and the whole matter, Gerhard Maschke has not seen his brother since what had happened.  Bülow reads the letter to Klaus, who asks to see it and then tear it up, but Bülow quickly takes the letter back from him. "Your brother is sick.  Very sick" says Bülow to Klaus, but Klaus just brushes it off.  "Call me ... if your brother calls you" says Bülow as he gets ready to leave the marina.

Back at the police station, 'while Bülow reads from the formulation of Gerhard's letter to his brother that he is up to something, Leuschner dismisses Bülow's assumptions as speculation.'  "'I don't want to visit Berlin AND THEN disappear for him from Berlin' ... why not use the word: 'otherwise'?" Bülow reads from the letter and then emphasizes.  He points out that Gerhard had always claimed his innocence and at the time claimed that his brother Klaus had called him in, gave him the money and asked him to bring it to Switzerland for him.  Leuschner recalls the evidence that they had found at the time, and that Bülow had also considered it to be solid enough.  

Later, commissioner Leuschner meets a girl and stops her from shoplifting at the grocery store, but he pays the money himself for her.  Then, Gerhard appears to have followed Leuschner to the store.  Bülow then was following Leuschner.  Bülow and Leuschner later argue back at the police station. 

Then, the girl from the grocery store visits Leuschner at the police station.

Gerhard has been taking pills of some kind and then staring at himself in the mirror immediately after.

On behalf of Bülow, Öllerink now goes around and observes this Gerhard and namely, how Gerhard gets a gun.  

On the next day Gerhard spies on an 'extremely rich jeweler named Uwe Neudörfer and his wife on the balcony of their house.  Öllerink meanwhile is spying on him, even recording his actions.

Meanwhile, commissioner Leuschner goes to see the girl he met from the grocery store, but thinks he notices a prowler one night.. Leuschner explains to her: "I'm sorry ... the man is being watched." She then says: "I don't believe you".

Gerhard Maschke notices a boat at the marina.

This causes Bülow to distance himself from his theory that Gerhard wanted to take revenge on the authorities, rather he seems to be planning an unrelated attack.  

'Bülow secretly searches the room in which Gerhard lives.  In addition to a map of the city on which a jetty at Wannsee is marked, he also finds parts for building a dummy bomb, so maybe  it looks to Bülow as if Gerhard wants to repeat the act from back then.  Öllerink also finds 'out that Gerhard booked a flight to Caracas in three days,' so 'Bülow and his team' feel they 'don't have much time left, Bülow visits Neudörfer in one of his shops to warn him of the impending attack. Neudörfer is dismayed and reports to Bülow and Leuschner that a customer wants to meet him at home to offer him jewelry.' They tell him that the 'meeting is supposed to take place on the evening of the day after next, i.e. on the evening when Bülow and his team assume Gerhard's planned time for the attack. Bülow is able to persuade Neudörfer to play the decoy for Gerhard. 

Then, Bülow seeks out Gerhard and admonishes him, saying: "We are very, very interested in what you're planning" and not to commit' to 'any stupid things.

Then, Leuschner's new friend Ms. Anita Herboldt, introduces herself to Bülow who both saw themselves at the police station, once before.  She asks about Leuschner.

Two days later, a number of undercover investigators took a camouflaged position in front of the Neudörfer's house, Bülow and Leuschner were waiting with colleagues in the house to catch Gerhard in the act.  Gerhard leaves his residence, watched by officials who report to Öllerink, Bülow and  Leuschner that he is taking the bus towards the city center, where he visits a bar.  

While Bülow is rushing towards the city center, Gerhard says: "I hope that you are all there" as he calls the police at the Neudörfer's residence.  Gerhard asks to speak with Leuschner, still waiting at the Neudörfer's, from the bar and says that he had tricked them because they had tricked him,' referring to Gerhard's actions back then during the previous case. 

At the bar during Gehrhard's call is Leuschner's new friend Anita Herboldt, now takes the phone and triumphantly' re-introduces 'herself to Leuschner as Gerhard's daughter Corinna,  'Gerhard had put her on' to 'Leuschner, getting Leuschner to purposely see her shoplift right in front of him.  Or did Gerhard only then notice her as useful to his goals because Leuschner already started seeing her, then Gerhard swayed her back to his side?

When the police enter the bar where Gerhard was shortly afterwards, the father and daughter have already disappeared.  Leuschner realizes that it was Gerhard himself who wrote the anonymous letter to the police saying that  saying that Gerhard was up to something in order to lure them to Maschke's trail.  

Meanwhile, Gerhard seeks out his brother Klaus and his wife Bettina in order to get his brother's money the way Klaus told the police at the time and put his brother in prison for eight years.  Gerhard points out that the bomb is real this time and tells him to his face that he himself killed his wife at the time and blamed it on him. 

When Klaus is clearing out his safe in the house to hand over the money to Gerhard, the latter suddenly changes his mind and directs Klaus back to the jetty.  Gerhard gets his brother Klaus, who thinks his wife is in mortal danger, to confess the deed: "Leave me alone!  I did it!  I did it!" Klaus yells in front of Gerhard and Corinna, who is also waiting there' after pushing and shoving with Klaus.  

'Unnoticed by Klaus,' both 'Bülow, who was appointed by Klaus and Bettina, who had long since been freed, overheard Klaus' confession that he had just made.  

Bülow has Klaus arrested for the murder of his first wife. The bomb was' again a dud, 'as it was then. When Bülow wanted to apologize to Gerhard, he turns down the apology.'

SOURCE
Wikipedia Germany, Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
--    https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Tatort_(Fernsehreihe)#Liste_der_Tatort-Folgen
      (see: 'Main article : List of crime scene episodes')
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