"Tatort" from Vienna: "The wet nurse" in a quick check

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Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) in the »Tatort« episode »The Nurse«: Between crack and downers

Photo: Petro Domenigg / ORF / ARD

The scenario:

Dressed to kill.

In Vienna there is a murderer in women's clothes who kills prostitutes and kidnaps their children.

Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) searches for suspects in brothels, Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) struggles with her insomnia and buys Downer on a dirty disco toilet.

On their nightly tours, the two get closer to the perpetrator than they think.

He smokes his crack pipes in the background, manipulates the exhausted investigator duo and drives it along.

The highlight:

Image frenzy instead of kitchen psychology.

The creators of this »crime scene« quote the old masters of the serial killer thriller like Hitchcock and De Palma and don't even pretend that they want to penetrate particularly deeply into the perpetrator's psyche.

To do this, they build a great audiovisual cabinet of mirrors from old quotes and new effects, through which they chase the police and the audience.

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Investigator Eisner with dealer: In the mirror cabinet from old quotes and new effects

Photo: Petro Domenigg / ORF / ARD

The picture:

The perplexed, empty faces of two sleepy officers, who slammed the corpse of the suspect they were supposed to be observing on the hood.

The two of them were just sipping coffee from plastic cups and talking about the weather, when the man's body crashed from his rented apartment onto the company car.

The dialogue:

Eisner at the bar of a brothel.

He takes out his cell phone and shows the barmaid a picture of a suspect.

Commissioner: "What about him?"

Barmaid: “This is a complete idiot.

But it's harmless. "

Inspector: "Regular customer?"

Barmaid: “Yes, he's a regular customer everywhere.

He's looking for great love in the brothel. "

The song:

In this case not a song, instead: the sound of the sea.

Because Fellner has insomnia, Eisner gives her a CD: "88 minutes of the sound of the sea." The calming sound is superimposed on an editing sequence in the last third of the plot, in which all the central characters can be seen again.

Usually a power pop ballad is played at such places in current »crime scenes«, which melancholy disguises the brutal events.

Here you can only hear the waves singing extensively.

The review:

8 out of 10 points.

Although the blatant plot sometimes seems to be written with a crack whistle: Extremely effective, night-black shocker in a noble look.

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