“Conspiracy”, a Viennese crime scene from the summer heat and with dogs of all kinds.
Before that, the usual jokes: The killer is always the gardener, no, a Vienna crime scene, so the killer is always the head of department from the Ministry of the Interior. We will see.
The head of department from the Ministry of the Interior trains for a marathon and dies very early in a lovingly designed delusional scene on his running route. The gardener mows the lawn. It is so dramatically hot in the Viennese summer as you can never imagine it in Frankfurt May. The house of the dead man and his neighbor, smart new buildings, lie on the yellow meadow like in the desert of New Mexico.
All of this happens and comes into the picture – in a very classic way – as a flashback a week before the very first scene in which we see Moritz Eisner, Harald Krassnitzer, reporting to the employment office. It is good that broadcasters give wide-ranging announcements when someone leaves the crime scene. There is no need to panic here. The woman from the office just draws Eisner’s attention to the fact that he will be difficult to convey. When she asks him why he ended up here in the first place, Eisner says: “I did my job.” You suspect something bad, because in the end the biggest villain in the crime scene is not the Cologne capitalist, but the Austrian political apparatus.
Fortunately, when the flashback reaches this scene again, it takes an unexpected turn in which a dog with a diaper plays a central role. In general, Ivo Schneider (book) and Claudia Jüptner-Jonstorff (director) enjoy the appearances of very different specimens, from the hellhound to the irresistible lent pet, although most sensible people certainly prefer the dog of Dr. Leytner would call their own. Dr. Leytner is the neighbor, Matthias Franz Stein plays him with such indulgent disgust that you can’t reveal too much at this point. No matter how it ends, this man is a devil. He was also active in the political apparatus, now he is involved in the “Safe Future Association”. Austrian associations that promise a “secure future” are the only thing in Tatort that could surpass the political apparatus in terms of sloppiness.
It gets threadbare
At the same time, this is one of the places where “conspiracy” shows its threadbare nature. Of course, it is exciting that it remains open what the “Safe Future Association” intends to do. “Don’t worry, don’t shit,” comments the boss, Hubert Kramar, mystifying. Look at someone, Ernstl. However, the non-binding of the matter also takes the momentum this time. Even the two dull-looking gentlemen from the Lower Austrian police who appear at the scene of the crime at the beginning – yes, what is it now, what are they doing here? – disappear again. Because the crime scene is in the Vienna city area. “Do you know it on the Internet, you know what it is anyway,” is how Bibi Fellner, Adele Neuhauser puts it.
The tone of voice is by far the best thing about this episode. Your goodness does not lie in the whole, but in a few details (pay attention to Eisner’s dialogue with the clerk in the doctor’s office, he too: a rascal).
But Eisner, who wanted to go to the Netherlands for a year, and Fellner, who recently started jogging, just keep investigating. Conversely, this time the Austrian political apparatus is perhaps too preoccupied with its own slump to concentrate sufficiently. As I said, it is also very hot.
“Tatort: Conspiracy”, ARD, Sun., 8:15 pm.
