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“Crime Scene” scene: “The guy was scum!”
Photo: Hendrik Heiden / BR
“That guy was scum!” This is how one prison inmate got angry about his fellow inmate who had been stabbed in the shower. "Do you think I would let this rat fuck me in the ass and mouth every day?" The convict finally confessed to the crime - in return the investigators promised to transfer him to another prison.
Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) and Batic (Miroslav Nemec) were confronted with how sex and drugs are trafficked behind bars in “Tatort” on Sunday.
Another story line led out of prison. It was about a prisoner who wanted to live with his little son after his release. He too was killed in the end. The spiral of violence continued outside the prison walls.
In our review we wrote: “For his new episode, Thomas Stiller has obviously based himself on the great models of prison thrillers, such as Jacques Audiard's 'Un Prophet'. As there, the action in 'Tatort' takes us outside the walls of the prison to show that the characters take the behavior and rules of the isolated world with them from prison: You're not just in prison - the prison is also inside you . Unfortunately, the external plot doesn't work. It is built around a violent father who, after his release from prison, tears his son away from the security of eager foster parents. (...) Inspector Leitmayr, who was apparently raised by a thug father himself, believes he recognizes the ex-prisoner as an incorrigible violent criminal. Nothing wrong with a good nose. But the way the investigator obsessively insists on his supposedly unerring instinct is extremely clumsy.”
We gave it 5 out of 10. How did you like the prison crime story?
The episode “The Prodigy” was the 95th case involving the Batic and Leitmayr team. The two gray creatures will retire next year. Case 96 was filmed last summer - it's about violent videos on the Internet.
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