It Happened in Broad Daylight (Es geschah am hellichten Tag)

IT HAPPENED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

- Hi, Jacquier. Awful weather, right? - Good day.

- Kirsch. - Coming right up.

Thank you.

Another one.

- Where is the telephone? - There.

Cantonal Police?

Dr. Matthäi, please. This is an emergency!

Dr. Matthäi, Jacquier here. You know me, Doctor.

Something terrible has happened. I've found a dead child.

- Where are you? - In Mägendorf, in Lions inn.

Stay there. I will come right away. Hello? And don't drink anything.

Your ticket to Amman. You're flying from Kloten airport via Athens.

- The day after tomorrow. 12. 40 pm. - Thank you.

I'm so happy for you. I'm not happy for myself though.

I will miss your stupid face, too.

Alert the police records department, Lt. Henzi and the medical examiner.

Probable death in Mägendorf. And my raincoat.

Lt. Henzi, please start the alarm.

- Everyone was alerted. - Call the Mägendorf police.

Cantonal Police.

Mägendorf is on the line. Police constable Kunz.

- Ask him if it's raining in Mägendorf? - If it's raining?

Ask him.

Lt. Matthäi would like to know whether it rains in Mägendorf.

- It pours. - Damn.

Kunz, Matthäi here. Do exactly as I say.

Go to the Lions inn. You will find peddler Jacquier there.

Maybe you know him. Don't talk to him and don't anybody else either.

I will be there in half an hour.

It pours...

- Where is Lt. Henzi? - He's already in the car.

Let's go then.

- What are you drinking? - Nothing, thank you.

I'm here on business.

- What have you done again? - Don't talk to him!

You can't leave.

I just want to see, if Dr. Matthäi is coming, constable.

He will come. Sit down.

- Doctor! It was by accident... - Get in.

Now show us, what you had found in the forest.

A policeman never looks away, Weber.

Take a picture of the little dress, too.

I found it by accident. By accident.

- A doll is lying there. - Don't touch it!

Send the children away.

Close it off!

- Close the whole area! - Pass it on!

Kunz, do you know this girl?

- I've seen here around in the village. - Someone wants to talk to you, Doctor.

It's the teacher.

- Bring him here. - Yes, commissioner.

- Well, Doctor? - A very sharp knife.

Probably a razor.

Search again in the shrubs and there under the fir.

Check the buttons for fingerprints?

It's hopeless after the cloudburst.

- Dear god, dear god. - Do you know this girl?

- Gritli Moser. - Where do the parents live?

In Riedbach. A quarter of an hour from here.

- Is she one of your pupils? - Miss Krumm's, 2. class.

- Do Moser's have any other children? - Gritli was an only child.

Someone must tell the parents.

Don't think I'm a coward, but I'd rather not do it.

- That's alright, sir. - I can't do it.

Then I have to do it myself again.

- What do you want? - Lt. Matthäi, Cantonal Police.

Mr. Moser?

Yes.

- What do you want? - Did you send Gritli anywhere?

To her grandmother in Fehrden.

Did something happen to Gritli?

- Did she often go that way? - Every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.

Why?

What happened?

Gritli was found dead in the forest near Mägendorf.

Gritli was murdered.

That's impossible.

- There can't be such a devil. - There are such devils, Mr. Moser.

- I have to go to my child. - It's better not to go.

Why is it better?

You can see her tomorrow evening.

She will look like she's sleeping then.

Who... killed her?

We will find out, Mr. Moser.

Can you promise me that?

Yes, Mrs. Moser.

On your honor?

I promise you, Mrs. Moser.

Murderer!

Bastard!

Beast! Monster!

- Hand us the guy! - Clear the place, please!

- What are you waiting for? - Are you going to shoot my people?

Don't let them provoke you!

I tell you the last time to clear the place!

You're the Mayor, right? Give us a free passage!

- So I can help the guy? Never! - Then I hold you responsible!

Me? You should hold that peddler responsible!

- Yes, out with him! - Give him up!

- Should I call for reinforcement? - Too late.

Jacquier is the murderer. I saw him! Nobody else was in the valley!

That's it! We will bring him out!

Listen, people! We're prepared to give you the peddler.

We understand you. We're just as horrified.

Many of us have children, too. Only a monster could do this.

Yet he must appear harmless.

Prove, that Jacquier did it.

Then you can have him.

- On what do you base your suspicion? - I saw him in the valley.

- He was hanging about around midday! - Come forward.

Go, Heiri. Don't be a coward.

- What is your name? - I'm Benz Heiri.

- What do you want from me? - You saw Jacquier in the valley.

- Who else did you see? - Nobody.

- What time did you arrive in the valley? - At 10. I was planting potatoes.

- So you saw nobody else? - Nobody! I swear.

- Benz, I came by your potato field at 2 pm. - Me, too.

I was there too with my cart. But you always work like crazy.

Strange. So others came by too, without being noticed.

Should we kill those three, too?

Everyone who was in the valley! And you too!

Do you have anything else to say against the peddler?

Any other proof of his guilt?

If he proves innocent, you would have committed murder.

Leave him to us. I think, we can do it better.

We have other means to find out the truth.

I would have been dead now.

Without you I would have been dead, Doctor.

Give him a cigarette.

I'm innocent.

I really am innocent!

Nobody believes me. And you don't either.

Nonsense.

Terrible.

I'm sorry you have to concern yourself with such a terrible incident on your last day.

- That's our profession. - Who would be the best to take over?

- I think, Henzi. - Is he experienced enough?

We've been working together for 3 years. He knows his job.

Maybe he lacks instinct, but that will come with time.

- It's a shame you're leaving right now. - Everyone is replaceable.

Send Henzi in, please.

But you don't smoke.

Are you looking forward to your new position down there in the desert?

You will reorganize the police there splendidly.

Anyway you fit in better with the Arabs, than with us, Zurich people.

- They're probably just as stubborn as you. - That's why I took the position.

- How long is your contract? - Five years.

- Commander. - Sit down. A cigar?

Thank you, I prefer cigarettes.

Do you have any assumptions, concerning the murderer?

The murder weapon was a razor.

Two girls were killed with the same weapon 5 years ago and 2 years ago

in cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz.

I think it's the same killer.

I find it improbable though that the killer is from Mägendorf.

- What do you think, Matthäi? - The same.

This is your case now. Keep me posted.

- Thank you, commander. - You should thank him.

What will you do next, Henzi?

I will demand an alibi from all convicted sexual offenders.

The manhunt has already begun.

It can't be so urgent that I had to be pulled out of the theater...

Cantonal Police.

Again? So you'd like to know, what I was doing yesterday.

- No, what you were doing today. - Today...

- I'm at your disposal. - Would you like to talk with me alone?

I will stay with my husband.

So I should go through all this laundry, to find a blood stain?

- Just because one rascal killed another? - A child was murdered.

A 8-year-old girl.

- Three man should search the edge of the forest. - Yes, constable.

Did you find anything?

I thought you might still come around, Doctor.

- I can't just drop it. - Feller!

Show the Doctor what we'd found.

- The comb belongs to Jacquier. - For sure.

The farmers believe he's the killer.

What do you think, Doctor. Maybe the farmers are right.

You're a man of land yourself, Henzi. You have to agree with the farmers.

- Have you interrogated the villagers yet? - We found nothing.

I'm going to school now. Come with me, Doctor.

I can't go alone,

not one single step.

Where thou shall go and stay,

take me along.

Miss Krumm, Lt. Henzi from Cantonal Police.

- Are you Gritli Moser's teacher? - Yes.

- Good day, children. - Good day.

You sang that beautifully.

We're practicing for Gritli's funeral.

- The low voices are still not good. - What kind of child was Gritli?

- We all loved her. - Was she intelligent?

- She had a vivid imagination. - I have some questions for the children.

You have heard, what had happened to Gritli Moser.

I'm with the Police.

I won't treat you like children but like adults.

A man, a very bad man, killed Gritli.

There are such bad men.

They lure children into their lairs,