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During a company party on a boat, company owner Kettwig (Wolfgang
Reichmann) goes missing, and he's found the next morning on the shore,
stabbed to death. Inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry Klein
(Fritz Wepper) pick up investigations and soon find out that Walter
(Mathieu Carrière), son of Kettwig's second in command Solms (Ernst
Schröder), had an affair with Kettwig's wife Hetty (Herlinde Latzko), a
fact that Kettwig has found out a week ago, but has refused to will into a
divorce. A strong motive for Walter to kill him of course, but too obvious
for Derrick. Soon, Derrick finds out that Kettwig actually wanted to get
rid of Solms as his second in command, for obvious reasons, and
unsurprisingly, this makes Solms the obvious prime suspect. And Derrick
almost arrests him, too, when shots are fired at Solms - which might of
course be a distraction bo throw Derrick off the trail, but then Solms's
wife (Judy Winters) confesses to Derrick that her husband has routinely
cheated on her with one of his employees (Kristina Nel), who just happened
to die from a botched up abortion trying to get rid of Solms's offspring.
Thing is, she was the girlfriend of the company's head of HR, Steiner
(Walter Schmidinger), and Steiner wanted to have his revenge on Solms -
but by accident killed Kettwig instead. It's one of these
episodes where screenwriter Herbert Reinecker yet again outdoes himself -
the whole thing's utterly convoluted, the culprit is pulled out of the
hat, and above all the murder due to mistaken identity makes little sense.
On top of that, the cast of characters seems to be pulled out of a soap
opera rather than coming across as relatable, and the character
motivations are thus not always working. That said, at least Mathieu
Carrière as the cold youngster makes a good red herring, but as a whole
this just isn't very good as anything other than a somewhat charming piece
of nostalgia.
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