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Rauda's (Robert Freitag) dead body is found in his rowboat, floating in the middle of the lake, and investigating his private boathouse, blood is found on the jetty, suggesting he was shot dead there. When inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) start to investigate, they soon find out that he has been spending the weekend at the boathouse with a woman - a woman other than his wife (Anaid Iplicjian), but actually a good friend of hers, Erika (Johanna von Koczian), and the wife was totally aware that her husband shagged around a bit at the boathouse, occasionally even with her own sister (Ruth-Maria Kubitschek). Interestingly, Erika's husband Dr. Kerrut (Hellmut Lange) was well aware that his wife had an affair with Rauda, agreed to it even, but then again he also had an affair with his receptionist (Beatrice Norden). Kerrut and his wife's only worry was for their children Arno (Pierre Franckh) and Verena (Kathatina Seyferth) not to find out. But of course, unbeknownst to them the children have long found out, have eventually "borrowed" the family gun - which Kerrut kept well-accessible in his desk - and went over to the boathouse ...

This episode is pretty much screenwriter Herbert Reinecker's take on the swinger lifestyle, something he quite obviously fails to understand - but then again, realism was never as much his thing as sensationalism, with a certain "ripped from today's headlines"-feel to things - which in result leads to his characters acting and reacting all unnatural, in a way that has pretty much become his personal style - along with his trademark stilted dialogue of course. Having said all that, this episode is rather slickly directed though, with many shots showing almost cinematic quality, the result of this being a piece of rather likeable and at the same time frequently unintentionally funny nostalgia.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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