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Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) investigate a murder case, but seem to hit a brick wall almost immediately, as the victim, Mrs Klett (Else Knott) seems to have been an entirely featureless person, someone whom not even her landlord Wachsner (Alfred Balthoff) knew much about - not even that she was married, to a man (Hanns Ernst Jäger) who nowadays lives under bridges. And really only by chance, Keller and company stumble upon the deceased's long estranged son Willi (Vadim Glowna). Now Keller himself sticks to the dead woman's husband and son while his assistants zero in on the landlord, who's also a waiter at a local pub Mrs Klett seems to have frequented almost every day. And eventually, and independent from one another, Keller and his assistants come to the same conclusion, that Mrs Klett has secretly been a drug mule for a minor local crime kingpin (Laucence Bien), but had the bad sense to embezzle his money. And in the finale, we see son Willi trying to avenge his mother, but Keller and company manage to interfere just in time.

For the most part, this isn't too bad an episode, the characters are interesting, and even the dialogue isn't too stilted. It just falls apart in the resolution that really feels pulled out of a hat rather than worked upon, especially since the culprit before the very finale hasn't even been introduced into the plot, and the story that the victim tried to embezzle money from him in the most blatant way just lacks credibility. It really seems the writer has written himself into a corner and just tried to get out of it in the last five minutes in the clumsiest way possible. That said, this is not an all bad episode, as it's actually rather well-directed and filmed, it's just a bit of a letdown in the plot department.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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