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At a rather fancy hotel, one of the guests, Bludach, is found dead, murdered, and all evidence points to Mario (Peter Chatel), the Italian room service waiter who's found with blood on his uniform and who had a motive to kill Bludach, as he's madly  in love with maid Andrea (Hannelore Elsner), a woman Bludach also fancied and maybe seduced even. Basically an open and shut case ... but much too simple for inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his assistants (Günther Schramm, Reinhard Glemnitz), who soon focus on Bludach's business associate Kroll (Peter Pasetti) and Bludach's next-door neighbour Mills (Joseph Offenbach) - the latter primarily because there was a connecting door between the two rooms. And yet Mills has a perfect alibi, having been all wrapped up in a hot compress and unable to move at the time of the crime. Having reached a dead end, Keller sends his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) to work undercover as the new room service waiter, and Harry soon finds there are more than a few things wrong with Mills - and a background check proves him to be a petty criminal. Soon, another business partner of both Bludach and Kroll turns up, Fink (Günter Mack) - and running a background check on all three of them proves Kroll to be a serious businessman, but Bludach and Fink to be two ex-cons who tried to invest a large sum of money in a business venture with Kroll, money from a bank robbery Bludach committed years back. And it was Fink who entered Bludach's room through the connecting door with Mills', an associate of his, killed Bludach, then called the room service waiter to put the blame on him, as everybody knows how jealous Mario was ...

As a serious whodunnit, this episode is rather terribly over-constructed and indeed quite a bit far-fetched - but that's also what makes it quite amusing. And add to that what has become standard for the series, like odd characters showing unnatural reactions to things, and a bit of stilted dialogue (though not half as bad as in some other episodes), and you're in for some fun, Der Kommissar-style.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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