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It's just coincidence that Faber (Erich Schellow) and his college student son Ulrich (Peter Chatel) arrive back home at the same time - to find a dead body in their living room, a body that turns out to be one of Ulrich's college friends, Domann (Michael Maien). Their initial attempt to get rid of the body to just not be inconvenienced is marred when maid Luise (Gustl Halenke) arrives back home. So they call the police, and when inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) pick up investigations, the other family members arrive by the by, his wife Gerda (Gisela Uhlen), his photo model daughter Hannelore (Gitty Djamal) and little Irmie (Irina Wanka). They all try to play the perfect family, but secretly everybody suspects everybody else within the family to have murdered Domann, as he was the lover of both Gerda and Hannelore. However, at the time of crisis they band together and pretty much downplay Domann's involvement with the family. Of course, Keller doesn't believe them a word and soon finds out the truth about Domann, but even so he has no proof - until of all people the maid's alibi crumbles, and she eventually admits that it was little Irmi who has shot Domann dead as she made him responsible for the loveless house she has lived in.

As per usual in Herbert Reinecker's scripts, the characters in this one act and react totally unnaturally, veer off into stilted tangents ever so often, and everything about this episode seems a little too far-fetched to even deserve suspension of disbelief - especially the happy ending that finally brings the family back together. That said, at least Wolfgang Becker's direction shows a creative strain, evidenced in some quite elaborate pans. That's of course not enough to make this into good crime TV, and frankly this is neither one of the better nor one of the (unintentionally) funnier episode of Der Kommissar, just a very average entry.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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