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Three friends - Bessmer (Herbert Steinmetz), Sasse (Hans Caninenberg) and Roth (Christoph Bantzer) - travel to Vienna for a fun weekend. And once back in Munich, Bessmer receives a threatening call and dies within hours thereafter. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) investigate and of course soon make the connection between the murder and the men's trip, so they put Sasse and Roth under police protection - which though doesn't save Sasse's life. Keller and company soon find out that the three friends had fun with prostitute Katja (Kitty Speiser) in Vienna, so Keller goes there to team up with Inspector Marek (Fritz Eckhardt, reprising his role from the series Oberinspektor Marek that would eventually live on in the series Tatort) to question the girl, but to his surprise, the lead proves to be a complete dud. But back in Munich at Roth's mansion, Keller notices the increasingly off behaviour of Roth's nephew and heir-to-be Jochen (Christoph Bantzer) and eventually reveals it was him who has murdered (or hired somebody to murder) both Bessmer and Sasse, just to throw the police off the scent as he was to kill his uncle to inherit his fortune ...

Now the idea to weave Fritz Eckhardt's by 1970 well-established character Inspector Marek into this episode sure is inspired - but then again it's a shame that very little is made of it as this turns out to be a typical case of murder-among-the-super-rich with the culprit easy to guess early on in the episode and the characters then tip-toeing around the obvious in an effort to not give away too much - which at least is good if unintentional fun to some extent but doesn't make this one of the better episodes of the series.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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