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A young student, Inge (Uschi Glas), is found dead in her apartment, and when inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) and his team investigate, they soon find out she was pretty much financed by rich businessman Bergmann (Curd Jürgens), who freely admits to it, but claims this was no love affair and he has only had sex with her but once, but he was rather "fascinated" by the girl, ever since he first picked her up in his car after she has had a bicycle accident. But of course, due to their relationship, Bergmann remains in the main focus of Keller and company, and they soon also get to meet his family, his wife Elvira (Inge Birkmann) and children Hannelore (Eva Berthold) and Rolf (Amadeus August), and eventually Keller finds out that Rolf has only recently fallen in love with Inge and vice versa, and he has only recently mustered up enough courage to tell his father. Ultimately though, Keller fingers the mother as the murderer and has her confess when he lures her into Inge's apartment, and she loses her cool when she notices the rooms have been swapped ...

First things first, Curd Jürgens is pretty magnificent in his role, giving his character just the right kind of gravitas and grief to come across as wholly believable, despite the unnatural dialogue somehow getting in his way. Storywise, this episode pretty much just warms up what has been a basic premise of many earlier episodes of the series, as in the older businessman falling for a pretty young girl without means, including the "fascination" angle, it has pretty much become one of writer Herbert Reinecker's staples over the years. And of course, this episode is once again full of Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogue, but to his credit, he does feature some unexpectedly poignant exchanges in this one as well. So given the series as a whole, this is probably among the best episodes, and for all the right reasons, too.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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