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Alexander Strassner (Vadim Glowna) is on the way to meet up with his girlfriend, teacher Vera (Johanna von Koczian), to propose to her - when he's shot dead right outside his house. There are no witnesses though, so inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Elmar Wepper) are left with questioning the parties involved, which consist of Strassner's roommate Lobach (Klaus Löwitsch), Vera of course, and Vera's best friend Agnes (Doris Schade), the vicar's (Michael Lenz) maid. What's weird is though is that Vera at first denies to having had a relationship with Strassner, despite the engagement rings in his pocket, and Agnes denies even knowing him, which Lobach eventually explains away with the story how he and Strassner met Vera and Agnes in a bar when the two women were on the pull - but later they wanted to hush up the relationship as they feared to lose their social standings. Now this was very fine with Lobach, but Strassner has fallen seriously in love with Vera and thus pretty much blackmailed her to meet with him - until she came over on her own accord and actually started to fall in love, which of course was ended by the murder. Now Keller tries to pit Vera against Agnes, being dead sure it was one of the two women, but then learns Agnes has told everything to Vera's upper class parents (Werner Hinz, Brigitte Horney), something even Vera didn't know, and Vera's dad has eventually shot Strassner.

This is not good crime TV, not by a longshot, and not even a decent murder mystery, as it too desparately tries to cram social commentary into a whodunnit plot and thus forces its key characters to act and react rather unnaturally (as is nothing new for screenwriter Herbert Reinecker's scripts) - which is of course part of the charm of the series Der Kommissar as a whole. The other fun aspect of this episode is Johanna von Koczian's performance, as she really wears her heart on her sleeve in this one, looking too guilty to actually be the culprit and really making this a surreal experience at times - which I don't blame half as much on her as I blame it on the material she had to work with. In all, fun for sure, if for all the wrong reasons.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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