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A dead man (Heini Göbel) is found by the moor in the Bavarian countryside, without any papers or money, and the licence plates of his car are missing. Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) investigate, and their first lead is a little guesthouse by the moor, owned by one Amalie Schöndorf (Marianne Hoppe), that's currently hosting a quartet of pensioners (Hans Schweikart, Erika von Thellmann, Charlotte Witthauer, Otto Kurth), who all act mighty peculiar. Mrs. Schöndorf also has a daughter, Barbara (Gerlinde Döberl), who has a damaged leg ever since her mother ran her car over it 10 years ago, something Mrs. Schöndorf is unable to ever forgive herself. Everything seems so mighty odd and slightly wrong at this guesthouse that Keller takes a room there, and by the by learns more about what's going on, as that Barbara's madly in love with Schuster (Götz George), innkeeper of the only inn in the next village, but he's somehow put off by her injured leg. Schuster's waitress Maria (Lis Verhoeven) fills in some of the blanks in the story, and eventually Keller and company learn that the deceased stopped for dinner at Schuster's inn the night he was murdered and carried a large amount of money. The same day, Mrs. Schöndorf's cook Paula (Bruni Löbel) was at the inn, and she seems to have overheard a conversation between him and Maria, and ultimately lured him to the moor where he was hit over the head with a blunt object and killed by Mrs. Schöndorf herself, who needed the deceased's money as an incentive for Schuster to marry her daughter - and all of the guests at her guesthouse knew about this, too.

In this episode, writer Herbert Reinecker's inability to write realistic scenes seems to reach new heights in an argument Harry (Fritz Wepper) has with one of the pensioners (Hans Schweikart) whether or not it's the right thing to do to steal the dead man's shoes. And in all, the characters are very crudely drawn in this episode, and not at all helped by the far-fetched and overly constructed plot. And somehow, that's really what makes this episode rather entertaining, if for all the wrong reasons. That said, at least Götz George gives a more than decent performance as the nervous innkeeper, both direction and editing show some inventiveness, and the countryside scenery is actually just the right degree of moody to fit the story.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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