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Breiner (Adolf Lukan) is pretty much a lowly supervisor of newsboys, mainly in charge of assigning them to their territories of operation - who's eventually found dead in the apartment of Elvira (Christiane Rücker), a woman who he has had an affair with and whose apartment he has paid for - and who also worked as a prostitute behind his back. When Kottan (Lukas Resetarits) and team - Schremser (Walter Davy) and Schrammel (Curt A. Tichy) - investigate, they find out Breiner has lived rather well off his newsboys, selling off the best territories for quite a bit of bribe money, so naturally he had enemies, like Gajic (Ljubomir Dimov), a newsboy who refused to pay and thus got one of the worst territories in town. Everybody at the company knows about their altercation, and Breiner was strangled with a bandana looking very much like those Gajic likes to wear - so an open and shut case ... except, the evidence is only circumstantial. And then Gajic falls off a bridge, and it turns out he has been shot in the head from a short distance beforehands in what looks like suicide. Now the case is shut, only ... Elvira now states that Gajic has been with her the night of the murder, so it couldn't have been him. And eventually, Kottan and company find out that the gun that killed Gajic actually belongs to Breiner's assistant Sperber (Wolfram Berger), who naturally is promoted to Breiner's job after his death, and who simply wanted to get his hands on the benefits Breiner reaps with his way of doing business ...

Somehow, this is an episode that doesn't very well to find its proper footing between slapstick comedy and crime show, so the funny bits can't really gloss over the fact that the film's whodunnit storyline is a bit on the thin side, while on the other hand the comedy isn't really integrated into the story but rather isolated sketches seem to interrupt the narrative flow. That all said, seen from a nostalgic perspective, this one sure scores high enough to make this an enjoyable watch, it's just not one of the more memorable episodes of the series.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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