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It all starts with a murder on the tennis court - and Kottan (Lukas Resetarits) and gang (Walter Davy, Curt A. Tichy) soon find out that the victim (Richard Haller) wasn't really the mild mannered caretaker everyone has taken him for but involved in illegal arms trading. They follow a trail to a shady bar where they almost got the owner (Erich Frank) to talk before he's shot - incidenly not by anyn involved in the case but by Kottan's arch nemesis Horrak (Ernst Konarek) who actually tried to hit Kottan. However, they do get a lead to criminal mastermind Wasseervogel (Leon Askin), chief crime kingpin in town. But they can't prove Wasservogel anything, as was always the case with him. Wassservogel meanwhile plots to blow up an embassy, just to distract the police enough to have his men rob a bank - but that plan is thwarted by Kottan, who was at the bank merely by chance, because he requested a mortgage to finance a new girlfriend (Cecile Nordegg) he has picked up this episode to cheat on his wife (Bibiane Zeller), and other girlfriend, prostitue Elvira (Eva Kerbler).

Now true, on a pure story level, this episode has very little to offer, everything is just straight forward, the resolution at the end is less than gratifying, and there's little elegance in the investigations - and yet, this is one of the better episodes of what proved to be the series' last year as it does actually focus more on storytelling than comedic skits, and even the skits are integrated into the story better than usual, even the musical interludes. Now this one might be a far cry from the earlier episodes of the show, but quite ok entertainment still.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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