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Kottan (Lukas Resetarits) has been thrown out of his apartment by his wife (Bibiane Zeller), and what's worse, she later goes on a date with Kottan's nemesis within the police, president of police Pilch (Kurt Weinzierl) - a date that goes horribly wrong.

Eventually, businessman Bertalan (Edd Stavjanik) is murdered in the apartment he paid for his girlfriend Helga (Maria Martina), who has literally just left him, and when Kottan and company - Schremser (Walter Davy) and Schrammel (Curt A. Tichy) - try to track her down, they find she has been pushed out a window by her pimp Joe (Franz Buchrieser), who manages to always stay one or two steps ahead of the police. Kottan is paired with American cop Lemmy Caution(Eddie Constantine), who finds a clue leading to a prostitution ring, which Kottan has infiltrated by Elvira (Christiane Rücker), a prostitute he has had an affair with - which totally undermines his efforts to get back together with his wife. However, Kottan finds out that the prostitution ring also employed Bertalan's daughter (Marieli Froehlich), and in a plottwist that seems to come right out of fellow cop series Derrick (so much so that the characters remark on it), it turns out that it was actually Bertalan's son (Konrad Becker) who shot his own father, with the initial intention to only scare shitless one of his sister's would-be johns ...

Narratively, this episode is quite a bit of a mess since at first it fails to kick into gear, starting out with Kottan's marital problems rather than the case central to the episode, then the case seems to be split in two, with the final resolution pulled out of the hat rather than anything else, which was of course part of the punchline but lacks narrative elegance. And add to that the by now standard comedy skits interrupting the narrative flow and you're left with a bit of a mess. But there are some good parts as well, the casting of both former Kottan Franz Buchrieser (even making fleeting remarks to his former role) and veteran Eddie Constantine, making fun of his Lemmy Caution image, was inspired at least, and they are put to good use (even if Constantine eventually leaves the episode rather unceremoniously), Kurt Weinzierl hams it up to ridiculousness, and at least isolated pieces of comedy are rather hilarious. Not among the best episodes of the series mind you, but pretty entertaining nevertheless.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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