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Kottan (Lukas Resetarits) goes on a romantic date with his wife (Bibiane Zeller) to fix things up that have gone wrong of late, and he's so involved in things that he doesn't realize that his arch enemies Horrak (Ernst Konarek) and Wasservogel (Leon Askin) make constant attempts on his life, killing quite a number of people in the process - plenty enough for president of police Pilch (Kurt Weinzierl) to organize a special commission, headed by Kottan's hapless assistant Schrammel (Curt A. Tichy). Kottan himself soon finds a case of his own when a film reel showing a murder is sent to him by accident. But when he's trying to find out more about the victim (Heidi Melinc), he finds out she's actually alive but the person murdering her on film, a local banker (Gerhard Dorfer), is soon enough killed in a bank robbery. Kottan figures the film was used to blackmail the banker, and finds a clue on it that leads him directly to the blackmailers/bankrobbers/killers. In an unrelated story, Kottan's prostitute girlfriend Elvira (Eva Kerbler) asks for his help because her former pimp (Herwig Seeböck) has been released from prison and wants to take her back, by force if necessary. But then said pimp walks into a death trap set up by Horrak for Kottan. And ultimately Kottan arrests Horrak in his own home, as this is the last place anyone would ever look for him ...

Another of the later episodes of the series that totally falls apart, narratively and also suffers from comedy skits breaking up the narrative flow of the story even further. Now this approach of course has a certain charm, as it's a slap in the face of the overly formulaic cop shows that pretty much flooded television back in the 1980s, and while much of the humour's hit-or-miss (from Looney Tunes-like attempts on Kottan's life to lip-sync musical interludes), when it's funny it's at least really funny, but then again by now the show has pretty much established its own formula which it follows a bit too blindly, and what was once anarchy has now come to be expected with every episode ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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