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One year ago, Anna Colucci (Xenia Pörtner) was murdered, strangled and then thrown out a speeding train - but inspector Köster (Siegfried Lowitz) never managed to find the culprit, especially since the key suspect, her husband Francesco (Michael Maien), had an alibi from no less than five witnesses. But now Köster goes on TV with the case, and the next day one of the witnesses, Sylvia (Eva Christian) pays him a witness to tell him her statement might not be as watertight as she has made it appear one year ago. Köster visits the other witnesses and indeed, suddenly nobody is really sure anymore how precise their statements actually were. This naturally leaves Köster baffled ... but there's a reason for this, one year ago, Tina (Heidelinde Weis) wanted Francesco badly, so it was in her interest to have him cleared of all suspicion - and a good friend, Frank, orchestrated all the alibis. Since though, Tina has grown tired of Francesco - whom she has married in the meantime - and would actually like to have him out of the way to be with her new lover Lasker (Claus Bantzer), and so Frank sees to it that Francesco's alibis crumble one by one. And when one of the witnesses (Peter Fricke) tries to blackmail Frank, he murders him in cold blood. Köster of course is quick to realize Tina and Frank try to play him, and he also realizes his key suspect from back when, Francesco, is probably not the killer, so he lures Frank into a trap, exactly when Frank tries to lure Francesco into a trap, and ultimately Tina spurts out Frank's whole scheme - including that it was indeed him who killed Anna - in front of the police, even if she makes herself an accessory to the crime doing so.

Siegfried Lowitz gives another self assured performance, only proving yet again he's probably the best investigator of German crime television of his era, acting-wise, and he leads a quite competent ensemble in this one. Unfortunately, as good as the acting might be, the script is very far-fetched and thus also pretty mediocre. As a whole the episode might be an entertaining watch for sure, especially when seen from a nostalgic point of view, but safe for Lowitz' performance there's little memorable about it.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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