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Derrick - Angst

episode 18

West Germany 1976
produced by
Claus Legal, Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Heidelinde Weis, Hans Dieter Zeidler, Uschi Glas, Bernd Herzsprung, Beatrice Norden, Hannes Kaetner, Jean-Pierre Zola
written by Herbert Reinecker

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Dr. Hertel (Hans Dieter Zeidler) has an affair with young Irene (Uschi Glas), to a degree that he finances her apartment and her studies. But then she tells him she wants to call it quits and admit he has another lover, Jürgen (Bernd Herzsprung), though only after he finds Jürgen's wristwatch on her nightstand. And seeing he can't sway her, he slowly strangles her. Then he for some reason bags Jürgen's wristwatch and leaves. Once back at the office he calls the janitor of the apartment building Irene lives at and cheats the man into opening her apartment and finding the corpse. When inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) arrive at the scene of the crime, Hertel shows himself to be very cooperative and he even freely admits to having had an affair - and as an alibi for the time of the crime he tells them he has been at home for lunch with his wife Franziska (Heidelinde Weis) ... and back at home he persuades Franziska, a timid person as such, to corroborate his alibi - which she does over the phone, even if Derrick doesn't fully buy it. Then though Jürgen shows up to fetch his watch - and of course he's totally shattered when he learns about Irene's death, and also freely admits that he tried to stop by at noon but nobody was home. His frankness is so genuine that Derrick and Harry soon disregard him as a suspect. Instead they pay an in-person visit to Franziska for her to repeat her statement, and let the story about the missing wristwatch drop - which she soon finds in her husband's suit. Derrick and Harry pay Hertel a couple more visits to let him know he's not off the hook while Franziska lets him know that she has found the wristwatch, the very thing that would tie him to the murder, her alibi notwithstanding. Hertel though plays it cool with the police, then coolly poisons his wife. But searching her things, he's unable to find the wristwatch - when Derrick and Harry arrive at the scene due to a hunch Derrick has had, only to find Franziska killed, but the wristwatch in her hand.

 

Ok, there's the typical stilted dialogue as only screenwriter Herbert Reinecker could conceive it (and that's not a compliment), and many of the characters actions and reactions come across as rather unnatural, too. But at the same time, this is also a nice game of cat-and-mouse and a game of alpha dog between the killer and the police that's actually really well-structured. Plus it's refreshing to see that for a change it's Harry, not Derrick, who asks Franziska the decisive question about the wristwatch - as pretty much a throwaway line, actually. So actually one of the better episodes for sure.

 

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