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Derrick - Die Versuchung

episode 63

West Germany 1979
produced by
Helmut Ringelmann, Claus Legal, Gustl Gotzler (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Erik Ode
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Peter Fricke, Dany Sigel, Klaus Wildbolz, Heinz Moog, Andrea Dahmen, Karlheinz Lemken, Wilfried Blasberg
written by Herbert Reinecker, music by Frank Duval, title theme by Les Humphries

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Derrick, Harry Klein

review by
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Möbius (Klaus Wildbolz) and Sossner's (Peter Fricke) business is going down the drain, mainly because of a bad investment on Möbius' part, which he not only freely admits, he also knows a way out: You see, while Möbius himself isn't exactly well-to-do, his father-in-law Demmer (Heinz Moog) is. But there's a catch, too, as Demmer doesn't like Möbius enough to just give him the money - about DM900,000,-. And thus Möbius comes up with a plan: To stage his own kidnapping and this way get a cool million out of Demmer, which he of course will pay out of love to his daughter, Möbius' wife Ingrid (Dany Sigel). Despite Sossner's reservations, they go through with the plan, and at first everything goes according to plan, to the point where police inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper) are left completely in the dark. Even the handover of the ransom, which Sossner is to throw out of his driving car down a bridge. Observing this, the police under Derrick doesn't exactly act inconspicuously, but somehow Möbius seems to have gotten away with the money under their very eyes, while even leaving the briefcase used in the handover behind - which is odd to say the least and suggests to Derrick and Harry that something isn't quite right.

Even with the ransom paid, Möbius doesn't show up. Now Sossner is secretly Ingrid's lover, and he lets her in on the whole kidnapping plot, and now they decide to go to Möbius' hide-out - where they find him shot dead. Since that hide-out was Sossner and Möbius' old office, Sossner drags Möbius to somewhere else where he's bound to be found with no traces leading back to the company. Sossner also confesses to Ingrid he has swapped the briefcase with the money for an empty briefcase, but when he wants to show her, the briefcase is gone.

Derrick and Harry meanwhile find out that, without Sossner's knowledge, Möbius has also involved his secretary (Andrea Dahmen) and her brother (Karlheinz Lemken) in the plot, and upon learning Möbius got killed, they break down and tell them about Sossner's involvement in everything. So Derrick pays a visit to Sossner and tells him the ransom money has been found - upon which, Sossner makes a dash to a trainstation locker room where he has actually hidden the money (no idea why he pretended it was stolen from him only minutes earlier), which is as good as a confession that he has actually killed Möbius.

Questions are of course left open, like if Möbius' plan has gone as planned, how would they explain the sudden money influx after his kidnapping? And why would Sossner take Ingrid with him to "find" Möbius' body, and later pretend the ransom money has been stolen? And why did Möbius involve all these people into the kidnapping plot without Sossner's knowledge? So frankly, this is plothole galore ...

 

Pretty much a routine episode of Derrick, remarkable mostly because it was the first one to be directed by Erik Ode, not only a prolific director since the 1950s, but also the lead in Der Kommissar, the TV-series Derrick spun off of and would eventually eclipse/replace. But Derrick was never really a director's series but screenwriter Herbert Reinecker's brainchild, as he would throw his basically featureless title character and his relatable sidekick Harry into yet another ridiculously complicated case with a few too many plotholes and a not super-satisfactory solution following a silly trap laid out for the baddie, all accompanied by some stilted dialogue - and as such, the series is actually oddly likeable, maybe not for all the right reasons, but somehow the series is an entertaining document of its day and age (even if the series' longevity - it ultimately ran till 1998 - made it outstay its welcome eventually).

 

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