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One night, when psychiatrist professor Steger (Hans Caninenberg) and his wife (Anneliese Uhlig) are out, someone breaks into their apartmen apartment, and whan caught by the professor's maid (Lisa Helwig), he murders her - then carries her back to her bed, tugs her in with the greatest care and then spends several hours in the professor's living room, wearing his coat, drinking his booze and going through his papers. Only when Steger and his wife return does the intruder make a hasty escape.  Inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) soon pick up investigations, but find the psychiatrist strangely reluctant to give out any useful information, despite him supposedly being a specialist when it comes to bizarre behaviour. So Keller and company soon zero in on Steger's estranged son Alfred (Mathieu Carrière) and his secretary Ute (Mararethe von Trotta), who both deliver pieces to the puzzle but no decisive clues. Then somebody breaks into artist Erdmann's (Günther Ungeheuer) home and follows the same pattern (apart from no murder this time around). Interestingly the first person Erdmann calls is not the police but Steger. Later, Erdmann tells the police that his brother has suffered from a schizoid disfunction and was treated by Steger, and breaking into someone's home to assume their identity would totally fit his condition. Thus Steger was the first on the scene, but it was ultimatly determined without a doubt that Erdmann's brother had been in the asylum he has been admitted to many moons ago, But Erdmann also reveals that Alfred has been suffering from the same condition, upon which Keller and his boys zero in on Alfred of course, who also acts very suspicious when he's next questioned - until he realizes they're actually trying to pin the crime on him, upon which he breaks out into relieved laughter and tells them that it was actually secretary Ute who he was talking about ...

Lobo's then very recent I'd Love you To Want Me features very prominently in this episode.

Frankly, a pretty hilarious episode due to its complete misunderstanding of psychology quite despite making a schizoid disfunction the center of the episode's attention. And in that respect, writer Herbert Reinecker's trademark stilted dialogues - especially those delivered by Mathieu Carrière - are just utterly laugh-inducing. And I know, all of this doesn't exactly make this episode out to be a prime example of crime TV - but seen through a nostalgic lense it's also darn entertaining, that's for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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