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Finberg (Michel Robin), owner of a trucking company, has an affair with Polish immigrant Vanessa (Loumi Iacobesco), who urges him to marry her otherwise she'll be sent back to her home country - something he'd be very open to if it wasn't for his wife (Eleonore Noelle), who eventually loses her shit over his affair and wants to move out to her mother's ... and he even offers to drive her, something she inexplicably agrees to. Thing is, she never arrives at her mother's, and Finberg claims they had an argument on the way there and she just jumped out of the car and took off when they made a stop. Inspector Köster (Siegfried Lowitz) and his team (Michael Ande, Jan Hendriks) investigate, and soon find out that Finberg, as he hauled cargo and has witnesses both when he left his company and arrived at his destination, simply could not have killed his wife and hidden her body - it's basically a physical impossibility. So Köster zeroes in on Vanessa, which even includes her seducing one of Köster's assistants (Ande) with Köster's team taking pics via hidden camera. And eventually it turns out that it was actually her who shot Finberg's wife dead while she was still in his truck, then hid the body to provide Finberg with a water-proof alibi ...

Now Siegfried Lowitz once again does a very good job carrying this episode as investigating inspector - but otherwise the whole thing's routine 70s German TV crime drama at best, with the plot really over-simplifying things and leaving some key questions unanswered, like how to shoot someone in a truck without leaving any traces - like blood or a bullet hole. And the scene where it's revealed that Michael Ande was photographed while being seduced really feels odd at best. Now the whole thing's totally watchable still if for nostalgia reasons, just nothing particularly remarkable let alone memorable.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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