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A dead body is dropped on the doorsteps of a police station, and it turns out to be that of a police informer. Soon homicide inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his team have tracked down the deceased's girlfriend Josefa (Eva Pflug), who works as wardrobe lady at a club, and she tells them from her work space there she can sometimes overhear conversations in the next-door office between her boss Rahl (Peter Vogel), a certain Denger (Walter Buschhoff) who runs a transport company, and somebody only known as the Professor concerning an unspecified heist. Keller is quick to identify the Professor as his old nemesis Fredersdorf (Peter Lühr), an elderly gout-ridden man who has only recently been released from prison, and whom Keller now pays a visit - also to let him know he's on his trail. And while Fredersdorf doesn't exactly admit he's involved with whatever is planned, he doesn't deny it either. Meanwhile, Keller's assistant Erwin (Elmar Wepper) hides in Josefa's coatroom every night to spy on Rahl's conversations, while Keller's other assistant Grabert (Günther Schramm) spends his nights at Rahl's club to ... not really do anything, really. Eventually, Keller and company get a pretty good idea that Fredersdorf and company want to rob a money transport using the sewage system for their getaway. But even if our heroes have all the pieces of the puzzle, he fails to put them together and the money transport is robbed right under their noses, and ultimately they only catch Fredersdorf because he's too vain not to make a phonecall to Keller to gloat - a phonecall that's traced back to his whereabouts ...

American singer Donna Hightower can be seen performing a couple of tunes - My Funny Valentine and This World Today is a Mess - in Rahl's club.

Now Der Kommissar has never been a series that was high on narrative logic, but this is one of the episodes taking the cake: It really starts with the fact that there's no reason to leave the dead informer on the police's doorstep to attract attention rather than burying him in the woods to probably be found only weeks after the heist, goes on with the fact that robbing a money transport using the sewage system was really crime fiction staple by 1974 already, so for our heroes not piecing the rather obvious clues together (or just give the transport extra guards and put surveillance on the sewage system) isn't very believable, and the fact that they ultimately catch the bad guy because he had to call in to gloat is pure pulp fiction but fails to convince - and these are just some examples of what doesn't work here. So in all, it's still nostalgic fun but one of the lesser episodes of the series. The tunes that Donna Hightower performs are pretty cool though.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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