Rex Resolution 51: Geraubtes Glueck

A woman is found dying in a park by a woman walking her baby. Unfortunately, there's no clue to her identity. When Dr. Graf picks up on blue spray paint on the body, Brandtner is able to tie up a key found on the body to a locker in an art school. While checking out the victim's flat, a young couple arrive and the case takes a turn for the worse. The victim had been minding their baby and now the infant is missing.

With no ransom demanded, Brandtner deducts the baby must have been taken by a childless woman and when the woman who found the body says she had been approached by a stranger who took an interest in her baby, his worst fears seem confirmed.

Brandtner favours the softly softly approach and tries to keep the story out of the newspaper, to avoid panicking whoever took the baby. Talking to a woman who had previously taken a baby gives him a line of research but the young couple, frustrated by what they perceive as inaction, go public.

When a neighbour of the perpetrator reads the story of the abduction and challenges the woman about her 'new' baby, the woman attacks her before fleeing to the countryside. Meanwhile, Brandtner's research has led him to the woman's address, saving the neighbour and discovering information which leads him to the location of the woman's country hideout.

With the woman flushed out into the open, she ends up on a cliff top in desperation and while, ultimately, Rex manages to save the baby, he nearly loses his own life when he goes over the edge himself. This time Brandtner steps up to save the day.

Other players include Ursula Andermatt , above, as Eva Oswald, Marlon Rosenthal, above, not listed with IMDB at all, Ina Halmagyi , above, as Sonja Ebner, Johannes Thanheiser as Opa in Reichenau, Ingrid Burkard, not credited with IMDB for this episode.

A single Recycled Rexer Petra Morze, not listed with IMDB for this episode, but appearing in 'Flucht in den Tod' (1994).