Rex Resolution 63: Toedliche Geheimnisse

It seems so idyllic, to ride your bicycle through the vineyards, before settling down on a rocky outcrop to study your books. Idyllic, that is, until someone shoots you with a crossbow as happens to poor medical student Sibylle in this episode.

When she fails to return for a barbecue with her flatmates or even pick up her 'phone, her boyfriend becomes concerned. No one seems to want to help until he comes across Brandtner. Ever sympathetic, he heads out with Boeck, Rex and the boyfriend to the vineyards, where Sibylle regularly cycled. Before long, Rex has detected the low battery bleep of the girl's mobile and her body is discovered.

Brandtner's immediate investigation centres on the boyfriend and two flat mates, learning that they were two couples living together, all medical students and planning to eventually work together. What he doesn't find out is that Sibylle had cheated on her boyfriend with her flatmate's lover, although, in the end, it adds little to the story.

Sibylle had been doing some work experience at a cosmetic surgery clinic where her lover was working, having already completed his studies. When her boyfriend and the other student look into her pc, they discover that Sibylle had been gathering evidence on the unexpected death of a patient at the clinic, thinking that the woman had been given an incorrect infusion of potassium.

When they reveal this to Sybille's lover, he is dismissive initially but then agrees to exhume the patient's body from the graveyard so that they can do their own pathological detective work.

Meanwhile Brandtner and team have worked out the crossbow connection as all of the students and the boss of the cosmetic surgey clinic were all keen archers. While the students are out digging and cutting up bodies, Brandtner and Boeck check over their apartment and then leave Kunz on surveillance duty.

The students are sprung returning the body to the cemetery and narrowly escape but when news of their cemetery activities is broadcast, Brandtner puts the story together and confronts them. When they explain their activities, Brandtner sends the body over to Graf for investigation, who soon determines they had the wrong body in the first place because that particular person had drowned. When they finally get their hands on the right body, it becomes apparent that what had been originally been dismissed as a heart attack was, in fact, a case of hyperkalaemia following a medical mistake by guess who? Lover boy? Genau.

Other players include Loretta Pflaum , above, as Andrea, George Lenz , above, as Sibylle's lover, and Katharina Ortner, not credited with IMDB for this episode.

Recycled Rexer Dominik Castell, not credited with IMDB for this episode but also appearing in 'Gefaehrliche Jagd' (1995) as Ernst Fuchs