You don't get many trainspotters out at night in the chill of a Viennese night, anorak or no anorak, so when two men stand watching trains in the dark, you know something is afoot. Later, a homeless man is unfortunate to discover exactly what that 'something' is. Seeking alcohol amongst the cargo on the freight trains, he is overcome by some kind of fumes that ultimately cause him to expire, while his friend looks on helplessly.
Across town, the two men are practicing putting on protective suits and gas masks. Kinky? Maybe, but this doesn't look like one of the racier Rex episodes.
When the body of the homeless man is discovered, Graf is pretty quick to determine that the cause of death is deadly sarin gas, ringing alarm bells.
Brandter immediately goes undercover as a homeless person, with Rex at his side, to see if he can find out more about what happened. He makes friends with the dead man's friend and she tells him about gas bottles on the train. Finally, the team have somewhere to search but the cargo is already gone. Brandtner is able to locate the taxi drivers who delivered the gas bottles, securing an identity for one of the men. When the man goes to visit his ex-wife, Kunz arrests him, although poor Rex gets shot in the process.
At the Museum of Applied Art in Vienna, the other man is taking a bottle of gas up to the atrium level. With a jewellery exhibition in progress, it's pretty clear the men plan to use the gas in a robbery attempt. The arrested accomplice spills the beans on the planned attack and Brandtner is soon on the scene in the nick of time to stop him activating the gas. When he flees, he runs up a set of stairs that go nowhere, an artwork, and Boeck gets his man.
Other players include Michael Blihall, here as Waechter, Thomas Thieme, above, here as Gerhard Frank, and Manfred Schauer, above, here as Edi Salzer.
A single Recycled Rexer Andrea Eckert, here as Franziska Koenig, later in 'Tricks an der Theke' (2002) as Sonja Fuchs.
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