Rex Resolution 38 and 39: Ein Engel auf vier Pfoten, Teil 1, 2

This above is what I could really do with right now. SNOW and lots of it.

There's something ironic about watching a Christmas special, full of snow and subzero temperatures where you're sweating it out in extreme 44C heat. Still, as Nikki rightly points out, what else can you do on a day like this than sit in the air conditioning and watch Rex? A double episode to boot, so resolution viewing for today and tomorrow schon erledigt!


When a young boy decides he wants his separated parents back together for Christmas, he swaps places with his best friend at ice hockey. This enables him to slip away to show his mother a letter written by his father saying how much he misses her.


Bad news for the villians in this piece as they inadvertently kidnap the wrong boy. With the ransom call made, it's only when hiding out at Vienna's Haus des Meeres that one of them realises their mistake.

Meanwhile the target, Markus, has returned to the ice rink to find it crawling with police. He puts two and two together, somehow making six, and heads straight off to the Haus des Meeres to rescue his friend. All I can say about this place is that it's crawling with way too many snakes for this phobic Wurstsemmel! And when one escapes......aieee.

As Markus is captured, he kicks in an alarm as he is dragged downstairs, forcing his captors to relocate him and his friend. When the police arrive, they find critical evidence to prove the boys had been there. Unfortunately, the cobra is still on the loose and Rex gets bitten while trying to protect Moser. Some snappy action follows as Moser injects anti-venom and Rex makes a stunningly fast recovery.

With the boys taken to a railway maintenance shed, a sequence of 'Rex meets Home Alone' moments takes place as the boys outsmart their captors, giving Moser and team (Hoellerer active again! He'd better have a good sit down in the next episode) to track them down and rescue them shortly before they get crushed under a large train. Never a good option.


And the parents? Do they get back together? Does Rex like Wurstsemmel?

Other players include Michael Lesch, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Detlef Bothe, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Alexander Ott, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Alexander Koeppler, Gundula Rapsch, not credited with IMDB for this episode (but for Stockinger!), and Doris Mayer, not credited for this episode.

Recycled RexersAlexander Strobele, not credited with IMDB for this episode but murdered in Endstation Wien (1994) where he played Markus Spitzer (now, that's some serious recycling), and Lisa Tatzber, as the child witness, not credited with IMDB for this episode but also appearing in 'Das Maedchen und der Moerder' (2001), and Suzanne Czepl, not credited for this episode, nor her earlier role in 'Tod eines Kindes'.