Usually people choose to run away to the circus but, in this episode, a washed-up circus act uses his mastery of disguise to knock over a few supermarkets to raise money to run a bar somewhere hot and sunny. Sounds like a reasonable retirement plan until he shoots dead a supermarket manager who tries to stop him making off with the money.
Alongside his various disguises, the man, Wallisch, has worked out a good escape strategy, ducking into peep shows and walking out minus his diguise (but thankfully not minus his clothes). This offers the show the opportunity both for it's increasingly common token nudity and a little comic relief as Boeck gets grilled about his experience with peep-shows by Brandtner.
Still, it doesn't take Brandtner long to work out a circus connection and, thanks to an agent in the business, Boeck is sent to track the man down. However, poor Boeck gets fooled by Wallisch in disguise and when Brandtner realises what has happened, it's all too late and the man is gone, not without leaving a clue though. A brochure on Schoenbrunn leads Alex in the right direction. With supersnout Rex on board, it doesn't take long to locate Wallisch.
After a very scenic chase through the park and zoo, Wallisch holes up in the Pavillion with a number of hostages. Brandtner, Hoellerer and Rex hatch an elaborate plan to capture the man when he tries to escape on a bus with his hostages but Wallisch outsmarts then. Disguised as a released wounded hostage, Wallisch plans his escape in an ambulance but Rex smells him out and alerts Brandtner, allowing him to stop the ambulance in the nick of time. Endstation as Moser would say.
Alongside his various disguises, the man, Wallisch, has worked out a good escape strategy, ducking into peep shows and walking out minus his diguise (but thankfully not minus his clothes). This offers the show the opportunity both for it's increasingly common token nudity and a little comic relief as Boeck gets grilled about his experience with peep-shows by Brandtner.
Still, it doesn't take Brandtner long to work out a circus connection and, thanks to an agent in the business, Boeck is sent to track the man down. However, poor Boeck gets fooled by Wallisch in disguise and when Brandtner realises what has happened, it's all too late and the man is gone, not without leaving a clue though. A brochure on Schoenbrunn leads Alex in the right direction. With supersnout Rex on board, it doesn't take long to locate Wallisch.
After a very scenic chase through the park and zoo, Wallisch holes up in the Pavillion with a number of hostages. Brandtner, Hoellerer and Rex hatch an elaborate plan to capture the man when he tries to escape on a bus with his hostages but Wallisch outsmarts then. Disguised as a released wounded hostage, Wallisch plans his escape in an ambulance but Rex smells him out and alerts Brandtner, allowing him to stop the ambulance in the nick of time. Endstation as Moser would say.
Other players include Gideon Singer as the unwiting accomplice Thomas Koller, Monika Tajmar as Claudine Potofski, Magdalena Felixa, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Rainer Warrings, not credited with IMDB at all, and Elisabeth Orlowsky, also non-existant in the IMDB database.
A single Recycled Rexer Joachim Bissmeier, here as the man of the title, later as Egon Limbach in 'Der Fluch der Mumie' (2003).
A single Recycled Rexer Joachim Bissmeier, here as the man of the title, later as Egon Limbach in 'Der Fluch der Mumie' (2003).
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