Rex Resolution 43: Tod eines Schulers

A revision of 'To Sir with Love'. Female teacher, young male student. Add in a healthy dose of blackmail from a fellow student and you get a totally unhealthy outcome. When the blackmailer tries and fails to get the teacher into bed himself, it's only the beginning of a downturn in his day. Leaving the scene, he gets stabbed to death. That solves the blackmail issue, right?

When the student lover tries to retrieve incriminating photos from the dead student's room, he arouses the suspicions of the boy's mother who calls in Moser. With the couple under interrogation, the student confesses to the murder in the mistaken belief that his lover killed the blackmailer.

When the student cannot demonstrate how he killed the blackmailer, his innocence becomes clear. When Moser reads a message left for the student by the teacher, he realises that she is intent on commiting suicide, believing herself in the boy's guilt. With Rex on the trail, Moser turns up just in time to save her from throwing herself off a very tall building and making a very big mess.

With nowhere to go, Moser returns to Dr. Graf to review evidence and notices an oddity on the photos of the corpse, indicating the killer had a missing finger. Bingo! It's off to arrest sports teacher Eckhart, who also had been putting moves on the teacher.

Other players include Sebastian Stroebel, above, as Tom Friedmann, Torben Liebrecht , above, as Stefan Dorner, Heinz-Josef Braun, above, not credited with IMDB for this episode, and Herta Schell, not credited for this episode in IMDB.

Recycled Rexers Nina Franoszek, above, here as Claudia Martin, earlier in 'Toedliche Teddys' (1995) as Diana Neuwirth and Hermann Schmid, not credited for this episode but appearing later in 'In letzter Sekunde' (2001) as Kurt Schweiger.