Rex Resolution 54: Das letzte Match

Yes, back on track with Rex episode 54. This may, in fact, be the first episode of Rex I ever saw.

Not quite sure what the above video is about but found it on my search for something suitable for this post. Gedeon is certainly most welcome to hang out on this site. Ha.

Intriguing. The pink socks? Any idea, anyone?

There's something putting coach Breuer off his tennis game and that's enough to irk his playing partner, Habermann. Calling it quits, they pack up for the night. Invited to drinks by the centre owner, Schulz, she threatens to fire Breuer should he talk.


Talk? About what?


We never get to find out because Breuer gets stabbed in the back while changing. With Habermann and Schulz gone for the night, Breuer makes it to the tennis court before collapsing, his body found by the cleaning woman the next morning.


Brandtner, alert as ever, has his sights set on Breuer and Schulz and, in his initial questioning, notices some damaged items in Schulz's office. Perhaps there has been an earlier fight? Meanwhile, Boeck virtually drools over a young, attractive tennis star under the guise of asking questions related to the investigation.


With no one able to provide any clue as to why Breuer should have met such a horrible fate, Brandtner becomes more suspicious of Breuer and Schultz. When he finds out that Schulz had rung Breuer every night over the past week and notes her use of valium to calm the nerves, he confronts her. She claims financial stress and that Breuer had been drinking, a matter she needed to address otuside of business hours.


Later, Habermann is seen putting moves on Schulz and, when she rejects him, threatening her over the money she owes him. When Schulz is found stabbed the next morning, the pressure of suspicion builds on Habermann.


The father of the attractive tennis player has other ideas though, feeding Brandtner the idea that Breuer and Schulz had been involved in an affair, that Schulz had killed Breuer out of jealousy before turning the kitchen knife on herself.


Brandtner returns to investigating the possibility of an earlier fight in Schulz's office. Finding traces of blood and at least four different sets of footprints, Brandtner knows he's found something of significance. When Habermann escapes an attack at his sports store and seems loathe to report a break in, Brandtner confronts him with the office fight scene. Habermann claims he and Schulz fought over money in front of Breuer, who, coincidentally, may have suffered a nose bleed. What? From the stress? Alex is not convinced.

When Hoellerer unearths the fact that the young tennis star had a car accident about ten days before the first murder, Brandtner realises there's more to the story than he first thought and brings her in for questionning. Under pressure, she tells Brandtner that Habermann and Breuer raped her in front of Schulz, who did nothing to intervene, and that her father took revenge. The father agrees, wanting to save his daughter's stellar career.


Supersnout Rex knows different and when he is able to prove that the murderer was in fact the young tennis player, out for revenge when her father wanted to suppress the story to avoid scandal, the story gets wrapped up.

Other players include Anja Kruse as Heidi Schulz, Dietrich Hollinderbaeumer, not credited with IMDB for this episode, Manfred Lukas-Luderer, not credited with IMDB for this episode,
Eva Habermann as tennis plater Karin Klein, and Wolfgang aka Fifi Pissecker, not credited with IMDB for this episode (although also appearing in Stockinger).

A single Recycled Rexer, Doris Mayer, not credited for this episode or an earlier appearing in 'Ein Engel auf vier Pfoten'.