Endstation Hoellerer! Hoellerer is off to live with his mother and play merry host of the family guest house/pub and I can't say he looks too excited about the prospect. The result is an avalanche of Wurstsemmel in this episode (I counted 14, including a gifted pre-chewed one from Rex), just to expand his waistline a little more. Servus, Hoellerer!
A wild dog is feared to be roaming Vienna's parkland. freaky howling is heard nightly. When a man is bitten to death and the press coverage that follows is extensive, particularly in relation to the nature of the bite, Brandtner's interest is raised. The man has a single wound site on the neck, unheard of in dog attacks. Enough for Brandtner to stop the funeral and take the body back to Dr. Graf, who confirms his opinion that dog attack is unlikely. When further tests show that the bite matches a wolf type that became extinct over 100 years ago, it's clear that it's a case of murder.
This leads Brandtner to the anatomical museum. Could the jaw of such an animal have been stolen? Yes, indeed. Send in the Boeck to pose as a collector to see if there's any shady dealings going on. When the museum attendant responds positively to his request to buy a specimen, it looks as if the trail is getting warmer, particuarly when he admits to selling the wolf skull to a man.
In the meantime, a man fitting the description provided by the museum attendant is lurking in the park, trying to scare off people by warning them about the wild dog. When a solitary courting couple hear a strange noise and the man goes to investigate, he attacks the woman from behind, using the wolf skull to bite deeply into her neck. However, her screams alert her partner and the man is forced to flee.
When Brandtner is at the attack scene the next morning, he notices a man intently watching their operation and his curiosity is spiked. Boeck is sent to find out more. Turns out he's a nearby resident whose wife disappeared over a year ago. Aha!
A plan is hatched. Boeck sets off a tape of howling from nearby which wakes the man up. He gets up perplexed. After all, he had been the one playing such a tape. Rex is then sent into the man's building to scare him out, which he does successfully, enabling Brandtner to go in and have a look around. When he finds tapes of a howling dog and the all important wolf skull, the case, as Clousseau would say, is solv-ed and the murdered wife is located in the parkland lake.
Other players include Juergen Schornagel as Karl Wagner, Else Ludwig, not credited for this episode with IMDB and Tina Nitschel, not listed with IMDB.
A single Recycled Rexer Erwin Leder, here as the museum guide, but also in 'Diagnose mord' (1994).
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