This episode introduces us to the somewhat obsessive, neurotic Kunz.
Sandra Haller is used to getting what she wants and when Thomas Reich refuses her advances, he pays with his life. Stabbed in the jugular with Sandra's car keys, Sandra calmly drives off as he bleeds to death, dumping the body and car in a car park away from the crime scene, a Viennese disco.
Once home, Sandra confesses what she's done to her father. After all, daddy always manages to fix things. When he suggests a world trip for when this is all over, that is when she has gone to the police and confessed, she's not happy and convinces her father that they can steer suspicion towards Thomas's girlfriend, with whom he was seen arguing at the disco before he left.
Her father is less sure, certain the police will soon arrive at their hotel, where Thomas had been an employee. Sandra isn't worried though. In fact, she's looking forward to it because, having seen Brandtner interviewed on television at the crime scene, she's discovered something else she wants.
When Brandtner and Boeck turn up, the father follows the plan and directs them towards Thomas's girlfriend but further investigation soon proves her to be innocent. In fact, the girlfriend redirects attention back to Sandra. With suspicions raised, Brandtner decides to plant Kunz in the hotel as a kitchen hand, to pick up on any gossip, but also returns to the hotel to talk to Sandra. He's taken aback to find himself wined and dined and offered a room for the night.
During dinner, a call alerts Brandtner to the suspicious death of Sandra's sister and the subsequent emotional breakdown of Sandra's mother. He later takes the opportunity to get a fingerprint from Sandra, which he later compares with a fingerprint left at the crime scene. Surprise, surpise, it's a match!
When Kunz overhears information that leads to the discovery of Sandra's mother, Brandtner pays her a visit and gets the final evidence he needs to justify the arrest of Sandra. At the hotel, an angry confontation ensues and Sandra hits Brandtner over the head, leaving him to drown unconscious in a bath tub of water before attempting to flee.
Boeck manages to stop the escape but it's only when Rex drops a lamp out of the room window, narrowly missing Kunz, that the team are alerted to Alex's fate. Of course, it all works out in the end and Brandtner is saved.
Other players include Bojana Golenac as the murderous Sandra Haller, Robert Hunger-Buehler as her father, Barbara Ratheiser, not credited with IMDB for this episode not shown above, Simon Verhoeven as the unfortunately Thomas Reisch, Erika Mottl as Elisabeth Haller, and Roswitha Soukup, not credited with IMBD for this episode.
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