Rex Resolution 49: Toedliche Leidenschaft

If you've ever considered infidelity, this episode might give you food for thought. When Helmut Kraus finds out his father has been having an affair with his wife, revenge comes in the form of a storage container dropped on his father from a great height.

Of course, when Brandtner and Boeck first start their investigation, it initially looks as if the case is related to Kraus Senior's gambling history. Alex puts himself in danger, joining an illegal poker game and asking the most pointed questions almost before the first hand is dealt. No wonder he's outed as a cop almost immediately. Good job Rex is on hand to save the day yet again!

When Kraus Senior's little black book (or should I say 'phone directory) comes to light, suspicion shifts to his wife. Cold as ice, she doesn't seem to give her fig about her flattened man. Scary is Boeck's dreamy look as he imagines 48 girlfriends and what he'd get up to. Aiee. Let's not go there, please.

Brandtner decides to talk to Helmut's wife, Ines, to see if she can shed any light on familial relationships or suggest who the latest girlfriend might have been, not knowing he's talking to the guilty party. However, when he leaves, he notices a parking ticket on Ines' car and, following up, realises the truth.

Stressed out, Ines faints and is taken to hospital where it emerges she is pregnant to her husband's father. Rex goes Jerry Springer! Overcome with rage, Helmut takes her forcibly to his mother's office where the mother learns that Helmut was behind the murder. When Helmut hits out at Ines, mother-son love runs deep and the mother helps him hide the unconscious body in a storage container, just as the police arrive. Rex isn't fooled though and notices blood on Helmut's trousers and finds Ines just as she's about to be shipped out of the storyline for good.

Other players include Angelika Bartsch as spurned wife Martina Kraus, Klaus Rohrmoser, not credited with IMDB for this episode, and Iris Junik as the unfaithful daughter-in-law, Ines Kraus.

Recycled Rexers include the late Georg Staudacher as Helmut Kraus, and Johannes Terne, not credited with IMDB for this episode, but also seen in Eiskalt (2000) as Johannes Altman.

Rex Resolution 16:Blutspuren

An action packed episode with many, many Wurstsemmel (that's what's important, right?) and another major Recycled Rexer (see above....I think this clip is Spanish? Don't say this isn't an international site!)


More mischief from Dr. Graf as he insists on showing the mangled face of a victim hit by a train to Moser. Why would Moser be interested you ask? While rigged to look like suicide, Dr. Graf ascertains that the victim was already dead before being left on the rails. With no identity to the body, Rex again comes to the rescue, locating the dead man's watch (conveniently engraved) on the embankment.


It all looks like a crime of passion as Moser and team uncover a bitter history between the victim's wife and mistress but Dr. Graf's evidence points them in a new direction and car repair yards become of interest as they investigate a possible hit and run. Add in a good dose of blackmail and you can be sure there's more trouble afoot.


..and, in true Rex style, the blackmailer is someone quite significant, namely Alexander Pschill, later Kommissar in Series 7 and 8. Funky dungarees, Alex! Again, serious crim to admirable Kommissar, quite a transformation.

Other players, all above, include Christine Schuberth not listed with IMDB for this episode, Claudia Martini as Gerti and the late Rudi Schippel, uncredited for this episode with IMDB.

More Recycled Rexers in Dietrich Siegl, here as the blackmailer Kunert, later as Dr. Wagner in Verliebt in einen Moerder (2002), the late Georg Staudacher (who sadly committed suicide), uncredited by IMDB for this episode but listed for Toedliche Leidenschaft (1998) and also appearing in Stockinger, Alexander Pschill, of course, here as Seil and then as Kommissar Hoffmann from 2002 to 2004, and, finally, Daniela Gaets, Moser's vet girlfriend Sonya in a recurring role detailed in blog Rex Resolution 15, Stumme Schreie.