Rex Resolution 27: Ueber den Daechern von Wien

Okay. Australia Day (today, the 26th January) is typically a big barbecue day. However, setting alight to a car containing an unconscious woman, before pushing it over a drop, is probably taking things a little too far.

When the corpse is first discovered, it looks like a simple car accident but some irregularities mean Moser and team are called in to investigate.

The woman's husband seems distraught when Moser and Stocki visit to pass on the bad news. What they don't know is that he has a very 'naughty' female hidden away in his apartment, with whom he seems to do little else but eat luxurious food and make love. Probably the reason why he's soon out buying oysters (got to boost that libido a little more....), when he gets challenged by a woman who lets him know she knows everything he's up to! Such a silly thing to say really. Such a statement never bodes well for the mutterer in an episode of Inspector Rex.

When Dr. Graf manages to reconstruct the face of the car victim, it becomes apparent all is not as thought and the team must look a little closer at the husband.

Oh, and get your tissues ready, this episode prepares us for the departure of Stockinger to greener pastures (Salzburg) and an offshoot series.

Other players include Christian Haid as Dr. Hellwig (is that anything like 'bed hair'?), Alexandra Timmel, above, not credited with IMDB for this episode, and Paul Rumpel, not listed with IMDB at all.


Recycled Rexers Katrin Reisinger as Ingrid Hellwig and later as a vet in Attentat auf Rex (2003), Hemma Clementi as a prostitute, also appearing as Gaby Schmoelzer in Gefaehrliche Jagd (1995) and as Christa Augustin in Tod im Museum (1996), Michael Gampe, above, here and in Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1994) as fireman/expert and Alexandra Sommerfeld, above, not listed with IMDB for this episode or for Stumme Schreie.

Rex Resolution 21: Gefaehrliche Jagd

The Vienna Water Tower above features in this episode. For fun, check out the webcam mounted on the tower here (except not at this exact moment - all is pitch black being the middle of the night).

So, to business...

Life on a council estate. Alcoholic mother. Pet budgie. Who wouldn't want to escape, right? Two men decide to hold up a money truck but it all goes horribly wrong when shots are exchanged, leaving one security guard and one robber dead.

Moser and team are soon hot on the trail, identifying the dead robber from his finger prints, and turn up at the estate, where the surviving robber, Fuchs, has hidden the haul with his scantily clad girlfriend (have to get nudity into the episode somehow) before going to tell his accomplice's mother, aforesaid alcoholic, that her son is dead. The son might have been a 'braver Pup' but it doesn't seem to sink in that he's now a deceased 'Pup'. Moser and Stockinger aren't going to get anything out of her and it all looks a little hopeless until Rex discovers a secret passageway that allows movement between different parts of the estate.

Moser chases down Fuchs, confronting him in the communal showers (enabling further gratuitous nude shots). Fuchs grabs a hostage (thankfully clothed), allowing him to escape. A carjack later, he winds up at the Vienna Water Tower, hoping to meet his girlfriend. Unfortunately, her attempt to leave the estate with the suitcase disguised as one very ugly baby gets foiled by Hoellerer and Fuchs is stood up.

Spotted by patrolling cops, his location is blown and a big shoot out is on the cards. This is the second time Moser takes a bullet but, of course, we all know it won't be the last.....

Other players include Dominik Castell as Fuchs.

A fair bit of a Reycling bonanza in this episode!

Recycled Rexers Ernie (e in credits) Mangold, above, uncredited in IMDB for this episode but also appearing in 1998 as Frau Schuster in Moser's Tod, Gregor Seberg, above, uncredited in this episode but seen in Drei Sekunden bis zum Tod (1996) as Gredl and Attentat auf Rex (2003) as Rudolf Hartmann. Markus Siebert, uncredited here in IMDB but credited for Baby Rex - Der kleine Kommissar (so, a kind of baby Recycled Rexer)and Hemma Clementi, here as Gabi Schmoelzer and in 1996 as Christa Augustin, the photographer, in Tod im Museum.

Here again, but not strictly Recyclers, are Ernst Josef Lauscher, repeating his role as forensic expert from Toedliche Teddys and repeat offender Daniela Gaets.