The last of the classic episodes, written by Wolfgang Menge and directed by Jürgen Roland. Fittingly Heinz Engelmann gives his regular Kommissar for the last time and again we see other familiar faces in the cast. The focus of the last episodes shifted more and more to the criminals. The whodunits of the beginning are out and we get to know the bad guys pretty much at the beginning and see the case mostly through their eyes. Here we even have some of the voice-over done by one of the heavies. Dirk Dautzenberg gave the most thrilling performance in this gripping show. The story is very grim and we witness a lot of violence. One thing that has never been abandoned is the recurring nod to the often extremely long work hours and the little pay the police gets. Apparently script writer Wolfgang Menge was fed up with glorifying the police force and dropped out . Some years later new episodes (in color) have been done by different writers and directors.
