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Max and Freddy make one the best Tatort teams, and by this point seem to have become their characters. This episode benefits from a great story/mystery, as we have both a missing child and a homicide, which will keep you guessing until the end. In addition the sub-plot involving an intensely personal drama of one of the regular characters nicely echoes aspects of the main story. Charly Hübner, who stars as a detective in some other Tatorts, heads a strong guest-cast.

Okay I know. What did I expect? I expected more Nazis more zombies something, a story, something vaguely intelligible? Perhaps going in those were unreasonable expectations. It's the murky scenes and handheld cameras to excess that were my initial peeve with the film but it's just sooooo sssslow. I mean it's boringly dull and it doesn't get anywhere. Lot of people shooting and so forth and fuzzy monsters that may or may not be zombie Nazis. But you know this just doesn't rank with films of this type or of any type. I suppose it's worth putting on if you're sanding down furniture in the garage and you need something on in the background in order to waste electricity and that you don't have to pay attention to because if you actually watched it it would numb you to death. The problem was the film didn't know what it wanted to do at all. Sometimes it wanted to be a semi-intellectual Nazi Hunter movie. You don't hunt Nazis in a zombie movie? I mean what's the point even Kolchak didn't try to bring vampires into court to justice. And they spend way too time trade wandering around some unidentified place in " Eastern Europe" Don't waste your time. It's a cool title though, I'll them that.

I really enjoyed this series back in the day, or at least that's what I remember. This episode, however, is the worst of 70s lame. It's Quincy, not Columbo, but they clearly forgot that detail. 19 minutes in and you know who did it. And not the great acting of Jack Klugman, guest stars Fernando Lamas, Stuart Whitman, or even the deliciously lovely Marianna Hill can save this terrible plot. Did I mention that Quincy is "on vacation" in an exotic locale with his boat? Still, that doesn't save this sewage. All of the energy goes into Quincy trying to persuade an honest but lazy cop (Whitman), avoid the suave but evil Lamas, the slimy and weird Andrew Prine, and the usual complement of lazy fools, and self-serving dweebs, while neglecting his girlfriend. Yuck. Skip this episode unless you're a true series addict.