Season 6 Episode 6 aired November 11, 1999, produced in early september that year
This is the last episode with Harry Walkowski, and therefore and as a link to the upcoming CSCS2 I wanted to do this as a kind of interlude between the two challenges. The episode is one in double length to give Harald “Dirty Harry” Walkowski a fitting goodbye.
In the previous episode, a hint was given that Walkowski is addicted to gambling. It was only about some card games and a few bucks, but now he has lost himself in betting recently.
Meanwhile, Harrys addiction is fatal. In soccer bets he lost 200.000 Hetvesische Mark - the annual salary for an experienced Kriminalkommissar after taxes is about 60.000 Hetvesische Mark… He knows that he is screwed. Either he admits his addiction and arrests the bet mafia, or he needs to become corrupted. He is still a dedicated police officer, so he decides to confess to Kriminalhauptkommissar Kurt Voss, who is undercover in the mafia. They meet secretly in an abandoned factory, setting up a plan to arrest the people.
Meanwhile Frank and Sarah, who are a couple, have a romantic night in their apartment, as suddenly Franks mobile phone rings. An old Mara jeep goes berserk and caused many accidents, and Frank is in reach to interfere. Although off-duty, Frank accepts, but can´t find the keys for his department Primus and therefore takes Sarahs beloved private car, her “Mario”, an old Cavaliere Nobile Supermini. A disappointed Sarah left alone asks herself if it is really a good idea to marry Frank Batimus…
While getting updates on the phone, Frank is surprised to hear whose car it is - the Mara is the private car of Harald Walkowski! In a dramatic chase, the Mara spins another car, putting it in the way of Frank who smashes into it, but soon after Bernd Schneider arrives from another direction and takes out the Jeep.
Schneider pulls indeed Walkowski out of the car - he is unconscious. But in the trunk of the Mara is a dead man - he is soon identified as Kurt Voss. The medical examinator finds out that Voss has been tortured to death, and Walkowskis fingerprints are on the baseball bat used, as well as Voss´ blood on his clothes.
Walkowski can not remember anything and has a total blackout. The prosecutor Golo Grauß manages to get Walkowski arrested, although there is a trace of an injection in his arm. But no traces of drugs were found in his blood.
Frank, being sure that Harald is innocent and the victim of a setup, calls ME Prof.Dr. Hans Rothkowski, and gets to know that there are indeed drugs that rapidly degrade - mostly used in doping in professional sports. With this knowledge, Frank speaks up to Schneider, but the boss wants the Walkowski case done “cleanly” by the internal affairs department, although prosecutor Grauß is clearly full of hate against Harald. Without Schneiders consent, Frank interviews the goalkeeper of Fortuna Berlau, the legendary Oliver Kuhn (the sport star having a cameo appearance). Kuhn replies that after the arrest of the corrupt referee Robert Freundser and stricter controls, Doping is used as a manipulation to have an advantage over the opponent, and that the prosecutor Grauss already ordered inspectors to that case, but has obviously no intention to perform arrests…
Although Bernd Schneider reluctantly does the favor or requesting the files from the organized sport criminality task force, that request becomes denied, which is suspicious since Kriminaloberrat Bernd Schneider has the highest approval level with his now even higher rank. But Schneider insists of following the buerocratic way and writing an official complaint, while Sarah finds out that somebody in the prison leaked that Harry is a cop - and he now gets beaten up seriously every day. Although Schneider is nervous about that, he insists on not breaking any rule, even if they maybe don´t have much time left.
Sarah intrudes in the Landeskriminalamt of Berlau, trying to steal the folders of the doping and bet mafia, including the personal file of Hauptkommissar Voss, but she almost got caught. She escapes onto the scaffolding in front of the windows, but prosecutor Grauß sees that and cuts loose the ties of the scaffolding. Luckily, Sarah manages to fall into a trash container, only breaking her right hand.
Schneider meanwhile managed to have Walkowski transferred to another prison after a stabbing attack that Harry only survived with luck. Just when the driver of the prison van came out of the restroom to get to work, Sarah appears and seduces him, and since Sarah is a hottie, the driver forgets about his duty…
Frank, in prison clerk uniform, casually walks behind the wheel of the van.
But for security reasons, there is always a patrol car following. Batimus gets the sign from Walkowskis patrol car, a red Primus Aventura 300TD and speeds the red light. Sarah in the massive SUV then rams the following patrol car and takes it out, pretending to have not heard the siren due to her loud hiphop music at full volume.
On the roof of a parking lot, Batimus already placed his Primus Merit in advance, so Frank and Harry quickly switched cars. To get Harry out, Frank needed to use a tin can opener, since using the gun agains the lock would have been too loud…
But prosecutor Grauß already thought of such a prison break by Frank and had an officer surveying Frank. Soon they got two police cars after them, and Grauß yells over radio that ANY FORCE NECCESSARY INCLUDING WEAPONFIRE should be used. The highway department on that channel yells for Bernd Schneider, who runs out of the office and overrides that announcement, Meanwhile, Frank managed to shake off both cars. While Grauß puts pressure on Schneider to call air support, Schneider makes that take as long as possible, giving Frank enough time to hide Harry at his mother´s house.
At Helga Batimus´ house, Sarah meets up and provides Harry with the files of Kurt Voss. When reading through it, Harry quickly regains his memories and remembers Yulia Sokolov (compare S03 E05 and 10) in her wheelchair (she might be out of her full body cast but still paralyzed) behind the murder of Voss. In addition, Voss told him which of the suspicious bet dive bars mentioned in the files is the correct one. Since Sarah has still a feud with Sokolov, she joins Frank. Over the radio they inform a furious Bernd Schneider who refuses to provide backup and orders them to come into the department asap. Frank tells him to f…off and read up the word “loyalty” in the dictionnary.
Meanwhile, Yulia Sokolov has been warned that the files were stolen and that Batimus is after her. She quickly commands a mobster to wheel her into her van and get away as soon as possible. Just at the moment Frank parks the car, he spots the white VCV driving off at full speed. Frank puts the Merit into reverse and follows it.
A dramatic chase ends up in a warehouse where the mobsters and Frank play cat and mouse, until the VCV rams a pile of cardboard and the windscreen shatters, without vision, the van crashes into some explosive barrels, Any help is too late for Sokolov and her driver, but due to the impact, her bag got ejected - including her phone. The person who warned her was nobody else than Golo Grauss! With this proof, Harald is relieved.
A week after, Frank and Sarah marry on the graveyard. This weird descision by the couple was made to marry in the presence of Rainer Sordel, who was not only a great partner for Frank, but sacrificed his own life for Sarah. They said “yes” right in front of Rainers grave.
At the end of the ceremony, Harry reveals that he feels betrayed by the Hetvesian police and moves to Gasmea, where his twin brother Jakob emigrated to a few months prior to open a business. To support him, Harald got a job as highway patrol man for the GHP. Batimus apologizes for his harsh words to his Boss, after realizing that Schneider was never against Harry, and had no choice but to follow the protocol in his position. Schneider accepts this, stating that he would have done the same as Frank if he was in his shoes, gives Frank and Sarah four weeks paid vacation to give his former partner company and to drive him to his new workplace for their honeymoon. The episode ends with a buddy hug below Gasmean sunset.
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