Kommissar Rex - Season 8

Niki Herzog is ready to start her new job, the day before she meets a great guy - things are looking good. The next day Niki arrives at work to see her new co-worker (and superior) is none other than the guy she met the day before - Marc Hoffman. It isn't long before they get their first case to work together on - but Rex is still suspicious.

A young man, Bernard Baumann, and his sister share a considerable fortune, when the brother is robbed of his fortune, some paintings and antique clock and then murdered, Marc, Niki and Rex turn their attention to her. But are they on the right track?

Late at night extreme climbers risk their lives to climb up the side of a building, the Vienna Town Hall. From the ground they watch as one which is climbing appears to lose his grip and falls to his death. When Marc and Rex investigate though they find that none of the witnesses are willing to talk.

A young woman, Claudia Vogler, takes a small stray dog home one night. In her home she is attacked and strangled to death. Rex befriends the only witness to the murder in hopes that the little dog will lead him to the killer.

Late at night in a cemetery a woman is wandering looking for her friend Sylvia. The second woman is then attacked and murdered. The next morning Marc and Rex arrive at the scene where it appears the first committed suicide and the second was murdered.

After the police have raided a man's home for illegal guns, they don't realise that they haven't collected two of them. When the man is released on bail he returns home, gets one of the guns and returns to the station where he murders one of the officers involved in the raid.

First the murdered body of a man is found in a puppet theatre, then another body is found of a student. At first it seems as if they have nothing in common, until Marc, Rex and Niki find the name of the two victims Attorney.

A mysterious ad appears in the newspaper with the words "Ars Morendi". A group of people meet in a secret location to bet on the outcome of 'Russian Roulette' games where a person's life is at stake.

When another woman is murdered, Marc, Rex and Niki suspect that a serial murderer is at large as all the women have the same look - blonde and very beautiful. Without many suspects, it is up to Rex to sniff out the right postman - who is the murderer.

With Marc's Birthday today, Niki takes time off to decorate his apartment and receive his present, a gym set. While she is there though she is attacked and held hostage. Rex is sent in to help Niki, and Marc finally shows his feelings for her.

DNA evidence is planted at a scene of a murder in order to throw Niki and Marc off the trail of the real murderer. Just as they are closing in however they are confronted with another murder.

An autograph hunter tries to get an autograph but the celebrity isn't interested. The autograph hunter kills her and when she isn't discovered, starts murdering other celebrities in revenge.

A museum advertises for a new assistant, when the candidate turns up for the job, he finds himself killed and embalmed. The dealers plan to see the young man as a mummy on the black market and make a fortune, and if they get away with this mummy - there will be more.