A recently divorced cop adopts a police dog who lost his former companion; together they solve crimes in and around Vienna.
Cast:Gerhard Zemann , Heinz Weixelbraun , Wolf Bachofner , Martin Weinek , Reginald von Ravenhorst , Tobias Moretti , Gedeon Burkhard , Fritz Muliar , Alexander Pschill , Elke Winkens , Karl Markovics , Ernst Josef Lauscher , Daniela Gäts , Lisa Tatzber , Sabine Petzl , Hilde Sochor , Andrea Händler , Katrin Reisinger
During a rooftop bomb explosion, Rex's trainer is killed by suspect. Rex refuses to eat or drink. Inspector Richard Moser feels sorry for him, and so begins their partnership when Rex uncovers a crucial clue in the investigation.
When Hans Felsner, owner of a restaurant, has a heart attack, it is soon discovered that it was actually a murder.
When a corpse is found inside a rubbish bin, Inspector Moser is called to investigate and runs into a complicated people smuggling network that has taken many lives.His life is in danger too.
Moser and his team investigate the kidnapping of three old ladies and everyone seems to know more than them.
A prisoner makes a violent escape during a visit to the dentist. His accomplice is wounded and left behind. Fleeing from the police, the escaped prisoner holds a ballerina class hostage and demands the release of his friend. It's up to Richard and Rex to diffuse the situation and save the day!
A body is discovered in the park surrounding Schönbrunn Palace - a young lady wearing only a fur coat and lingerie on a frigid Vienna day. As they investigate, Stocki questions a witness who indicates the groundskeeper. But despite his criminal record, Richard remains unconvinced and enlists Rex's help to investigate a local gynecologist with ties to the dead woman.
Richard goes undercover to find out why patients at an institution are being murdered. He entrusts Rex to Stockinger's care; but he escapes.
A homeless man is brutally murdered on New Year's Eve. The next day, Stockinger's team is assigned to a woman's suspicious suicide.
A man recovering from a car accident in a hospital discovers that perhaps he is infected with HIV virus and decides to kill the people he assumed to be responsible. Richard and Rex have to stop a person who has nothing to lose.
A young girl is found dead in the city outskirts.The girl was a talented pianist and all suspicions fall to her tutor,with whom she used to spend a lot of time.Inspector Richie Moser has to stop the melody of death.
A bomb explodes in a toy store window, the third in a string of Gurmann teddy bear bombings. With Rex taking care of a bedridden Richard, Stocki investigates a long list of disgruntled employees. The investigation takes a turn when Richard is visited by the heiress of the Gurmann toy company.
When a stonemason is found dead in a cemetery, Inspector Moser is called to investigate the murder. A possible motive is the theft of Beethoven's skull the previous night. Inspector Moser and Rex have to trace down a killer and a thief.
A bag with human intestines is found in the sewers.A corpse with no clues for his identity and a very difficult case are waiting for inspector Moser and Rex,who went from the shower to the sewer.
A businessman is murdered outside his night club.Moser arrests a suspect shortly after the assassination and his team tries to interrogate him with no results. The man is part of a hired assassins network and gets to have Rex kidnapped. Richard Moser has to find Rex and keep the suspect from getting away.
The little Ines is found dead on the Danube bank. At the same time, an amusement park disappears into girls, who are found again a few days later: abused and in shock to be incapacitated.
An unknown person has thrown himself in front of a train, forensic scientist Dr. Graf, however, does not believe in suicide.
A murderer of lovers drives in the "Vienna Au" mischief.
A German tourist photographs young men in downtown Vienna. One of them he invites in the evening in his hotel room. The next morning, the tourist is found dead - the photos are the only trace.
In a beauty salon in the center of Vienna, a customer suffocates during a facial treatment. The coroner finds that the client was murdered.
A man is shot dead in a hotel room, and the telephone operator Brigitte Heinrich is a witness to the murder. Sophisticated assassinations are committed on the blind witness.
Ernst Fuchs and Fritz Groh attack a money transfer. In the exchange of fire Fritz and a monetary transport driver are killed - Ernst flees with the money.
In the middle of winter, little Sabine is found dead in an outdoor pool. It quickly becomes clear that this is murder. Moser sets the culprit a trap.
A young, pretty woman is strangled in the bathroom. The smell on the belt of the bathrobe Rex reacts sensitively. But apart from the perfume, the culprit has left no traces.
A wealthy businessman gets kidnapped while doing his daily driving. A man who witnessed the kidnapping is found dead,taking the secret with him,inside the grave. Inspector Moser and Rex have a mystery to solve again.
Dr. Hausner, professor of veterinary medicine, collapses dead on the street: heart attack. What at first looks like a natural death is murder. Dr. Hausner's wife and his lover Uschi Reichert were near the crime scene - both have no alibi.
When the owner of two grocery stores is shot, Moser determines undercover as a laborer on the vegetable market.
A car crashes over a slope, the driver burns beyond recognition. A fire expert alarms Commissioner Moser and his team: There are inconsistencies in the accident.
Two women are killed the same way, their throat was cut with the strait razor.
A young man is killed when he's racing with his friend. When the man who killed him is found dead, Moser and Rex go to investigate.
This is Böck's first case with the group. A young woman and her brother are at the landslide, and she dies in the middle of it. Dr. Graf tells Moser and Böck that her drink was poisoned, and her brother is the suspect. But soon a similar murder happens. He had drunk the same drink as she had, and soon all of Vienna is in fear.
A female photographer finds diamonds hidden in a stuffed bear in a museum, and after that, Moser has to find the killer of several people because of the lost diamonds.
A female criminal invites a man, who has stupidly fallen in love with her, to free her from jail.
A young girl dies after a heroin overdose, and Moser finds out that she was going to go on TV to talk about sexual abuse in her childhood.
The owner of a doll shop is obsessed with women and dolls, and he manipulates them to act like dolls before killing them. The body of a young woman is found, and the Homicide Department of Vienna takes over the case. A young girl who lives across the way from the doll shop has witnessed a young woman running away from the murderer.
A young woman stabs her boyfriend to death under hypnosis, and Moser is trying to find out who hypnotized her and why.
A young woman collapses on the street and dies in the hospital. Before the autopsy, a security guard is killed and the woman's body is stolen from the morgue. All evidence is pointing to a dive school.
During the play "Romeo and Juliette," an actor gets hit by a falling set piece and dies, but it wasn't an accident. It appears that the killer wanted to kill Juliette instead of Romeo.
Kidnappers take the wrong boy from hockey practice. Rex gets bitten by a venomous snake and almost dies. Another boy tries to rescue his friend from the kidnappers. Moser has to save Rex and both boys before they all get killed on Christmas morning.
In their next investigation, Rex and Moser have to find who poisoned the business director of an expensive restaurant.
A famous doctor and his wife, also a doctor, are shot dead in cold blood after a bunch of red roses are delivered to their apartment. The killers are seem to be professionals. Böck, Moser, Höllerer, and Rex take the case. An expert in curing cancer diseases is kidnapped, and his family is kept hostage by the same killers.
Little Isabella König is kidnapped by the father of her best friend, Günther Stein, and hidden in a sand pit outside Vienna. When Commissioner Moser learns of the kidnapping, he tries to arrest the perpetrator in the ransom handover. But things go awry, and Stein is shot without the police finding out where he is holding Isabella.
A young teacher has an intimate relationship with her student, and another student wants to blackmail her, but is found dead.
Moser and his team investigate a case in which a man was thrown through a window.
A serial killer kills women in Vienna every night, shooting them in the head with a revolver and leaves dominoes on their bodies.
After Richard Moser is killed by a mental patient who also kills himself after looking into Rex's sad eyes in the last episode, he is replaced by Alex Brandtner, but Rex is desperate, refuses to eat, and wants to be near Moser's house. Alex decides to help him.
A bank and supermarket robber changes his outfit every time and nobody knows how he looks. He takes hostages in the zoo, and Rex has to save the day.
Three businessmen make an agreement to murder a man and make it look like suicide. Rex has to stop the train to save a life.
A birthday party is interrupted by a phone call, a murder on a container site. It poses many mysteries for Inspector Brandtner. All prime suspects have airtight alibis.
A young woman is found dying on the outskirts of Vienna. She worked as a babysitter and cared for a three-week-old baby.
A criminal that Brandtner had sent to jail finishes his sentence and seeks revenge against Brandtner by dognapping Rex.
A lurcher photographed a woman being murdered. He then starts to blackmail the murderer, who in turn tries to kill him.
A popular tennis teacher is stabbed to death in an exclusive tennis club. There seems to be no motive for the act. Later, the managing director of the club dies in a similar way.
Because there's a bomb hidden in a residential area, Brandtner goes undercover in prison in order to get at the bombmaker and blackmailer, Zach.
During a robbery of a jewelry store, one waitress is killed and another wounded.
A priest is in mortal danger because of what he heard in a confession from a dying man.
Brandtner, Böck, and Rex are on a hot air balloon ride. From the balloon, they can follow some of the way a bank robber runs away from the bank.
A married woman is having an affair with a married man. She will not leave her husband as the lover wants her to.
The daughter of a hotelier kills a man, in a blind rage, because he rejects her.
A homeless man has been found dead on a freight train terrain. The cause of death turns out to be a nerve gas, which has been transported in one of the freight cars.
Marion Gruber runs a costume hire agency and in the evenings lives out her personal fantasy that she is Sisi, Empress Elisabeth of Austria. As the harmless dream grows into a dangerous obsession, Marion becomes unpredictable and violent. A coachman whom she has hired for a midnight drive around Vienna is stabbed when he becomes too curious. When her business manager finds her Sisi memorabilia and becomes suspicious, he threatens to go to the police unless she signs the business over to him. Fortunately Inspector Alex Brandtner has pieced it all together and arrives on the scene before more harm is done.
Martin, an employee at a go-kart track, desperately wants to become a race driver, but he needs money. He has already borrowed from a loan shark and is falling behind in his payments.
An alcoholic man murders his wife and kidnaps his two children; he plans to kill them too, and commit suicide afterward. Inspector Alexander Brandtner and his team must stop him.
Nina Martin, a famous opera singer on a comeback tour, visits Vienna with her baby. When she leaves her baby in the hotel under the care of an assistant, the baby is kidnapped by a couple posing as guests. Will Brandtner and Rex be able to foil the kidnappers and get Nina's baby back?
There's a murder in an ice skating arena and some hockey players are involved.
Hans and Paul Tomek are twin brothers in their thirties. Hans is a successful and wealthy stockbroker who is about to depart for New York. When Paul decides to kill him and take his place he soon runs into difficulties. He is blackmailed by a former mate who recognizes him because of a tattoo and Hans' girlfriend also realizes that he is not Hans. Paul kills his former mate and tries to silence the girl. Will Brandtner and Rex arrive in time?
Young woman was pushed from Vienna Tower and man is stabbed to death. Tarot cards were left by the body.
A serial killer is dumping womens bodies at local cemeteries during nights when the moon is full, killing them and cutting off their hair with a razor. When a third murder is committed, Alex and Rex must find a link between the killings.
Opening scene: Walz, policeman suspended for 4 weeks, follows Hanusch down into Vienna's catacombs. Hanusch shoots him. Walz is found dead the next day in a container.
A man, who is robbing a bank, shoots an employee and escapes with another employee as hostage.
The pretty Marion finances her studies as a high-class prostitute. She learns internal company details from a client, which she intends to use profitably on the stock market.
Young woman is killed in a lift of an apartment building,in the act of rage. It becomes clear that serial killer is around when three similar murders are committed. Dr Leo Graf reveals to Brandtner and his team that murders are separate and not connected with each other because there are two different perpetrators.
Xaver Stoll is a sexual maniac. Trying to kidnap a informatics student from her apartment he accidentally kills her and runs away from the crime scene. Alexander Brandtner and his team discover the case, first suspect is the girl's boyfriend.
Brandtner and Rex investigate car explosion in which a woman is killed.
After the departure of detectives Alex Brandtner and Christian Bóck,Marc Hoffman and Nikki Herzog come as a replacement and join Kunz and Rex. They have they first case together:serial killer murders young couples who are having sex near a resturant at the Dunav.
In a burglary, a man, who together with his sister owns a private bank, is murdered. Antique candlesticks were stolen among others. As a candlesticks seems to be the murder weapon, the investigations focus on handlers of stolen goods.
A climber falls from a tower and dies. Their friends hide his body instead of calling the police.
A free woman falls in love for a man in prison and helps him to fabricate evidence that would help him to look innocent.
An Egyptian mummy is stolen from a museum in Bucharest and offered for sale in Vienna by two art dealers.
A woman and a man die. They have in common eating the same sorts vitamin tablet.
The murder of a female doctor was to be perceived as suicide. A small dog has died of poisoning.
A woman, swimming, a sunny day, in the the old Danube "die alte Donau", is apparently being attacked by a crocodile.
Katja and Mathias take photos on a construction site. They fool around with a pistol that Katja found in her father's house. Suddenly an accident occurs: A shot is fired and accidentally hits a bum who is on the premises.
Elmar Baumann, single, former owner of a jewels business, is stabbed in his villa. When Marc and Rex arrive at the crime scene, Rex realizes that the victim is still alive.
A half-burned body is found in the furnace in an empty factory. Also Rex finds a white feather and a dead mouse at the site.
Teenagers Thomas and Lisa are secret lovers. Lisa is 7 months pregnant. After a boozy party Thomas' friend Manuel dies. None of the others at party seem to remember anything
Mr. Walter has been murdered in his old people's home. Walter's son Robert comes under suspicion
A man, smoking on his balcony, witnesses the murder of a young woman who is subsequently thrown into the trunk of a red Saab
A man is found shot. The police found on him an envelope with EUR 10,000.00.
