Die Chefin — Season 3

An operation by Vera's team and colleagues from the drug investigation team fails: the intermediary dies trying to convict a wholesaler. In addition, a young police officer from the MEK is shot and falls into a coma. Together with the public prosecutor, it is decided to pursue the case further. That's why Vera Lanz now has to work even more closely with the informant from the drug investigation team, Mario Fechtner. Fechtner is a charismatic and attractive man who is always on the verge of "the wrong side" and who is not easy to trust. Vera begins to appreciate the colleague for his self-sacrificing way of working, which is so similar to hers. But what went wrong during the mission? This question also concerns the internal investigator Dominik Schneider.He warns Vera that Mario could be the cardsharp and asks her to report to him. Vera stands between these two interesting men and faces a difficult moral choice. On top of that, she has to solve a case in completely new territory.

The discovery of a female, pregnant wax corpse, who had died 18 years ago in a manslaughter, raises many questions for Vera Lanz and her team. It quickly turns out that Jan Trompeter knew the girl well. Vera dives into the Hasenbergl with her colleague in his youth and first relationships. Trumpeter's friends - the couple Jutta and Holger Baumann, his former best friend and brother of the dead, René Mosbacher, his mother and Trumpeter's then girlfriend Biggi Scholz - move into the circle of suspects. Even Trumpeter's father knows more about the girl's disappearance. Vera not only learns why Trompeter decided to live a different life away from his roots, the investigations also put the trust between the two inspectors to the test.

A woman of unknown origin and identity is found dead near the Munich train station with a crying baby in her arms. A short time later, the parents Insa and Peter Wilde are there and relieved to hug their stolen son. Vera Lanz and her team now have to solve the murder of the dead woman. Again and again they come across questions as to the motives for kidnapping the child, since the woman did not demand a ransom from the wealthy Wilde couple. When Vera finally finds out that the woman was illegally smuggled to Munich and that the baby is a child from Eastern Europe that was adopted through an agency, she seems to be getting closer to solving the case.But then suddenly Vera's daughter Zoe is kidnapped and Vera is confronted with the reference to officials of the Russian mafia. What role does the mediation agency Seerosen play? What was the Wilde couple willing to do to have their own child? How is Vera supposed to investigate further without putting her daughter in danger?

The banker Dirk Brockhausen reports in panic to Vera Lanz: He fears for his life. A short time later he is found dead. Brockhausen's eight-year-old son Leonard makes Vera promise to find his father's killer. Does his death have anything to do with the case of his kidnapped and killed wife Rebecca four years ago? The kidnapping money and a very valuable watch were never found. Did Superintendent Garber turn off security cameras on purpose to get inside the bank building? What exactly does Wilhelm Brockhausen, the victim's father, have to do with the case? During her search, Vera has to deal with unexplained facts about the case and an innocent prisoner and meets an old acquaintance, the professional killer Ulrike Laske. Last episode of the current season "The Boss".