Hubert ohne Staller — Season 3

End of shift with a difference: the patrol car has run out of gas. Hubert and Staller argue in the bus about who is to blame for the dilemma when a cow blocks the road. Hubert drives the stubborn animal away with a warning shot. The bus driver spots the glow of a fire in the adjacent forest – has the cow fled from it?On site, Hubert and Staller make a gruesome discovery: what is burning are the remains of a human being – and the culprit seems to be quickly found: the one-armed farmer Weidinger has hidden in the bushes and is immediately arrested.For Police Superintendent Girwidz, the gruesome discovery comes at a very inopportune moment. His former superior, Police Director Schmitz from Dortmund, has unexpectedly announced his visit. Girwidz hopes that Schmitz, who is about to retire, is looking for a worthy successor and has already tasked Sonja and Riedl with getting the station up to scratch. Hubert and Staller are also supposed to help give Schmitz a fitting welcome, but the two would rather focus on the case.

End of shift with a difference: the patrol car has run out of gas. Hubert and Staller argue in the bus about who is to blame for the dilemma when a cow blocks the road. Hubert drives the stubborn animal away with a warning shot. The bus driver spots the glow of a fire in the adjacent forest – has the cow fled from it?On site, Hubert and Staller make a gruesome discovery: what is burning are the remains of a human being – and the culprit seems to be quickly found: the one-armed farmer Weidinger has hidden in the bushes and is immediately arrested.For Police Superintendent Girwidz, the gruesome discovery comes at a very inopportune moment. His former superior, Police Director Schmitz from Dortmund, has unexpectedly announced his visit. Girwidz hopes that Schmitz, who is about to retire, is looking for a worthy successor and has already tasked Sonja and Riedl with getting the station up to scratch. Hubert and Staller are also supposed to help give Schmitz a fitting welcome, but the two would rather focus on the case.

A car suddenly stops, the driver jumps out, thrashes around like a madman and collapses on a field – he died of bee strings.

Farmer Ernst Poschinger was shot and killed, and his little dog as well. Hubert and Staller investigate in a village where there is upheaval about the construction of a wind farm.

Old Henriette Vester whispers a last word into her clueless neighbor's (Police Commissioner Girwidz) ear before she dies from her severe head injuries: Rosen.

In midsummer, the body of a young woman is pulled from Lake Starnberg. The weird thing: She was wearing ice skates, when the last time the lake froze over was many years ago.

A crocodile in the lake? Hubert is astonished when he and Staller indeed find a little crocodile — and not far from it a corpse with bite marks.

Game over for good for a hobby goalkeeper. He is still holding the weapon in his own hand. But since there's no goodbye note, Hubert and Staller start to doubt that it was indeed a suicide.

Claudia Hagen is found dead in her favorite stallion Poldi's stall. But Poldi is missing and her significant other has a breakdown.

Staller suspected a blocked chimney and he was right: The chimney isn't blocked by a stork nest, however, but by chimney sweep in training Lena, who suffered from epilepsy.

Stefan Bichler is found dead in the church. The altar wine was poisoned. The popular priest didn't seem to have any enemies. Who killed him? Hubert and Staller investigate.

Girwidz, Hubert and Staller investigate at night in order to find the source of a loud rattling sound. A print shop owner is found dead in front of a running printing press.

Riedl insists that he just saw a murder. When Hubert and Staller investigate, it is just like they expected: There is no trace of a corpse.

A corpse is found in a spa hotel's mud bath. Director Ute Thoma is under shock: The dead person is her twin sister Ulrike.

A serial burglar's break-in ends deadly. It seems like the owner confronted the thief. But the break-in itself doesn't fit in with the previous ones either.

An unlicensed fisherman doesn't have a huge pike on the line, but a corpse. A swimming accident looks different, though, since the catch is in a plastic bag.

Directly in front of the police station, a young man is run over in a hit and run accident. Hubert and Staller think it's murder, since the culprit neither slowed down nor swerved to avoid the victim.

When Hubert wakes up in a stranger's apartment the morning after his birthday, he gets a shock: He's lying next to a young woman's dead body.