Tatort — Season 2008

Conrad Ketteler was about to take office as environmental advisor to the new member of the state parliament, Günter Balried. But the biologist and conservationist Ketteler is found dead in Lake Constance. It was at the center of a dispute between conservationists and a group of commercial fishermen fighting the protected but fish-predating cormorants. During their investigations, Klara Blum and Perlmann discover that Ketteler had secretly collected evidence of illegal activities by the fishermen. He was either murdered because he stood in the way of the fishermen with his principles, or because he was too private in his private lifehad few principles. A witness testifies that she saw Fischer Gasser in Ketteler's house on the evening of the crime. Gasser vehemently denies this. Klara is convinced that Gasser is lying, but cannot prove it to him.It is also questionable whether he is lying because he murdered Ketteler - or rather to protect Günther Balried. Although Balried is the protagonist of a green party, he seems to have more in common with Gasser than he cares to admit. Klara begins to concern herself with Balried's past. It turns out that Conrad Ketter didn't die in the lake at all, but in the water of the fish hatchery...

Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk have to solve the murder of a pedophile ex-prisoner. The sympathy for Paul Keller is limited: After twelve years in prison, he was allegedly treated and only a few hours free. Now the body of the notorious child killer has been found in a residential dumpster, just like eight-year-old Kevin, his alleged victim. Inspectors Ballauf and Schenk are faced with a difficult task: the number of suspects is large, especially since the "Child Protection" citizens' initiative had publicly opposed Keller's release . Following the American model, the organization had published Keller's identity and place of residence on the Internet and distributed leaflets with his photo all over the neighborhood.The driving force behind "Child Protection" is Kevin's father Stefan Maywald, formerly a very successful lawyer. After the death of his son, he devoted himself entirely to fighting the pedophile scene. But Maywald isn't the only one who isn't letting go of the past. The events and the slander from the neighbors also left their mark on Keller's family, his parents and his stepbrother.

Belinda, a 16-year-old girl, has disappeared. The last eyewitnesses reported seeing them in the moor that afternoon. But since then there has been no trace of her. Did the girl run away or is this a crime? Borowski's research led him to the girls' boarding school in Hainfeld, where Belinda went. Together with Frieda Jung, he has to realize how lonely and little liked Belinda was. So murder? Borowski still has no idea how close he is to the murderer who is looking for his friendship. 

Arno Dahm, entrepreneur of a company with fair trade products, dies trying to kidnap him. The perpetrators are able to flee – only 13-year-old Doro witnesses the crime – but reveals herself to no one. The investigative work begins: Casstorff is irritated that his girlfriend Wanda Wilhelmi is not there. When the prosecutor heard the dead man's name on the phone, she wanted to go to the scene of the crime immediately. In the meantime, Holicek examines the professional environment of the dead man and is the first to meet Karl Dursthoff, chairman of the export association, who knows about disputes between the dead man and his partner Müller.In fact, Jannik Müller, co-owner of thecompany "Fair Global", understand that it was not easy with Dahm - after all, Dahm's high moral standards in everyday business stood in their way. Wanda Wilhelmi still does not appear and not only Casstorff is alarmed: The LKA sets up the special commission "Wanda" - assuming that the public prosecutor was kidnapped on purpose. Also on board is Jenny Graf – Casstorff's former employee who now works for the LKA. Together they examine the cases that Wilhelmi was working on before she disappeared and try to find out what the connection between Dahm's death and the kidnapping of a prosecutor could be.

Stuttgart, late summer, a Monday morning. Chief Inspector Sebastian Bootz is woken up by his family to celebrate his 31st birthday. A happy start to a working day that has a new case and a new colleague in store for Bootz. Stuttgart, same Monday morning. Chief Inspector Thorsten Lannert from Hamburg experienced his first encounter with the local population on his way to work at the police headquarters. Rüder The beginning of a day that will bring Lannert a new desk, new colleagues and his premiere assignment in Stuttgart.

A Berlin scene club: This is where the Berliners and international business giants hang out when there is a dead person a few days before an economic summit: Ted Wilson, American hedge fund manager. He was supposed to handle the takeover of the successful company Brom-AG. Chief Inspector Till Ritter (Dominic Raacke) is amazed to meet Simone (Katrin Saß), an acquaintance from the old days as a taxi driver, in the head of the club. Simone introduces the inspectors to the guest list, which includes the investment advisor Zinger (Sven Lehmann) and the beautiful escort girl Kirsten (Natalia Avelon).pursue themwith the victim ambitious professional interests? The attractive student Franka (Anna Brüggemann), who is researching for a newspaper article there, and Klaus Werner (Guntbert Warns), chairman of the Brom AG works council, also frequent the club. On the night of the murder, Franka's friend Daniel (Adrian Topol) also requested admission to the club, but was rejected. He was obviously jealous of Franka. The case becomes particularly sensitive for the detectives when American embassy clerk Bob Miller (Errol T. Harewood) pitches his murder theory to Ritter and Stark (Boris Aljinovic).

Nocturnal distress signals, an empty yacht bobbing at dawn, and finally a missing Swiss shipyard owner: Klara Blum's latest case begins with a riddle on a wintry lake and requires cross-border cooperation with the Swiss colleagues. When Klara Blum discovers an aimlessly drifting, unmanned yacht practically in front of her front door on wintry Lake Constance, she finds possible traces of blood there. The Swiss shipyard owner Stähli, where the yacht was just overhauled, cannot be found. Klara requests administrative assistance from the Swiss police. Reto Flückiger from the Thurgau Maritime Police and his boisterous young colleague Marcel Steiner, who are supposed to be working with Klara and Kai Perlmann, suspect the shipyard owner Stähli, who has disappeared without a trace, of having smuggled drugs on a large scale.Steiner, in particular, is convinced that Stähli has gone abroad. But then Stähli's body is found in the lake. Klara Blum and her Swiss colleagues are now investigating a murder together. However, despite all her sympathy for the charming Reto Flückiger, Klara has the impression that the two Swiss investigator colleagues are hiding something from her. Especially when Stähli's colleague Weingarten revealed to her that Steiner was not telling the truth on a crucial point. When Klara realizes that Reto is covering up for his young colleague's arbitrary actions, she becomes suspicious. She expresses her suspicion that the young, ambitious Steiner has something to do with Stähli's murder. And thus triggers a knee-jerk reaction in Steiner. He flees, head over heels.Klara Blum's first 'Tatort' case with the Swiss Maritime Police colleagues was created as a co-production between SWR and Swiss television.

Charlotte Lindholm is on maternity leave and spending time with her five-month-old son David. She doesn't feel fully utilized, and that's why she begins to deal intensively with brain research, especially with human memory. Charlotte's boss, Bitomsky, initially refuses her wish to work part-time. Slowed down a bit by her thirst for action, she agrees to spend her free time with David and Martin in his newly acquired allotment arbor. Right at the beginning of their stay in the 'Erntedank eV' colony, the body was taken away by Albrecht Leimen, chairman of the association. Charlotte immediately senses trouble, especially since the residents of the colony are herseem a bit strange. But Albrecht Leimen - as the new employee in forensic medicine Edgar Strelow finds out - died of natural causes.The diagnosis was a heart attack while cutting a hedge. This incident happened on a piece of property that he didn't even own and on which nobody lived since its former tenant, Helmut Zacher, emigrated to Canada in the mid-1990s. While Charlotte is making more and more observations that lead her to suspect that something is wrong in the autumnal idyll of the allotment garden, Martin sees this as the pipe dream of an underemployed chief inspector.

When the Turkish entrepreneur Ercan Celik is run over with his own van and dies, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper get support from the LKA. There one suspects the act of a serial offender who has been executing businessmen of Turkish origin for some time. However, Lena's investigations also provide indications that the crime could have something to do with the Sahins' family situation , because Ercan Celik ran his business together with his brother-in-law Önder Sahin. While Önder was striving to trump his more successful brother-in-law, Ercan's wife Derya was trying to gain freedom in their arranged marriage. And then there's Peter Bogner, who was spotted near the crime scene and has a hard time hiding his affection for Derya Celik.

"Mutilated woman's body found after fire at rubbish dump", headlines the sensational press and puts the public prosecutor von Prinz under pressure to act: But the search for clues by Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk falters. After the fire, the body is no longer identifiable. And there are no witnesses. Neither Peter Esser, the managing director of the small disposal company on whose premises the charred body was found, nor the young gardener Kaja Krumme,who reported the fire to the fire brigade in the early hours of the morning, noticed something suspicious. Only Willy, a solitary rubbish collector from Ballauf's neighborhood, knows that there were several fires at the recycling center two years ago. There is talk of the garbage mafia, which is putting pressure on smaller recycling companies in a targeted manner. The detectives want to question Esser's secretary. But she cannot be found.

In the mid-1960s, the two noble prostitutes Gertrude "Gina" Echsner and Johanna Wiesnet were cruelly killed in Munich. The perpetrator or perpetrators were never caught. But modern forensic technology now makes it possible to reopen one of the most famous cases in Bavarian criminal history. Rather by chance, patrol officers found the murder weapon, a dagger, in the Amish sled of former underworld king Robert "Roy" Esslinger, which could bring clarification after more than four decades. The case ends up on the desk of Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr on orders from above – more precisely: from Detective Oberrat Wellisch.During their investigations, the two chief inspectors immerse themselves in the long-faded Munich red-light district of yesteryear: Robert "Roy" Esslinger was in the 1960sa well-regarded half-world size in the train station environment. Thanks to his insidious charm, the cynic, who was worth millions, always understood how to cooperate with the city leaders. Even Munich's former police chief Dr. Landgräber remembers it "very well". What makes Batic and Leitmayr's investigations more difficult is the cooperation of their assigned inspector Sirsch, a grumpy, older officer who can't even use the computer. This circumstance offers Batic and Leitmayr the best opportunity to mourn the loss of their dear ex-colleague, the technically highly talented and above all industrious Carlo Menzinger.Because Batic and Leitmayr now have to do the tedious detail work like combing through dusty folders all by themselves. However, amazing things come to light.

A mysterious traffic accident in the snow with five dead gives special investigator Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) many mysteries. Because in addition to the two drivers, two students, the police found three other dead people in the crashed car, who apparently died before the accident. Initial investigations show that these three corpses were officially transferred from a hospital to the Anatomy Department of the University of Vienna for research and teaching purposes. The head of the clinic, Dr. Veronika Fuchsthaler (Sunnyi Melles) has no explanation for how these human bodies got into a pickup truck on a lonely country road at night.Eisner and his colleague Inspector Bernhard Weiler (Heribert Sasse) receive unexpected help from the young pathologist Paula Weisz (Feo Aladag), who discovers inconsistencies in the hospital. On a very hot lead, Dr. Weisz at a seminar at the University of Graz. Because during an object lesson, she recognizes the body of a young drug addict who, according to the documents, had already been dissected by students in Vienna. How could this corpse come to Graz unharmed from the outside? For Moritz Eisner it is clear that the anatomy and the hospital use forged files to make corpses disappear. People who have no family, no one pays for a funeral, and no one misses.But for what purpose is this happening? And why does the drug addict woman have severe fractures to her spine and shoulders that were clearly inflicted long after death? Followed by the press, which got wind of this horror story, Eisner gets deeper and deeper into an investigation that constantly raises new questions. Above all, however, this one question: How far can science and research go?

A young man comes home to find his wife at the crib of their three-month-old twins. Leon, one of the two infants, is dead. Patrick believes his wife Tamara did something to the baby and calls the police. He tells Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo of the Frankfurt police that this is not the first infant to "die off" them under mysterious circumstances; her first child, Lina, was dead in her cradle a few weeks later, the cause of death remained unclear at the time. The case of the dead child is delicate and there is a lot of public pressure. The buzzword "infanticide" is in the room. Tamara is being held in custody for the time being. Dellwo finds more and more clues and clues that seem to point to her guilt. Singer, on the other hand, slowly approaches the strange, withdrawn woman.She suspects that an overwhelmed mother is hastily labeled as a murderer. Could someone else be behind the child's death? For example, there is Sabrina, the young neighbor, a single mother herself, who seeks to be close to Patrick and comforts him after Leon's death... 

With a dog tattoo on his neck and puncture wounds on his back, private detective Peter Mang is found half-naked in a pit. Has he become the victim of his secret investigations? The trail leads Inspector Thiel to the villa of the industrialist family Rummel. Despite the clean facade, Sabine and Markus Rummel's marriage seems to be crumbling: After all, the photos taken by the detective show that the works manager and his new assistant Christine Schauer have more in common than just an employment relationship. The private detective was hired byAlfred Weskamp. The former works employee is an older friend of the Rummel family. Wesskamp also reveals to Inspector Thiel that the company under the leadership of Markus Rummel has recently got into financial difficulties. Meanwhile, Prof.Boerne is once again investigating on his own. The fact that the murdered private investigator looked so similar to him doesn't let the forensic doctor go. The dead man's conspicuous tattoo leads him to a relevant tattoo studio in Münster. Here he meets the Belarusian Jan Sievic - and his attack dog...

Having just arrived in Leipzig by train, Chief Inspector Andreas Keppler is called directly to a crime scene. His new colleague Eva Saalfeld is already waiting for him here, with whom he has more in common than their future work together – they were once married to each other. The marriage ended in divorce, and now both are nervous about meeting again. But they don't have time for private matters, because they have to solve a murder together. Hans Freytag, operator of the event center 'Fabrik', has been stabbed. He was restoring a boat with some young people with the word 'death penalty' spray-painted on the bow. The inspectors determine that Freytag's 'factory' had already been daubed with the word 'child molester' several times by unknown persons.The background could be a criminal complaint by his wife Sibylle, who lives separately from him, who claims that Freytag abused their little daughter. Towards Friday there was a pogrom mood in the district. A witness saw a youth running out of the 'factory' at the time of the crime. Inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler come across Max Lornsen, who was the last person to telephone Freytag. However, the young man was friends with the victim - what motive for a murder should he have? Things are very different with the innkeeper Kurt Steinbrecher: He is the chairman of an association that publicly calls for the death penalty for child molesters. Steinbrecher has no alibi, and his fingerprints are on a spray can found at the crime scene.When the inspectors then find out that Sibylle Freytag and her lawyer Klaus Arend have been a couple for a long time, the question arises as to the actual purpose of the abuse report... Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler investigate in a district where hysteria and vigilantism reign . In their first case, they have to unravel a web of slogans from the regulars' table, broken marriages and failed dreams.

The body of a young woman is found early in the morning in downtown Leipzig. Susanne Körting was brutally killed. Her husband Manuel tells the chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler that he recently separated from Susanne. The autopsy revealed that Susanne Körting gave birth to a child a few days before she was murdered. However, her husband had not mentioned anything to the inspectors about a pregnancy. During interrogation, he claims that his wife telephoned him from the hospital to tell him that he was stillborn. Traces found at the crime scene could be those of a stroller. Chief Inspector Eva Saalfeld immediately orders a search of Manuel Körting's house.When they don't find the newborn there, the investigators contact Susanne's last employer, Peter Marquardt, who runs a building cleaning company. From him they learn that Susanne Körting was not so particular about marital fidelity. She is said to have had fun at a company party with her former boss Jörg Grabosch. But Peter Marquardt, it seems, also had a closer relationship with the dead man: the married Marquardt was seen with the pregnant Susanne Körting buying a pram. He, too, is being targeted by investigators. Is one of the two men the father of the missing baby and wanted to avoid responsibility? Where is the baby now - and is it still alive? Another murder occurs. The dead woman, Karin Meckel, turns out to be an employee of Dr.Wagner, Susanne Körting's gynecologist. However, he has not seen his patient Susanne Körting for over a year, let alone treated her. There is still no trace of the baby, who is wanted nationwide. The fear that it could have been killed does not let Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler rest.

The second case of Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begins with a drug investigation operation: a police officer and two suspected drug dealers die in a shootout, and one is critically injured. The latter, however, turns out to be an undercover investigator for the LKA. A deadly mistake? Lannert and Bootz get caught between the fronts with their investigations - drug investigation versus state criminal investigation office. The drug investigators were deployed at extremely short notice due to a tip from an informant; large amounts of cocaine and a corresponding amount of money are secured in the room. LKA man Mendt therefore suspects that the drug investigators wanted to enrich themselves with the loot. A theory that Lannert seems quite conclusive.Bootz, on the other hand, who is rooted in the Stuttgart police, knows two of the police officers involved and cannot imagine them getting involved in crooked business. Lannert respects Bootz's assessment. Basically. But the investigation results increase his suspicions as Bootz tries to maintain loyalty to his colleagues. But the recording of the undercover investigator secured at the scene of the crime poses a mystery and gives the inspectors food for thought.

Katja Manteuffel, chief physician at the Berlin University Eye Clinic, is found murdered. The investigations lead Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) to Cornea AG, a company that has developed a revolutionary retina chip as part of the top-secret 'Phydra' project. This chip was implanted in a blind patient (Anne Kanis) shortly after Katja Manteuffel was murdered. Soon the eye surgeon Mareike Andresen (Judith Engel) is targeted by the inspectors. Because of the murder of Katja Manteuffel, she carried out the sensational operation. A unique opportunity for the career of the young doctor.But did she kill for it? When Ritter and Stark find out that the murdered woman was secretly in love with Tim Nicolai (Justus von Dohnányi), Mareike's fiancéAndresen and director of 'Phydra', he too is under suspicion. Did Katja Manteuffel threaten Tim Nicolai to tell his fiancee about the relationship? It would have meant Nicolai's dismissal from the company, because the CEO of Cornea AG is Mareike's father Manfred Andresen (Jörg Gudzuhn). But that's not all: from the attractive scientific employee Judith Wenger (Gesine Cukrowski), Ritter learns that the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is significantly financing 'Phydra'.It is becoming increasingly clear that the key to enlightenment lies hidden in the thicket of relationships between research and business, in which profit thinking and tough competition rule. Knight and Stark must unravel a web of lies and end up with an amazing solution.

A man bids farewell to his home; Mine subsidence has made it uninhabitable. Meanwhile, the Saarbrücken detective team headed by Chief Inspector Franz Kappl (Maximilian Brückner) is on a new murder investigation. In the head of the young miner's wife Wiebke Steinmetz, who was found dead, there is an iron - part of the traditional miner's tool. Very appropriate in this environment, one of many mining settlements in the Saarland where the mood is depressed. The end of mining has come, the closing of the last pit is imminent. With an underground event, the Karlsgrube is supposed to deliver the symbolic last wagon of coal and then close it. String trio, speeches and cold buffet on sole eight – a joke, the miners think.Three crosses, the main thing is that the pit closes, think those who have been damaged by mining, whose houses the mountain is throwing out of balance. 'Tatort' inspectors Franz Kappl and Stefan Deininger (Gregor Weber) stay out of the conflict that pits fathers and sons, daughters and mothers against each other. They investigate in all directions. Franz Kappl experienced the mining environment up close for the first time. Terms such as mountain or weather have so far tended to evoke tourist associations in the young man from Bavaria. Now he learns firsthand that they can mean deadly danger. When an explosion buried all entrances and exits underground during the ceremony, Kappl was right in the middle of it and got to know the discussion about structural change and mining damage from a completely different perspective.And yet he has to keep cold blood when a murderer is also around at a depth of 1200 meters. While his colleagues spend days chasing after the man who suspected Wiebke Steinmetz's murder, the operation to rescue the celebratory meeting buried underground is taking longer than planned. The air, which is called weather in miners' jargon, is running out - a fight against the clock begins.

'Is love coincidence or fate?' This constant and nagging question drives Fritz Alt to his favorite bar in Munich's Gärtnerplatz district, where he is full of hope and waiting for his great love, Gerd. Shortly thereafter, the Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr find Fritz's corpse bleeding to death on a construction site. Not only barkeeper Ringo, but also Fritz Alt's neighbors Tim and Tom are puzzled about the circumstances of his unexpected death. The rumors in the gay community boil up. There's Ralf Kleinmann, Fritz's ex-lover, who couldn't get over the breakup with the respected photographer. The two watched each other until the end. Carla is worried tooWeißenbach about her husband Gerd. Because the family with the growing children Frieda and Werner threatens to break up.With the help of clear clues, the inspectors get into a bizarre computer chat room, where Fritz was looking for contacts using a pseudonym. As a result of the investigation, Ivo Batic gets involved in the colourful, dangerous world of anonymous desires for a relationship and does everything in his power to find the murderer. Franz Leitmayr remains as down-to-earth as usual during the search. During the investigations by the criminal police, Batic and Leitmayr are at the side of Chief Inspector Diana Sommerfeld from Vice. Separately and yet together, they unravel the tragic mystery surrounding Fritz.

Homicide detectives often encounter death. But in her latest case, Lena Odenthal is also confronted with dying. The murdered Sabine Brodag worked for the Swiss euthanasia association Charontas. Supposedly he only does lobbying in Germany - but Lena Odenthal finds out that Brodag was involved in illegal euthanasia deals. Lena and Kopper suspect that Michael Heymann, with whom Sabine Brodag had a relationship,was involved in it. Kopper behaves very aggressively towards the club's employees - in his eyes their activities are unacceptable. Things are no longer so clear for Lena when she meets Katja Frege and her daughter Julia. Katja has to deal with the fact that her nine-year-old daughter has to die in agony. Desperate about the fate of her child, Katja sought help from Sabine Brodag.

Two dead men in quick succession - murdered on the same pattern. Without a doubt, Commissioner Borowski is dealing with a perpetrator who will strike again. Looking for similarities between the victims, Borowski discovers that both men had placed personal ads. Frieda Jung remarks that Borowski's type fits into the victim scheme. That's why, as an alleged new single, he goes looking for a partner through the local newspaper and meets women who are willing to commit and who have responded to his ad. He is observed by Frieda Jung and coached for the battle of the sexes. An unusual role for Borowski. He has to pose as a lonely and sensible man looking for Mrs. Right. Soon Borowski - undercover - gets to know the self-confident Gundula.With her, he penetrates a tightly woven web of lonely hearts, including the potential killer, on his forays through the recreational groups and 40-plus meetings, putting himself in grave danger.

In a fire in an apartment building in the Kalk district on the right bank of the Rhine, a young woman dies as a result of smoke inhalation. According to the first results, it is arson with fatal consequences. The landlord's dismay is great, his verdict unequivocal: 'It can only have been the gypsies!' Ever since a home for Sinti and Roma opened in the district, there have been repeated conflicts between the refugees from the areaformer Yugoslavia and the locals. A local residents' initiative is demanding the closure of the refugee home and is fighting against the right to stay for 'criminal foreigners'. In fact, the evidence initially seems to point against the Roma girl Lutvija. However, as the investigations in Cologne's 'problem area' show, the context of the case is far more complex than it first appears.

Cenk Batu has been working for months on a risky undercover mission for the apparently serious entrepreneur Petermann. But when he finally seems to penetrate into the narrower circle, he fails in a brutal acid test.Just now his superior Uwe comes with a new order: In the role of a Turkish petty criminal, Cenk is supposed to go to the hospital to establish contact with the Nezrem clan, which is hermetically sealed off from the outside, via the 20-year-old Deniz, who was injured by a knife attack. Deniz isthe nephew of Tuncay Nezrem, officially a restaurant owner and vegetable wholesaler, unofficially an aspiring clan lord. And indeed, Cenk Batu gained Tuncay Nezrem's trust almost overnight. It quickly becomes clear to him that behind the façade of the harmless businessman there are impostures that Nezrem apparently doesn't shy away from. Not even from the betrayal of his own compatriots, to which his nephew Deniz falls victim. And suddenly Petermann is back in the game.

A horrific sexual murder shakes Münster. The victim, a young law student, was found strangled in her apartment. "Do we all have to be afraid now?" Headlines the local press. But there is not much to suggest that a serial killer was actually at work here. The suspect, on the other hand, is the victim's ex-boyfriend André Pütz, a freelance photographer who travels primarily to the world's crisis areas. had latelyhe repeatedly pursued the young woman. When Inspector Thiel and Prof. Boerne surprise him at home, he flees head over heels. And yet Thiel refuses to jump to conclusions. He discovers parallels between the facts and other cases. Above all, the extremely attractive bank employee Anna Schäfer, whose apartment had recently been broken into, does not let him go. But she meets him very unapproachable at first...

Charlotte Lindholm has to solve the murder of the security guard Sven Gutzkow, whose body has been buried in the salt heaps of the Gorleben exploratory mine for six months. Soon she is investigating in a volatile milieu. The head of the operating company of the nuclear interim and final storage facility, Kasper, has been blackmailed for some time. Gutzkow's colleagues Augenthaler, whose home is still under construction, and the geologist Sandmann are under suspicion, and what does the long-serving anti-nuclear activist Welany know? Charlotte and her colleague on site, police chief Jakob Halder, turn Wendland upside down with their investigations. They are observed at every turn. The result: a locker key, a supposed voice from the afterlife and another corpse.Charlotte is warned by her friend Belinda that this is a size too big for her. But Charlotte is undeterred. When she finds out that Gutzkow met Ahmadin, the Spanish terror accomplice, before he died, the hot lead leads her to Barcelona. There she stabs into a wasps' nest and puts herself in extreme danger..

The foundation of the respected physicians Prof. Dr. Ansgar Frey and Dr. Martin Jahnn has been saving lives in the war zone of Afghanistan for several years. Through their organization, Salima, Mariam and Shaheda also came to Munich from Afghanistan two years ago. Here they live with selected foster families. But the girls have one thing in common: they suffer from leukemia. Salima has to go to the Hellerhof private clinic regularly for her treatments with Prof. Frey and Dr.Jahnn, according to the foster care contract. Werner Hübner, his wife Anne and the siblings Julia and René take care of the sick Salima as best they can. For "Papa Werner" it is an affair of the heart, because he wants Salima to be really well again and that she no longer has to go to the clinic for the torturous treatments.At a meeting of the foster parents, he presents the managing director Eugen Otto and his wife Anne with a fait accompli: Salima is no longer coming, "there are other doctors too". Shortly thereafter, Werner Hübner's body was found dead in the immediate vicinity of the clinic at the Tierparkbrücke. dr Katharina Jung, 52, teaches at the police academy. A woman who has both feet on the ground. She would like to enrich her theoretical knowledge through practical observations in the office of chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr. After two herniated discs, she is physically limited, but mentally she is on the ball. When she gets the job to track down the missing cat "Sissi" from Batics neighbor Ms. Lindner, Katharina Jung does her best.Your poster campaign floods lovingly meowing Munich "kittens" into Batics, a life determined by a job. Justus von Ahlen, 16, Ehrenfried Marbot and teenage dream Caroline Puck found Hübner's body on the way home. The smart young people attend the same elite school as René Hübner. Chief Inspector Jung puts her through the wringer. With good reason, as it turns out, because the young people live in their own cosmos and withhold some things. The life of Anne Hübner, now a widow, has been shaken. She does her best to keep the expensive household afloat even after her husband's death. The care allowance for Salima helps enormously. Anne knows from meetings that the other foster families feel the same way.As Batic finds out, the fathers have one thing in common: they have been unemployed for a long time. Anne's father Andreas Greindl has been plugging his daughter's household holes for some time. His plans for the grandchildren are ambitious, he pays the school fees for René and the golf courses for granddaughter Julia because it is important to him that they deal with the "right circles". Meanwhile, research is being carried out at the Hellerhof Clinic by Dr. Jahnn and Prof. Dr. Happy to the successful end. If your leukemia drug Sineleuk 651 meets the expectations, nothing stands in the way of an IPO and leukemia patients all over the world will finally have an effective drug available. The dream of working for many years as a doctor and researcher is within reach.But what they are studiously concealing from their investors and sponsors is the fact that the girls from Afghanistan are in fact not "war orphans", but they were made sick as a kind of "guinea pigs". With the help of the biologist Sina Fröhlich, Batic and Leitmayr can put an end to the unbelievable procedure.

The attractive waitress Ellen Krüger was murdered in her apartment. It turns out that the young woman was a drug addict. Surprisingly, Matthias Krupp, a colleague, is at the center of the investigations of chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler. He is looking for his 17-year-old daughter, Amelie, who ran away from home. Did Krupp find out that Ellen Krueger was selling his daughter drugs and therefore killed her? Amelie reappears, but at the same time Matthias Krupp is found dead. A trail leads to another colleague of the commissioners. Stefan Dirks is a drug investigator - does he deal in drugs? Had Matthias Krupp become a danger to Dirks by looking for Amelie and therefore had to die? But Dirks has an alibi for the time of the crime.It is a special case for Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler, because they had been friends with Matthias Krupp and Berit, his wife, for a long time. The public prosecutor Lucke accuses the commissioners of bias and urges a quick conclusion of the investigation... 

Charlotte Sänger has to do the work without her colleague and works overtime. She investigates a series of bank robberies, the perpetrators of which are extremely brutal. When homicide detective Fromm sends the completely overworked singer home, she accidentally witnesses a shootout on the street: Suddenly she is confronted with a young, drug-addicted woman with a gun drawn, but Charlotte cannot shoot. It is only thanks to the well-aimed shot of a patrol officer that she survived - but in reality the girl only had a blank pistol and went to her death with her eyes wide open.Because of doubts about her suitability for service, Charlotte is given a leave of absence by Fromm, but she cannot leave the matter aloneto let. She searches the drug addict's apartment and stumbles upon a clue that leads her to a mysterious group of women who train at the shooting range. The leader of the group, Jule Fischer, invites Charlotte to a peculiar "competition": the women recreate duels true to the original – with sharp weapons. Charlotte gets more and more involved with the charismatic Jule. But when she notices on one of the surveillance videos of the series of bank robberies that the perpetrators move like women, she has her first suspicions. And when the patrolman who shot the young drug addict is found murdered, it becomes clear that the women have become trapped in a dangerous cycle of violence and retribution.

War and peace at Christmas time in a family of mountain farmers. The fight between three brothers is about power and survival, and the motive for revenge also plays an important role. In the foreground is Erich Gufler's (Simon Schwarz) desperate attempt to save his farm, which he lost to his brother Heinz (Andreas Lust). This fate was to become a moving theme of the successful television show "Akut-Agnes", in which the popular presenter Agnes Aichinger (Muriel Baumeister) denounced grievances as the common man's advocate. But the murder of the quarry owner Helmut Pechtl (Ludwig Dornauer), who had triggered a dispute among the Gufler brothers through his machinations, turns the events upside down.The investigations are made more difficult for Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) by the explosive situation that he and his Tyrolean colleague Pfurtscheller (Alexander Mitterer) have to work practically in front of the TV team. The attractive Agnes Aichinger offers to help Moritz Eisner, but she doesn't tell a secret that almost costs her her life. When a mysterious murder attempt occurs, the Vienna special investigator is able to save her from drowning at the last second. Is there a connection to the other crime? The role of Walter Gufler (Cornelius Obonya) is quite unclear for Eisner. He had advised his brother Erich to turn on the television during the argument about house and yard in court. But it is becoming increasingly clear that he is by no means just acting unselfishly.It comes to a dramatic climax when Erich threatens to blow up the farm and is arrested. But he flees to celebrate Christmas with his family. The peaceful celebration comes to an abrupt end when Eisner makes a treacherous discovery. A few grains of grain in the snow lead him onto a hot trail...

The body of a naked Asian-looking man is found in the airport hotel's fitness room, his larynx crushed by a barbell. Singer and Dellwo are faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, because there is no clue as to who the man is, where he came from and why he was killed. A first clue is a trade convention at the airport hotel, attended by more than 600 Chinese. Singer finds out that on the night of his death, the victim was sitting with three conventioneers in the hotel bar and then got into an argument with them. In the meantime, a nervous Chinese is trying to check in with his passport and ticket at Frankfurt Airport. He came across the body as a cleaner in the morning and looks exactly like the murder victim.Now he wants to take advantage of the similarity and get to the United States with the dead man's papers. But when the Chinese wants to go through passport control, someone snatches the papers from his hand. Someone who is looking for him - or rather, looking for Tony Wang. Finally, Shavkat Nazarow brings some light into the darkness. He tells Dellwo about a deal that the dead Tony Wang had offered him: Somewhere in Frankfurt there is a container with Chinese refugees without food and water. Singer and Dellwo realize that they are not only dealing with a murder case that can hardly be overlooked, but also with a harrowing race against time.