Tatort — Season 2009

Tragic destinies are hidden behind the seemingly peaceful name "Tree of Redemption". Within a year, three Turkish girls and a young man hanged themselves from the branches of this tree in a forest near the Tyrolean market town of Telfs because they wanted to avoid a forced marriage. The tree has borne this name ever since

A body is found in the White Elster. The chief inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler find out that the dead man is Peter Schneider, a successful entrepreneur from Leipzig. He dominated and manipulated the people around him and, if necessary, bought the lack of recognition. That's why employees and family members alike are targeted by the inspectors who move through a thicket of contradictions, fears and injuries. 

A murder without a motive? For the inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk unimaginable. And yet the murder of the 48-year-old senior physician Hermann Johns seems completely unfounded. The renowned physician, who worked in the maternity ward of a Cologne clinic, seems to have been popular with patients and hospital staff alike. Does the murder have anything to do with the mysterious deaths that made headlines in the hospital's maternity ward a few weeks ago? Could one of the bereaved want revenge? Apparently, John was poisoned with a drug from the hospital's inventory. This makes almost all employees who had access to the medicine cabinet suspect.Ballauf, who has a natural aversion to hospitals, retires to the headquarters for the extensive interrogations of the hospital staff. However, when Schenk moves into the clinic as a nurse, he quickly realizes that wondrous things are happening in this isolated little world. A microcosm that seems to follow its own laws. Between the cleaning service and serving food, he comes into close contact with patients and clinic staff and their very different fates. But there seems to be no place for sympathy and sadness. Good and evil, which becomes all too clear in this case of the Cologne investigative duo, are sometimes very close together.

The body of Boris Blaschke, who was area manager for Ludwigshafen at the Billy discount chain until his death, is found on a rubbish dump. When Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper start investigating in the branches there, they get an insight into an industry in which extreme pressure is exerted on the employees. Increasing work rates and unpaid overtime are the order of the day, and a regional manager like Blaschke does not even shy away from the observation of the employees by a detective agency. The evening before his death, he tracked down Gisela Dullenkopf, Beate Schütz and other women from one of his branches at an after-hours meeting where they planned to set up a works council.In this atmosphere of distrust, control and suppressed anger, Lena and Kopper find a number of employees with potential motives for murder. Blaschke's successor Günter Novak, who obviously thought little of his former colleague, is trying to prevent employees from cooperating with the inspectors. Nevertheless, the two inspectors find out that a few months earlier Gisela Dullenkopf's son Jan, who also worked for Billy, had killed himself. Now his mother is the focus of the investigations...

The suicide of medical student Rojin Lewald poses a number of puzzles for chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund. The young woman, who comes from a Turkish family, wanted to divorce her German husband. She leaves behind a two-year-old daughter. Her wealthy parents are successful and respected citizens of Bremen, open-minded but devout. Curiously, they don't see the death of their eldest daughter as a reason to postpone their younger daughter's wedding, which is due to take place the following weekend. Rojin's siblings aren't too enthusiastic about the detective investigating a suicide either. To the astonishment of the detectives, all family members seem to be giving each other alibis.But why? The autopsy confirms Inga LürsensDoubt: It's almost impossible that Rojin killed himself. Are Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund involved in an honor killing? Rojin's lawyer, who helped her to go her own way at the time, is firmly convinced of this. The two women were close friends. But there are indications that the lawyer felt more than friendship for Rojin, but did not return her feelings. Stedefreund does not rule out that she could have killed Rojin because of this. Inga, on the other hand, would prefer a classic jealousy drama: the husband kills his wife because she wants to leave him.The inspectors move insecurely and cautiously in a world that is foreign to them and finally bring to light a truth that exceeds their worst guesse.

In the 15th case, inspector Fritz Dellwo has to investigate on his own because his colleague Charlotte Sänger is undergoing further training. But Dellwo is ripe for the island and decides to take some time off - a 40-year-old detective in midlife crisis. He visits his old love Katrin and subjects his life to a thorough examination. But even in the supposed idyll, crime catches up with him.

The son of a top manager lies dead in the swimming pool at the Schloss Hamberg elite boarding school. At first glance it looks like suicide. Klara Blum believes that too – until her first doubts arise. When Kai Perlmann finds a torn off clothes button in the swimming pool's filter system and Klara discovers the matching duvet cover, it becomes clear that the boy was drowned like a cat in a poke. However, the slick arrogance of their classmates prompts the inspector and her assistants not to let anyone at school notice that they are investigating an extraordinarily cold-blooded violent crime. 

The death of a customs officer at Stuttgart Airport puts inspectors Lannert and Bootz on the trail of international arms smuggler Viktor de Man. Lannert knows the man: It's the one he worked on as an undercover agent for four years. Shortly before the arrest, Lannert was tragically exposed. Now he really wants to convict the man. What he couldn't do on his own, he can now do with his team, especially with his partner Bootz. 

The young head of department Armin Lohmann is found dead in his apartment. The first suspicion falls on his wife Katrin. The chief inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler find bloody footprints at the scene of the crime, which indicate the presence of a strange woman on the night of the crime. Did Katrin kill her husband out of jealousy? Was the unknown witness to this murder? Or was she the culprit herself? The Leipzig building contractor Stefan Rose, with whom Lohmann met the evening before, would also have had a motive – because the head of the office put his company under pressure by stopping construction. Did Rose Lohmann want to speed up the political end? Or was he trying to hit him with abribing prostitutes? This suspicion arises when the body of the young Czech Alena Buranek, who died as a result of mistreatment, is found a short time later.Officially, she was employed as a temporary worker by the "Rapid" temporary employment agency and worked as a chambermaid in the "Hotel Elster". Ulrike Horn, owner of the company, claims to have known nothing about Alena's "sideline" as a prostitute. The inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are confronted with the excesses of the modern labor market: Temporary work and illegal employment seem to encourage people to be abused.

A police officer is shot dead during an identity check at Hanover-Langenhagen Airport. What looks like a criminal's panicked reaction becomes increasingly mysterious. All surveillance cameras were out at the time of the crime. For Charlotte Lindholm, however, the case seems clear after just a few hours. To her own surprise, the suspected murderer is her childhood friend Manu. She is caught by Charlotte - a short time later, however, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution takes over the case in order to release Manu again. No solid evidence of their guilt was found. Charlotte is outraged and researches Manu's life. She finds out that Manu has worked for various aid organizations in Congo, among other places.In her friend's secret file she finds evidence that she may have joined a radical group. This has set itself the goal of ending the brutal civil war in the Central African country that was tolerated by Western nations... 

It's a picture-perfect summer's day when Prof. Boerne's golf tournament in Grothenburg is suddenly interrupted by a dead man in a tuxedo. With the tournament victory firmly in mind, Boerne is briefly tempted to deny his profession and to assume that Dr. Raimund Strothoff, the Münster banker, killed himself. But bondage marks on one of the ankles cause Boerne to call Inspector Thiel. In the meantime, a trauma patient is missing in the nearby health clinic and - just arrived - Thiel learns that the night before the dead banker had a loud argument with a beautiful woman who is just leaving the premises. Drives there at the endperpetrator of it? On the spur of the moment, Thiel and Boerne take up the pursuit of the unknown, lose her and soon face another dead man.The perpetrator, that is clear, was identical in both cases. A vendetta? With what motive? Where is the connection? And who else is on the list? A corpse, a day and a night later, behind Thiel and Boerne are the most adventurous 24 hours they have ever spent together. And the longest short journey of her life. Once across the Münsterland and back. From the summer idyll of the golf tournament to a dark world that is so far away, but ultimately only a few forks in the road.

This case takes the Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic to their limits: the television astrologer Doro Pirol is found shot to death in her Nymphenburg villa. Not only Doro's husband Remy and her stepfather Prof. KD Mosberg are shocked. Even the longtime housekeeper Annemarie Weigand can hardly believe the sudden death of the ethereal beauty. The coroner speaks of suicide and has valid arguments for it at first glance. The dead woman was found by her friend Selina Fritsch. Doro and Remy acted in front of the camera as popular esoteric stars in their TV show "Astraltime". Selina works as a fortune teller behind the scenes. This is where the majority of calls from viewers end up.For the Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr, it quickly became clear that there was a crisis in Doro and Remy's marriage. Husband Remy had an affair with Selina, his wife's best friend. The letter from the "suicide" turns out to be a forgery. So is it murder? One last entry in Doro's calendar leads the inspectors to the park of Nymphenburg Palace. Fefi Zänglein has been working here as a knowledgeable gardener for years. Quickly remember Batic and Leitmayr: Fefi is special. She can "see auras," and her ability has gotten her into trouble with the authorities more than once. Batic is amazed because Fefi can tell him about his former dog, who has been dead for a long time and on whom his heart hung. He's trying to stay sane as the investigation continues.Because the developments in the villa and above all the encounter with Fefi lead the inspectors into a mysterious world.

Cenk Batu is investigating undercover in the Hamburg SEK on behalf of his VE leader Kohnau. Members of the special commando are said to be illegally selling their knowledge abroad. The revelation of the backers seems to be within reach, because Batu wins the trust of Lars Jansen, who recruits colleagues for the crooked business in the SEK. But when the men are called to action against a kidnapper, the case takes an irritating turn. The hostage-taking turns out to be a ruse, and the behavior of the alleged gangster Zoltan Didic puzzles everyone. He makes no demands and stages his suicide in front of the eyes of the special commando. Shortly after the fatal shot, it becomes clear that the whole action is part of a devilish revenge plan.And Didic's revenge is aimed - to everyone's confusion - at Lars Jansen, who claims not to know the man. The dead man gives Jansen less than three hours to rescue his own wife and daughter, who are being held captive somewhere in Hamburg and threatened by a time bomb. But why? Is this related to Cenk Batu's undercover operation? Batu and Kohnau have no time to analyze the new situation, because when Lars Jansen is seriously injured in an accident just a few minutes later, the undercover agent decides to fight in his place to save the woman and child. A merciless race against time begins, in which Cenk Batu not only puts his camouflage at risk, but also his life.As it turns out, the revenge of the dead Zoltan Didic goes back to the time of the Kosovo war, when some accounts remained unanswered...

A dead man in the subway calls the inspectors Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) into action. It is the building contractor Horst Baumann, who had already come to the fore in the past due to a spectacular company bankruptcy. After a long stay abroad, he returned to Berlin to renovate real estate with the help of his attractive wife Alissa (Muriel Baumeister) and his opaque partner Alsfeld (Hansjürgen Hürrig). The investigations quickly bring the inspectors on the trail of the craftsman Rothe (Bruno F. Apitz), who was ruined by bankruptcy at the time.Did he want revenge on Baumann? While Stark learns that there was a crisis in the marriage between Alissa Baumann and the murder victim and that both of them had a violent onehad an argument, Ritter leads the search for the murderer back to the scene of the crime: in the underground catacombs of Berlin. During his research, he meets Daniel (Marlon Kittel), who, as a supervisor, undertakes illegal tours into the underground labyrinth with troubled young people. But not only he knows his way around here. In the network of corridors and shafts, Ritter meets the weird artist and hermit Gregor (Harald Schrott). Both Daniel and the artist seem to be hiding a dark secret here. The homeless woman (Anke Sevenich) could shed light on the investigation.The murdered man watched this over and over again using a video recording. But who is she? And where is she? Knight and Stark are faced with a mystery - above and below ground..

In Vino Veritas - the fourth case, Maximilian Brückner and Gregor Weber take them to the vineyards on the German-Luxembourg border. The wine inspector at the Saarland Institute for Food Chemistry, Gerhard Nieser, is found murdered on the outskirts of Saarbrücken: winegrowers tremble before him, wine shops fear his visit. The last wine test took place on the anniversary of Nieser's death at winegrowers in Bernheim, Saarland, a small community near the French-Luxembourg border. For the inspectors Kappl and Deininger, the suspicion that the murder is related to it is obvious. The winegrowers Richard Altpeter (Thomas Sarbacher) and Alwin Eckes (Timo Dierkes) are quickly targeted by the investigators.But the married couple Jean-Paul and Isabel Weickert (Marco Lorenzini and Katharina Müller-Elmau), who run a wine shop in the state capital, also aroused the inspectors' interest. At the Bernheim Wine Festival, where the Wine Queen (Lisa Marie Potthoff) turns the chief inspectors' heads, they make interesting discoveries. Meanwhile, in Saarbrücken, Ludwig Kappl (Konstantin Wecker) and Gerda Braun (Alice Hoffmann) are getting closer...

Nadine and Thies Nowak are in the worst marital strife: the not thriving restaurant, Nadine's pregnancy and Thies' inattention are the reasons. Her daughter Michelle can't take it anymore and runs away. The next morning the little girl is found dead on a ferry. No witnesses - the upper deck of the ferry was swept empty on the rainy evening. First results of the autopsy: Michelle's body has hematomas and a healed broken rib. Both older injuries unrelated to her death. Michelle was undoubtedly choked with her own jacket -a few hours after her mother alerted the police to Michelle's disappearance. Investigating the Nowak family's environment, Inspector Borowski and Frieda Jung come across Tim Hansen, a waiter at Thies' restaurant.He confirms Borowski had contact with Michelle. But is he really a suspect just because he went swimming with the girl? The situation at the Nowaks escalates, not least because Thies' ex-girlfriend Saskia has reappeared in his life. One more reason for Frieda Jung and Borowski to take a closer look at the family situation...

During an operation against an armed drug dealer, there is an exchange of gunfire and SEK officer Andreas Ziegler is fatally injured. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper take over the investigation and immediately search for the fugitive Florian Weigold. The colleagues of the SEC support the two commissioners in the best possible way. But Lena Odenthal recognizes that the SEK colleagues are also people with everyday worries and needs - and some of them would have had a good reason to kill Andreas Ziegler.

A dead body is caught in the net of a German fishing boat off the Norwegian coast. The dead man is probably the second officer of the Bremerhaven container ship MS Karina. To the astonishment of chief inspector Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her colleague Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen), the dead man is not missing and neither the water police nor the responsible shipping company are willing to help. While Stedefreund is investigating in Bremerhaven, Inga goes on board the MS Karina to persuade the captain to turn back. But he can't be said at all, especially not by a woman. The rest of the male crew also eyed her with suspicion.

When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch was found in the Danube on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, this triggered an alarm in the Vienna Ministry of the Interior and Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) was immediately dispatched as a special investigator. On the spot, Eisner learns that the reporter had been researching a red-hot story, which she surprisingly no longer wanted to publish. Astrid Heidegger (Martina Theresia Stilp), the dead man's best friend, gives chief inspector Moritz Eisner and his colleague Karin Brandstätter (Fanny Stavjanik) and their assistant Wolfgang Rohrmoser (Michael Menzel) from the Linz homicide squad a first concrete tip - apparently it was Sandra Walch to uncover dirty deals in artificial insemination.Investigations in a fitness studio and in another murder case, in which the genetic engineer Max Biro (Arthur Klemt) is shot, lead to a clinic where artificial insemination is carried out. Apparently, a lot of money can be made by fulfilling the desire of desperate couples to have children. But what is the dark secret of this clinic, which has already claimed two lives? Who are the masterminds in the background and what role does the beautiful musician and pianist Maria Drenkow (Dorka Gryllus), who also plays with Eisner's heart, play? When the chief inspector narrowly avoids an assassination attempt while searching an apartment, he realizes in a flash that the killer obviously knew all about it and was waiting for him.Shortly thereafter, the owners of a fitness studio, Stefan Weber (Daniel Keberle) and his wife Julia (Tamara Metelka), to whom the clinic regularly sent patients for pregnancy exercises, are blackmailed by kidnapping their son. Moritz Eisner now knows that the foreign clients are entitled to any means to obtain explosive documents that would uncover the criminal activities...

Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann have been a well-established team for years. They work well together and also get along privately. It is all the more dreadful when Klara finds out that Perlmann unexpectedly gets caught in the crosshairs of the investigations involved in the murder of a young woman. Because he had met Constanza on the evening of her death. During her research, Klara realizes that Perlmann is not telling her the truth about his relationship with Constanza. He also accuses her of only concentrating on him as a possible perpetrator. Klara finds little understanding for her behavior from her colleagues either. But that doesn't deter her. Step by step, she follows all the clues in order to arrest the murderer.

A dead student is found in the Weser. Chief inspector Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her colleague Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) learn that he met men for money. During their investigations, the name Leon Hartwig (Felix Eitner) keeps popping up. The electrician has always been right where the victim was. An accident? Leon defends himself against the allegations, but cannot prevent his pregnant wife from becoming increasingly suspicious. Inga also has to ask herself who she can still trust. Because Stedefreund seems to be hiding something important from her...

Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are called to a luxurious apartment in Stuttgart when they receive an emergency call from a young woman. But no sooner have they discovered the body of a young woman than the inspectors themselves come under fire. When they return to the apartment after the shootout, the body is gone. Nevertheless, they find out that it must have been a prostitute named Galina. The landlord of the apartment soon turns out to be her pimp. However, he had no motive for murdering his employees . The local politician Höfele, who regularly used Galina's services, did that much earlier. Obviously, he gave her hopes for a life together, which, of course, he never believed in, but Galina even more so.She wormed her way into his family by befriending their teenage daughter. In doing so, however, she not only threatened the politician's existence, but also destroyed the life dreams of other people around her.

The puncture wound is deep: Prof. Julius Gann has lost a lot of blood. When he and his wife returned home from a charity gala, an unknown attacked and stabbed them in the villa. While all help came too late for Carmen Gann, Prof. Gann is now being treated in his own private clinic - and even in this situation he remains the boss. Willingly follow Dr. Wolf and the nurse Sylvia Keller followed his resolute instructions. At home, too, Prof. Gann obviously set the tone. His son Jonas takes note of the attack on his parents with surprising indifference. What is the youngster hiding from inspectors Ballauf and Schenk? Apparently, at the time of the crime, not only his father, but also he himself was heavily intoxicated.Was the robbery just faked? Stefan Koschinski is also an urgent suspect. His wife had died in an operation performed by Prof. Gann - he sued the head of the clinic. But the lawsuit was dismissed. Prof. Gann knows a loyal partner in Thomas Bernstein, with whom he has been running the clinic for many years. What he doesn't know: Bernstein wants to sell his shares in Prof. Gann's life's work...

In their 16th case, the two Frankfurt inspectors Fritz Dellwo and Charlotte Sänger are looking for a missing woman and immerse themselves in the apparently perfect world of a star architect.

Margret Saloschnik, in her mid-fifties, is found dead in front of a hotel in Kiel. Everything indicates that she threw herself off the roof of the hotel. Klaus Borowski and police psychologist Frieda Jung soon found suspects who all had a relationship with Margret: her ex-lover, the rock star Bodo, the former guitarist Henning, who is also the biological father of her daughter, and her husband Eberhard. But Margret's daughter Janis and her boyfriend Tim don't seem to be telling the whole truth either..

Klaus Ballauf and Freddy Schenk have to solve the murder of a young homeless man. Apparently the young drug addict Andi Lechner was poisoned. The bottle of wine he last drank was laced with antifreeze. Was it a targeted attack on him? Or did it just happen to the young man? Their investigations lead the commissioners into the world of people on the fringes of society: "Beethoven", a cultured homeless person, gives them an insight into the scene. He also tells Ballauf and Schenk about a serious argument that Lechner allegedly had with the city cowboy "Django" the night before. Another track leads the inspectors to the well-known plastic surgeon Dr. Norbert Ellermann, who campaigns publicly for the homeless.What the public doesn't know is that he occasionally had sexual contact with Lechner. became Dr. Ellermann blackmailed? In addition to Ballauf and Schenk, private detective Stefan Meutsch is also investigating in the milieu. For his client, the lawyer Gesine Stürner, he is looking for a homeless person who is supposed to testify as a witness in a case of vandalism. But then a second murder follows the same pattern. Is there a serial offender at work here or was it the act of a free rider? In any case, one thing is certain: resentment towards the homeless is widespread.

Lena Odenthal gets a call: a witness wants to testify something important about a murder, but when Lena Odenthal arrives at the meeting point, the witness is dead, her identity card identifies her as Michaela Bäuerle. The case she wanted to testify about was twelve years ago, the murderer confessed and has served his sentence. So what else did Michaela Bäuerle want to say? Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper go in search of clues in the past and come across a strange connection: Michaela Bäuerle has been missing since 1997. What do the two cases have to do with each other?

The spectacular suicide of the Munich journalist Rainer Truss makes waves. Truss was known for solid front-line research when it came to exposing grievances or corruption. Reporter Ute Kropp senses her chance. act of desperation? Broken heart? Your newspaper pays a bonus for interesting private photos and relevant information. The usual smear campaign threatens. Even if the case is considered closed remarkably quickly from a higher authority, inconsistencies remain. Was Truss after a new explosive story? Which big company did he have in the line of fire this time? The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr do not want to let things go and determine his last interlocutors.They come across popular union leader Leo Greedinger, who appears to have been in close contact with Truss. Chief inspector Ivo Batic contacted the man alone in the opera - without Leitmayr - and that has very personal reasons. Because Batic and Leo Greedinger have known each other since childhood. Can Batic remain factual under these circumstances? His personal relationship with the Greedinger family is not without emotion. Greedinger's father Hans, a staunch trade unionist of the old school, is still vigorous. "Saturdays is Daddy's Mine" is one of the early achievements he helped carry. He supports the activities of his now successful son in every respect.Of course there are internal disputes and discussions about the different goals and especially about which can be the best way to reach the big goal? How do you achieve international solidarity in a globalized world in these times? Wall up the old rope teams. Chief Inspector Leitmayr is forced to pursue an investigative path that is independent of his colleague Batic. He is closely watching his friend's actions in this case. But Luca Panini, the temporary Italian specialist for organized crime, also comes to conclusions that help to shed new light on the journalist's death. Leo Greedinger scores in every respect on his career path. It's being made big by the shrewd strategist Max Stadler. Board elections are just around the corner and with someone like Stadler behind you,But fulfilled by his mission, Leo overlooks the envious and schemers around him.

Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is on his way home when he witnesses an old man being ruthlessly run over by a car. When Boerne rushes to the dying victim's aid, he is almost run over himself. The "accident" appears to have been a targeted murder attempt with an unusual murder weapon: Father Thiel's taxi. But not only public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm's hair stand on end when she recognizes the victim, because it is Ludwig Mühlenberg, the principal of the Saint Seminary, who is considered to be particularly religiousVincent. And that in a city where, according to public prosecutor Klemm, a dead priest counts as much as two dead mayors or three dead police officers... In matters of faith, Commissioner Thiel, who is not necessarily well-known for his Bible studies, then investigates the arch-Catholic milieu of future priests.Meanwhile, Professor Boerne, who survived the taxi attack with a few serious fractures, has to learn to endure outside help in his bachelor household and life. A life-changing experience for both!

A new case for the crime scene investigators from the capital: the Berlin meat king Hans Merklinger is found dead in the cold store of his factory. The dead man had been missing for several days, but was only reported missing by his lover Kathi (Alexandra Finder). When Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) enter the meat factory, there are no workers to be found. The boss's son, Maximilian (Lucas Gregorowicz), treats the commissioners with cool arrogance, as he is currently in contract negotiations with the Ukrainian Litvin brothers. They want to join the Merklinger company and are not bothered by the fact that the company was involved in a rotten meat scandal years ago. Merklinger's widow Christa (Maren Kroymann) was left by her husband a year ago.She takes the news of his death calmly, while Kathi, who is already planning to marry Merklinger. planned to collapse. Ritter and Stark learn from Merklinger's longtime secretary, Ms. Balthasar (Johanna Gastdorf), that Merklinger has used a trick and the help of subcontractor Joachim Kahle (Ole Puppe) to turn Bulgarian workers into legal EU workers. Kahle's young friend Liljana (Ana Stefanovic) is one of these Bulgarians. When she wants to flee with her brother Viktor (Alexander Altomirianos), Ritter and Stark give chase. Knight is beaten up. He is hospitalized with a severe concussion. Stark is now forced to continue the investigation with Weber (Ernst-Georg Schwill).What does Liljana have to do with Merklinger's death? Why did Maximilian not tell the police that his father had been missing for days? Stark has to unravel a web of subsidy fraud, shady dealings in the meat industry and a private tragedy. Ritter shouldn't really strain his head, but the case won't let him rest in the hospital either...

For Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm, her vacation comes to an abrupt end. A man is shot dead in front of his wife. He is the third victim of a serial killer. A sniper who kills seemingly at random. Age, profession, gender of the dead do not show any correspondence - the victims did not know each other and do not fit into any recognizable pattern...

A youth center burns down. The body of 40-year-old Ulf Meinert is found in the building. At first everything indicates that he started the fire, but then the chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler find a lead that leads to Ludwig Kleeberg and his daughter Nadja. They own the land where the youth center was located. The Kleebergs want to sell it because their auction house is heavily in debt. So far, the project has failed due to resistance from the youth center operators. Did the Kleebergs order the arson tosurvive financially? Norbert Zirner, the owner of the boxing school, quickly fell into the inspectors' crosshairs. Just like Ludwig Kleeberg, Zirner was involved in the fateful events surrounding the demolition of the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig in 1968.The commissioners get this important clue from today's art historian Hannah Wessel, whose son died in the fire at the youth center. Back then there were winners and losers. Are there old scores that need to be settled? Is this the key to solving the case?

A serious car accident catapults Munich Chief Inspector Ivo Batic completely off track. He loses his memory, no longer knows who he is, does not recognize his long-time colleague Franz Leitmayr and does not want to trust him either. On top of that, Ivo Batic is suspected of murder in the case of a young colleague from the narcotics squad and finally a creepy stranger is after him. Suspicious and on his own, Batic tries to figure out his identity and the events that led to the accident. On his own, he follows the few scraps of memory that have remained with him. At the same time, Franz Leitmayr does everything to help Batic. In doing so, he finds evidence of criminal activities in which Batic is said to be involved. Traumatic images from the past come to light.

The death of Willy Schubert, over 80 years old, came as no surprise as he had been seriously ill for a long time. But an attentive medical officer discovers that Schubert's death was caused by drug poisoning. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz now have to investigate within the grieving family. There is daughter Eva, caught in the conflict of taking care of her parents and still not neglecting her job and her children. Her husband Holger, who was always encouraged by his father-in-law, is now officially the head of the law firm, but still depends on the old man's approval. And Peter, the son, whose sense of family ties is much looser, but who could really use his inheritance.Even Brise, Willy's beloved wife for 55 years, who lives less and less in reality due to the onset of dementia, should not be ignored. But the inspectors also wonder why the Schubert family doctor assessed his patient's life expectancy so differently from all other doctors.