Tatort — Season 2014

Out of the blue, chief inspector Eva Saalfeld receives a phone call that upsets her life. Her half-sister Julia, who has been living in Leipzig for two and a half years and whom she has never met, wants to meet her. Before that happens, Julia is kidnapped by two men in front of Eva's eyes. The inspector and her colleague Andreas Keppler immediately start investigating and question everyone who is close to Julia. But Julia's friend Leon and her uncle Hamid, in whose café Julia works as a temp, cannot explain why Julia could have been kidnapped. That same night, Abdul Günes, one of Hamid's neighbors, is murdered in his apartment. The commissioners are looking for the connection betweenboth cases. When Julia manages to escape from the kidnappers shortly afterwards, the sisters finally get to know each other.Julia is silent about possible reasons for the kidnapping. She plays cat and mouse with the inspector and only ever admits what Eva has found out. Meanwhile, Commissioner Keppler is investigating Ersoy Günes, the son of the murder victim, who runs a shisha bar as a criminal known to the police. The commissioners find out that there is a connection between the murdered man and Horst Saalfeld. Is Eva's father, who is in prison in Leipzig, involved in Julia's kidnapping and the murder of Günes? Eva Saalfeld confronts her father with this suspicion.

Frank Steier is finished - a wreck. When he finds himself on a bench in the city park after another night of drinking, he witnesses the murder of a jogger. His pursuit of the perpetrator ends miserably. Two surprises are waiting for him in the police station: his boss introduces him to the brash detective inspector candidate Linda Dräger (Alwara Höfels), who is supposed to be at his side, and at the same time he is taken away from the murder case as a witness. But that doesn't stop Steier from investigating. The fact that he didn't catch the perpetrator gnawed at his vanity. He finds out that the victim was a fellow teacher of his ex-wife. She is briefly shocked by the murder, but also uses the meeting to tell him about her young lover Lars. Not a good day for Chief Inspector Steier.He secretly observes the new man in his former wife's life and discovers some inconsistencies. At the same time he is summoned to a mysterious dead man. Apparently there is a connection between the dead man and his ex-wife's lover - in addition to Joachim Król, other roles include Peter Kurth, Alwara Höfels, Jenny Schily, Volker Bruch, Gerd Wameling and Gerrit Jansen. The script was written by Hendrik Handloegten and Achim von Borries, who also directed. Filming took place in spring 2013 in and around Frankfurt. 

Franziska was taken hostage: This news hits Ballauf and Schenk in the heart. Not only do you have to solve the murder of a prisoner in the Cologne prison, you also urgently need to help your colleague. In addition to her job with the homicide squad, Franziska is also a volunteer probation officer. And the inmate assigned to her, Daniel Kehl, of all people, is now threatening her with a knife in the prison visitor's room. After ten years in prison, he is actually about to be released. But he is urgently suspected of having just murdered his cell neighbor Sergej Rowitsch. Kehl protests his innocence. But his fellow inmate Niklas Berg testified that he had been caught in the act. Is there a conspiracy against Kehl? 

Benjamin Wolters, heir to millions, is found dead in his villa. Two shots from close range, no signs of a break-in. The list of his enemies is as long as Lake Constance is deep: Wolters was a cynic who loved to provoke, to have fun at the expense of others and to make them dependent on him. Even the members of his clique, which he gathered around him the day before over pizza and champagne, are all possible perpetrators: friend Marcus, whose girlfriend Benjamin stole, Nadine, whom he just coldly dumped in favor of another, the new lover AlisaAdam, the former casting star Daniel, who unfortunately only made it to second place and all the more depended on Benjamin's goodwill. Author Leo P. Ard and director Jürgen Bretzinger target a young generation around 30 who no longer holds anything sacred.Always at the limit and looking for the ultimate kick. Because that too is Constance: an island of the rich and beautiful. Privileged and quite talented, her focus is on quick success, regardless of others or herself. Everything becomes a game - a game of death. 

On January 26, 2014 at 8:15 p.m., Das Erste will show Adams Nightmare, the third crime scene of the Saarland investigative team led by Chief Inspector Jens Stellbrink. When volunteer swimming coach Sven Haasberger accepts a check for his club at a public event, the square suddenly fills with a horde of hooded figures. In a scuffle, Haasberger falls to the ground, badly injured, and the emergency doctor hardly gives him a chance from the start. Stellbrink and his team are puzzled. But graffiti quickly point to a possible motive. The coach is accused ofhave passed on his protégés. Haasberger seems to have been particularly active on the Internet in order to address children under a pseudonym. The flash mob therefore appears to be a form of lynching.But while the case is clear for outraged parents and the public, Stellbrink has doubts. The Finn Hannu Salonen, who has meanwhile staged his sixth SR crime scene, was the director again this time. Episode roles include Inga Lessmann, Barbara Ullmann, Mélanie Fouché, Johannes Quester, Julia Schneider, Jonas Schlagowsky and Silvia Bervingas as Margot Müller.

Miriam was only twelve. Strangled and provisionally buried in the forest: Inspector Faber immediately fears that this is not an isolated incident: 13-year-old Lisa has also been missing since the day before. The two girls look very similar in type. Miriam's stepfather Gunnar Stetter is quickly targeted by the investigators. Child pornographic photos were found on his computer. What about Lisa's father Stefan Passik? The inspectors also confiscate his computer. Is theHomicide here on the trail of a pedophile ring? Even beyond the actual case, the commissioners are very busy: Nora Dalay is pregnant. In contrast to her, her friend and colleague Daniel Kossik wishes that she would have the child. And Peter Faber just won't let go of his past. The case strangely reminds him of the deaths of his wife and daughter. And there is also something in Martina Bönisch's private life that she would like to undo.

The well-known Berlin radio presenter Nico Lohmann (Florian Panzner) and his pregnant girlfriend Anne (Klara Manzel) were to fall victim to a letter bomb. She misses them both, and a young boy dies playing ball in the stairwell at the wrong moment. Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) first research the callers of "Nico's Night" and come across Petra Piwek (Karina Plachetka), who left her violent husband on Nico's advice. Heiner Piwek (Andreas Guenther) follows Nico from now on. But Ritter and Stark also find inconsistencies in Lohmann's CV: the former competitive swimmer, whom his father Hans Lohmann (Hans Uwe Bauer) trained with all his might, caused a serious car accident five years ago and then ended his sports career.In search of a motive, the inspectors also investigate Nico's girlfriend Henriette (Julia Koschitz), from whom Nico broke up at the time. The victim of the accident, Ulrich Kastner (Peter Schneider), whose wife and little daughter died, is still convinced today that his wife did not cause the accident. At that time, detective Karl Vornier (Andreas Leupold) was investigating the case. He confirms that the accident was never properly clarified - The "Tatort: Big Black Bird" is a production of Ziegler Film GmbH & Co KG (Regina Ziegler) on behalf of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg for Das Erste

The small family circus Burani enchants audiences of all ages during its guest performance in Ludwigshafen. But when one of the employees lies dead in the ring the morning after the performance, Lena Odenthal is confronted with the harsh reality of circus life. Patriarch Lousiana cares little about Pit's death. She has enough to do with surviving her small business and keeping her daughter Felicitas in line. Besides, she didn't trust Pit. In fact, Lena and Kopper suspect that Pit and his brother Robbi used their winter stay in Tunisia to do smuggling. Not with drugs, that's for sure. The inspectors go in search of the unknown contraband.Even more important is the question of whether there are moreCircus employees were involved - or whether Pit and Robbi made cruel enemies from outside with their fundraising method. The "Tatort: Zirkuskind" plays with the ambivalence between the magic of the ring and the fight for survival that takes place behind the scenes. Even Lena Odenthal is not insensitive to the aura associated with acrobats and clowns - and at the same time sees through that it doesn't have to be a matter of course for a younger generation to continue the struggle for survival. Acrobatic pride and melancholy are very close together here. Author Harald Göckeritz and director Till Endemann captured them for "Tatort: Zirkuskind", Steffi Kühnert and Liv Lisa Fries embody them in their entirety.

The police officers David Förster and Anne Peters are sent to an emergency call - a man feels threatened. The operation escalates and Anne is critically injured. When the Bremen chief inspectors Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund arrive, David and the man have disappeared. Evidence indicates the man was murdered . The Bremen chief inspectors find out that David and Anne have unexpectedly disrupted the activities of a criminal clan. When David reappears, he dodges questions about what happened. Does the clan have anything against him? The chief inspectors get caught up in a web of violence and threats.

It was the end of a long, terrible nightmare when the girl Melanie Pölzl was able to escape from a dungeon five years after her kidnapping. The perpetrator then apparently saw no way out and threw himself in front of a train. The case was then officially closed. But when Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and his colleague Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) are called to demolish the horror house in Gieselbrunn in Lower Austria on a snowy winter day, the events take a dramatic turn. Because in the midst of the rubble, the former head of "Soko Melanie" Franziska Kohl was found dead in the same vaulted cellar - dying of thirst. The deeply shocked Moritz Eisner is convinced that it was not an accident.And he soon realizes that he has to fight against an invisible network that extends to the very top of the police force and the judiciary. Eisner, who not only knew this colleague very well but was even in a relationship with her for some time, is almost entirely alone in his suspicion of a conspiracy. Only Bibi Fellner stands by him... "Abgrund" is an ORF production, made by Cult Movies and funded by the state of Lower Austria. 

Chief Inspector Nick Tschiller (Til Schweiger) and his colleague Yalcin Gümer (Fahri Ögün Yardim) put the Kurdish Astan clan under pressure, which threatens to take power in the Hamburg underworld in a bloody fight against the Bürsum clan. Although Firat Astan (Erdal Yildiz), against whom the mismatched couple investigated in the first case, is in prison, he puts a bounty on Nick's death. When Nick wants to drive his ex-wife Isabella (Stefanie Stappenbeck) to the airport, they both almost become victims of an assassination attempt. Nick Tschiller pulls itconsequences and insists that daughter Lenny (Luna Schweiger) move back in with her mother. Yalcin has his colleague declared dead for his own protection, but Nick unilaterally turns up at Firat Astan's prison to warn him of further attacks.When Nick learns that the clan wants to get into the drug business and that a huge shipment of crystal meth is on its way to Hamburg, war between the gangsters breaks out openly. Together with Enno Kromer (Ralf Herforth), Nick gets the drug specialists of the LKA for help.

In the early hours of the morning, Julia Marschner, who was still celebrating at a "over 40 party" that night, was found dead in the park. She has been strangled. The situation at the crime scene reminds chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler of a past case. Did the "strangler from Mockau Ost" strike again or did the murdered woman, who has traces of shackles on her hands and feet, die in an unusual love game? Julia's friends, the physiotherapist Karmen Slowinski and the lawyer Silvie Stein, tell of a man who hassled Julia on the dance floor the night before. Did Julia go home with this stranger? The detectives question Julia's 20-year-old daughter Caro, who tells of an affair her mother had with a flirting teacher.Tom Römer vehemently denies this relationship with the murder victim, but gets caught up in contradictions during his interrogation by Keppler and is taken into custody. The inspectors determine that Caro's charming and slightly older friend Mike had long-term telephone contact with her mother Julia on the night of the crime. Julia didn't like her daughter's relationship with Mike and she wanted to get her to end this relationship. Did Mike attack Julia to prevent that? Meanwhile, Tom Römer tries to pull his head out of the noose and claims that another regular at the "Ü40 party" left it with Julia: Peter Hauptmann. However, the reputable cosmetic surgeon seems to be happily married to his wife Annika.Although Annika Hauptmann gives her husband a watertight alibi, the inspectors use a search warrant to gain access to his second home. In doing so, they come across a delicate secret that has apparently affected their circle of friends more than they want to admit...

Fire alarm again in Cologne! A series of arson attacks keeps the city in suspense, and now there are even fatalities. Three children die in the burned-out villa. Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk need a quick manhunt because the intervals between the arson attacks are getting shorter and shorter. At the scene of the crime, the inspectors meet Karen Reinhardt, who is in shock. She has mild smoke inhalation but otherwise no injuries. She doesn't want to admit that her children didn't survive the fire. And there is no trace of her husband Gerald Reinhardt. Neighbors say he is employed by Cologne Airtech as an aeronautical engineer. But the investigation shows: He was fired here two years ago.

Lawyer Sven Adam is spectacularly shot dead on a nocturnal boat trip by the Marex company. His body disappears into the sea. Marex is a world leader in the mining of raw materials in the deep sea, specializing in rare earths. By mining these metals, which are found in every mobile phone, Marex wants to land a business worth millions. Did Adam's death have something to do with the killing of an environmentalist whoprotested against the destruction of the seabed? Sven Adam's wife Marte could also have killed her husband out of jealousy, because he had several affairs. Sarah Brandt discovers a video on Sven Adam's computer in which he openly accuses the Marex company of murdering him. Inspector Borowski suspects that the solution to the case can be found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea and dives into the depths.

This corpse fell from the sky: When Inspector Thiel arrives at the crime scene, the bus driver who was driving Dr. Wolfgang Öhrie almost ran over him while still in shock. The influential contractor had been killed with a hammer in his office and thrown out of the window onto the street. Öhrie's company is responsible for a very controversial construction project in Münster, because many suspect that the planned Waikiki oasis will not be a conventional wellness and adventure pool, but a huge brothel. There is already a citizens' movement that is demonstrating massively against the "big bang". The activist Gunnar Roth spoke particularly loudly at the protest. The pimp Bruno Vogler was killed in a Münster parking garage. Again, a hammer was the murder weapon, knows the medical examiner Prof. Boerne.But the video recorded by the surveillance cameras in the parking garage comes as a surprise: the perpetrator is masked. He disguises himself as a superhero. And there are signs that a third murder is imminent. Does he present himself as a fighter for justice? Background information: In their new case, Commissioner Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) and Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) have to track down a serial killer disguised as a superhero who kills his victims with a hammer. The body fell from the sky. When Inspector Thiel arrives at the scene of the crime, the bus driver, who was Dr. Wolfgang Öhrie almost ran over him while still in shock. The influential contractor had been killed with a hammer in his office and thrown out of the window onto the street.Öhrie's company is responsible for a very controversial construction project in Münster, because many suspect that the planned Waikiki oasis will not be a conventional wellness and adventure pool, but a huge brothel. There is already a citizens' movement that is demonstrating massively against the "big bang".

Donna Müller (Elena Bernasconi) is pushed off a bridge and dies instantly. The case leads the Lucerne crime scene investigators around Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) and Liz Ritschard (Delia Mayer) to three children who come from three different fathers. The municipal "care team" is called and the children of the deceased are taken to the children's hospital for observation. Neither the children nor Donna's closest friend Biljana Lukovic (Danijela Milijic Stojcetovic) know what Donna was up to on the night of her death and who might have an interest in her death. Only Daniele Rossi (Hans-Caspar Gattiker), the father of the eldest, Emma (Annina Walt), makes himself suspicious with his hateful statements about Donna and his membership in a radical fathers' group.André Barmettler (Benjamin Grüter), the father of the youngest, Alisha (Anna Fritz), lives in Lucerne but has no contact with either his daughter or Donna. He is married, and the girl was the result of an infidelity. Ravi (Pablo Caprez) also hardly sees his father Alain Schaller (Juan Bilbeny), who is staying in an ashram in India. Donna has been trained as a "spiritual healer" and her teacher Pablo Guggisberg (Grégoire Gros), who is said to have the psychic ability to communicate with the dead, offers to help the police. Liz Ritschard can only laugh at such nonsense, because it is clear to her that Daniele Rossi, who was in a constant dispute with his ex-wife, is responsible for her death. Flückiger, on the other hand, does not believe in Rossi's guilt.With the case stagnating, he accepts the spiritual healer's offer. But the meeting leads to nothing. The medium explains that contact with the dead Donna suddenly broke off. Can Pablo Guggisberg actually talk to the dead and Donna doesn't want to reveal her killer? Or does Pablo Guggisberg know more than he admits? This "crime scene".

A human trafficker and two police officers are killed in a gas explosion near a container terminal. In the vicinity of the terminal, a number of people were dependent on the dead smuggler: the forwarder Dreyer, the loadmaster Martinsen and the obscure security guard Jertz. Falke and Lorenz, who are investigating the human trafficking ring together with their colleague Jan Katz, are faced with a wall of silence. Falke and Lorenz also approach the desperate refugees who were picked up in a container and the traumatized colleagues of the dead police officers, above all Gerd Carstens, from a distance.

Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are investigating their 67th case with the new assistant Kalli Hammermann. It is a complex case involving the death of a mysterious woman that deeply shakes the trust between the detectives. "Your profession is only dead people" Lisa Brenner once said. That and the fact that Leitmayr's job was always more important than anything else was the reason for the end of a love affair that Franz had been really serious about a year and a half ago. So serious that he didn't even tell his colleague Batic about it. Now Lisa's body is shattered on the ground, she fell from the balcony on the twelfth floor of her house. Apparently she wasn't alone while drinking champagne. The neighborhood didn't hear a scream. The police find large cash deposits in the account, but no employer.The suspicion that Lisa worked as a companion for wealthy men is obvious. The first clues lead to Harry Riedeck, an elderly man who was familiar with Lisa's insurance and regularly shopped for her. When Leitmayr and Batic show up at his house, Riedeck recognizes Leitmayr as Lisa's friend from before. The fact that Leitmayr hadn't told Batic because he wanted to stay on the case as long as possible, investigating it himself, makes Batic explode. Department head Lammert suspended Leitmayr on the spot. A procedure is initiated. While Batic meets the new head of operational case analysis, Christine Lerch, Leitmayr bites deeper and deeper into a case that is taking him more and more to the limits of himself.Like all other suspects, he is imbued with a deep affection for the dead woman. And like everyone else, he soon no longer knows who Lisa Brenner really was. Using mobile phone photos that he took in Lisa's apartment, Leitmayr came across the trail of Toni Feistl, a Wiesn landlord who had fallen for Lisa. Lerch thinks that she is a woman who recognizes the point in every man where he is lonely and this is how Batic investigates. With the support of the young assistant Kalli Hammermann, he interrogates the men who were in regular contact with Lisa: Hansen, a former Hamburg hockey star, Lischke, a bank clerk and some seemingly irreproachable fathers. Then Riedeck is murdered. Unlike Lisa, whose death happened silently and almost invisibly, Riedeck was killed with 40 hammer blows.Where does the connection between the two victims lie for the perpetrator, if it was the same? What could it be that someone with such unbridled violence had to get rid of him?

A punch in the face puts Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) out of action. On the way home, he witnessed a fight in the subway station and immediately intervened. When Ballauf regains consciousness, the perpetrators have escaped. The victim, music student Manuel Sievers, succumbed to his injuries in hospital a short time later. For the press, the beating attack is a godsend. Prosecutor von Prinz (Christian Taschen) intervenes. As a witness ofInspector Ballauf is not allowed to investigate Tat himself, his colleague Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) takes over the investigation. The juvenile suspects are quickly identified. Kai Göhden (Robert Alexander Baer) is no stranger to the police. He had been a criminal before. Janine Bertram, his former girlfriend, was also involved in the incident. But they push all the blame away from themselves: Manuel would have provoked the argument, according to their statement...

Seriously injured, garbage man Maik Decker tries to flee with a garbage truck. But it is too late. The garbage truck crashes and Maik dies from his stab wounds. The Bremen commissioners Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) take on the case, examine the victim's environment and are increasingly irritated: The colleagues in the disposal company don't seem particularly surprised by Decker's death. Gradually, the commissioners realize that the motive is complex: It's about the city's garbage, a street full of ex-convicts - and a man who pulls all the strings in his hand.

Holger Drake, the main suspect in the murder of Irina Meinert, was in prison at the time of the crime. So how did his DNA get to the crime scene? Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are clear: either something is wrong with the traces – or with the prison. The fact that two years earlier another murder case remained unsolved because the main suspect was in the same prison speaks for the latter. From the outside there is no gap in the prison systemverifiable. That's why Thorsten Lannert gets a job in prison as Peter Seiler and is now supposed to find out undercover what's wrong in prison. The more he is accepted there, the clearer it becomes that corrupt structures have developed. Lannert tries to get at security chief Franke from the inside, while Bootz puts pressure on Holger Drake from the outside. And meanwhile the danger grows that Mole Lannert will be exposed...

Shortly before she can take off on the plane for her well-deserved vacation, Major Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) receives a call from the nursing home: Things are coming to an end with her father, with whom she does not have the best relationship. The worried colleague Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) accompanies her to Styria, where Bibi's father dies that same night. To her great surprise, he bequeaths the key to a safe deposit box to Bibi, in which the puzzled special investigator finds more than 30,000 euros in cash. However, the old codger was broke and had been living in a retirement home for the poor for the last few years: Where did all that money come from? As a police officer, Bibi Fellner cannot simply ignore this question, especially since her colleague also suspects that there is something fishy about it.Apparently the bus trips that her father made every week across the border to Hungary were not ordinary coffee trips. Eisner lets his retired colleague Sommer (Branko Samarovski) join one of the rides as an undercover investigator. At first it seems as if it were about unspectacular drug smuggling. But when Sommer is brutally beaten up, it becomes apparent that the seniors are being used as couriers for a much more dangerous business. In this atmospheric crime thriller from the "Tatort" series, Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner solve their tenth case together. The popular Austro investigator duo, who were awarded the renowned Adolf Grimme Prize for "Tatort: AnCounted", are confronted this time with the explosive topic of poverty in old age.Peter Weck shines as a formerly successful entrepreneur who was booted out by his own daughter and ended up in a dreary retirement home. The Styrian Michael Ostrowski sets impressive accents as a dodgy geriatric nurse.

A young woman is found murdered in a Lucerne apartment. For Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) and his colleague Liz Ritschard (Delia Mayer), everything initially points to a relationship. Thomas Behrens (Alexander Beyer), the lover of the murder victim, is under suspicion. But the IT specialist has recently disappeared. Surprisingly, his wife Ilka (Karina Plachetka) alerts the police. She is being followed by an unknown car with tinted windows. Apparently her husband is trying to intimidate her because she wants to leave him. Flückiger takes care of the distraught woman, but finds neither any indication of who he is looking for nor of any pursuers. In the meantime, Behrens turns himself in to the authorities.The computer scientist claims they want to kill him because he stole sensitive account data from his employer, a well-known private bank. When he panics and rampages in the interrogation room, he is placed in a psychiatric wardbriefed. He takes his own life that same night, but for Flückiger it doesn't look like suicide. Suddenly he too feels persecuted. In this dramatic SRF "crime scene" Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard are shown their limits. As Swiss investigators, Stefan Gubser and Delia Mayer get caught up in an impenetrable web of fraud, jealousy and bank secrets, in which powerful men from the financial sector are pulling the strings. Tobias Ineichen, known as a virtuoso crime director since "Tatort: Snowdrift", succeeds in striking the perfect balance between paranoia and real threat.Idyllic Switzerland shows itself from a completely different side. Alexander Beyer shines in the other leading roles as an IT expert, Karina Plachetka as his wife Ilka, who feels persecuted, Georg Scharegg as the murder victim's jealous husband, Pierre Siegenthaler as the bank director Sonderer and Kenneth Huber as the man for the rough.

Nasir al Yasaf, the fifth son of the Emir of Kumar, leads a glamorous life in Munich. Protected by his diplomatic status, the young man takes every liberty: fast cars, extravagant parties, drugs. And the police stand by and do nothing. When Nasir's expensive sports car once again races through Munich, ignoring every red light and can only be stopped by a police blockade, the body of his friend Karim is found in the passenger seat. Batic and Leitmayr are tasked with solving Karim's murder, but their hands are tied when it comes to their investigation. You are not allowed to do anything. Don't even question Nasir as the prime suspect if he doesn't want to. Let alone examine the car by the police. As a diplomatic vehicle, the location of the corpse is extraterritorial territory.Batic rages, Leitmayr warns of "diplomatic" action. But to their amazement, the Emir's son cooperates. Together with Kumar's consul general, Abdel Saleh, he takes them to the place where Karim was shot dead and where he allegedly loaded his friend's body into the car to drive him to the hospital as quickly as possible. Karim was shot in front of the house where student Michaela Scheffner lives. She had a secret love affair with Karim and apparently knows more than she lets on. The role of Consul General Saleh also remains unclear.Is he really interested in helping the German authorities solve the case? Or is he pursuing his own interests? As the evidence accumulates that the young Arab's death could be related to illegal business, the case takes on a new dimension. The trail leads to the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs to State Secretary Baum, a hothead who hopes for career opportunities. Batic and Leitmayr get caught in the fire between politics, the judiciary and business. When the prince's chauffeur confesses to the crime, which allegedly involved drugs and debt, the case seems to be solved, at least for Chief Prosecutor Kysela. But Batic and Leitmayr don't believe in it. They mistake the chauffeur for a pawn and fight doggedly to bring the real culprits to light.

It was supposed to look like a heart attack, but the pharmacist Andreas Hölzenbein was murdered. In the botanical garden, he got into a fight with a stranger who gave him a life-threatening injection with a syringe. The bright, young witness Mia (Lena Meyer) claims to have observed all of this. But Commissioner Thiel is initially skeptical: doesn't the ten-year-old student simply have too much imagination? Very specificMeanwhile, Prof. Boerne is worried about his own state of health. In self-diagnosis, he had to realize that a tissue sample from his liver was probably unavoidable. That's why he immediately checked himself into the sanus clinic. So it's a good thing that he can conduct investigations into the Andreas Hölzenbein case from his sick bed. Even if the clinic staff doesn't like it at all... 

Natascha Klein was a dazzling personality. The "Pope Joan of Love", who is also valued by the press, has just celebrated the twenty millionth customer of her Internet partner agency Lovecast. Now she was found dead in her office. Next to the corpse is an envelope with 50,000 euros: obviously someone had a very personal account with the young woman. Could a disappointed customer have taken revenge on the agency boss? Detectives Ballauf and Schenk are investigating in all directions. Apparently several women had recently fallen victim to a marriage swindler and been cheated out of significant amounts of money. This is reported by Lovecast Managing Director Gerd Machnow. Natascha Klein's husband Jörg Klein was also disappointed with his relationship in a different way.However, since he was on a business trip at the time of the crime, he has an alibi. Prosecutor von Prinz recommends Ballauf and Schenk to investigate undercover. A dangerous assignment for her new temporary assistant Gabi, who volunteers as a decoy. Your personal ad on Lovecast will not go unanswered for long...

Two dead in the dense fog of autumnal Lake Constance. Markus Söckle, engineer on a Lake Constance ferry, drowned – but before that he received a massive hit on the head from a stranger. On the other hand, it is known who killed Beat Schmeisser on another lake shore: Klara Blum's Swiss colleague Matteo Lüthi. He had been looking for Schmeisser and shot him in pursuit. In self-defense, claims Lüthi. It's just stupid that there's neither a weapon nor traces of smoke on the dead man. Klara Blum investigates the death.Was Matteo Lüthi actually in oneSelf-defence situation or did he shoot prematurely because he still had an unfinished business with the criminal Schmeisser because of a kidnapping case? During the investigation into the Markus Söckle case, Kai Perlmann made a surprising discovery: the young woman with whom Söckle was last seen has disappeared without a trace. Her father is a wealthy builder and Beat Schmeisser has been spotted around her. Schmeisser may have been involved in a kidnapping again. Anna's parents refuse to cooperate with the commissioners. But time is pressing...

A lonely train station, three men with guns, one man gets off the train alone. Suddenly the three men are lying dead in the dust, but the other man hasn't shot - "Guard, something's wrong here!" When Murot recognizes the man on the video surveillance, who is not the murderer, he fears disaster. It's Richard Harloff, his ex-best friend from police academy. The two were once in love with the same woman, with whom they engaged in a "ménage à trois" as in their favorite film, Jules et Jim.lived together. Harloff was then suspended from the police service because of a drug history and disappeared with his wife to South America 30 years ago, where he became a super gangster in the following years. It quickly becomes clear that Harloff is on a vendetta with his son. More murders happen.However, Harloff always has an alibi. Murot is desperately trying to stop the series of murders, but has no idea that he is actually the target of a diabolical plan.

A man was murdered and left in a sexually humiliating situation. During the autopsy, he was diagnosed with knockout drops, which is unusual because most women are drugged and abused with knockout drops. A case that gets to Lena Odenthal's kidneys, especially since she herself is ailing: exhausted from the many cases she has already worked on; only because Kopper is the wedding musician for his cousin in Italy and it's stressful because Kopper's deputy, the young case analyst Johanna Stern, doesn't harmonize at all with Lena's way of working. Johanna is theory and expertise. Lena is practice and gut feeling. atIn their investigations, Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern found out that there were also cases of young women who were raped with the help of knockout drops.However, they can't remember anything. Stunned with these drops, young Betty is also caught wandering around. However, there is no evidence of abuse. Was she just lucky, or does her case have nothing to do with the other cases? Did one of the abused women seek revenge on the murder victim, or does his death have more to do with his family or professional situation? Lena Odenthal faces a difficult task.

It's night in Berlin. Norwegian student Trude Bruun Thorvaldsen (Lise Risom Olsen) wakes up with nightmares. The images won't let Trude rest, she goes to the police and reports to chief inspector Felix Stark (Boris Aljinovic) and police psychologist Robert Meinhardt (Fabian Busch) about the murder from her terrible dream. Two months later, the student Lisa Steiger (Tinka Fürst) is found strangled. The young woman had separated from her boyfriend Florian (Florian Bartholomäi). Stark and his team take up the investigation. Parallels to Trude's statement soon become apparent. Has her premonition come true? Stark's boss Karin Breitenbach (Birge Schade) fears that Trude will go to the press with her strange story about second sight. Stark can prevent that.But hebelieves Trude and tries to decipher her visions with the help of his colleague Paula Wimberg (Laura Tonke). Then Trude's life is in danger. Stark and his team (Anjorka Strechel, Dimitrij Schaad, Christian Sengewald) are able to catch the murderer. When Trude is again tormented by visions of murder, Stark sympathizes with how much the psychology student suffers from her visionary abilities. The case gets on his nerves, because Trude's visions also affect him. Despite his enormous tension, will Stark be able to prevent another murder? His latest case leads the Berlin "crime scene" investigator Felix Stark into a grueling nightmare between reality and parapsychology. Filming was mainly in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Tempelhof, Schöneberg and at the Technical University in Charlottenburg.

During a robbery operation, Thorsten Lannert shoots the robber who has taken a hostage. The proportionality hearing of this act was supposed to be a routine matter, the perpetrator was dangerous and totally unpredictable. But the dead man's mother hired the lawyers Christian and Sabine Pfluger, who want to see Lannert charged with manslaughter. Sebastian Bootz relieved Thorsten Lannert in the survey - although he was actually in view of thecrucial seconds is not certain... Another witness is murdered before she can testify. Is there a connection between the robbery in the supermarket and the murder? The commissioners want to investigate, but Sebastian Bootz, who had visited the witness to substantiate his own testimony, is withdrawn from the case for attempting to exert influence. Now both commissioners are wondering if they didn't make mistakes. And that puts a strain on their cooperation. 

The body of a man is found in a park near Oldenburg. The German-Syrian apparently had contact with a smuggling ring that the federal police had been observing for some time. Inspector Falke and his colleague Lorenz investigate the sworn German-Syrian community. The horror of the civil war overshadows their life together, because many of the German-Syrians living in Oldenburg took in war refugees.

Jan-Peter Landmann is one of the most powerful meat manufacturers in the so-called pig belt of Lower Saxony. Shortly before his company introduces a new sausage product, he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. He and his chauffeur, Karl "Carlito" Ebert, spontaneously swapped places before the fatal journey, so Landmann survived and "Carlito" died. The head of the company, Landmann, refuses police protection – also because he wants to impress Charlotte Lindholm, who is helping the local criminal inspectorate investigate the attack. The charismatic family entrepreneur is managed byrevered by his employees, but hated by his competitors - the threatening letters speak a clear language. But when the dead chauffeur's mother received a large settlement, Charlotte Lindholm began to have doubts as to whether the attack was actually aimed at a farmer.What did the chauffeur know about the criminal production methods in the family business? Lindholm's search for the culprit is supported with dubious success by the inexperienced detective Bär. When another attack on Landmann takes place, it becomes clear that more than one life is at stake...

Prisoner Timo Lemke is allowed to attend his father's funeral. Lemke was sentenced to a long prison term for manslaughter and human trafficking. Although the former Red Light King is about to be released, he takes the chance to escape - and shoots a policeman dead in the process. While the Erfurt detectives Funck, Schaffert and Grewel are looking for Lemke's whereabouts, the boss of the trio, detective director Petra Fritzenberger, becomeskidnapped. Together with criminal director Volker Römhild, Fritzenberger was able to convict and arrest Lemke. Does Timo Lemke want to take revenge for that? Is Römhild now also in danger? Former police colleague Ingo Konzack also plays an obscure role. Before Funck, Schaffert and Grewel can question him about it, Timo Lemke is found dead. How is the trio supposed to find the whereabouts of the boss? How long will she survive alone? 

One night before Christmas, two people are looking for a hostel in Saarbrücken: the heavily pregnant Sicilian Maria secretly left the house of her parents-in-law shortly before she gave birth. Taxi driver Jupp has eloped with his colleagues' Christmas bonus. Maria and Jupp get to know each other when the beautiful Sicilian woman asks the taxi driver to drive her to her grandmother's in Sicily. Meanwhile, Jens Stellbrink and his small team are investigating the events that led to the death of the Saarbrücken taxi driver Theo "Teddy" Diehl . The chubby young man went into reflex cardiac arrest when an unknown perpetrator strangled him with the string of lights that Teddy was about to decorate his Christmas tree with.Stellbrink would like to interview the taxi driver with whom Teddy lived in a two-man flat share: But Jupp has left. On the way to solving the mystery, Stellbrink & Co come across a blackmail affair, a Sicilian family drama, a German marriage drama and a hit-and-run accident.

The body of 14-year-old Tim Kiener is found at the Isar weir. The boy was shot at close range. There is no apparent motive for the crime. Tim had neither problems with his parents nor with his classmates. When he wasn't out with his friends Hanna and Florian, he sat at his computer and allegedly developed apps and websites to supplement his pocket money. As investigators examine Tim's computer, they discover something they never thought possible: the boy has been offering revealing pictures and videos of himself to a growing clientele through his own paid website. He's chatted with adult customers, stripped naked on webcam, and gotten paid for it through gift lists.So is one of his website customers Tim's killer? The traceson the net, the Munich chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr lead to a family man who trains young soccer players in his free time. But Guido Buchholtz seems to have an alibi. Inspector Kalli Hammermann's background investigations into Tim's clientele don't lead any further either. While Batic is ironically concentrating on proving that Buchholtz was actually at the scene of the crime, Christine Lerch, head of the operational case analysis, doubts whether Buchholtz was the perpetrator. Leitmayr, on the other hand, wonders who is actually the perpetrator and who is the victim in online transactions. Meanwhile, Tim's parents are stunned by the facts. They find that their boy has been doing things online that they had no idea about.Tim's friends Hanna and Flo, on the other hand, seem to be familiar with it.