WaPo Elbe — Season 3

Two jewelery robbers on the run sink their loot in the Elbe and thus end up in the jurisdiction of the WaPo Pirna, which is also struggling with turbulences besides this main problem: There are inexplicable frictions between Moritz and Jana, strange things happen in the police station, and a service car is sabotaged. And then there's a magnetic angler who believes that the police - even the WaPo - are just a power tool of the powerful.

During a check drive, Jana and Moritz find a body in the Elbe. The dead man looks exactly like Moritz. Then the surprise: The doppelganger is still alive! It's Maximilian Scheffler, the founder of a Dresden startup.

Sami and Moritz find an old message in a bottle with a plea for help. Apparently, it came from a boy who was housed in a children's home near Königstein 25 years ago. Sami, who is particularly attentive due to his concern for his own little brother, takes on the investigation. He finds out that the former head of the home, Marianne Sterz, is now elderly and living in the nursing home "Sonnenruh". When Sterz dies a violent death the day after being questioned by the police, it becomes clear that the message in the bottle from the past is the testimony of a dark story, the effects of which extend into the present.

Janas grandmother, Babicka, becomes a victim of a grandchild scam. At the same time, the WaPo is investigating a fraud ring that scams people with fake yacht rental offers. It quickly becomes clear that the two cases are connected. Babicka, who lost a valuable heirloom in the scam, develops Miss Marple-like qualities. She teams up with other victims and pursues her own battle plan against the fraudsters. When Maike and her team are finally able to apprehend the mastermind behind both scams, both she and the fraudster himself are in for a surprise.

A winemaker dies after drinking poisoned wine. Johnny Rowitzky operated the organic winery Taufenstein near Meißen with his friend André Stein and his wife Isabel. Rowitzky had an appointment with Karl Berner, the chief buyer of a wine wholesaler. Did he poison him because of a dispute over money? Or was it the trainee Sophie Schröder, who desperately wants to leave the winery? When an extortion letter announcing more poisoned bottles appears, the wine blogger Kostja Wagner comes under suspicion. After all, he has been systematically disparaging the wines of the Taufenstein winery for weeks. The WaPo is investigating at full speed. And gradually finds out that everyone had something to do with everyone else.

The old Captain Bieber is found drowned in the Elbe. During their investigations, the police quickly encounter contradictions. Heiko, 47, the only son, was supposed to look after his father in the evening, but he was reportedly only away for a short while and was keen on his father's coin collection. Wife Hilde had a long-standing affair and her demented husband was getting in her way. The disease made him in need of care and even more difficult to tolerate than he already was. A nursing home was out of the question and he had alienated all the caregivers. All their joint plans with the lover had to wait, which made him angry, so he too came under the investigators' scrutiny. At the same time, Sami falls victim to a series of burglaries. He energetically pursues the perpetrator, manages to catch him and links him to the captain's case. But what exactly happened and who was the perpetrator?

A tragic incident on the theater ship "Elbprinzessin" shocks the tranquil town of Pirna. During the premiere of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", the lead actor, Vladimir Holik, falls into the Elbe under mysterious circumstances. It quickly becomes clear that it was no accident. The theater dagger, with which Holik injured himself on stage, had been tampered with. The WaPo team begins to investigate and stumbles upon a web of jealousy, unresolved conflicts, and secrets. In addition to Holik's questionable past and his intimate relationship with the much older theater diva Regine Weise, her daughter Penelope also comes into focus, as she fears for her inheritance. The young actress Julia, on the other hand, is still seeking her place in the theater family and is playing with loaded cards, just like Regine's old theater friend Jakob, who is particularly devoted to her...

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