Chief Inspector Hajo Trautzschke gets a worried call from London early in the morning: his godchild Charlotte Fischer, who is studying in London, was kidnapped near Tower Bridge. Hajo and Ina immediately travel to London.
Investigator Patrick Grimm brutally beaten up by three neo-Nazis. Two of the perpetrators were arrested shortly thereafter and made serious allegations against the police officer: Patrick is accused of raping a woman.
A bank robbery on a Leipzig branch. When the SOKO officers arrive, everything looks like a failed robbery followed by a hostage-taking. But this mission soon becomes a very special case.
Bankrupt entrepreneur Richard Steffenhagen is found dead in his apartment. The 60-year-old died from a bullet that he apparently shot himself in the head.
As Dr. Conradi disappears without a trace from the forensic medicine rooms during an autopsy, the investigators are initially puzzled. SOKO gets help from Sabine Rossi, former pathologist and old acquaintance of Hajo.
When Jan and Ina are called to an apartment from which shots have been heard, they have no idea that a colleague has been murdered: Solveig Lamehr, who, as a police student, was allowed to investigate with the SOKO team for a day.
The blackmail video leaves no doubt: the 76-year-old private banker Erich Holter was kidnapped in front of his office and buried alive in a coffin somewhere. A race against time begins for the SOKO investigators.
The doctor Elisabeth Trepplin was murdered in her house in a particularly insidious manner. In the bathroom, which was locked from the outside, she suffocated on the toxic fumes of a long-banned pesticide from the GDR era.
Tanja Wöllnitz is sitting with her American boyfriend Robert Jennings in a café when suddenly a shot is fired and the young woman is injured. While Tanja is taken to the hospital, Robert flees after the first police questioning.
Drug dealer Timo Wagefeld was fatally stabbed on a playground. A syringe and banknote in the corpse's arm are the posthumous mark of jailed dealers killer Adrian Schütt, a former junkie who maintains his innocence; the knife also fits.
The power went out in the center of Leipzig. Leipzig is completely shut down. It is deep darkness. The first mission for SOKO follows promptly. A dead man was found at a transformer station.
The cult band 'Silly' gives an exclusive club concert in Leipzig, where Ina and Jan are also in the audience. Jan immediately notices the increased security measures. During the concert, the dead tour manager is discovered backstage.
The Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo Castilho from Leipzig is found dead. The investigators initially targeted fellow player and compatriot Giovane Escudo, who was pushed out of the starting eleven by Castilho.
Attractive teacher Petra Holter, wife and mother of two children, is found dead on the kitchen floor by her family and her sister Hannah Mendel. The murder weapon is still on the table next to her.
A drug-crazed young Arab woman jumps to her death from the window of a luxury hotel in Leipzig. However, traces on her corpse suggest previous acts of violence. The Saudi family clan of al Zayed has come under suspicion.
Frank Kowalski, a bottle collector, is found stabbed to death in Leipzig's city park. Above all, his "colleagues" Rudi, Inge and Volker, who also collect bottles, are associated with the case.
A terrified mother reports her son missing. When SOKO comes to Axel Reinke's apartment, the grave suspicion that a crime has been committed seems to be confirmed. A bloodstain and an attacking cadaver dog definitely doesn't bode well.
In order to improve the image of the Leipzig police, the chief of police ordered that a documentary film should be made about the SOKO. The film team is supposed to accompany the investigators in their everyday lives "up close".
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By what name was Leipzig Homicide (2001) officially released in Canada in English?