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- A young filmmaker who currently works in a hospital takes a mental patient out for a short ride to find out who she really is.
- Twenty somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today's Iran that's far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges' upper class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. With his back against the wall, Amir finds work at a local fishery, where he is drawn into the dangerous but lucrative business of black market caviar smuggling. As Amir's values are compromised by the illegal underworld, Narges stalls for time and tries to delay the arranged marriage her parents are planning for her. Can their love, hopes and dreams survive the tightly knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
- GGPoker commercial short starring Till Lindemann about a poker game between various characters played by the Rammstein singer. Directed by Specter Berlin
- Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.
- The journalist Daniel Mandelkern travels to Italy to interview the famous but mysterious novelist Mark Svensson. In his remote lakeside estate, he finds himself entangled in an intriguing love story that ended in a mysterious death.
- Présence: the art of Claudine Drai, a 3D installation by Wim Wenders.
- In an abandoned factory building, cosmetic surgeon Beat Gessner came across the corpse of his son Max, wrapped as if in a cocoon. Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean discovered that the corpse not only had tattoos on the face, but also on the cornea of the eyes. The shocked father reports that he has not had any contact with his son for a long time. Initial investigations lead the inspectors to a sectarian artists' commune. This is led by the charismatic Kyomi. Her "disciples" are exactly like the deceased Max: shaved head, tattoos on the face and cornea - an incredibly painful process. A second trail leads via Kyomi to the gallery owner Bruno Escher. He markets Kyomi's art and could capitalize on Max's death. Would Escher go that far? While Isabelle puts the unscrupulous gallerist through the wringer, Tessa deals with Kyomi's way of thinking and working: like art objects, her followers should wear the pain of her past on their skin and reflect it in their eyes. Did this philosophy lead to Max's death as the ultima ratio of the mind game? Isabelle Grandjean observes Tessa Ott's apparent fascination with Kyomi with great concern: does her colleague run the risk of being exploited by the artist? Is the bright-eyed Kyomi trying to play cat and mouse with the police herself? Or did Beat Gessner not tell the whole truth?
- Commissioners Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of Cologne. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, went on the street for her addiction. Her best friend, Kim, who is the same age, suspects that Lara was killed by a customer.
- Top lawyer Corinne Perrault knows no mercy when her clients' interests are at stake. One morning she floats dead in Lake Zurich. What appears to be a suicide turns out to be an insidious murder. As a lawyer for the law firm Clement and Widmer, she represented the up-and-coming pharmaceutical company Argon. Allegedly, their drug Volmelia caused devastating damage during the test phase - for example with Klara Canetti. The girl is in a wheelchair because of a rare disease. After taking Volmelia, Klara's condition has now worsened. Now her mother has sued Argon. There is a lot at stake for the group, because the outrageously expensive drug is about to be approved. In the event of a ban, the company with its shooting star Dr. Regula Arnold misses many millions, which makes the pharmaceutical woman the main suspect in the murder of Corinne Perrault, especially in the eyes of Tessa. Perrault's death causes dismay in the firm. The noble company loses a qualified colleague. For lawyer Matteo Riva, Corinne was more than that, and boss Martina Widmer also had a lot in common with the dead. But Isabelle and Tessa do not trust the demonstrative dismay of the two. Then the commissioners find out that Corinne had given up the Volmelia mandate and was on sick leave for a longer period of time. The investigators are still pursuing a third lead - mainly at the instigation of Isabell. In her eyes, Klara's mother Dorit has a double motive for murder. The hatred of Corinne Perrault, who aggressively attacked her daughter in a survey, as well as the prospect of high financial compensation. Isabelle tries to gain Klara's trust. Then Klara collapses while being questioned by her and has to be put into an artificial coma. Isabelle blames herself because she feels guilty about Klara's condition. In addition, the girl is missing an important witness who could shed light on the death of Corinne Perrault.
- Carnival in Munich. The body of a 70-year-old man is found on a staircase on the banks of the Isar. A first trace leads to "Irmis Stüberl", where the man apparently had an argument with a costumed carnival guest. The most important witness of the argument is a "Little Red Riding Hood", who is clearly too drunk to be questioned that evening. Batic and Leitmayr therefore take it with them without further ado. Silke Weinzierl, as "Little Red Riding Hood" is called, is very annoyed the next morning. She obviously slept really badly in the detox cell. No, she doesn't know the man and doesn't know why the argument came about. It quickly becomes clear: Batic and Leitmayr are not only dealing with a tricky case, but above all with a very unusual woman.
- Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago, a friend reported her missing at the time. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest while preparing for an urn burial. A dispute at the site distracts Faber: It can hardly be overheard that inspector Bönisch and the KTU specialist Sebastian Haller are already fighting their private quarrel on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is a burden on herself and her work does not leave Faber indifferent. Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: the gravesite was reserved here a few days after Feline Wagner's disappearance. It was paid for in cash by a man who gave a false name. Another murder victim is recovered, just steps away from the first. There was a year between the two murders - and soon twelve months will have passed again.
- Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are on duty on the banks of the Rhine in the early morning. A man's body was washed up here. He was a mechanic on board a pleasure boat and apparently involved in a fight shortly before his death. When Chief Inspector Schenk contacts the captain of the "Agrippina", the case takes a dramatic turn: on board the ship that has just cast off is Daniel Huberty, a former high school teacher, who is now threatening: "I will take the ship in blow up if you don't comply with my demands." He demands justice. It did not exist in the court case when he was sentenced to imprisonment for a liaison with an underage student.
- Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.
- What starts out as a "normal" murder investigation continues to spread: the shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found dead in his apartment. But neither his happy bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes a youth heartthrob in the dead man, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers amorous entanglements at the same time. And when the protection of the constitution appears in the shady characters Muster and Mann, it becomes absurd. Apparently, Thiel and Boerne stabbed a wasp's nest and even drew the attention of an assassin. But how is it all connected? And what about the little dog that loves to eat bananas?
- A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigations: the traces in the house were manipulated, apparently the break-in was faked - but the forensic technicians found older remains of blood ... Neighbors and colleagues give different information, but there are indications that Fischer's wife hit and terrorized. Did he want to prevent her from leaving him, killed her and faked a kidnapping? Or did Kathrin Fischer secretly prepare the escape and stage the bloody deed to incriminate her husband because she can only be safe from him when he is in prison? Her friend Beate Lindweg plays a dubious role in this marriage: Before Kathrin, she was in a relationship with Simon Fischer... The Dresden investigators have to find out what happened and descend into the abyss of a toxic marriage.
- Manfred Gabler is found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Numerous injuries indicate that he cannot simply have fallen, but was severely abused in a hopeless fight before his death. For Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner, there are only very few immediately usable traces around the place where the body was found. Nevertheless, some peculiarities are noticeable from the beginning: Manfred Gabler was a Catholic priest, he had remarkably few social contacts - and strangely enough an amulet with the Satanic symbol with him. A possible reason for this is soon found: Prelate Gabler was active on a special mission, he was one of the few priests in the so-called deliverance service, which still exists in many countries and dioceses - Gabler was what is commonly called an exorcist. Shortly before his death, as Eisner and Fellner soon find out, he had an appointment with an unknown person "N" - possibly an important witness. But nobody can tell the two who this person is, nobody knows a name or an address. Moritz and Bibi take a closer look at the dead man's surroundings. Gabler's successor in office did not always agree with his methods, a somewhat eccentric scientist is interested in data that Gabler is said to have possessed, the psychiatrist who regularly examined Gabler's clients is deliberately taciturn, and what role does a former pimp play in this case? And above all: Where is the motive for a murder?
- The manager Josef Micklitza found a body with a gunshot wound in the Dortmund harbor area late in the evening. The dead man is his financial advisor Claus Lembach.
- Inspector Thiel wakes up in a hotel room and has lost the memory of last night. His former boss is found dead nearby.
- Chief Inspector Leo Hölzer and Chief Inspector Pia Heinrich find the body of Cora Reuters in a villa in the best residential area.
- Former police officer Benno Rose was stabbed. Before his death, he had tried several times to contact Sara Manzer.
- Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country whose president is about to pay a state visit to Germany. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid the official celebrations of the state visit. Whatever the reason, Juan's disappearance puts the Bergsons, the teachers who run the school, in distress. The good reputation of the school is its most important asset. In the course of the investigations by Falke and Grosz, the boy's bodyguard comes under suspicion, especially when a blackmail letter appears: Juan's kidnappers are trying to free imprisoned opponents of the regime and journalists.
- A prequel, set before the events of Army of the Dead, which focuses on German safecracker Ludwig Dieter leading a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
- 16-year-old Iranian Soheil moves to Berlin. He quickly makes friends with some Turkish and Arab youths. What Soheil does not tell his friends is that he is not a Muslim, but a Jew. When he comes out, the situation threatens to escalate.
- Bread, water, fuel: for a growing proportion of the world's population, particularly in Latin America, Asia and Africa, dizzying price increases are making these basic necessities increasingly unaffordable. With wars and climate change, the impossibility of access to the minimum subsistence level is now one of the main causes of migration on the planet and the aggravating factor of armed conflicts. These sharp increases in the cost of living often originate in new forms of speculation on raw materials, which create worldwide price movements totally disconnected from local markets, a devastating "butterfly effect".
- When the committed "Rock gegen Rechts" concert organizer Tillmann Meinecke was found shot, the suspicion of an attack was obvious. Meinecke saw herself threatened by the right-wing extremist scene and had applied for police protection, including from Lena Odenthal. His death triggers a manhunt, which Ludger Reents is online. Reents shoots Police Chief Superintendent Katja Winter during a police check and is arrested while his girlfriend Hedwig Jörges escapes. Reents is a member of a right-wing extremist organization. He actually had Meinecke in his sights and was at the scene at the time of the crime, which he also admits. Nevertheless, he vehemently denies having committed the murder. Supported by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern examine Meinecke's environment. Meinecke's friend Maria and her mother are asked about the circumstances of the crime. Maria is convinced of the stop thesis and is in shock. She falls out with her mother, who makes no secret of her dislike for Meinecke. When Maria wanders through Ludwigshafen at night, her path crosses with that of the fleeting Hedwig. The two know nothing about each other, feel lost that night, and so an unexpected moment of fellowship arises between them.
- In the middle of the day, a money messenger was murdered in cold blood in front of a jewelry store in downtown Weimar. Kira Dorn and Lessing accidentally become witnesses and pursue the perpetrator. Lessing is injured in an exchange of fire in the cave and the perpetrator escapes. The dead messenger is Ludgar Döllstädt, managing director of the security company "Geist Security". While Kurt Stich is convinced that the act is a robbery, Kira suspects more behind it: Lessing had stopped the murder victim a few days earlier with Maike Viebrock, a department head of the state administration office, at a traffic control. There was a rare parrot in the trunk. Did the owner of the security company, John Geist, want to liquidate his managing director to protect his company from an animal bribery scandal? Kira Dorn and Lessing give everything to find the culprit in this complex case in which nothing is as it seems .
- After a fire in the basement of the Gerberzentrum, a high-rise housing estate in Dortmund, the charred body of a young woman is found. The new member of the Dortmund homicide squad, Rosa Herzog, quickly realizes that the victim was slain. There are also indications of attempted rape. During the investigation, the team is confronted with racism, police violence and fake news.
- In the exclusive Hotel Rheinpalais, a woman is found hanged in her room. On the surface everything points to suicide. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk have doubts: For them it looks like a brutal execution. First testimonies indicate a connection between the 60-year-old victim Kathrin Kampe and the owner of the hotel Bettina Mai. When the suspicions against Bettina Mai intensify and her arrest is imminent, she brings Inspector Schenk into her power and flees with him as a hostage .
- The 28-year-old Nicolas Schlueter does not come back from his morning jogging session: A car hit the police chief. Schlueter was about to be promoted, he was popular at the police station and had good friends, his wife Simone is expecting their first child. There does not seem to be any evidence of a murderous motive or a suspect. And the bruises that Schlüter suffered a few days before his death, according to Simone Schlüter, can be traced back to a riding accident. Peter Faber, Martina Bönisch, Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak investigate in all directions - including at the police station in Dortmund-Hörde. There Martina Bönisch meets an old friend: At the police school, she got along very well with Katrin Steinmann. Today the head of the guard stands protectively in front of her team. In the weeks before his death, Nicolas Schlueter had apparently targeted a doctor in particular: Dr. Johannes Oberländer, who has made a name for himself as a seminar leader. Men should be able to learn from him how to be well received by as many women as possible.
- Susanne Elvan met her husband Tarek, a convicted violent criminal, through a penpal portal while he was in custody. The wedding took place before his release. When Susanne was found murdered, Tarek was only recently at large. The case seems clear. But when assistant Norbert Jütte sees that the murderer has tied a belt over his victim's eyes, the case takes an unexpected turn: Jütte is convinced that he has had something to do with the murderer before .
- Sudden cardiac arrest at the age of only 29: Anna Schneider collapses in broad daylight on the street in front of her café. The Dresden investigators Gorniak and Winkler convince their boss Schnabel to start the investigation into this mysterious death, although the forensic doctor Jonathan Himpe wants to rule out poisoning. They found out that Anna Schneider had recently filed a criminal complaint against an unknown stalker. In addition to the psychological distress, the victim has recently suffered severe physical pain. Every touch, no matter how small, made her flinch. Gorniak is alarmed: She too has had pain attacks for a few days that she cannot explain. Even the medical officer cannot determine a medical cause. Anna Schneider didn't know her, but could there be a connection between the two women? Schneider's ex-boyfriend Nils Klotsche quickly falls into the sights of the inspectors. He works as a technical assistant in a medical laboratory specializing in the development of nanobots in cancer research. Is it possible to manipulate the molecules in such a way that they can be used as weapons? His boss Professor Mühl and his colleague Martha Marczynski consider this to be impossible. Other suspects are also found: the married Lucas Dreesen, who had a brief but intense affair with Schneider, could also be the stalker. There are increasing indications that Gorniak is actually being persecuted. She receives mysterious threatening phone calls and repeatedly receives video recordings showing party scenes from around 20 years ago. Isn't the motive for this case jealousy at all?
- During an operation on the banks of the Dresden Elbe, the paramedic Tarik Wasir is suffocated in the vehicle with a plastic bag. His young colleague Greta Blaschke can no longer help him. Investigators Karin Gorniak and Leonie Winkler as well as commissariat manager Schnabel are investigating in all directions. The rioting patient Arnold Liebig, from whom the health insurance company has cut benefits, is just as suspicious as Greta's colleague Hagen Rigmers, who seems to be hiding something and threatens his colleagues. A short time later, a second attack was carried out on an ambulance at the same location. The paramedic Elena Jancowicz is seriously injured, any help comes too late for a colleague. At the rescue station headed by operations center manager Peter Fritsche, fear of further attacks increases. Greta Blaschke has run out of strength due to the murder of her colleague and the exhausting job. The single mother hopes for a distraction from an evening date with Jens Schlüter, whom she met in her daughter's kindergarten. Little does she suspect that on this path she will be confronted with a traumatic experience from her past and that she will be in extreme danger.
- Entrepreneur Hans-Konrad Chevalier is found dead in a luxurious villa - he is killed and shot. The brutal approach suggests a relationship act. The murdered man ran the famous Chevaliers chocolate factory - together with his daughter Claire. The investigations lead the profiler Tessa Ott back to her roots, the posh residential area on the Zrichberg. In this area of the super-rich everyone could lead a happy "Schoggilabe" (a chocolate life, read "A life on the sunny side"). But appearances are deceptive. Apparently the company boss Chevalier was depressed and suicidal. His homosexuality was never accepted by his own family. His mother Mathilde obviously never thought much of her gay son. After his murder, she is now pushing back to the top of the company. Past granddaughter Claire, who works day and night in the company and wants to succeed her father. However, the company has been in the red for a long time. Claire's dubious fiance takes advantage of the messy situation. At the same time, Claire disappears a conflicting will from her father. The commissioners realize that a power struggle is raging at "Chocolat Chevalier". Was the murdered patron his first victim? The investigation is difficult. There is every indication that the housekeeper Esmeralda Rivera witnessed the crime. But she went into hiding with her daughter. As an illegal immigrant ("sans paper"), she is threatened with deportation. Esmeralda therefore does not want to cooperate with the police under any circumstances. Tessa Ott has an idea, while Commissioner Grandjean follows another lead. She is chasing a mysterious man who is on the road with the murder weapon and must also have been at the crime scene. The suspect later turned up in a hotel suite and left a highly stressed impression. For Isabelle a clear indication: the suspect is under high pressure and is accordingly dangerous. Isabelle Grandjean herself is also under pressure. She wants to leave Zurich. In the case of a promotion to which she is entitled, she will be ignored. She also misses her son and wants to get closer to him again. And she does not trust her new partner Tessa Ott, considers the colleague from a better house to be unprofessional and overwhelmed. Unfortunately, at a crucial moment, Isabelle gets right. When she sees the main suspect face to face and urgently needs the help of her colleague, she fails. Isabelle realizes: She can't rely on the profiler.
- Four weeks ago, the members of the Ostfildern Oasis building community moved into their building and the foundation has to be re-excavated due to a sealing problem. An even bigger problem emerges: an unidentifiable female corpse. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz try to find their way between group meetings and expressions of feelings by the residents in order to obtain clues about the identity of the dead. They encounter the idealistic dream of living together as well as the conflicts that appear between the apartment owners when they become aware that one of them may have been the perpetrator. Especially since the dead person could be a former applicant who at some point disappeared without a trace. Part of the group makes their own suspect outside of the house and thus makes life easier for themselves. The commissioners, however, are not prepared to be influenced by aura and gut feeling. Rather, it gives you to think that the missing applicant had caused a stir among some of the residents .
- The discovery of a dead person in a desolate residential area is reported anonymously in the early hours of the morning. Jana Gruber was overwhelmed and brutally killed in her house. Circumstances suggest that the woman worked as a prostitute and that she had a child. But the nursery is orphaned, there is no trace of the child, a ten-year-old boy. The anonymous caller is identified and, surprisingly, there is an act related to him: Gustav Langer used to often come into conflict with the law and had known the victim - as a suitor - for a longer time. But is he Jana's murderer too? Moritz and Bibi doubt it. Very soon, however, they see similarities between the current case and an unsolved murder some time ago. Investigators are deeply alarmed by the possibility of the existence of a planned serial offender. The commissioners are challenged to the utmost, they investigate to exhaustion against time and a psychopathic murderer.
- When the investigative journalist Imke Leopold asks Thorsten Falke for help in solving a supposedly illegal real estate deal on Norderney, he initially reacts skeptically. When Imke is the victim of an attack shortly afterwards, which she survives only by luck, Falke regrets his hesitation and asks Julia Grosz to investigate with him on the island. Does the attack have anything to do with a large-scale construction project that was waved through due to the approval of some local politicians on the island? The lawyer and broker based on the island, who arranged the deal and made appropriate hints to Imke, is unfortunately unable to provide information - Falke and Grosz find him slain in his house .
- No cell phone, no papers, no clothes: a naked male corpse is found in a moorland area. Thanks to Prof. Boerne's instinct, of all things, the young man's identity is quickly clarified: It is Maik Koslowski: vegetable farmer, nude model and advocate of free love. He was also the leader of group seminars such as "Sexuality and Tantra" or "Drumming and Ecstasy". During their research on the Erlen farm with the adjoining trailer park, Thiel and Boerne encounter cackling geese, curious alpacas and confusing network of relationships. In order to bring light into the darkness, Thiel asks his "Vadder" for help: He should ask around undercover in the commune. The perpetrator seems to be found quickly, but the evidence clearly contradicts Thiel's suspicions. Has his otherwise so reliable gut feeling let him down? Professor Boerne too has doubts about his appointment: of all people, he is suspected of plagiarism; he is said to have passed the research results of a colleague as his own. An affront or a justified accusation? As if that weren't enough mess, the assistants Silke Haller and Mirko Schrader also have to admit a fatal mistake to their bosses. If only it were that easy .
- Ella flees from her abusive husband and tries to go into hiding with no money and no friends. The homeless Monika takes Ella under her wing and shows her how she survives on the street. But Ella leaves Monika alone when she meets Axel in a fast-food restaurant and finds shelter in his small apartment. The next morning, the one who promised her protection is dead. Commissioners Ballauf and Schenk start the investigation.
- 1970– 1h 28mTV-146.5 (246)TV EpisodeThe battered body of a young woman is found on a wasteland near a popular club in Kiel. The video surveillance of the club soon supplies Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin with a suspect: Mario Lohse. The intimidated outsider regularly watches misogynistic videos in the internet forum of the so-called "pick-up artist" Hank Massmann. Since Lohse cannot provide a valid alibi, Borowski and Sahin decide to make a temporary arrest. But Borowski soon notices signs that make the crime appear in a completely different light: In the immediate vicinity of the crime scene, he thinks he recognized a "14" stamped in the soft ground, a symbol of American neo-Nazis. When Mila Sahin found out that further attacks on women in Kiel were being propagated on hate lists on the Internet, she too was alarmed. When trying to warn the Kiel politician Birte Reimers, who is apparently acutely threatened, she comes across a rape victim. As an undercover agent in the Massmann area, Borowski has to experience the enormous energy behind the calls.
- Eviction in Berlin: Otto Wagner and his family had to leave the apartment on a cold November morning. After Ceylan Immobilien took over the tenement house, it was demented bit by bit. Old appointments are no longer valid and so the moving company from Axel Schmiedtchen ensures a quick, swept-clean handover. Recently the house was still a symbol of the famous "Berlin mix". Now Gülay Ceylan, the boss of the small family business, wants to renovate the house in a luxurious way so that it can later be converted into condominiums. But there is resistance. Four tenants in the house cling to their affordable apartments and want to keep them. And everyone has their reasons for it. The young Malovcic family has offspring, the old Mrs. Kirschner has lived in the house for almost 60 years, Jenny Nowack is a single parent, her children have her friends in the neighborhood and Peter de Boer hardly earns anything as a freelance journalist. With his rent rebels he fights in social networks against the injustice on the Berlin housing market. When the junior boss of the real estate company, Cem Ceylan, lies dead in front of the house, the Berlin homicide squad has a new case. Rubin and Karow are investigating the time of Covid-19 in the apartment building in Wedding. The two inspectors are confronted with the Berlin rent madness and the existential concern of people for their "third skin", the four walls in which they live and which are more than their home.
- The student Jessi (18) has a date. But not in the disco, she goes to the nearby forest on the outskirts. A short time later she is dead. First, a carbon arrow hits her in the thigh, then a knife stab straight into the heart. When a jogger found the body the next day, it showed, among other things, bite marks and a twig in its mouth. The Saarland team of investigators around the chief inspectors Leo Hölzer and Adam Schürk is faced with a riddle, because the branch in the mouth indicates an old hunter's custom. Is it a ritual crime? First of all, the commissioners investigate the victim's school environment and question teachers and classmates. Because from Jessi's diary it emerges: She had a secret love. On the other hand, there were also plenty of spurned lovers. And suddenly Adam's father also appears on the scene: Roland Schürk, who woke up from a 15-year-old coma towards the end of the first episode ("Das industrious Lieschen"), claims to know who the perpetrator is. Meanwhile, another lead leads the chief inspectors Esther Baumann and Pia Heinrich to France. Together the team comes closer to a solution.
- A kiosk operator in Ludwigshafen is brutally slain. It looks like robbery - if it weren't for coins in the dead man's windpipe. A signal for Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern that there could be a private motive for the deed. Her investigations are focused on two customers of the kiosk. Anton Maler looks charming, takes care of his sick ex-girlfriend and is so overly accommodating to the inspectors that he looks suspicious again. Jannik Berg, on the other hand, was not only seen with the possible murder weapon, he tried to evade the police officers and sowed distrust of Anton Maler. Witnesses and suspects who lie and gloss over are nothing new to Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern. This time, however, they have the impression that they are supposed to be manipulated beyond the usual extent.
- The Federal Police are investigating Russian arms dealers who, as alleged manufacturers of agricultural machinery, have built up a perfect entrepreneurial facade. Julia Grosz, who has just been promoted to chief inspector, is in charge of the operation. When the undercover agent died shortly before the mafia-like structures were discovered, the whole operation seemed to have failed. But the arms dealer Timofejew has a niece, Marija, who works for the LKA and distanced herself from her family years ago. In order to prevent the complete failure of the operation, Grosz tries to bring Marija into position against her own family. Falke, who was once Marija's superior at the LKA, is not enthusiastic. The matter seems too dangerous and uncontrollable. But Marija accepts Grosz's suggestion and starts a double game of life and death.
- The suspicious fall of the stairs of the 78-year-old industrialist widow Elisabeth Klingler calls the inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg on the scene. Klingler had just announced an amendment to her will for her daughter, her son, her granddaughter and the notary: the family villa should go to her carer Elena Zelenko after her death. A shock for their children, who react with vehement indignation. It was only when their mother was dying that Gesine and Richard found out that Elisabeth Klingler and Elena Zelenko had secretly married. Unlike their niece Toni, they don't want to accept this fact. Especially since it is now about more than just the villa. Torn between grief, the feeling of being rejected and the fear of the financial repercussions, the duped heirs present the commissioners with various references to Zelenko's involvement. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg follow up, but also keep an eye on the family members. Especially since they discover in their investigations that the Klinglers and Elena Zelenko had a common past whose shadows weighed on Elisabeth Klingler.
- After the release party for her debut novel, 19-year-old author Luise Nathan is found dead. Everything looks like a suicide at first. Publishing director Roland Häbler and editor Marvin Gess are reproaching each other: Could Luise not withstand the high pressure of expectations? Luise's book, which is about the socially disadvantaged teenage girl Luna, is a sensation in her eyes. Luise's mother Friederike, councilor for social affairs, on the other hand, cannot imagine that her strong daughter would commit suicide. The Frankfurt chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix soon discovered that massive outside influences had led to the young woman's death. Outside of the publishing house, her investigations lead her to Luise's friend Nellie, who grows up in a less middle-class family with her mother Jessie and her little sister. Luise's novel is increasingly coming into focus: While Brix and Janneke initially devote themselves thoroughly to the victim's novel, when they investigate they become aware that it is based on the reality of the two girls and that it provides decisive traces .
- A summer in Vienna. It is hot. Too hot. Bibi jogs through the forest and quite by chance runs into a senior official from the Ministry of the Interior. A little later the man is dead. Moritz Eisner, who is due to start a long-awaited project at Europol and the EU anti-corruption agency OLAF in The Hague in a few days, decides to take on this case. But is it even a case? The ministry is pushing for the cause of death to be presented as a simple heart attack. Apparently there was no outside influence, and the traces of the doping agent in the blood of the deceased do not prove poisoning. Although the dead man was feared in the Ministry, he apparently only had friends. He leaves behind an honestly grieving widow, a neighbor who is friends and a caring sports doctor. Exactly at the time when Moritz Eisner tracks down the first gaps in the dead man's sparkling past, it is announced that he will not get the job in The Hague. The exemption, however, which he had applied for in order to be able to go to Holland, was granted. Now Moritz Eisner is suddenly rid of the case and his new professional perspective. This does not slow him down. On the contrary: He takes up the fight against seemingly overpowering opponents and not even Bibi can hold him back.
- Five-year-old Mike has disappeared. For three days, his separated parents think that their son is with the other, respectively, until the mistake is discovered. Now the mother angrily suspects the father, the father the mother. But where is Mike really? What truth does the forest hide behind the house where the boy often hid when his parents quarreled? Did Mike run away this time? But how far can a five-year-old get on his own? Or was he not alone at all? What is Mike's connection to 17-year-old Titus, who feels persecuted and whose fear drives him all the way to Amsterdam?
- The Bremen police are on the alert: shortly after the birth, Sophie Völkers' baby is kidnapped from the clinic, many officers are involved in the search, and the police are almost exhausted. A young man is found dead in front of an abandoned industrial building. At first glance, it looks like he's leaning on death. Who should take on this case? And is there a connection between the two cases? In the tense situation, the Dane Mads Andersen has to do it again, although he is actually already sitting on his suitcase and is on his way back to Copenhagen. Liv Moormann appears at his side, who wants to prove herself on the homicide squad. The BKA investigator Linda Selb is put to the side. They discover knife wounds on the body of the deceased, which make suicide seem unlikely. The investigation quickly reveals that the dead person is Jannik Waltz, a well-known drug dealer. Was it a murder in the drug milieu and the brothers Lenny and Tim Maurer, with their friend Marco Stiehler, know more than they reveal? And then there are Marco's father, the disappointed ex-soccer player Rudi Stiehler, and his daughter Jessica, who also just had a child. During the investigation, Liv Moormann, Mads Andersen and Linda Selb have to get together quickly because they are investigating a swamp of drugs, lies, jealousy and broken dreams.
- In the middle of the day, Frederick Seibold is struck down by four people masked with dog heads on a golf course near Frankfurt. When he comes to in a dark basement hole, the two Frankfurt chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are already entrusted with his case: Frederick's ex-girlfriend, Bille Kerbel, had received a cut finger that she took straight to the police. Konrad Seibold, Frederick's father, a well-to-do business lawyer, does not see the point of paying a ransom, as he believes his son Frederick himself is behind the kidnapping. Janneke and Brix are surprised by Seibold's stubbornness, who also received a finger and did not react. When it turns out that the severed fingers were not from Frederick, the father appears to be right. Via Bille, the trail leads the inspectors to Conny Kaiserling, who runs a studio for women's self-defense courses. Brix comes up with the idea of smuggling Fanny undercover there. Janneke and Brix are called to a woman's corpse in the Taunus. Antonia Wagner, the dead, was apparently pierced by a fence post. In search of outside interference, the coroner finds fragments of Frederick Seibold's skin under her fingernails. Was Antonia involved in the kidnapping?