Shock for chief inspector Hajo Trautzschke: In his immediate vicinity, the handicapped Harald Lepper is the victim of an assassination attempt. As it turns out, the friendly elderly gentleman was very wealthy.
When an official from the immigration office is found dead and the Nigerian asylum seeker Beko Falana, who has been rejected several times, escapes by fleeing, the case for SOKO Leipzig seems to be clear.
A baby's corpse is discovered in the courtyard of a Catholic private school in Leipzig. She was almost lovingly buried there. The mother of the dead child is believed to be among the schoolgirls.
The murder of a money launderer, in which registered D-Mark notes from a ransom handover are found, leads SOKO Leipzig to an old kidnapping case that has actually been solved for a long time.
Assassination attempt on a self-absorbed actor on the film set. During the shooting of a jealousy scene, the harmless prop turns out to be a loaded gun.
The overprotective single mother Hanna Kaspari suffers from her violent son Sven and his criminal activities. When he beats a teenager of the same age into a coma, SOKO investigates the case.
The former soldier Sven Breme came back severely traumatized from his foreign assignment in Afghanistan and took refuge in alcohol. So he lost his wife Meike and custody of his little daughter Nicole.
David Rietz, previously a respectable family man, narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. SOKO finds out that the same perpetrator has struck before: He killed Heinz Möller, the rapist of an underage girl.
19-year-old Conny comes to SOKO and confesses to the murder of her boyfriend Mike Brenner, whom she claims to have killed in a hotel. Jan and Patrick find a crime scene, but no body.
For a young woman, a romantic date with her internet acquaintance becomes a deadly trap. Away from the city, Birgit Fuhrmann's body is discovered by a lake.
After the unexplained death of a patient in need of care, the doctor at a Leipzig clinic turns to SOKO: her suspicion that an angel of death is up to mischief in the ward is confirmed after reviewing numerous medical records.
Hajo and his team are called to Leipzig-Plagwitz for an assignment. Michael Yuschenkow, a young German-Russian, has been killed. For Patrick, this assignment is a journey back to his childhood, as he grew up in Plagwitz.
A request for assistance from the LKA gives Ina and Patrick a surveillance job. Meike Rogalla, single mother and wife of the recently escaped prisoner Jannis Rogalla, is to be monitored.
On the day of the 'Open Monument', shots are fired in the former execution site of the GDR. Anna Daum, a teacher from Leipzig, is dead. Two men were in the museum when the shots were fired.