Thu, Jan 4, 2018
Hans's colleagues are puzzled as he's brought into ER, shot in critical condition and delusional 'put of his body' with his late daughter, on an informal investigation. He was caught in a gunfight between Calabrian mob thugs and Torsten Kranz, brother and restaurant business partner of Hans's former GDR escape buddy Albert Kranz. Mattes must wonder about Hans's changed persona after loosing Nelly, having found 30 000 Euro cash hidden in his living room. Time is running out meanwhile for Torsten, who s caught by the thugs while recuperating his 'investment' in rare single malt bottle, while Albert and his wife Beate clearly hide key information which must be dragged out.
Thu, Jan 11, 2018
In ER, Dr. Jasmin Jonas stays after her night shift when called by Nila, a locked-in foreign girl aged ten, who ignores the place, sounds like she may need an appendectomy but is suspicious of strangers. The police is asked to help locate the phone, but runs in ICT trouble, suspecting sabotage, while impatient captain Haller makes the scared kid hang up. Mattes checks up o the scares available information, which yields more then seems at first sight, even a link to her intimidated Afghan father Farid Rahimi.
Thu, Jan 18, 2018
A local prep school's rowing team is worried about the atypical non-show at training of their straight AAs-champion *Als der Eliteschüler Viktor, who is brought to ER, collapsed after a bloody beating, luckily without lasting damage. Finding a fake gun and robbery mask in his sports bag, Tarik suspects he entered the drug trade -perhaps like Mirko who was recently beaten up the same way by drug lord Drazan Kostic- to keep up with his wealthy schoolmates' lifestyle. Viktor's overqualified, hard-working ex-GDR father Eugen Bossmann couldn't afford to grant Viktor a decent allowance but can't believe his pride and joy entered crime. The knave's room suggests a far more lucrative income then his waiter job, which nobody knows anything about. His teammates Fabian Frenz, Sinje and coach Uwe Kästner , her father, a tight clique, clearly hide something, and Viktor's computer contains the key: a porn website.
Thu, Jan 25, 2018
Tarik learns hat his partner co-coaches a program to rehabilitate former prostitutes when she recognizes former charge Marina Petrowa, who was beaten into hospital wearing a fake cop uniform, actually dumped with the trash to die. *She worked in the illegal escort-service run by Russian Galina Sorokina, an emigrated survivor of the Siberian clan Urki, eradicated in Russia under Putin, known for its pathological Ortodox piety mixed with sadistic cruelty. With Wolle researching the Urki and Mates joining the field research, they concentrate on escort Tatjana Nikiforowa and her ambitious 'driver-protector' and lover Boris Memedow, who has his own dangerous plans.
Thu, Feb 1, 2018
Checking up on a shot heard in an apartment block in St. Pauli, Tarik and Claudia stop family father Thomas Schenk, rushing off with a suitcase, to track a blood trail on him back into his home, where no one is found. Thomas Schenk's uncooperative attitude and constant lies nearly drive the precinct crazy, he even eats his cellphone SIM card. Unemployed would be-mystery author Schenk's working wife Astrid only explain they just came from the notary for her jeweler father's inheritance, including three rare diamonds paid for by the insurance after the robbery that made him retire. Only when it becomes clear their missing teen son Dominik, whose inseparable dog returns home alone, was kidnapped, Thomas starts admitting the whole story, involving local Albanian mob boss Afrim Krasniqi's violent henchman.
Thu, Feb 8, 2018
In a pension lucratively remodeled as refugee lodgings, Syrian family father Bassam Khouzma is hospitalized after a bad fall form the stairs, with a bloody head wound, but he nor his wife Zada and teen son Khalil admit knowing what happened. *Mattes establishes that pension owner Max Gericke stacks his 'guests' for more profit, but isn't linked to the crime. Bassam's family suspiciously hides adolescent daughter Ayasha. Tarik makes best use of his newly acquired Arabic-notions and oriental intuition to work out what happened after learning Aysha is Bassam's second wife, who wed him for safety as fellow refugee but fell in love with a notable other.
Thu, Feb 15, 2018
While Benedikt Metzner prepares his wedding with brother and best man Theo, the police is anonymously asked to arrest him as 'criminal'. Hans and Claudia -coupled in a partner switch, Tariq getting suspended temp Kim Dobers- find it was bride Jessica's mother Regine Schulz, who claims to have overheard a phone-call suggesting 'some' kidnapping further wrecks her credibility by planting a jackknife as false evidence in Benedikt's car. Shortly after the team finds Metzner has a criminal record and major debts, notably with uncle Clemens Becker, who is missing, and both link to a failed nightclub, plausibly an abduction scene, but Benedikt gets an alibi.
Thu, Feb 22, 2018
Master carpenter Gerd Reimann called an ambulance, beaten up and his safe robbed, probably the last straw for his ailing business. He accuses son in law Jan Keller, who firmly denies and never got over his separation from Reimann's daughter Nadine, let alone accepting she has a new boyfriend, art gallery holder Christoph Chrom, who bids on Gerd's workshop. Tarik, also a separated father, champions the plight of Jan's pre-teen son Tim, who even breaks his arm trying to cover up for his father, whose plans to flee and reconstitute their family looks like heading for another tragedy.
Thu, Mar 1, 2018
Retired ship captain Klaus Wied is hospitalized, poisoned with rare heavy metal thallium. Daughter Sabrina Wied points at law student Lea Storm, whom he spent her inheritance on as sugar daddy. Tarik and Franzi's ICT-smarter holiday interim Kim find that she offers her services over a specialized online-platform, which yielded her more than Klaus, yet her private tutor Lukas König also has the hots for her. The team must work out if Klaus was even the actual target, and the only clue is sushi, now in the bin. Besides diving in after it, Tariq loses his patience with cocky new partner Kim's refusal to explain why she's apparently stalked and victim of bicycle vandalism after an incident at her own precinct, and finds a way to bring the case trough captain Halle before the whole team.
Thu, Mar 8, 2018
Following an accidentally spotted leaking food delivery tuck, Hans and Claudia stop it, fail to stop or identify the young adult driver but confiscate its load of stinking offal. When Tariq, disloyally accompanied by pouting Kim, goes to the public Herman Hesse school to make a presentation on civility as crime prevention, the teen pupils laugh away a childish use of hand puppets. Attending the school mess dinner, panic strikes when a notice board posting warns for poison in the meals. In hospital, the diagnosis is relatively harmless, aggravated by collective hysteria which contaminated even Tariq. Nothing comes from questioning the principal-suggested 'usual suspect' school rascals, like Yussuf, but his gang's mild bullying victim, underprivileged penniless outcast Betty Ramsdorf, is accidentally linked to the truck and the public schools central catering.
Thu, Mar 15, 2018
Colin Föhr, the worst ruffian in the crime prevention class Tarik gives with ex-con Marlon Hoffer in his school, sits daily by the bed of his comatose kid sister Nele (15), who was beaten to pulp, and seems to get embroiled with local 'cool' junior dealer Rocco Dosic. After Nele awakes and shows fear for Colin's pols tattoo, identical to Rocco's street gang's, .Colin is totally out of control, and on the wrong vindictive trail. Tarik does a brilliant job controlling the risks, and finally gets some rapport with Kim, who is preoccupied with the disciplinary case of her 'overprotective' ex-partner.
Thu, Mar 22, 2018
Mattes responds to an entering alarm call and catches the apparent robber, housekeeper Maren Heinemann who ran into the garden, while his cop partner Melanie finds shivering under his bed the charming young owner, orphan Fabian Westphal, an engineering student until a diving accident left him mentally reduced to childhood. Both deny she stole the missing Celtic gold he inherited from his father's collection, she spent the night as Fabian's lover. Fabian's court-appointed guardian Karin Berger and especially uncle Burkhard Breiholdt, who was diving with him, fear Maren is simply after gullible Fabian's fortune. Frustrated that nobody takes his feelings seriously, Fabian takes an excessive risk landing him in hospital, but as ever more fussy young father Tarik helps with theories, everyone's part is cleared up.
Thu, Mar 29, 2018
Hans and Franzi soon find that shopkeeper Stadler, who was knocked down in his business, lied about the escaping 'thief', who used mace on Hans and a wooden board in Franzi's face. As their was no loot, they suspect insurance fraud, but observe him hand an envelop to the young woman, whom he calls his 15 years estranged first marriage daughter Jessika, who now asks further financial aid to leave prostitution. Mattes and Melanie find the real Jessika never contacted Stadler, her identity was stolen, but Stadler's present wife Susan and their daughter Leonie aren't as ignorant and passive as he assumed, and the alleged Turkish pimp isn't involved.
Thu, Apr 5, 2018
Teenager Denny Kovacz is beaten up by a street gang, until a masked man in 'Superhero' costume comes to his rescue, gets knife-stabbed by chases the scum and flees, technically a wanted assailant himself. The unsavory scene is posted on Internet. *Hospitalized teen thug Boris 'Bärchen' ('bear cub') nor Denny are prepared to identify anyone else, obeying to the derelict neighborhood's code of silence, which in Denny's case is soon recalled in cruel and demeaning ways . Mates, Tariq, Hans and their partners get little cooperation of the field, even worse, except from disheartened street worker Harald Ihlenburg, and valuable research from Wolle,, also pointing them to local journalist Sebastian Reckziegel, who runs the super-hero's 'fan site' but maintains it's impartial and necessary in the authorities-neglected context. He's the next to get beaten up, at home, but macho gang-leader Sven Ehring isn't done.
Thu, Oct 18, 2018
During an anarchist demonstration on St. Pauli square against a luxury apartments project on a therefore re-qualified trailer park, punker Kaczinski's head is badly hurt, in need of ER treatment, his sister Ira leads a headless protest which turns brutally against the police, taking Franzi hostage with Leo Schuster, whom she pursued, in their squatted building, which 'spokesman' Sebastian Voigt painstakingly got regularized recently. The plot twists as several secret agendas are revealed. Mattes or Melanie is up for internal promotion.
Thu, Oct 25, 2018
Andreas Wagner's car crashes him into ER, because of sabotaged breaks. He almost checks out of hospital to avoid chief Dr. Lindberg who believes Wagner was the spaced-out driver who got the doc into his wheelchair for life, even hire a P.I. to gather evidence, alas inconclusive, apparently dismissed buy the police detectives. Wagner's separated wife Susanne and overprotective teen son Tim hold as deep a grudge since Wagner Andreas was condemned to jail for harming their kid daughter under influence. Lindberg waves police warning not to snoop on his own, having been the expert whose testimony swung Wagner's conviction five years ago. Lindberg confronts Wagner but Mattes and Hans work on other possibilities.
Thu, Nov 8, 2018
Arrested and jailed shortly before his pension as fraud accomplice, former customs officer Wilfried Stegner uses his first parole to demand his loot share from the corrupting cahoot, who rather calls the police to chase him, but Stegner intrudes his yacht packed with contraband and confronts his former subaltern who now facilitates the fraud. His daughter née Bettina Bremer 'infiltrated' as the manager's secretary. Meanwhile Mattes arrested a gas station robber, but the owner claims most of the cash loot is missing, so Wolf is forced to treat Matted as suspect, while a rock band Eternal Fame tattoo inspires a conspiracy theory.
Thu, Nov 22, 2018
Irish au-pair Jill is found frozen, half-naked near a bus stop. She was deflowered, probably with a rape drug. Mattes and Melanie find Jill partied the previous night with the fancy host family's hunky student son Moritz Donath's hockey-club "Seagulls". Did Moritz drug her, or his buddy Elias? The latter's father, lawyer politician Matthias Begemann, turns on Melanie for 'police abuse' against his son 'above suspicion'.
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
Sofie Blum is found unconscious in bath by kid son Fritz, drunk and having swallowed pills. She was raped but denies abuse, claiming amnesia. Mattes, Hans and Franzi question chaotic Fritz's father, musician Fritz Friese, once condemned for beating up a troublesome public member. Sofie's cell-phone suggest an affair with cocky married advertising firm boss Alexander Koch, which both deny. The case looks dead until an initially anonymous accusation by phone.
Thu, Dec 6, 2018
Fake Hamburg cops rob seniors, pretending they need to evacuate valuable and savings. Frantically checking out victims and patterns, Rolf Bertram and Sönke Klemann are arrested, but they clearly had accomplices. Caught while fleeing, the junior makes an extraordinary confession. In this perfect maskerade Hans und Franzi comfort the victims and find an extraordinary father-son-bond.
Thu, Dec 13, 2018
On his way to precinct duty, Wolle pursues an accidentally observed petty but violent ATM client robber but gts stuck with him in an elevator. The colleagues frantically search for him and equally missing, high-pregnant Ariane Junker, locked in with the duo. While Ole Karch snatches Wolle's duty weapon, Ariane gets contractions. The elevator is not supervised, as the building is locked down for a holiday.
Thu, Dec 20, 2018
Mattes and Melanie interview and accompany to ER after a traffic accident rising FC Neuhaus soccer star Yanik Jungbluth, who was under influence and claims to have been rape drugged but refuses to file a complaint. Why did Jungbluth compromise his chance at the upcoming promotion game to be transferred to a national top team by partying all night with teammate Roman Brenner in a bar against the strict coach's rules? Who beat up Roman bad enough to be shortly in ER, also refusing to file? Who drugged Yanik, who later admits he ordered to his hotel room an ex-con prostitute, who says he 'couldn't perform'? An anonymous Internet post, outing Roman as active gay, drives him suicidal. What about team owner Jakob Dussmann given contract clauses and homophobic coach Klaus Wernicke?
Thu, Dec 27, 2018
Sebastian Schäfer files, but later withdraws, an abuse complaint against ex-con nightclub pimp Chris Ottens, who threw him on the street brutishly. Mattes and Melanie get him to ER and find Schäfer lost his insurance job over a scandal about orgies with firm funds. Schäfer however wanted to sue his former boss Justus Böhme, possessing proof he was the real instigator. That video is however stolen after a break-in at Sebastian Schäfer's home, but there is a copy, which shows another surprisingly embarrassed party guest.