Football talent scout Walter Halberstamm is fatally stabbed in his motel a day after attending a D-youth team match at Eisern Wismar convinced him to try recruiting exceptionally talented Alex Bundschuh, aged twelve, for the boarding academy of a Bundesliga (German national top division) club. Alex's mother Doreen is skeptical whether to let the teen leave, while her partner Mario Konradsen sounds obsessed with Alex's lucrative career prospects. Halberstamm also met Alex's Wismar coach Jens Moll, Katrin's trusted ex, who opposed a deal and in whose sports bag the murder weapon is found after an anonymous call. NIles wins the boy's confidence and works out the missing element.
—KGF Vissers