Die Chefin

The evening in the bar ends traumatically for Heike Steinbeck. She is raped in an underpass. A young woman helps Heike and pays for her courage with her life. The conspicuous features of the crime lead Vera and her colleagues to a well-known sex offender: Marcel Richter, recently released after ten years in prison for rape. Despite his alibi, Richter seems suspicious. Vera takes Heike in to protect her. When the two women have to put a burglar to flight, Vera Lanz is no longer sure: Was Heike a random victim or did the perpetrator specifically target her? Who would have an interest in harming Heike? The estranged husband of Heike's new girlfriend, Nicole Obermair, gets in Vera's focus. Eight new episodes of "Die Chefin" will be broadcast on Fridays at 8:15 p.m.

A shot brings life to a standstill on Munich's Königsplatz. The young pickpocket is dead, a seemingly innocent bystander falls to the ground with a shot in the shoulder. One bullet, two victims and no witnesses. While Vera is still puzzling with her colleagues about the motive for the boy's murder, the case takes a surprising turn at the scene of the crime. The uninvolved Hannes Walther kidnapped the ambulance. For Vera Lanz, all clues for an investigation disappear. Even the bullet is still in Hannes Walther's shoulder. The sympathetic new public prosecutor Sebastian Hartmann also sees little potential for clarification here. However, when Walther's fingerprint was found in the BKA file, the case picked up speed – in a surprising direction.

The corpse in a Munich body of water does not remain anonymous to Vera Lanz for long. Nadja, 15, criminal record: drugs and prostitution. The only thing that is surprising is her last place of residence: a residential area. The street girl lived in the villa of the couple Beate and Lothar Lukaschek. Former dancer Beate supports social dance projects for girls from difficult backgrounds. Nadja was her flagship project. But for Vera Lanz, the idyll has cracks. Why does Nadja move into an apartment on the outskirts shortly before she dies? Paul Böhmer takes on the choreographer Weidner and the other dancers. Were the girls possibly jealous of Nadja's special treatment? With Flo Wenning, the trumpeter bites on granite. Flo is a friend of Nadja's from hard times, who is proven to have rioted at the Lukascheks.
Vera Lanz is more fortunate with her interrogation: Flo put Nadja in contact with the dance project. She wanted to get her best friend off the street and now accuses the rich couple of having dropped Nadja.

Two dead police officers, a fugitive and Jan Trompeter as a hostage. A race against time begins for Vera Lanz and Paul Böhmer to save their colleague. Trompeter quickly saw through his hostage-taker. The man is a layman and receives instructions on his mobile phone. But who is behind the murders and Trumpeter's kidnapping? A hit in the DNA database only appears to lead to the culprit. David Förster, no stranger to crime, seems to have Trumpeter in his power. When Vera and Böhmer follow Förster's trail, it ends in a dead end: Förster has been in a coma for two days with the consequences of a heart attack. While Vera and Böhmer try to clarify how Förster's DNA got to the crime scene, the gunshot wound forces Trompeter's hostage-takers to hole up in a pharmacy.

After the murder of his family and 16 years in prison, Benno Wiese is free. When he meets Vera Lanz, the past catches up with him: again he is standing next to a corpse. But "the boss" is correct in her assessment: Wiese is innocent, the death of the young man is the result of an accident. Meadow remains free. But now the former perpetrator is being hunted by the neighborhood mobs. The neighbors agree: Benno Wiese has struck again. Vera Lanz and colleagues Böhmer and Trompeter have their hands full protecting the former murderer from the neighborhood and relatives. How dangerous is meadow? Can a repeat offense be ruled out? His ex-wife and brother want to get rid of him as soon as possible. Only Simone Aigner, his daughter, still stands by the broken man.

It is not the first horrific crime scene for Vera Lanz, but perhaps the most absurd: an unrecognizable torso, stowed in a suitcase with the victim's identity card on top. Will more suitcases with body parts show up? Despite the identity of the victim, the traces are desolate. Lanz's only chance would be a witness when the next suitcase was put down. But prosecutor Sebastian Hartmann is reluctant to go public. Even police psychologist Erik Lambert cannot dismiss the hypothesis of a serial offender. When the last suitcase turns up, there is a witness. It is Vera's father-in-law Georg Lanz who must have seen the alleged murderer. Only Georg doesn't remember anything. But the perpetrator does not know that - and Georg is in mortal danger.

Against the backdrop of the Munich Oktoberfest, Vera Lanz has to investigate within her own ranks. Was the shot from colleague Meyer's service weapon an accident? The intuition of chief inspector Lanz is asked: Did her colleague help with an attempted rape, or was he himself involved in the violent crime? Contradictory statements about the course of events make Vera suspicious. It is thanks to Arthur Meyer that young Franziska was not raped by rowdy Philip Loibl. But Loibl was seriously injured by the shot from Meyer's service weapon. He also denies the rape and accuses Meyer of police violence. Since the victim and thus the witness fled and was swallowed up by the face of the earth, it is difficult to prove Meyer's emergency help. In addition, Meyer contradicts himself in his statement about the course of the crime. Franziska answers and makes a statement. Everything seems to have been clarified and the colleague relieved. But then Meyer and Franziska disappear without a trace.

The murder of the chauffeur of the industrialist Elsa Koschwitz leaves only one assumption: a warning from the mafia. But the grand dame of Munich recycling does not share this opinion with Vera Lanz. A fatal attitude, as is shown when Elsa is found shot dead in her villa. Vera Lanz suspects more than a mafia murder behind the crime. What role does family play? Lanz opts for an unconventional means of enlightenment. With the help of his red light contacts, Paul Böhmer determines that Elsa was being forced to sell her company by the Albanian mafia. What role does the intermediary Nico Schöne play, who made the offer from the Albanian Hoxha family to Koschwitz Recycling Werke? Vera Lanz suspects something else behind the murder of Elsa - what are Elsa's brothers-in-law Bernd and Franz and their son Theo hiding?