Kommissarin Lucas

When her beloved husband Paul falls into a coma after a car accident, Commissioner Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) decides without further ado to leave her adopted home in Cologne and move to Regensburg. In the special clinic for coma patients there, she hopes for Paul's quick recovery.
In her professional life, she has no time to breathe deeply: in Regensburg the body of five-year-old Maria is found, who fell victim to a crime. The inhabitants of the idyllic small town are upset. Uncompromisingly and with sensitivity, Ellen Lucas goes to work to reconstruct the crime, often against the resistance of her new colleagues. The only thing she can rely on 100% in this extreme situation is Commissioner candidate Stefan Deuter ( Thure Riefenstein ). Contradictory statements by family members and dubious alibiversions also make it difficult to find the real perpetrator. Within the police apparatus, you are particularly concerned about the rivalry with your colleague Boris Noethen ( Michael Roll ), who sees the new as an intruder who could screw up his career advancement. When the supervisor Klaus Buddlick ( Arnulf Schuhmacher ) dies, the competitive relationship gains sharpness. Then comes another terrifying message: Little Ina is reported missing by her mother, and at the scene there is another blue flower that appears as a kind of business card for the perpetrator. The pressure on the investigators is growing, the fear that a serial perpetrator is at work can no longer be ruled out.

The farmstead of the former police officer Willi Hantel ( Horst A. Reichel ) is on fire. It quickly becomes clear that the fire was only brought about to cover up the murder of Willi Hantel. Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) and her team initially suspect the perpetrator among the family when Walter Gussmann ( Robert Giggenbach ), a second police officer, is found murdered, leads a hot trail to Rudolf Katz ( Nicolas Flocken ). Transferred by Hantel and Gussmann of the murder, Rudolf Katz was in prison for a long time, innocent, as he always claimed.
A late vengeance campaign? cat is untraceable, but the research in the past case leads to a new main suspect: the senior investigator from back then, today's Regensburg police chief Ernst Schenker ( Heiner Lauterbach ), who puts pressure on Ellen Lucas as her superior. Schenker also forbids Ellen Lucas to deal with his daughter Susanne ( Jasmin Difficulties ), who has been lovingly taking care of Ellen's comatose husband Paul ( Germain Wagner ) for some time. Susanne then visits and Privates mixes dramatically with the requirements of the current case.

The residents of Regensburg are shocked. The body of 19-year-old Biljana Savic (Cordula Böck) is recovered from a branch of the Danube. The scars on the girl's body allow only one conclusion: murder. What particularly affects Commissioner Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) is the fact that the traces of abuse in the past as well as the present suggest. From Biljana's friend Milica (Miranda Leonhardt) she learns that both girls came to Regensburg two years ago through an au pair agency from Serbia. Young Milica looks frightened and refuses to comment further. Biljana's host parents, the Schwarz couple (Anneke Kim Sarnau and Felix Eitner), also remain silent.
What drives Milica into isolation and what is the couple hiding? In order to break the wall of silence, the commissioner turns to Father Danko, a priest from Croatia who knows how to relate the horrors of war in the recent past. The Croatian Tomislav Vodenac (Peter Davor), with whom Milica was being treated by a dentist, represents a completely different victim/perpetrator theory of the war. His relationship with Milica's host mother Isabell (Maria Bachmann) makes him suspicious. The situation escalates when inspector Lucas receives life-threatening threats and the unknown assailants do not shy away from attacking their landlord Max (Tilo Prückner).
Inspector Lucas can only understand how the crime is related to the recent European past when it is almost too late, because suddenly Milica has disappeared ...

At some point it hits almost every inspector: In the case of an armed bank robbery with the taking of hostages, inspector Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) sees no other way out than to shoot the culprit. Protection of victims from protection of perpetrators is the legal legitimacy of this official act, but the images of the dead will haunt the inspector's dreams for a long time to come, and this in a phase of life where she still has to come to terms with the death of her comatose husband. But even now there is no time to take a deep breath. Eleven-year-old Oskar Mayerhoff (Hayo Bertram) was kidnapped. When the ransom is handed over, the team led by Inspector Lucas succeeds very quickly in arresting the alleged perpetrator. But 27-year-old Markus Welke (Marek Harloff), a business administration student from a middle-class background, vehemently denies the crime.
The forensic securing of evidence and the witness statements, on the other hand, speak a clear language. But even after a number of interrogations, Markus remains silent and refuses to reveal the place where he is hiding the boy. Inspector Lucas uses all investigative and rhetorical tricks to lure Markus out of his reserve. Vain! A race against time begins, as Oskar won't be able to last much longer in hiding without food. Markus wants to take advantage of this fact and tries to blackmail him into reducing his sentence. A crucial test for the entire team. Public and internal police demands are being made to circumvent the legal provisions and to use force to pressure the perpetrator.
The question arises as to why protection for victims should not also be applied here before protection for perpetrators, because everyone knows that the boy only has a few hours to live if the perpetrator does not finally break his silence ...

The body of 25-year-old paralegal Karin Berling (Stefanie von Poser) is recovered on the banks of the Danube in Regensburg. The parents are stunned, especially since their daughter Karin was about to marry the Turk Cengiz Özgür (Baki Davrak). The husband-to-be reacted to the news of his death with horror, but initial research made it clear that his relationship with Karin was about to end. One cause was the contentious relationship with his future parents-in-law, another, the close relationship between Karin and Klaus Webert. Klaus Webert (Tobias Oertel), who has no alibi for the time of the crime, comes under suspicion, but Cengiz's brother Mehmet (René Ifrah) is also among the suspects when it turns out that he is strongly committed to the fundamentalist movement.
Commissioner Lucas realizes that she can only solve the case if she also understands the religious and political ties behind itKnowing how to decipher events. Karin's superior, the well-known lawyer Tansu Nasiri (Idil Üner), gives her valuable background knowledge. In the middle of an interrogation, the unbelievable happens. The lawyer is shot in an ambush and only at the last minute does Inspector Lucas manage to save Nasiri's life. Now the assumption is obvious that a political motive is also possible in the case of Karin. The political explosiveness of the case reaches a new dimension when Attorney General Stahmer (Jan-Gregor Kremp) intervenes. The situation escalates when Cengiz's sister Leyla (Pegah Ferydoni), an important witness, suddenly disappears.
The worst must be feared, and the massive threats against the lawyer Nasiri don't stop, they even extend to Inspector Lucas. One thing is becoming increasingly clear to her: that the lawyer Nasiri seems to know more than she is letting on..

Nigerian Chris Arano (Nick Monu) can't handle his 14-year-old daughter Lucy (Lorraine Yakubu). Since the death of his wife, she has been inciting fights, attacking classmates and committing one crime after another. Response from the authorities: Both should be expelled. The waves of public opinion are running high. Then suddenly Arano's German fiancé Nathalia Horn (Corinna Beilharz) disappears. Right-wing radicals have kidnapped her in order to secure the black girl's deportationblackmail. The controversial prosecutor Ronfeldt (Monica Bleibtreu) intervenes in the case. The Lucas team is working flat out. The hostage-takers seem to want to go to extremes and threaten to kill the kidnapped woman. Advocates of deportation are also having troubles of conscience over whether to act at the urging of a right-wing extremist group. In this case, Commissioner Lucas is confronted with political power games, xenophobia and media hysteria.

A butter boat on the Danube: the entertainer Rolf Gembel (Max Tidof) straightens his hairdo, puts the obligatory flower in his buttonhole and hopefully heads towards the stage in order to sell as many blankets as possible today. And then the unbelievable: like a still life, peacefully wedged together, ten people in the auditorium. Unconscious? Dead? A sign of life can only be found in Greta Wache (Renate Becker). The elderly lady, unable to be questioned, was brought to the clinic by Dr. Sion (Hannes Jaenicke) admitted. Inspector Ellen Lucas must assume a murderous robbery as all valuables, jewelry and credit cards have been stolen.
Toni Kehring, who was helping part of the group as a nurse and was observed fleeing the ship, is suspected of having committed a crime. Mysterious, tooStatements by his wife Anne (Jenny Schily), who runs a mobile nursing service and had contact with some of the victims. And Gembel also seems to know more than he cares to admit. Suddenly there is a new clue to the case: Ellen's landlord Max (Tilo Prückner), who is in the clinic of Dr. Sion to observe his heart, tells of an intimate encounter between Anne Kehring and Dr. sion When detective Lucas finds out that some of the victims at Dr. Sion was being treated and she gets in touch with his father (Hans-Peter Hallwachs), who vigorously propagates the right to a self-determined death, things start to move in the case.
The situation escalated when shortly afterwards the body of the nurse Toni Kehring was fished out of the depths of the Danube. When Greta Wache breaks her silence, light comes into the darkness of the case...

Inspector Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) is very concerned: her colleague Stefan Deuter (Thure Riefenstein) has been stabbed by the father of a boy whom Stefan had shot in self-defense. Stefan is in the hospital with serious injuries, and his colleagues fear for his life. Ellen is surprised when she learns that Stefan had handed in his resignation and she knew nothing about it. She is terrified when she learns from her colleague Boris Noethen (Michael Roll) that her younger sister Rike (Anke Engelke) is having an affair with the lawfully convicted violent criminal Robert Jandt (Ronald Zehrfeld). She confronts Rike, who sees Robert being treated and doesn't want any doubts about their love.
Then Anna Wiedemann (Henny Reets) becomes the victim of a serious violent crime and Jandt is strongly suspected of the crime. Anna Wiedemann is not yet able to be questioned, but traces found at the scene of the crime speak for themselves. The pattern of the crime is similar to the crime for which Jandt was imprisoned for five years, the act of violence against his ex-wife Jule Kieling (Kathrin Kühnel). Jandt, who protests his innocence, manages to escape from custody, taking Rike hostage. Inspector Lucas is beside herself with concern for her sister. She realizes that she can only save Rike and solve the case if she manages to break the persistent silence of Jule Kieling and Anna Wiedemann.

Twelve-year-old Sven Reimer (Daniel Spies) is found dead in a forest at a children's holiday camp near Regensburg. Commissioner Ellen Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) and her team are called to the crime scene. At first it all looks like a tragic accident, but investigators quickly uncover forensic evidence pointing to murder. The Lucas team is investigating under high pressure. Lars Berger (Aljoscha Sena Zinflou), one of the supervisors, has no alibi for the time of the crime and quickly becomes a suspect. Berger is from Africa, and Stefanie (Mia Sophie Wellenbrink), daughter of investigator Martin Schiff (Alexander Lutz), who is also spending her holidays at the summer camp, claims to have seen a black man near the crime scene. The children in the camp play the game: 'Who's afraid of the black man'.
But then the homeless Antholz (Peter Kurth), who was the victim of an accident near the quarry, is picked up. The forensic technology finds clear traces that convict Antholz as the perpetrator. Ellen sharply interrogates Antholz. Antholz admits to having found the boy lifeless in the forest, but vehemently denies the crime. Unbelievable for everyone, Antholz dies – during the interrogation – as a result of his accident. The case is closed for Chief Inspector Noethen (Michael Roll), but when Inspector Lucas discovers discrepancies in the profile of the perpetrator, she researches on her own. She checks into the Donauterrassen inn, which is located directly at the scene of the crime. There she recognizes the dark machinations of the inn owner Jürgen Müller (Bernd Tauber) and his daughter Katja (Alice Dwyer).
But the head of the Schweiger holiday camp (Robert Gallinowski) is behaving conspicuously, and supervisor Lars continues to refuse to reveal his alibi. After Ellen Lucas observes that the foster child Tim (Sandro Ianotta) reacts anxiously, she turns to the boy. What does Tim know, and what's up with the magic stone that disappeared without a trace after Sven's death? Tim, who, like his friend Sven, is a child in an

The pensioner Ludwig Lehner (Hans-Maria Darnov) is found shot dead in his apartment: Ludwig Lehner, whose daughter Daniela (Maria Kwiatkowsky) had terrified the city of Regensburg a year ago. Together with her friend Tobias Hübner (Florian Panzer), she had a spectacular chase with the police, in which the two apparently killed four people indiscriminately. Daniela is deeply shocked by the death of her father and suspects an act of revenge for the crimes she has committed. She regretfully claims that she did not shoot at the time, but instead blames her friend Tobias, who has fled ever since. Inspector Lucas and her new colleague Leander Blohm (Florian Stetter) attend the public hearing on the case, which leads to a bloody incident.
Tobias Hübner, heavily armed, storms into the courthouse and frees Daniela. Inspector Lucas opposes them, is shot by Tobias and taken away as a hostage. In a spectacular drive, Tobias and Daniela manage to shake off the police pursuers, but Tobias is seriously injured. They seek refuge with Ursul Feyninger (Johanna Gastdorf), a doctor whose son died in the massacre at the time. Florian wants to get rid of the annoying hostages and tells Daniela to kill Ellen and Ursul. Will Inspector Lucas, with her keen psychological sensitivity, be able to stop the murderous couple? The next few hours in Ursel Feyninger's house become an existential borderline experience for everyone involved.
A psychological duel between four people that not all will survive ...

Four teenagers riot in the old town of Regensburg and threaten a younger couple. Max (Tilo Prückner) and Rike (Anke Engelke) rush to the victims' aid, and Rike is badly injured. Max takes up the pursuit of the young people. A short time later, Commissioner Lucas is called to a crime scene where the body of the only sixteen-year-old student Sebastian Holzinger (Martin Stürhrk), one of the four young people, has been found. Sebastian died as a result of a brutal fight in which Max, who is suspected of having committed a crime, was apparently also involved. Inspector Lucas' investigations initially focus on the other three students: Michi Schmidbauer (François Goeske) and his friends Miro Kovac (Edin Hasanovic) and Karli Sammer (Christian Reinhardt).
Under Sebastian's management, the boys run the Internet portal "pain attack", on the site of which videos recorded with mobile phones are displayed. "Happy slapping", as it is called in young professional jargon, fun films, but also violent videos in which mainly rich Regensburgers are denounced. OnA fragmentary and distorted film is found on the mobile phone of the murdered student Sebastian. The reconstruction of the video reveals a shocking truth: the high school student Diana (Nadja Bobyleva) was apparently sexually harassed by several young people, including Sebastian. For Commissioner Lucas the key to solving the case, but Diana, who has a strange love affair with Basti, remains silent - out of fear or solidarity - persistently. Then the investigators received the news that Günter, (Mathias Herrmann) the father of the dead boy, kidnapped the student Karli. He is firmly convinced that he has his boy's killer in his hands and threatens vigilante justice. Miro contradicts this theory and once again testifies that Max was the perpetrator, so that inspector Lucas has no choice but to as arresting their landlord. Then she gets wind that the students are planning a final coup. The action is to take place on a remote Danube bridge. Inspector Lucas rushes to the scene. Will she be able to prevent the impending catastrophe?

Rike and Max embark on a pilgrimage while Inspector Lucas is called to a scene. A man has holed himself up in a café and is threatening to shoot himself and the hostages present. With the courageous intervention of Commissioner Lucas, the catastrophe is averted and all the hostages are freed. Only Christel Huber cannot be reassured. Her daughter Anna was in the café but has not reappeared. The 20-year-old girl has disappeared and the inspectors start looking for clues.
Inspector Lucas and her team find out that Anna is not the good, middle-class girl that many believe. All means seemed right to Anna to escape from the suburban fug of Regensburg. Only her father Heinz knew thathis daughter dreamed of another life. Father and daughter have a strangely symbiotic relationship. Christel Huber, on the other hand, is horrified when she learns of her daughter's secret dreams. Then detective Lucas discovers that Anna is having a secret relationship with the up-and-coming politician Jan Geissler. Geissler's fiancee, Sylvia Hohenfeld, also knew about her husband's "slip," as she puts it. Inspector Lucas realizes that she must first clarify the family background in order to make progress in the search for clues. In the end, it turns out that Anna was closer than everyone thought all along. The grueling search for clues is over, but can Commissioner Lucas save the girl from her kidnapper?

The teacher Eric Klausmann disappears into the forest. There is no trace of him or his car. When his dog is found shot dead, detective Lucas and her team must assume a violent crime. They begin their investigations in the teacher's private environment. The picture of the family idyll in the Klausmann house quickly crumbles. Last year Eric had a relationship with his colleague Lisa Hübner (Liane Forestieri), the best friend of his wife Nele (Karoline Eichhorn). Since then, the Klausmanns' married life has been troubled and Klaus Hübner (Johann von Bülow), Lisa's husband, jealously watches over his wife. His 16-year-old son Kevin (Sandro Lohmann) also has serious puberty problems. Kevin threatens to be expelled from school because of his rebelliousness and also has constant arguments with his father.
As a teacher, Klausmann seemed to be well liked by the students, while father and son had not spoken to each other for a long time. Ellen and her team investigate the causes of the teacher's disappearance. Her work is hindered by Nele, who investigates on her own and withholds important research material. Such a threatening email that she finds on her husband's computer, in which not only Klausmann is massively threatened, but also an attack on the school is announced.
Could it be that the popular teacher was kidnapped by his students or even became their victim? Did Kevin kill his own father? Or is the high school graduate Konstantin (Kai Michael Müller) behind it, a student from a good family, a member of the local rifle club, who organizes target practice with Kevin in the forest in his free time? 

Inspector Lucas is appalled. The body of 60-year-old Maria Bolte is found in Regensburg, on the banks of the Danube. There are increasing indications that Maria Bolte pursued old-age prostitution out of social hardship. Ellen Lucas picks up the trail that leads her to Club Mitzi. According to club boss Hermann Liebl (45), a well-known figure in the city, there are problems in the milieu. Older women who prostitute themselves for little money are increasingly disrupting business. Suddenly Philip Schumann (32) is standing in the door, who flees at the sight of the investigative team. Philip becomes the prime suspect when it is revealed that he was in close contact with the older prostitutes. The evidence against him is concentrated in the "Tree House", a pub with a boarding house run by Philip's mother Nadja Schumann (50).to be led.
Desperate widower Ferdinand Bolte (65) threatens to run amok when he learns of his wife's double life. Meanwhile, Nadja turns out to be a former noble Munich prostitute who, out of pity, makes rooms available to the local old ladies. Among them is Agneta Wilhelm (59), a former school friend of Ellen's landlord Max. Liebl has a hard time speaking to Nadja and Agneta, while Philip continues to keep a low profile. What was his relationship to the dead woman and what connected him to the pimp Liebl? What did widower Bolte really know and what is he planning? Detective Lucas knows that she won't solve the case until she can break through Nadja and Agneta's silence. The situation escalates when the pimp Liebl is found stabbed in the backyard of his club.

Karoline Roth, an employee of a well-known private bank in Regensburg, is found dead in the Danube. First investigations by Commissioner Lucas put the murder case in a new light: Shortly before her death, Roth had offered the Bavarian authorities a data collection with information about German customers of a Swiss bank for sale for 2 million euros. The control CD and your computer are initially untraceable.
When another e-mail arrives at the tax investigation department, Christian Wittbach (Devid Striesow), a colleague of the murdered woman, is targeted by the investigation. Clear evidence weighs heavily on Wittbach and he is arrested on suspicion of murder. When Wittbach claims to be able to give the tax investigators the tax CD they are looking for, Ellen Lucas has to realize that politics has a decisive influence on the clarification of the case. Barelyif there is first exculpatory evidence, Wittbach will be released to hand over the CD. Lucas is stunned by Boris' attitude, who doesn't clearly stand in the way of tax investigator Merdinger (Herbert Knaup). Lucas stays close to Wittbach and also targets his wife Luise (Jeanette Hain), who, on behalf of her husband, gets in touch with the industrialist Schupp (Christian Doermer). The police find out that the place where the body was found could not have been the crime scene. Traces of a break-in in the car and her apartment also lead to new investigation results. Did the bank director Neuhaus (Johannes Tenne) really not know that the tax data came from his bank? And what does Mr. Schupp, one of the private bank's largest customers, have to do with the case? Only when Commissioner Lucas examines the political context.

Ellen Lucas comes across another missing person in Kastell: the father of the family, Oliver Haffner, has been missing for days. With the help of the resident Father Eurasius and the doctor Dr. Gohar Ardeshir Lucas succeeds in clarifying the identity of the unknown. Her name is Jeannette Wilson. She worked as a teacher in Kastell. What was her relationship to Oliver Haffner? Was she actually sexually abused by him, as the women from the nature center claim? Haffner's family is convinced of his innocence and suspects Anna Stern of having eliminated him. Supposedly, behind the nature center is a circle that practices unlawful, occult activities. Haffner had proof of this and wanted to expose the group. Ellen Lucas falls under the spell of Kastell.
What is it about the ancient lakeside sacrificial site, and why is it feeling weaker by the day? Inspector Lucas senses that Anna Stern is the key to solving this mysterious case.

Dr Michael Reidinger, the renowned chief physician of the Marien Hospital in Regensburg, has disappeared. His father Horst Reidinger accidentally bumps into Inspector Lucas, who takes on the case. When Reidinger's car is found openly under a railway bridge, the team works flat out to find the missing man, but initially without success. Shortly thereafter, Ellen Lucas finds Horst Reidinger critically injured in his homeson. Ellen Lucas senses that there must be more behind Reidinger's disappearance and quickly finds it, because against Dr. Reidinger and the clinic had filed a class action lawsuit from a patient initiative for non-compliance with hygiene standards. hospital manager dr. Lindner rejects any guilt. Judge Gerhard Huber, who rejected the lawsuit, also remains silent, saying that there is no evidence of a hygiene deficit in the hospital. 

In the eighteenth episode, chief inspector Boris Noethen receives a call from his old friend Claudia Benner. A young woman has turned up at her house who urgently needs help. She cannot and does not want to say more on the phone. Inspector Lucas is surprised when they stop with Boris in front of a mobile home on the outskirts of town, where Claudia Benner obviously works as a prostitute. They arrive too late: Claudia lies stabbed to death in her mobile home and they find no trace of the woman seeking help. Suddenly the BKA shows up at the crime scene and Boris has to clear the fronts. Kai Benner, Claudia's son, is surprisingly unemotional and seems to mourn the loss of income more than the death.
A first hot lead leads inspector Lucas and her team to Viktor Gheorghi, who was the last to be called by Claudia's cell phone and who had a car accident near the caravan just at the time of the crime. Although Gheorghi works as a security guard for a nearby brothel, he denies knowing Claudia and the stranger. Inspector Lucas stays close to Gheorghi and finds what he is looking for: During the accident, he was seen with Alina, most likely the woman who was last in Claudia's trailer. Inspector Lucas and her team are searching for Alina at full speed. After a raid on the brothel and a special operation by her assistant Tom Brauer, Lucas is certain: Eastern European women are being illegally forced into prostitution by a women's ring.
But what did Claudia Benner have to do with it, and where is Alina? Did they have contact with the illegal prostitutes? In the middle, the colleagues from the BKA show up again and hinder further investigations. Ellen Lucas knows that Viktor Gheorghi is the key to solving the case, but when he reveals himself to be an undercover agent for the BKA, she seems to be lost in the maelstrom of an inscrutable network of prostitution and human trafficking. 

He secretly watched them, filmed them, even when they were sleeping. Now he's asking for three million. For not killing them, the children of the successful pharmaceutical manager Eva Steiner (Nina Kunzendorf). Eva Steiner turns on the police and Inspector Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) takes over. There are still four hours until the money is handed over. Not enough time to prepare everything in detail, Lucas has to improvise. The transfer of money turns into a fiasco. Eva Steiner and the blackmailer, Dr. Robert Dohnen (Ben Braun) get into a shootout and collapse badly injured. Dohnen is Eva Steiner's brother-in-law, and until three months ago he was also her most important employee: head of the research department. The motive for the blackmail seems clear: revenge for the unintentional release shortly before the conclusion of amillion deals.
With her new employees, Commissioners Alex Eggert (Anna Brüggemann) and Tom Brauer (Lasse Myhr), Commissioner Lucas sets out to work through the failure and comes across a number of inconsistencies. What is the real reason for Dohnen's dismissal? What role does the multi-billion dollar merger of Eva Steiner's company with a Swiss pharmaceutical company play? And where did the weapon come from that injured Dohnen and Eva Steiner? When the inspectors discover a connection between the extortion and the murder of a petty criminal, Lucas has to investigate whether the mastermind behind the events, the real culprit, is not to be found in his own ranks. This is also supported by the fact that viral bullying and defamation are spreading within the team. 

In Regensburg, a bank is robbed in quick succession, a garage containing a dead man is blown up, and the blood-smeared sports bag of twelve-year-old Moritz Kienle is found. Through targeted investigation by Ellen Lucas and her team, it quickly becomes clear that all three incidents are related. In the garage, which turns out to be a drug lab for crystal meth, not only a charred corpse is recovered. You can also find banknotes from the robbery. The investigation leads Commissioner Lucas to Robert Kienle, the tenant of the garage, who is initially untraceable. Is he the dead body that was found? Inspector Alex Eggert researches Sophie Kienle, Moritz's mother.
Like many of her neighbors, Sophie Kienle became addicted to crystal meth and had to leave her son to the child's father, Robert Kienle. After taking crystal meth, Kienle came up with the idea of making the drug himself and selling it in small quantities in order to save the family from increasing poverty. Drug dealing destroyed the entire family and their future together. The investigations are expanded because there is still no trace of Moritz. Then Lucas' suspicions are confirmed: the dead man in the garage is not Kienle, but probably his business partner Potthast.
Did Kienle kill him? And what did they use the money from the bank robberies for? A hot lead leads to the Czech border area, where Inspector Lucas and her team have to delve deeper and deeper into Mafia-like structures in order to finally apprehend the perpetrator.

A supposedly simple break-in turns out to be a murder: the body of the owner Jian Chien lies in the development company Al Drones. Jörg Albrecht, the German managing director, suspects that sensitive data has been stolen from the company, since AI Drones specializes in the development and production of autonomous drone swarms. Thien Wong, the dead man's uncle, a high-ranking diplomat, who clearly rejects the obvious suspicion of Chinese industrial espionage, turns up at the scene of the crime. However, Ellen Lucas is not intimidated and continues to investigate in this direction. Claudia Bittner, the leading software developer at AI Drones, is suspected because the stolen data was on her computer. But she has a watertight alibi through her life partner Leon Kern.
Kern device, howeverthe focus of the investigation because Jian Chien bequeathed his entire fortune to Dissident's Freedom, a human rights organization for Chinese dissidents, for which Kern has recently started working. Kern's daughter from her marriage to a Chinese woman is being politically persecuted and has been held in China for years. What is the connection between Bittner and Kern about? What do the company Al Drones and the human rights organization have to do with each other? And did Jörg Albrecht really only want to produce drones for civilian purposes? Suddenly Thien Wong disappears. Ellen Lucas and her team scrutinize the distribution structure of Al Drones down to the last detail and penetrate deeper and deeper into the connection between the human rights organization and the politically persecuted. This is how they succeed in deciphering the Chinese riddle.

Murder or Suicide? A girl falls off a highway bridge at night, directly onto a couple's parked car. The team led by Ellen Lucas routinely takes on the investigation. Forensic medicine quickly delivers the first results. Everything indicates that the dead person must have been in the adjacent forest beforehand. The investigations lead Ellen Lucas and her team to an organic farm in the forest run by Heiko Wolf. Some time ago, Heiko Wolf took in Peter Schwertz and his family. Years ago he and his family had emigrated to remote Canada. Now they are back because his wife Monika could no longer stand the loneliness, but neither could her husband. But even the Ökohof was not a permanent home for the torn family.
Why did the mother go to town alone? And why did Peter Schwertz move into the forest with his two daughters? And why does no one know exactly where they are? The team around Ellen Lucas scours the forest, especially since not even Monika Schwertz knows the whereabouts of her children. And then it becomes clear: the dead person is 16-year-old Johanna Schwertz. The helpful forester Henning Niemeyer initially seems to be a great support in the search - until he gets caught up in false statements. What relationship did Heiko Wolf have to Johanna? And did the handicapped boy Hans, son of the local country disco owner, really only watch the lovers? With a great deal of finesse, Inspector Lucas succeeds in apprehending the perpetrator in the forest. 

Regensburg is looking forward to the upcoming German Catholic Day. 100,000 visitors are expected. The anticipation is cut short when a monk's body is found. Finding place is the substructure of the stage, which is set up for the opening service. Inspector Lucas and her team immediately start investigating, because one thing is clear: the opening must not and should not be postponed. Her first lead leads her to the influential "Exercitus Sanctus Jesu" order, which is controversial among lay Catholics - mainly because of its opaque banking transactions. The monks of the order, under the leadership of the Superior General, are hiding something, it becomes immediately clear. While the investigators are researching on site, the situation worsens.
In an anonymous email, the cancellation of the opening service is requested, otherwise there will be a catastrophe. The connection between the dead man on the cathedral square and the blackmail is obvious. Ellen Lucas, who makes no secret of her rather church-critical attitude, gets into a fight with Boris Noethen.Because he is trying, not least out of religious conviction, to prevent a possible cancellation of the Kirchentag, which is in the spirit of Andreas Schneiderhahn, the organizer of the Kirchentag. Since the blackmailer's email also calls for the opening of all church property for refugees, a group of Catholics who are involved in church asylum come into focus. With the help of Tom Brauer, Ellen Lucas finds out that Martina Heise, a woman from this circle, definitely has a motive to take revenge.
But new suspicions also arise in relation to the "Exercitus Sanctus Jesu" order, and Brother Peter, a monk who was very close to the dead man, disappears. Then, in another anonymous email, no less is demanded than the distribution of the entire church property to the poor. An attached quote from the Gospel of Matthew is deciphered by Inspector Lucas and puts her on the right track. But it's about much more than a theological riddle, because the blackmailer is in possession of a large amount of explosives.

A young couple escapes from a mobile home in a forest not far from Regensburg. The couple is being pursued by the RV driver and his accomplices. The young man is caught, the woman is able to escape her pursuers, Alexander "Gypsy" Scherer and the Bulgarian Bojko Jankov. The next morning the young man is found dead with his stomach cut open. The dead man is Hassan Sabuni, a Syrian refugee who, in the current crisis, sold himself to a drug cartel smugglers: as a "body packer" he was supposed to transport swallowed heroin to Germany. Inspector Ellen Lucas, Tom, Boris and Nina Friedrich, who has just joined the team, are affected by the meanness and brutality of the crime.
The police station was put on high alert when it became clear that Leila Sabuni, the dead man's sister, had to get rid of her heroin balls within 24 hours, otherwise there was a risk of fatal poisoning. Lucas and her team determine that Regensburg is the end point of the so-called Danube route, which is operated by international Bulgarian drug smugglers. The operational head is Bojko Jankov, who bribes customs officers and police officers along the route. Also the German police? Criminal counselor Harald Leinenweber is brought in as reinforcements from Munich. Should he control Lucas, or is the political explosiveness of the case too big? Lucas focuses on finding Leila, and her investigation leads her to a refugee home to live with the fugitive's sister, Qumar Sabuni.
The case spirals out of control when Boris begins investigating on his own and it turns out he's involved in drug smuggling. The situation escalates when Boris is kidnapped. When the money is handed over, there is a deadly exchange of gunfire. As Commissioner Lucas understands why her colleague Boris had to act as she did, she also knows where the culprit can be found. 

Andy Wolf, manic journalist and author of numerous bestsellers on conspiracy theories, visits Inspector Lucas again in her police station. He offers her a deal: she'll help him with his latest research and give him access to the police database, in exchange for him giving her tips on how neo-Nazis are getting weapons from underground weapons storage facilities. Together they would be unbeatable. Lucas brushes Andy off – a weirdo, harmless. Hours later, Andy Wolf's top floor apartment in Regensburg was ablaze. When a burning man falls out of the apartment onto the terrace of the "Camerota" restaurant, the fire becomes a case for Inspector Lucas - who acts with a guilty conscience because she had not taken Andy seriously.
But in the pathology it turns out that the dead man is not Andy, but his co-author Florian Reichelt. Florian Reichelt did not agree to Andy Wolf being paid and threatened to sue him for a sum that threatened his existence. The dead man's pregnant widow, Suse Reichelt, confirms this motive. Andy Wolf has gone into hiding and is on the wanted list . He hides in the "Camerota" restaurant with its owner, the old leftist Daniele Grasso. Andy Wolf makes conspiratorial contact with Lucas. Lucas agrees to a deal with him and – despite a search – lets him go again. Through Wolf, Lucas finds out that there was in fact a historically documented NATO "Gladio" program in the 1950s, in which secret weapons caches were set up.
The weapons and explosives stocks of the local neo-Nazi scene probably come from this camp. Then an attack is carried out on Andy Wolf, who from then on lies in a coma with serious injuries. Suse Reichelt takes care of Andy in a remarkably maudlin way. Did she have a relationship with him, is jealousy a possible motive? With regard to the weapons finds, Johannes Conrad, who has access to the "Gladio" depot, is increasingly becoming the focus of the investigations. Johannes plans a bomb attack on the Kelkheimer Halle, a war memorial symbolizing reconciliation and peace. In a spectacular operation, Lucas and her team manage to prevent the attack at the last minute. But is Johannes also responsible for the assassination attempt on Andy, and is he the killer of Florian Reichelt? 

A woman burns to death in her car near the Regensburg service area. Inspector Lucas and Judith Marlow, who has returned to the team, quickly find out that it wasn't an accident. The car was set on fire while the victim was still alive. The first hot lead leads the investigators to the renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Alexander Krayenberg, with whom the dead woman regularly had aesthetic procedures carried out. Holger Franz, the husband of the dead man, sinks into deep sorrow and is not really of any help to the investigators. Or is he just faking his sadness? The images from a surveillance camera lead the inspector to the Proell family. Lucas sets his sights on the innkeeper and pension owner Marc, since the victim Carla Franz had taken up residence with the Proell family and they lost track of them from there.
Together with his wife Katrin, Marc takes heartbreaking care of his brother and whirlwind Theo, who was born with trisomy 21. Lucas is depressed when the evidence points more and more to Theo, who is already on record. The victim's mobile phone, which is in his possession, weighs heavily on him. How did Carla Franz get from the pension to the site? And who put her there? With this question, Inspector Lucas moves between two completely unequal worlds: the world of the Proell family, who is struggling to survive on the poverty line, and that of the glamorous plastic surgeon Krayenberg. The doctor's smooth facade cracks when Tom reveals that Krayenberg has hired cheap guest surgeons to work for him.
In order to fully reconstruct the mysterious course of events, the commissioner must first understand that everyone involved has probably contributed their own personal part to the death of the former beauty.

The psychology lecturer and family man Bernd Stach, convicted of murder, is able to escape from prison after attempting suicide. While the manhunt is already running for him, he already has Ellen Lucas in his sights. She led the investigations that convicted him as the perpetrator. He overpowers Inspector Lucas while jogging and kidnaps her. It quickly becomes clear that Stach isn't out for revenge, but rather to convince Lucas that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Despite the danger she is in, Ellen tries not to be intimidated by Stach and listens to his arguments. When Ellen's colleagues find her and free her, Stach escapes at the last moment. The encounter with Stach left its mark on the inspector.
In addition to the search for Stach, she takes up the old investigations again – despite the skepticism of Chief Inspector Boris Noethen. The main witness for the prosecution, Marie Heusler, who claims to have observed Stach during a party with the victim, is still absolutely sure of her case. Niklas Brettling, whose testimony incriminated Stach, is also interrogated again. Bernd Stach is arrested while trying to assure his little daughter of his innocence. Ellen now has serious doubts about his conviction and continues to press ahead with the investigation. She is amazed that Marie's testimony in court a year ago was not more questioned. Lucas' path leads to Prof.
Kellermann, highly decorated psychology professor and court expert who examined Marie Heusler's testimony in court and still considers her testimony to be credible. Lucas initiates a new crime scene inspection with all witnesses - which makes Marie Heusler very insecure. In addition, Niklas Brettling does not appear for the crime scene inspection. Chief inspector Tom Brauer researches Niklas' background and learns that the orphan Brettling was supported during his time in the children's home by an organization whose board is Kellermann. Marie breaks down shortly thereafter and confesses in conversation with Lucas that Professor Kellermann should never have acted as an expert: The unstable Marie was already in therapy with Professor Kellermann before she testified against Stach.
Inspector Lucas has far-reaching suspicions and is researching on thin ice with Chief Inspector Judith Marlow: Is it possible to manipulate witness statements? And if so, who would benefit from it? Lucas' courageous path takes her deep into the psycho-systemic structure and thus directly to the perpetrator.

Young Monika is found lying in state in the branches of a tree, twelve meters above the ground. She's dead. Inspector Lucas sees it as a kind of funeral ceremony. But who does that? The investigations lead her and her team to the idyllically situated Aschenbachhof, to a home for girls who are difficult to train. The victim had disappeared from there months earlier. Lucas meets Polly at the home. She shared a room with Moni. The death of her friend affects the girl very deeply, and Lucas arrives just in time when Polly is about to slit her wrists. Lucas and her team find out that the girls have repeatedly escaped to the village. When Lucas comes home in the evening, Polly is already in her apartment. Lucas is touched by the girl and, against all reason, she keeps Polly with her for the night.
While Max lovingly supervises Polly, Lucas delves ever deeper into the chasms surrounding the home. Tom and Judith find out that Matthieu Egginger, a young man from the village, was in touch with the home girls and ran a sex chat channel from which the girls made money - and Egginger made money with them. During interrogation, Egginger reports that caretaker Hannes Lenz threatened him. He had a close relationship with the girls and put massive pressure on him the night before Moni disappeared. But Polly also seems to have information, and Lucas and her team also come across inconsistencies in the girls' home files that point to a stay abroad.
Did the private sponsor of the home, under the direction of the tough businessman Christian Kroiß, become guilty of something with the help of the home manager Frieda Schreiber? Or is the motive for the murder to be found in the immediate environment of the victim? For Commissioner Lucas, Polly becomes the key figure in this case.

After a fire, the body of Josef Gerlach, who lived in constant conflict with environmental activists, is found. Ellen Lucas and her team take up the investigation. Gerlach farmed large areas of grain with his brother Reinhold. A mobile phone video shows an argument with the young activists David Buske and Marie Bacher. Angry, they demonstrated against the poisoning of the fields. Together with their classmate Paul Krenn, the three form the "New World" group, which advocates a radical change in agriculture. Lucas and Tom Brauer take on the three high school graduates, but they deny having anything to do with the arson. A look at the finances shows that the Gerlach farm is heavily indebted, and Josef Gerlach had taken out a high term life insurance policy, which could be a motive for Reinhold.
The next morning, Paul Krenn is found dead in the woods – his neck broken. Lucas blames himself. Did she miss something? She questions Marie and David, who are shaken but pretend not to know. Traces of an off-road vehicle are discovered at the crime scene. Since Reinhold Gerlach drives such a car, Tom looks him up. He finds him drunk. Even if the evidence against him is increasing, Lucas does not believe that Gerlach was the perpetrator. She stays close to the young people and finds out that there was a fourth member of the "New World" group: Hanna Manz. Since a bicycle accident, she has been in a wheelchair and now goes her own way. She states that she left the New World group when she became too extremist.
Lucas and Judith only found out about an internship that the now dead student was doing at the pharmaceutical company NeoX from Paul's father. Did the teenagers have a secret plan? And was Paul perhaps a spy in the company? Lucas and Judith interview Martina Thiel, founder of NeoX, and learn that the company is about to launch a revolutionary new compound, phytosate. According to Thiel, it works in a similar way to glyphosate, but has no negative impact on the environment. Unlike his colleague Thiel, Dr. Lammert, who had the intern Paul under him, was shocked by his death. When Marie and David also disappeared the next day, Lucas was alarmed.

The discovery of the corpse of an Eastern European man leads inspector Ellen Lucas to the construction environment in Regensburg, where she encounters blatant abuses. She calls on her entire team to clarify the matter and puts the public prosecutor to the test. The unexpected "by-catch" by customs officials during a night-time traffic check is tough. At the border to the Czech Republic, the border officials noticed a car. The view through the thermal imaging camera shows only two occupants, although apparently three people are sitting in the car. When the officers stop the car, two men flee, the third is dead, presumably he was pierced by an iron bar. He has no ID with him, but the car is registered to a construction company. Detective Lucas and her team begin their investigation.
The new Regensburg public prosecutor, Stefan Walch, is also very interested in the case. He has long had Walter-Maria Bäucker, the head of the company, in his sights for illegal activities and senses his chance to finally get him. While Lucas and Walch try to penetrate the exploitative system with which the Regensburg construction tycoon Bäucker secures a constant flow of well-trained workers from Eastern Europe, Lucas' superior Boris Noethen looks skeptically at the exuberant energy of the "new man" in the team. But Ellen Lucas enjoys the fresh wind. With Walch's backing, she can investigate faster and in a more unconventional way, and she succeeds in infiltrating her colleague Tom as a worker on the construction site.

Inspector Ellen Lucas is on her way to her new office in Nuremberg when another car crashes into her side. Lucas discovers a dead woman in the trunk of the accident car. The driver fled the scene of the accident with a boy. Lucas' new colleagues quickly found out: the driver's name is Franz Vegener, he is the dead man's grandson and has just been released from prison. Did he kill his own grandmother Grete Saller? Franz Vegener had a motive: Grete Saller testified against him in court when he was sentenced to imprisonment for serious bodily harm. Ironically, his grandmother has himreveal. The woman he lived with as a teenager because his mother Marie Vegener was overwhelmed with the youngster. The boy Franz fled with is his little brother Maik.
Ellen Lucas suspects that the boy has witnessed the crime and is now in mortal danger as a hostage. Together with her new team, detectives Werner Fitz and Betty Sedlacek, she pulls out all the stops to find the two brothers. With the additional support of police psychologist Magnus Guttmann, she manages to track down the brothers. But the situation escalates dramatically and threatens to escalate.

A father shoots his adult daughter - or so he says. Detective Lucas investigates a family where nobody trusts anyone else. Kathrin Löhns had to die because her father mistook her for a burglar. Now she lies dead in the boiler room. However, Lucas finds out that Wolfgang Löhns' statements about the crime cannot be correct. Then why does he take the fatal shot? His two sons Johannes and Markus deny the crime and suspect each other. Johannes is sure that everything is justis the cursed gold. After the financial crash in 2008, his father invested his entire fortune in gold. He no longer trusts anyone, especially not a bank. And he would defend his treasure no matter what. Even his children have no idea where he hid the gold.
Ellen Lucas must piece together many of the puzzle pieces to penetrate this family's toxic relationships and uncover the true circumstances of Kathrin's death. A criminal case that demands all of Lucas' psychological skills.

Inspector Ellen Lucas finds a woman's body lovingly laid out in the attic of an empty courtyard – mummified by the heat of a summer. The woman had apparently been held captive in the attic and died trying to escape. Lucas quickly finds out that the victim, Sarah Rothbauer, lived nearby. But why didn't anyone miss her there? Inspector Lucas and her team suspect a relationship crime. Why else would Hinrich Rothbauer, Sarah's husband, simply have accepted her sudden disappearance? During the investigation, Commissioner Betty Sedlacek becomes the victim of a stalker. Instead of confiding in Ellen Lucas, she wants to solve the problem on her own. But she realizes too late that there are parallels to the Sarah Rothbauer case.