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Inspector Max Ballauf has to look after the house and daughter of his beautiful cousin Beatrice for a few days - the former soft porn actress goes to the hospital for a cancer test. Just now, Ballauf is being threatened by a stranger over the phone – and a woman with whom he had a one-night stand years ago is brutally murdered. The perpetrator leaves a red lily at the crime scene. Ballauf and Schenk are groping in the dark - apparently something is to be avenged, for which the stranger blames Max. But as much as the two examine old cases and look for a needle in a haystack, they find no plausible trace into the past. The only thing that is clear is that it is a revenge campaign against Max. When the stranger kidnaps another of Max's ex-girlfriends, a race against time begins.
He chases the detective halfway across town with a ransom of €300,000 – only to get him to publicly burn the money. Max can't prevent the death of this ex-girlfriend either. The only clues left by the unsub beside the flowers are a cryptic crossword and the poison used to kill the victims -- it comes from the lab where it's being studied, of all things. But when, despite all security measures, little Anna is kidnapped, Ballauf seems to be facing the biggest defeat of his life...

Three crimes happen in one night on the large construction site of the new trade fair center in Stuttgart: the multi-storey car park above the motorway is sprayed with a sprayer, valuable construction machinery is stolen and the crane operator Jochen Heeb bleeds to death on his crane after being injured by two shots. Stefan Ortlieb, a militant opponent of the trade fair, who was badly betrayed and financially cheated by Heeb in connection with the land sales for the trade fair, falls into Bienzle's sights. It turns out that he was the sprayer on the construction site that night. The murder weapon, which is quickly found, belongs to Milan Popow, one of the men from the security company SSF on duty that night. He denies having anything to do with Heeb's death, but he knew him well and had recently had a serious falling out with him.
Even his superior, Paul Rapp, who thinks highly of him, cannot allay the suspicion against him . Bienzle tries to find out more about Milan's brother Tom and discovers that there must be a connection between the murder and the thefts. Although this puts the events of the night in a new light, it makes the suspicion of Milan Popow rather greater. His wife, Kathi, who runs a laundry, fears that loyalty to his brother has drawn him into something he can no longer control. Just as Bienzle is finally able to convict the murderer, he eludes the police and tries to destroy evidence of his guilt in the Popows' laundry.
Hannelore, who is about to pick up a blouse, involuntarily witnesses the unmasking of the perpetrator and is kidnapped by him to ensure his escape. From then on, Bienzle was in a state of excitement. The perpetrator has nothing left to lose and Bienzle has to fear that he will never see his Hannelore again.

Bremen is upside down: The famous rock singer Dana (Jeanette Biedermann) is in the city to sing with her band at a "live concert against the right". In the run-up to the concert, poster poster Ahmed Aksu (Abdullah Daglioglu) is critically injured. Commissioner Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her colleague Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) assume a right-wing extremist background and investigate the Bremen neo-Nazi scene.But there is no trace of the perpetrators. While the inspectors are investigating, Dana's assistant is killed in Bremen-Hemelingen. The victim was wearing the rock star's coat at the time of the crime. Is the attack a mix-up? Or are neo-Nazis behind it this time too? Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund are investigating under time pressure, because the "live concert against the right" should go off without a hitch.

A case that actually doesn't seem to be a case at all: A young doctor has cut her wrists - on her desk is the notice of termination of the clinic in Ludwigshafen, where she had worked until then. Everything points to suicide. But Lena Odenthal is not satisfied with these outward appearances. In the clinic, she notices discrepancies and the longer she deals with the case, the betterit becomes clearer that there are major problems in the clinic: the clinic suspects that a patient was infected with the HI virus during an operation. Everything indicates that Dr. Wegener found evidence of a contaminated blood bag and was willing to go public with it. This made her a threat to the blood plasma company Global Plasma and to the clinic.

An empty sailing boat is found on the open sea – Silke Rohwedder's jacket, shoes and handbag on board. No sign of her. Everything looks like suicide. Borowski finds that strange. The impression gets stronger when he examines Silke Rohwedder's apartment. The apartment is sparkling clean, it smells of cleaning supplies. There are a few photos missing from the walls that have obviously been torn down. Did Silke really clean her apartment again before she took the boat out to kill herself? For what reason? And who was in the missing pictures? The neighbors tell Borowski that Silke recently had a boyfriend. But you can't really describe him because you only saw him in passing.
Checking a prescription in Silke's purse reveals another piece of news: Silke was pregnant. Silke's mother confirms that Silke was looking forward to the child. So why the suicide? Mounting evidence leads Borowski to believe it wasn't a suicide. Silke's 19-year-old sister Maxie is behaving very strangely. After learning about her sister's death from Borowski, she goes to a bar and starts a fight, in which she is beaten and hospitalized. What does she know about her sister's death that she doesn't want to tell the police? Does she maybe even have something to do with her sister's death and the beating was something like self-punishment? But Maxie is silent. Even psychologist Frieda Jung can't get any further with her.
Even before Borowski can find out anything useful from Maxie, the young woman escapes from the hospital. Borowski's quest focuses on the phantom of Silke's friend. Silke's mother reports that the man's name is Sandor Kovac and that he supposedly works for the secret service, at least that's what he told Silke. The trail leads to a dead watchmaker of the same name who died of a heart attack in his car some time ago. Obviously, Silke's friend uses the papers stolen from the dead man and uses his identity. But why? Borowski interviews the police officers who were the first to find the dead Kovac. One of them was Claes Möller, who looks amazingly similar to Kovac. His colleagues had already noticed this at the time.
There are increasing suspicions that Möller stole Kovac's papers at the time in order to use the dead man's identity. It turns out that Möller is actually Silke's wanted friend. Did he assume the false identity of being married? Did he murder Silke after she told him about the pregnancy or found out about it? Another family drama unfolds for the police in the Möller house.

A man falls dead from his car in the middle of rush hour traffic on a busy thoroughfare in Saarbrücken and causes a traffic jam. The skill and speed of coroner Dr. It is thanks to Rhea Singh (Lale Yavas) that this mysterious incident is not filed as a sudden cardiac death. In the second "new" SR crime scene, "The Dead Man from the Roadside" puzzles Chief Inspector Franz Kappl (Maximilian Brückner) and his team in the Homicide Squad. The clarification of the sudden death of Kurt Nagel, a well-paid mathematician in the Saarbrücken "Institute for Process Engineering", demands all their skills from Franz Kappl and his colleague Stefan Deininger (Gregor Weber).
There is a lot of crackling between the two again, especially since Franz Kappl, in Deininger's eyes, is a bit too caring for his beautiful colleague Dr. Singh dedicates. The medical examiner is being terrorized by a mysterious caller. He intrudes into her private life, gains access to her apartment, and leaves disgusting "souvenirs" behind. Does this stalker have anything to do with the lunatic who apparently sets out to "work off" a death list and ends up putting Kappl & Deininger's life in danger?

In his new case, Bienzle must deal with a horrifying, if common, crime: the murder of a little girl. It looks as if the perpetrator did not strike for the first time. There are parallels to a case two years ago. The Commissioner Romberg who was responsible at the time was also quite sure that he knew the perpetrator, but he could not prove it to him. From his point of view, it is particularly tragic that a second murder has now taken place, as he believes that he could have prevented it. All the more urges Romberg Bienzle, who heads the special commission in this case, to follow up the trail again. Of course, Bienzle doesn't want to put on someone else's blinders and prefers to research openly in all directions.
Another girl murder happens and everything points to the perpetrator from back then. Bienzle seems to have failed and is personally at the end. But he doesn't give up and finds the real culprit - whom Romberg couldn't find himself.

The latest case of the Hamburg Criminal Police Office suddenly hits Jan Casstorff personally: 45-year-old Karin Freiberg is found murdered in her "work apartment"; she had offered so-called "housewife sex" - prostitution without any connection to the milieu. To the surprise of his colleagues, Casstorff knew the woman because he had had a short but intense love affair with her many years ago. After that he never saw her again. Struck by the sight of the badly battered corpse, Casstorff first examines the family background of the dead. He meets her husband Joachim Freiberg, who is in a wheelchair, and their twelve-year-old son Felix.
With her employment as a prostitute, Karin - with the knowledge of her husband - financed the family's life after the former car salesman was no longer able to work after an accident. Holicek is investigating at the same time in the vicinity of the work apartment: with the exception of the caretaker Kowalski, the tenants are shocked, but make no secret of their open rejection of this trade in their house. The result of the pathology shows that Karin Freiberg was not strangled, as initially suspected, but suffocated painfully - under the blanket that lay on her body. The investigations quickly bring up further concrete information: Karin shared the apartment with a colleague Christiane, for whom she stood in on the day in question.
Was Christiane supposed to die? She stubbornly refuses to say anything about the case, even when she is beaten up by two brutal extortionists. Casstorff and Holicek can establish this quickly, but have no proof. Out of necessity, Casstorff makes a deal with them and uses their contacts in the scene. It is their information about clients who like brutal bondage variants that lead to Philipp Kochbeck being caught in the net. Kochbeck, suffering from his tendencies, admits to having tied up Karin Freiberg for his games against her will, but denies the murder. Further trace comparisons lead back to the environment of individual residents who had far more contact with the two prostitutes than initially admitted.
In this way, Casstorff gets ever deeper into the world of relationships that surrounded Karin Freiberg, and supported by an understanding Wanda Wilhelmi, he succeeds in clarifying the tragic context of the case. 

The undertaker Gerd Hönninger was killed with a candlestick in his own company "Ruhe Gently". The Münster pathology reports a slump. And with Inspector Thiel everything is going haywire: instead of being able to enjoy his vacation, he has to put up with the egocentric Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne as a lodger. Conflicts are of course inevitable. The traces at the scene of the crime also point to a violent argument. Hönninger's younger brother Frank, who also works in the funeral home, is under urgent suspicion of murder . Apparently, the two didn't have a particularly good relationship. Meanwhile, the investigators came across a bizarre death cult site on the Internet. Unknown people show photos of dead people who have had a white lily placed on their chests.
This trail leads Inspector Thiel to Lucie Wulfes. The young doctor's daughter has contact with the Münster goth scene. her father dr. Michael Wulfes is shocked. Does his daughter have anything to do with the undertaker's murder?

Richard Merten is found murdered in his Berlin apartment. The investigations take the two commissioners, Ritter and Stark, to the Brandenburg provinces. Merten's daughter Paula, the only survivor, would like to bury her father in the village of her childhood. Exactly 20 years ago, Paula's mother Emma was killed in a nearby forest. After Emma's violent death, Merten and his daughter left Wieditz forever. The beautiful, secretive Paula is still suffering from her mother's murder, because the perpetrator was never caught. Ritter and Stark follow the young woman and quickly realize that they are not welcome in Wieditz. Paula's return is also received with mixed feelings there. The villagers have built up a dark wall of silence over the years.
No one claims to have seen or heard anything back then. Only Paula's cousin Klaus Merten seems to care a little about her, but in the end he is only interested in Paula's house, the property of which is currently still on the area of the planned golf course. Not only Paula suspects that the two murders of her parents are connected and that the crimes originated here in Wieditz. In order to come to terms with her own past, it is essential to solve the murders of her parents. The two inspectors grope in the dark, almost everyone in the village is a suspect. During their research in the village, Ritter and Stark come across the disabled villager Sabine Raven. On the day Emma Merten died, she was found in the village with a severe head injury.
Since then she has lived in her own world, lovingly cared for by her brother Thomas, Paula's childhood friend, and doesn't speak a word. What is the connection between Sabine's fate and the murders of Paula's parents? Finally, Commissioner Ritter persuades Paula to play the decoy: she promises house and yard to whoever gives her a clue to her parents' murderer. A dangerous mind game begins...

The subcontractors have stopped work on a large construction site in Leipzig and reported the building contractor Peter Ludwig to financial fraud. A surprise acquittal outraged those in the courtroom. The next day, the chief inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain are called to Ludwig's villa. The real estate investor was shot dead in his house and several valuable works of art were stolen. The first suspicion falls on the cleaning lady Marion Höfner, who found the dead man. The inspectors find out that she recently gave her husband Jürgen access to the house. However, the unemployed craftsman has an alibi for the time of the crime. Ehrlicher and Kain then interviewed Ludwig's young, ambitious lawyer Corinna Becker.
She tells them that her client is still in the courthouse by Werner Mühl, the manager of one ofLudwig, who was forced into bankruptcy, was attacked with a paint bag. When the inspectors then find some of the stolen art objects at Mühl's home, they seem to have reached the goal of their investigation. Mühl admits the burglary, but denies that Ludwig was murdered. He also blames the credit institutions that work with fraudsters like Ludwig for his financial hardship. dr Stefan Bischof, however, assured the inspectors that his bank handled the loan granted to Ludwig seriously and had nothing to do with the allegations of embezzlement. But when they check Ludwig's business accounts, the inspectors find out that over several million euros have disappeared.
Ehrlicher and Kain solve a case where the interests of creditors, lenders and the judiciary intersect.

In a wholesale pet store, the shopkeeper is found shot in the head. The victim's young son was in the house - but he cannot remember what happened. Chief Inspector Blum takes care of the child and makes a surprising discovery: Manuel is sleepwalking. As a possible witness, the boy is in great danger. His older brother comes under suspicion. During her investigations, Klara encounters a swamp of illegal animal trade, business blackmail and interpersonal entanglements. Not only the little boy, also Klara Blum is in danger

The corpse of an unknown young girl is discovered in a freight car in a medium-sized company in Osnabrück. Charlotte Lindholm gradually approaches the identity of the girl. She meticulously collects the few clues and first comes across Richard Voigt. He can identify the girl as 19-year-old Carol Stern from Ireland, who took part in his weaving course at the FH in Osnabrück. The case becomes increasingly mysterious when Charlotte discovers that this is neither her real name nor her real age. What did this girl want in Osnabrück? In the course of the investigation, Charlotte Lindholm also comes across the Mende family, for whom Carol worked as a babysitter. But she learns little about Carol there, as the family mourns the accidental death of their four-year-old son Frederik.
She hears from the neighbors that Frederik has suffered from a particularly severe form of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperkinetic Syndrome). The Mende family was faced with a crucial test due to the son's illness: Jürgen Mende, the father, wanted the illness to be treated with medication. His wife Simone didn't want to believe that her son was really ill, and Mika, the 17-year-old brother, just felt neglected. Is there a connection between the two deaths? What is Mika Mende, who works at the company where the murder victim was found, hiding? And Voigt, too, becomes increasingly entangled in contradictions. Did he know the victim better than he admits? Charlotte succeeds in putting the loose pieces of the puzzle together into a disturbing picture.
Her tenth murder case turns out to be part of a moving family tragedy.

In addition to their beer and traditional roast pork, people from Munich really appreciate the upscale gastronomy. The list of ambitious starred chefs in the "cosmopolitan city with a heart" is considerable... Things are really happening in the gourmet restaurant "La Belle Vigne", as master chef Edgar Kaufmann is celebrating his 50th birthday with selected guests. These include prosecutor Dr. Maier-Knecht, restaurant critic Burkhard Faber and his brother Norbert. Edgar thanks his lovely wife Ann, who shares his passion for their "child" together, the "Belle Vigne", and keeps a keen eye on the finances. In the background are the chef de cuisine Jaap van Halen, kitchen helper Simon, the Algerian chef Ali Mourad and the waiters.
To top off the evening, dessert chef Milena Stepanovic rolls the birthday cake with the sparklers into the festive round. A few hours later, the festive mood has changed. Aggression is in the air. When the gourmet critic and longtime friend of the house, Burkhard Faber, told the host that the "Belle Vigne" was no longer on his "list of the ten best restaurants", a scandal erupted. The evening ends in tumult. Shortly thereafter, the critic disappeared from the scene. The next day, while cleaning up the kitchen, Simon finds a severed finger and has a friend take it to Homicide. Chief Inspector Ivo Batic is going on vacation and doesn't want to be disturbed with his DIY ambitions from now on.
But his colleagues, Chief Inspector Franz Leitmayr and Chief Inspector Carlo Menzinger, can't get the severed finger case out of their heads. Is it the missing restaurant critic's finger? Leitmayr and Menzinger forced Batic to take a job as a temporary worker at the "Belle Vigne". They are convinced that this will give them a clearer look behind the scenes of the fine restaurant, whereby Batic, as a dedicated hobby chef, hopes to gain additional insights into the secrets of the exquisite recipes... But the police investigations by Leitmayr and Menzinger also do not bring the missing critic to light. Meanwhile, Batic gets an involuntary glimpse into the lives of the beleaguered restaurant workers. His Croatian compatriot Milena Stepanovic especially grows on him.
He still has no idea of the danger she is in.

During the robbery of a haulage truck, one of the drivers is killed and another seriously injured. The investigations lead Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper back to the trucking company, because it quickly became clear that there was an informant within the company. When Lena and Kopper found out about the shipping company's payment difficulties, the culprit seemed to have been identified. But then a second murder happens and the two inspectors have to start their investigations all over again.

By chance, Chief Inspector Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) gets involved in the police operation of another department. There they are convinced that a couple found dead committed suicide. Eisner doubts it and investigates on his own. The case comes to a head when a businesswoman is brutally murdered. For Eisner it is clear that the neighbor of the dead couple, Cornelia Stummvoll (Ulli Maier), has her hand in the game. – Exciting crime drama with the Austrian crime scene inspector.

The literary agent Ulrike Oppermann is found dead during the Leipzig Book Fair. The chief inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain determine that the murdered woman seems to be the famous star author Mimi Blaise, whose true identity was unknown to anyone. After police officer Matthias Erler was initially suspected because he had spent the night with the victim, chief police officer Anna Stein got involved in the case. She wants to prove her colleague's innocence. She takes on the role of the star author whose true identity was to be revealed at the book fair in order to force the killer into believing he had murdered the wrong woman. Chief Inspector Ehrlicher is not at all happy with this arbitrary, dangerous action by the young colleague.
While Anna Stein likes the role of the star author more and more, Chief Inspector Ehrlicher researches the economic environment of the book fair and Chief Inspector Kain investigates the author's personal area in order to track down the perpetrator and prevent another murder attempt. The detectives encounter secret intrigues, dark machinations - and the real Mimi Blaise. The commissioners were just able to prevent a second insidious attack.

Gregor Schulz - once a celebrated investigative journalist - is shot in the courthouse in front of Wanda Wilhelmi. The perpetrator can escape undetected. The next day, a photo appeared in the press that showed Schulz the day before his murder with Alexander Radu, a well-known investor and supporter of charitable projects. For the police, the name Radu is not a blank slate. His father had made money with illegal activities in the neighborhood. However, the family clan was never proven anything. Schulz, too, had to resign as an editor for the political magazine "Investigativ" years ago - after a report on Radu's connections in politics was broadcast.
When Casstorff delivers the news of his death, he learns that theDaughter of the murdered man, Kathrin Schulz, followed in her father's footsteps. She works as an investigative journalist for the same editorial office. However, she states that she has not had any contact with her father for years. For Casstorff and Holicek, the starting point for their investigations remains Alexander Radu. But he uses legal means to prevent him from being summoned and testifying. And the public prosecutor's office - Wanda Wilhelmi is leading the investigations together with her boss and mentor Peter Heinrich - adheres to the principle of not letting the press dictate how the judiciary should act: No summons based on an anonymous message to the press launched photos, of which it is not clear whether it is not a photo montage ...

During a dive in the Tyrolean Achensee, two scuba divers find a male corpse that was weighed down with chains and an umbrella stand. Apparently the dead man had been lying on the bottom of the lake for around 15 years. The autopsy shows the man was shot with a shotgun. Surprisingly, it turns out that the murdered man came from the former GDR. Special investigator Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) is brought from Vienna to solve the case together with Innsbruck detective Pfurtscheller (Alexander Mitterer). Moritz Eisner quickly realizes that the finding of the body and the intensive investigations by the police cause some people to become hectic.
Especially with three friends who experienced an astonishing financial boom in the years after the mysterious disappearance of the stranger: the mayor and hotelier Paul Kofler (Branko Samarovski), the director of the local bank Ludwig Holzer (Gottfried Breitfuss) and the car dealer Max Unterberger ( Wolfram Berger). Then he finds out that the GDR scientist Heinz Borovski, who had been reported missing by his daughter Sonja, was staying at the Gasthof Kofler under a false name at the time. The key figure to the solution seems to be the mayor's daughter Sonja (Laura Tonke). Her biological father had fled to Tyrol shortly before the political changes in the GDR to buy a house here.
But where did he get the capital from? Was it embezzled Stasi money and was that why he had to die? The then 17-year-old girl had come to this place to look for her father, who had sent a postcard from Lake Achensee as the last sign of life. She didn't want to go back, found work in the Kofler family's inn and was adopted by the owners some time later. The young woman, who until then had not known that her adoptive father had known her real father, is determined to bring the murderer(s) to justice and supports Moritz Eisner in his investigations. But is she a painful mourner or more of an avenging angel? When the DNA analysis shows that there is no genetic relationship with the dead man, Eisner is puzzled. A second body is discovered in the lake...

The senior boss Karl Grimm is found dead in the vestibule of his hotel. Reason for his adult children, Heike, Walter and Pia, to start the war of inheritance. None of the three is too bad to cast suspicion on the siblings and to present themselves in the best possible light. Lena Odenthal has to overcome a wall of lies, intrigues and suspicions - and she can't even count on the official help of her colleague Mario Kopper, because he is struggling in the hotel kitchen. Due to a mix-up, daughter Pia mistakes the inspector for the new cook and quickly sends him to the kitchen before he can clear up the mix-up.
There, between potato salad and Jägerschnitzel, Mario Kopper tries to get important information about the murder case from the employees - a sweaty affair even for a hobby cook. Meanwhile, Lena Odenthal is trying to solve the mystery of why Karl Grimm fell over the banister at one o'clock in the morning while his apartment door was locked and the key was hanging in the apartment.

The Bremen chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund are investigating in the mobile communications industry. Sandra Vegener, only recently released from a psychiatric ward, kills a judge and then herself. She had previously claimed that her daughter had died of leukemia as a result of radiation from cellphone masts and had taken vehement action against a cellphone company. The prosecutor responsible, the judge and the psychiatrist then classified her as mentally ill. Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund get deeper and deeper into a dense network of secrets and intrigues: Why is the public prosecutor lying? Why did the cell phone company pay money to the husband?

After weeks of searching, 15-year-old Nicole Ulmer is found dead in the woods, apparently the victim of a violent crime. Inspector Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann learn from the devastated father, Klaus Ulmer, that Nicole had a crush on the handsome Holger Bucheck, for whose family she worked as a babysitter. Not only Klaus, but also his brothers Herbert and Peter Ulmer are convinced that Bucheck is responsible for Nicole's death. Herbert's daughter Jessica, Nicole's best friend, refuses to tell Klara anything about Bucheck or Nicole's other friends. In fact, HolgerBucheck stopped near the crime scene. But while Klara and Perlmann are investigating him, Holger Bucheck disappears without leaving any news or traces. And Klara is receiving more and more anonymous messages with mysterious clues.
She quickly finds out that Jessica must be the sender. Jessica also seems to be moving further and further away from the close family community of the Ulmers. Convinced that Jessica is the key to the mystery of Nicole's death and Bucheck's disappearance, Klara tries to interpret the mysterious signs. 

On the picturesque Hörnbrücke in the middle of Kiel, the employee of a handling company, Jochen Harmsen, is shot dead by a sniper on his way to work. An act of terrorism? The act of a madman? The whole of Kiel is shocked. In this atmosphere of fear Klaus Borowski takes over the investigation - and in fact the lovable family man Harmsen seems to be a random victim: there is no evidence of a motive. Psychologist Frieda Jung looks after the victim's traumatized colleague, Simone Ehrt, who witnessed the murder first-hand. She puts Borowski on a first lead: Spreading fear is often an important goal for psychopathic snipers, and Borowski also feels fear when he suddenly encounters the sniper at night and finds himself helplessly at his mercy.
After that, it is clear to Borowski: The murderer is pursuing a specific goal with his crime and it does not seem to be a coincidence that Simone Ehrt is not only afraid, but apparently also feels threatened. But while Borowski follows this lead, an ongoing murder trial at the district court chaired by Judge Voigt increasingly requires his attention: Borowski has to testify against the child murderer Torben Meier, whom he convicted himself - according to the prosecutor a "self-starter". But to Borowski's horror, the trial takes a surprising turn when he is confronted with the accusation that he extorted the child killer's confession.
Criminal defense attorney Thies Nissen cleverly uses the allegations, even forcing Frieda Jung to take the stand to shake Borowski's credibility, and soon everything looks like Torben Meier will be acquitted. Borowski must prevent this at all costs, he owes it to the mother of the dead child. But it shows how far law and justice are often far apart when Judge Voigt repeatedly follows the requests of defense attorney Thies Nissen while still strictly adhering to the law. So Borowski can only prevent the release of the child killer if he finds new evidence.
Feverishly he sets to work until he encounters an atmosphere of fear again and discovers uncanny parallels to Simone Ehrt - is there a connection between the sniper and Torben Meier's trial? Borowski does everything in his power to answer this question and is once again in danger. Finally, even Frieda Jung's life is threatened before Borowski can convict the sniper and prevent a child murderer from getting away scot-free. 

In Bavarian, "A gmahde Wiesn" means both "a mowed meadow" and colloquially "a project that cannot go wrong" - "a surefire thing". And "the Wiesn" is of course also a synonym for the Munich Oktoberfest, the largest folk festival in the world. There, as every year, showmen and Munich innkeepers gear up to compete for the coveted places. The violent death of the influential city councilor Hubert Serner (Bruno Graf) is therefore a topic in the city: Serner's maid Diana Aljescu (Anita Matija) found the lawyer in his garden pond. Serner, a member of the Economic Committee, had a say in the awarding of Wiesn licenses. He was a Bavarian-Baroque personality throughout his life.
His divorced wife Elizabeth (Sabine Bach) gives the Munich detectives Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) the first clues. After the diligent research of their colleague Carlo Menzinger (Michael Fitz), the homicide detectives fight their way through an ever-growing list of Serner's beloved women. The statements of the interviewed women Ilsa Mischnik (Conny Glogger) and Hilde Gerbera (Claudia Wipplinger) are only partially helpful.
But how does the successor to the murder victim August Eckl (Philipp Sonntag) deal with the tangible economic interests of established Munich host families and showmen? On the one hand he has to deal with the resolute landlady Johanna Buck (Monika Baumgartner), who wants to add a garden to her already very lucrative Oktoberfest tent and is not the only reason why she quarrels with husband Niklas (Georg Maier) and daughter Evelin (Franziska Schlattner). . On the other hand, the innkeeper Xaver Neureuther (Fred Stillkrauth) and his son Timo (Joram Voelklein) fight for their place at the Wiesn.
The siblings Renee and Fridolin Zoll (Bettina Redlich & Michael Tregor) can be trusted with unthinking outbreaks of violence: the two showmen cherish and maintain the traditional carousel of their ancestors and face financial ruin with the beautiful but old ride if they do not get a permit for the Oktoberfest to get. During their investigations into this murder case, the Munich inspectors experience first-hand how the annual intrigues arise on the Theresienwiese around the construction of the Oktoberfest - until the mayor of the city finally calls out the redeeming words at the start of the Wiesn in the brimming beer tent: "O'zapft is !"

Thug or murderer? For Inspector Max Ballauf, the case is clear: the man on the radio just wants to make himself important. In the well-known Nighttalk show by Melissa Morgenstern, an anonymous caller boasts that he shot police officer Martin Krauss. "Just like that!" And he'll probably kill again. Of course, this story made headlines. But Freddy Schenk and Max Ballauf follow a different lead in the case of their murdered colleague: Krauss was a broken man. After an affair with a colleague, his wife left him and the children. Since then, he's bottled more and more often. And as it turns out, he was heavily in debt. During the interviews, his girlfriend Rita Anspann and his boxing training partner Hakan Simsek get caught up in contradictions.
Was Krauss involved in illegal betting deals? Meanwhile, an anonymous letter to Melissa with the key to a train station locker appears on the radio station. Only a little later, Ballauf and Schenk know that the caller had not bluffed. In the locker they find the promised evidence: the murder weapon. 

Wolfgang Kunert has been waiting for hours at the job center in Frankfurt. Finally his number is called. In the room of the employment agency Heidi Ganz, a heated argument ensues, at the end of which Kunert threatens Heidi Ganz with a pistol. A colleague who wants to help Heidi Ganz is shot by Kunert and bleeds to death because no one dares to go into the office. Kunert flees with Heidi Ganz as a hostage. Inspector Fritz Dellwo and his colleague Charlotte Sängersucceeds in locating Wolfgang Kunert via his mobile phone. When they arrive, all they find is Kunert's car and his cell phone. Kunert and his hostage have disappeared without a trace. Eight-year-old Ronja, who has just moved to Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo's street, has observed something that no one wants to believe. When the Kunert case stagnates, Charlotte takes care of this process and discovers a terrible secret...

Many people already see themselves as the owner of a spacious top floor apartment in one of the romantic districts of Munich, until this dream is shattered by the notorious Munich real estate prices... The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are in the basement of a largely already luxury renovated apartment building. There lies the body of the former caretaker Grassl. The dead man has serious head injuries. Grassl's Thai wife Malee and their son Ton have disappeared. The new caretaker Mikosz obligingly opens all doors for the officers and would love to play investigator himself.
Gerti from the butcher's shop on the ground floor knows them all: the shared flat around Pierre Traublinger and his familyrevealing playmate Naomi, the mysterious professor, the chic Frau von Helmstedt with the changing male acquaintances and Konrad Strobl, the plumber who mourns the loss of his father and who has his workshop in the backyard. The profit-conscious owner Peter Bachinger also lives here in the house. Most would have had a motive for murder. But to the annoyance of the two chief inspectors, the already difficult investigations also suffer from the unhelpful behavior of their otherwise so patient chief inspector Carlo Menzinger: Instead of relieving Batic and Leitmayr of the tiresome research, Menzinger develops mysterious activities that obviously have nothing to do with the investigations in the Grassl case do have.

Professor Boerne's past catches up with him. The skeleton found in a forest near Münster is clearly the mortal remains of Raimund Stielicke, whom he knew from his active days in Münster's oldest student fraternity. The young Corps student was missing for more than ten years. Inspector Thiel is extremely suspicious of this world of roped parties and saber-rattling. And promptly his prejudices against the student fraternities seem to be confirmed: Raimund's father, the highly respected and also incorporated Prof. Walter Stielicke, shows no emotion whatsoever when he hears that his son has probably fallen victim to a violent crime. The victim's brother, prosecutor Karsten Stielicke, his wife Clara and former Corps companion Dr.
Leon Strobel is very reserved towards the inspector. Thiel has great difficulty in looking for clues in the illustrious circle. Prof. Boerne, on the other hand, is reviving his old connections: in the Corpshaus he now enjoys the respected status of "old gentleman", and his legendary fencing skills are still notorious here. There is a conflict of interest. Do Prof. Boerne and Commissioner Thiel still have the same goals in this case?

A few days before Ehrlicher retired, he was called to a new housing estate on the outskirts of Leipzig. A woman lies dead in her house. Rudolf Hahn, the dead man's friend who found her, claims that she hanged herself. Chief Inspector Ehrlicher doesn't believe in it because the interior of the house is badly devastated. In the house of the dead one finds a room that indicates that the young woman had offered sexual services for money. A little later, Hans Meier, the general contractor for most of the new houses in the area, is also dead. While Frederike and her colleagues try to organize a farewell party for Ehrlicher, Ehrlicher and his colleague Kain investigate the connections between the suspect Rudolf Hahn and the building contractor Hans Meier
They search the companies of Meier, who also ran a brothel. Eva, the new friend of Chief Inspector Kain, also lives in this settlement, and she was even friends with the dead woman. Her house was also built by Meier's company. Ehrlicher realizes that Cain is in a conflict of loyalties. Can he still trust him? Your partnership will be seriously tested.

Mechthild Stemmler, single mother of three children and recipient of Hartz IV, works as a volunteer at the lunch table. During the food distribution for the needy, she collapses unconscious. Mechthild Stemmler dies on the way to the hospital. Cause of death is poisoning. Inspector Charlotte Saenger and Inspector Fritz Dellwo immediately start a campaign to collect the food that has been handed out, since an attack on the lunch table cannot be ruled out. But then they get a tip from the coroner that suggests that Mechthild Stemmler was murdered on purpose. During their investigation, Singer and Dellwo uncover a dark past involving several lunchtime workers.

A professional was at work here. The policeman Gerd Samland was murdered in a brothel with two well-placed shots. Chief Inspector Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) is shocked. Was his friend and colleague actually a regular at this establishment? In order to ensure that nothing is swept under the carpet within the police force, the "Internal Investigations" department intervenes: Samland, who worked for the motorway police, was involved in illegal dealings with the underworld, claims Kriminalrat Brauer. He takes over the homicide case. Schenk and Ballauf are already expecting new work. The cleaning service found a badly battered corpse at a motorway service area. The man is obviously a missing Polish long-distance truck driver.
While Schenk is already looking for clues at the trucking company, Ballauf continues to take care of the murder of his old buddy from the police academy and stands by his widow Britta. In the course of their investigation, Ballauf and Schenk come across evidence of a sensitive corruption scandal. But before they can uncover the background, they themselves are targeted by the internal investigation...

Joseph Feinlein, Head of Unit at the Department of Health, is found dead in his office. He left a suicide note, everything points to suicide. But when the inspectors Till Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Felix Stark (Boris Aljinovic) deliver the letter to the seriously ill widow Rebekka (Corinna Kirchhoff), the devout Catholic doubts its authenticity. The autopsy reveals that the government official died of poison. Ritter and Stark learn that Feinlein had ordered a bicycle courier shortly before his death. But they can't question him - he's in a coma after a serious accident.
Is it a coincidence that the courier bag with Feinlein's shipment has since disappeared?While Ritter is talking to dispatcher Marielle (Jule Böwe), his colleague Stark is trying to get more details from the dead man's employee, Julia Jansen (Anja Kling). In addition, Ritter and Stark meet the resolute Maria Abt (Tina Engel). She is not on good terms with her dead brother-in-law and gives the inspectors statements from an account that shows significant cash deposits. When the courier Mischka (Bruno Montani) wakes up from the coma, there is a new lead. He remembers who the addressee of the message from the ministry was: a journalist named Hendrik Koch (Jürgen Tarrach), who has been researching corrupt ministry officials for a long time... 

At 18, Anne Kempf is already the mother of her four-year-old son Tim. She lives alone with him because Marc Sommer, the young father, is only thinking about his own future: a first-class school leaving certificate, football and the studies he hopes to be in America. Marc's widowed father and Anne's parents prefer not to interfere in their children's affairs at all... It's not easy for Anne, her everyday chaos - triggered by irregular working hours, little money, the responsibility for a bright child and a new one Romance with Hannes - to get a grip. There are some helpers, including Mrs Glück, but rarely at the right time. Little Tim has to be left alone sometimes.
Only Katrin, Marc's older sister, knows about the problems and keeps getting involved in Anne's affairs out of concern for little Tim. After a violent argument with Anne, Katrin is dead. The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr have to fathom the circumstances that led to this death bit by bit and get caught up in a fine web of evasions, half-truths and lies - all safety nets for overwhelmed children who already have a child themselves. The inspectors have no idea that another drama is unfolding beyond their investigations.

Hanover, LKA. Charlotte Lindholm is five months pregnant and in a bad mood because she is no longer allowed to work in the field. Nevertheless, she is the first to arrive at the crime scene when Afife (23), a young German-Turkish woman, is found dead by her husband Erdal. Everything points to suicide. But a little later, Afife's sister Selda (17) claims that Afife was murdered. She is afraid of putting herself in danger if it turns out that she is pregnant. She does not reveal who the father is. So Charlotte put Selda up with her for the time being. Martin doesn't think that's a good idea, he's always worried about Charlotte and stress isn't good for the offspring. Charlotte takes Selda's suspicions seriously and suspects an honor killing behind Afife's death. Maybe Afife wanted to leave her husband Erdal for someone else.
That would be a clear motive for murder for the husband. Charlotte's Turkish colleague Cem finds this theory absurd and racist, and Charlotte accuses him of ignoring the facts. Fatma and Aka, Selda's parents, are now very worried about their second daughter. Selda afraid to come back home. Charlotte, on the other hand, observes with irritation that Selda has a very close relationship with her brother-in-law Erdal and suddenly looks at Selda with different eyes. Is Erdal perhaps the father of Selda's child? Did the two kill Afife to be able to live their love? Selda is shocked when Charlotte confronts her with this hypothesis. Desperate, she leaves Charlotte and Martin's apartment. When Selda is found dead shortly afterwards, Charlotte blames herself.
Everything looks like suicide again. During the autopsy it turns out that Erdal cannot be the father of the unborn child. Meanwhile, Charlotte doubts her honor killing scenario. Instead, she follows the clues Selda laid just before her death and encounters a harrowing truth.

It was supposed to look like journalist Harald Strauss died in an accident. But when Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper start investigating, it quickly turns out that he was already dead when his car went off the road. Harald Strauss was poisoned. The journalist researched a pharmaceutical company that was developing a new weight-loss drug, a veritable "fat killer". But everything is fine with the drug, the pharmacologists responsible for the development, Dr. Kiel and Dr. Neumann. Kristina, Harald Strauss' ex-girlfriend, allegedly knows nothing. But Lena notices that the beautiful young woman who wants to make a career as a model has unusual eating habits and takes mysterious pills.
Kristina's ambition is to get even thinner than she already is. At the same time, her mood swings are so severe that Lena begins to worry about the young woman. When she discovers that Kristina took part in a series of tests for the fat killer "Nofamax", Lena suspects that Kristina's fear of persecution has something to do with it. Is there real danger for Kristina because she knows a little more about the drug than she's letting on, or is she just imagining the persecution?