Die Toten von Salzburg - Season 1

If murder occurs in the Salzburg-Bavarian border area, the responsibilities are not always clear. Therefore, the Salzburg major Peter Palfinger and the Bavarian chief criminal commissioner Hubert Mur jointly investigate when the real estate agent Holzer, who is by no means blameless, is found dead. They don't do that voluntarily. Their partnership begins reluctantly, their approaches and characters are too different. While Mur is a straightforward lone fighter and rationalist who comes to his goal with persistence, Palfinger is fascinated of the complexity of the human psyche. For him, who is in a wheelchair after a paragliding accident, there are often other perspectives on people and the environment. Incomplete paraplegia. This diagnosis a year ago was a radical turning point in Palfinger's life.
The incorrigible optimist takes it as a challenge. He is convinced that his paraplegia is curable and trains hard for it. At some point he wants to conquer the Untersberg again. Without a wheelchair. On his own two feet.

Double murder in a Salzburg hospital. The first victim, Olaf Schmidt, is – after a mysterious car accident – the seriously injured driver of an important German politician. The second victim, Albrecht Edlinger, is a patient in the same hospital room. The crashed mountaineer was apparently only unlucky enough to have seen the perpetrator. The professional and ice-cold execution of the crime directs the suspicion of a mysterious woman. You will be connected to a news service assumes and it has a strong motive. Bavarian Commissioner Hubert Mur sees the crime in connection with the corrupt politician and his involvement in arms exports. The driver should probably be switched off as an uncomfortable know-it-all. It is only thanks to Major Palfinger's sense of human abysses and his intensive search for the archaic roots of the deed that the very personal and emotional backgrounds are revealed.

Palfinger has to deal with a case again with his Nemesis Mur from Bavaria, because the Bavarian sausage king, Gschwandtner, was found murdered in his villa in Salzburg. One of his Romanian foster children, seven-year-old Tyki, has disappeared. Since the fingerprints of Tyki's older sister Liana ( 16 ) are found on the murder weapon, she is immediately heard as the first suspect. But this time Palfinger and Mur agree: the children are innocent. While the two investigators avoid each other in the usual manner, Palfinger's employee Irene Russmeyer searches for the boy. The suspects also put the doorknob in their hands, because the glorious appearance of the sausage king family is crumbling. Hate, greed, betrayal and fraud have slowly decomposed the family.

Hofrat Seywald is in a bad mood – at least until a murder is reported in Bad Gastein. This time he wants to lead the investigation personally. And – unselfish, as it is its kind – in the world-famous health resort, by the way, try out a few applications against its rheumatism. Major Palfinger and colleague Russmeyer initially have completely different concerns. Nothing is as it seems. Investigators cannot rely on their experience or tried and tested forensic medicine. Because before it was found, the body in a shaft in the famous hot spring water of Bad Gastein was properly „ " for a long time. Important traces and references to the time of death can hardly be found. The identity of the dead is quickly clear: Gregor Torbeck.
This represented in the community his father Jan Torbeck, an unpopular construction lion and investor who only buys the entire old town around the waterfall, but does not invest anything. The main suspect is soon the young SEK woman from Germany, Rebecca Quast, who is currently taking part in an alpine course in Bad Gastein with her group. And this is how Commissioner Mur comes into play: he himself should look at the Austrian authorities' fingers and make sure that a German official is not investigated unilaterally. With his usual „ lenses " Art, he soon has a completely different suspect in his sights: Agrin Dibra, the operator of a night club. Investigators approach a phantom and have to realize that the perpetrator wants to accomplish his revenge with a second murder at all costs. 

On Fridays Sebastian Palfinger takes the confession of his brothers in the Capuchin monastery. But this time he does not open the door of the confessional to a sinner but to a body. Brother Jakob lies in his own blood with a massive wooden cross and never hears the bells again. Palfinger is therefore not far from the scene of the crime and the suspects are also manageable. Only the monks had access to the monastery church at the time of the crime. Although Palfinger and Russmeyer may not really believe that one of the peaceful monks has become a killer, they must in the convention. The only strange thing is that hardly anyone knew Brother Jakob better.
He also noticed negative several times, even sold out to Rosa Wimmer, a young employee of the monastery, which makes her the main suspect in the short term. The victim's identity not only brings Commissioner Mur on the scene, but also leads to his past. An unresolved case that hit him hard both professionally and privately. But before the real culprit can be found, there are still many hurdles waiting for our investigators.

A male body is discovered in the whirlpool in a thermal spa hotel. The dead are Jan Stickler, the power-hungry conductor of the Salzburg Alt Orchestra. Forensic Guardian finds out the cause of death: Stickler died from two strong blows on the head. In the old manner, both executive groups, the Bavarian and the Austrian side, are again interested in solving the case quickly. Palfinger and Russmeyer interrogate the entire orchestra. The first suspect is the percussionist: violent past, an impending termination, then he also flees – a suitable suspect.
But then the investigators have to find out over several detours that Stickler has sexually forced and blackmailed a Bulgarian transverse flautist, and that everything is not as clear as it seems. Mur informs the widow of the murdered man. Ursula Stickler is a lawyer and proves to be extremely uncooperative. Daughter Estelle confirms Ursulas Alibi for the murder night. Mur, rightly suspicious, discovers that the two are lying. He also finds out that Ursula Stickler has an affair with a photographer who was also at the Thermen Hotel on Murder Night. Mur is now doing everything possible to prove, that the widow and her lover are behind the murder.
Russmeyer and Palfinger take the first violin to their breasts after new evidence: Effie Salz wanted to prevent Stickler from getting the conductor's post at all with a petition. His call had rushed ahead of him. But the management of the Alt Orchestra ignored any rumors – that it was only interested in Stickler bringing a breath of fresh air and high sales with its star doors. It gets really exciting when Russmeyer finds out that the charming choir director had also applied for the conductor's post, but had flown out of the race because of a plagiarism charge. Investigators look into a bottomless barrel full of orchestral envy, resentment and intrigue.

The body of the German-Chinese tour guide Kang Lien is washed up in a suitcase in the beautifully glittering Salzach. She was the lover of Konstantin Mandl, the useless son of Salzburg's largest bus tour entrepreneur. Once again, cross-border conditions are bringing up the two antipodes Major Palfinger and Chief Criminal Commissioner Mur. Against the background of the „ Overtourism " that is on everyone's lips Investigators this time pretty much in the Bredouille. After all, a murder in the tourism industry is a major problem for the region's main economic artery. But again this time the Bavarian Commissioner Mur is working together on the case with his brute warmth and the sensitive, ingenious Major Palfinger. And by the way, you have to protect colleague Russmeyer – from far-reaching consequences in a dramatic final –.

Leonie, a young girl from Bavaria, has disappeared. The photo of a blood-smeared marble table that was leaked to the parents fears bad things. Did the student at a Salzburg elite high school fall victim to a violent crime? Again, a case forcefully leads the Bavarian chief commissioner Mur to the Salzburg department for blood and violence offenses to Major Palfinger and Irene Russmeyer. It soon turns out, that it appears to be a kidnapping case. The daughter of a Bavarian „ beer emperor " could still live. A temporary game begins for the investigators. The highly dramatic hunt on the kidnapper also leads to Leonie's internship in a dedicated resocialization project for young „ outlaws " in the Hellbrunner Zoo.
The tightly run elite high school supports this project financially and is allowed to assign students who are interested in social work to the zoo project. It is bubbling properly in the explosive field of tension between stumbled losers and spoiled offspring. Ultimately, however, the seemingly contradictory worlds have a common longing: Because passion is not the key to clarifying this very special case

The Salzburg Capuchin monastery has opened up to the world: self-finding seminars are intended to bring secular finances into the monastery walls and an archaeological excavation is to uncover the final resting place of a legendary Bavarian Duchess with valuable additions. But instead of a treasure, the skeleton of a British pilot who crashed in World War II appears. The injury to the skull is a bullet hole – it was executed. And then the body of Brother Gereon is discovered in the excavation section the next day. The young, dogmatic monk had spoken out against an excavation in the monastery. Since Palfinger is the main investigator on a cure, it is up to District Inspector Irene Russmeyer, her Bavarian colleague Hubert Mur and Hofrat Seywald to investigate past war crimes and the murder of Brother Gereon.