Tatort - Season 35 / Year 2004

The promising young politician Manfred Körner is involved in a car accident: he runs over a young man. Although inspectors Till Ritter and Felix Stark find out that he was already dead, Körner's career falters, and the press plays a major role in this. But the clique of young people around the dead man also hates the politician. The detectives investigate in the environment of the political sharks and drug dealers to prove that Körner is really an honest skin.

After long, painful years, Lisbeth Kemmerlang and her sister Johanna were freed by their violent father: master baker Eberhard Kemmerlang went to prison for six years for sexually abusing his daughters. Now Kemmerlang is free and Lisbeth fears her father's revenge. Shortly thereafter, she is found dead in the bakery's automatic oven. Footprints in the flour dust, the unscrewed inner door handle: Lisbeth was murdered. Suspicion falls on the dismissed Kemmerlang. Klara Blum puts his alibi through its paces, especially since daughter Johanna vehemently accuses him. But Kemmerlang, who now works in a large bakery, holds onreview status. Johanna is deeply troubled and seeks support from Klara. But then a plastic bag with the removed door handle is found not far from the crime scene.
Inside is a pair of men's shoes that match the footprints and Kemmerlang's clothes from before. Klara and her new assistant Kai Perlmann arrest Kemmerlang. Klara now has a prime suspect. But something irritates her about the quick fix. The clues appear as if they were specifically prepared. Someone seems to have an interest in incriminating Kemmerlang. Even if Klara doesn't want to admit it at first: There is only one person who can do this. And this is Johanna.

While Thorsten Beckershoff, a young police officer, was guarding a pharmacy during a demonstration in downtown Hamburg, he was severely beaten by three hooded men. For Casstorff, the case is particularly explosive because his son Daniel also took part in the demonstration and was provisionally arrested for "resisting state authority". A surveillance camera provides the police with material about the crime, and the trail quickly leads to the autonomous Robby "King" Bastner. A search is initiated, the BKA takes over the case. When Chief Inspector Casstorff visits the injured police officer in the hospital with Daniel, he meets his girlfriend Angela Meerbaum and her three best friends, who have known each other since school.
They are Thomas Wichelhaus, the owner of the pharmacy that Beckershoff was guarding, Michael Loose, a building contractor, and State Councilor Michael Pfeiffer. In her emotional turmoil, Angela Meerbaum reacted extremely angrily to Casstorff and Daniel's visit. Shortly thereafter, Beckershoff succumbs to his injuries. While the investigations in the Autonomenszene progress, Casstorff suspects that there could be more behind the crime and begins to investigate in the immediate vicinity of the dead man. Meanwhile, Casstorff is under pressure because of Daniel's behavior at the demonstration. Even the State Council gets involved. During their research, Casstorff and his colleagues Holicek and Graf encounter strange inconsistencies.
Thorsten Beckershoff lived well beyond his means, and his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his child, does not say a good word about him. Casstorff and his team begin to unravel private motives and the background to the crime, which sheds new light on the case.

A new case leads Commissioners Ehrlicher and Kain to the Leipzig area. The hunter Lothar Sofsky was shot dead during a battue. There's a load of buckshot in his body. An accident? Apparently Sofsky hadn't worn a vest while hunting, contrary to regulations. But traces of fibers in the wound prove the opposite. Shortly thereafter, his vest is confiscated – buried in the forest floor, with a clear hole pattern. It was murder... One of the other hunters is the game wholesaler Karsten Dietz, who mentioned during the first questioning that he didn't like Sofsky. Then, however, he refers to his older brother Gernot, who has leased the hunting ground. Sofsky, a wealthy real estate owner, was a silent partner in Gernot Dietz's riding stables and therefore his business partner.
Next, the arms dealer Georg Herboltz divulges a piquant detail from Sofsky's private life: the husband had approached the young, beautiful Simone Körner, who works as a waitress in the hunter's favorite "Lindenhof". The widow Birgit Sofsky, who was also part of the hunt, confirmed that she knew about her 20-year-old competitor and the relationship. She also says that her husband wanted to sell his shares in the riding stables, which would have broken Gernot Dietz's neck financially. Both men had therefore argued violently three days ago. Fear of existence and jealousy - two plausible motives for a murder. But within the circle of potential perpetrators and the hunter community there are completely different relationships.
Village policeman Schulz also knows how to tell about Gernot's fights and still remembers the Dietz brothers' youth well: two boys, as different as day and night. When a second murder occurs in the hunting ground, Ehrlicher and Kain have to delve deeper into the story of the brothers Gernot and Karsten Dietz. The two hunters are at the center of a tragedy that is unstoppable. The inspectors encounter an old, still open score and hatred, jealousy and envy...

Hannes Buck showed great presence of mind at the wheel of a money transporter: although his partner was shot dead next to him, he drove off in the middle of a robbery and left the robbers behind. Although the perpetrators and part of the loot have disappeared, Buck was able to save himself and most of the money. When Lena Odenthal questions him, she recognizes him as a friend from her youth. He is now happily married and has a family. Lena and Hannes get along again immediately. But the reunion is not easygoing, because Lena and Kopper have to assume that employees of the security company worked together with the gangsters. Lena is convinced that it couldn't have been Hannes. But Kopper finds clues that point to exactly that.

The Lüneburg pharmaceutical company "Gerlitz AG" is a target of political activists because of its genetic research. When the company boss's limousine is pushed off the road, the masked driver saves the chauffeur from the burning car at the last second and flees. LKA Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm is to determine whether it was an assassination. On site, Charlotte meets Commissioner Belinda Uzman, who does not believe in an attack. The attacked senior boss Klaus Gerlitz is also rather relaxed. Nevertheless, his worried son Steffen has now hired a personal protection team. Charlotte is not exactly happy when her ex-colleague and ex-boyfriend Rolf Jacobi announces himself as head of theprotection force introduced. A protection racket of more than two million euros received by e-mail puts the case in a new light.
Charlotte makes up her own mind about the activists. Thanks to old contacts, she finds two members of the group, who, however, deny any involvement. But they point out that their comrades-in-arms Sonja Bertram and her friend Philipp are leading a private crusade against the pharmaceutical company. Klaus Gerlitz is kidnapped under the eyes of the police. The following money transfer fails. Charlotte has to hand over the case to her colleague Bein from state security. Meanwhile, Charlotte has too many leads to just give up.

Moritz Eisner's first assignment as a member of a new special commission of the Ministry of the Interior, which takes on special criminological tasks throughout Austria, takes him to the Arndorf monastery in Carinthia. An international organ competition is taking place there, in which a very special member of the jury is to receive personal protection. The guest of honor is the Austrian bishop Hawranek, who has been campaigning for human rights in Brazil for many years and has already been the victim of several assassination attempts. When the arrival of the bishop who was to open the competition is delayed, jumpsthe young organist Nikolaus Kutil. But the brilliant opening concert ends in disaster: an organ pipe comes loose from its anchorage and kills the young man in front of the assembled audience.
Moritz Eisner and his new boss, Section Head Schremser, are on hand. While Schremser is convinced of another attack on the bishop, Eisner believes it is more of an act of sabotage. However, Moritz Eisner's theories falter when a second music student dies. He used the bishop's cocoa tin to brew himself a drink laced with poison. 

Strike at the Ostendorf shipyard in Kiel: Works council spokesman Bruhns wants to agree to the dismissal of a maximum of 50 men in order to ensure the preservation of the Kiel shipyard. The boss of the shipyard, Felix Ostendorf, tries almost desperately to make it clear to him that that won't be enough. But Bruhns remains firm, because he also uses the situation for personal profiling. Even his works council colleague Heise, who wants to work hand in hand with the shipyard management, cannot change his mind. 50 names, 50 destinies. Who will be blacklisted? The ambitious board secretary Tatjana Matthies is also interested in this. She is afraid for her unfit brother Benno, who won't be able to find another job any time soon. In order to save Benno's job, she even woos Bruhn's works council.
Much to the displeasure of her friend Holger Clausen, who also works at the shipyard. When Commissioner Borowski was called to the shipyard the next morning, Bruhns was lying dead on a work raft. The strike ended with a quick agreement between Ostendorf and Bruhn's successor, Heise. Nevertheless, one deeply regrets the death of the vital works council. Borowski begins to delve into the cosmos of the shipyard world to learn something about the relationships at the shipyard. When the dismissal list appears, the investigations intensify. 50 names, 50 suspects? No, because the list was not published yet. But one name has been crossed out. Maybe a specific clue?

The body of twelve-year-old Miriam Meinfeld is found in the Tenever district of Bremen. The police assume suicide. It turns out that the girl has had a history of sexual abuse and various old bone injuries point to abuse. The inspectors Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) first look for possible suspects in the family circle. They fear for the well-being of the two siblings Svenja (Luisa Sappelt) and Björn Meinfeld (Philip Stölken), since the parents (Michael Lott, Martina Schiesser) do not make a particularly trustworthy impression. However, the parents blame the residents of a home for the mentally handicapped, which has long been a thorn in the side of the residents of the district.
And indeed, the commissioners find traces of the deceased and her sister Svenja there. Harald, one of the disabled people (Hans Uwe Bauer), is arrested when it turns out that he is by no means as harmless as he appears at first glance, that he was an officer in a special unit of the Bundeswehr (KSK) until he suffered a severe head injury, so quite capable of physical violence. The suspicion against him increases mainly because he remains silent. The inspectors only realize much too late that they were deliberately misled, that Harald helped the two girls and gave them shelter. But by then it's already too late. A tattoo on the dead girl's hand puts officers on a whole new lead. It is the sign of a satanic sect.
Stedefreund comes across the librarian Karin Melzer (Monica Bleibtreu), who is familiar with the scene and gives him information. But what the woman says sounds so exaggerated and spooky that Inga Lürsen is initially unwilling to believe her. The commissioners only slowly find out that there are connections after all: the spooky rituals of the sect and the drugs that the children are given could, among other things, have the purpose of making all the statements made by the victims sound so improbable that nobody believes them. And so the inspectors can hardly find anyone who has really listened to the children, and they can't get close to the children.
This is ensured by the parents, from whom the viewer will later learn that they, originally victims of the sect themselves, are now part of the apparatus and make their children available for its rituals. The sect responds promptly to the threat. The informant dies in an accident. The Meinfelds are shot (even though it's meant to look like suicide) and the two children are kidnapped. With that, all witnesses are eliminated and the commissioners begin to understand that the sect's helpers are obviously sitting in high positions and have been monitoring and manipulating their every step for a long time.

The doctor at the "Abendrot" senior citizens' home, Dr. Rose Lang, was murdered. Ironically, in "Abendrot" Freddy Schenk also accommodated his grandmother Margot – against her will. Now he has a guilty conscience. In the home, there was obviously also tension between Dr. Lang and the nurse Tatjana Riegelsberger and the director of the home Erika Schubert. After the recent death of a senior citizen, the doctor had expressed clear criticism of the nursing shortage in the "afterglow". The home resident Mr. Kehl is convinced that his wife could have been saved if only help had been there in time. Another resident of the home, Konstantin Baumeister, died completely unexpectedly. Margot Schenk had just become friends with him of all people.

Inspectors Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo are confronted with a murder at a comprehensive school. The school psychologist Dr. Wick was brutally stabbed to death in her apartment. Because after the suicide of a student at Dr. Wick's place of work, which avoids fear, the director needs a replacement quickly. Charlotte Singer offers himself. This allows her to investigate undercover among students and teachers. Meanwhile, Dellwo investigates Karl Lichti, a rape convict and a client of Dr. Wick was.

Inspector Frank Thiel is investigating a spectacular murder case. While playing at the Aasee, children discovered a headless corpse. Shortly before her death, the young woman must have consumed vast amounts of red wine and truffles. The autopsy report by forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is unequivocal: The circumstances are the same as in the Rohrbach murder that caused a stir in the 1950s, which was never solved and is still considered an unprecedented judicial scandal today. The pressure on public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm and her team is correspondingly great. First, the identity of the corpse must be clarified. Inspector Thiel is investigating a missing persons report by student Laura Schott .
Is the body your friend Solveig Helmhövel? The bookseller Sigbert Helmhövel and his sister Monika are surprised. You think Solveig is on holiday in Madeira. Meanwhile appears with Dr. Oleg Buykov a very influential Ukrainian businessman on the scene. Even the Federal Ministry of Economics warns the investigators to exercise extreme discretion. The personal description of the dead from Lake Aasee fits his wife exactly, the traveling salesman puts it on record. Is the Russian mafia involved here? In fact, a little later Buykov identified the corpse as Olga Buykova. But Thiel remains skeptical. Then a second murder occurs.

At an event for singles, Chief Inspector Carlo Menzinger tries his luck in vain. Because Korinna, the woman he likes, is also ensnared by the charming Peter. And Peter almost won the race at Korinna when he is apparently hit by a car on purpose and dies. The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr have no choice but to delve deep into the jungle of big-city singles, where money and success count more than love and security and where the desire for private happiness is fulfilled all the more quickly, almost hastily shall be. It quickly turns out that Peter was a poacher in the jungle of single people: a womanizer who was also in a steady relationship with Sofie.
And quite a few of his countless lovers - including the unfortunate Rafaela - knew how much Peter enjoyed this double game. Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr now have to deal with longings and bitter realizations that they - themselves singles - would otherwise have preferred to avoid. And they mustn't forget to take care of lovesick Carlo, who, once in search of happiness, now seems hopelessly pursued by bad luck.

This time, the two Berlin crime scene commissioners Till Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Felix Stark (Boris Aljinovic) are investigating the art scene. In her latest case, the restorer Lohmeyer was found shot dead - what initially looks like a robbery and murder turns out to be a carefully planned act in the art milieu.

When the young Lutz Bergmann crashes into a bridge pillar and dies, Lena Odenthal rightly suspects a murder. The power man worked for the company Rocket Marketing, which advertises energy drink sellers in a Ponzi scheme and is managed by the charismatic Max Hüllen. A rip-off job that brought Bergmann not only a lot of money but also many enemies. Anyone who has been seduced by the promise of fast, uncomplicated money is risking their belongingsand circle of friends. Above all, the sanitaryware retailer Wattenscheid makes itself suspicious, which, instead of bridging a short-term business slump, was driven into bankruptcy. Lutz Bergmann's old friend Ritchy Horst is also suspicious. Ritchy is also a Rocket Marketing seller and is extremely successful. Lena, suspicious of this overly glossy surface, sneaks Mario Kopper undercover into Rocket Marketing.

A stranger is hunting skinheads. He shoots her without leaving any usable traces. Ballauf and Schenk seek help from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. But the officer doesn't speak, but the spy, who the Office for the Protection of the Constitution smuggled into the scene, does: All of the victims were involved in an attack on a Turkish restaurant years ago . Will the victims take revenge sooner, or should the police be deliberately sent down the wrong track? When it becomes clear that everyone is playing their own game, Ballauf and Schenk have to hang on to the officer. This is dangerous and against all police regulations - but successful in the end.

The investigations in the case of the murdered Manfred Depke lead Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper to a supervised shared flat in Depke's suburb. The four girls in the group home are scared because petty criminal Bernd Borgwardt, who comes and goes in the flat, raped one of them and is now trying to silence her with threats . Lena supports caretaker Sarah Herzog in her efforts to get Boogie out of business with the help of the authorities. But as the evidence mounts that Boogie is also involved in the Depke case, it becomes clear that the interests of the narcotics squad stand in the way of an arrest.

The "Don Giovanni" premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was a roaring success, so the premiere party is correspondingly lively. Intendant Bartholdy especially praises the bassist Cassian Pfeiffer, who sang the Steinernen Gast and thus celebrated his 20th stage anniversary. The buffet had just opened when Dr. Arnulf Sontheim, who is closely associated with the house as a voice specialist and chairman of the circle of friends, is found stabbed to death behind a pillar. It quickly becomes clear to Bienzle and Gächter that the perpetrator is to be found in the vicinity of the opera, because the murder weapon is a prepared hunting knife from the armory. Allegedly, Sontheim only had friends and admirers in the theater: soprano Sylvia Temesvari, for example
was a loyal patient, Cassian Pfeiffer, a regular visitor to Sontheim's practice, even describes the doctor as a close friend, director Bartholdy took advice from him. Anita Breitling, his receptionist, can only praise her former boss in the highest tones. His singer patients received strength and security from him. But Bienzle also hears undertones of reserve, for example with Sylvia Temesvari, who has recently stopped visiting the practice frequently. The more Bienzle finds out about Sontheim, the clearer the picture of a man who has made others dependent on him becomes clearer. Either through his medical work, in his relationships with women, or quite tangibly, as in the case of the director, to whom Sontheim lent a large sum.
One wonders whether a member of the opera forcibly freed himself from this dependency. Stage manager Robert van Dahlen is deliberately calm and relaxed, although until recently he was the celebrated baritone at home and a constant patient of Sontheim before his career ended with paralysis of the vocal cords. He doesn't hold a grudge against the doctor who couldn't help him, he emphasizes again and again. Cassian Pfeiffer, on the other hand, consistently avoids Bienzle. Only when he visits him in the hospital does the inspector manage to speak to the singer. Cassian spends every free minute there visiting his daughter, who is in a coma after attempting suicide. Like Waltraud Pfeiffer, his wife and dress mistress at the theater, he is longingly waiting for Sarah to wake up again. The mourning for Sontheim has already faded into the background again.
The longer the investigation lasts, the more unrest and rejection spreads in the opera house: the operation must go on unhindered, which is just as important to the director as it is to his singers. The commissars get in the way. But Bienzle believes he knows that the perpetrator is to be found in the vicinity of Sontheim's patients. And that Robert van Dahlen is hiding a lot from him. But just as Bienzle wants to get the stage manager to tell him the truth, van Dahlen is attacked on stage..

The residents of the Tyrolean village of Steinbach have long been divided over the use of a medicinal spring. Now the dispute has claimed its first casualty, an environmentalist. Although everything initially points to a suicide, Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and his colleague Barbara Trenkwalder (Birgit Doll) begin their investigations on site. The list of potential perpetrators is growing rapidly.

It should look like a traffic accident. But the autopsy shows clearly: Sven Uwe Schütze was first killed and then run over. A case for Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk. In the victim's apartment, the two inspectors came across a note with the names of three students from the Albertus Magnus boarding school. What connection did the young East German fitter have to this prestigious private school? The three teenagers Marc Landauer, Daniela Paulke and Thomas Loebelt claim to have never seen the murder victim, but the two young men in particular get caught up in contradictions. The commissioners then decide to investigate separately. Disguised as a caretaker, Freddy Schenk goes in search of clues in the elite boarding school. Max Ballauf interviews themschool administration and the families of the suspects.
They quickly discover a close-knit network of relationships that continues beyond the walls of the boarding school and goes all the way back to the Third Reich. The private banker Prof. Dr. Rudolf Loebelt is the main sponsor of the school. Accordingly, he maintains good relations with Siegfried Mahlmann, the head of the boarding school for many years, the father of the current headmistress. And as it turns out, Daniela's mother, the journalist Irene Paulke, also receives regular allowances from the bank. She had written a company chronicle. The history of the Loebelt private bank is closely linked to the fate of the Jewish banking family Landauer. Ballauf and Schenk are certain: the journalist knows more than she wants to reveal. 

The carefully draped corpse of 16-year-old student and gifted pianist Rita Koehler is found on a grand piano in a concert hall. Her body was apparently embalmed. Could it have been suicide and aiding and abetting? Then the also prepared corpse of an old man is found – Karl Hahnemann, born in 1923. What did Rita and Hahnemann have in common? Both had a talent: Rita in music, Hahnemann was a gifted chess player. A third victim inevitably makes it clear to the investigators that they are dealing with a serial offender: when the seven-year-old, highly talented Björn disappears, Borowski, his colleague Alim Zainalow and police psychologist Frieda Jung urgently need to decode a pattern in order to track down the perpetrator come.

An old woman is found dead in her apartment. She was murdered. Her savings have disappeared from her apartment. During their research, inspectors Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo come across a whole series of mysterious deaths of elderly women, all of whom are said to have died of heart failure. All of them withdrew their savings from the bank shortly before they died – and clothing belonging to a certain Frankfurt fur trader was found on all of the victims…

A dead man with a bullet in his back in the woods somewhere near Hamelin. Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm soon has several suspects: the poacher Gramisch, the forest owner Freden and the game warden Kupka. But the identity of the dead person opens up a trail that points to the past. Charlotte soon unfolds a tragedy of love, guilt and revenge when another shot rings out in the woods...

Their 35th case leads the inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain to the Leipzig Monument to the Battle of the Nations. There, while a neo-Nazi demonstration is taking place at the main train station, one of the local ringleaders named Linhard Banzhaff is found dead. Apparently he was pushed down from the higher gallery. An injured person lies unconscious in the elevator: Stefan Mayer-Lischinski. The commissioners determine that Banzhaff must have received a blow to the larynx before he fell into the depths of the monument. So: murder! Prosecutor Mitterer finds evidence in her files that the unemployed fitter, who has had several criminal records, has been a political activist for right-wing extremist groups for a long time.
Walter, the forensic scientist who reviews all the police videos of the demonstration, makes another important discovery: Banzhaff was at the rally before he died. The videos show that he fought there with Mayer-Lischinski, whose ex-wife tried to separate the brawlers. In the dead man's apartment, the police officers track down the common past of the two men: a photo shows them together at an anti-Stasi demonstration in 1989, and letters from Mayer-Lischinski show the disgust and hatred he later felt for the true political motives of his ex-boyfriend.
The commissioners ask themselves: How could Banzhaff afford such a luxurious apartment? Where do the many large cash deposits on the bank statements lying on the corridor floor come from? Finally, Kain and Ehrlicher surprise the senior government councilor Rita Faulhaber from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, who is trying to leave the apartment through the kitchen window... The inspectors receive the news that the main suspect has escaped from the hospital. When pastor Antje Mayer-Lischinski leads Ehrlicher and Kain to her ex-husband's studio, they find the rooms completely devastated. Outside the door lurk in the dark those who want to settle accounts with the church resistance in their own way: Nico Röckmann, lawyer and agitator of the neo-Nazi demo, and Hermann Waldau, the new Leipzig neo-Nazi leader.
Röckmann knows very well how to take advantage of the police investigations – which really annoys the inspectors. When Walter discovered Rita Faulhaber of all people on the tapes of the surveillance cameras at the time of the crime in front of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations, the case took a surprising turn... 

Adi Zeitler, Willy Tindle and their friend Cynthia Lademaker don't just want coffee and cake. Numerous ailments of old age require sorely needed relief. Right now, before the upcoming funeral of Cynthia's husband, the trio is dependent on the proven painkillers. As always, the smell of coffee is in the air at the old pharmacist Karl Kreuzer. But in the back room next to the laboratory, Willy makes a grisly discovery: the pharmacist was stabbed to death in a macabre way. The drug addict Benny Marien can just escape the horrified Willyescape toilet. The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr have to inform Helga Müller, the good spirit of the pharmacy, of the death of their beloved boss. Chief Inspector Carlo Menzinger is ordered back from his well-deserved short vacation at his mountain hut.
Gradually, the three investigators gain insight into the world of the elderly and those left alone in this murder case. But the senior trio tries steadfastly to fight for a happy old age in the face of illness and hardship. 

Sandra Waller, a patient in a St. Ingbert pain clinic, suffers. She makes Professor Dr. Till Pfortner, one of the most renowned surgeons in the country, is responsible for her mental crisis. Chief Inspector Palu himself witnesses when the young woman physically attacks the respected doctor on the street. While the therapist Dr. Cordula Scholz tries to free Sandra Waller not only from her pain, but also from her self-destructive trip, when a murder occurs. The doctor and painter Barbara Schreiner is shot dead - just before the vernissage of her new exhibition "Teufel im Leib". Soon thereafter, Chief Inspector Palu has to go to another crime scene: Sandra's father, the gynecologist Dr. Alfred Waller is dead at home – also shot.
The Saarbrücken "Tatort" team is investigating his latest case in the sophisticated world of plastic surgery. Chief Inspector Max Palu and his assistant Stefan Deininger stumble upon dirty deals, abysmal intrigues, strange coincidences and a hot lead to Metz behind the façade of immaculate beauty.

Inspector Casstorff and his team are confronted this time with a case that is unusual and frightening: the corpse of 14-year-old Ronja is the starting point for their investigations, which lead to Hamburg's social hotspots. The suspects are as young as the victim: a clique of underage girls who have already made a name for themselves through various acts of violence. Girls who come from extremely disturbed family and social backgrounds, for whom brutality and violence are omnipresent even as children. They know that they are not yet of criminal age - in this respect the interrogations with which Casstorff and his colleague Holicek initially try to shed light on Ronja's murder are hardly effective at all.
Only Jenny Graf manages to gain the trust of one of the suspected girls. Fatma, a young Turkish woman, drives Casstorff insane with her indifferent manner and impudence - until she opens up to him in a quiet moment. The thick mela remains closed; with Lucy, who is caring for her grandfather who has Alzheimer's at home, Jenny notices that she was in love with Ronja. And then there is the quiet and sensitive Marie, Ronja's cousin. The clique really settles in with her because the parents are on vacation without Marie.
Or was Ronja's murderer Piet, who came from a "good family" and finally wanted revenge because the gang of girls regularly "pulled" him on the way to school? With empathy and tireless investigative work, Casstorff, Holicek and Jenny Graf finally succeed in solving Ronja's murder. There is a showdown on board the houseboat on which the young girl lived together with her mother...

Chief Inspector Ehrlicher is just about to leave for his vacation in Paris when his boss sends him to the new Central Stadium in Leipzig, which is scheduled to open in two days with a big celebration. There, Susanne Fellner, Head of Human Resources, was found dead. Ehrlicher drives directly from the airport to the stadium, where his colleague Kain and the forensics team have already started their work. During the investigation, the police officers first come across dissatisfied employees. The young HR manager had made herself unpopular because she was only interested in her own career and profitable figures. So she recently fired the employee Ralf Rogge. Caretaker Georg Bracht should also be fired.
Bracht has been toiling here for 40 years and knows the stadium boss Hartmut Utz from the time when he played football successfully himself. Bracht is proud that his son Daniel made it as an engineer to become the technical manager in the company. So could the murder be an act of revenge? Anna Fellner, the sister of the murdered woman, confirms that Ralf Rogge threatened Susanne. The convicted ex-boxer had renovated Anna's dance studio, but then couldn't agree on the price with Susanne - and freaked out. Ehrlicher and Kain prick up their ears when they learn that stadium manager Utz personally informed Anna Fellner about Susanne's death. It is also strange that Utz avoids a conversation with the commissioners. The commissioners seem to be on the right track.
As it turns out, Utz had an affair with the murdered woman. Then Ralf Rogge demolished Anna's dance studio. When he is arrested, he confirms the row with Susanne, but protests his innocence in her murder. In the middle of the devastated rooms, Cain finds a bill that Susanne had apparently hidden there. The trail leads to Hannelore Utz, the stadium director's wife, and her shady dealings. Was she blackmailed by the dead?

A dead colleague in the anatomy dissection room: Forensic pathologist Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne is shocked. The corpse discovered by Professor Gregor Härtling in the preparation course is Amélie Blanc. Until a few weeks ago, the French chemist was working as an intern for a respected research group at the University of Münster. Since the corpse was professionally preserved, Frank Thiel suspects the perpetrator to be in the institute environment. He arranges for a DNA analysis for all important employees of Prof. Härtling's institute, including the professor himself. Prof. Boerne finds this examination very unpleasant, after all the Härtlings are friends with him and his mother. The other colleagues like Carla Hanke and Dr. Schroth are recognized scientists.
What could have prompted her to murder the attractive guest from the Sorbonne in Paris? Was jealousy involved? Then the upset husband of the dead, Thierry, appears on the scene and causes a stir... 

"Vorstadtballade" portrays the Munich slaughterhouse district in the southwest of the city with its traditional restaurants and its old Munich atmosphere. Simon Schwendtner and his fiancee Burgi Wiese from Lower Bavaria enjoy an operetta evening in Munich. After the performance, they seek shelter from the sudden thunderstorm in landlord Adi Duswald's slaughterhouse pub. Gundi, the young waiter, is just finishing work. The hard-drinking regulars around Xaver Ostler Feri Schegger and Hermann Ganser held the fort as usual until late at night. Since Simon and Burgi have forgotten how to get to their pension in the foreign city, the regulars' table brothers take care of the shy newcomers.
Months later: Chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are called to Adi Duswald's overcrowded slaughterhouse bar during the live broadcast of a soccer game. In the gloomy basement they find a hanged man: Xaver Ostler. Was it suicide? Gundi's mother, Fanny Bichler, was Xaver Ostler's partner for many years. Gundi worries about his mother. Can a jointly committed burglary by the pub trio lead to enlightenment?