Tatort - Season 37 / Year 2006

In the Leipzig cheese dairy Dettmer, the driver Ludwig Noack is found dead in the disinfection chamber. Despite the best efforts of forensic scientists, no traces were found on the body. The chief inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain learn from the owners of the family business, the siblings Jörg and Katharina Dettmer, that their employee has recently been beaten up by Strasser, a debt collector. Katharina in particular is now convinced of this man as the perpetrator, but gets caught up in contradictions in her statements. The public prosecutor Mitterer presented them with another suspect: Klaus Röbel, convicted of the murder of Katharina Dettmer's daughter, was released early the day before.
Relevant to his conviction before sixYears ago, Noack's testimony, to which he threatened revenge in the courtroom. Ehrlicher and Kain find Röbel in the apartment of his partner Vera Bednarz. However, he denies killing Noack. Ehrlicher examines Röbel's cell, which fortunately has not yet been cleared, and learns that the ex-prisoner only met his girlfriend Vera in prison. It also turns out that Röbel and Strasser knew each other from prison and that Vera Bednarz has close contact with the Dettmer family. Ehrlicher and Kain suspect that there is a connection between the past crime against Katharina's daughter and Noack's death. When the junior boss of the cheese dairy, Jörg Dettmer's son Manuel, was suddenly kidnapped, the situation came to a head... 

The jeweler Karl De Mestre had imagined the celebratory reception for his company anniversary differently. The stylish festival for the better society in Cologne is disrupted by globalization opponents from the activist group "Underworld". They accuse De Mestre of earning his money with diamonds from civil war zones. Suddenly a shot is fired. The activist Andre Hesse is shot at close range. The commissionersMax Ballauf and Freddy Schenk take on the case. It quickly becomes clear: a professional was at work here. Did Hesse have to die because of his commitment against the so-called blood diamonds? Could De Mestre himself be behind the murder? A trail leads Ballauf and Schenk to the Belgian diamond metropolis of Antwerp. They decide to investigate there on their own and thus put their lives in danger. 

In the district of Stade, farmer Schatz found the empty VW bus on a forest path, covered in blood all over. Schatz' wife, Simone, has disappeared. Schatz is arrested on strong suspicion that he shot his wife last night. Charlotte Lindholmis struck. She is still under the impression of the death of her friend Tobias. Pills help her numb her insides and keep herself in control on the outside. Although Schatz maintains his innocence and claims to have slept through the night drunk, the case looks like a run-of-the-mill spousal murder. A hunting rifle has disappeared from his gun cabinet and he himself has been telling everyone that his wife has threatened to divorce him.
However, when the corpse of Simone Schatz is pulled out of a pond and a lump-like substance is discovered in her mouth, which the perpetrator must have put in it, Charlotte begins to suspect that something has been overlooked in the previous investigations. That same night, Eva Rohde, who Charlotte had just heard as a witness, is murdered in the same way. A serial murder? Are more victims to be feared? Eva's brother-in-law, whom Charlotte got to know as a harmless oddball and has ruled out as a perpetrator, comes under suspicion again. Accused of working in the wrong direction, Charlotte is removed from the lead of the investigation. But when a third man, the veterinarian Dr. Kehl, when the alleged perpetrator makes them suspicious, they put her on leave.
She is accused of not having recognized the perpetrator, even though she was already face to face with him. In addition, their tablet consumption is revealed. When the suspect Kehl is found dead in the forest, where he apparently committed suicide, the case seems finally settled. But coincidence and perseverance bring Charlotte unexpectedly back into play. Charlotte Lindholm has to recognize the destructive energies that lie in unfulfilled dreams of love and life. Only at the last minute does she succeed in solving an almost "perfect crime". 

The charity gala at the police headquarters in Münster leads to a momentous revelation. During a magic trick by the amateur magician Prof. Boerne, the young Helena Stettenkamp explains under hypnosis that her recently deceased grandfather was poisoned. A scandal. Was the head of the Stettenkamp biscuit dynasty actually murdered? Inspector Thiel arranges for the body to be examined again. At the same time, a young dragon hunter falls from the sky in a forest near Münster. The autopsy reveals that he was poisoned with the same means as the company patriarch. How are the two murders related?

Markus Möller, owner of an event agency, is murdered during a company party that his agency organized for an insurance company. In the course of their investigations, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper come across unclean processes in the company. They wonder whether Möller's brother Jörg or his colleague and ex-lover Martina knew about the fraudulent intentions and therefore Möller had to die. But Rike Hoffmann also seems suspicious. The young insurance clerk wasthe last Markus Möller was seen with. She is extremely scared and nervous. Lena Odenthal finds out that Rike had been the victim of a stalker for some time, who seemed to know her every move and harassed her with calls and gifts. Is there a connection between the two cases? Was Markus Möller the unknown? And did Rike Hoffmann decide to fight him that evening? 

A series of arson claims their first victim: the lawyer Claudia von Brück is found dead in her burned-out office. Casstorff takes up the investigation with his team - and quickly realizes that the dead family lawyer was anything but undisputed. She was known for denying divorced men access to their children. But things are also crumbling behind the facade in the private environment of the dead: Casstorff determines that the daughter, Mechthild von Brück, had an affair with the partner of the murdered woman. More fires are set, but there is still no trace of the identity of the arsonist. A comparison of the firefighters' duty times does not match the times of the crime.
Casstorff suspects that the murderer took advantage of the series of fires to blame the arsonist for the crime. The investigation is now concentrating on the field of "divorced fathers" who cannot cope with being allowed to see their children for only a few hours a year. In fact, the suspicion of the ex-husband of a fire brigade employee comes to a head. But the murderer has not yet been found...

"Gas on!" is the unmistakable command. When the medical examiner Dr. Joseph Roth is about to leave the crime scene when he feels the barrel of a pistol on his temple. The man in the back seat of his car means business. Two masked men had robbed and shot a jeweler in the parking lot of a luxury hotel in Cologne. One of the two perpetrators is now in Roth's car. At this point, inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk had no idea that their colleague was kidnapped. They are already achieving their first search successes. The couple Heiner Wolff and Marie Menke are urgent suspects. On the video of the hotel's surveillance camera, the youngReceptionist Julia Hirsch recognized her two vacation friends. She had casually told them about the regular guest with the valuable luggage.
Are the stolen gems already in circulation? Ballauf and Schenk listen to the fence scene and investigate the suspects' surroundings. They meet Marie's older sister Sophie Menke, a professional musician who has just returned from a long stay in the USA. But there was radio silence between the two sisters for years. And a former friend, the acting teacher Christof Rüter, also explains that he hasn't seen Marie for a long time. A woman's body is found in the Rhine...

A man lies dead in a park in Konstanz. In his wallet is a passport that identifies him as a Swede. Klara Blum requests administrative assistance from Stockholm to find out more about the dead man. When support arrives in the person of the attractive Stockholm detective Bo Johansson, it turns out that the dead man is a prominent Swedish industrialist. Bo Johansson and the murdered Sunderström have a common history: many years ago, Sunderström was suspected of having killed Bo Johansson's daughter's ex-boyfriendbut was acquitted for lack of evidence. Klara finds the Swedish colleague very likeable and involves him in the investigation. To the displeasure of Kai Perlmann, who feels marginalized and who is rather suspicious of the Swedes.
But Klara's trust in Bo begins to falter when she finds out that Bo's daughter lives near Konstanz and was seen in the park shortly before the crime. Torn between attraction and distrust, Klara Blum sets out to uncover Bo Johansson's secret.

What inspector Borowski hears and sees at the crime scene this time also exceeds his imagination: the pregnant Stefanie Brückner had her baby cut out of her body shortly before she was born. The mother is in mortal danger, there is no trace of the child. Frieda Jung surprises Borowski with the assumption that it is very likely a perpetrator. Probably a woman who cannot have children of her own, socially isolated and unmarried. A clever analysis, but Frieda Jung is wrong about one important detail. The supposed father, a sailor who hasn't been home for five months, is now eagerly waiting for his ship to come into port so that he can hug his little family. from dr
Sonneborn, a star gynecologist and expert in the field of prenatal medicine, the police learn that the kidnapped child was treated in the womb and will only survive two to three days without medical attention. Sonneborn is not comfortable with Borowski. When Sonneborn is shown the identikit picture of the perpetrator, which has since been prepared according to witness statements, Borowski is certain that the gynecologist has recognized the woman in the picture. But the doctor denies it. also dr Fehlau, Sonneborn's assistant, seems to know more than she lets on. Borowski finds himself in trouble after storming the home of a suspect who turns out to be innocent. But he is not impressed. All that matters is the baby's life. The identikit is broadcast on television.
Where did a baby suddenly appear? Who made unusual observations? Borowski underestimated the dimension of the case, because two days later Prof. Sonneborn is dead in his office in the clinic...

The inspectors Till Ritter and Felix Stark have to clarify the background of a series of assassination attempts. Christina Lehndorff urgently asked Inspector Ritter, her former boyfriend, for help: First her family's car was attacked and then her dog was poisoned. Eventually, Christina Lehndorff was assassinated herself. Ritter, whose old love for Christina is revived, investigates together with Stark in the family environment. Are there dissatisfied customers in Christina's bankruptcy firm? Does her husband Dr. Lehndorff responsible for medical malpractice? Things get really dramatic when Sophie, the couple's 13-year-old daughter, disappears...

Gerhard Brenner is found shot dead in his house, there are no traces of a break-in. Brenner was a widow, a retired bank clerk, recognized as a football club coach. Lena Odenthal's and Mario Kopper's investigations initially focus on his unemployed son Udo. He has always disappointed his parents and now only gets in touch with his father when he wants money from him. But there wasn't much he could get from his father. A few years ago, however, Brenner was suspected of having been involved as an informant and client in a robbery of the bank where he worked. Two of the robbers were then caught and convicted, the loot was missing. No entanglement could be proven to Gerhard Brenner.
However, on the day of the murder, Thomas Reuter, one of the two robbers, was released on parole. Reuter wants to start a new life, work for his stepbrother Jochen Galowski and be reconciled with his wife Petra. Thomas Reuter denies having anything to do with Brenner's murder. In general, he maintains that Brenner was not involved in the bank robbery. But the deeper Lena Odenthal delves into the Gerhard Brenner case, the clearer it becomes that his murderer suspected the loot from the bank on him. Lena will only find him if she can solve the mystery of the unknown accomplice.

Undercover - finely dressed as waiters in the elegant revolving restaurant in Munich's Olympic Tower - the three Munich inspectors Ivo Batic, Franz Leitmayr and Carlo Menzinger ambush a former nurse: Johannes Peter Peschen is said to have killed twelve people. It was Leitmayr's idea, following an anonymous tip, to intercept the suspect in the highest restaurant in Munich - not to the delight of his two colleagues. Especially with Batic, who suffers from an annoying stomach upset, Leitmayr gets into such a fight over the questionable action that the two friends break up! But suddenly the inspectors are very close to their goal: when no one believes in it anymore, Peschen takes the lift to the lookout point.
Franz LeitmayerSees his strategy confirmed and triumphs when he arrests Peschen and handcuffs him. But suddenly the ex-carer pulls the inspector into the waiting elevator. The elevator leaves – and gets stuck at a height of 80 meters. Batic and Menzinger found out via the emergency phone that Peschen had given Leitmayr an injection. After that, contact with him breaks off. It remains to be seen whether Batic and Menzinger will succeed in freeing their colleague from the death trap in their nerve-wracking race against time. The rescue measures that have been initiated are getting out of hand, and Batic also makes serious accusations that he had fallen out with Leitmayr like never before just before he disappeared into the elevator with the creepy orderly.

The physicist Raimund Jacobi (Hary Prinz) is shot. Shortly before he wanted to present his latest development: a revolutionary material for the manufacture of cars. Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and his team quickly find out that not only Jacobi's competitors from the business world are responsible for the murder. – A particularly tricky case for the Austrian crime scene investigator.

Manfred Schirmer (Joachim Król) is desperate. His wife Anne disappeared without a trace on the drive from the weekend house to Bremen. The police don't take the matter very seriously at first - until chief inspector Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her colleague Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) take over the case and actually find Anne's body. Stedefreund arrests a perpetrator and he confesses. But the commissioners can't provide any evidence. In addition to others, Inga even suspects the neighbour, Barbara Scheuven (Karoline Eichhorn), who is in love with Manfred. After all, Barbara does not find Anne's death inconvenient. The deeper the inspectors delve into the case, the more blurred the boundaries between truth, lies, feelings and police duty, real and intentionally laid tracks.

Early in the morning, while walking around the Stuttgart market hall, a security guard found one of the dealers lying dead in his stand; His 19-year-old, mentally handicapped son Geza is kneeling next to him with the murder weapon in his hand. Bienzle has to deal with the network of market people and finds out that the victim not only "moved" fruit and vegetables, but also stolen jewels. At the same time, Bienzle takes care of the boy, who is now an orphan - his mother left him long before - and takes him home. Then Geza comes into conflict with Hannelore, who is by no means upset by the visit.

The wealthy and passionate collector of antiquarian books Maximiliane Schlösser is found dead in her villa. She appears to have bled to death from being stabbed with a dagger. For the chief inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain, everything points to a robbery and murder. But Mrs Schlosser's cousin and assistant Dr. Ursula Hertel state that nothing was stolen from the villa. But the inspectors find a color copy of the lost "blood writing" under the dead body. This, the inspectors learn from Professor Berg, the chief librarian of the German library, is a thousand-year-old manuscript that a Benedictine monk is said to have written with his own blood. The old and extremely valuable book is said to have always brought death and ruin to its owner.
The autopsy shows that Ms. Schlösser only injured herself with the dagger and was killed by a blow to the head. The commissioners assume that the solution to the case is related to the coveted "blood writing". Forensic technician Walter puts the inspectors on the trail of Jens Tegner, a book restorer with whom the collector spoke on the phone shortly before her death. However, Ehrlicher only finds his ex-girlfriend Silke Weinrich and a packed travel bag in his apartment. Silke suspects that her ex-husband wants to travel with his new love Martina Matussek - Prof. Berg's new assistant. When the fluff that Ehrlicher took from a Tegner pullover turned out to be identical to those found at the scene of the crime, the inspectors launched a search for the suspect Tegner.
Valuable books are also stolen from the villa of the murdered and a mummified corpse turns up. The inspectors find out that Silkes Weinrich's father, who runs a small antiquarian bookshop, used to work in East Germany with the help of his assistant at the time, Dr. Hertel sold books to the West - his business partner at the time was Maximiliane Schlösser...

An asylum seeker from Africa was murdered. Inspector Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) is supposed to help his Tyrolean colleagues with this difficult case. No one reportedly saw anything at the local home where the man lived. In order to be able to investigate better , Eisner rents a room on site. But that doesn't get him anywhere either. Only his teenage daughter Claudia (Sarah Tkotsch), who turned up unexpectedly, can provide a crucial clue.

For years, Matthias Hecht has been behind bars for raping and abusing the then ten-year-old Leonie König. His act casts a dark shadow not only over the lives of Leonie and her mother Katharina, but also over his own family. The Hechts run a hairdressing salon in the village, which has no customers, even though the Hecht family has broken with Matthias. They don't want to see him at the funeral either. When Matthias Hecht is standing at his father's grave, he is shot at. He is critically injured, the JVA officer guarding him is dead. Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann have to deal with the story of the village tragedy and the injuries to the two families.
Was Hecht injured just as he was regretting his actions and about to start a new life? His volunteer supervisor, Maria Eichhorn, believes that Hecht is an example of successful rehabilitation and has even become engaged to him. But neither his sister Christiane nor Katharina König want to know anything about Hecht's inner transformation. Did any of them take matters into their own hands?

After escaping from prison, Angolan deportee Jonathan Waputo dies in front of police headquarters. A first autopsy of the corpse revealed poisoning with aconitine. Inspectors Castorff and Holicek take up the investigation. The latter is shocked. He thinks he recognizes the Kenyan exchange student Winston Miller in the dead man. 20 years ago, he shot himself with Holicek's service pistol after being accused of hit and run resulting in death. Holicek suffered from the consequences of this suicide he was responsible for for the rest of his life. All the more he bites into the case. Despite all odds against him, Holicek sticks to his claim and tries to prove that the poisoned Waputo is actually Winston Miller. At first, Castorff was only irritated by his friend's behavior.
However, he increasingly finds himself in a conflict with public prosecutor Wanda Wilhelmi, whose tolerance for Holicek's escapades quickly wears out. More or less on itselfLeft alone, Castorff follows the trail of poisoning. He learns from the enterprising prison director Lambertz that all prisoners are supplied with vitamin preparations free of charge by the drug manufacturer Greuner-Pharma. On closer inspection, however, the alleged vitamin preparation given to the prisoners turns out to be an antirheumatic drug that has not yet been approved and contains the active ingredient aconitine. The case seems solved: Waputo was the victim of illegal drug tests. But the pathology provides a more precise finding. Waputo was poisoned with aconitine, but not as suspected from the medication administered, but with a deliberate overdose.
Castorff makes a discovery in the documents of his colleague Holicek, who has since been suspended from work, which gives the case an unexpected turn. Perhaps there is more to Holicek's claim that Jonathan Waputo is actually Winston Miller than Castorff initially thought.

A young girl is found dead at a small-town train station just outside of Ludwigshafen. The residents of Angerburg are quick to suspect anything, because the Engelsried forensic clinic is part of the town. In fact, one of the inmates in the psychiatric ward boasts that he committed the murder - but there is no proof that he was able to get through the security measures. And this is how Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper investigate during their mission in Angerburgalso in the environment of the murdered girl. 16-year-old Nicki had just broken up with her boyfriend and Florian believes she fell in love with someone else. Perhaps she met him secretly at the train station. The adored volleyball coach Rolf Czerni is the most likely candidate. But while the inspectors collect evidence against Czerni, Lena gets the uncomfortable feeling that she is about to be misled by the small town gossip...

Commissioner Borowski is on his way home from a fishing vacation when he is called for help at an unusual point: in the middle of the sea, on the way from Sweden to Germany, the captain of the ferry has disappeared without a trace. Borowski had seen him shortly before, when Captain Venske had been arguing with his First Officer Björndahl at the bar. Borowski has all the passengers on the ferry screened and reconstructs the captain's last hours. Even the first trace is strange: someone has opened the pilot door - the signal for an emergency. Did Captain Venske leave voluntarily, was it suicide, accident or murder? Also the conversation with Annemarie Venske, the wife of the captain in Kiel. Borowski doesn't help. He decides to take the ferry back to Sweden to interview the crew.
When he arrives in Gothenburg, his Swedish colleague, Commissioner Eveline Wallstöm, is already waiting for him. Borowski learns from her that Björndahl had reason to get the captain out of the way. However, another lead turns out to be far more interesting: when inspector Borowski and inspector Wallström examine the captain's locker, they come across Greta Karlsson - Venske's second wife with whom he lives in the archipelago and has a child. Borowski is almost intrigued by his first case of bigamy. But then the captain is found dead in the Baltic Sea. Since his wedding ring is missing, the wives are the target of the investigation. Borowski brings the two widows together at the husband's corpse. An approach for which he was sharply criticized by the psychologist Frieda Jung.
She is responsible for the psychological care of the widows and is therefore heavily involved in the investigations. When there are more and more indications that Greta Karlsson could have murdered her husband because of his high life insurance, Klaus Borowski and Frieda Jung set off together for Sweden to interrogate her. A journey that not only brings the background of the fact to light. But the two of them have another ferry ride ahead of them, and this time the murderer is also on board.

After a boisterous fire election ball in a small village near Jesteburg, twelve-year-old Pauline Kandis is found dead in a nearby river. The girl drowned. But the corpse shows injuries that inspector Charlotte Lindholm suggests a violent crime. Pauline lived with her father, grandfather and older sister on a run-down farm, which the family is fighting to survive. All the more since Pauline's overwhelmed mother left the farm. The village resists the idea that the child died at the hands of someone in their midst. But who knows their neighbor? Where does disinterest begin to become neglect? Charlotte fights against her own stereotypes and against the shock of the village policewoman.
She has to disrupt the grief of those involved in order to get to the perpetrator. If she wants to come to a conclusion, then she also has to suspect people: the young farmer from the neighboring farm, with whom Pauline was secretly in love; the godfather who fails to form a relationship with a woman his own age; the violent neighbor who hits his wife and cannot be a role model for his son. Only the forensic doctor from Lüneburg is Charlotte a partner, analyzing the processes and the evidence with her with the necessary distance. A tiny clue leads Charlotte to the solution and thus not only to the perpetrator, but also to another victim of the circumstances.

Karl and Mike Dippon are brothers who couldn't be more different. While Karl fervently maintains his parents' vineyard on the slopes of Stuttgart, Mike has decided to venture into the high-tech industrial world down in the valley, a world in which he has quickly made quite a few enemies. When he dies of all things at his mother's funeral feast from an unexplained fall, Inspector Bienzle quickly finds people who hated Mike or who benefited from his death: Ralf Schaufler z. B., head of a small but excellent supplier company, was mercilessly pressed by Mike, who is responsible for placing orders with the large mechanical engineering group WÜWAG, so that his existence is endangered.
Mike's fierce competitor within the company, Stefan Butz, is also suspect, since he was at the scene of the crime, which he initially concealed. Or is it a family story? Mike's widow, Nadja Jehle-Dippon, is at least very interested in her deceased mother-in-law's will. At Bienzle private, a baby that Hannelore carelessly took care of for a few days completely upsets the household and the peace of the house.

The high school rector, Max Junghans, who is highly respected in the community, dies in the explosion of a new cell phone mast. For Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper, the question quickly arises as to why the teacher canceled his "Night Wanderer" tour in the middle of the night and went to the transmission mast. Who sent him there with a text message? The investigations focus on the former demolition expert Georg Schwab, the head of thelocal citizens' initiative against radio masts. Max Junghans was not only responsible for the construction of the transmission mast near Schwab's apartment - he also had a relationship with his 18-year-old daughter Mona Schwab. But Junghan's wife may also benefit from her husband's death. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper are also facing a few sleepless nights, and in this case they become night walkers themselves.

An insidious murder that particularly hits Chief Inspector Stefan Deininger to the core. He wasn't completely indifferent to his pretty colleague Kathi, who was lying there in front of him, badly beaten up. The first thing the homicide team had to realize was that they actually knew very little about the always so friendly and cheerful colleague. Solving the case puts Palu's successor, as well as the team he finds together, before their first joint test. It shows whether the newcomer really arrives in Saarland and whether there is creative cooperation with the rest of the department. "Assistant" Stefan Deininger, previously in the shadow of Max Palu, and part-time secretary Ms. Braun are already familiar to the audience of Saarbrücken "crime scenes".
Now it also gets to know Horst Jordan, the head of forensics, his colleague Ben and the coroner Dr. Rhea Sing. They are all confronted with a new boss that nobody expected. A blond, curly-haired young guy from Bavaria applied for the vacant post after Palü's departure. Franz Kappl comes from Traunstein to Saarbrücken with a small household item and a lot of enthusiasm and bursts into the middle of a birthday party. Stefan Deininger turns 38, and everyone in the department assumes that he will be Palu's successor. The noise is programmed, bullying is the order of the day, but solving the criminal case requires everyone to work together. The inspectors have their own methods of dealing with the crime.
Convinced that there is no such thing as a perfect murder, Franz Kappl relies on forensic science and psychology. Stefan Deininger lets the extensive network of relationships in the small Saarland work for him: Almost everyone knows everyone or has someone who knows someone, and almost nothing stays secret. In their first joint investigation, the murder of Kathi Schaller, the two can prove which method makes the most sense and when. The suspects include the ailing musician Charlie Wax, the jeweler couple Bader, who rather seek pity, and two brutal Frenchmen. But the customs colleagues are also putting the investigators' patience to the test. And the innocent murder victim, the beautiful Kathi Schaller, suddenly appears in a completely different light.

Inspector Fritz Dellwo has a special goal: He takes part in the Messe-Frankfurt-Marathon. To achieve his ambitious goal of running in under four hours, he joined a running group led by veteran trainer Henry Danquardt. But the night before the big event, after the traditional Festhalle noodle party, Dellwo is called to the presidium. The criminal Petar Gricic, whom he once put behind bars, has escaped from prison. Dellwo ignores his colleagues' warnings and insists on being on the starting line the next morning. The catastrophe happened during the start. A young Swedish runner is struck down by a bullet and dies from his injuries shortly afterwards.
Charlotte Singer finds out that thesniper shot down from a church tower and was actually aiming for Dellwo, who had started near the Swede. The search for the escapee Gricic, who once swore eternal revenge on Dellwo, intensifies feverishly. New colleague Jan Gröner tries to take Dellwo out of the competition but keeps missing him. The head of the homicide squad, Fromm, and public prosecutor Scheer discuss with the marathon organizers whether there is a possibility of canceling the competition. Criminal assistant Ina Springstub determines all the churches along the route, which are then stormed by SEK officers. Only Inspector Singer seems to keep calm in the hustle and bustle. She intuitively follows her own trail. The clock is ticking - and a race against time begins...

Jost Brüggmann and his wife Lene had a fight. Just a few hours later, the 50-year-old insurance salesman was found shot dead on the banks of the Rhine. The case seems clear: During the interrogation by Ballauf and Schenk, the widow quickly gets caught up in contradictions. Her friend Michelle Vandenberg also obviously knows more than she tells the police. Everything indicates that Lene Brüggmann is having an affair with the car mechanic Ahmet Turgut, who works in the Vandenbergs' classic car workshop. Is he also embroiled in the murder case? during the time of the crimehe was said to have an appointment with his colleague Kalle. But doubts remain. Another lead leads the inspectors to the young Turkish woman Fatma Akinci. She is also secretly friends with Ahmed Turgut. But her strict father must not find out about this.
How does all of this fit together? When examining Lena Brüggmann's accounts, the inspectors have a suspicion: Did she pay the young, attractive man for his love? The inspectors only slowly manage to unravel the mysteries that bear witness to disappointed love and abused trust. 

It should look like an accident. But Prof. Boerne's autopsy results are clear: the well-known clairvoyant Roswitha Brehm was murdered. A few hours before the crime, she had desperately tried to contact Inspector Thiel. Did she want to solve a crime by pendulum again? Thiel is skeptical. But now the clairvoyant died in the mysterious villa, which had already made big headlines in Münster. Years ago, almost the entire Steinhagen family was shot here. The case went unpunished and the bodies could not be found. Only the adopted daughter Franziska survived the bloodbath. Is there a connection between the psychic's death and the Steinhagens' murder?

A night like many in the big city of Berlin. A radio presenter (Jörg Thadeuzs) leads through his show for lonely hearts... a good-looking man standing alone is found dead in his apartment. The murder of the successful lawyer Mohr leads Ritter and Stark into the world of city singles. Mohr was a regular guest at various speed-dating establishments, although he had an affair with his attractive colleague Nina (Aglaia Szyskowitz). Was jealousy involved? Because there is also Kirsten (Elena Uhlig), who Mohr met at speed dating and with whom he started a relationship. Both women have a motive; and Kirsten, the impulsive saleswoman in a boutique, had also learned through an indiscretion that Mohr's law firm is not averse to tax fraud.
Kirsten flees when she realizes the police are on to her. But her older brother Paul (Timo Dierkes), who has a very close relationship with his sister, is also suspected of murder. The dazzling Kirsten is a thorn in the side of his pregnant wife Marie (Heidrun Gärtner). Knight and Stark have to deal with strong feelings and learn how dangerous they can be when hate develops from disappointed love.

Unnoticed by the public, a person is being held captive in a flat and finally found after years of martyrdom. That's what the press says. After the murder of 67-year-old Adalbert Kirchner, the Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr, Ivo Batic and chief inspector Carlo Menzinger met a cruel fate: tied to the bed, the severely disabled 31-year-old Hans vegetated - isolated from the outside world - in his parents' apartment to himself. Hans is not registered, he never went to school. Superintendent Carlo Menzinger was investigating a vague suspicion and found Hans through strange noises during the night. Hans' sister Sabine Schmiedinger sees her brother in the psychiatric ward again, sedated with medication.
The responsible medical team around the doctor Jeanne Degert and the ambitious Dr. Klein wants to examine Hans thoroughly and explain that Sabine has no right to take in the disabled brother until the guardianship has been clarified. Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic have to admit that Hans is suspected of having killed his father. Sabine lives with her husband Dietmar Schmiedinger on the outskirts of Munich. The sporty social worker teaches at a technical college. Sabine has fulfilled a lifelong dream by creating her own kindergarten. Old Kirchner and his daughter were at odds. When Sabine's mother died five years ago, her father wanted Sabine to move back home and take the mother's place in taking care of Hans.
But Sabine didn't want to, she was newly in love and about to build a life of her own. The father felt betrayed and did not appear at the daughter's wedding. For the press it is clear: 30 years of torture and imprisonment – then the son will take revenge on his own father. Jeanne Degert's report confirms that Hans would be capable of such an act. But Sabine realizes that an antique clock is missing from the apartment. Was it a robbery? The officers search the antique shops. In fact, such a watch was sold, but two years ago and not by an elderly gentleman, but by a foreigner. Leitmayr comes to the conclusion that the relationship between father and son was very different from what it first appeared, because Hans loved his father. 

In what is now their ninth case, HR investigators Charlotte Sänger (Andrea Sawatzki) and Fritz Dellwo (Jörg Schüttauf) are confronted with a murder that results in the taking of hostages; the two inspectors try feverishly to prevent further murders by the fugitive. Synopsis: In a backyard, a caretaker is shot dead for having started a leaf blower early in the morning. The suspect is a local resident who was abandoned by his family some time ago; he has now taken a neighbor hostage and is on the run with him. The police launch a large-scale manhunt because it is feared that the perpetrator will commit more murders.
During interrogations with the hostage's wife and the ex-wife of theInspector Fritz Dellwo and his colleague Charlotte Sänger have doubts as to what really happened the night before the crime. Their superior, Rudi Fromm, is not of much help to them in the investigative work. Worn down by private problems and everyday police work, he seems to have serious doubts about the point of his work. Fromm is withdrawing more and more. Fromm only seems to be interested in van Boiten, a commissioner from Belgium. Fritz Dellwo, on the other hand, doesn't think much of van Boiten, who has gained international renown with his book on criminal profiles. And Charlotte Sänger is also rather skeptical about van Boiten. Nevertheless, he is the one who gives the commissioners a crucial clue in the end.

Michael Köster has been in prison for five years and is taking part in a therapy for prisoners led by the Weimar art professor and painter Robert Henze. He escapes during an escorted release to the Leipzig Picture Museum. One of the law enforcement officers is murdered in the elevator. His colleague Peter Vosskamp cannot prevent Köster, who still has to serve six months, from escaping. Because of Vosskamp's statement, Köster is suspected of murder. His fingerprints are also found on the bottle with the neck cut off, which was used to pierce the dead man's throat. In the fugitive's cell, the inspectors find a farewell letter from his girlfriend Judith, who lives in Weimar, and so the inspectors continue their investigations there.
Although Kain succeeds in arresting Köster, doubts about his perpetration soon grow. Ehrlicher uses his stay in Weimar to visit a friend who has settled there as a doctor. He seeks his advice about stitches in the heart area and his insomnia, which has been bothering him for some time. Ehrlicher learns that Prof. Henze's wife in Weimar inherited several houses that still have serious defects even after the restoration. A mysterious murder also takes place in Weimar. The victim is Gabriele Teichert, head of the local monument protection office. Ehrlicher finds out that Ms. Teichert is the mother of Köster's girlfriend. Forensic technology is once again able to secure Michael Köster's fingerprints in the murder victim's apartment.
It is therefore clear that the two murders are connected. The art professor Robert Henze and the prison officer Peter Vosskamp are targeted by the inspectors...