Tatort - Season 41 / Year 2010

Rolf H. (Milan Peschel), single father of an autistic son, doesn't know what to do anymore. Financially and privately pushed more and more into a corner, he goes to the Staupen family estate to ask for help for his son. From his genealogical studies he believes he knows that their ancestors and his ancestors met in the Middle Ages and that the Staupen family cheated his family at the time and based their prosperity on it, which has continued to this day.
Confronted with the accusations and the request, the old Staupen (Markus Boysen) humiliatesRolf H. until he kills him in passion. That same night, his son Balthasar Staupen (Matthias Schweighöfer) finds his father and comes up with a plan. Fritz Dellwo (Jörg Schüttauf) and Charlotte Sänger (Andrea Sawatzki) suspect the perpetrator to be in the closest family circle, but they all have an alibi for the night of the murder. The investigations are getting more and more deadlocked. The brother and sister of the murdered man are found dead in quick succession. Are the Frankfurt commissioners dealing with a serial killer, and if so, what is his motive?

And there is still spark between the two: at a class reunion in his hometown of Essen, Max Ballauf meets the sweetheart of his youth. But Katja is married and has two children with her classmate at the time, Stefan Dorn. The party ends in a fight. The next morning, Stefan Dorn is found murdered in his hotel room. Ballauf is also suspected of having killed his former school friend. The Essen chief inspector Vossbeck takes him into interrogation. But the murder of Stefan Dorn soon spreads. As managing director of the "RUHR.2010 Foundation", he was also responsible, among other things, for awarding larger construction contracts.
Is his death related to the murder of the Cologne contractor Franz Tarrach, in which Commissioner Schenk and Commissioner's assistant Franziska Lüttgenjohann are currently investigating? Tarrach is said to have employed undeclared workers on a large scale. Freddy Schenk rushes to Essen to clarify the connections and to support his friend Ballauf. Because he is suddenly in the sights of the Essen homicide commission: Traces of the dead man's blood were found on his clothes. Ballauf gets in need of explanation ...

Klara Blum is on the hunt for the arms dealer Meiners. He is suspected of having shot a young policewoman. The Swiss colleagues around Reto Flückiger from the Thurgau canton police are also interested in Meiners, because he is a liaison to the Swiss arms dealer Hutter. During the transfer of the suspect to Germany, Klara and her Swiss colleague are ambushed. Apparently, the pursuers were given a tip from the ranks of the police. Separated from the escort team, without a car and being pursued by Hutter's people, Klara and Reto Flückiger try to get their suspect to safety. While Perlmann works in Konstanz to track down the mole in the ranks of the police, not only the inspectors but also their prisoner become the hunted.
Because in the first confrontation with their pursuers it turns out that they don't want to free Meiners, but want to kill them. While Klara Blum protects the life of her prisoner, she is suddenly no longer sure whether she caught the policewoman killer in the arms dealer or not.

The body of a comprehensive school student is found in an abandoned parking garage in Saarbrücken. After a fight, David fell off a ledge and broke his neck. In this case, detectives Kappl and Deininger are also investigating the victim's school. This is hard for Stefan Deininger, because he used to go to this school himself. The old multi-storey car park had already been a meeting place for the young people back then. David's classmates react to the death of their classmate with a show of indifference. His class teacher also confirms that David was an outsider. Yes, there were problems with other students, but she hadn't noticed anything for a while. Gradually it turns out that the teachers do more than just gloss over things.
The torment that David and his best and only friend Tobias were subjected to in class went far beyond the bounds of conventional bullying. Although Tobias, like David, was also a victim of attacks by his classmates, he quickly became the focus of the investigators. Tobias remains silent. He obviously knows more than he says, and the interrogations by Kappl and Deiniger become a nerve-wracking puzzle. While Stefan Deininger feels sorry and tries to understand the outsider's situation, Franz Kappl sees Tobias as the wanted murderer and tries to put pressure on him. But what reason should Tobias have to kill his best friend? And why is a whole class silent about the events?

Charlotte Lindholm is driving through the night when suddenly the silhouette of a little boy and the shadow of a man appear on the road ahead of her. Charlotte dodges, crashes into a tree and wakes up in the nearby county hospital. The boy, the unknown man whom she thinks she hit, the puncture mark on her arm - pipe dreams of an overtired police officer or puzzle pieces of a conspiracy? In search of lost time, Charlotte drives back to her personal 'crime scene', in the small town of Volsum. Its residents are shocked when they see Charlotte Lindholm for the first time: Apparently she looks like a large farmer's wife - the woman who died in an accident with her family at the same place where Charlotte had the accident.

A series of burglaries shook the state of Bremen. Now there has been a fatality in Bremerhaven for the first time. It is a particularly sensitive case for the chief inspectors Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund, because Stedefreund is personally affected: the dead person is his ex-girlfriend. Stedefreund was also close friends with her brother at the police academy. To Stedefreund's horror , he now tries to solve the case on his own, thereby blocking the investigation. While Stedefreund is on the trail of the burglars, Inga finds out that the dead woman was not particularly popular in her husband's company. The suspicion grows in Inga that a gang may have committed the burglaries but not killed the woman...

The investigations for Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper begin on the banks of the Rhine, because that's where the water police recovered Konrad Hanke's body. He was beaten and then thrown into the water. Hanke was originally a motor racing engineer, but has been working in his sister-in-law Silke Grimm's shipyard since the accidental death of his wife... Lena and Kopper think it's possible that his death is related to his previous job, because on the evening of his death Hanke met a racing team owner - and Gabi Stein, the racing driver who was involved in Hanke's wife's fatal accident a year earlier. Daniel, Hanke's 19-year-old son, threw a tantrum at the meeting because he still blames Gabi Stein for his mother's death.
Disturbed and easily excitable as he is, Daniel is certainly one of the suspects. But Lena and Kopper are also interested in the interest racing team owner Hamacher had in Konrad Hanke. When Hanke's computer is stolen, it reinforces her suspicion that Hanke's knowledge of racing cars plays a role in the case. But just as Gabi Stein wants to contact the police, the driver is killed.

Chief Inspector Eva Saalfeld drives her nephew Lukas to the airfield where an air show is to take place. While his classmates are already romping on a bouncy castle, he and Eva arrive at the parking lot - and see smoke rising from the fairground, which is right next to the runway. The pilot Thomas Arendt crashed his machine into the crowd of spectators while attempting to take off. Some managed to save themselves, some are injured, but Emil, Lukas's best friend, is lying in the bouncy castle torn to pieces. Emil's father, Christian Peintner, stands stunned next to Eva, who gives Emil first aid and informs her colleagues via cell phone.
When the boy dies a little later as a result of his injuries, Evaconvinced that this was not an accident, but negligent homicide, and that the culprit must be determined by the homicide squad. She and Chief Inspector Keppler interrogate the pilot, the chief mechanic, the person responsible for flight control and the organizer of the air show one after the other, but they deny all the blame. Peintner mainly blames the pilot. When Roland Conze, the organizer of the air show, is found murdered on a large construction site in Leipzig, the inspectors also have to investigate Emil's father. Was he seeking revenge for his son's death, or did those responsible quarrel in an attempt to cover up their mistakes? 

Murder in the social housing estate: Marco Steinbrück from the Cologne youth welfare office was killed and a four-year-old girl disappeared without a trace. The social worker actually wanted to put little Clara in a home. Was it an act of desperation on the part of the parents? At the scene of the crime, inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk meet Stefanie Karstmann, who is visibly drunk and has just returned from a night of drinking. The very young mother had often left her little daughter alone in the run-down apartment. For her, the case is clear: MichaelIt must have been Donker, the child's father. After all, he had kidnapped Clara before. The girl and her two young parents are no strangers to the youth welfare office, as the inspectors find out from the head of the youth welfare office, Bernd Kampnagel, and his deputy, Matthias Hellwig.
During their investigations they also come across Tanja and Axel Küppers. The couple offers foster children a new home on their lovingly renovated farm on the outskirts of town. Why had you recently declined to admit Clara Karstmann as an emergency? 

Secret construction plans by Aircraft Performance and Technologies (APAT), a Hamburg-based engine manufacturer and electronics developer, keep turning up abroad. Commissioner Cenk Batu is to track down the industrial spy as press officer Sinan Afra for the State Criminal Police Office. The head of development, Holger Lichtenhagen, is suspicious. When Sinan Afra is promoted to his personal advisor and Lichtenhagen asks him for a confidential interview, Batu hopes to finally find out more. But before it gets that far, Lichtenhagen's body is found in the port of Hamburg. At the funeral, Cenk Batu makes the acquaintance of Mia Andergast, Lichtenhagen's illegitimate daughter from an almost forgotten relationship, and soon gets caught between the fronts.

Klaus Borowski is to question the German teenager Ralph Böttcher in Finland about an ongoing case. Böttcher, a 17-year-old former junkie, lives in a Finnish camp as part of a rehabilitation program and is said to have raped and murdered Anni, a girl from the neighboring village. He denies the crime, but is being held in a Finnish prison for investigation. When Borowski and his Finnish colleague Mikko want to transfer the boy to Helsinki together, they make a serious mistake: Ralph Böttcher knocks Borowski down, outwits Mikko and flees in his car and above all with his service weapon. Mikko, his colleague Tuulia and their boss Rane take up the pursuit and also investigate the case of the dead Anni again.
Borowski supports her together with his German colleague, the police psychologist Frieda Jung. She has traveled to help her colleague. But the investigations are going in circles - and at some point Borowski no longer knows what to believe. Insomnia, confusing feelings for Frieda Jung and this strange Finnish tango bring the Kiel commissioner to his limits...

Marc Simon is a bank employee and actually a very quiet, inconspicuous family man. When his wife and daughter are found dead, he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. When inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz penetrate the superficially perfect life of the family man, they discover several secrets. Marc Simon led a double life and, in addition to his wife and daughter, had a second family with Cornelia König and their son Florian. In addition, Simon has high debts. During their investigations into Marc Simon's mysterious financial activities, Lannert and Bootz come across André Lindner, a mysterious acquaintance of the Simon family who knows more about the bank clerk's business than he admits.
The obscure Italian hotelier Morelli also seems to be involved. The two inspectors slowly see through the true dimension of their case: while trying to pay off his debts, Marc Simon got caught in the clutches of organized crime and embezzled black money from the Calabrian mafia. And she now wants by all means back what is hers. When contract killers kidnap Simon's son Florian to use him as leverage, the bank clerk sees his last chance in an act of desperation...

Ironically, while clearing out an old villa, Commissioner Thiel's father accidentally discovered a mummy that was obviously thousands of years old. Herbert Thiel was commissioned to clean up by Judith Schorlemer, the granddaughter of a famous archaeologist. Does the mummy come from one of her grandfather's research trips to the Middle East? Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kastner, Head of the Archaeological Institute at the University of Münster, is enthusiastic. Based on the inscription on the shrine, he suspects that the mummy originally came from ancient Persia, which amounts to an archaeological sensation. But Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne, as a forensic pathologist not only interested in the time of death but also in investigating the cause of death, doubts that Prof. Kastner is right.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Frank Thiel has to deal with a "fresh" corpse. Correctional officer Mathias Reinhard was found dead in the basement of his apartment. Among the prisoners he was known as a particularly "tough dog". Did a former inmate of the JVA take revenge here? One of the suspects is Andreas Lechner, who has just been released from prison. 

Irmgard Wernicke (Barbara Morawiecz) lives alone in a small rented apartment. The elderly retiree talks to her budgies, watches TV and watches the factory floor across the street. One morning, the homicide squad received Mrs Wernicke's call for help: she firmly asserted that a woman had been murdered in the house across the street. Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) talk to the old lady and a little later start investigating at the alleged crime scene. The wine merchant Benkelmann (Hans-Jochen Wagner), who lives there, provides friendly information – but there is no corpse or traces of a murder. Nevertheless, Ritter and Stark are more and more fascinated by the portrayal of the amiable old woman, who reminds Ritter of his mother.
The inspectors also get to know Mrs. Wernicke's nurse Renate Müller (Lotte Ohm) and the civil servant Timo (Robert Höller) - the only people with whom she has close contact. When it came out that Ms. Wernicke saw Hitchcock's film "Window on the Courtyard" on television on the alleged night of the murder, doubts arose: did the old lady get infected and just make up her statements? But why is Benkelmann trying to hide contact with the attractive Ella Leiser (Jenny Schily)? Shortly thereafter, Irmgard Wernicke disappears, but female body parts appear. Knight and Stark are dismayed. Did they misjudge the situation and should they have protected the old lady? 

The Bremen pensioner Ruth Thalheim (Marie Anne Fliegel) is found dead in her apartment - but nothing indicates a crime. But inspector Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) discovers inconsistencies that make her doubt a "natural death". She and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) find out that the dead woman was imprisoned in the GDR as a "political" and was financially supported by the influential Bremen entrepreneur Hans Rodenburg (Jürgen Prochnow). He seems to be involved in the illegal arms trade, and his socialist past leads Stedefreund to the trail of old Stasi cronies. Soon Inga and Stedefreund no longer know which clues to believe - are they being deliberately deceived?

A young geriatric nurse, Anna Kowski, was murdered in the laundry room of her apartment building. The first clue leads inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler to the Holst family, whose grandpa Karl, who was suffering from dementia, was the last patient Anna had taken care of the night before. Ms. Holst reports that there was a serious argument between Anna and her jealous boyfriend Daniel in front of her house. When the inspectors want to question Daniel Bergmann, who works in a funeral home, Keppler recognizes the young man he had seen at the crime scene the night before. Daniel initially stubbornly denies that Anna wanted to break up with her boyfriend, but then admits there had been a fight in Anna's apartment. However, he denies the murder and instead incriminates the head of the nursing service for which Anna had worked.
Mike Breuker is said to have exploited his employees and paid them poorly. It seems that Anna, who is very popular with her patients, no longer wanted to put up with this and blackmailed her boss with her knowledge of false health insurance bills... Shortly afterwards, Elsa Kluge, another patient of Anna's, was found dead in her house. Although the cause of death remains unclear at first, detectives find out that she has left all of her belongings to Mike Breuker's nursing service. A connection between Breuker's semi-legal machinations and the murder of Anna Kowski is becoming increasingly likely - did he kill the nurse? In the meantime, the situation is getting worse for the Holst family. Caring for the grandfather is a heavy burden for the couple.
More and more daughter Svenja has to step in after school to take care of her exhausting grandfather. The tense situation increasingly leads to disputes. A special relationship develops in the course of the investigation between Karl Holst and Inspector Keppler, who finally notices signs of domestic violence in the old man. But for the Holsts, sending grandfather to a home is out of the question – especially since they don't have enough money. When they decide with a heavy heart to sell the house, they make a terrible discovery: Grandpa Karl signed the house over to Mike Breuker weeks ago in exchange for a place in his future nursing home...

Everything is different than it seems at first glance. The garbage truck that rolls onto the premises brings a deadly cargo. And the Intercomp company, which officially imports refrigerators and washing machines, is in fact the headquarters of an organization that controls the heroin trade in Austria. Within a few minutes, the killers disguised as garbage collectors cause a bloodbath here. The bottom line: two dead and the chief financial officer of this syndicate is shot. But he didn't survive the attack either. Because cold as ice, the killers stop the ambulance on the way to the hospital and kill the seriously injured man.

A young woman lies dead at the port, raped and suffocated. Kopper remembers a similar case in Mannheim. Based on this clue, Lena finds more unsolved murders in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen. Are the detectives on the trail of a serial killer targeting confident, athletic women? During their investigations, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper come across a ship that was instopped at the port in question, Mirko Zessner works there, with a previous conviction for rape. But Lena doubts: could it be that the wanted murderer is so calculated that he planned Zessner as a "pawn victim"? Otherwise, the break-ins into the victims' homes make no sense. When Lena realizes that she fits exactly into the victim profile, she offers herself as a decoy...

Under extremely mysterious circumstances, 23-year-old Anna Kaber (Alma Hasun) is found murdered in the shell of a family home, lying on the ground – her long, blond hair is spread out like a wreath, she is wearing a necklace with two clasped hands as a pendant, at the scene of the crime there is a camera tripod and the handle on the inside of the door is missing. In addition, security guards appear to have lived in another room. Was the student held captive here? The eye-catching pendant leads special investigator Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) to the organization "Epitarsis", whose logo is this hand symbol and whose members included Anna.
But "Epitarsis" boss Katharina Leupold (Victoria Trauttmansdorff) is ready to use extreme means to avert damage from her globally active, powerful "religious community". And she has an influential confidante at the DA's office. In her hands is a confidential dossier about Moritz Eisner. Although she willingly explains to him that she will help solve the murder case, he quickly realizes that everything is a set-up and that those questioned are lying to the heavens. When Eisner's daughter Claudia (Sarah Tkotsch) tells her father that she wants to leave home and move in with a student flat share, he has no idea that this is a cleverly prepared trap to thwart his investigations.
In good faith and unsuspectingly, Sarah accepted the tempting and deliberately covert offer from a female "Epitarsis" member. When Eisner shows up for a house search of the "faith community," which he and others consider a cult, he is abruptly stopped. Because photos of Claudia's visit to "Epitarsis" were passed to the chief of police. So everything looks like a police officer's private vendetta. Eisner is pissed off and angry at the same time at how cleverly someone spun the threads in the background and tricked him. Moritz Eisner learns from Maria Levin (Michou Friesz) from the "Working Group on Sects and Cults" that Anna's father had brought his daughter to this house himself in order to persuade her to turn away from "Epitarsis" through conversations in front of the camera.
And apparently there is a reference to the perpetrator on one of the videos that Maria Levin wants to send to the police. But the killer or killers are faster - she is also strangled. A photo finally puts Moritz Eisner on a very hot lead to "Epitarsis". With a coup that is as clever as it is surprising, this organization tries to pull its head out of the noose at the very last minute... 

The last "crime scene" with Andrea Sawatzki and Jörg Schüttauf as the Frankfurt investigative team: In their 18th case, the two inspectors Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo try to prove the innocence of their ex-boss Rudi Fromm, who is suspected of murder.

Jens Otten can't believe it: his fiancée Regina Scheffler was murdered. Unknown people pushed her off the balcony, vandalized her apartment and covered it with graffiti. Similar incidents of vandalism had been happening in the area recently. But now the homicide detective is investigating. While Inspector Schenk goes in search of the graffiti sprayer, his colleague Ballauf takes a close look at the private environment of the dead. And there is something wrong there. For years, her fiancé Jens Otten has been fighting a small war with his ex-wife Claudia over alimony payments. Their 15-year-old daughter Laura has hardly any contact with her father and was not on good terms with his girlfriend.
When Freddy Schenk finally finds out that the sprayer he is looking for is Laura's friend Patrick Cosca, the suspicion against the young people is confirmed. But Patrick's father, Ralf Cosca, knew the murdered woman better than he initially wanted to admit. Regina Scheffler called him three times on the night of the murder...

Before the eyes of Chief Inspector Klara Blum, the escaped prisoner Wolfram Seebeck is brutally shot by his accomplice. Klara, who blames herself for not having shot herself, is determined to prevent another murder from happening. Therefore, she follows the unknown killer on his escape. Evidence suggests that he mingled with the guests at the wedding of the young Beate Gellert with the lawyer Hanno Brünner. than at the merry feastthe traditional kidnapping of the bride begins and Beate disappears with a group of young men, Klara fears the worst. Together with the groom, she sets out in pursuit. The hunt for the bride takes her further and further into the Allgäu mountains. Klara Blum makes it clear to the groom that Beate has a secret that the armed murderer wants to elicit from her. In a race against time, Klara and Brünner try to find Beate before something happens to her.

A death shakes the Berlin art scene: Hanns Helge (Max von Thun), a world-class artist, was killed in his art installation by falling armored glass plates. The question of suicide or murder is complicated, it could also have been an accident. Although indirectly announced by the young artist - death as the true completion of the work - there are some people whose profit from the artist's death is in the tens of millions, especially his gallery owner Oona von Wilm (Karoline Eichhorn) and a private collector.

The men on the watchtowers of the Stadelheim prison in Munich are on the alert. City traffic can be heard in the distance. The entrance areas of the large area are covered. Gray facades made of aggregate concrete, with conspicuously large white numbers on them. Jagged barbed wire limits the horizon. Police sirens sound in the distance. The prison is considered escape-proof. SEK men occupy the long hallway to the north building. tumult in the aisles. The prisoner Nic Schuster holds a screwdriver to the throat of his fellow prisoner Charly Bause. He demands that prison director Josef Beringer be able to speak to Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr. After all, they put him in prison years ago. Batic and Leitmayr race up. You have a largely free hand. Behringer remains level-headed.
JVA official Marie Hoflehner and her colleagues Beckmann and Reisig act in a proven routine. But slowly it becomes clear that the previously unthinkable could happen - an outbreak: Hassan Adub, 29, half Algerian, half French, is on the run. The man is walking around somewhere in Munich. With what goal? In addition, there is a new terrible discovery: Nic Schuster is dead - died of drugs. From now on, panic reigns. In a forest area, Hassan Adub can change prison clothing. His escape is apparently meticulously prepared. Chief Inspector Leitmayr moves into an improvised office in prison. He questions all sorts of witnesses, including Igor, the Russian, and Han Troung, the clever Vietnamese, the latter of course accompanied by his lawyer. The yield of the statements proves to be poor.
At the same time, Ivo Batic is investigating Hassan Adub's old acquaintances in the Munich train station district. Günni, Tom-Tom and Denis supplied half of Maxvorstadt with drugs three years ago. Hassan was convicted and was imprisoned – as the only one. #What no one knows is that Marie Hoflehner, the always correct JVA employee, risked her existence to enable prisoner Hassan to achieve his dream of a free life in his homeland of Algeria. But Hassan, happy in freedom, pursues his own goals with great concentration and determination. Marie's love is put to the test.

Inspector Thiel has to send his own father to custody: the wife of local asparagus farmer Martin Pütz was stabbed to death. And of all things, Commissioner Thiel's father was caught in the asparagus field at night. It quickly turns out that the relationship between the villagers and the seasonal workers at the asparagus farm is not particularly good. The wife of the local "asparagus king" Martin Pütz was stabbed to death. And of all things, Commissioner Thiel's father is now a suspect. Or was he just caught stealing asparagus at night? As chief investigator, Thiel first takes action: He sends his old man into custody. And he also refuses to allow forensic pathologist Professor Boerne to go it alone at the crime scene.
Turns out quicklyfound out that the relationship between the villagers and the seasonal workers at the asparagus farm was not particularly good. Two years ago, the daughter of the house, Julia Pütz, was raped by an unknown person. Since then, the Polish and Romanian seasonal workers have been under general suspicion among the locals in the Munster suburb. Now the murder of Julia's mother threatens to break the camel's back. Especially when the same DNA from back then is also found in the dead woman. While Professor Boerne is busy evaluating a series of DNA tests, Thiel sends his assistant Nadeshda ahead. In order to find out who could have a motive for murder on the farm, she is supposed to go on a search for clues disguised as an asparagus cutter.

A family is having a great time at the amusement park, but when the parents return to the hotel room after dinner, their eight-year-old daughter is missing. A little later, the girl is found dead in a torrent on the site. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper quickly track down two suspects: Tom Heye, a carpenter who was convicted of abusing a girl, and lawyer Werner Rahn, who died last night before his weddingspent alone in the amusement park. But then the case takes a surprising turn and the mother herself becomes the focus of the investigation. An extreme situation that puts more and more strain on Lena, because she knows that she must hurt the mother endlessly with her questions - but she doesn't know whether she is sitting opposite an innocent mother who has just lost her only child, or a murderess who killed her own child.

15-year-old Florian dies of an allergic shock after drinking the energy drink "Vitanale". Investigations reveal that the fitness drink was overdosed with food coloring. Is that the reason the boy died? It quickly becomes clear that although the boy was allergic, the fatal amount was anything but a coincidence. A first hot lead leads Borowski directly to the Kallberg dairy, which aggressively markets its top product "Vitanale". A break-in at the dairy seems to prove that sabotage is involved. A young environmental activist who has been running a campaign against "Vitanale" for some time and does not shy away from dubious methods initially becomes the focus of the investigations .
But the ambitious company boss Liane Kallberg and her quarreling family also seem dubious to Borowski. Sarah Brandt, who comes into contact with Borowski rather involuntarily, proves to be a helpful informant about the Kallbergs. When a blackmailer reports, events begin to unfold. It soon becomes clear that behind the crime lies a human drama in which the dead boy's father plays a key role.

dr Silke Tannenberg is found dead in her practice. Charlotte Lindholm's boss, Stefan Bitomsky, insists that she take on the case and seems strangely nervous about it. On site, Charlotte meets Chief Inspector Dambeck, who describes the dead woman as the good soul of the small town. The motive for the murder is completely unclear. Again and again Tim crosses Charlotte's path. The youth seems neglected and simple-minded. Charlotte also comes across a video diary that Tannenberg kept about her male acquaintances. Among other things, also about Bitomsky ... 

An unnamed body is found on a lake shore. The Stuttgart detectives Lannert and Bootz try to clarify the identity of the woman and find out that it was a Ukrainian living illegally in Germany. As they piece together the life of Taya Dawischko, the inspectors gain insight into the everyday life of people who live illegally in Germany and therefore try to remain invisible. As Lannert supportreceived from a friend of Taya's, who is also illegal, he promises not to betray the woman to his colleagues at the immigration office - a promise that rather strains Bootz's patience. On the other hand, in this way the two get on the trail of the employers and supporters of the murdered people - and Taya's two children, who are hiding out of fear and may also be in mortal danger...

Konstanze Schiller (Tatjana Alexander), the successful and desirable owner of a Munich spa, is found dead in a chocolate bath - an almost perfect murder that does not skimp on symbolism: A beautiful woman dies during a beauty bath in her own beauty temple... a victim of her arrogance?

The LKA investigator Felix Murot (Ulrich Tukur) lives alone, a forever bachelor who has neither sought nor found the woman who suits him. He dresses well, but only has one suit, which he always wears, and at most changes his shirts every once in a while. His gruff, sometimes cynical nature isn't for everyone, although he can be comical at times. He has a charming, bright side and a dark, unpleasant side. HisThe only confidante at the LKA is his secretary Magda Wächter (Barbara Philipp), who always has his back with her gruff charm. Murot has frequent headaches, and a routine check-up reveals a tumor in his brain. Doctors can't tell if it's dormant or developing. Murot refuses radiation and takes pills, he is afraid and represses.

His parents had reported him missing. Now her worst fears are coming true. Mark is frozen. The police had discovered the boy in the cold room of the "Fringshof". Mark's father, Bernd Bürger, can hardly be contained in his hatred. Regardless of whether it was murder or just an accident, he is certain that the farm owner, Iris Findeisen, is to blame for his son's death. But why should the game and fowl dealer want to kill an innocent child?Inspectors Ballauf and Schenk are skeptical. Obviously, Iris Findeisen was not well tolerated in the small town on the outskirts of Cologne. The attractive businesswoman is also a thorn in the side of Mark's grandmother Helene and those responsible at the neighboring rifle club. Only Mark's mother Nadja Bürger does not want to comment on this. After the death of her son, she is in shock. A second murder occurs shortly afterwards.

When police officers find an abandoned and demolished vehicle at a construction site, they make a horrifying discovery: there is a dead body in the trunk of the car. The summoned chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler determine that the dead person is Jörg Korsack, the human resources manager of the municipal transport company. He was brutally killed.

"Never be free again" begins where every other crime scene ends: Leitmayr and Batic have caught the murderer. Order can be restored. The court just has to do justice. Everyone is convinced - the murderer and rapist is in the dock. The rest is really just a matter of form. But then the victims and their families are acquitted. The martyrdom for the relatives increases immeasurably: What is law? what is fair Is law fair?

The body parts of a man who was a member of a hunting party are found in an animal trap on a country estate near Kiel. Everything indicates that a militant animal rights activist is behind the murder. But Borowski soon finds out that the hunting party has something to hide: its members had chosen the secluded estate to illegally shoot bears that are bought specifically for the purpose.