Tatort - Season 43 / Year 2012

The body of young Steffi Pietsch has been lying by the side of the road for a few hours and it actually looks like a suicide. But the cut clothes speak a different language. It is particularly depressing for Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper that they picked up the dead woman's daughter the night she was looking for her mother. It quickly becomes clear that this is a murder disguised as a suicide. It must have been someone who knew her well. This means that both Steffi's ex-husband and his girlfriend Claudia are the focus of the investigation. In order to establish better contact with Claudia, Mario Kopper even takes dance lessons at her dance school. A particularly commendable effort.
Together, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper are also investigating at Steffi's employer "Metropol", a slaughterhouse with a large kitchen attached. You learn that the dead girl wasn't particularly popular with her colleagues. She was a rebel who almost suffered from paranoia because she saw deplorable things everywhere. The murdered woman had enough enemies. The only question is who did she offend so badly that it led to murder.

A dead pensioner in the park is a puzzle for inspectors Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Schenk (Dietmar Bär). Did the old man get into a fight? Was another person abducted, as a witness reported? The investigators' foreboding soon becomes certain: they are dealing with a kidnapping drama. Daniel, the 22-year-old son of builder Markus Wächter, is the victim. The kidnappers are demanding "no police" – and one million euros. The kidnapping has parallels to an earlier case in which the perpetrators were never caught. Have they struck again now? While Ballauf and Schenk feverishly search for clues, the kidnapped Daniel hopes to be rescued in a dungeon.

Terrible end to a wedding party: In the early morning, chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are called to a crime scene. A young, newly married couple, Annika and Peter, have been brutally murdered on the shore of a lake. The inspectors suspect the culprit among the wedding guests and ask them to submit a saliva sample to the headquarters. Florian Koll, a disappointed ex-boyfriend of the bride, does not follow this summons. When he tries to make incriminating evidence disappear, he is observed by the inspectors and is strongly suspected of having committed a crime. During their further investigation, Saalfeld and Keppler learn from the grandmother of the murdered bride that a family member was not invited to the wedding.
Between Annika's father and her uncle, thedriving instructor Horst Baumann, there had been a bitter argument years ago, as a result of which Annika's father died of a heart attack. The inspectors uncover a dark family secret. Shortly thereafter, Kerstin, a young high school graduate, is found murdered. As always, the photographer Roman Rustaveli takes pictures of the scene of the crime – behind the barrier. A cap Keppler found right next to the body could belong to his camera. Keppler notes that articles about both the bride and the high school graduate had appeared in the local newspaper prior to their murder—along with photos of Rustaveli. Eva, who knows Roman from her youth, investigates the man who seeks her closeness - a dangerous project.

It's early morning. A young woman flees in panic and crosses a busy highway. A little later she is dead, lying dead near a high-rise settlement. Initial investigations show that the young woman is emaciated, dehydrated and has probably not seen sunlight for a long time. In their last case, the two chief inspectors Kappl (Maximilian Brückner) and Deininger (Gregor Weber) quickly find out that the victim years ago aslittle girl was kidnapped and has been missing until today. Then suddenly a second young woman appears, who was also missing for a long time. She is alive but completely distraught. Apparently, both girls were kidnapped by the same perpetrator and held under inhumane circumstances. For the investigators, a race against time begins, which they suspect: the kidnapper could have other girls in his power.

Customs officer Robert Riebsahl is murdered. The customs station is shaken. Riebsahl was considered a particularly correct civil servant. Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann are looking for a motive for the crime. Apparently Riebsahl was on the trail of irregularities in the customs station. In view of the brisk smuggling activities at the border, it is obvious that one or the other colleague is involved in shady dealings. For example, the young customs officers Marie Schreiber and Kevin Kümmerle, whom Riebsahl secretly photographed at work shortly before his death. The two commissioners encounter a web of corruption and favoritism. But is this actually the motive for the murder, or are they dealing with an entirely different drama?

When two killers shoot a student who is supposed to pick up a cleaning crew on the parking deck of a shopping center, Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) lies at home, bathed in sweat, sick with the flu and grumpy. He snaps at his daughter Claudia (Tanja Raunig) and his new assistant Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser): "I'm on sick leave. I need rest and no hysterical women around my bed." But the murder case and Bibi's feigned serenity: "Well, now I have to go there alone", allow him to recover suddenly.

A gas station owner is shot dead in his sales room. Chief inspector Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her colleague Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) quickly know that this is not a case of robbery and murder, because there is a large sum of money in the till. In addition, the perpetrator closed the dead man's eyes post mortem. To the astonishment of the inspectors, the victim's family seems very composed. Does she have anything to do with the murder? 16-year-old Max (Vincent Göhre), who found the victim, is increasingly caught up in contradictions. And why is his mother (Mira Partecke) so panicky? During their investigations, the inspectors get deeper into family secrets than they would like...

What's a toothache when your superior Brandner unexpectedly sends a young colleague to your side – for training purposes. The Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are polite and not at all uninterested. The young colleague is gaining more and more plus points.
On a routine business trip, the three find themselves in a precarious situation. In a burning car in front of a farm, they can see the outline of a person before the car explodes. In the window of the adjacent farm they see the silhouette of a man.
Leitmayr wants to ask the man. Shots are fired. Leitmayr scores three times. Siggi Aumeister collapses and falls into a coma.
The internal investigations immediately begin to take effect. Franz Leitmayr has to give up his gun to secure evidence. His office is searched - routinely for alcohol and drugs. According to the regulations, the police officer Leitmayr is offered a leave of absence after "firearm experiences". He must testify before a commission of inquiry. Investigator Maus acts particularly sustainably in this context. Why didn't Leitmayr recognize that his opponent's weapon was a "replica"? A psychological consultation is pending: therapist Sophie Wiesmann refuses to prescribe sleeping pills for the patient Leitmayr.And Batic of all people testified to the investigative commission that Leitmayr took painkillers on the day of the crime. Why is Batic stabbing his longtime colleague Leitmayr in the back?
But it is far worse to face the parents of the badly injured Siggi. Schorsch and Elisabeth Aumeister run a long-established hardware and household goods store in the immediate vicinity of Leitmayr. Mother Elisabeth and father Schorsch know Franz Leitmayr as a customer. They have no idea that he of all people fired the shots at their beloved son.
There are vending machine pictures in which Siggi Aumeister happily poses with a woman. But nobody in the family wants to know Adriana Kaminski. The older son Markus no longer lives in the parental home. As the deputy branch manager of a hardware store, he leads an independent life. But the facade is crumbling. There was a robbery at the hardware store in which brother Siggi was allegedly involved.
What secret is the family hiding? When Siggi dies in the hospital, the signs for Chief Inspector Leitmayr within his department are upset. And not only there.
Mother Elisabeth is torn between her love for her husband Schorsch, who has innocently got into debt, and her two sons. And she knows exactly: if the shop dies, Schorsch dies too.

An assassination attempt in a cemetery of all places: Entrepreneur Otto Imberger narrowly escapes an attack by a stranger, but his chauffeur Marco Hummel is fatally hit by one of the bullets. Thorsten Lannert discovers during his investigations that a power struggle within the family over the future direction of Imberger's company is underway. In order to protect the patriarch from new attacks and at the same time to be able to investigate within the family, the prosecutor smugglesÁlvarez Chief Inspector Bootz as chauffeur and bodyguard for Otto Imberger. Thorsten Lannert examines the environment of Imberger's company while undercover examining the extremely tense relationship between the two sons Gerald and Lukas Imberger. Above all, the former production manager Rudolf Bischoff, who cannot cope with his dismissal, is suspicious. The suspicion seems to be confirmed when Bishop Otto Imberger is threatened with a gun...

Inspector Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) and forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) are investigating the case of a former police officer who was found dead on the street – wearing only panties. Boerne found no traces of violence on the woman's body. Inspector Frank Thiel from the homicide commission takes over anyway: Because why did Katja Braun run onto the street almost naked and then die of heart failure? At the Kripo, the victim is no stranger. Katja Braun used to be a police officer. Now her death has parallels to a case she once investigated. A prostitute had been strangled at the time. Their pimp Heinz Kock, also known in the scene as Heinz Hinkebein because of his walking disability, was considered an urgent suspect.
He went into hiding shortly before his arrest. Has he now taken revenge on the former commissioner? Or is Katja Braun's death more attributable to her alcohol problem? As a result, the relationship with her ex-husband Jörg Braun and her daughter Marie was obviously very tense. Meanwhile, a delegation of Russian police officers, under the supervision of police spokesman Michael Hausner, is trying to familiarize itself with local investigative practices.

The failure of the refrigeration unit of a container in Vienna's Danube port puts Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and his partner Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) on a hot track. In addition to a lot of chicken feet, three male corpses, still semi-frozen and wrapped in plastic foil, are washed out when the container is opened with the masses of water. They are obviously Asians.
After a walker's dog found a severed hand in a park the next morning, more body parts were soon discovered in garbage cans. The dead man is the Chinese Tsao Kang (Johannes Ahn), who had drunkenly rioted in a Chinese restaurant the night before. With the intercession of Dr. Oskar Welt (Erwin Steinhauer), the chief of the immigration police, he was released shortly after his arrest.
At first glance there seems to be no connection between the bodies found. But in both cases the investigations lead to the meat wholesaler Klaus Müller (Martin Brambach). Suddenly Bibi Fellner's friend gets caught in the crosshairs, the petty crook and brothel owner Inkasso-Heinzi (Simon Schwarz). Because in the Tsao Kang murder case, his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, a samurai sword. Moritz Eisner is horrified and yells at his partner: "You are friends with a murderer..." It makes him even angrier that the wanted person can free himself with a lightning-fast headbutt and Eisner breaks his nose in the process.
There is additional, massive trouble for Moritz Eisnerhis colleague and supervisor Dr. Oskar Welt, whom he accuses, among other things, of having prevented Tsao Kang from testifying to the police. When the accused made massive threats to him, Moritz Eisner had him arrested.
The chief inspector is worried about Bibi, who has had an alcohol relapse and calls him in desperation. When he brings her home, he finds the fugitive debt collector Heinzi in her apartment, who had hidden here without her knowledge. Without hesitating for a second, Eisner hits - his revenge for the painful headbutt. But a little later, Bibi's friend gives the police an important tip. It is about a company in which, among other things, inferior food is repackaged and renamed and declared as high-quality organic food by predominantly Chinese illegal workers. It is mainly intended for restaurants and generates a high profit. There are many indications of a mysterious connection to the Chinese mafia in this dirty and extremely ruthless business.
When the meat wholesaler found Müller frozen stiff in his company's refrigerated chamber and shortly thereafter Dr. Oskar Welt is murdered, this case threatens to get out of control. Also puzzling is the role of Ms. Gú Bao (Nahoko Fort-Nishigami), who used to be married to the police chief and is the boss of the bar where Tsao Kang smashed a large window pane with an iron bar and attacked guests. With Ms. Gú Bao, many threads seem to come together. But what does she have such an overshadowing fear for? 

The Berlin taxi entrepreneur Herbert Klemke is found dead in his office. The investigations by commissioners Till Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Felix Stark (Boris Aljinovic) quickly reveal that various people had a fight with Klemke on the night of the crime: his former employee Bülent Delikara (Oktay Özdemir), for example, that of his ex-boss get a bigger amount of money.
Or Ziska Zuckowski (Alwara Höfels): With her brother Pit (Christian Blümel), she continues to run her parents' delicatessen, which is running more or less poorly, and could no longer afford the constantly increasing additional costs of her landlord Klemke. She has a motive – just like Klemke's daughter Dagmar (Nicolette Krebitz), who wanted to use her father's money to open a diving school in a luxury Australian resort. Klemke's secretary Edith Welziehn (Renate Krößner) had been loyal to her boss for over 40 years and is now deeply shocked by the human loss.
During further investigations, the inspectors discover that Klemke's bank advisor Christa Meinecke (Tatjana Blacher) has carried out money transactions on her own - including via Klemke's accounts. Ms Meinecke has known both Ziska Zuckowski and Dagmar Klemke for years and is aware of their financial needs and concerns. And Klemke, in turn, found out what Frau Meinecke was doing behind his back and wanted to confront her on the night of the crime.
There are many suspects, but all leads come to nothing, because all possible perpetrators have a watertight alibi. Nevertheless, Ritter and Stark are absolutely certain: They must look for the murderer in Klemke's immediate vicinity. 

15-year-old Anna Römer is reported missing by her mother. Shortly thereafter, a young girl is found dead near a children's prostitute in Leipzig. But the murder victim is not Anna, but Lisa Noack, who lives on the street. Inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler ask around in the street children scene and come across Gerd Tremmel, the head of the aid association "Kinderland eV", and his wife Claudia, who treated Lisa as a doctor free of charge. Her son Paul was Lisa's boyfriend and had a heated argument with her shortly before she was murdered. The detectives find out that Lisa was pregnant, but Paul didn't want to keep the child.
At the same time, a 15-year-old woman was found dead in the Rhine in Cologne. Initial investigations reveal a connection to Saxony: Sarah Stellwag had been arrested several times in Leipzig for prostitution. The Cologne inspectors Ballauf and Schenk set off, but without first registering with their colleagues in Leipzig. When Keppler, who wants to investigate the children's prostitution, mistakes chief inspector Ballauf for a suitor, a serious argument ensues. The four commissioners then diplomatically agree on joint investigations.
The missing Anna Römer, meanwhile, has found shelter with Olaf Dürer, a seedy man in his mid-thirties who takes homeless young girls in for a few nights, allegedly without asking for anything in return. After hints from the scene, Ballauf and Keppler track him down and are able to stop him after an attempt to escape. In his apartment, the detectives find a terrified Anna, who ran away from home after discovering that she is not her mother's biological child. The detectives stumble upon a case of child abduction many years ago. 

Traces of 15-year-old Anna Römer, who was reported missing in Leipzig, are found in a car in a Cologne scrapyard. For the chief inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) it is obvious: There is a connection with the murder of Sarah Stellwag. Both girls disappeared in Leipzig and turned up again in Cologne.
At the same time and in an unknown place: Peter Bransky is doing Anna Römer's hair and make-up – exactly like the photos of the girls that adorn his vanity mirror. What is he planning to do with Anna? And what about thosegirl in the photos happen? When three girls' bodies are fished out of the Rhine, the investigators' suspicion that they are dealing with a serial offender is confirmed. The intervals at which he strikes are getting shorter and shorter. Ballauf and Schenk have a maximum of two to three days to find Anna Römer alive. In this situation they receive support from their colleagues Saalfeld (Simone Thomalla) and Keppler (Martin Wuttke) from Leipzig. There, the four had already investigated together in the case of the missing girls. A race against time begins... 

Conny Mey (Nina Kunzendorf) and Frank Steier (Joachim Król) are called to a crime scene in downtown Frankfurt. The dead is the prostitute Ramona Förster. Police colleague Seidel (Peter Kurth) also appears at the scene of the crime and is given a new chance to support Conny Mey and Frank Steier. Seidel learns from the shady reporter Kurt Eggers (Martin Kiefer) that a very similar case happened six months earlier in Offenbach. It could be a serial killer. Steier warns Conny to deal with the murders . He is afraid that Conny will become too emotionally involved in the case. Meanwhile, however, she is already on the trail of Ramona Förster's ex-husband, who was with her at the time of the crime.
Everything points to him as the culprit, there is another murder of a prostitute, but Markus Förster (Uwe Bohm) seems to have an alibi. While Steier is busy analyzing the case in the police station, a race against time begins for Conny Mey, which is increasingly tugging on her nerves and her self-image as a police officer.

Cenk Batu's latest assignment takes him behind the scenes of the world of finance. He is part of a concerted action by the government around the new Chancellor Grasshof, in which several undercover investigators were smuggled into banks with the aim of uncovering illegal financial transactions and obtaining concrete evidence against the opaque system.
At the bank, Andreas Dobler, a young and particularly unscrupulous trader, is targeted by the investigations. But things spiral out of control after Cenk observes a secret meeting between Dobler and the mysterious Valerie. 20 years ago, Valerie was a contract killer wanted around the world. Now the strange woman has returned, terminally ill, to carry out one last assignment: the assassination of Chancellor Grasshof...

A walker saw a man lying under a rock in the woods and Lena Odenthal made her way to the scene of the crime. When the commissioner arrives there is no trace of the man. While searching for clues to the man's whereabouts, she is knocked out from behind and taken hostage by five youths. As it turns out, these are young people from a nearby rehabilitation camp who killed their group leader and are now on the run. Lena Odenthal is to serve as their hostage. While Lena tries to keep the youngsters in check and prevent the situation from escalating further, Mario Kopper desperately tries to find his colleague's whereabouts in order to come to her aid.
A race against time and the adverse weather in the forest begins, because the stress of the hike and the escape from the police make the young people more and more aggressive and dangerous. Mario Kopper desperately tries to follow Lena's trail and free his colleague from the hostage-takers. 

The investigation into the murder of a pediatric surgeon requires a great deal of sensitivity from Flückiger and his new police colleague Liz Ritschard. Because the closer the inspectors get to the truth, the more tragic is the family drama that unfolds before them: Sunday afternoon in Lucerne. At the solidarity run for a children's charity, Dr. Lanther (Benedict Freitag), the medical director of the Pilatus Clinic, and his deputy Marco Salimbeni (Thomas Sarbacher). In the middle of the run, Lanther is murdered. A scalpel is stuck in his throat. Urine samples from the forest floor prove that Salimbeni and Lanther briefly paused the run and relieved themselves just meters apart.
Inspector Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) and his team focus their investigations on the private environment of prominent pediatric surgeon Lanther. His wife Imelda (Regula Grauwiller) had an affair with Salimbeni, which Lanther had obviously discovered and which led to a rift between the two doctors. But then the tragedy in the family of a police officer scratches the image of the infallible doctor. Suddenly, Lanther's little patients and their parents play a role in this murder case.

Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard are called to the outermost border of the canton. Below the Wissifluh, an altitude above Lake Lucerne, a bon vivant from the Lucerne jet set lies dead in a wooded area on the national holiday. Everything indicates that he was pushed out of the cable car that goes up to the excursion restaurant, where an August 1st celebration was taking place the night before. Government Councilor Mattmann, who was invited as a keynote speaker,witnessed a dispute between the owner of the Wissifluh and the murder victim who wanted to invest in the Wissifluh. Mattmann urges the arrest of the argumentative mountain farmer Arnold. But Flückiger expands the investigative horizon and comes across the discreet machinations of settlement specialists for rich foreigners. Does anyone actually stop at nothing to get property in an exclusive location?

After a homecoming party for the husband of her ex-colleague Lissy, who has returned to Afghanistan, Ballauf and Schenk are called to the scene of the crime: the badly battered corpse of a young man was found in the bunker of an old military training area. His identity is quickly determined: According to the Frankfurt Airport Authority, Milad Rahimi (Reza Brojerdi) and his sister Amina (Maryam Zaree) had only traveled to Germany from Afghanistan two days ago. Amina's flight was paid for by the Pro-Afghanistan Foundation. But obviously the two were used here as body packers. The inspectors know that they have no time to lose: With the drugs in her body, Amina Rahimi's life is in great danger.
Lissy's husband Sebastian Brandt (Roeland Wiesnekker), who works as an interpreter for the Bundeswehr, has just arrived by plane from Afghanistan. Obviously, the mission in the Hindu Kush left deep marks on the otherwise fun-loving father. With his comrades.

A desperate call alerted the Kiel police emergency number: "He's in my apartment. He just comes through the wall." But for Carmen Kessler, any help comes too late. The young woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment. Inspector Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt are puzzled: Although the apartment door is locked and the perpetrator left no traces at the crime scene, the murderer seems to have been in and out of the victim's house. He stayed with her secretly, gave her anonymous gifts and studied every habit of his victim.

Two masked men storm a wedding party where chief inspector Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and her colleague Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) are guests. Inga soon realizes that this is no ordinary robbery. Why is one of the men trying to find out about the murder of a young woman? When a wedding guest is suddenly found dead, it quickly becomes clear that it couldn't have been the two masked men. But then who was it?

The Dortmund homicide team has no time to properly greet their new boss at the police headquarters: they experience Peter Faber and his idiosyncratic investigative methods directly at the scene of the crime. The student Kai Schiplok (Tom Viehoefer) was found dead in his apartment , naked and only covered with a cloth. The first traces point to a jealousy drama. The murder victim was known for his easy-going lifestyle. His ex-boyfriend Lars Bremer (Christoph Jöde) obviously suffered from this.

The school camp of a Catholic Swiss youth group ends tragically when one of the boys is found abused and murdered. At the site where the body was found, Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann meet their Swiss colleague Matteo Lüthi, who is handling the case for the Thurgau canton police. Lüthi, who until recently worked for the Swiss intelligence service, is anything but a team player. Klara, on the other hand, doesn't want to let the direction of the investigation be taken out of her hands so easily. Accordingly, there is a lot of crunching in the cooperation, especially since the nerves are on edge in a case of child abuse. Moritz, the murdered boy's roommate, is convinced that Nachtkrapp, a children's night terror, got his friend.
The inspectors have other suspects: Deacon Franz Hobmann, who looked after the youth group, and Herbert and Andreas Bogener from the school camp. The evidence also speaks against Holger Nussbaum, who has served 15 years in prison for a very similar case and has recently been released. Nussbaum still has an old score to settle with Klara, so when the inspector tries to arrest him, he resorts to desperate means.

The Kiel author Dirk Sauerland is found dead on his yacht. Sauerland was known beyond the borders of Kiel. In recent months he had been working on a spectacular disclosure story. Sauerland's ex-wife Ulla Jahn, who hosts a popular talk show, gives Chief Inspector Borowski and Inspector Sarah Brand a hint about the dead man's gay double life. What interest does state politician Karl Martin von Treunau have in his relationship with the dead man?hide? A contact sheet with photos from the 1980s puts Borowski on an old track. 25 years ago, Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Uwe Barschel died in a hotel in Geneva. Apparently Dirk Sauerland was there at the same time. What did he discover back then, and why did Sauerland have to die today? Sarah Brand throws herself full of zeal into researching the Barschel case. Borowski prefers to remain a realist. Then suddenly a witness from Geneva appears.

The Stuttgart detectives Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz investigate the murder of a student who denounced environmental sinners as an "ecopirate".
The campaigns were shielded in such a way that they could neither find the company that was currently in focus nor other supporters of the campaign. When they finally have a lead, it leads to the prosecutor's new friend Henrike Habermas, of all people. 

Two women, Isabella and younger assistant Sandra, run a gang dedicated to saving Canadian baby seals from slaughter - for hefty commissions. Unemployment and insolvency have long since reached craftsmen and academic circles. She fuels the hope of getting back on her feet with some quick money. Those who are hired are groomed for success.

Dealer and pimp Serkan Bürec was shot dead in Nora Dalay's neighborhood. He was considered the right hand of the shady businessman Tarim Abakay. For Chief Inspector Peter Faber, everything indicates that there was also a witness at the crime scene. But she has disappeared without a trace. Patrol officers Rainer Polland and Paul Klose don't like the fact that the homicide squad is now investigating in their precinct. Nora Dalay knows the impulsive Polland well. The two used to go on patrol together. And Polland's wife Sonja is also no stranger to the area: The ex-prostitute is now committed to street girls and helps them where she can. Chief Inspector Martina Bönisch quickly finds a good connection to her.
But does she also know where the missing witness is? Meanwhile, Daniel Kossik is asking around among the men who are waiting for their next job "on the workers' street". The victim is said to have had a recent argument with one of them, Marek Bojanov. Was it about the horrendous rents for the run-down accommodation that its boss Tarim Abakay collects from the immigrants?

The synthetic drug "Heaven" is popular in Berlin's party scene. The manufacturer of the drug, Christoph Gerhard (Stefan Kreissig), is found dead.
The investigators Till Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Felix Stark (Boris Aljinovic) take on the case and are supported by Melissa Mainhard (Ina Weisse), who is at their side as an experienced drug investigator.
The dead man's computer is gone, and with it the recipe for Heaven. Who is doing the business with the designer drug now? Gerhard's partner Dirk Regulator (Barnaby Metschurat), who transfers funds from the business account to a bank in the Channel Islandstransfers? Or Ivo Kaminski (Gerdy Zint), who has already attracted attention as a courier and middleman? Young Tom Hartmann (Leonard Carow), who suddenly throws money around, is also suspicious.
The inspectors uncover a completely different mystery: Melissa is terminally ill. The mother of two is particularly concerned about her eldest daughter Anny (Johanna Ingelfinger) – the pubescent girl slips away from her. What Melissa doesn't know: Through her boyfriend Tom, Anny is in danger of slipping into the milieu. Tom was seen with Gerhard on the night of the crime. When his identikit is published, he flees.

One morning, the alternative practitioner Raffael Lembeck is found dead by his wife Stella on a restored farm near Wolbeck. The victim had obviously fallen in his practice and then bled to death, explains Prof. Boerne at the scene of the crime. Lembeck's alternative treatment methods were particularly popular with women, and wealthy patients even came from abroad. On the other hand, on the neighboring farm, with the family of farmer Moritz Kintrup, he was not always welcome. There are also the three Krien brothers in Wolbeck, who don't really want to reveal what they had to do with the victim.

On their way home at night, Anne and René Winkler are attacked and brutally beaten by three young men. The police officers Rahn and Maurer notice this attack and take care of the two victims. But the perpetrators running away cannot recognize or catch them. Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler begin to have doubts about the statements made by their police colleagues when it turns out that one of the suspected youths identified by Winkler's description is Rahn's son. They could understand that a father wants to cover for his son, but they do not find it credible that his colleague Maurer did not recognize any of the young people. Is he silent out of misunderstood friendship? The head of the department puts his hand in the fire for his police officers.
The young people are stubbornly silent and have carefully coordinated their alibis with each other - without witnesses to the crime, Saalfeld and Keppler cannot prove anything to them. When Mrs. Winkler dies as a result of the violent attack, the desperate husband, who feels abandoned by the police, tries to take matters into his own hands. The violence is spreading..

The discovery of a corpse in a Hanover waste incineration plant calls Charlotte Lindholm (Maria Furtwängler) onto the scene. She is particularly moved by the fate of the 16-year-old suspected prostitute; who is so ruthless as to just throw a young girl in the trash? A short time later, another girl named Larissa is picked up, who is of crucial help to the police. She was also thrown in the trash, but was able to free herself and survived. In desperation, the young Belarusian reports that the dead woman is her cousin and that both of them, along with eight other girls, have won a modeling competition. The prize was a trip to Hanover, which was to develop into a nightmare for the girls, because they were used as willing toys at a gentleman's evening in Hanoverian society.
Larissa is placed under witness protectionand Charlotte Lindholm is on high pressure: where did the celebration take place, who was involved and what happened to the remaining eight girls? Charlotte Lindholm follows a trail into the red light district of Hanover and is surrounded by a wall of silence. The investigating public prosecutor von Braun (André Hennicke also seems to be involved in these circles. Finally, there are concrete indications of a motorcycle rocker, but he has been swallowed up by the earth. When another attempt on the life of her key witness Larissa takes place, it rolls over The events unfold for Charlotte. The trap she set for the motorcycle rocker suspect seems to snap shut. Charlotte Lindholm manages to arrest him and corner him.
But did she also identify the real perpetrators? This question haunts her despite all the evidence.

A few weeks after the arrest of the murderer of a young forced prostitute, the perpetrator himself became a victim of manslaughter in the Langenhagen prison. Charlotte Lindholm shows great interest in the background to the crime, because she believes that this will allow her to resume her old case, which ended unsatisfactorily for her. At that time, some gentlemen of high society were having fun with young girls who were badly abused and then simply thrown away. Although Charlotte managed to get hold of middlemen, the real perpetrators remained hidden. Together with the investigating police officer Prinz, she is now following a clue from the dead man, which takes her to the location of the party at the time. The castle is owned by the Hanover real estate tycoon Kaiser).
In his orbitTo her great surprise, she finds someone else: her boyfriend Jan Liebermann. His journalistic research into a real estate scandal and Charlotte's investigation seem to have the same subject: on the day the girl was murdered, a party was held in the castle to change the republic's old-age security system. An accident? For a moment, Charlotte and Jan open the door to the engine room of power in their city a crack. But the evidence is tenuous. In order to get to the celebrity backers, Charlotte Lindholm personally has to venture far to solve the case. A trip to Belarus turns into an inner journey into her personal fears. What she brings with her is the truth about Hanover and about herself.

New Year's morning. The body of a woman is found on the edge of a schoolyard. Conny Mey and Frank Steier are amazed at how quickly they manage to determine the woman's identity: it is Agnes Brendel, and she was obviously well known in this neighborhood like a sore thumb. Agnes was poor, always had bad luck with men and, despite having a partner, Agnes often roamed the pubs alone. Mey and Steier try to reconstruct the last days before she was murdered. The proprietor of a pub, other regular customers, the kiosk owner, even the parish priest, with whom she often went to church, and many others from the neighborhood – all of them can remember when they last saw Agnes. But the statements do not match.
Did the killer know Agnes, or was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time? What role does her partner Viktor play, and what does Father Markus know? The commissioners are puzzled. In addition to Joachim Król and Nina Kunzendorf, the cast includes Paulus Manker, Rainer Bock, Florian Lukas, Vincent Redetzki, Anna Böttcher, Robert Viktor Minich and Gerd Wameling. Lars Kraume again wrote the screenplay and directed this fourth case, which is again based on an authentic event from the book "On the Trail of Evil" by detective inspector and crime scene analyst Axel Petermann. 

Carla is a very young girl and on her way home from school when she misses the bus. Nobody can pick her up at home. It just doesn't fit. "No, it doesn't matter. I walk I'm faster there." On the way, she meets her killer and gets into his car.
The Munich chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are assigned a colleague to help with the investigation. Gisbert Engelhardt served in the German army and is a techie. He creates a criminal profile and claims that he can filter out characteristic breaths of Carla's killer from Carla's last cell phone call.
On site, the man seems awkward. During the inspection of the body, he faints. Engelhardt is convinced that Carla's killer is a potential serial killer.
Batic and Leitmayr investigate in all directions. Carla's teacher, Herr Seifert, is also targeted.
The commissioners are at odds with colleague Engelhardt right from the start, he simply has too many "quirks". You can't help it and work to "praise him away". A fatal escalation, because Engelhardt now has to prove to "the best" that he is good for them. He sets out on his own to hunt down the phantom - a catastrophe takes its course...