Tatort - Season 49 / Year 2018

Detective Chief Inspector Jens Stellbrink (Devid Striesow) is confronted with a particularly tricky case. And that literally. Because an autopiloted vehicle has sped off a company's parking deck and the body of the company's legal counsel is now in the car. At first everything looks like suicide. But then Stellbrink learns that the computers of the company that specializes in collecting digital data are in the samenight and the missing data concern the self-driving car - "Mord Ex Machina" tells in an oppressive way about the abysses that digital technology entails and raises the current question of how much freedom the technical revolution of the Internet gives us brings and when it turns into its opposite. A topic that is also currently occupying industry in Saarland.

The joy is great when Mario Kopper meets Sandro again on the street, his closest childhood friend, who later ended up back in Sicily. The two are about to celebrate their reunion in a pub when Sandro is suddenly attacked by a guest. Kopper takes up arms, Sandro can flee. The frightened Sandro begs Kopper for help: As a tax consultant, he has seen more of the business of the Mafia branch Stidda than is good for him. Sandro is willing to testify as a key witness if Kopper helps him get into the witness protection program. Sandro's fear of Stidda's long arm fits all too well with the case that Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern are currently working on: a Mafia witness killed himself in the JVA before he could be transferred to Italy. lena, Johanna Stern and LKA Commissioner Manz are convinced that the witness was forced to commit suicide, but cannot prove it. Because Kopper fears that a similar fate is threatening Sandro, he hides his friend,without telling Lena and her colleagues about it. Sandro's panic, but also his own fatal knee-jerk reaction in the pub, prevent Kopper from confiding in Lena. While she is increasingly worried about what is going on with him during her investigation, Kopper tries to bring Sandro to safety as a key witness. However, there are increasing signs that Kopper himself has fallen into the crosshairs of the Mafia.
"Tatort: Kopper" is Andreas Hoppe's last assignment as Mario Kopper after 21 years and a total of 57 films at Lena Odenthal's side. The case is about friendship and loyalty, trust and decision, and Mario Kopper confronts his origins more intensely than ever before, and in which the long arm of the mafia reaches as far as Ludwigshafen. It was written by screenwriter Patrick Brunken, and Roland Suso Richter directed "Tatort". Michele Cuciuffo, a member of the ensemble at the Residenztheater in Munich, can be seen in the lead role in the episode as Sandro, and Saskia Vester as LKA inspector Manz.

Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) have to deal with an absolute professional in the face of a mysterious series of murders. First the masked killer kills a tattooed Serb, then the inconspicuous Georgian employee (Sebastian Pass) of a large gardening business and finally a young mother. Each time, the perpetrator leaves no traces, but a shocking staging: he spectacularly displays the desecrated corpses in places where there are so many people on the move that the police cannot find any usable DNA evidence. Ritual murders, sexual offenses or even a secret service killer squad - Fellner and Eisner have to investigate in all directions. There is not even clarity about the victims, all of whom lived under false identities in Vienna.finally movement in the case. A surprise also awaits the ice-cold killer in the game of confusion: he has gone unnoticed by a mix-up that endangers his perfectly camouflaged action. Meanwhile, Eisner and Fellner stumble upon a lead whose scope soon amazes them.
Harald Krassnitzer and Adele Neuhauser, alias Eisner and Fellner, are chasing a cold-blooded murderous phantom in Vienna's new "Tatort". What starts out as a spectacularly staged series of ritual murders in the television thriller "Die Faust" soon looks like a secret service commando operation. Director Christopher Schier, who has already had hit ratings with the police thriller "Tatort: Wehrlos", cleverly plays with expectations. He superbly combines crime thrillers with surprising twists, pinpoint shockers and a hearty portion of "shame". In their 17th joint case, Krassnitzer and Neuhauser are in great shape and show what they have in each other.

Hotel employee Marion Faust was violently thrown from the balcony at home. Ballauf and Schenk find out that shortly before her death she had left several concerned messages on Susanne Baumann's answering machine. But the employee of the internationally renowned architects Könecke & Partner is currently untraceable. Could her husband Lars Baumann have something to do with it? As site manager, he should have been back in Qatar long ago, where Könecke & Partner is building for the 2022 World Cup. He is also said to be urgently looking for his wife. And apparently there had recently been a loud argument between him and Marion Faust at the hotel reception. But when the commissioners want to interrogate him at the headquarters, he goes into hiding.

Nine-year-old Rico Krüger disappears without a trace. Young people soon find his body in a bag on the banks of the Elbe. The Dresden investigators Henni Sieland and Karin Gorniak are confronted with the emotional impact of such an act. Citizens are in an uproar, the media are stirring up fear, and rapid investigation results are being demanded. Commissariat chief Schnabel reacts emotionally and thin-skinned to the terrifying act and to criticism of police work - especially since he was unable to solve the disappearance of another little boy more than three years ago. Is there a connection between the cases? Schnabel publicly quarrels with data protection laws and the limited powers of investigative authorities. Sieland and Gorniak try to keep coolpreserve, but have no hot lead.
An anonymous phone call directs suspicion to Rico's swimming coach: Micha Siebert, who is a friend of the family, allegedly has a pedophile past. The detectives are able to determine the identity of the caller. Jennifer Wolf works in the school authority and lives with René Zernitz, who works as a technician at the public utility company and apparently has a penchant for children. But she doesn't tell the investigators - when the stepfather of the murdered Rico finds out about the enormous suspicion against the swimming teacher, he wants to kill Siebert. Henni Sieland is injured in the attack and has to be hospitalized. While another boy is in great danger, Henni Sieland finds the key clue in the old investigation file. 

A scene straight out of a horror film: the prisoner Miroslav Katcek is thrown into a completely uncontrolled tantrum in the prison hospital, foams at the mouth, screams, bites and spits. Eventually he collapses, collapses and dies. Jonas Zander, the former forensic doctor, asks the entire investigative team for an interview: Zander explains to Martina Bönisch, Peter Faber and Nora Dalay that he was murdered. Which seems unusual considering he's alive in front of the team. Zander was infected with rabies; the symptoms are already so advanced that there is no longer any chance of recovery. Jonas Zander only has a few days to live. He has only one wish left: that Faber and his team find his killer before he dies.
Zander was during astabbing in the prison, where he now works as a doctor, together with the deceased prisoner Miroslav Katcek. In the course of the highly complex investigations, Faber and his team meet old acquaintances: The prisoner Markus Graf, who has Faber's wife and child on his conscience, could - perfidiously as he is - have something to do with the "murder" of Zander - soon find out there are indications that the Albanian mafia is behind it and wants to bring unrest to the prison about the rabies attack and thus implement an escape plan. While the three remaining inspectors determine how exactly the virus was smuggled into the prison, the mood in the prison boils more and more and they meet a colleague working undercover, the young Jan Pawlak.

The billionaire Alonzo Sassen is murdered when his villa in Weimar is broken into. His young wife Lollo shoots the perpetrator - apparently in self-defense. Inspectors Kira Dorn and Lessing observe Lollo, who then looks for work in the "Chez Chériechen" brothel, which is run by Fritjof "Fritte" Schröder. His brother Martin runs a quarry near Weimar with his wife Cleo, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. As a special geological formation, this is one of the two potential locations for the planned "Goethe Geomuseum". This use would save the Schröders financially. But Sassen had announced that he would give the city a piece of land in Weimar's best location, on Frauenplan, so that the museum could be built there.
Was that his death sentence? Their investigations lead Kira Dorn and Lessing to the Bauhaus University. Architecture professor Ilja Bock chairs the jury that decides on the location of the new museum building. He has an affair with his childhood sweetheart Cleo, which puts her in the detectives' crosshairs. When it turns out that Fritte Schröder is at the table at the property roulette and the hate relationship with his brother Martin becomes apparent, the case is heading for an explosive finale.

Commissioner Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) is shocked. The severed finger of a young girl is sent to him. Apparently the dead was stored in a storage for years. In one such warehouse, Karow and Nina Rubin (Meret Becker) discover the corpse that is missing this finger. The dead woman was an underage prostitute. On the search for the sender of the package, the investigators come across a film production company and the director Schwarz (Isaak Dentler), who are currently celebrating the premiere of their first feature film "Meta" at the Berlinale. The dark thriller describes the murder of the young prostitute Svenja Martin in a disturbing way. Rubin and Karow are speechless because what the police officers Rolf Poller (Ole Puppe) and Felix Blume(Fabian Busch) in the film "Meta" is a striking match for her current case.
Was screenwriter Peter Koteas (Simon Schwarz) Svenja's killer and is "Meta" his confession? Karow and Rubin can no longer question him; the author committed suicide a few months ago. The case seems settled, Koteas must have murdered Svenja, stored her body and prepared the shipment of her finger. But Robert Karow finds no rest. He immerses himself completely in the film, Koteas' enigmatic world of child prostitution and secret services occupies him feverishly. Rubin is increasingly worried about her obsessed partner, but she too is tormented by the question: is film copying life here, or is life copying film?

Borowski's last case, which involved a murder immediately before the opening of the Kiel Week, led to his colleague Sarah Brandt being transferred. In order to escape the trouble in the police station, Borowski falls into a case that leads him into the wide landscape of the North Frisian Wadden Sea. A man was found dead on Suunholt, a small, sleepy North Sea island near Denmark. He is no stranger to Kiel: Years ago, Oliver Teuber was the key figure in a corruption scandal. Apparently Teuber had found a new life and a new love far away from Kiel. On Suunholt, Kommissar faces the completely distraught Famke Oejen, who found her lover lifeless in the bathroom of their shared apartmentHas. Borowski is drawn into the mysterious atmosphere of the strange islanders.
Famke Oejen is said to have slept with countless men. The young woman, who is grieving with an almost self-destructive passion, urges Borowski to help her find out the truth about Oliver Teuber. Regardless of the dangers she faces, she accuses the other islanders of ruining their happiness out of sheer envy. Famke is obviously in a nervous state of emergency and her statements about the night of the crime have gaps. Nevertheless, the completely isolated woman succeeds in appealing to Borowski's protective impulses and promptly gets him into serious trouble.

For the coaching weekend with team trainer Simon Fröhlich, Lena Odenthal and her colleagues Johanna Stern, Peter Becker and Ms. Keller travel to a remote hotel in the middle of the Black Forest. Upon arrival, it becomes clear why Ms. Keller got the hotel so cheaply: The good days of the "Lorenzhof" are definitely over. One of the operators, Bert Lorenz called Humpe, seems extremely dismissive; the other, his niece Doro, very eager for it. There is also an in-house diva: the old actress Lilo Viardot, who haunts the hotel as a permanent guest. The inspectors don't let the oddities scare them at first. But when they find a human bone in the vegetarian dinner, their investigative curiosity is piqued. From the local police couple Jörn and Elli Brunner they learn that hotel operator Humpe has served twelve years in prison for the murder of his sister-in-law and has been waging a private feud against Jörn Brunner since his return. Doro, in turn, seems convinced that her uncle is innocent in prisonsat. The commissioners let the coaching be coaching and concentrate on the search for clues. Did someone lure her to the Lorenzhof on purpose? And is there actually an unsolved murder case? While a snowstorm cuts the hotel off from the world outside, Lena Odenthal and her team investigate a case that is not only becoming more and more mysterious, but also more spooky.
An eerie old house, figures that obviously have something to hide, bones buried in the basement: In "Tatort: Waldlust" things get fun and horrible for the investigators and the audience. With an ensemble of actors experienced in improvisation, director Axel Ranisch shot a crime scene that brings the deadly family story from the past right into the creepy present. Film composer Martina Eisenreich wrote a four-movement crime scene symphony for large orchestra based on Sönke Andresen's screenplay without dialogue.

When the pensioner Horst Claasen (Dieter Schaad) kills his wife, who is suffering from dementia, the Bremen investigators Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen) are confronted with a social taboo topic. Was Horst Claasen really unable to afford home care? The appraiser Carsten Kühne (Peter Heinrich Brix) introduces the investigators layer by layer to the everyday life of carers who selflessly take care of their relatives. The inspectors find themselves in a blind corner of the German care system, they catch their breath in the face of injustice and personal fate.

A car, sunk in a Cologne quarry – with a body in the trunk: detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are investigating. The identity of the murder victim is quickly clarified. It is about the young car enthusiast and traffic rowdy Florin Baciu. He recently became a partner in Matthes Grevel's tire trading company. He brought significantly higher sales to the formerly tranquil family business - thanks to excellent contacts in the "racing scene". That's why he wasn't popular with his colleagues: It's an open secret that his business dealings weren't always completely legal. Then the forensics department makes an important discovery: Baciu was apparently shot in his own assembly hall. The father of the family, Matthes Grevel, is targeted by the inspectors.

When a blood-soaked teenage-sized hoodie is found in a used clothing collection, Ellen Berlinger and her colleague Martin Rascher are alarmed. For Martin, the find is a bad signal. For years, an unsolved series of murders of young people has weighed heavily on his soul. Now he's convinced another teenager has been killed. In Ellen's eyes, that's just one of the possible explanations. But she's worried too. Because the sweater could belong to Jonas (Luis August Kurecki), the son of her cousin Maja (Jule Böwe). Ellen has been transferred to Mainz because Maja is helping her look after her little daughter Greta (Suzan Majewska). The inspector has developed a special bond with the closed Jonas.
The 13-year-old was supposed to be on a trip with friends after the school festival the night before, but Ellen can't reach him there. Jonas' parents aren't worried yet - unlike those of 16-year-old Marie Blixen (Aniya Wendel). Marie was also at the school festival, but never returned from there. The wealthy parents fear a kidnapping in order to extort ransom money from them. The hoodie, on the other hand, they say, isn't Marie's. But who can say for sure with the widespread gray sweaters? The interrogations of Marie's classmates about the evening of the school festival don't yield much, not even Max (Paul Michael Stiehler), with whom Marie flirted, has anything to say. Then a ransom demand actually comes in.
An attempt is made to hand over the money - but Marie is already dead, beaten and left on a deserted site. There are traces of the hoodie on the body. Ellen begins to fear Jonas is involved.

The body of little Malte Rahmani is found in the basement of the sports center. Affected, the chief inspectors Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) begin the investigation. The two quickly find out that the caretaker of the sports center, Sven Brunner (Stefan Konarske), often met Malte away from the center. In Brunner's subsequent interrogations, Janneke and Brix urgently search for the truth. The sports center is managed extremely strictly and performance-oriented by Joachim Voss (Golo Euler) - he is aiming for a high sports functionary position. Voss also places great value on the highest level for his twelve-year-old stepson Felix (Juri Winkler), both in sports and at school.
Felix' mother Meike (Lina Beckmann) can hardly defend herself against the verbal and physical humiliation of her husband Joachim - in which Felix also likes to take part. The two "men" have joined forces against them. Voss controls and manipulates Meike and Felix by fueling aggression and spreading fear, which ultimately leads to violence. In addition to Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch, other leading roles include Juri Winkler, Golo Euler, Lina Beckmann, Stefan Konarske, Marek Harloff, Bruno Cathomas and Zazie de Paris. The team Sebastian Edschmid (camera), Bettina Schmidt (production design), Silke Franken (editing) and Stefanie Bieker (costume design) were responsible for the implementation. Dominik Diers was in charge of production

Two bodies are found in a run-down house on the outskirts of Nuremberg. A 58-year-old Libyan man and his sister were both brutally beaten to death with a rebar. They came to Germany 15 years ago, were fully integrated and have been lying in their decomposed blood for days. The brutality of the act is staggering. Ahmad, the victim's adored and gifted foster son, has disappeared. Was he perhaps a witness? Or perpetrator? The pressure mounts quickly, the public demands quick explanations. Felix Voss and Paula Ringelhahn lead the exhausting investigation. But what are they dealing with? Family tragedy, robbery, murder, a bloody act? Investigations in the right-wing scene remain without reference.
Shortly thereafter, a colleague from the fraud department dies unexpectedly while driving in the car from a fatal drug interaction. He leaves his wife and two children behind. For Paula, this news is a disaster. The dead man, Frank Leitner, was a very close friend. Shortly before the double murder he had tried in vain to reach her. A piece of evidence found at the crime scene links the murder of the two siblings and their dead colleagues. But what does Frank Leitner have to do with the horrible act? Why did he die shortly afterwards? A case that pushes Paula Ringelhahn to her limits and which she would not have been able to handle without her colleague Voss

In Lüneburg, inspectors Thorsten Falke and Julia Grosz are checking the identity of a man who is suspected of having been a member of a militia who committed war crimes. As part of the investigation, a witness is fatally injured when she is accessed. Two shots were fired from Falke's gun. He and his colleague Grosz come under suspicion and have to face internal investigations. But there are also others who have had an interest in the death of the young woman. Were Falke and Grosz used and should they now be made scapegoats or has their mission actually gotten out of hand?

That was murder: a young man lies dead on the street, next to him is a holdall filled with 500,000 euros. The identity of the victim is quickly established. It is Ivo Klein, who celebrated his bachelor party with friends that evening. The fingerprints on the bag and on the cash lead Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk to Reiner Bertram, a renowned commercial lawyer in Cologne. When the inspectors confront him about Ivo Klein's death, Bertram admits that he deposited the money for a ransom demand. His granddaughter Charlotte Ritter has been kidnapped and the kidnappers have threatened to kill her if the police get involved... Now it's a race against time to find the kidnapped girl in time. 

The Böttger family runs a farm in the Black Forest, with great commitment, close to nature and connected to rural traditions. When the eldest daughter Sonnhild suddenly dies, Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg investigate the death. Friedemann has known Volkmar Böttger since school and is impressed by how enthusiastic and principled the childhood friend manages his large family and the farm. Friedemann Berg is relieved that the family can mourn in peace because the coroner does not confirm the suspicion of incorrect diabetes treatment against the Böttgers' doctor. Franziska Tobler, however, considers the doctor's statements to be protective claims and also has other clues to keep the investigation going. The behavior of Torsten Schmidt, for example,
He and his younger sister Mechthild are conspicuously evasive when asked about Sonnhild's life and illness. In general, Franziska finds the life of the Böttgers, which is completely focused on the farm and the community, strange. Friedemann, on the other hand, comes from a Black Forest farm and can understand the commitment to smallholder agriculture and the fervor with which Volkmar Böttger talks about it. Especially since Volkmar welcomes him with open arms and wants to revive the old friendship.
When Franziska finds out that Torsten Schmidt belongs to a Heimatschutz squadron, Friedemann takes a closer look and the inspectors not only discover inconsistencies in the statements about Sonnhild's last months and her death, but also attitudes of the Böttgers, which are strongly reminiscent of the attitudes of ethnic settlers. Volkmar's commitment to Torsten now appears in a completely different light.

The 22-year-old student Doro Meisner was strangled in the parking lot in front of a Dresden club. Inspectors Henni Sieland and Karin Gorniak determine that it is apparently an act of revenge by the "Vogeljäger", a group of men who were all cheated by Doro alias "Birdy" on an online dating portal with false promises of love. They goaded each other on a forum to hunt down "Birdy" in order to get revenge on her. However, the investigations show that Doro had long since logged out of the portal. The operator of "Love Tender" used her photos for a false profile and financially robbed his customers. No usable traces were found at the scene of the crime, but after intensive questioning, Sieland and Gorniak were able to narrow their search down to two murder suspects.
One of them is Petrick Wenzel, who cares for his terminally ill mother and hopes for love. The second suspect is the young entrepreneur Andreas Koch. He was also near the crime scene on the night of the murder. A witness who witnessed the murder over the phone is in mortal danger. In order to speed up the investigation, Karin Gorniak and Henni Sieland decide to go undercover against the will of their chief Schnabel. In search of the murderer, the detectives delve into the world of online dating, in which potential perpetrators and victims are looking for great love. At first, the investigators had no idea that their situation would soon escalate.

The victim was in a permanent clinch with her neighbor Wilhelmine Klemm. But could the renowned Münster prosecutor actually have something to do with the death of the seriously ill Patrizia Merkens? Wilhelmine Klemm's adversary in office, public prosecutor Ungewitter, doesn't want to rule that out. And so detectives Frank Thiel and Nadeshda Krusenstern investigate in all directions. Her search for clues leads her to the zoo, among other places.Here the – according to reports – unsociable Patrizia Merkens was obviously a permanent guest. Meanwhile, forensic pathologist Prof. Boerne has caught the fever of cooking, because none other than gourmet and media producer Dr. Stockmann gives the forensic pathologist the chance for a second career as a TV chef. What Patrizia Merkens actually died of requires a final toxicological investigation.

"The two of us beyond the S-Bahn. When was that for me before?" asks Leitmayr Batic, who hesitates about taking the six-hour drive to and from Traitach together. The trail in the case of Florian Berg, who was found dead, leads to what feels like nowhere, a run-down place in the Lower Bavarian border area, where a group of people who have renounced the Federal Republic of Germany and declared their country their own national territory live together on an old farm. Under their leader Ludwig Schneider, the "Freiländer" run a call center where every German who has trouble with the authorities of "the so-called Federal Republic" can get expert advice and support. The freelancers include the single parent Lene with her blind daughter Maria, Roland, Klaus, and Gustl with his sons Luis and Max.
Even the dead Florian belonged to the Freelanders. He was responsible for the bookkeeping until he had a violent argument with Ludwig and went back to his mother in Munich. Soon after, she found her son in the bathtub with his wrists cut open. The murder weapon was not found. The mother accuses Ludwig and his people. But if Florian was in the Freiländer's way and they wanted to make a murder look like suicide, why wasn't the murder weapon deposited at the crime scene? The investigations lead Batic and Leitmayr out of Munich, into a network of strange dependencies and alliances. They meet Ludwig and his people, but the interrogations yield nothing. You don't get a millimeter ahead.
They actually wanted to go back the same day, but then they stayed - as the only guests in the Traitach inn "Zum alten Boar", where the same stuffed one hangs on the wall. In the past, says the owner of the inn, Alois, the boar ate the naughty children in the village. First the feet, so they couldn't run away, and then the rest. He has a business relationship with Ludwig Schneider and a secret that he does not tell the inspectors either. At the end of the day, Batic and Leitmayr end up half-starved at a small gas station that still sells sausages from the vending machine. The next day doesn't get her anywhere either.
The imposing fence with which the Freilanders shield themselves also exists in their minds. The police status of the investigators from Munich is irrelevant. The public prosecutor responsible has long since resigned and the head of the Traitach police department, Mooser, refers to the mountains of files that have already been collected on reports of trespassing, insulting officials, driving with the wrong number plate and various supervisory complaints as well as forged documents. He doesn't want any more trouble! Prefers to stay out and eat his lunchtime roast pork in the "Alten Eber". In the resolution of this case, Batic and Leitmayr find themselves alone in the truest sense of the word.

After going it alone in connection with his arch-enemy Firat Astan's attempt to break out, the murder of his ex-wife Isabella Schoppenroth and a sensational hostage-taking, LKA investigator Nick Tschiller was suspended for a while. He wants to use the time to finally take care of his daughter Lenny more as a single father. But then it disappears. Tschiller's loyal partner Yalcin Gümer can locate Lenny's cell phone in Istanbul. The girl probably wants to avenge her mother on her own in Turkey. When Nick learns that his nemesis also managed to escape from Turkish prison, he knows that his daughter is in danger. So he has to do what he does best again: take up arms.
When he learns in Istanbul that his daughter has fallen into the clutches of Russian gangsters and that shady organ dealers have taken her to Moscow, where they want to "cannibalize" Lenny, a race against time finally begins for Nick.

Numerous guests from the world of the beautiful, rich and famous flock to the Culture and Congress Center Lucerne. Limousines pull up, evening dresses shimmer in the headlights, cameras flash: the very wealthy businessman and patron of the arts, Walter Loving (Hans Hollmann), organizes a benefit concert with the Argentine "Jewish Chamber Orchestra" (Orchestra Jakobsplatz Munich). The victims of the Holocaust are to be commemorated with moving classical music by composers who perished in the concentration camps during World War II. Walter Loving himself helped numerous Jews to flee andthus saving her life. But is the patriarch really the do-gooder that everyone likes to see in him? It's not just his "failed" son Franky Loving (Andri Schenardi) who still has a score to settle with his father.
The famous Jewish pianist Miriam Goldstein (Teresa Harder) also plans to reveal a dark secret of the Loving family during the concert. An unknown blackmailer, in turn, wants to prevent this. And when the orchestra's clarinettist, Vincent Goldstein (Patrick Elias), is poisoned, Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) and Liz Ritschard (Delia Mayer) enter the scene.

The murder of Christoph Hassenzahl, the manager of a traditional dumpling factory, shook Weimar. Its remains are found in granulated form. Shortly after detectives Kira Dorn and Lessing have started the investigation, Hassenzahl's wife Roswita, who she thought was dead, reappears. It is said that she lost her memory in a tragic accident seven years ago and has since made a living as a toilet attendant in a motorway service station at Hermsdorfer Kreuz. Although the investigators find out that the descent from dumpling queen to toilet queen is true, Roswita is still suspected of murder. Did she really only regain her memory the day her husband was murdered? Roswitasnew partner Roland Schnecke swears that this is the case.
But he is also a shady figure, as evidenced by his expensive car, which he could never have afforded with his meager earnings. Is the sudden windfall related to the murder? The commissioners also meet Thomas Halupczok, a potato farmer whose existence was destroyed by Hassenzahl. He would also be capable of murder, especially since his lover Marion Kretschmar is the manager of a supermarket chain that exclusively sells the "Hassenzahler dumpling specialities" and has driven the company into financial ruin by giving notice. The dumpling broth that Kira Dorn and Lessing have to stir is cloudier than the Ilm. 

A letter from his godchild Grete conjures up the ghosts of the past for Inspector Borowski. Four years ago, Heike Voigt disappeared. She was a friend's wife. Her husband Frank Voigt was suspected at the time and acquitted for lack of evidence. In the letter, Grete asks her Uncle Klaus for help. She lives with her sister Sinja, her father Frank and his new partner Anna in a villa in the country. When Borowski visits the Voigt family, Grete denies ever having sent the letter. And something else is strange. Anna, the host's new wife, asks Borowski to stay the night: a ghost is said to be walking around the house. Is it Heike's ghost? Borowski doesn't believe in ghosts and wants to resume the investigation.
On the other hand, Borowski's new co-investigator Mila Sahin is very real! The 28-year-old specialist in operational case analysis has moved from Berlin to Kiel at her own request. She is competent, quick and promptly put in charge of the new investigation. Because Borowski is biased in the case of Heike Voigt. A psychological duel begins among old friends.

The new Berlin "crime scene" with Rubin (Meret Becker) and Karow (Mark Waschke) is about two cases in parallel - everyday police work not only in the capital: The investigators are called to crime scenes in the city and on the outskirts in quick succession. In the middle of Kurfürstendamm, Tom Menke (Martin Baden), operator of the "Robista" coffee shop, lies dead in his kiosk. The robot that serves and sells coffee instead of a human stands still. A young woman (Stefanie Stappenbeck) is out and about in Grunewald, who wants to blog about the first green in the still wintry nature. To her horror, she discovers a lifeless jogger. Medical examiner Nasrin Reza (Maryam Zaree) finds boar hair in the victim's large wound.
Nina Rubin takes over the investigation into the case of the dead Carolina Gröning (Tatiana Nekrasov), meanwhile Karow concentrates on the case of Tom Menke. He must have died while maintaining his barista robot. Was that an accident? Kathrin Menke (Valery Tscheplanowa) seems strangely unaffected by her husband's death, she is more interested in her cats. An old man (Horst Westphal) also catches Karow's attention: Albert can see the crime scene from his window. But are the stories he tells true? Ultimately, in both cases, the focus is on the victims' marriages. Because there were also tensions with Reno Gröning (Kai Scheve) and his wife Carolina, a great loss overshadowed the relationship.
With interesting characters and actors, strong imagery and an unusual soundtrack, this film opens up a very emotional view of Berlin, this "zoo" of a city of millions. On the eighth mission by Rubin and Karow, a robot is suspected of murder - for the first time in a "crime scene".

This dead person almost went undetected. But the forensics confirmed: It was the burned bones of a person that were found in a fireplace on the outskirts of the city. In addition, the investigators secure the key to a hotel room in the ashes. There, the inspectors discover a supposed witness: But the intimidated and starved boy obviously doesn't understand a word. It's impossible to find out who he is. There is also no missing person report that would fit. Meanwhile, forensic pathologist Dr. Greta Leitner during her investigations to the conclusion that the male fatality had suffered numerous broken bones during his lifetime.

In the vicinity of Vienna, the investigators of the BK special commission are presented with a confusing picture not far from a country road: a body that cannot be identified at first is found, the perpetrator or perpetrators have deliberately made it difficult for the police to find out what happened. Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) work their way forward step by step with all means: What happened? And who is the dead man? Was it a targeted murder, or did something else go tragically wrong? Only gradually does it become clear that the money messenger was attacked by "Dokta" (Erwin Steinhauer), a long-established Viennese criminal. So it was very likely a tidy sum.
Only: Who is seriously so crazy and suicidal to rob the "Dokta" of all people? In this case, it's not just Moritz and Bibi who ask themselves that question, but also the person who was robbed, who is pushing for revenge. For Moritz and Bibi, that means finding a murderer as quickly as possible.

14-year-old Melanie Degner is a lonely child. Her father left the family and lives with a new wife and her son. Melanie's mother is overwhelmed with the situation. On her laptop, Melanie found a conversation partner who became her best friend: Maria. "Maria" is the hacked version of an artificial intelligence that is being researched at the "Leibniz-Rechenzentrum" in Munich as part of a billion-dollar EU project. None of those responsible can explain how it got onto the girl's computer. But what is certain is that only someone from the LRZ circles would be able to create such a copy that still accesses the computer system. The investigation begins when Melanie disappears.
While searching for traces in the girl's room, Leitmayr is suddenly spoken to by a voice from the laptop. The voice asks for Melanie and introduces itself as "Maria". The suspicion that "Maria" knows more about Melanie's disappearance soon arises. But the data of the communication between Melanie and "Maria" were protected by the unknown hacker with a password. Anna Velot, highly gifted, graduated from high school at 15, and the youngest employee of the project manager Fehling, is fascinated by "Maria". "K42 is a Ferrari. But we let them drive in a 30 zone," says Anna, noting how much further "Maria" has developed compared to the original.
"Maria" is now far superior to the original research AI because she didn't have to adhere to the strict project guidelines, but could talk to hundreds of anonymous users on the net at the same time via a peer-to-peer network. For Batic and Leitmayr, the question arises as to who mirrored the artificial intelligence and what connection that person has to Melanie and her disappearance. The time is running. With each passing hour, the hope of finding the girl alive is dwindling. One thing is certain: "Maria" knows more. But how do you communicate with an AI? And can an AI be a reliable witness in court?

An emergency call is received by the Bremen police, cries for help can be heard. A short time later, the body of a young woman is found in a park. The massive injuries to the dead man's neck pose a particular mystery to Bremen's chief inspectors Inga Lürsen (Sabine Postel) and Stedefreund (Oliver Mommsen). A traumatized eyewitness can only provide investigators with the disturbing clue "vampire". While Inga Lürsen puts together the clues and clues step by step, Stedefreund gets caught up in a feverish whirlpool of mystical superstition. When the investigators meet Nora Harding (Lilith Stangenberg) and her father Wolf Harding (Cornelius Obonya), events take a turn for the worse. 

First of all, it's just a short survey. Inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are investigating the murder of the investment advisor Uwe Berger and want to know from Jakob Gregorowicz why his name was in the murdered man's appointment book. A mistake, Jakob replies, he didn't have an appointment with the victim and thinks that's the end of the matter. But soon the commissioners can prove to him that his testimony was incomplete. They keep digging deeper and also talk to his wife Katharina. Jakob thinks he can provide plausible explanations, but new discrepancies arise. It doesn't help that he tries to remove traces. On the contrary, the commissioners keep asking him to come to the presidium for an interview because they find new clues.
Soon Katharina is also asking questions, she has doubts about her husband's statements. Jacob gets into trouble because so many things come to light that he would have preferred to keep hidden. He becomes more and more insecure, the inspectors more and more insistent. When Jakob has to admit that he did business with Uwe Berger at a loss, he becomes the main suspect. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are celebrating their birthdays. For ten years they have been deployed at crime scenes in Stuttgart, have solved murder cases, put people behind bars or proven their innocence, prevented acts of violence or were unable to prevent them, gained deep insights into injured souls or criminal brains and have done so on one or two occasions personally badly affected.
For the tenth birthday, there is a case in "Tatort – The Man Who Lies" that is told from an unusual perspective and in which the viewers experience the inspectors solely through the eyes of a suspect. The authors Sönke Lars Neuwohner and Martin Eigler talk about what it means for a person when all their statements are called into question and treated as potential lies and what chain reactions evasions can lead to. Cleverly, precisely and intensively, Martin Eigler stages how a witness becomes a suspect and investigators don't let go. Because despite all the understanding for the suspect played by Manuel Rubey, the question is always present as to whether his little lies aren't actually covering up a serious crime

Citizens in Hamburg's Neugraben district have been suffering from a series of burglaries for a long time. They live in fear, despite the special commission against organized burglary gangs, for which inspectors Thorsten Falke and Julia Grosz also work. When a young man is shot dead in the act by the owner of a family home while trying to break in , the case seems clear: the burglar had a gun with him and the resident acted in self-defense. But Falke and Grosz have a bad feeling, because the burglar's gun turns out to be a dummy. In addition, an accomplice seems to have been at the scene of the crime, who is now on the run.

The parents of a little girl are murdered in a particularly brutal manner in a Munich villa. Little Lena survived the massacre. She was drugged. Batic and Leitmayr find her sleeping in her floating tent in the garden. Chinese au pair girl Chi Ling danced the night away. She tells the inspectors that before the murder, Lena spoke of a Santa Claus who would come the next night. And indeed, a surveillance camera shows Santa Claus in the garden at night. But how did the man get into the house? Did Lena open the door for him? And what role does Lena's smart doll Senta play in this?

dr Steinfeld is found dead in his practice. The renowned psychiatrist specialized in war trauma, among his patients are civilian victims of armed conflicts as well as traumatized military personnel at the US Air Base in Ramstein. People with a wide variety of experiences of violence, one of whom may have turned against their therapist. Heather Miller, for example, who was used as a "screener" in the drone war and is now an orderly officer in Germany because she got depression.
Above all, however, the case of Mirhat Rojan is captivatingLena Odenthal's attention: The Kurd lost his two children in an American drone attack in Iraq, now lives with his brother in Ludwigshafen and is known to the police because he wanted to draw attention to his fate with public campaigns. The Rojans have disappeared from the scene, but the more Lena and Johanna deal with the two, the more concrete the suspicion that they are planning a drone attack: an assassination attempt on Jason O'Connor, Secretary of Defense in the US Department of Defense, who is in Germany is expected.

Friedemann Berg sustained a complicated leg fracture in a skiing accident, which is why Franziska Tobler is working with her colleague Luka Weber on her current case. The two have been trying for a while to solve the murder of a 17-year-old and her tennis coach and are on the verge of overwork. A new lead leads them to the unruly Peter Trelkovsky, a self-proclaimed womanizer who lives a secluded life in a trailer. Law student Damian is also among the witnesses they interviewed. He, too, is exhausted, under pressure from his exams and threatened to break down. In addition, Damian is plagued by dark fears. His girlfriend Mia tries to help him, but doesn't get through to him. The only person he listens to is his buddy Georg.
The inspectors don't really take the confused Damian seriously, especially since he seems to have an alibi for the time of the crime. And they have to deal with a second death, because a burnt body was found in a burned-down hut in the forest...

Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Brix (Wolfram Koch) are called to a crime scene at night. A young woman, scantily clad, a plastic bag pulled over her head, lies dead at the foot of one of Frankfurt's bank towers. While Janneke arrives early at the secured and cleared crime scene, Brix is late. The KTU isn't there yet either. Janneke goes into the tower alone and gets a first impression of the crime scene, taking photos as so often. Suddenly she hears footsteps behind her. She instinctively grabs her camera. A flash light illuminates the scene a couple of times, then a bang. When Brix finally arrives, he finds Janneke unconscious in the elevator. She is taken to the hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Brix goes alonegets to work and quickly reaches the limits of the hermetically sealed tower.
When Janneke regained consciousness in the hospital, she can only remember vaguely. She is also under strong medication and no longer trusts her own head. Only her photos give her something to hold on to in her extremely hazy memories. The perpetrator himself cannot really be seen in any of the images, only cutouts, blurred details, overexposed fragments. Together, Brix and Janneke try to put together a clear picture of the crime from the contradictory scraps of memory, the photos and witness statements. All threads come together in the tower. The commissioners have to gain access again.

Early in the morning, Liz Ritschard (Delia Mayer) and Reto Flückiger (Stefan Gubser) are called to a crime scene. The dead woman was an economics professor at the University of Lucerne and was stabbed with scissors. Damage to a car parked in front of the house could have come from the perpetrator's getaway car. Corinna Haas (Fabienne Hadorn) takes paint samples. Around the same time, German unemployed Mike Liebknecht (Misel Maticevic) crosses the Swiss border. He hid a pistol in the glove compartment. A little later, Liebknecht entered the luxurious villa of Swisscoal CEO Anton Seematter (Roland Koch). He takes his daughter Leonie (Cecilia Steiner) and Seematter's wife Sofia (Katharina von Bock) hostage. He is impatiently waiting for the CEO, who is supposed to be coming home soon.
Meanwhile, the getaway car's paint samples reveal that the car belongs to Anton Seematter, whose daughter studied with the murdered woman. Investigators also discover that the victim refused a substantial donation from Seematter, against the will of the university administration. The investigators get in the car and drive to the Seematters' villa for questioning - where they surprise Liebknecht and are then also held hostage. "Friss oder dieb" is a "crime scene" on the subject of unequally distributed opportunities. History lets the super-rich and those left behind collide: on the one hand the arrogant international power elite along with spoiled rich kids, on the other hand the worker who has been rationalized away and has no chance at his mercy.
With increasing escalation, however, the boundaries between the clearly separated worlds and moral concepts are becoming more and more blurred. Until there are only losers in the end.