Tatort - Season 51 / Year 2020

State of emergency in North Rhine-Westphalia! Four commissars from different departments have already been killed. There has never been a comparable series of murders in the country's history. But a hot lead is missing, the investigators are groping in the dark - and the pressure is increasing... To finally stop those who are behind the insidious murders - investigators from different cities should be sworn to this common goal: All stood with the previous victims in connection. There are Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann) and Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt) from the Dortmund Homicide Commission and their colleague Nadeshda Krusenstern (Friederike Kempter) from Münster. To the investigative teamalso include Commissioner Rettenbach (Ben Becker) from Oberhausen and Commissioner Mitschowski (Nicholas Ofczarek) from Aachen.
Inspector Ziesing (Friedrich Mücke) comes from the Paderborn Kripo, and inspector Möller (Elena Uhlig) comes from Düsseldorf. Can this group provide crucial new approaches to the investigation? With the support of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Chief of Police (Jörg Ratjen) invites the seven inspectors to an empty conference hotel. Because time is of the essence: the investigators must form an efficient team as quickly as possible. This is ensured by two renowned coaches (Bjarne Mädel and Charly Hübner), who have a lot of experience with crisis situations...

After his last solo effort, Nick Tschiller is waiting for disciplinary proceedings. His daughter Lenny put him on occupational therapy ? on new work. There her former teacher Patti Schmidt runs a home for difficult young people. While Nick takes on the new task and works with the young people, Yalcin Gümer and the new LKA colleague Robin Pien investigate a case of drug trafficking on the dark web on the mainland together with colleagues from the cybercrime department. Gumer wantsbring two key witnesses to a so-called safe house in Spain, the brothers Tom and Eddie Nix. But Eddie is shot dead by a sniper while he is resting on the way to Frankfurt Airport. Since only the closest circle of colleagues was familiar with the travel planning, Gümer feared a mole in his own ranks.
That's why he brings the traumatized Tom to Neuwerk to hide him with Nick Tschiller. However, Eddie Nix's killer is already after Gümer.

Inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) investigate the murder of a 17-year-old schoolboy. His body was found naked on a lake shore near Cologne. Initial investigations at his school quickly reveal that there are rumblings within the student body and some classmates are not at all sad about Jan's death, obviously he was bullied. Shortly after the survey at the school, a video of Freddy Schenk appeared on the internet, which left him in need of an explanation... 

Deadly shots are fired in a bus during a ticket inspection in the middle of the day. The perpetrator is able to flee, but is caught a little later and shot by the SEK. A young man from Munich, not yet 20 years old. The dead man's backpack contains spare magazines and a radio that points to a possible second perpetrator. But does this second perpetrator even exist? Is an attack imminent? The media report. Rumors are spreading on social platforms at lightning speed. The situation is unclear and the population is alarmed. A breathless hunt through the city begins, during which the police use all means possible to get the unclear situation under control. 

When the police arrive at the scene of the crime, a young woman is crouching next to the victim - apparently the murderer. She still has the knife in her hand and only wants to surrender on one condition: she demands to be able to speak to Inspector Faber. It is completely unclear what connection she has to the head of the Dortmund homicide squad. Then Commissioner Pawlak gets a disturbing call from his five-year-old daughter. On high alert, he makes his way to his family.

A contract killing in the red light district shakes the Hamburg neighborhood. During the investigation, Thorsten Falke meets his old acquaintance Lübke and is confronted with his own St. Pauli past and personal memories of his time as a young bouncer. In the face of prostitution and modern human trafficking, Julia Grosz is alien to any nostalgic connection to the neighborhood. Together they hunt down the assassin and his backers before the smoldering war in the red-light milieu escalates. Falke's old friend and mentor Lübke, a local veteran, turns out to be more and more a tricky opponent..

Carnival in the Black Forest. State of emergency, also for commissioners. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg let themselves be carried away, drifting through parades and pubs. However, they are also called to a crime scene: Philipp Kiehl, who accompanied his wife Elena to a cosmetic operation in the Black Forest, lies dead in his hotel room. It soon becomes clear that he spent the evening of his death with Romy Schindler. Romy is now a nurse in thebeauty clinic, has a young son and lives with doctor David Hans. She used to work in Escort and Kiehl was one of her clients. He had persuaded Romy to meet him again at the hotel. Just a fun evening, a spontaneous impulse, Romy Schindler assures the inspectors. David Hans assures him that he didn't mind. But both are suspects and the pressure on them and their relationship is increasing.

Babs Sprenger (Anna Tenta), a successful businesswoman who lives alone in a spacious apartment in Fürth, was active on various dating portals under an alias until a few months ago. She celebrates her birthday alone with her colleague Theresa Hein (Anja Schneider). The next day, Babs Sprenger is dead. He was stabbed with a sushi knife that the police found clean and in the dishwasher. The knife was Theresa's gift to Babs. Why did it become a deadly weapon? What happened that evening? Even after Theresa's confession, the question of why remains open. Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) and Ringelhahn (Dagmar Manzel) suspect that the truth lies much deeper. What is Theresa hiding?

Hans and Hanne Schilling's western bar is a popular pub in the Oggersheim district of Ludwigshafen. Not only do people meet here, the innkeeper also gets involved if things are rude or illegal in the neighbourhood. When Schilling is shot behind his counter one morning, Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern ask themselves whether his commitment was too much of a step on someone's toes. For example, young Samir, who found the body and then took a suspiciously long time to call the police. Or Vanessa, who lives on the same block as Samir and is closely connected to Leon. A young couple who definitely have more money on their hands than one would expect given their family background. They appear independent and yet seem lost.
Lena and Johanna suspect that the two offer sexual services to get money. The investigations lead the inspectors into a social structure in which the adults have given up and the young people are losing their dreams. The people in "Tatort: Leonessa" by director Connie Walther and screenwriter Wolfgang Stauch not only live geographically, but also existentially on the outskirts of the city. Especially the three young people who are the focus of the investigation. Young people who let themselves be carried away, earn the money in dubious ways and believe that nobody is interested in this - but at most the wrong people are interested.
Lena Urzendowsky, Michelangelo Fortuzzi and Mohamed Issa as well as Karoline Eichhorn, Camilla Nowogrodzki and Konstantin-Philippe Benedikt play alongside Ulrike Folkerts and Lisa Bitter

A busy square in the middle of the city, 12:00 noon. The student Mina Jiang (Yun Huang) is just waving at her fellow student Luise (Paula Kroh) from afar when she suddenly collapses and dies. A shot in the back of the head leads inspectors Rubin (Meret Becker) and Karow (Mark Waschke) to the historical center of Berlin. An initial determination of the location shows that the shot was fired from a building not far away, the "Berlin School of Law", a private elite university for the training of lawyers. The seminar room from which the shooting probably took place was occupied by four students holding a colloquium: Quembach (Franz Pätzold) leads the course, Falkenstein (Lukas Walcher), Wolfram Liere (Max Krause) and Godlewsky (Johannes Scheidweiler) belong to the inner circle.
Rubin and Karow find out that each year the members of the colloquium select a new member who must pass certain tests to be admitted. This year it is Benjamin Renz (Anton von Lucke), who comes from Oberschöneweide and does not come from an elitist family. he is withLuise, who does not accept the secret men's union. He has already passed two tests of courage, but what is Probatio No. 3 all about? The founder of the university, Prof. Richard Liere (Peter Kurth), seeks the assistance of his star lawyer, Dr. Perner (Ulrich Friedrich Brandhoff) to advise the suspected students. Karow develops ambition, after all he too has started studying law and knows Liere from earlier times. "The perfect crime" is a topos in the history of crime films.
The "Tatort" takes up the topic and tells about the incredible hubris of a group of students in whose lives money and networks play the main role. You are highly intelligent. But are they shameless enough to dare the perfect crime? And does it even exist? "The Perfect Crime" is Rubin and Karow's eleventh investigation. Brigitte Maria Bertele directed the film, and Michael Comtesse wrote the screenplay. The shooting took place from June 25th to July 24th at places including Gendarmenmarkt, Kreuzberg, Dahlem and the Löwenvilla in Potsdam.

A youth welfare worker is found dead not far from her home. The 38-year-old Monika Fellner, who stepped on the toes of parents who failed to pay maintenance, made many enemies with her overzealousness. Fellner even argued with her colleague Ingrid Kugelmaier, from whom she expected the same harshness. However, she turned a blind eye from time to time. During their investigations, chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk come across separated pairs of parents who are fighting each other. Often without regard to the common children. Once unconditional love has long since turned into blind hatred...

For Charlotte Lindholm and Anaïs Schmitz, their new case begins with a terrible situation: an unknown man overpowers Charlotte Lindholm, puts a knife to her neck and talks confusedly about "voices in his head" and that someone is chasing him. When the situation escalates, Anaïs Schmitz has to make a split-second decision: kill the man or risk Charlotte's life. The further investigations lead the two commissioners to a second corpse and an apparently unsuccessful foreign deployment of the Bundeswehr in Mali..

The young parents Anna (Katia Fellin) and Louis Bürger (Max Riemelt) finally want to get their lives back on track - steady work for both, no more parties, no drugs and a nice home for their twelve-year-old son Tim (Claude Heinrich). But when a neighbor who lives next door, policeman Jan Landrock, is found dead in front of her house and the Dresden detectives Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) and Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) investigate, the convicted Louis quickly becomes a suspect. Louis can persuade Anna to free him from custody. Together with Tim, who is in the care of the youth welfare office, they want to flee abroad and there completelystart all over. But when they want to pick up Tim from the children's home, the investigators come first. The escape attempt turns into an unplanned hostage-taking.
Louis and Anna hole up in the kitchen of the home with Tim, the home manager Lehmann (Anita Vulesica) and 17-year-old Nico (Emil Belton). Winkler, Gorniak and Commissariat Manager Schnabel (Martin Brambach) work feverishly on a strategy to de-escalate the situation and get Louis to give up. But as long as Landrock's real killer isn't caught, Louis is prepared to do whatever it takes. Inspector Winkler breaks into the home and puts her life at risk.

The first case of the new Saarbrücken commissioners "The hard-working Lieschen" leads into the middle of the network of a completely hostile family of industrialists in which everyone hates everyone else. The younger of two brothers who was supposed to take over the family business was murdered. It quickly becomes clear that the background that led to the murder goes far back into the past. The father of the two brothers died under mysterious circumstances. During the Second World War, the company – like so many at the time – employed forced labourers. Is this the cause of the current events?

After a night of drinking, Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch), badly hung over, are called to a crime scene: a man was apparently tortured and murdered in a lonely forest hut. To her amazement, police chief Ansgar Matzerath (Peter Lohmeyer) confesses at the scene of the crime. He claims to have killed the man because he kidnapped and raped his wife seven years ago. He doesn't value mitigating circumstances and demands a harsh punishment for himself. Complicated by extensive renovation work in the police station and parallel coaching sessions, the police officers begin their interrogation. Is Matzerath reallythe perpetrator? Is the victim really the rapist of his wife? What does the long-retired detective Elsa Bronski (Hannelore Elsner), who worked on the case at the time and never solved and who is still chasing her own demons, know? Piece by piece, they put the pieces of the puzzle together and come up against new questions that affect their own work and shake their self-image as police officers.
In addition to Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch as the Frankfurt investigative team, Peter Lohmeyer and – in one of her last roles – Hannelore Elsner can be seen in "Tatort: The Good and the Bad" in the lead role in the episode. Hannelore Elsner died a year ago on April 21, 2019. 

The body of a young woman is found in the Göttingen city forest. The identity of the dead puts the team around Charlotte Lindholm and Anaïs Schmitz under great pressure: Marie Jäger, a smart and attractive law student, was a star of the young, right-wing scene with her successful blog "National Feminin" and figurehead of the "Young Movement" . ". An uncontrollable propaganda against the police, against the state, against democracy begins on the social networks. Was Marie killed by an unknown stalker, was it a politically motivated act - or does the murder have something to do with her closest circle of friends? 

A fatal incident occurs during a workshop that Inspector Borowski and his colleague Mila Sahin are holding at a police academy. Completely unpredictably, during a practical exercise, police student Nasrin stabs her classmate and casual acquaintance Sandro. He succumbs to his injuries a little later. The case caused public outrage. Questions about the reasons for her actions bounce off Nasrin Erkmen - she can't remember anything. For Tobias Engel, Nasrin's friend and also a participant in the workshop, a world collapses. During the investigation, Borowski and Sahin come across the case of Jule: shortly before the crime, the young woman had thrown herself off a high-rise building in front of Tobias' eyes - and was close friends with Nasrin...

In the new "crime scene" from Cologne "Captive", inspectors Max Ballauf (Klaus J. Behrendt) and Freddy Schenk (Dietmar Bär) have to solve the murder of a chief physician in a psychiatric clinic. Ballauf himself is currently being treated: A trauma that he thought he had already overcome is coming back with a vengeance. After shooting his colleague Melanie Sommer (Anna Brüggemann) in action, he is plagued by nightmares and feelings of guilt. Sometimes he thinks he sees the dead woman in front of him. He can't talk about it, not even with his partner Freddy Schenk. The atmosphere in the team is correspondingly tense. During her investigations in the hospital, a patient gets excitedBallauf's attention. Julia Frey (Frida-Lovisa Hamann) claims that she is being held against her will in the closed ward of the clinic. The deputy chief physician Dr. However, Koch (Adina Vetter) points to Julia's emotional instability. But Max suspects that Julia's call for help could be justified. He feels a bond with the young woman...
"Captured" is a production of Bavaria Fiction GmbH, Cologne branch (producer Jan Kruse) on behalf of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne (editor Götz Bolten). The script was written by Christoph Wortberg ("Tatort: Neighbors" and many others). Directed by Isa Prahl ("1000 ways to describe rain").

A murder on the street, an anonymous demand for money, the threat of further shootings: Is Stuttgart being blackmailed by a sniper?
"1". That's all there is to the letter addressed to "The investigators in today's murder case". What you might think of as a joke soon becomes harsh reality for Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz. Because that same morning, a woman is shot dead on the street. A well-aimed long-range shot, obviously from a skilled marksman; A "1" is engraved on the cartridge case. There is no more evidence and the investigators have bad suspicions. A second letter contains a demand for money: three million, otherwise murder number 2 will follow somewhere else in the city. The handover of money is cleverly arranged, but the inspectors also prepare themselves carefully. Nevertheless, the perpetrator cannot be caught and the second murder cannot be prevented. This increases the pressure on the police and public prosecutorsanonymous threat leads to panic. There is a first success when not only a cartridge case but also traces of red nail polish are found at the second crime scene. But only when the investigators examine the lives of the murdered in minute detail do they uncover the drama behind the murders. In their 25th case, the Stuttgart inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are put under a lot of pressure by author Wolfgang Stauch and director Friederike Jehn, because the perpetrator seems to choose his victims completely arbitrarily and escalation is possible at any time. And yet the detectives remain confident that they can find a pattern and a motive behind the apparently unrelated killings.
With "Tatort: You alone" Carolina Vera bids farewell to the role of prosecutor Emilia Álvarez. Since the first deployment of the Stuttgart commissioners in 2008, she has been at their side, the trusting and productive cooperation between investigators and public prosecutors a trademark of the Stuttgart teams.

Marlies Schrey, the wife of the knitwear manufacturer Gerd Schrey, is killed in broad daylight in front of a popular tourist restaurant. For detectives Dorn and Lessing, everything points to a failed kidnapping. The kidnappers report promptly: They also have Gerd in their power. They demanded a ransom of two million euros from his son Maik. The Schrey couple had taken out a kidnapping policy that expires in a few days. Did Gerd Schrey stage his own kidnapping to save his ailing knitwear company? Maik, who is courting his father's favor, is also targeted by the investigators: Marlies was his hated stepmother. Has the supposedly estranged father-son duo hatched a diabolical plan?

The two families Kovacic and Schellenberg are close friends. When their son Emil is found dead, the Kovacics' world falls apart. Emil's cell phone trail ends at a parking lot known as a hangout for anonymous sex. His body was found about 20 kilometers away in the Isar. How did the boy get there and why was he killed? Since his cell phone has gone missing, police suspect he filmed something compromising in the parking lot. As obvious as a motive seems to be in this disturbing case, the truth lies hidden. In their investigations, chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr find their way through a thicket of lies and deception

A male body is found next to the train tracks. The identification of the dead person is not easy, but soon leads to a small Viennese fitness studio, where the victim was often to be found throughout his life. There are several inconsistencies: How can an officially unemployed person afford an expensive sports car, and what's the deal with the countless email addresses on his laptop? After suicide can be ruled out very quickly, Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) search for a possible motive for murder in the environment of Iovan Savic.
What is the truth behind the observation that prohibited substances are traded under the protection of the studio? Is this trade behind the crime, or is it a completely different motive that led to Savic's murder? With a lot of meticulousness, combination skills and commitment, Moritz and Bibi then track down a completely different crime. They are supported by a completely intrepid colleague who does not shy away from effort or risk and, in his enthusiasm, puts himself in great danger: Manfred Schimpf (Thomas Stipsits). "Pumping", i.e. heavy strength training, is the order of the day in the 23rd joint "crime scene" of Harald Krassnitzer and Adele Neuhauser, who leads the two investigators to a gym where, in addition to working with heavy weights, anabolic steroids are apparently also used to build muscle.
Was it the trafficking in the banned substances that ultimately led to the murder of Iovan Savic, or are there other motives? While Eisner has slight self-doubts in view of all the well-toned bodies and he secretly begins to fast, Bibi is tormented by the question of whether she has once again fallen for the wrong person with her new relationship. 

The 17-year-old Emily Fisher (Emilia Bernsdorf) has an appointment at night in the park with the two-year-old boy next door, Sebastian Schneider (Tobias Schäfer). But he doesn't come. At home, Emily learns that Sebastian has fallen to his death in a "Lost Place", an old factory building. For the chief inspectors Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch) it quickly becomes clear that it is a matter of murder. They come across videos online that Sebastian made with his buddy Adrian (Leon Seidel) in abandoned factory buildings. Janneke and Brix meet their neighbors Raymond (Kai Scheve) and Gretchen Fisher (Tessa Mittelstaedt) through Ulrich Schneider (Henning Peker), Sebastian's father . The Fishers are an American family that is well integrated into the neighborhood and speaks perfect German.
Gretchen works at the US consulate in Frankfurt, Raymond works for a large insurance company. In one of the "Lost Places" filmed by Sebastian, Brix finds - well hidden - a clue that Gretchen was having an affair with Sebastian. Did Sebastian blackmail her? Could this be a motive for Gretchen's murder? Gradually, Janneke and Brix discover the dark secret of the Fishers...

On the way home from a wine festival in the Kaiserstuhl, radio presenter Beate Schmidbauer, a friend of detective boss Cornelia Harms, is beaten unconscious and raped by an unknown perpetrator. Although the man's DNA was secured, Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg found no match in the databases. Cornelia Harms is concerned about the case, but given the evidence, she can only give her friend little hope that the perpetrator will be identified. However, when news came from Alsace that a man with identical DNA had been wanted there for years for rape and manslaughter, Franziska and Friedemann decided to work together. Because the French colleagues have an extended DNA characterization test.
With their knowledge of age, skin and eye color, they could target specific suspects. This is not yet permitted in Germany, but Friedemann Berg and Franziska Tobler use this knowledge and focus on three suspects. None of the three is willing to provide DNA samples. At the same time, the police's persistent investigations have had an impact on her life. In "Tatort: Rebland", author Nicole Armbruster and director Barbara Kulcsar unfold the effects of an act that burdens the victim's psyche, but whose investigation also leaves its mark on the lives of the suspects and their families.
The inspectors move between these poles with their investigations and succumb to a temptation that would no longer be there, since a reform at the turn of the year also made extended characteristic examination possible in Germany. Eva Löbau, Hans-Jochen Wagner and Steffi Kühnert, Victoria Trauttmansdorff as victims who don't want to be victims, and Roman Knižka, Fabian Busch and Marek Harloff as suspects who have different things to hide, bring the effects of these investigations to life.

The Berlin building contractor Klaus Keller is found shot dead on his 90th birthday. A sign hangs around his neck with the words: "I was too cowardly to fight for Germany." Keller was the senior boss of a large Berlin construction company. His biggest project at the moment was the construction of a documentation center about the Shoah in Israel. A right-wing assassination attempt? Much seems to speak for it.
But then the case takes a different turn. A youth photo of the victim Klaus and his brother Gert has disappeared from the dead man's apartment. Does the murder have anything to do with the two brothers? One was an economic prodigy and winner of the reunification, the other was a Stasis major, SED functionary and a loser from the reunification. TwoPost-war paths that diverged with the division of Germany and could not reunite even after 1989.
Nina Rubin and Robert Karow ask why and delve into a complex family history in which the generation of the sons also plays an important role. The two detective inspectors encounter Germany's past and its consequences and end up facing a crime they had no idea about.
The Berlin crime scene "A few words after midnight" was produced for the 30th anniversary of German reunification and tells the story of two "divided" brothers who never got back together with the unit.

Two mismatched detectives must pull together to solve a mysterious murder. The investigations lead the women back to turbulent Zurich in the 1980s. The police officers mercilessly poke at the suspects' old wounds and tear them open again. On her first day at work, profiler Tessa Ott (Carol Schuler) is thrown in at the deep end: a burned body with a headshot wound was found near Lake Zurich. At the scene of the crime, Ott is greeted frostily by her new colleague Isabelle Grandjean (Anna Pieri Zuercher) - the French policewoman is certain that the inexperienced Ott only got the job thanks to vitamin B. Because the young colleague comes from a long-established Zurich family and seems to know everyone. Grandjean reluctantly involves the profiler in the investigation.
However, she soon realizes that although Ott has little practical experience, he makes up for it with persistence and an analytical mind. And as different as the two women are, they complement each other perfectly in the murder investigation. They are highly complex. So it seems almost impossible to identify the burned bodyfind out. Her Buddhist back tattoo and the card from a psychotherapy in her pocket bring the investigators a step further and lead her back to the turbulent Zurich of the 1980s. In the time of the opera house riots, when there were hard fronts between the police and the youth movement. And what happened 40 years ago now had murderous consequences. The group of suspects consists almost exclusively of exponents of the movement who are now of retirement age.
Among them a committed punk musician, a callous journalist, a loner who never got over the tragic events of the time. A friend of Teresa Ott's who is addicted to drugs also gets into the crowd of suspects and makes one thing clear above all: Zurich may be the largest city in Switzerland, but it is also a village. Grandjean and Ott meticulously put their investigative puzzle together and thus get a more accurate picture. But when horrifying courier mail arrives at the farewell aperitif for the outgoing police commander, the case is catapulted into a new dimension. And instead of one, the detectives are suddenly confronted with several murder victims.

In the current case of "Krank", Harald Krassnitzer and Adele Neuhauser find themselves in the middle of a religious war between conventional medicine and alternative healing methods. When a little girl dies after using so-called gentle medicine, it causes a stir and a bitter, highly emotional argument ensues. Should she really have died, or could she have been saved with other treatment? Was her father, a well-known representative of alternative medicine and co-founder of the company "Medicina Lenia", guilty in the treatment of his daughter? A court case acquitted him of such allegations. But then he is murdered immediately after his acquittal.
The investigations of Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) lead them to shaken family members, convinced prophets of salvation and unscrupulous machinations. The Viennese investigative duo finds itself in the middle of a religious war, which is not about religion in the original sense, but rather about something that is of existential importance for every human being: health. The fight between the representatives of so-called conventional medicine and the supporters of alternative healing methods is waged with almost fanatical severity - and in the end the most profitable of all sectors blurs all moral boundaries..

In "Tatort: Der Welten Lohn" the two Stuttgart "Tatort" inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz find themselves in a fight between a power-conscious CEO and his ex-employee who has become a pariah. When the HR manager of a Stuttgart company is found dead in the woods, inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begin their investigations into the company. They are told that there are no special incidents – CEO Joachim Bässler is keeping secret his conflict with former employee Oliver Manlik. For more than three years, the company's pawn victim was in prison for corruption in the United States. Now he's back in the country and wants his life back. His private life is in ruins, his wife Caroline has lost all trust in him and his son also avoids him.
At least at the company, Oliver Manlik wants to achieve something. Reinstatement and compensation for the time spent in prison are the minimum for him. Bässler's consistent rejection, trimmed for efficiency, fuels his feelings of revenge more and more. When an explosive attack is carried out on the CEO's car, he is convinced that Manlik is the perpetrator. Suddenly it suits him that Manlik is the inspector's main suspect in the HR manager's case. However, Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz have not yet found any evidence of this.
But it is clear to them that they must prevent the fight between the increasingly desperate Oliver Manlik and the unscrupulous Joachim Bässler from escalating... Screenwriter Boris Dennulat and director Gerd Schneider involve the Stuttgart commissioners in an ever escalating fight between a company boss, whose value system is completely geared towards business success, and a former employee who did not expect this value system to be directed against him. Barnaby Metschurat plays this failed man between self-destructive implosion and desperate explosion, which is broken by Stephan Schad's believable mixture of cool heat.

After a dinner with his closest colleagues, Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) suffers a catastrophic car accident on his way to vacation. Seriously injured, he is taken to the hospital, where the doctors in the intensive care unit are fighting for his life. Chief Inspector Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) is suspicious of the matter – his gut feeling tells him that something is wrong with Boerne's accident. Was it really attempted murder? Public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm (Mechthild Großmann) refers to the colleagues who are investigating the accident and forbids Thiel to conduct his own investigations, which of course does not prevent him from doing his own research. Meanwhile, Boerne's vacation replacement appears in forensic medicine - Dr.
Jens Jacoby (Hans Löw), a young, charismatic colleague who has just returned from Brazil. He quickly wins Silke "Alberich" Haller's (ChrisTine Ursprechen) sympathy, and together the two search for the truth at Thiel's side. 

The 14-year-old Talia surprised a murderer in her house shortly after his crime and thus becomes the most important witness for the investigative team Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel from Dresden. But the teenager remembers nothing, because since her mother died in an accident a few years ago, Talia has developed a psychological self-protection: If she sees something that emotionally overwhelms her, her consciousness represses what she has seen and changes it into a fictional reality that is less for her seems terrible. Since then she has also been prone to parasomnia - with sleepwalking and violent startlessleep… Gorniak and Schnabel follow further tracks in the neighborhood and meet the Steinmanns and Thomas Blau, who suspect each other. Talia trusts Winkler and leads the investigator into "her world".
Together with the inspector, the girl manages to conquer her own fears and overcome her trauma. Talia is now able to give the crucial lead that puts the investigators on the trail of a serial killer who killed several women many years ago in the house where Talia and her father Ben recently moved. 

Felix Murot (Ulrich Tukur) has hardly arrived on vacation and is having a good time with a glass of wine in the garden of the local restaurant when the irritable waitress slams a knuckle on his table that he hadn't ordered. She mistakes him for Walter Boenfeld (also Ulrich Tukur), a married used car dealer who sits at the other end of the restaurant garden and waits in vain for his food. Murot goes in search of the actual owner of the knuckle and gets to know Walter, who resembles him like two peas in a pod. Inspired by this strange encounter, the two different gentlemen spend the evening together, drink too much and talk about life in the sauna.
When Murot wakes up the next day, hungover on Walter's hammock – and thanks to a drunken swap in the clothes of his doppelganger – the inspector has to realize that Walter was killed on the country road that night. Was it his wife Monika (Anne Ratte-Polle), who Walter claimed last night that she wanted to kill him? So Murot decides to temporarily leave his everyday life as a detective behind, to immerse himself in the life of his twin and investigate undercover. Murot falls more and more in love with the thought of leaving his old life behind. But Magda Wächter (Barbara Philipp) doesn't let her boss get away that easily.

First part of the anniversary double episode
For Luca Modica (Beniamino Brogi), family is everything. With his wife Juliane (Antje Traue) he runs a small pizzeria in Dortmund. The restaurant isn't doing well, but deliveries are made regularly that are transhipped on site: cocaine, on behalf of the 'Ndrangheta. Her 17-year-old daughter Sofia (Emma Klassendanz) does not know where the money on which the family lives comes from. Pippo Mauro (Emiliano de Martino) suddenly appears with a delivery. He committed a murder in Munich. Luca has to offer him shelter, the 'Ndrangheta demands it. After initial hesitation, the two men approach each other. Pippo gives Luca new business ideas and this onesmells the big money. At the same time, Juliane urges Luca to finally get out of the illegal business. While the Dortmund investigators Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann), Martina Bönisch (Anna Schudt), Nora Dalay (Aylin Tezel) and Jan Pawlak (Rick Okon) are observing the Modicas' restaurant, their Munich colleagues Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr are traveling (Udo Wachtveitl) to hold Mauro accountable for the murder in Munich. But the Dortmunders first want to find out more about the background organization of the family before they take action. Nora Dalay believes she has found someone in Juliane who could help her. No one suspects what consequences this case will have for the commissioners.

Sofia Modica (Emma Klassendanz) suffers from the fact that her mother betrayed the family to the police in Dortmund. She went into hiding in Munich with her father Luca (Beniamino Brogi) and Pippo (Emiliano de Martino). The hope that they can quickly travel to Calabria is small consolation for Sofia. They are dependent on the Italian entrepreneur Domenico Palladio (Paolo Sassanelli), a high-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta, who uses Pippo and Luca for his purposes,whitewashing the drug money in the construction industry in Munich. It doesn't take long before Pippo and Luca make a mistake that puts chief inspectors Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl) back on track. Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann) also has a score to settle. When Sofia can no longer suppress the desire to contact her mother, she becomes a danger to Palladio. A race for Sofia's life begins

The "Haus Lüdecke" has a long history and is well-known beyond Münster's borders. A corpse is found in the moat of the old moated castle - in knight's armour. The dead man is the newly crowned lord of the castle, Manfred Radtke. Was it an accident or is there more to it than Inspector Thiel suspects? Only a few months ago, the former fair king Radtke bought the venerable castle and wanted to hold medieval games here with his family in the future. Central theme: the bloodthirsty history of the Anabaptists in Münster. Boerne is appalled; You don't joke around with Münster's blackest chapter! But the preparations are already underway. Does the whole project now have to be called off in view of the death?

A dead homeless man is found in an abandoned industrial area. Indy (Michael Steinocher) and Tina (Maya Unger) discovered the body and called the police. The young couple lives on the street themselves and knew the dead man very well. At first, Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) and Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) look like they have committed a crime in the homeless milieu: a dispute about alcohol or money escalates, and in the end one of the opponents is left lying dead on the ground. This happens relatively often, a classic case. However, soon there are further indications that call this theory into question: For example, the investigators found a large number of psychotropic drugs at the scene of the crime and traces of crystal meth on the dead man's clothing. Did the murdered Gregor Aigner (Jonathan Fetka) deal with drugs and was that why there was a fight? Do Indy and Tina know more than they let on? Gregor only recently made Tina the beneficiary of his old life insurance. Did she want to collect the money? Or did Tina and Gregor have a relationship and Indy got rid of the opponent out of jealousy? The tracks lead Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner to the "Lebensraum" home, where Gregor Aigner was registered for a long time. Indy's friend Tina Did she want to collect the money? Or did Tina and Gregor have a relationship and Indy got rid of the opponent out of jealousy? The tracks lead Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner to the "Lebensraum" home, where Gregor Aigner was registered for a long time. Indy's friend Tina Did she want to collect the money? Or did Tina and Gregor have a relationship and Indy got rid of the opponent out of jealousy? The tracks lead Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner to the "Lebensraum" home, where Gregor Aigner was registered for a long time. Indy's friend Tinacomes here again and again, but also for Johanna (Sabrina Reiter) and her son Tobi (Finn Reiter) the home is a place of rescue after they have lost their apartment. The inspectors also learn of a heated argument between Gregor and Micha Schmidt (Klaus Huhle), a German homeless man. And they get to know Sackerl-Grete (Inge Maux), a very confused old woman who has observed a few things but, tragically, no one really listens. The director of the home, Franz Zanger (Michael Pink), has also known Gregor Aigner for a long time and, like the medical director of the home, suspects a drug history behind the crime. Moritz and Bibi finally learn the sad story from Aigner's ex-wife (Bettina Ratschew), why the former journalist successively lost the job,
Gradually, there are increasing indications that Gregor Aigner, who still saw himself as an investigative journalist despite his precarious situation, seemed to be on to something big. Was that why he had to die? In any case, after another murder, the alleged run-of-the-mill case in the homeless milieu turns out to be bigger than expected... 

A murder in the milieu of clubs and bouncers confronts the Ludwigshafen inspectors Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern with dubious connections between private security services and state clients. Club operator Timur Kerala considered himself the rising star in the Ludwigshafen security business. But even before he can beat top dog Gerhard Arentzen from the field, Kerala is murdered. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern suspect competition in the milieu. Arentzen is not impressed by the events - because government agencies are outsourcing more and more security tasks to private service providers, he has excellent connections in politics and is unassailable. Which in turn LenaOdenthal is not impressed: When Kerala's ex-wife and her daughter are threatened, Lena Odenthal is determined, against all advice, to convict Arentzen. And that puts you in the line of fire.
The 72nd Lena Odenthal "crime scene" comes from author and director Tom Bohn. In it, he takes a look at private security companies, which in our society are increasingly taking on security tasks for government agencies, but are also criticized because some of them are associated with illegal activities and organized crime. Thure Riefenstein plays the boss of such a company, whose alleged seriousness Lena Odenthal wants to break.