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The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
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After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
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Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
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Aboard a vessel in Mannheim Harbor young sailor Walter Hubert is preparing for shore leave. His first stop is a local pub where he has his first beer and is looking for a new job. A job that would not take him too far away from Milli, the girl he intends to marry. Too bad Milli doesn't think the same. She never planned to accept his proposal. In the middle of the night Hubert finds himself out in the street, gets into a fight and in the heat of the moment a knife is planted in somebody's gut. It's now up to investigator Eugen Lutz and his team to find out what happened and why.
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Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
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In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
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Kressin is in Copenhagen at an information event when his boss is calling him back to Cologne. He decides to go back by train. On the same train are the two gangsters Brockhoff and Katolli, being escorted back from Sweden by some policemen. Their accomplices plan to free them as soon as the train reaches German ground. When Kressin gets wind of this, he does everything possible to stop the gangsters.
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After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
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Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.
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Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
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Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
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A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
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In München a child is abducted by a woman that escaped from a mental hospital. Kriminalhauptkommissar Veigl inspects the case but is not sure whether the woman is a threat to the child. The parents set a reward of 5000 DM.
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Ein neuer Kommissar stellt sich vor: Horst Pflüger aus Baden-Baden. Sein erster Fall: Ein todkranker Obdachloser will im Krankenhaus einen Mord gestehen, der 1939 an einem Westwallarbeiter begangen wurde. Vor seiner Beichte wird er von einem Unbekannten für immer zum Schweigen gebracht. Das Dunkel um dieses Verbrechen lichtet sich erst, als Pflüger jenen längst verjährten Mord aus der Vorkriegszeit aufgeklärt hat.
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Bei einer nächtlichen Überfahrt stürzt die Ehefrau Edith Reiser von Bord einer Bodenseefähre. Die sofort eingeleitete Suchaktion bleibt erfolglos. Es ist kaum anzunehmen, daß Frau Reiser in dem eiskalten Wasser überleben konnte. Ein Unfall? Je mehr sich Kriminalkommissar Lutz in den Fall vertieft, um so mehr kommt er zu der Überzeugung, daß es sich um ein Verbrechen handelt.
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Im Kölner Raum häufen sich Einbrüche in Kirchen und Museen. Eines Tages machen Zollbeamte in der Frachtabteilung des Flughafens eine merkwürdige Entdeckung: Eine Sendung Schaufensterpuppen hat zu lange in der Sonne gestanden, die Figuren - offensichtlich aus Wachs gefertigt - beginnen zu zerfließen, unter der Oberfläche einer Puppe erscheint eine kostbare Madonna aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. Die Spur führt nach Amsterdam. Kressin sieht sich einer hinreißenden Frau gegenüber, der Frau eines willenlosen Malters, die zu allem fähig ist und selbst vor einem Mord nicht zurückschreckt.
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Vor dem Portal des Bundeshauses bricht ein Mann tödlich getroffen zusammen. Der Mörder kann unerkannt entkommen. Der Tote soll einen gelben Koffer bei sich gehabt haben - doch dieser Koffer ist verschwunden. Kressin hat den gelben Koffer gesehen und einiges spricht dafür, dass die Spur einmal mehr zu Gansterboss Sievers führt. Sievers beschafft sich Kriegsmaterial, das von der Bundeswehr ausgesondert und zum Verschrotten bestimmt wurde. Auf diese Weise kann er seine Konkurrenten unterbieten. Konkurrent für Sievers ist Nobiling. Mit einem großangelegten Auftritt im Bonner Bundeshaus, sollte Sievers die einträgliche Bezugsquelle verstopft werden. Die Beweise befanden sich in dem gelben Koffer. Kressin gelingt es, nicht nur Sievers, sondern auch Nobiling zu stellen und der Polizei zu übergeben.
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"Bitte, nicht ...", stammelt Jakob Tonndorf, Leiter eines Hamburger Rechenzentrums, angstvoll. Dann sackt er, von zwei Pistolenschüssen getroffen, vor einem Computer zusammen. Der Mörder drückt dem Toten einen länglichen Bogen Papier in die Hand, ein Computer-Protokoll mit den Textfetzen: "Angebot Nierentransplantat ... an Professor Becker vermittelt." Diese Angaben lenken die Nachforschungen des Hauptkommissars Paul Trimmel in eine bestimmte Richtung. Von Tonndorfs Mitarbeiterin Jill Biegler erfährt er, dass der Computer die Daten zwischen den Nierenspender und den Anwärtern auf ein Ersatzorgan vergleicht und damit über das Schicksal des Nierenempfängers entscheidet. Besteht die Möglichkeit zu Manipulationen? Trimmels Verdacht wächst, als die Polizei in Jills Wohnung gerufen wird. Jemand hat den Gashahn im Badezimmer geöffnet. Als das Mädchen wieder zu Bewusstsein kommt, flüstert es: "Lassen Sie sich vom Computer die Daten über Professor Lachnitz geben." Der Chirurg mit seinen ganz eigenen Vorstellungen vom Eintritt des klinischen Todes hat in den letzten Monaten eine Reihe von Nieren für Organverpflanzung geliefert. Nach dem Gespräch mit Professor Lachnitz verunglückt Trimmel schwer, weil die Steuerung seines Wagens versagt. Sollte er das dritte Opfer nach Jakob Tonndorf und Jill Biegler werden? Der Kommissar verstärkt seine Bemühungen, den Fall zu klären. Sein Weg führt zum Aufsichtsrat, der die Organvermittlungen durch den Computer überwacht, und zu Professor Becker nach München. Der besessene Chirurg hat in seiner Privatklinik ungewöhnlich viele Nieren auf vermögende Patienten übertragen. Unverblümt beschuldigt Trimmel den Arzt, er habe Tonndorf bestochen. Ehe Becker richtig antworten kann, bricht der Hauptkommissar zusammen. Eine rasche Operation des Chirurgen rettet ihm das Leben. Als Trimmel aus seinen Fieberträumen erwacht, in denen er mit den Mordverdächtigen ringt, erfährt er: Professor Becker und seine Frau haben Selbstmord verübt. Inzwischen verhören seine Kollegen Jill Bieglers zwielichtigen Freund Bertie Weyer. Sie finden auch heraus, dass Jills Schwester Helena, die ebenfalls mit Bertie befreundet war, zu den Anwärtern auf eine Niere gehört. Mehrere Personen hatten Grund, den bestechlichen Jakob Tonndorf aus dem Weg zu räumen. Während eines Verhörs von Jill und Bertie macht der Kriminalbeamte Petersen plötzlich eine verblüffende Beobachtung. Wenig später können die Beamten ihrem Kollegen Trimmel im Krankenhaus die Lösung des Falls mitteilen.
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Ein kleiner Ganove, der "untergetaucht" ist, wird von seiner Frau, seinem Sohn und Kommissar Kasulke gesucht. Er und seine Familie geraten dabei mehr und mehr in die Fänge einer Bande, deren Spezialität es ist, sich durch Erpressung Kneipen- und Barbesitzer gefügig zu machen und "abzukassieren". Dieser Fall führt zu einer Eskalation, an deren Ende jener ehemals kleine Ganove, inzwischen zu zweifelhaftem Ruhm in seinen Kreisen gelangt, bei der Abrechnung mit seinem Rivalen den Tod findet, während sein halbwüchsiger Sohn sich wie eine "Ratte" davonmacht.
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An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.
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In Stuttgart kommen mit schöner Regelmäßigkeit monatlich zwei falsche Hunderter unter die Leute. Der Hersteller ist ein alter Kauz, der in untergeordneter Stellung in einer Druckerei arbeitet. Bei einem Autounfall in der Nähe der Strafanstalt Stammheim fällt der Polizei eine neue 100-Markschein-Druckplatte in die Hände. Der Verunglückte ist nicht vernehmungsfähig. Die Druckplatte ist vergleichbar mit der ganzen im Bundesgebiet gesuchten Serie. Der Unfallort liegt so, dass anzunehmen ist, die Druckerei befinde sich in Stammheim. Die Polizei sucht jedoch dort vergeblich. Da spielt ihnen der alte Kauz einen seiner falschen Hunderter mit einem verschlüsselten Hinweis zu, den Kommissar Lutz löst. Die gesuchte Falschgeldserie wird in der Gefängnisdruckerei hergestellt. Unser Kauz kann nun ungestört weiter sein Minigehalt aufbessern.
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Dieter Brodschella, der nur noch kurze Zeit seiner Haft zu verbüßen hatte, ist bei Außenarbeiten entwichen. Er will Kresch umbringen. Kresch ist der König von Niederau. Ihm gehören fast alle Grundstücke und Häuser in dem kleinen abgelegenen Dorf in Schleswig-Holstein. Nach einer Silvester-Party bei Kresch wurde Brodschellas Freundin tot aufgefunden. Kommissar Finke soll nun Brodschella einfangen und Kresch beschützen. Nur, Brodschella will sich nicht einfangen lassen, und Kresch will sich nicht beschützen lassen. Heise, Ortspolizist in Niederau, kurz vor der Pensionierung, soll Finke helfen. Aber: "Sie werden bei den Leuten hier, schätze ich, wenig Hilfe finden. Also wir sind hier eigentlich alle irgendwie miteinander verwandt", meint Heise. Er ist der Schwager von Brodschella. Oberrat Mertens, Finkes Vorgesetzter, ist auch nicht sehr glücklich. Er wirft Finke vor: "Sie verwechseln vielleicht ganz einfach die Personen". Es sei zwar bedauerlich, dass eine alte Frau sich das Leben genommen habe, weil Kresch ihr die Miete heraufsetzte. Und die minderjährige Heide Borcherts habe vor der Polizei ausgesagt, dass ein Landstreicher sie vergewaltigt habe. Aber: "Für unseren Fall, Herr Finke, ist das gänzlich unerheblich".
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In a Munich cemetery, a bum snatches an elderly woman's handbag containing glasses and ten marks. Instead of going on a well-deserved vacation, Detective Inspector Veigl takes on this minor case, particularly annoyed with the perpetrator for assaulting an 83-year-old woman. Veigl and his men not only find valuable jewelry in the bum's pocket, but also clues to another case.
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Having just arrived by plane from Istanbul, Kressin is waiting at the baggage carousel, keeping an eye on the charming Asian woman Lyn, who was sitting next to him on the plane. Instead of his suitcase, a corpse is wheeled up, and Lyn has suddenly disappeared. Since 350,000 marks were found on the dead man, Kressin searches for the murderer in the smuggling world and stumbles upon two chess pieces that cause a stir.
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In this episode, secret design plans and other documents repeatedly disappear from the nuclear reactor in Karlsruhe. Bugs are discovered in the laboratories and offices of an oil refinery. Initially, military espionage is suspected, but then Inspector Lutz discovers that this is a case of industrial espionage with tangible commercial interests at stake.
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A young woman is murdered in a hotel room. The police soon arrest a hotel waiter, but Haferkamp doubts that the young man is guilty. Then a second murder occurs.
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One lonely evening, factory owner Martin Koenen takes a girl home with him. Irene Lersch was coming home from a nightclub and had missed the bus. She wasn't entirely unhappy about being picked up by an older man-Koenen, on the other hand, is insecure and uptight. He offers Irene a drink. Then he goes to the bathroom to take a shower. When he returns, the girl is dead. Koenen loses his nerve. Instead of calling the police, he takes the body away, simply dumping it in a park.
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DM 300,000 disappear from a Federal Postal Service money transport. At the same time, a senior postal inspector goes missing. The official is suspected of having stolen the money and murdered a man. Chief Inspector Gerber comes across a photo album with numerous portraits of various women, including the current girlfriend of the wanted senior postal inspector.
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When an immigrant railway worker from Italy is found dead in Munich, homicide inspector Veigl and his team suspect murder. However, it turns out that the deceased died in an accident when he an his workmates did illegal construction work for one of their German colleagues who stole the building material from the railway company.
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A money transport is ambushed in Hamburg. There is no trace of the perpetrators. An accomplice hints that they wanted to meet in REM. The two perpetrators meet on the REM island, in order to be picked up from there by boat to England.
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Sixteen year old pupil Sina Wolf has a love affair with her married teacher Fichte. Also pupil Michael Harms, her ex-boyfriend, cannot resist her beauty. One day Michael follows Sina by the lake and sees her having sex with Fichte. Then he blackmails her and force her to meet him in the forest the following day, telling her that he can do what Fichte did to her. She accepts to show-up but he soon begins to kiss her wildly, she lay down quickly on the ground, not to be sighted. She finally stops him doing anything further by taking a big stone, later telling everyone that somebody tried to rape her in the forest while Michael was helping her. As the police begins to investigate Michael's death they regard teacher Fichte with suspicion. Things screw up for Sina as now Fichte stops dating her and police's questions are beginning to be uncomfortable.
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DCI Haferkamp informs Claudia Bernhold and her paralyzed sister Ingeborg that her husband Paul was killed by an unknown perpetrator. Since he believes both the sister and the family doctor Dr. Stolp are suspects, he has them followed.
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Biwi and Dscho, two young men, supply an innkeeper with poached game. Biwi hates his stepfather Mader, his mother's second husband. The family runs a butcher shop. When Dscho wants to break into Mader's hunting lodge one night to steal a trophy, the man is there with a young woman. Dscho accidentally shoots the girl, picked up by Mader on his way out of Munich. Shortly afterwards, her body is found, which Mader has deposited in the forest. The police gets on the trail of the petty criminal Dscho - not caught so far - and his ostensibly solid buddy Biwi after two car thefts by Dscho. Several witnesses connect Mader to the young hitchhiker, so he can't avoid revealing his extramarital affair.
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A murderer of women is going around in Stuttgart. And he seems to have a thing for redheads.
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The delicatessen.
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Inspector Behnke must investigate the murder of a Berlin doctor. The man was run over in a parking garage. Luxury cars are being stolen.
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Kriminalhauptkommissar Veigl ist nicht begeistert, als man ihn und seine Mitarbeiter in aller Früh zu dem Hochhaus ruft, in dem bekannt luxuriöse Eigentumswohnungen liegen. Wieder einmal eine Übergeschäftigkeit der Kollegen vom anderen Dezernat: Der Sturz der Dame in mittleren Jahren über das Geländer der Dachterrasse ist ganz offenbar ein Selbstmord und geht die Mordkommission nichts an. Da sind jedoch ein paar Punkte, die Veigl stutzig macht. Die Recherchen führen ihn sowohl zu den verarmten Verwandten der wohlhabenden Toten als auch zu einer alteingesessenen niederbayerischen Brauereifamilie, zu der Krankengymnastin und Musikliebhaberin Eva Ertl und nicht zuletzt zum Freund der Toten, einem gut aussehenden Cellisten. Vorteile vom Ableben der reichen Frau Döring, die von den armen Verwandten für geliehenes Geld hohe Zinsen nahm und die Privatbrauerei durch ihre Geldforderungen schwer belastete, haben so gut wie alle aus dem Kreis der Überprüften. Obendrein stellt sich heraus, dass aus der Hinterlassenschaft eine wertvolle Briefmarkensammlung fehlt, deren Glanzstücke die unbezahlbaren und inzwischen schon sagenumwobenen "Schwarzen Einser" waren. Der bayerische Kriminalhauptkommissar muss schließlich sogar eine Dienstreise nach Nizza machen und die Kollegen in Frankreich um Amtshilfe bitten.
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Reiner Mettmann ist Steilwandfahrer. Auf den Rummelplätzen begeistert er die Zuschauer mit Motorrad-Artistik. In einem Kessel von 8,60 Meter Durchmesser riskiert er an der senkrechten Wand tagtäglich sein Leben. Seine Geschäfte gehen schlecht, weil er falsch investiert hat. Er ließ sich eine supermoderne Steilwand bauen, die jedoch einen Fehler hat: Sie ist statisch mangelhaft berechnet und wird deswegen nicht vom TÜV abgenommen. In seiner verzweifelten Lage begeht Reiner einen Bankraub, erschießt dabei einen Polizisten und bekommt selbst eine Kugel in den Leib. Ohne die Kugel aus Reiners Körper kann die Polizei seine Beteiligung an dem Überfall nicht beweisen. Reiner Mettmann jedoch verweigert die Operation. Er reist mit seinem Unternehmen nach Italien. Kommissar Haferkamp folgt ihm, und zwischen den beiden beginnt ein Zweikampf, in den sich bald auch Reiners Kompagnon und Mitwisser Paco einschaltet, der an das Geld heran will. Schließlich, nach einem Unfall, muss der junge Artist sich operieren lassen. Haferkamp ist seinem Ziel nun ganz nahe.
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Verleger Walter Schermann ist bester Stimmung, als er zu Beginn der Frankfurter Buchmesse Journalisten, und Buchhändlern seinen Starautor Peter Hüttner präsentiert. Hüttner beantwortet mit lässiger Routine die Fragen, die man ihm stellt. Fast alle seine Bücher waren Bestseller, und offenbar schreibt er schon wieder an einem neuen. Arbeitstitel: Der King". Worum es dabei geht, will Hüttner allerdings noch nicht sagen. Nur soviel läßt er durchblicken: ein hochbrisantes Thema. Am nächsten Morgen entdecken zwei Jungen in einem parkenden Sportwagen einen Toten. Es ist Peter Hüttner, von einem unbekannten Täter erschossen, anscheinend bald, nachdem er nachts nach einem Besuch in einer Frankfurter Prominentenbar plötzlich verschwunden war. Anscheinend hat der Mord etwas mit Hüttners geplantem Buch zu tun, das sich mit dem internationalen Waffenhandel befassen sollte. Darum sucht Kommissar Konrad einen reichen Frankfurter Geschäftsmann auf, der sein Vermögen unter anderem mit Waffengeschäften gemacht hat. Dieser Herr Königsmann (seine Freunde pflegen ihn "King" zunennen) kann sich angeblich nicht vorstellen, warum Konrad in dieser Sache zu ihm kommt. Kaum ist der Kommissar jedoch wieder fort, werden Königsmann und seine Leute merkwürdig aktiv. Das gilt auch für Cheflektor Dr. Offenbach, dessen Verhältnis zu Hüttner in letzter Zeit getrübt war. Seine Kollegin Frau von Cramer hat ebenfalls unangenehme Erfahrungen mit Hüttner gemacht. Als Hüttners Frau, von Beruf Schauspielerin, auf die Todes- nachricht hin von München nach Frankfurt kommt, wird auch sie in befremdende Ereignisse hineingezogen, die wie aus dem Kopf eines phantasievollen Schriftstellers entsprungen scheinen. Fatalerweise sind sie jedoch hautnahe Wirklichkeit, bis hinzu jenem plötzlich auftauchenden Killer, der allerdings nicht zu den Spitzenkräften in seinem Gewerbe gehören dürfte.
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Baker Schmidt quickly returns home from the pub after an urgent phone call from his wife, who has discovered burglars in the house. But he arrives only to find her dead - murdered. He suspects that the case might be related to a series of burglaries in the neighbourhood. Kriminalkommissar Nagel starts being suspicious about Schmidt when he learns that the latter has an affair with his former employee, Anni Klein. Single mother Klein has to submit to lengthy questioning by the police, but denies any knowledge about the crime. And Schmidt's alibi seems iron-clad, seeing that he was in a pub surrounded by people who knew him. Meanwhile, the burglary series is solved, the perpetrators denying vigourously any connection to the murder. Because nothing had been stolen from the bakery, Nagel is bent to believe them. Little does he know that the lover of Schmidt's neighbour, Ms. Scherzer, could throw light on the case, because he has seen Wilhelm Fink leaving the house that evening - but, being a politician and married on top, he fears for his reputation. Finally the police receives an anonymous tip about Fink, and he admits to having had an affair with Mrs. Schmidt. As was his wont, he had awaited her husbands departure on that evening and then entered the house with his own key - only to find her dead. This information finally shatters Schmidt's alibi, and he admits to the murder.
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After stealing a Gothic Madonna statue, the perpetrators demand a ransom from a tabloid newspaper. Press photographer Lansky disappears during the money handover, and his body is later found in his burned-out car. Inspector Veigl investigates a suspected action group for the secularization of church property and follows leads to various businesses and witnesses.
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It's about the disappearance and death of a ten-year-old girl from a difficult family background.
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Mentally challenged Harry manhandles young Marianne who later is found dead by her father. Inspector Buchmüller identifies Harry as a suspect. The chase is on, but Harry escapes through streets thronged with carnival revelers.
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Geroth, editor of an advertising newspaper, leaves a bar late at night and drives at high speed. When he tries to brake in a sharp curve, the vehicle does not react, flies out of the curve and overturns. He is dead.
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In the fictional town of Endwarden, pensioner Fintzel wants to renovate his attic. He finds a suitcase that belonged to his brother who died in World War II.
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A dead person is found in the port of Duisburg. It is the inland boatman Heinz Petschek. He was stabbed. The skipper Jan Poppinga turns out to be urgently suspect; Petschek had a relationship with his wife.
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Criminal Scholz is disturbed by a police check while on his way to pick up a suitcase full of robbed money from a Munich train station locker. When he tries to flee in a taxi, he is shot by a police officer, seriously injured and taken to hospital under police guard. The gang does not shy away from the murder of the taxi driver who drove Scholz. Scholz's lawyer, whom the gang assumes was informed by Scholz, is put under pressure by threatening phone calls and fears for his family. Meanwhile, a passer-by finds the key and the suitcase, but immediately attracts attention when paying with a high banknote of the hot money. So the police can secure the loot. Finally, policeman Lenz, disguised as a taxi driver, sets a trap for the robbers.
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When police officer Horst Schimanski came back late at night the young girl Katja is waiting for him. She came back from the privatschool and her mother did not stay at home. Next day the police found a dead woman not far from their home shot down. Has the old lover of her mother Henje something to do with the crime ? The soundtrack Das Mädchen auf der Treppe has been created by the german electronic band Tangerine Dream and has been their most popular track.
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Pale lilac letters, addressed to Grete Steinbeiss by a Marion Winterfeldt, are necessary so that Lutz Waldner can cultivate his love affair with the addressee.
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When the dead body of an asian child is discovered in a lateral river channel in Duisburg, chief inspectors Schimanski and Thanner have to investigate the case. The autopsy shows that the victim had typhus, since this could lead to a dangerous epidemic, Schimanski and Thanner had to find out more information as quickly as possible, while under pressure from the press and the public. They soon discover that many couples in Duisburg use an illegal adoption agency in Amsterdam, which convey children from Hong-Kong to europe without asking to many questions. Following the cuddly toys, hence the name of the episode, the german word for it, "Kuscheltiere" of the kids, Schimanski, Thanner and their dutch coworker Hänschen have to cross borders and investigate in Amsterdam. Since the dutch authorities can't find any hard facts to support the german cops in their inquiry, they have to go their own way. But to find out more about the criminal scheming of the agency, Schimanski not only has to work undercover - he also has to cross the thin line between law and vigilante justice, getting himself in more trouble then ever before.
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The death of a woman brings turmoil to the world of tramps because the murder took place in Tiergarten, in the center of Berlin.
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Dr. Waldorf, a physician is found murdered in his office. Suspect is Baumgarten, the director of the waste recycling company on whose behalf several of the doctor's patients, had regularly shipped cargoes of toxic waste, is also killed.
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Schimanski seeks relaxation on the soccer field. And there, a man is beaten to death, apparently the victim of the increasingly brutal brawls between soccer fans.
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Schimanski helps restaurant owner Guido against blackmailers, as a friend and as a professional, 'cause he is supposed to solve the murder of a boxer who must have something to do with this protection racket. But what is Guido his roll?
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The investigation of a woman's suicide leads to the investigation of a cult which is controlled by Ork.
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When the crook Wessel Gerda suggests playing his hostage for half the loot in a bank robbery, she agrees. After the robbery, Inspector Lutz discovers inconsistencies in her statement.
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The furniture manufacturer Heinrich Hencken is shot dead in front of his hotel at night. The son of the biggest competitor of the victim delivers unsolicited alibis for all members of his family. Schimanski and Thanner are on the case.
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Schimanski and Thanner set out to prove a supposed family tragedy isn't what it seems.
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A dead man in a Duisburg public transport bus, apparently a accidental victim of a crime. The victim was the owner of a dance studio that he ran with his wife Manuela. Schimanski suspects that Manuela is not telling him the whole story.
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The Hamburg police are investigating the death of master electrician Krause, who was found in the garage of his company. Was it an accident, suicide, or murder?
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Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with an old case that back in 1978 they were unable to solve but a "blind passenger" in Thanner's trunk change things on Christmas 1988.
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Schimanski must clear the names of colleagues who have been framed for robberies and murders, including the shooting of a cop.
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The Bernese city police officer has to solve a mysterious arms trade and also struggle with family problems.
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Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski tries to break his encapsulation.
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Two brutal murders point detective Lena Odenthal to a mysterious young woman who seems to have been sexually involved with both of the victims. But a motive and irrefutable proof is hard to come by.
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Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. This leads to a club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. Suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou, his ex-girlfriend's daughter. What is she doing here?
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A murder in connection with illegal art trading leads, shortly after the fall of the Wall, to the first East-West contacts in the field of crime. Schimanski and Thanner investigate with their colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin.
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Kommissar Palu muss den Mörder der jungen Anne finden, die ihr Geld mit Telefonsex verdient hat.
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Schimanski is on a fishing holiday. There he witnesses: the veterinarian Karl-Heinz Ascher is found dead on his wedding day - hanged from a tree. Silke Faber, the bride, is at a loss and asks Schimanski for help in solving the death.
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Lena Odenthal researches the vanishing of a late repatriate in a village two years ago after his clothes are found.
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Beim Eislaufen bricht Schimanski ein und entdeckt die Leiche eines Mädchens. Frau Czermak,die verwitwete Mutter,hat keine Ahnung,wer die Kleine getötet haben könnte. Auch ihr im Heim lebender Sohn Markus hüllt sich in Schweigen. Schimanski entdeckt,daß Herr Czermak vor seinem Tod einen gewissen Köglmeier wegen Kindesmißbrauchs vor Gericht brachte - erfolglos!
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Schimanski's vacation turns into a fight for his life.
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In ihrem ersten Fall muss ein Mord an einer jungen Frau von den Kommissaren aus Düsseldorf aufgeklärt werden. Zur Karnevalszeit wird auch noch der Taxifahrer der ermordeten Frau tot aufgefunden.
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Joest is kidnapped after a rendezvous with his lover Ute Vonhoff; his driver is killed in the attack. A kidnapper likes to humiliate Joest. A renewed attempt to blackmail the family convinces the inspector that Joest is keeping a secret.
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Two men break into the Düsseldorf building authority with the help of an employee. When they are surprised by the security guard while taking photos of site plans, they kill him and fake a robbery and murder.
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Rich, 60-year-old Erika was the victim of a robbery and murder. Since the neighbor saw her grandson leaving the house with a video recorder under his arm, he was the first suspect.
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A group of Satan's disciples are staying in the English Garden in Munich. One of her was found dead on the Isar after an overdose of drugs.
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Berger owned a nursery located in northern Munich next to a landfill site until he was murdered. The investigations lead Batic and Leitmayr into the red-light milieu, since the gardener often enjoyed the company of girls during his lifetime.
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Carsdorff, a once-celebrated actor, is in a psychiatric hospital after the murder of his girlfriend. He manages to escape with a hostage. In freedom, he hijacks a bus and uses the passengers as hostages. Carsdorff contacts the police, he wants revenge on Lena Odenthal.
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The son of an old crook is murdered. This crime brings the Düsseldorf homicide squad, as well as Hans Gebhard (the father) and Kalle Maisch (his old criminal buddy), into action.
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Eines Nachts knacken Jugendliche den Mercedes des Spielothekbesitzers Wille und entdecken im Kofferraum die Leiche eines Mannes, was Lucky auf die Idee bringt, Wille zu erpressen.
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Detective Flemming gets into deep trouble by giving a patient a ride home from a clinic. The woman claims she's being held captive at the clinic. When the woman's lover is murdered, the police officer knows exactly where to begin his investigation.
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The musician Steiner is found dead in his bathtub in a middle-class, average apartment building in Dresden.
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Art auctioneer Hall has no idea that he is setting the cat among the pigeons when he hires private detective Leo Fellner to observe his wife. Elli Hall used to be a dancer, but had to interrupt her career when she was expecting a child. She lived with her little daughter Angie at her sister Traudel's until she met Hall and they got married. The older man loves her passionately and at the same time fears losing the attractive young woman to someone else. This is exactly what happens when Elli Hall discovers that her husband has set the detective on her. Fellner takes a shine to her and she flirts with him; when the detective wants to return the job and Hall confesses that he has fallen in love with his wife, he kills him in a fit of rage. He hides the body in his magazine and later dumps it in the Main. The next day Elli tells her husband that she wants to leave him and move in with Fellner. Hall implores her in vain to stay with him. The next morning, Elli is found stabbed to death in a wooded area near a sex bar. Since she has her papers with her, she can be quickly identified. Inspector Brinkmann takes over the investigation. He learns from Hall that his wife had jewelry worth several 100,000 marks with her when she left him. Since the jewelry has disappeared, the first suspicion is that Elli was the victim of a robbery-murder; however, the way the unknown perpetrator mauled her speaks against it. The first clue points to the striptease bar Elli visited on the night of the murder.
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A murderer is on the loose in Stuttgart, targeting those living on the outermost margins of society-the homeless and bums. While investigating the homeless, Bienzle witnesses another attempted murder of a bum, Anne. Together with his friend and colleague Horlacher, Bienzle manages to catch the suspected "bum murderer."
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In the tranquil town of Freiberg, the body of car thief Kemper is found shot dead in a parking lot. Inspector Ehrlicher's son becomes a suspect.
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Bienzle is dealing with a murder in connection with the machinations of a sect.
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Der totgeglaubte Brandstätt kehrt aus Neukaledonien in seine Heimatstadt Düsseldorf zurück. Als kurz nach seiner Ankunft sein früherer Geschäftspartner Martens ermordet wird, setzt sich Kommissar Flemming auf Brandstätts Spur.
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The Munich investigators Kommissare Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger determine in the milieu of marriage trade with Thai women and child abuse.
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In the Holy Blood monastery, the young nun Theresa is found dead at the foot of the bell tower by her fellow sisters.
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Ein Raubmord erschüttert Dresden und ausgerechnet ein alter Freund von Kommissar Ehrlicher, der heruntergekommene Journalist Paul Winter, steht unter Tatverdacht.
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The investigators have to prove the innocence of a colleague who shot a man while working as an undercover agent in the right-wing extremist milieu.
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The mysterious case revolves around a small amulet that lead the unequal partners Ernst Roiter and Michael Zorowski from the Berlin-Mitte homicide squad on the trail of a dark past this time. The guest of a TV talk show has been murdered, who obviously had a great preference for Asian art. Illustrations of a jewellery amulet in shape of a phoenix appear several times.
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He is the swarm of pathology: Professor Dr. Sorensky, a music lover and a fine spirit in a class of its own. His business is death, day by day. He dissects corpses, pinpointing the cause of death. The pathologist is a man of exquisite humor - and he is a murderer, skillful and cold-blooded. At least Chief Inspector Lena Odenthal is firmly convinced of it. Stella, Sorensky's lover, has disappeared without a trace. The evidence points to a bestial violent crime. Hendryk Dornbusch, Stella's friend, has since gone into hiding. He seems strongly suspect, especially since he was seen at the scene. Lena and Mario Kopper, their smart assistant, set out to find Hendryk and the dead Stella. And face a mysterious riddle: what happened to Stella's corpse? Meanwhile, Sorensky starts a strange game. He tries to get close to the beautiful inspector, gives her hidden clues, makes her his confidante. Lena apparently lets herself be taken into confidence. She gets to know an impressive, extremely cultivated and successful man who is by no means unemotional in his craft. "This is the place where death happily rushes to the aid of life" - is written in scholarly Latin on the board in the section room. That sounds like a bad joke and corresponds to the philosophy of life of an ambitious scientist for whom life in death finds one last fascinating confirmation. Lena cannot evade the pathologist's charisma. She realizes that she has to face him, his charm, but also the dark, dangerous, dark side of this existence. Sorensky is obsessed with the abyss over which he hovers. He flirts with his downfall. Lena knows that: And she doesn't avoid him anymore.
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Ehrlicher's wife is killed in a bomb attack in Poland, which Ehrlicher and Kain want to solve.
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When a famous ufologist disappears, the police in Ludwigshafen do not seriously consider foul play - but then a mysterious phone caller claims he was murdered.
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Things are heating up in Munich. A heat wave is hitting the city when a police officer with sexual fantasies is murdered. The trail leads to the sex scene.
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A body was found in water 4 months ago. Now a female student has been strangled. Do the two murders have something to do with each other?
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After a horse race the horse and his rider, Agnes Demrau, are disqualified on suspicion of doping. A short time later she is found dead by the horse stalls. The coroner suspects poison as the cause of death.
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First episode of Tatort in Cologne since 1973. Max Ballauf, who worked in Duesseldorf and also as a DEA Agent in the USA, returns to Germany to partner up with Freddy Schenk. Schenk has been working in the Cologne Police for a long time and doesn't agree with Ballauf joining the team. Obviously they don't get off to a good start, but meanwhile have to solve a murder: The dead body of a former cop is found in the Rhein river. He had worked in the drugs unit and he and his team liked to torture their convicts. Is the murder someone who held a grudge against him?
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A teacher recently acquitted of sexual molestation charges is killed by a bomb blast at his school. Then a second death rocks the campus
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While investing a highway rest stop robbery/murder, Ballauf picks up a little Filipino boy in flight. Could he be the lead they need to bust an international child-trafficking ring?
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The actual case gets to the experienced Chief Inspectors Stoever and Brockmöller: in a wooded area, the corpse of a baby is found. It is the little daughter of the Moelders family. A few days after its birth, the infant had been kidnapped from the hospital. The kidnappers did not know that the child was born with a heart defect; without medical care the baby had no chance of survival.
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At an elite school, an attractive student is found dead in the water. The inspectors from Dresden are investigating.
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Chief Inspector Ernst Roiter is madly in love. Melissa is the name of his chosen one and an eyewitness of an armed robbery. She was a customer in an exquisite Berlin jewelry store, when a thief robbed the store, shot the security guard and subsequently abducted her as a hostage.
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Rainer Wenisch offers his ex-wife Kirstin money if she's willing to return to him for a weekend with their two children. Wenisch desperately wants to present a picture of a happy family to his father, who is visiting from Chile after many years. In a fit of rage, Wenisch kills Kirstin because she wants nothing more to do with him. Now, events spiral out of control.
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It's Carnival time in Cologne and Max and Freddy visit a club one evening when everyone is in costume and celebrating. The lead "dancing girl" leaves early and is found the next morning, strangled right outside the psychiatric hospital -- presenting no shortage of suspects. Cut to Ellen Strohmeier, attorney, posing for her client/lover, Harald Berger, who is impatiently sketching her. As the story develops, it turns out that Ellen met him during one of her routine visits to the psychiatric hospital, where Herbert Muh-Munn, a known serial killer, is held. The director of psychiatry at the hospital has a policy of allowing in-patients to leave for limited periods of time, although he cautions that there is always the danger of residual risk ("restrisiko"). Max and Freddy, not to mention many local residents, are naturally opposed to this policy and many locals meet to strategize against it. Because Ellen, in love with Berger, decides to leave her husband, Dr. Jurgen Strohmeier, he tries to convince her that Berger is an obvious wack-job and is no doubt the killer. In fact, Max and Freddy consider Berger and Muh-Munn to be the lead suspects, while their office assistant, Lissy, believes the estranged husband of the murder victim is the only possible suspect. Cowboyschusters, parades, papier-mâché heads, and crazy costumes fill the center of Cologne, making solving the case that much more difficult.
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Meindl, the marketing director of a brewery, is found dead in his car. The wife doubts it was an accident as her husband has been on the trail of irregularities within the brewery for some time.
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The murder of a local journalist, who leads the inspectors on the trail of construction fraud, needs to be solved.
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The gynecologist, who had long been in the firing line of fanatical abortion opponents, is found murdered.
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Keller, police officer at the Cologne Kripo, celebrates his exit from the drug investigation and his entry into the homicide department. Unfortunately, his future wife cannot be there, Monika, also a police officer. The next morning she is found dead in her neighborhood.
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Duke George and his wife Anna were killed in their Jeep and found at the Elbe meadows. Suicide, according to the first diagnosis. Murder, says Klaus Ross, an acquaintance of the family, who discovered the bodies. An overdose of sedatives is detected at the autopsy. With the help of the servant Bob, the inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain quickly find them on the estate, which is was they were looking for to solve the case.
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Banks in Leipzig are attacked and robbed at regular intervals. The trio is so clever that it is reasonable to assume that they have an informant in the police force.
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The murder of a young television journalist poses a mystery for Stoever and Brockmöller. Did Anette Bille have to die because she wanted to sell a highly profitable show concept to the competition? Horst Bille, the deceased's husband and a partner in their company, comes under suspicion. Another hot lead leads to the highest social circles-the aristocracy.
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Max and Freddy investigate the death-by-cyanide of a wealthy elderly man. With a wife living in Spain, and a mistress living in Cologne, he had at least two women who would profit by his death. Upon further investigation, Max and Freddy learn that the cyanide victim was responsible for a motorcycle accident which left the motorcyclist, a professional hockey player, paralyzed. The list of suspects continues to grow as they begin to suspect that a single source of cyanide is responsible for at least seven recent assisted suicides. If they discover the source, they may very well find the killer.
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A skeleton is discovered during construction work on a federal highway. Munich detectives Leitmayr and Batic are faced with the impossible task of determining the circumstances of his death based on the bones found. During their research, they stumble upon Munich's Viktualienmarkt.
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A young woman has been murdered in a villa in Stuttgart and her 16-year-old niece Sandra has been kidnapped. Bienzle is leading a special commission.
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An American model is found murdered in her hotel room in Ludwigshaven, stabbed several times. Her husband Tom Soengen, a German actor with a promising career in Hollywood, has been supposedly far away; her affair, a Dutch photographer, has taken photographs of her dead body - did he commit the murder? While Kriminalhauptkommissarin Lena Odenthal collects evidence and suspects, an American police officer gets sent to investigate. Together with her assistant, they confront the other three: Max Tidof, his assistant Romano and his agent Frenzie. Was Max jealous? Why are the wedding rings engraved with "Oscar & Constance"? And what was the photographers role in this play? - As the story develops, secrets are revealed bit by bit, until the end...
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Ehrlicher and Kain must search for a murderer in an emotional swamp of jealousy and greed. The body of the pretty Sabrina is fished out of a lake. The student was apparently beaten to death.
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Louis Mercier, the popular leading man of the jousting games, is found dead behind the scenes of the pirate train.
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Hellmann and Ritter have to solve the murder of a taxi driver and a stock market journalist and get on the trail of accounting fraud and investment fraud.
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Blackmail and murder, a gorgeous blonde, a sleazy private eye, and a brewery all feature in this well-done case for Max and Freddy.
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After witnessing the murder of a banker, Tanja - a homeless girl - is protected by the police officer in charge.
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In the middle of the interlaced hall decoration of the daily soap "Total Das Leben", Peter Burkhardt, the adored male star of the series, is found murdered. A shock for colleagues in front of and behind the camera. Can it really be that there is a murderer among them? The fear is about. But none of the team seems to be really sad: Producer Alex Scheffler wants work to go on smoothly as quickly as possible. The efficient PR woman Felicitas Sassner does everything to ensure that the series remains in the public's consciousness through self-made headlines. Burkhardt's male competitor Tobias Hellberg can now hope for better chances on the popularity scale. But what plans is the cool actress Vera Niessen pursuing? The Munich detective chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic find themselves in a world of ambition, intrigue and cool commercialism in their investigations. The coroner states that someone has probably hit the heartthrob with the famous, blunt object, extremely angry. He finds asphalt particles in the wound, so the location is not the crime scene. The pain of the predominantly female fans is immeasurable. Bettina Faber is among them. The only 14-year-old girl is sure that the beautiful actor Peter Burkhardt loved her. However, there is evidence that she is the murderer, because she could gain access to the studio at any time. Bettina's mother Carola tries to protect her daughter. After all, she knows from her own bad experience what far-reaching consequences the first great love can bring with it. While Leitmayr is in the process of tracking down and solving the numerous emotional pitfalls in this crazy working world, Batic researches the economic paths and backgrounds of a successful television production. Your employee Carlo Menzinger should give you an additional insight into the glittering world of media hype and celebrity personalities. In fact, Menzinger comes across an ice-cold blackmailer in the form of a compassionate production assistant. Is his knowledge of the secret sex life of some soap opera stars the key to solving the mystery of Peter Burkhardt's death?
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To mark the 30th anniversary of Tatort, there was to be a special anniversary crime thriller with this episode. The Cologne detectives Ballauf and Schenk investigate together with their East German colleagues Ehrlicher and Kain. The four have to solve two murders.
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The journalist Fischer is working on an story about the trade unionist Damm. Shortly after she confronts him about it, she is murdered.
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As this episode ("Die Frau im Zug"/"The Lady on the Train") opens, Max and Freddy are in the process of arresting infamous gangster, Schwarz, known for human trafficking and drug smuggling. The tables turn quickly and Max finds himself held at gunpoint. Freddy saves the day, but there is hell for him to pay, chiefly coming from a glamorous blonde on his train as he attempts to escape to a rare getaway (by order of the Cologne Police Dept.'s psychologist). This may be the only episode to show Freddy in drag, so it is not to be missed. Lissy is no longer working for them, but her replacement, Franziska, wastes no time proving herself to be indispensable.
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A student is shot on the campus of the Cologne law faculty. The two inspectors Ballauf and Schenk ask themselves: Was the victim Martha supposed to die or did she accidentally get into the line of fire?
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Hahn returns to Leipzig. Here he grew up under the wing of his sports teacher Matzke. The next morning, Paul is found beaten to death on the banks of the Elster river.
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Tobias and Frank were once friends. Their paths have diverged. Tobias became a media luminary as a talk show host. Frank is stranded. When his old friend appears on television, Frank revives. One evening, the drunk proudly shows a casual acquaintance Buchert's house. When the stranger mocks him, Frank strikes and kills him. The talk show host helps Frank remove the body from his property. Inspector Lena Odenthal investigates.
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Leipzig. The old area of the trade fair ought to be built anew from ground. When his accountant is murdered, architect Frings seems to be prime suspect.
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When a 5-yr old girl with bruises all over her body is left unclaimed at the hospital's ER, Max & Freddie attempt to find the little girl's parents.
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Ein Räuber erschießt vor einer Bank den Fahrer eines Geldtransporters und flüchtet ohne seine Beute mit einem geklauten Wagen, in welchem sich ein kleines Mädchen befindet. Er stellt den Wagen ab, läßt das Mädchen frei und entkommt. Die Kommissare Ritter und Stark finden die Kleine und stellen erstaunt fest, daß der Vater des Mädchens derjenige war, der die 3 Millionen DM in der Bank bestellt hatte. Das kann doch kein Zufall sein! Der Vater (Jochen Horst), ein amerikanischer Pelzhändler steht kurz vor der Pleite und dem Ende seiner Ehe. Er beschließt, seine Tochter in die USA zu entführen. Mit seiner Frau hat er einen massiven Streit, er wirft sie aus der Wohnung. Am nächsten Morgen ist das Mädchen verschwunden und ihr Vater liegt mit eingeschlagenem Schädel im Flur. Die Mutter hatte den Räuber ausfindig gemacht (dank einer zufälligen Entdeckung des Mädchens) und diesen beauftragt, ihren Mann zu erschlagen. Nun glaubt sie, der Räuber habe ihre Tochter entführt und bietet ihm Lösegeld an. In Aussicht auf Geld sagt dieser nichtsahnend zu. So macht sich die Frau mit 30.000 DM zum Übergabeort, ebenso wie Stark und Ritter, die das Mädchen mittlerweile gefunden haben. Es kommt zur Tragödie.
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While Inspector Eisner is visiting his Innsbruck colleague Roxane, the housekeeper of the young pastor Santner is found murdered in the small Tyrolean village of Oberleis. Everything indicates that the woman was surprised by a burglar. But it soon becomes clear to the two detectives that it cannot be a simple robbery-murder.
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Chief inspector Palu is battling desperately against the producers of a TV show that incites people to take the law into their own hands and track down a war criminal on the loose.
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Four youths are killed in a car accident. Detective Lürsen (Sabine Postel) passes by the crash site and starts snooping around. Soon, she finds out about the background of the accident - a youth centre that is threatened to be closed, a citizen's vigilance army and business men trying to hide their schemes. And then her daughter gets drawn into this conflict too.
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Ricky was raped and killed. Two people are therefore making serious allegations: Sarah ran away from the crime scene instead of helping her friend. Ricky's father thought the boxing match on TV was more important than picking up his daughter from the nightclub.
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During a cycling race, racing driver Sebastian Zander falls from his bike for seemingly no reason and has to be taken to hospital unconscious.
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When the 3 teenagers break into a warehouse, they find the corpse of the manager there. Since the police are quickly at the scene of the crime, they manage to arrest Andy.
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Bienzle is happy. Hannelore finally wants to live with him again. But the boxes haven't been unpacked yet when Bienzle's godmother Gerlinde shows up unannounced at the door with suitcases. She claims to have found a body upon arrival in the yard. Bienzle actually finds Mike Kuron beaten to death in front of the workshop. During an initial interrogation, Christian Kuron claims to have been with Susanne; they have an alibi. They keep quiet about the fact that they had already found the body before Bienzle. Susanne, who had just fought to break away from her husband, is threatened with a new dependency. Christian makes demands, and the more forcefully Susanne insists on keeping her distance, the more his behavior turns into blackmail.
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At the airport, Chief Inspector Jan Casstorff bids farewell to his son Daniel who goes on vacation. While he returns to the office, the unimaginable happens: Three criminals hijack the aircraft and stop it on the ground in the middle of the runway. The police immediately evacuate the airport and is putting together a crisis team. Senior Detective Müchler from the LKA leads the operation and immediately demands the experienced police psychologist Caroline Sever, so that they can continue negotiations with the kidnappers.
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Ballauf and Schenk must solve the death of an au pair who fell victim to a ritual killer.
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A famous musician from Prague is to give a concert in Leipzig. He is killed in the hotel.
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Thiel's first case in the city of Münster. A body is found in a moor. The body appears to have been there for many years.
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The Tatort teams of Leipzig and Köln are brought together, when the driver of an art transport between the two cities is found dead in his van, minus the irreplaceable artwork he had in his custody.
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Es geht um den Tod zweier High-Tech-Forscher und den Unfalltod eines Kommissars Palu bekannten Künstlers.
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Jürgen Wilken is shot dead in front of Professor Dreiden's front door, a friend of Professor Boerne's.
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Shortly after the psychologist and court expert Probst carries out confrontation therapy against fear of heights on the Grunewald Tower, he falls down from there himself.
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The parts of an alleged woman's corpse in the container turn out to be a prosthesis. Less than half an hour later there is a dead person in the immediate vicinity.
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Maria Wagner gives birth to a baby in secret and drops him off at the hospital. That night the baby is kidnapped and the nurse who picked him up is killed. After Maria's husband, Andreas, dies, Detectives Ballauf and Schenk realize that there is something strange about the Wagner family.
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Kommissar Schenk wird Zeuge eines ungewöhnlichen Banküberfalls. Heimlich alarmiert er Max Ballauf. Da eskaliert die Situation.
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Der Obdachlose Eddi wird ertrunken am Ufer aufgefunden. Der Rechtsmediziner stellt einen hohen Alkoholwert fest und schließt auf ein Ertrinken, möglicherweise auch Selbstmord.
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A series of murders startles the fully occupied tourist resort of Lahnenberg from its cheerful hustle and bustle. The village is becoming increasingly empty, as the guests of the place fear for their lives - a financial catastrophe for the hoteliers. The pressure on the criminalists Moritz Eisner and Stafanie Gschnitzer, who have to find a quick solution to the case, is correspondingly high. Because the investigation is a race against time, as the perpetrator commits a murder on a tourist every day, which he plans and carries out perfectly. Is it purely a coincidence that all the victims were guests of the Alpenhotel? The evidence is sparse, but all murders have one thing in common: the murderer leaves a "fatal souvenir" - a snow globe - on every corpse. Moritz Eisner and Stefanie Gschnitzer fight their way through the financial and emotional jungle of the place and the leading hotelier family Kofler, who own the Alpenhotel, during their investigation into this highly complex case. The circle of suspects is growing: there is the brother Werner of the Lahnenberg hotel emperor, Markus Kofler, who can no more identify with the type of tourism practiced than his old father, who does not stand up to the overwhelming power of the Kofler brothers can enforce. And finally, the DJ and entertainer Jan, who works at the Alpenhotel and who had a tangible argument with a murder victim the day before, is being scrutinized more closely by the commissioners. But where is the motive? Most of the villagers live from tourism, work in the industry, in gastronomy or are hoteliers themselves. Moritz Eisner and Stefanie Gschnitzer get to the bottom of the series of murders after a few wrong tracks. They find the solution in the distant past.
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A serial killer is on the loose in Stuttgart: he has already killed two taxi drivers. Bienzle is investigating.
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The female owner of a car repair and sales shop is killed. Clues lead to an orphanage with problem kids.
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The manager Stefan Markowski was beaten to death on the grounds of the Atlantis amusement park. Strange excavations near the roller coaster and threatening letters indicate that the popular park was being blackmailed.
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Detective Klaus Borowski, shown to use idiosyncratic methods, investigate crime while dealing with his ex-wife, the police psychologist, and his pre-teen daughter.
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Ein Mann wird von der U-Bahn überrollt und tödlich verletzt. War es ein Unfall, Selbstmord oder gar ein Mord? Frau Baum, einzige Zeugin, die direkt neben dem Opfer stand, ist überzeugt: Der Mann wurde gestoßen. Doch die Frau steht völlig unter Schock und kann sich an Details nicht erinnern. Ein weiterer Zeuge meldet sich - Petzold, ein gediegener Banker. Aber es stellt sich schnell heraus, dass er mehr Interesse an der Kommissarin Charlotte Sänger hat, als wirklich etwas zur Aufklärung des Falls beitragen zu können. Amtsleiter Fromm ist davon nicht sehr erbaut. Einzig Dellwo schaut sich Petzold genauer an und stößt dabei auf Unstimmigkeiten. Doch Sänger ist dem Bösen schon zu nahe gekommen.
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Three murders lead Palu's investigations to Vera whose great reputation as head of a renowned opinion research institute is at stake because someone is digging up unpleasant facts from her shady past.
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During a robbery of an armored car, a passenger is shot dead. The driver, Hannes Buck, manages to escape with some of the money, while the robbers disappear with the remaining loot. During the investigation, Inspector Odenthal recognizes Buck as an old childhood friend. While she is convinced of his innocence, Kopper's investigations point to Buck's involvement in the robbery.
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Borowski suspects that the death of a public works official could have been related to his refusal to support a plan for layoffs at the shipyard.
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A female body in bags has been found at Aassee. Just like 50 years before. But the prosecutor denies any connection to the murder of Rohrbach in 1950's. It was an embarrassing trial; shoddy police work, wrongful conviction and a murderer on the loose. A student Laura Schott asks the police for help because she believes the body is her university lecturer Solveig Helmhövel. When the police interviews her husband, they get to know Solveig is on vacation. Still, there is reason to believe Solveig is missing at the hotel. The Ukrainian Dr. Oleg Buykov also contacts the police, telling them his wife is missing.
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When an art restorer is murdered petty criminal Harry is picked up and escapes when he realizes he is a suspect. Inspectors Till and Felix chase him but also follow other leads, though time and again Harry is implicated.
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Two skinheads are murdered with a sniper rifle. As Max and Freddy begin to investigate, these seem to tie into revenge for a fire bomb from some years past. A pretty female Federal Agent becomes part of the investigation. But all may not be as it seems.
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Inspectors Bienzle and Gächter are summoned to the Stuttgart Opera. At the celebration following the premiere of a new play, the ENT doctor and close advisor to the ensemble, Dr. Arnulf Sontheim, was found stabbed to death. Bienzle is immediately greeted by artistic director Bartholdy, who cannot imagine who could have killed the beloved doctor. During the interrogation of those present, the first person to stand out is lighting technician Conrad Lechner, who has a criminal record for a violent offense.
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Seit langem spaltet die Nutzung einer Heilquelle die Einwohner des Dorfes Steinbach. Nun hat der Streit sein erstes Todesopfer gefordert.
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Max and Freddie attempt to solve the apparent hit-and-run death of a young man on a busy highway outside Cologne. Freddie goes undercover as a janitor at a local posh boarding school. The solution stems from occurrences that took place in the Nazi regime of WWII.
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Borowski suspects a serial killer is killing and displaying bodies in Kiel.
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The Frankfurt crime scene commissioners Sänger and Dellwo are not only dealing with "heart failure", but with a puzzling series of murders.
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When a pharmacist is found stabbed, the Munich chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr encounter strange inconsistencies. Chief Inspector Menzinger is ordered back from his well-deserved short vacation at his mountain hut.
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Es geht um den Mord an einer Ärztin und Künstlerin. Ein Gynäkologe führt misslungene Schönheits-Operationen durch.
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Inspector Casstorff and his team are confronted with an unusual and terrifying case: Ronja, just 14, has been murdered, setting off an investigation that leads to Hamburg's socially disadvantaged areas. The suspects are as young as the victim: a clique of underage girls who have already made headlines for various acts of violence.
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Kommissar Ehrlicher wird kurz vor seinem Urlaub zum neuen Fußballstadion in Leipzig gerufen. Die Managerin liegt tot in ihrem Büro.
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Lawyer Sobeke reports to Klara Blum in the homicide department. His wife has disappeared. A dead woman is found afterwards.
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In the police academy, a student is beaten up by his classmates during an exercise. Minutes later he is found dead.
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A murdered woman is found on an industrial site. The only clue leads inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain to the company Leipziger Immobilien Consulting.
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In a robbery on a money transporter, the driver is shot. The perpetrator can escape with the loot, his presumed accomplice has to be released due to lack of evidence.
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The insolvency administrator Francke had a fatal accident on the autobahn, his car was thrown with stones from a bridge. Coincidence?
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Borowski investigates the death of a night watchman and all leads point to a man who has vanished.
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One of the owners of a mine-removal nonprofit gets blown up during a jog, and his wife seems curiously unmoved.
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Manu storms into the police offices telling her friend has been murdered. Arriving back home with the police no corpse can be found.
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Eight-year-old Tommy Beck is found dead in a forest. Ehrlicher and Kain initially think it is a sexual crime. However, this is not the case.
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A figure skating judge is found murdered on the ice at a rink where he likes to observe up-and-coming skaters.
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A Catholic priest confesses to grisly murders in which dismembered corpses were found in sewers, but his behavior leaves Borowski unconvinced.
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Batic und Leitmayr haben es mit dem Mord an zwei Handwerksburschen zu tun, die sich auf der Walz befanden. Sie müssen in ein Umfeld eintauchen, das ihnen fremd ist.
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The foundation's nationally renowned chairwoman, Vera Schneider, is honored for her commitment to the rehabilitation of young prisoners. A few hours later, the charity worker is dead - having fallen from a balcony. A robbery and murder, as evidenced by the evidence left by a burglar in the apartment. Inspector Max Paul, his colleague, and Ms. Braun are faced with five suspects.
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At a demonstration against the right-wing extremist mayoral candidate Frieder Lott, his double was stabbed to death. Was the attack aimed at Lott or his double, the cabaret artist Montell? Meanwhile, forensic pathologist Prof. Boerne has to defend himself against the accusation that he caused a car accident while under the influence of alcohol. As he is unable to investigate himself, his Cologne colleagues Schenk and Ballauf have to provide administrative assistance with forensic pathologist Dr. Roth.
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January. One of the coldest-ever winters in Munich. After a snowstorm the young Stefanie Thaller is found half-naked and frozen to death on the edge of an industrial estate in the north of the city. Never before did Detective Superintendents Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic together with Detective Inspector Carlo Menzinger have to cope with such a lack of evidence in a murder case...
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Der Fahrer der Leipziger Käserei Dettmer Ludwig Noack erhält in der Nacht einen Anruf und eilt in die Käserei. Am nächsten Morgen wird er tot aufgefunden.
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Max and Freddy are assigned the homicide case of a protester who was killed while protesting a powerful merchant who'd enriched himself selling blood diamonds. The protester had recently been to the Congo where he'd documented the merchant's trafficking. Their case takes them to Antwerp ("the Diamond City") with fatal results.
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In the district of Stade, farmer Schatz's empty VW bus is found on the edge of a forest, partly covered in blood. His wife Simone has disappeared.
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Young Helena Stettenkamp reveals under hypnosis that her late grandfather was murdered by poison. Another poison murder happens and Hauptkomissar Thiel and Professor Boerne investigate.
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A diamond heist turned deadly causes Ballauf and Schenk to protect the sister of one of the outlaws.
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A woman is found by her husband after she is attacked and has her almost-full-term baby cut out of her womb. The woman survives, but the search is on for the missing baby. Soon thereafter, a respected research doctor is found in his office, having been bludgeoned to death. Burowski needs to find out the connection, if any, between the two attacks. Meanwhile, Burowski's partner, Zainalow, is imprisoned based on deposits made to reputed terrorist organizations in Iran. Burowski needs to prove Zainalow's innocence and his trust in him.
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Mrs. Schlösser, a collector of antiquarian and occult books, is rich and dead. The investigators find color copies of the "Blood Writing" - a manuscript of inestimable value - near the body. A thousand years ago, a monk wrote it with his own blood.
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Auf einem Kleinstadtbahnhof vor den Toren Ludwigshafens wird ein junges Mädchen tot aufgefunden.
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Returning from a trip to Sweden, Borowski is approached by the ship's first officer after the captain goes missing.
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Young teenager Pauline has been found dead after a fire department party. Charlotte Lindholm investigates. Who is responsible for the girl's death?
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Ein mysteriöser Sturz beim Leichenschmaus der verstorbenen Mutter. Der Stuttgarter Kommissar Bienzle muss den Tod des Industrieeinkäufers Dippon aufklären, der mit zahlreichen Menschen im Konflikt stand.
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The new team must solve the murder of their colleague Kathi Schaller, who had sung as a Marilyn Monroe double at Deininger's birthday party just a few hours earlier.
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Frankfurt police inspector Fritz Dellwo (Jorg Schuttauf) has been training for months for the Frankfurt marathon. He is entering in company with a small group, one of whom is a veteran sports coach from the former East Germany, Henry Danquarnt (Karl Kranzkowski). On the eve of the race an underworld figure with sharp-shooting skills escapes from jail. This criminal had threatened to kill Dellwo. Dellwo's partner, inspector Charlotte Sanger (Andrea Kawatski), does not want him to participate in the marathon on account of this. He brushes off her worries. Early in the marathon, a participant is shot dead at long range. Video evidence shows that the victim was running directly behind Dellwo. A desperate search begins to locate Dellwo and pull him out of the race. The shot was fired from a church tower. Sanger decides to visit the cleaner of the church, Irene Ferber (Kirsten Block), who may have been an eye-witness, and finds from her partner that she is cleaning another church. Meanwhile the criminal is captured outside the city and, with an injured arm from his jail-break, clearly cannot be the perpetrator. Sanger finds Ferber who takes her captive and prepares to make another assassination attempt from the tower of this other church. Dellwo, finally located, asks for a check on Ferber. She turns out to be a former East German athlete. Dellwo was not, therefore the target; it is Danquarnt who made Ferber participate in East Germanys athletics doping programme. Dellwo foils the next assassination attempt but can neither stop Danquarnt continuing the race nor capture Ferber. At the finish he takes Danquarnt away to a closed floor in the finishing hall and leaves him there. Ferber sees Danquarnt. She pulls a gun on him, turns it on herself and they are both killed, falling to the floor below.
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Brüggmann is found shot dead. He had previously had a heated argument with his wife. She is visibly shocked when she learns of her husband's death. Ballauf and Schenk suspect that something is being kept from them.
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Boerne and Thiel shiver in the cold winter because the heating in Boerne's house is broken. The cold also leads to a death. The homeless man Kalle is found frozen to death. It is the first case that Nadeshda is allowed to work on alone. She only notes that Kalle had no identification papers or anything else identifying him with him.
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The lawyer Mohr is found beaten to death in his apartment. Although the murder weapon is known, there are no fingerprints on it and the apartment shows no signs of a break-in.
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During a day release from the Leipzig Picture Museum, the prisoner Köster seizes his chance and escapes. The prison officer Peter Vosskamp is unable to stop the determined man from carrying out his plan, and during the escape things come to the worst: one of Vosskamp's colleagues dies.
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When an article in a local newspaper praises Max Ballouf's excellent police work, he unexpectedly becomes the target of a psychopath.
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Auf der Stuttgarter Großbaustelle der neuen Messe geschehen in einer Nacht drei Verbrechen.
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Lena Odenthal has to investigate the death of a female hospital doctor. Soon it becomes clear that it might not have been suicide, although it looks like it.
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A man falls dead from his car in the middle of rush hour on a busy thoroughfare in Saarbrücken, causing a traffic jam.
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Inspector Casstorff must solve the murder of a prostitute with whom he himself had an affair years ago.
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Richard Merten is found murdered in his Berlin apartment. The investigation leads detectives Ritter and Stark to the Brandenburg countryside. Merten's daughter Paula, his only surviving relative, wants to bury her father in her childhood village. Exactly 20 years earlier, Paula's mother Emma was murdered in a nearby wooded area there. The perpetrators were never caught.
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Attorney Corinna Becker represented Ludwig. Now she faces uncomfortable questions, as Ludwig was killed after his acquittal.
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The corpse of a young girl is found in Osnabrück. DCI Lindholm can identify her as Carol Stern at first. But soon it becomes clear that this is not her correct name. Dramatic developments evolve.
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During the Leipzig Book Fair, the literary agent Ulrike Oppermann is found dead. Chief Inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain investigate that the murdered woman was the famous star author Mimi Blaise, whose true identity was not known to anyone. To find the murderer and lure them into a trap, the Policewoman Anna Stein slips into the role of the dead.
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Senior boss Karl Grimm is found dead in the lobby of his hotel. This prompts his adult children, Heike, Walter, and Pia, to start a war over the inheritance. Each of them directs suspicion toward their siblings and presents themselves in the best possible light. Inspector Lena Odenthal must overcome a wall of lies, intrigue, and suspicion-and cannot count on the help of her colleague Mario Kopper, who is busy working in the hotel kitchen.
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After a week-long search, 15 years old Nicole Ulmer is found dead in the forest, apparently victim of a violent crime. From the appalled father, Klaus Ulmer (Michael Wenninger), chief inspector Klara Blum (Eva Mattes) and Kai Perlmann (Sebastian Bezzel) get to know, that Nicole lionized good looking Holger Buchek (Stephan Baumecker), at whose family she worked as a babysitter. Not only Klaus, but also his brothers Herbert (Rainer Piwek) and Peter Ulmer (Max Gertsch) remain convinced, that Bucheck is the death of Nicole. On the other hand, Herberts daughter Jessica (Janina Stopper), Nicoles best girlfriend, refuses to tell Klara about Bucheck or Nicoles other friends. Actually Holger Bucheck delayed nearby the crime scene. But while Klara and Perlmann are investigating against him, Holger Bucheck disappears without leaving behind some news or hints. And Klara more and more frequently gets anonymous messages with mysterious links. She quickly finds out, that Jessica has to be the sender. Jessica seems to depart from the conspirated family community of the Ulmers more and more. With conviction, that Jessica is the key to the mystery about death of Nicole and disappear of Bucheck, Klara attempts to interpret the mysterious signs.
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Mitten in Kiel wird Harmsen von einem Scharfschützen erschossen. Kommissar Borowski nimmt die Ermittlungen auf.
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A few days before Ehrlicher's retirement, he was called to a new housing development on the outskirts of Leipzig. A woman lies dead in her house. Rudolf Hahn, the friend of the dead woman who found her, claims that she hanged herself. Chief Inspector Ehrlicher doesn't believe it, because the interior of the house is badly damaged. In the dead woman's house there is a room that indicates that the young woman had offered sexual services in exchange for money. A little later, Hans Meier, the general building contractor for most of the new houses in the area, is also dead. While Frederike and her colleagues try to organize a farewell party for Ehrlicher, he and his colleague Kain investigate the connections between the suspect Rudolf Hahn and the building contractor Hans Meier. They search the companies of Meier, who also ran a brothel. Eva, Chief Inspector Kain's new girlfriend, also lives in this settlement, and she was even friends with the dead woman. Her house was also built by Meier's company. Ehrlicher realizes that Cain is in a conflict of loyalties. Can he still trust him? Your relationship will be seriously tested.
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The policeman Gerd Samland was murdered in a brothel with two well-placed shots. Was Max Ballauf's friend and colleague actually a regular at this establishment?
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The investigators have to solve the murder of an environmental activist and get caught up in a dispute between conservationists and the fishermen.
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Ein Mädchen verschwindet spurlos aus einem Internat in der Nähe von Kiel. Die Leiche wird bald im Moor entdeckt.
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Flückiger from the maritime police and his young colleague Steiner, who are supposed to be working with Klara and Perlmann, suspect the shipyard owner Stähli, who has disappeared without a trace, of having been involved in drug smuggling. But then Stähli's body is found in the lake.
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A woman's mutilated body is found in a landfill. Her body is charred, her head and hands severed. Ballauf and Schenk are puzzled. In search of the woman's identity, they track down a huge garbage scandal.
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A mysterious traffic accident in the snow, with five dead, leaves Commissioner Moritz Eisner puzzled.
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On a mountain hike, Tamara makes her husband Patrick promise to stay by her forever. Some time later, young father Patrick finds Leon, one of his twins, dead in his crib. Desperately, he tries to resuscitate the baby and then calls the police, who begin their investigation. Tamara, the children's mother, stays in the background and remains silent. She only says that the boy first screamed and then lay there like that. Her husband, however, suspects her of having harmed Leon, as the couple's previous child had already died under mysterious circumstances.
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Mit einer Hunde Tätowierung im Nacken und Einstichwunden wird der Privatdetektiv Peter Mang tot in einer Baugrube gefunden.
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In their first case in Leipzig, the new team must find a murderer who stabbed a man who is said to have abused his daughter.
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Katja Manteuffel, Head of Department of the Berlin University Ophthalmic Clinic, ist found murdered. The investigation lead detectives Ritter and Stark to the Cornea AG, a firm which has developed a revolutionary retina chip within highly secret project "Phydra". This chip was implanted into the eyes of a blind patient shortly after Katja Manteuffel was murdered. Soon the detectives set sights of ophtalmologist Mareike Andresen. Because of the murder she was able to performed the sensational operation. A golden opportunity for the young surgeon. But did she murder for it? When Ritter and Stark learn the victim had a secret affair with Tim Nicolai, fiancé of Mareike Andresen and Head of "Phydra", he too comes under suspicion. Did Katja Manteuffel threaten Tim Nicolai to tell his fiancée about the affair? It might have meant Nicolai's end in the firm as Cornea's president is Mareike's father. And as if that wasn't enough Ritter learns from the attractive scientific assistant Judith Wenger that the Ministry for Research financed "Phydra" significantly. It becomes clearer that the key to solving the mystery lies in the thicket of relations in research and science, in profit seeking and uncompromising competiton. Ritter and Stark have to unravel a network of lies and end up with an astounding solution.
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When Munich homicide inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr have to investigate a murder in the gay scene, they find the victim had a troubling relationship with a married family man.
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Borowski goes undercover, placing a personal ad to bait a killer who seems to find victims through a lonely hearts site.
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A young woman dies as a result of smoke inhalation. Commissioners Ballauf and Schenk are called and investigate the problem area in Cologne.
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A gruesome sexual murder shocks Münster. The victim, a young law student, was strangled in her apartment.
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The murder of drug-addicted barmaid Ellen Krüger has far-reaching repercussions. Leipzig chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler discover that their friend and colleague Matthias Krupp is involved. He was searching for his runaway 17-year-old daughter Amelie. When Krupp is shot, drug investigator Dirks is suspected of murder.
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In the fitness room of the airport hotel, the body of a naked man with an asian descent was found. His larynx has been dented by a barbell. The Frankfurt investigators Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo are faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, because there is no clue as to who the man is, where he came from and why he was killed.
S1 • E717
In a forest in Tyrol, a young woman is found hanging from a tree. Is it suicide?
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In der Weißen Elster wird eine Leiche gefunden. Die Hauptkommissare Saalfeld und Keppler finden heraus, dass es sich bei dem Toten um Peter Schneider handelt, einen erfolgreichen Leipziger Unternehmer. Er beherrschte und manipulierte die Menschen in seiner Umgebung und erkaufte sich, wenn nötig, die fehlende Anerkennung. Deshalb geraten Mitarbeiter wie Familienangehörige gleichermaßen ins Visier der Kommissare, die sich durch ein Dickicht aus Widersprüchen, Ängsten und Verletzungen bewegen.
S1 • E719
Offensichtlich wurde John mit einem Betäubungsmittel aus dem Klinikbestand vergiftet. Das macht nahezu alle Mitarbeiter, die Zugang zu dem Medikamentenschrank hatten, verdächtig.
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Der Selbstmord der Medizinstudentin Rojin Lewald stellt Hauptkommissarin Inga Lürsen und ihren Kollegen Stedefreund vor einige Rätsel. Die junge Frau, die aus einer türkischen Familie stammt, wollte sich von ihrem deutschen Mann scheiden lassen. Sie hinterlässt eine zweijährige Tochter. Ihre wohlhabenden Eltern sind erfolgreiche und angesehene Bürger Bremens, aufgeschlossen, jedoch streng gläubig. Merkwürdigerweise sehen sie den Tod ihrer ältesten Tochter nicht als Anlass, die Hochzeit ihrer jüngeren Tochter zu verschieben, die am darauf folgenden Wochenende stattfinden soll. Auch Rojins Geschwister sind nicht sehr begeistert, dass die Kripo bei einem Selbstmord ermittelt. Zum Erstaunen der Kommissare scheinen sich alle Familienmitglieder gegenseitig Alibis zu geben. Doch warum? Die Obduktion bestätigt Inga Lürsens Zweifel: Es ist so gut wie ausgeschlossen, dass Rojin sich selbst getötet hat. Haben es Inga Lürsen und Stedefreund mit einem Ehrenmord zu tun? Rojins Anwältin, die ihr damals geholfen hatte, ihren eigenen Weg zu gehen, ist fest davon überzeugt. Die beiden Frauen waren eng miteinander befreundet. Doch einiges deutet darauf hin, dass die Anwältin mehr als Freundschaft für Rojin empfand, die ihre Gefühle jedoch nicht erwiderte. Stedefreund schließt nicht aus, dass sie Rojin deshalb getötet haben könnte. Inga hingegen würde ein klassisches Eifersuchtsdrama favorisieren: Der Ehemann tötet seine Frau, weil sie ihn verlassen will. Unsicher und vorsichtig bewegen sich die Kommissare in einer ihnen fremden Lebenswelt und bringen zu guter Letzt eine Wahrheit ans Licht, die ihre schlimmsten Vermutungen übersteigt.
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The son of a top manager lies dead in the swimming pool of the elite boarding school at Hamberg Castle. At first glance it looks like suicide. Klara Blum believes that too - until she first doubts. When Kai Perlmann finds a torn laundry button in the pool's filter system and Klara discovers the matching duvet cover, it becomes clear that the boy was drowned like a cat in a sack. The slippery arrogance of the classmates causes the commissioner and her assistants not to let anyone in the school notice that they are investigating an extraordinarily cold-blooded violent crime. A game of cat and mouse with the suspect students begins. Despite Klara's psychologically cautious tactics, they soon realize that their "perfect" murder may be exposed. Since they also have to cover up a large-scale financial fraud with which the deceased in the swimming pool tried to blackmail them, and an accomplice begins to lose her nerve, they are already thinking about the next step. They are so cold-blooded that Klara seems to fall behind in their investigations. But when a classmate gossips during interrogation, Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann quickly catch up. It will be a race against death.
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A police officer is shot dead just outside the airport after a routine traffic violation. But Lindholm seems to recognize the shooter in the blurry security video. The investigation just gathers steam when shadowy government figures intervene and tell Lindholm to cease investigating. Naturally she doesn't.
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A haltered person was found on a golf-range. The back round is a hijacking in Africa. And the two funny detectives Thiel and Boerne try to find the murderer.
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A person sells knowledge of the SEK (a German special force).This is illegal, and the family of this person get kidnapped. So Cenk tries to detect the back rounds.
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A dead man is sitting in the subway. The search of the murderer is leading the commissars in the underground of the subway.
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In Vino Veritas - der vierte Fall führt Maximilian Brückner und Gregor Weber in die Weinberge an der deutsch-luxemburgischen Grenze. Der Weinkontrolleur des saarländischen Instituts für Lebensmittelchemie Gerhard Nieser wird am Stadtrand von Saarbrücken ermordet aufgefunden: Winzer zitterten vor ihm, Weinhandlungen fürchteten seinen Besuch. Die letzte Weinprüfung fand an Niesers Todestag bei Winzern im saarländischen Bernheim, einer kleinen Gemeinde nahe der französisch-luxemburgischen Grenze, statt. Für die Kommissare Kappl und Deininger liegt der Verdacht nahe, dass der Mord damit in Verbindung steht. Schnell rücken die Weinbauern Richard Altpeter (Thomas Sarbacher) und Alwin Eckes (Timo Dierkes) ins Visier der Ermittler. Doch auch das Ehepaar Jean-Paul und Isabel Weickert (Marco Lorenzini und Katharina Müller-Elmau), das in der Landeshauptstadt eine Weinhandlung betreibt, weckt das Interesse der Kommissare. Auf dem Bernheimer Weinfest, bei dem die Weinkönigin (Lisa Marie Potthoff) den Hauptkommissaren den Kopf verdreht, machen sie interessante Entdeckungen. Währenddessen kommen sich in Saarbrücken Ludwig Kappl (Konstantin Wecker) und Gerda Braun (Alice Hoffmann) näher.
S1 • E732
Investigating a little girl found dead on a ferry, Borowski finds no lack of suspects.
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An SEK-Agent get shot. Was he a junkie or the killer? The commissar Lena Odenthal comes across an man-alliance like an sect.
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When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch was found in the Donau river, on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, the Vienna Interior Ministry triggered an alarm, and Moritz Eisner was sent as a special investigator. The journalist had been investigating possible fraud concerning artificial insemination.
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Klara Blum und Kai Perlmann sind seit Jahren ein eingespieltes Team. Sie arbeiten gut zusammen und verstehen sich auch privat. Umso schrecklicher ist es, als Klara feststellen muss, dass bei dem Mord an einer jungen Frau unversehens Perlmann ins Fadenkreuz der Ermittlungen gerät. Denn er hatte Constanza noch am Abend ihres Todes getroffen. Bei ihren Recherchen muss Klara feststellen, dass Perlmann ihr nicht die Wahrheit über seine Beziehung zu Constanza sagt. Zudem wirft er ihr vor, sich nur auf ihn als möglichen Täter zu konzentrieren. Auch bei den Kollegen findet Klara kaum Verständnis für ihr Verhalten. Doch das kann sie nicht beirren. Schritt für Schritt geht sie allen Spuren nach, um den Mörder dingfest zu machen.
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Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz werden aufgrund des Notrufs einer jungen Frau in ein luxuriöses Stuttgarter Appartment gerufen. Doch kaum haben sie die Leiche einer jungen Frau entdeckt, geraten die Kommissare selber unter Beschuss. Als sie nach dem Schusswechsel in das Appartment zurückkehren, ist die Leiche verschwunden. Dennoch finden sie heraus, dass es sich um eine Prostituierte mit Namen Galina gehandelt haben muss. Der Vermieter des Appartments erweist sich auch bald als ihr Zuhälter. Er hatte allerdings kein Motiv, seine Angestellte zu ermorden. Das hat hat schon viel eher der Lokalpolitiker Höfele, der die Dienste von Galina regelmäßig in Anspruch nahm. Offensichtlich hat er ihr Hoffnungen auf ein gemeinsames Leben gemacht, an das er natürlich niemals glaubte, Galina aber umso mehr. Sie hat sich in seine Familie eingeschlichen, indem sie sich mit der halbwüchsigen Tochter angefreundet hat. Damit hat sie allerdings nicht nur die Existenz des Politikers bedroht, sondern auch die Lebensträume anderer Menschen in ihrer Umgebung zerstört.
S1 • E739
Professor Gann is seriously injured in an attack on his villa, and his wife Carmen dies. He receives treatment in his own private clinic and remains in charge despite everything.
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An aging rock star's former love falls to her death under his hotel room's window. While investigating something unimaginable happens in Borowski's private life.
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Ballauf and Schenk have to solve the murder of a young homeless man. Apparently the young drug addict Andi Lechner was poisoned.
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A new case for the crime scene investigators from the capital: the Berlin meat king Hans Merklinger is found dead in the cold store of his factory. The dead man had been missing for several days, but was only reported missing by his lover Kathi. When Ritter and Stark enter the meat factory, there are no workers to be found. The boss's son, Maximilian, treats the commissioners with cool arrogance, as he is currently in contract negotiations with the Ukrainian Litvin brothers. They want to join the Merklinger company and are not bothered by the fact that the company was involved in a rotten meat scandal years ago. Merklinger's widow Christa was left by her husband a year ago. She takes the news of his death calmly, while Kathi, who is already planning to marry Merklinger. planned to collapse. Ritter and Stark learn from Merklinger's secretary of many years, Ms. Balthasar, that Merklinger used a trick and the help of subcontractor Joachim Kahle to turn Bulgarian workers into legal EU workers. Kahle's young friend Liljana is one of these Bulgarians. When she wants to flee with her brother Viktor, Ritter and Stark give chase. Knight is beaten up. He is hospitalized with a severe concussion. Stark is now forced to continue the investigation with Weber. What does Liljana have to do with Merklinger's death? Why did Maximilian not tell the police that his father had been missing for days? Stark has to unravel a web of subsidy fraud, shady dealings in the meat industry and a private tragedy. Ritter isn't really allowed to strain his head, but the case won't let him rest in the hospital either.
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Lindholm is called in from some days off at home to assist in the investigation of a series of killings by a sniper. Are they random? The local detective in charge is an arrogant hothead. Lindholm nevertheless puts the clues gradually together and they lead to a series of unexpected finds.
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Shown in the USA on MhZ as Tatort München S1 E2, though it's clearly a mid or later series entry. It begins with one of our two detectives wandering about a grocery store with one shoe looking like a homeless man. After passing out, we follow his partner, Franz, at a homicide scene, wondering where Ivo is. It turns out Ivo is suffering from amnesia, cause unknown. Yet despite this obstacle, they gradually begin to unravel the case, which centers on narcotics, and of course, recovering Ivo's memory.
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In a crematorium, the doctor noticed irregularities during the post-mortem examination of the former lawyer Schubert. He informs the police, Lannert and Bootz. The medical examiner found some age-related diseases, the ingestion of a poison is obvious, probably it is a real cocktail of different sleeping pills.
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Do the Frankfurt Commissioners have anything to do with a serial killer, and if so, what motivates him?
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At a class reunion in his hometown, Ballauf meets the sweetheart of his childhood. But Katja is married to her former classmate Dorn. Dorn is found murdered the next morning.
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When a policewoman is shot in the line of duty, it becomes clear that there must be a leak within the police force.
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Lindholm leaves somewhere where she has just given a well-received presentation. She leaves in a borrowed car and appears sleepy at the wheel. Her GPS seems to be losing signal in the back end of nowhere when someone steps out in front of her car and she swerves and hits a tree. Then things get weird for a bit as if she's delirious. She finds herself in a small town where mysterious doings are a foot. Soon there's murder. And then another body turns up!
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A social services worker is found dead in a run-down apartment. It turns out he was sent to remove a 4 year old from that home. The child is now missing. The mother claims to have been out with her girlfriends, and the father apparently has an alibi. Where is the child and who murdered the social worker and why?
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Cenk Batu goes undercover to detect an industrial mole. As soon as he feels he's getting close, he's yanked by his Handler's supervisors. Clearly, someone high up the political chain doesn't really want the mole uncovered. As an added distraction, he is becoming involved with Mia, the (secret) daughter of the prime suspect and a recent suicide. Or was it a homicide?
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Borowski has to recapture a German criminal with the help of rural Finnish police. He manages to get lost in the woods and tango dance with a beautiful Finn.
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Marc Simon is a bank employee and a very inconspicuous family man. When his wife and daughter are found shot, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder case.
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Inspector Thiel's father, of all people, accidentally discovers a mummy that appears to be thousands of years old while clearing out an old villa. Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kastner, head of the Archaeological Institute at the University of Münster, is thrilled. But Boerne doubts the mummy is real. Meanwhile, Inspector Frank Thiel is dealing with a "fresh" corpse.
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An elderly woman calls the Berlin police claiming she had observed a murder while she was looking out her backyard window - in all parallels to Hitchcock's film classic "Rear Window" - that had been aired just the night before on TV. The investigators are in doubt: Was ist just imagination? Or ist there more evidence? As the alleged murderer claims that his wife - the victim in question - was on a trip to Lisbon by train, all the detectives can do is wait and gather additional information. So the investigators sit with the woman and observe the suspect. Two days later they finally reach the suspect's wife by phone in Portugal. The hotel clerk confirms her identity. The next morning, police find that the elderly witness has disappeared. Not before long, the Portuguese police inform their German colleagues that they have found body parts of a woman, likely to be identical with the German woman.
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The Bremen pensioner Ruth Thalheim is found dead in her apartment - but nothing indicates a crime. But Commissioner Inga Lürsen discovers inconsistencies that make her doubt natural death. She and Stedefreund find out that the dead woman was imprisoned in the GDR as a "political woman" and was financially supported by the influential Bremen entrepreneur Hans Rodenburg. He seems to be involved in the illegal arms trade, and his socialist past leads Stedefreund on the trail of old Stasi clans. Soon Inga and Stedefreund no longer know which clues to believe - are they deliberately deceived?
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At an import company, 3 men are found shot, 2 of them dead. Moritz Eisner gets the case.
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The investigators are on the trail of a perfidious serial killer who presents his victims theatrically to get Odenthal's attention.
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A young female member of a sect is found murdered in a room in a new building that is under construction.
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After 20 years, Nick Graf is released from prison. In the 70's and 80's he and his wife Gina committed a series of brutal bank robberies. Now he is terminally ill and has nothing left to lose. Graf has only one thought: Before he dies, he wants to take revenge on Rudi Fromm, who arrested him at the time. Although Fromm is now retired, he takes up the fight; he goes into hiding and wants to find Graf on his own. Fritz Dellwo and Charlotte Sänger try everything to track down Fromm and prevent the worst from happening. While searching for Graf and Fromm, they learn things about their boss that they previously had no idea. When the suspicion arises that Rudi Fromm could be a murderer himself, Dellwo vehemently denies this notion. Fritz is firmly convinced that his longtime colleague and friend Rudi is not capable of murder.
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The body of a young woman is found, possibly dead from a balcony fall, but within two minutes we discover she was likely murdered. Her apartment has been trashed and covered in graffiti. Her fiance is interviewed and appears a bit angry in caring for his child by a previous marriage. His ex wife, that child's mother, is also a possible suspect, and a young graffiti artist may hold some clues. Meanwhile Freddie tries to adjust to his daughter moving in with a boyfriend of two weeks.
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A death shakes the Berlin art scene: Hanns Helge, a world-class artist, is depicted in his art installation by falling bulletproof glass plates. The question of suicide or murder is complicated.
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Ivo and Franz respond to a hostage situation in a prison. The hostage taker (one of the inmates) is wounded during the process and later dies, apparently by suicide, but there are doubts; when the dead fellow's cellmate breaks out within hours, Ivo & Franz's suspicions increase. Something, it appears, is amiss at this prison.
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Lindholm is called in when a female doctor is found dead in a fire. The doctor's video diary is found providing a possible lead. Also, a disturbed teenage boy is seen near the fire, and Lindholm takes a personal interest. The doctor also was known to Lindholm's boss at the LKA, providing more complexity to the investigation.
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The chief inspectors are dealing with a murder in a Munich spa and are investigating the victim's dysfunctional family.
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Ballauf und Schenk fahren zu einem ländlichen Gehöft, in dessen Kühlraum der neunjährige Mark Bürger erfroren am Boden liegt.
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A rapist and murderer is on trial. Surprisingly, he is acquitted - with serious consequences.
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A serial killer seems to be playing a murderous game of cat-and-mouse with Borowski and the police.
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The Hamburg LKA has been following the traces of a gang of organ traffickers for some time. Cenk Batu has been smuggled in as a driver, but has only done simple errands so far and has not been able to identify anyone behind it. That changes suddenly when he gets the job to pick up 14-year-old Amelie.
S1 • E793
Young criminals are killed in Vienna. Is there a serial killer in town? Eisner gets Bibi as an assistant. He is not overly happy about that.
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Lindholm goes to see a soccer game with her young son. After the game she gets one of the stars to autograph a soccer ball for the boy. Later that night she receives a phone call. The body at the murder scene is none other than that same player. As she sets out to solving the case a number of suspects emerge including a shadowy person posting threats online.
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Late in the evening, Döring appears at police headquarters. The man, who appears mentally confused, claims he wants to report a murder. His son was knocked over by Ms. Sert. The new Frankfurt team is investigating.
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Peer Förden, a member of a German Frontex mission, was partly responsible for the sinking of a refugee boat off the Maltese coast during Operation Golden Fleece, which was triggered by an overwhelmed comrade. During an attempt to repel the refugees, the boat sank. Amali Agbedra, a black African woman from Togo, was the only survivor of the accident. She was stranded on the Tunisian coast and returned to Germany, ostensibly to take revenge on those responsible for this tragedy. Besides Förden, the water police officers Elena Janson, Klaus Kastner, and Robert Böhm are also possible suspects. These four officers were deployed together on the German-flagged ship Weser 3 and are now trying to cover up the incident. Kastner is also increasingly depressed as his guilty conscience begins to trouble him.
S1 • E802
A naked man is found crammed into a shopping trolley in a parking lot. Shot. He is not the only one to be found under these circumstances.
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At night in an industrial area in Leipzig: the corpse of the used car dealer Jannis Kerides is found on the street, thrown from a moving car. For the chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler, everything points to a dispute among criminal car dealers. When the commissioners want to take a close look at Kerides' workshop, Eva Saalfeld feels threatened by his German business partner Georg Hantschel and seriously injures him with a shot. Eva blames herself, especially since Hantschel's weapon was not found in the subsequent examinations. The next day, an employee of Kerides, 65-year-old Walter Rimbach, is found dead in his apartment. The commissioners can clarify that Rimbach was Kerides' murderer. But you wonder whether this was really about the used car business, or whether there were other family motives behind these crimes. Both the deeply indebted daughter of the murdered Rimbach, Karla, had reasons for the act, as well as Thomas Kramm, who had threatened Rimbach shortly before in his workshop, because he blamed him for the mysterious disappearance of his father in 1983. To her surprise, she also finds the name Horst Saalfeld in the copies of the Stasi files that Eva is securing from Kramm. For the first time, the Commissioner learns of the details of the death of her father, who tragically died in 1983 while on the job. Her further investigations bring her into conflict with her past, which she believed to be closed.
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The transsexual Trudi is scared. The house in which she has been living for 30 years is now to be sold. After the murder of the house owner Erika Roeder,Trudi is threatened with eviction by Erika's son Frank, who inherited the property. During their investigations in the murder case, the detectives find out that Erika tried to get Trudi and her neighbor Gerda out of their homes.
S1 • E809
At the beginning of the school year, teacher Heike Fuchs does not show up in her class. When the police find her in her apartment, it is clear that Heike drowned her in her indoor fountain weeks ago.
S1 • E810
When a boot with it's foot inside is found in a local lake KHK Tiel has to find the body and it's murderer, while Professor Börne recognizes the foot.
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In a genetic engineering research laboratory, a young woman is experimenting at night when the cooling system fails. The next day, a young researcher is found dead above the freezer, suffocated in dry ice.
S1 • E812
A woman Vet tried to connect with a man neighbor in various and very odd ways.
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Ritter and Stark are visited in the presidium by Vogt, a young and annoying madman who claims to be followed. Ritter throws him out. A little later the commissioners are called to the corpse of a man. A well-known lawyer was murdered. Vogt also wanders around the crime scene in the Mauerpark. Ritter and Stark investigate the past of defense attorney Herzog and come across threatening letters from one of his mandates, Muller. The commissioners question him and get caught up in a case 25 years ago that involved the kidnapping of a baby from an industrialist family. At that time, Muller went to prison as the main suspect and the commissioners are surprised that he is now living and working again as a caretaker for Ina Kilian, a charity lady known in Berlin and aunt of the baby who was kidnapped at the time. You wonder what Vogt has to do with all of this, and you gradually discover the masterful plan of a former victim who is now the perpetrator.
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In Kiel, a man jumps into a "bathing lake" - and is impaled by bamboo sticks. For Borowski and Sarah Brandt it is not clear at first, whether it is the act of a madman who randomly finds his victims, or if someone wants to punish the dead?
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Lindholm drops her son off, and then wrecks her car in a creepy town. She calls a tow truck, meanwhile one man stops to ask if she needs help. She says no, and sees the man park at a nearby house. Suddenly the man's car explodes in flames. The local detectives are only too happy to have the LKA cop there, and put her in charge. It soon develops that the victim may have led a double life.
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In a slaughterhouse, Steffi Pietsch is bullied by her colleagues. She is found dead. Her daughter accidentally runs in front of the car of Odenthal.
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An employee of the border police Germany-Switzerland is found murdered. The police investigates his colleagues and finds a lot of cash is shipped to and from Switzerland.
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Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner of the Vienna Police are called to the scene of a brutal execution of a van driver for a cleaning company. Their investigation takes them into the Serbian underworld in Vienna.
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A gas station owner is shot dead in his sales room. Chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund quickly know that this is not a case of robbery, 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, who found the victim, is increasingly caught up in contradictions. And why is his mother in such a panic? In the course of their investigation, the commissioners get deeper into family secrets than they would like.
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What is a toothache if you unexpectedly get a young colleague from your supervisor Brandner - for training purposes. The Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are polite and by no means uninterested. The young colleague is increasingly gaining plus points. The three of them find themselves in a precarious situation on a routine business trip. 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 you can see the silhouette of a man. Leitmayr wants to provide the man. Shots are fired. Leitmayr scores three times. Siggi Aumeister collapses and falls into a coma. The internal investigations begin immediately. Franz Leitmayr has to hand in his weapon to secure evidence. His office is searched - routinely for alcohol and drugs. According to regulations, the police officer Leitmayr is offered a leave of absence after "firearms" experiences. He has to testify before a commission of inquiry. Investigator Maus is particularly sustainable in this context. Why did Leitmayr not recognize that the weapon of his counterpart was a "replica"? Psychological counseling is pending: Therapist Sophie Wiesmann refuses to prescribe Leitmayr sleeping pills for the patient. 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 long-term colleague Leitmayr in the back? But it is far worse to face the seriously injured Siggi's parents. Schorsch and Elisabeth Aumeister run a long-established iron and household goods store in the immediate vicinity of Leitmayr. Mother Elisabeth and father Schorsch know Franz Leitmayr as customers. Little did they know that he of all people fired the shots at their beloved son. There are machine pictures in which Siggi Aumeister is happily posing with a woman. But nobody in the family wants to know Adriana Kaminski. The older son Markus no longer lives in the parents' house. 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 point to storm. And not just there. Mother Elisabeth sees herself torn between the love for her husband Schorsch, who is unsuspectingly into debt, and her two sons. And she knows for sure: if the shop dies, Schorsch dies too.
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Thiel and Boerne are investigating the case of a former police officer who was found dead on the street wearing only panties. No traces of violence were found on the woman's body.
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Three dead Chinese lie between chicken feet. Their trail leads Eisner and Bibi to the mafia.
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The Berlin taxi operator Klemke is found dead in his office. The investigations by Commissioners Ritter and Stark quickly reveal that various people had an argument with Klemke on the evening of the crime.
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Fifteen-year-old Anna is reported missing by her mother. Shortly thereafter, a girl is found dead near a Leipzig prostitution area. However, the murder victim is not Anna, but Lisa, who lives on the street. At the same time, a 15-year-old
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A desperate call alerts the Kiel police emergency number: he is in my apartment. It just comes through the wall.
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In his first case with CID Dortmund, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Faber and his team investigate the murders of two gay men, in what looks like serial murder.
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Dirk Sauerland is found dead on his yacht. Borowski and colleague Brandt learn that the investigative author was gay and that his coming out would have damaged Treunau a politician. But then a trace leads back to the mysterious death of Uwe Barschel in 1987 ...
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The student Lukas is found near a bridge pillar. At first glance, Baumann appears to have fallen while climbing the bridge pillar, but it soon turns out that the dead man was deliberately shot at with an airgun.
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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 cash. Those who are hired are groomed for success. After finding a male corpse in a burned car, Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic, with the help of their newly installed police cadet Fechner, come across tiny film snippets, saved from a burned MP3 player. Fechner proves to be indispensable. But he gradually turns out to be a young man with two faces. The violent death of the victim leaves Ivo Batic no peace. In order to find entry into the hermetically sealed column, Batic applied spontaneously to be a door donation collector. He is accepted and from then on acts as an "undercover agent", albeit not quite legally. From now on, Leitmayr can no longer reach him, because contact with the outside world is made more difficult for the self-proclaimed animal rights activists and pushers. And not without reason, because the two unusual women negotiate the right deal for the really big money among themselves. So they believe.
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When the body of a Bulgarian drug dealer and pimp, who was the right-hand man of a local Turkish entrepreneur is discovered, the detectives turn to Nora's old beat partner Sonja to help them track down a missing witness.
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A synthetic drug called "heaven" is all the rage in Berlin's party scene, but when its manufacturer Christoph Gerhard (Stefan Kreißig) is found dead, detectives Ritter (Dominic Raacke) and Stark (Boris Aljinovic) investigate. They get support from experienced narcotics officer Mainhard (Ina Weisse). Gerhard's computer has disappeared and the recipe with it: but then who is it still selling "heaven" on the streets of Berlin?
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A wonder doctor who helps women to get pregnant is found murdered near Munster.
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Two young women are left in a garbage dump; one survives. Lindholm is called into investigate and the case soon involves young women from Belarus forced into prostitution. The bad guys have money and powerful friends.
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In a rare continuation of a previous episode, Lindholm continues to investigate the murder/human trafficking corruption investigation with the help of a local homicide detective and her journalist friend. Seemingly making progress, she makes an error that puts her life in danger.
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Auf dem Heimweg von der Schule verpasst Carla den Bus. Zuhause ist niemand, der sie abholen kann. Unterwegs begegnet Carla ihrem Mörder und steigt in sein Auto.
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Ingo Broich, CEO of the cleaning company of the same name, has been stabbed to death.
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Nine-year-old Benjamin Steiner has been kidnapped. A case for Berlin detectives Ritter and Stark.
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Lucerne, the first day of carnival, nicknamed "Dirty Thursday". Early in the morning, Franz Schäublin, Head of Lucerne's Building Commission and active guild member, is found stabbed amidst the hustle and bustle of the carnival.
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An American diplomat is the target for a suicide bomb. He survives, but some guards and the young bomber get killed. Bibi and Moritz, the two Vienna detectives try to find out who is behind the killing. A conspiration theory becomes more and more clear and was the young car-bomber guilty or a victim?
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The police must solve the murder of a journalist who was found dead in a parking lot. In her jacket pocket she carried an honorary ticket for a concert by Roman König.
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The body of Sutor, a member of a biker gang, is found on a country road. But it quickly becomes clear that he didn't have an accident on the street with his Harley.
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A child is kidnapped. A witness is run over by the kidnappers with a car.
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Another car catches fire at night in a wealthy part of Hamburg. A woman who was sleeping in the car dies. Falke investigates his first case. He gets a new colleague.
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During the Lucia festival parade at a Danish school in Schleswig a man suddenly stands in flames
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An emergency call from a moving car at night alerts the police in Carinthia: "Eisner, BKA Vienna, service number 318-12-58. Need support!" A little later, Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner was seriously injured by a shot in the head and was found motionless behind the wheel of his car in a quarry. When he wakes up in the intensive care unit, he has no idea what happened. Because he suffers from a "retrograde amnesia" which suppresses the traumatic experience itself. A fatal consequence of the gunshot wound. After his discharge from the hospital, he searches in vain in his office for clues about his trip to this weekend vacation. His colleague Bibi Fellner and daughter Claudia cannot help either. Moritz Eisner really wants to find out what happened to him. So he directs the taxi that is to take him home on the instructions of his boss, Ernst Rauter, to Carinthia. The arrival of Eisner, who suffers from speech disorders and dropouts, gets around like wildfire in the place, and not everyone is happy to see him. His first point of contact is the local police, because he wants to follow the trail of a silver-gray car that he can vaguely remember. Inspector Josef Hudle had found Eisner. But he knows nothing about such a vehicle. One woman still remembers that Moritz Eisner bought red roses and a bottle of champagne from her and asked how to get to the Kapplerhütte. When Moritz searches the hut, fragments of memories of various scenes come back. He also recognizes his travel bag, which is in a corner. However, the living space was devastated by an unknown hand and the walls were sprayed with Nazi graffiti. The two BKA specialists soon find out that the journalist Maja Jancic-Herzog, whose family belongs to the hut, kicked some villagers violently on the feet with her probing questions about a massacre at the "Persmanhof" in the last days of the Second World War . And that her husband Richard Herzog had filed a missing person report. During the investigation of the gravel pond in the quarry, a car is recovered. The dead Maja Jancic-Herzog lies in the hold - shot, apparently at close range. On her laptop, which was hidden under the spare wheel, you can see how far she had come with her documentation. Particularly explosive: The last survivor of the terrible event, Jozefa Karnicar, reveals to the filmmaker that one of the perpetrators involved in the massacre apparently still lives undisturbed among them.
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In the early morning of the Berlin U-Bahn, 38-year-old Mark Haessler was attacked by two young men on a platform and died shortly thereafter.
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Rents are rising in Munich. It is not only in the traditional immigrant district of Westend that people are groaning under the ongoing construction work for cosmetic renovations. Chief Inspector Franz Leitmayr is seeking temporary refuge here - there was water damage in his apartment. The former circus princess "Calamity Jane", Magda Holzer, now in her old age, proudly resides in her villa on the banks of the Isar in Munich Pullach. She is looked after by the housekeeper Rosl and the loyal Croatian Ante. Magda's son Florian, who was reported missing, is found in the excavation of a building pit at night. Is her little-loved son Peter to blame for his death? After all, both brothers had an affair with the beautiful Liz, who also lives in the Pullach villa. Liz is an event manager with excellent contacts in the Munich city administration. Corruption is a foreign word in Liz's eyes. Munich's chief detective Ivo Batic suspects a robbery and murder. He investigates the criminal scene in the Westend and learns about a "whore" from the old days.
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When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in Lake Phoenix, DCI Faber and his team investigate to find her killer.
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Andreas Haber, social worker in the children's and youth center, is found dead in the girls' toilet. Someone pushed his head into a toilet bowl and flushed it until he drowned there.
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Albert A. Anast is the face of a controversial new reality show. He didn't show up to his own party. The "Star" has mysteriously disappeared for three days. Should one of the viewers who remained anonymous have carried out his death threat against the entertainer? Commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr enter the cynical world of an internet broadcaster whose success consists in exposing people ruthlessly and in the most vile way. The makers do not even shy away from falsifying their posts. There is hardly anyone who has no reason to seek Albert A. Anast's life.
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A woman of a sausage company is kidnapped. The detectives are struggling to find the possible murderer in a small village in Germany.
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Sabrina Dobisch witnesses a traffic accident and tries to save the life of the young pedestrian Christian van Meeren. Then she accuses the driver Doris Ackermann of premeditated murder. While Sabrina is celebrated as a courageous rescuer and enjoys the public attention, Inspector Borowski remains skeptical.
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Steier is drunk on a park bench. A woman fatally stabs a jogger in the park. Steier cannot stop her and investigates the case.
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A convicted murderer is about to be released from prison after 10 years. Franziska, a volunteer counselor for the Parole Board, visits him for an Exit Interview & he takes her hostage. Freddy & Max investigate and fight to rescue Franziska
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A millionaire was found dead after a party with other members of the high society of Konstanz.
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Children swimming instructor Sven Haasberger gets beaten up in broad daylight. Someone accuses him to be a pedophile. But every evidence against Haasberger turns out as faked while he dies in hospital.
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The police in Dortmund have to find a serial killer who rapes and murders 13-year-old girls. During their investigations, Faber gets convinced that the case is in some way linked to his own past.
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The Burani family circus enchants the audience during its guest performance in Ludwigshafen. One morning, after the performance, an employee lies dead in the arena.
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A kidnapped girl manages to escape after five years in captivity. After the kidnapper's death, his house is demolished and a dead woman is found there. A colleague of Eisner and Fellner.
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Julia Marschner, a woman in her mid-forties, celebrates at a "over 40 party" at night. The next morning she was strangled and found in the city park with traces of shackles on her wrists.
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In einer Villa wird Feuer gelegt. Drei kleine Kinder verbrennen dabei. Die Mutter befindet sich in der Nähe, erinnert sich aber nicht. Der Vater wird verdächtigt.
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On a boat trip the company lawyer of Marex is shot. His body disappears into the sea. Borowski suspects that the resolution of the case can be found in the depths of the Baltic Sea. Marex is a deep-sea mining company.
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Thiel and Boerne have to find a serial killer who operates in a superhero costume.
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A human trafficker and two police officers were killed in a gas explosion near a container terminal. Several people in the vicinity of the terminal were dependent on the deceased trafficker.
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There is a point in every human being when they are lonely. Lisa Brenner knew him. When her body is found one gray morning in front of a high-rise building, having fallen from the twelfth floor, she leaves behind a number of men who adored and loved her. Lisa was so close and devoted to all of them that in the end nobody knew if he was really meant. The number of suspects grows suddenly. Apparently Lisa wasn't alone drinking champagne on her balcony. Still, the neighborhood didn't hear a cry. Police find large cash deposits in Lisa Brenner's account but no employer. The first clues lead to Harry Riedeck, an elderly man with helper syndrome, who was familiar with Lisa's insurance and regularly shopped for her. With the support of the new assistant Kalli Hammermann, Batic also interrogates the other men who were in regular contact with Lisa: Hansen, a former Hamburg hockey star, Lischke, a bank employee and many a respectable father. At the same time, Leitmayr bites deeper and deeper into the case, which leads him more and more to the limits of himself. Two days later, Riedeck was found brutally murdered in the basement of his house. Unlike Lisa, whose death happened silently and almost invisibly, Riedeck was killed with forty hammer blows. Case analyst Christine Lerch is puzzled as to where the connection between the two victims lies for the perpetrator, if it was the same person. And what could it be that someone with such unbridled violence needed to get rid of? A tricky case that plunges a Munich brewery owner into a disaster and deeply shakes the trust between Leitmayr and Batic.
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A punch in the face puts Ballauf out of action. On the way home, he witnessed a fight in the subway station and immediately intervened. When Ballauf regains consciousness, the perpetrators have escaped. The victim, Sievers, later dies in hospital.
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The investigative team tries to solve the death of a garbage truck driver who dies while fleeing his killer.
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The DNA evidence is clear but the man it points to is in prison at the time the crime was committed. Lannert and Bootz investigate.
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Retirees living in an old-peoples home, smuggle on bus trips, every week, from Hungary to Austia.
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A young woman is found murdered in an apartment in Lucerne. For Reto Flückiger and his colleague Liz Ritschard, everything initially indicates a relationship act. Thomas Behrens, the lover of the murder victim, is suspected. But the IT specialist recently disappeared. Surprisingly, his wife Ilka alerted the police. She is followed by an unknown car with tinted windows. Apparently her husband is trying to intimidate her because she wants to leave him. Flückiger takes care of the seemingly disturbed woman, but finds neither clues to the wanted nor to any persecutor. In the meantime, Behrens faces the authorities. The computer scientist claims they wanted to kill him because he stole sensitive account data from his employer, a well-known private bank. When he panics and rioted in the interrogation room, he was admitted to a psychiatric ward. He takes his own life that same night, but for Flückiger it doesn't look like suicide. Suddenly he feels persecuted too.
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Munich police stop a speeding sports car and find a diplomat's son in the driver's seat and a corpse in the passenger's. Batic and Leitmayr investigate.
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A young girl sees a man stabbed in the leg with a hypodermic keel over with a heart attack. She's sure it was an attempted murder. Thiel and Boerne investigate.
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Natascha Klein was a dazzling personality. The "Pope Joan of Love", who is also valued by the press, has just celebrated the twenty millionth customer of her Internet partner agency Lovecast. Now she was found dead in her office.
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Auf der deutschen Grenzseite wird am herbstlich anmutenden Bodensee die Leiche von Markus Söckle gefunden. Ein Schweizer Kommissar erschießt eine Flüchtigen auf der deutschen Seite.
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After more than 30 years, an old friend of Felix Murot appears back in Germany.
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Felix Stark has to deal with a case which he was warned of two weeks before of a woman with fortune-telling skills.
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Lannert and Bootz have rushed to a supermarket that is about to be robbed. Lannert tries to persuade the gangster Bielfeldt, who has multiple criminal records, to give up. Bielfeldt holds a guard in his power and threatens to shoot the hostage if Lannert doesn't stay away. He also asks for money.
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The body of a Syrian German is found in a park near Oldenborg, while the police is investigating passport fraud.
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The chauffeur of a rich sausage entrepreneur seems to be shot by accident.
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A prisoner escapes. Two old caseworkers return to investigate, but all is not what it seems.
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In the week before Christmas a girl gets hit by a car, but the car drives on. Meanwhile a pregnant girl tries to get to Sicily.
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The body of 14-year-old Tim Kiener is found at the Isar weir. The boy was shot at close range. There is no apparent motive for the crime. Tim had neither problems with his parents nor with his classmates. When he wasn't out with his friends Hanna and Florian, he sat at his computer and allegedly developed apps and websites to supplement his pocket money. As investigators examine Tim's computer, they discover something they never thought possible: the boy has been offering revealing photos and videos of himself to a growing clientele through his own paid website. He's chatted with adult customers, stripped naked on webcam, and got paid for it through gift lists. So is one of his website customers Tim's killer? The traces in the network lead the Munich chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr to a family man who trains young footballers in his free time. But Guido Buchholtz seems to have an alibi. Inspector Kalli Hammermann's background investigations into Tim's clientele don't lead any further either. While Batic is ironically concentrating on proving that Buchholtz was actually at the scene of the crime, Christine Lerch, head of the operational case analysis, doubts whether Buchholtz was the perpetrator. Leitmayr, on the other hand, wonders who is actually the perpetrator and who is the victim in online transactions. Meanwhile, Tim's parents are stunned by the facts. They find that their boy has been doing things online that they had no idea about. Tim's friends Hanna and Flo, on the other hand, seem to be familiar with it.
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A secretary gets seemingly per accident shot during a bank robbery.
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An Iranian nuclear scientist drops from his hotel window in Vienna. Is it murder or suicide?
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The head of a Dortmund Nazi-group is murdered. At first a former victim is suspected, but things don't add up.
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A head separated from it's body is found in a river near Kiel. In search of the truth Borowski becomes acquinted with the Crystal Meth scene in Kiel.
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The neighbour of Detective Ballauf contacts him because she misses her son. It turns out that he has been homeless so the neighbour starts to search her son and finally finds his body.
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The Swiss Kripo is working on a case of money laundering through an auction house. The Munchener Kripo has found a body with an ancient bottle of wine.
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Inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are called to a crime scene on the outskirts of the city. There is the waste contractor Harald Kosen found beaten to death in the bedroom of his house. Although a lot of cash was stolen from the wall safe, the brutality of the murder is suggesting that hate and anger could be the reason of the murder, the the two detectives presume.
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Kriminalhauptkommissar Frank Steier witnesses a murder, but the shooter goes free because he was drunk at the time. He investigates further on the killer.
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Lower Austria, in the late 1960s. A young man goes fishing at night on the Thaya, the border river to what was then Czechoslovakia. Shots are fired, but the authorities in the socialist neighboring country deny an incident at the border. The man does not return home. Decades later, his son Max, a journalist, rolls up the story again. At the same time, the body of a 45-year-old Czech named Radok is being fished from the Thaya. An accident? For Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner, the strange case that saves them from dealing with boring mountains of files is just right. While the chief inspector finds out that Radok was murdered, his colleague takes an involuntary bath in the river. The reporter Max pulls her out of the ice-cold water and lets the astonished inspector into the research about his missing father: At the time of the Prague Spring, the Czechoslovak secret service lured refugees from the republic into a trap with a fictitious border. The insidious plan only worked thanks to the cooperation of young Austrians, who played an inglorious role in it. Apparently Radok wanted to hold the former collaborators accountable. Was that why he had to die?
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A 60-year-old man is found dead. Apart from a group of children, no one seems to have had any contact with the neglected man. Borowski and Brandt look into an abyss of poverty and indifference.
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What the French call "Petite Mort" ends fatally in a forest near Nuremberg. Christian Ranstedt, married and father of two children, professor at the University of Erlangen and respected citizen of the city of Nuremberg, was killed by two shots in the head at close range while making love in his car. When the police arrive, both car doors are open. The driver's seat with the dead Ranstedt is pushed back far. The person who was in the car with him has disappeared. Nothing indicates their identity. Ranstedt's wife Julia believed her husband at the university. For her and her two children, a world suddenly collapses that seemed indestructible. Why was Christian Ranstedt murdered? Why in such a spicy moment? And how come whoever was in the car with him survived?
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Ballauf and Schenk must solve the murder of a bar owner. His girlfriend found him dead in front of his bar that night. Who had an account to settle with the popular scene host from the Sax Club?
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An ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Tag werden die neuen Kommissare mit dem schrecklichen Mord an einer ganzen Familie konfrontiert.
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Chambermaid Yasemin falls to her death in the stairwell of a luxury hotel. External debt or not, Lena Odenthal asks herself.
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A wine shop near Münster is the only clue at first. 25-year-old Luiz Benaso had taken a taxi here the day before his death. Now he was found murdered in an old slaughterhouse. Inspector Frank Thiel and his colleague Nadeshda Krusenstern, who has just been promoted to inspector, take over the investigation. In the meantime, Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne has announced a visit from overseas. His hereditary uncle Gustav von Elst from Florida comes to Münster. When he accidentally found out about Luiz Benaso's murder, he was shocked: apparently he had an affair with the young South American. Does he know who might have had a motive for killing his lover? Apparently Luiz had offered the Schosser wine shop a case of very valuable champagne for sale on Gustav's behalf.
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A tragic accident occurs in a chemical factory. Roswita, the godchild of Ernst Rauter, Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner's superior, is a victim of the chemical accident.
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An environmental activist is shot and his friend Paulsen disappears on a wind turbine in the North Sea. Bremen detectives Lürsen and Stedefreund investigate.
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A Nigerian youth is found stabbed under a bridge in Lucerne. Commissioners Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard assume, based on the first indications, that it is a matter of settling accounts in the drug milieu. The young man was already well known to the police: Ebi Osodi was a so-called UMA - an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum. He came to Switzerland without his parents and has been caught dealing several times. For the new police chief Mattmann it is clear that this case should be closed as soon as possible. After all, the delinquent Ebi would have been deported immediately if he had reached the age of majority. But the more the chief of police pushed for efficiency, the more Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard became interested in the fate of the boy. And when the dark-skinned Jola, another underage asylum seeker from Nigeria, becomes the focus of the investigations, Ritschard and Flückiger realize that the young woman must be the key to the case. But investigations keep getting stuck. And more than once Flückinger has to ask himself whether what he sees is real or just a hallucination. Because according to medical findings, severe migraine attacks are the reason for his increasingly severe headaches and this also causes partial shifts in perception.
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It is an execution on the open road: in Lucerne, a sniper kills two Albanian car dealers with headshots. Shortly thereafter, the next murder follows the same pattern. This time the victim is a trustee. The murder weapon is the same - Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard are dealing with a serial offender. And they realize that the seemingly randomly chosen victims have one thing in common: they all committed crimes for which the judiciary has never held them accountable. The two Albanians crippled a young man, and the trustee killed a mother and her child during an insane overtaking maneuver. In tranquil Lucerne, a bloody campaign of revenge is obviously going on. And there are many more potential victims, because the overburdened Swiss judiciary and a new criminal law are ensuring that numerous other crimes are being put on the back burner. Reto Flückiger and Liz Ritschard do everything they can to stop the self-proclaimed avenger before more people die.
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Paul Brix is asked by a colleague policeman for help, but he denies. The day after the man disappears. The Russian mob seems to be involved.
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The crime scene of Miroslav Nemec's and Udo Wachtveitl's 70th case is the Oktoberfest: Munich in a state of chaos. But not everyone who falls off a beer bench at this crime scene is drunk. A case, in which Batic and Leitmayr have to deal with the complete and utter confusion and complexity of trying to work at the world's biggest fair. Once again they find support from the head of operative case analysis, Christine Lerch (Lisa Wagner). Directed by Marvin Kren ("Rammbock", Tatort: "Kaltstart") and written by Stefan Holtz and Florian Iwersen ("Milchgeld. Ein Kluftingerkrimi"). Ferdinand Hofer is part of the team as assistant Kalli, as well as Gerhard Liebermann as Radtke and Robert Joseph Bartl as coroner Dr. Steinbrecher. Co-starring Gisela Schneeberger as beer tent proprietor Moosrieder, Andreas Giebl as her late husband, Mavie Höbinger as an Oktoberfest waitress and Leo Reisinger as the kitchen chef. The broadcast is planned for the Oktoberfest 2015 in ARD. "Die letzte Wiesn" is the first Tatort commissioned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk for Wiedemann and Berg Television.
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In a small town in Lower Saxony, federal police officers Thorsten Falke and Katharina Lorenz are tailing an African asylum seeker who is suspected of dealing in forged passports for a gang of smugglers. During the arrest that followed, a violent physical altercation ensued between Falke and the suspect. The alleged smuggler is taken into police custody overnight to be interrogated the next day. In the morning, Falke and Lorenz learn that an accident happened during the night and the man died under circumstances that are still unclear. Falke starts investigating on his own with Lorenz.
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When a little girl dies of an overdose after finding cocaine on a playground, someone starts a deadly campaign against the local drug dealers.
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A rapist and murderer is released from prison after having served his term of 15 years. The day after, he is found murdered in a trash bin. The two commissars in Stuttgart know where to look for suspects: im the parents of Mareike, whom the murder victim abducted, abused and killed so many years ago.
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A woman is murdered in a mental institution and found dead in the swimming pool. Boerne goes under cover while Thiel investigates from the outside. A man with severe autism interests them both.
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The detectives find two dead bodies on a construction site. One in a barrel full of acid and one buried in the ground. They find out that illegal immigrants have something to do with one of the dead bodies.
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Kommissarin Lindhom investigates the murder of the ex-wife of a member of the Luftwaffe.
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A woman comes to the police station with severe wounds. When she draws the face of the man that kept her, Brandt recognizes in it the face of a serial killer the have met before. Borowski is not quite sure.
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The two detectives find a shot couple. The woman's son is suddenly at a hospital. An old family tragedy seems to be the reason for this case.
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A current murder leads Kommisare Schenk and Ballauf to look again at an old murder case.
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While shooting Tatort, an Assistant get's killed. The prime suspect: Tatort-Actor Ulrich Tukur.
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Firat Astan wants to break out of prison by any means necessary.
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Nick Tschiller is forced to protect his mortal enemy while powerful people try to take over Hamburgs underbelly.
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A girl captured by a man comes free after weird circumstances. She is psychologically completely addicted to her "educator" - her kidnapper.
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Angelika finds her husband, music manager, Udo, strangled one morning she comes home from spending the night with her boyfriend Benny
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Murder in a villa district: Klaus Hartmann is stabbed to death in broad daylight in his own kitchen while his wife Carmen is waiting for him in the car with the engine running. At the same time, daughter Laura and her boyfriend Adrian Tarrach disappear without a trace. The young man with the flawless demeanor was making lofty plans for the future of the couple. But now the forensics have found his fingerprints on the crime tool. Inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk immediately get a clue about Adrian's past with drug possession and car theft. His home doesn't fit in with the chic residential area in which his girlfriend grew up either: he lives with his mother Pia in a suburb of Cologne. But Adrian and Laura didn't get in touch here either. Even Adrian's buddies and Laura's classmates don't want to have heard from the two. But Laura's big party for her 18th birthday was just around the corner.
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The world of German folk music is in turmoil. During the rehearsals to the show "Hier spielt die Musik" one of the local stars Toni Derlinger of the musical duo "Toni & Tina" is found beaten to death behind the set. His wife and partner Tina is desperate, his manager Rollo behaves as if he'd lost a son. It's difficult to imagine a brutal murder within the last bastion of the idyllic world of German folk music. Was it a disappointed fan who felt rejected? Or was it about money? "Toni & Tina" are no longer as popular as they once were with the new, successful genre of pop folk music mercilessly moving in, epitomized the folk-rock'n'roller boyband "Herzensbrecher". The inspectors from Dresden Karin Gorniak and Henni Sieland delve deeper into this strange world of perfect image cultivation. And as they do it becomes less and less clear who benefits most from the death of the former folk star Toni. Simultaneously their young colleague Maria Mohr, a police academy student, finds the crucial tip-off and puts herself in grave danger by following her gut...
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The murder of a Romanian prostitute was actually a routine case, the murderer who confessed was quickly found and convicted, but Batic is restless. It seems strange to him that a perpetrator would confess and not even try to reduce his guilt.
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The remains of employee Roy Weischlitz are found in the blast furnace slag of a steel mill in the tranquil city of Weimar where he worked. Inspectors Kira Dorn and Lessing quickly rule out suicide as the cause of death. Roy lived together with his sister Siegrid, who, as is established by the inspectors, hated her brother. Siegrid holds Roy responsible for the destruction of her life's happiness with her ex-fiancée Karsten aka Flamingo. It was Roy's fault that Karsten lost a leg and earned his nickname. Flamingo works at the mill and becomes a suspect, as well as his shady buddy Karsten, who has a criminal record of his own. When the inspectors learn that Franks girlfriend Irina lead Roy to believe he was the love of her life in order to get to his money, the events quickly pile up.
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Dr. Wangila wurde erstochen. Hinweise deuten auf eine Beziehungstat hin. Der aus dem Kongo stammende Arzt war mit einer Deutschen verheiratet, offensichtlich hatte er aber eine Affäre.
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Forest workers discover the skeleton of a woman in the forest, which must have been there for a few years. According to the autopsy, the dead is the dancer Dumbrowa, who disappeared without a trace two years ago and is now identified by a conspicuous bone formation on her foot. Thiel determined while Boerne danced in the dance school.
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The environmental activist Luisa Christensen threatens to poison the drinking water of the city of Bremen with a pesticide if the biochemist Dr. Urs Render will be released in 13 hours at the latest.
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In the bone collection at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg, a young doctoral student discovers a skull that does not match the rest of the skeleton with which it was sorted. The skull is significantly younger than stated in the mortuary papers. That same morning, twenty-year-old Steffi wants to complain to her mother that she didn't wake her up. But Andrea Schwinn lies strangled in the dining room of the inn that the family has run for generations. The father, Holger Schwinn, cannot be found. One of his hunting weapons is missing. While chief inspector Felix Voss and his colleagues, chief inspector Paula Ringelhahn, inspectors Wanda Goldwasser, Sebastian Fleischer and the head of forensics, Michael Schatz, are investigating in the inn, an elderly woman pitches a small tent on Jakobsplatz directly in front of the Nuremberg police headquarters because she does not want to put up with the fact that the police refuse to take action in the case of her missing adult son. Professor Mittlich, the head of the Anatomical Institute, seeks advice from Police President Dr. Kaiser, whom she knows privately. Should she cover up the discovery of the unknown skull? Kaiser is strictly against it. His homicide squad will be investigating undercover at the institute. But is it actually a homicide? Is the husband the killer? Meanwhile, the innkeeper Schwinn becomes the focus of the investigation. Felix Voss suspects that he has holed up in the huge forest near the inn. At night he goes there and calls for him. He doesn't find the fleeting Schwinn, but in the dining room he immerses himself in the silent witnesses of a family tragedy that has been brewing for years. In this house everyone seems to have been 'too alone'. The investigations in the Anatomical Institute confront Voss, Ringelhahn and Goldwasser with the inevitability of death beyond homicide. Paula learns that the man's heart weighs heavier than the woman's, while Wanda falls in love with the graduate student who started it all rolling. What remains of us after death? How does the daily handling of corpses change employees? And what is a little girl in red rubber boots doing in this environment? The older woman, who has now been camping in front of the police headquarters for 48 hours, raises completely different questions. Chief of Police Kaiser wants to clear the tent, but Voss and Ringelhahn are against it. Is there a right to worry? Who doesn't long for the opposite of loneliness? The events in the Anatomical Institute ultimately demanded a high degree of power of deduction, intuition and interrogation skills from Voss, Ringelhahn and their team. Because the skull belongs to a human who was killed in an almost perfect way. But only almost perfect.
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Karow and Rubin investigate the death of a woman run over in a parking near a shopping mall.
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When the Habdank family was broken into in the middle of the night, little Anna was able to hide. Shortly thereafter, her younger brother and her mother are dead. Ballauf later finds the girl in the basement of the house.
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In a suburb of Vienna, the police made a gruesome body find: the victim, a Turkish businessman, had his tongue and both hands cut off while he was still alive. Outwardly, he was the owner of a kebab restaurant. For Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner, it quickly became clear that they were dealing with a power struggle in the organized crime environment. The dead man's apartment shows all the characteristics of an illegal brothel and the kebab shop apparently served as a money laundering facility. Through Daniela Vopelka from the Organized Crime Department, Eisner met the young Ukrainian Victoria Oshchypko, who was forced into prostitution in the victim's house. The officers learned from her that the deceased belonged to a highly professional human trafficking ring that illegally brings refugees to Austria in order to exploit them as work slaves or prostitutes. During their research, the investigators meet an old friend of Fellner's from her time with the custom, the cocky pimp Andy Mittermeier. He knew the murdered man and now seems to want to take over his territory. When Eisner tries to increase the pressure on Mittermeier, he brutally makes it clear that he won't let anyone or anything stop him.
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The team from Muenster follow up on the suicide of a chronically ill woman. The situation quickly turns into murder and a mass-hostage situation with twisted psycho drama.
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Good people die too. The popular social businessman Hans-Martin Taubert falls from a bridge and survives badly injured. The inspectors from Dresden Henni Sieland and Karin Gorniak meet three homeless witnesses who claim that Taubert was thrown off the bridge. Taubert founded the "Berberhilfe", a business that finds shelter for the homeless and other people in need. He became rich through the poor and has never concealed this fact. The three homeless witnesses claim to be Tauberts "Security"; apparently he's been frequently threatened recently. Taubert's brother Hajo becomes interesting for the inspectors as well: a lot less business-minded than his brother, Hajo borrowed money from Taubert for some shady enterprises. Regardless of brotherly love, Taubert wanted his money back. Shortly thereafter Taubert is attacked in the hospital - this time with deadly outcome.
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On a walk, Ayumi sees a man lying in front of a bench with her husband and their six-year-old son, who seems to be looking for help. Out of nowhere he stabs the husband.
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Vanessa Arnold, co-founder of a Bremen startup company, dies in a car accident.
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The 17-year-old student Julia appears at the police station and accuses her brother of murdering her classmate Maria. The next morning, Maria's body is actually retrieved from the fjord. Klaus Borowski and Sarah Brandt investigate.
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After a conference, Police Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm and Klaus Borowski share a taxi with Sören Affeld. But they are not being driven where they want to go.
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Betti has been missing her neighbor for days. Nils Engels is particularly suspicious of having done something to him.
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While the police choir sings "Silent Night, Holy Night" in the headquarters canteen, a dead baby is laid unobserved in front of the altar in your little church.
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The body of trainee Melanie is found in a burnt-out hairdressing salon. Her boss and Vera are shocked. Everything points to an arson attack. Janneke and Brix discover that there was a recent argument between Melanie and an African drug dealer.
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A student of medicine announces on the Net that he has abducted his parents and threatens to kill them. The Austrian investigation team takes a while to find out that his girlfriend committed suicide because she failed in an exam, and could not bear this failure as her immigrant father did not believe in women in professions anyway. So he goes on a virtual crusade against "the system".
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A macabre student prank ends fatally. After 3 friends stuck a curly tail between the buttocks of their dead teacher at the funeral home to posthumously show their contempt, the drunk Enno falls asleep on a gurney.
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Ludwig Maria Pohl, aka Lupo, goes rather unnoticed by his inspector colleagues at the Weimar police station. This changes overnight when he becomes the target of a bombing and a deadly ricin poisoning is detected. Lupo only has two days left to live. Kira Dorn and Lessing have to find his murderer. Surprisingly they discover that Lupo is the son of a recently deceased owner of a traditional Thuringian porcelain manufacturer. Up until now, this fact was unbeknownst to anyone. Lupo is therefore entitled to one third of the considerable inheritance - much to the disdain of his "new" sisters Amelie and Desiree Scholder. Both women have a motive for murder. Doomed to die and desperate, Lupo takes the superintendent of the station Kurt Stich hostage in order to force the inspectors Dorn and Lessing to hand over his murderer. The investigation heats up.
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Elke Schetter, the carnival club's strict dance coach, is found dead a few days before the start of the new carnival season. During their investigation, Schenk and Ballauf come across rivalries among the dancers.
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A young man is run over by a car at night. The Bremen inspectors Lürsen and Stedefreund soon realize that it wasn't an accident.
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A masked hitman shoots and kills the head of the cyber crime division in a gym. Kiel detectives Borowski and Brandt investigate
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A man is thrown from a bridge and run over by a lorry. Investigations show that he was dead before falling. Cologne DIs Ballauf and Schenk proceed to investigate the neighbourhood where the man had lived. The neighbours have all kinds of relationships: quarrel over a boundary, fathership of another's daughter... but where is a motive for murder?
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IT expert Sandberg falls from his balcony. Thiel investigates the suspected suicide and finds signs of a break-in in the apartment.
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The head of the Vienna Police School is shot dead in the living room of his house, one floor up his wife - dead, with a broken neck.
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A serial killer is able to escape from his transport convoy of four policemen.
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A woman is found dead by her neighbor - her husbands alibi, his doctor who is also his liaison, is soon found dead too. Leitmair and Batic try to unravel the love triangles around their main suspect.
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During a live stream a famous prank artist gets killed. Hanni and Karin try to investigate.
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Borowski and Brandt must solve an enigmatic murder case just before the start of "Kieler Woche"
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Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner have to solve the violent death of a man, from Africa, in a quarry. There are no clues as to who he is. Apparently his body was supposed to be disposed of there, by an explosion.
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In einer Stuttgarter Wohngegend liegt ein totes Mädchen auf der Straße. Der einzige Zeuge ist erst drei Jahre alt und entsprechend unzuverlässig, wie Sebastian Bootz bei der mühsamen Befragung feststellt. Der einzige Fluchtweg vom Tatort führt in den Stau auf der Neuen Weinsteige. Also macht Thorsten Lannert sich auf zu der Wagenschlange, sichert Spuren, sammelt Aussagen und begegnet dabei der ganzen Bandbreite von zunehmend gereizten Heimkehrern. Einer von ihnen muss der Täter sein.
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Long-distance bus driver Beni Gisler sees the man on the bridge, but there is nothing he can do. The body hits the windshield and is thrown away. In his previous life, Gisler was a train driver and was involved in suicides several times. The latest incident therefore brings back traumatic memories. Inspector Flückiger knows Gisler from his time in the military. Supported by the psychologist responsible for the care team, he takes Gisler under his wing. It soon turns out that the dead man had a high dose of benzodiazepine in his blood. Under these circumstances, it would have been impossible for him to throw himself off the bridge alone. The identity of the possible victim also raises questions. Inspector Flückiger and colleague Liz Ritschard begin to investigate. Establishing the victim's true identity turns out to be the first challenge. One lead leads them to the construction industry. The former boss of a now successful construction company bears similarities to the victim. However, he is said to have died 13 years ago. What do his widow and son have to hide? At the same time as the investigation, Flückiger struggles with his personal connection to the case. The fate of his comrade Gisler haunts him. Gisler struggles with severe stress disorders and aggressive outbursts. Despite the therapeutic help of the psychologist, he vows to personally bring the perpetrator to justice.
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During or after a porn shoot, an actress is killed. She was the daughter of the chief prosecutor.
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A business man's wife is brutally kidnapped. After a traumatic night Det. Lindholm is forced to work the case. The investigation becomes personal and her professionalism deteriorates leading to tragedy.
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In the insurance company ALVA, which advertises with the motto "Your partner for your safety", the department head Heiko Gebhardt is shot in broad daylight from the building opposite. A sniper in Dresden? Investigators Karin Gorniak, Henni Sieland and their boss Schnabel question the employees of the insurance company and find themselves in a network of employee intrigue and tough company policy. Cordula Wernicke reveals to them that the insurance company expects its employees to pay out fewer insurance benefits. At the same time, staff are to be cut. Shortly afterwards, she finds a projectile in an envelope on her desk - an undisguised threat. In order not to lose one's own job, the workforce is intensely bullied and colleagues are accused of recklessly granting a bonus or offensive behavior. Rainer Ellgast also suffered under this pressure, and because of this he repeatedly got into arguments with the murder victim Gebhardt. Is he capable of murder? The investigators find out that the alibi that he gives himself is not correct. Even among ALVA customers, Gorniak and Sieland encounter dissatisfied customers and ruined livelihoods - like Harald Böhlert, who was brought about by ALVA for compensation after an industrial accident and years of legal dispute. In the fight for his rights, Böhlert is supported by Martina Scheuring, who wants to expose the ALVA's evil methods with radical means. But some people who have been betrayed turn out to be fraudsters themselves for the commissioners at second glance. When another ALVA employee, Rainer Ellgast, was shot at the ALVA Christmas party, the investigators came under increasing pressure.
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In their sixth joint case, the Berlin "Tatort" investigators Nina Rubin and Robert Karow are called to the outskirts. A body was found in a burned-out van. Rubin and Karow quickly determine that there were three other, older cases with a similar course of events. They were never enlightened. Is it a serial killer? Another link leads to Berlin-Wannsee: all victims were conceived with the help of in-vitro fertilization in a fertility clinic. Managing Director Dr. Irene Wohlleben and her laboratory manager and life partner Hanneke Tietzsche recently handed over the management of the clinic to Irene's son Dr. Handed over to Stefan Wohlleben. He was born in the 1980s as one of the first test tube babies in Germany. During their investigation, the commissioners also come across a loner named Harbinger. As a 16-year-old he attacked Irene Wohlleben, today he runs a key service in a Berlin subway station. Harbinger used to be called Werner Lothar and, according to his psychiatrist, suffers from borderline syndrome. Robert Karow uses unusual methods to try to gain the eccentric man's trust and lure him out of his reserve. In this case, Anna Feil, now a trainee inspector, makes an unbelievable discovery on her own behalf. And on the fringes of the investigation, Nina Rubin has a serious argument with her older son Tolya.
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Nina Schramm, leader of the Neue Patrioten parliamentary group, is increasingly becoming the target of hate mail and death threats. Her husband is killed.
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Dorn and Lessing are on the hunt for a serial killer who escaped a psychiatric ward
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Chief Detective Jens Stellbrink has faced a particularly tricky case. And literally. Because an autopiloted vehicle sped from the parking deck of a company and in the car is now the corpse of the company's legal officer. At first everything looks like suicide. But then Stellbrink learns that the company's computers, which specialize in collecting digital data, were hacked that same night and that the missing data concerns the self-driving car.
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Kopper stumbles into an old friend. What started with a peaceful reunion drink at a bar ends with dangerous consequences for Kopper.
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Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner face 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 of a large nursery and finally a young mother. Each time the perpetrator leaves no traces, but a shocking staging: He spectacularly displays the violated corpses in places where so many people are on the move that the police cannot find any usable DNA traces. Ritual murders, sexual crimes or even a secret service killer squad - Fellner and Eisner have to investigate in all directions. Even with the victims, who all lived under a false identity in Vienna, there is no clarity. When the investigators come across a mutual acquaintance of the victims, the university professor Nenad Ljubic, who specializes in Eastern European civil rights movements, the case finally moves. The ice-cold killer can also expect a surprise in the game of confusion: he has been mistakenly mistaken, which endangers his perfectly camouflaged action. Meanwhile, Eisner and Fellner come across a lead, the scope of which soon amazes them.
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Midsummer in Dresden. Nine-year-old Rico Krüger disappears without a trace while playing in the park. The next day, young people find a bag with the body of the child on the banks of the Elbe. The autopsy shows that the boy drowned - but not in the Elbe, but probably in a bathtub; He was also sexually abused. The Dresden investigators Henni Sieland (Alwara Höfels) and Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) suspect the concealment act of a pedophile offender. They are under great pressure - politicians, the media and the public demand rapid investigation results. Despite hundreds of indications from the population there is no concrete trace and the DNA of the offender, which could be secured on the bag, may not be evaluated due to legal provisions to determine phenotypic characteristics of the offender. Kommissariatsleiter Schnabel (Martin Brambach) quarrels with data protection regulations and staff shortages and delivers verbal skirmishes with media representatives. He is personally affected and upset because he is burdened by the disappearance of another boy three years ago, which he has not been able to solve until now. A note from the school board leads to the suspicion of Ricos swimming coach (Niels Bruno Schmidt), who was friends with the family of the victim. The former teacher trainee had previously entered into a short homosexual love affair with a sixteen-year-old student, after which he was dismissed from school. In the heated mood, the unjustly accused man is convicted in the media and subsequently assaulted and seriously injured, as is Commissioner Sieland, who tries to protect the man from one of the attackers (Rico's stepfather). She is hospitalized with rib fractions and hospitalized. While the investigators grope in the dark, Ricos killer (Benjamin Lillie), an installer of public utilities, wrestles with his pathological inclination. He approaches another prepubescent boy, but spares the child first. His girlfriend (Alice Dwyer) knows her partner's dangerous bias, but he wants to believe that he can suppress and control his pedophile predisposition. She even tries to protect her boyfriend from the investigative authorities - she works at the school's office and is responsible for pointing out at the swimming coach. Finally, Henni Sieland, working through the file of the previous missing boy case again in the hospital, finds a connection between the two cases: at the homes of both affected families, water meters were exchanged shortly before the disappearance of the children. Meanwhile, Ricos murderer has lured another boy into his apartment and already stunned with a sleeping drug, but is caught and confronted by his suspicious girlfriend. When only minutes later the investigators knock at the door, the offender sees no way out and commits suicide by jumping out the window. The unconscious boy can be saved. Finally, password-protected photo files are discovered on the perpetrator's mobile phone, leading the investigators to a lake where they find the body of the boy who disappeared three years ago. In the final scene of the film, the investigators deliver the terrible news to the parents of the missing child.
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In Dortmund's prison, a volatile case erupts when an inmate dies of rabies. Chief Inspector Faber, struggling with team tensions and the departure of a colleague, faces ex-forensic colleague Dr. Zander, who is also infected.
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Inspectors Dorn and Lessing investigate the murder of billionaire Alonzo Sassen, shot three times ("Brain, Heart, Testicles"). The trail leads them to the widow, working at the brothel "Chez Chériechen," owned by Fritjof "Fritte" Schröder.
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A package with a severed finger leads Rubin and Karow to an art film eerily paralleling their investigation.
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On an island in the north of Germany a man is found dead in a bathtub. Is it murder or suicide? Borowski finds out what happened.
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When a blood-soaked teenage-sized hoodie is found in a collection of used clothes, Ellen Berlinger and her colleague Martin Rascher are alerted. For Martin, the find is a bad signal. For years, an unsolved series of murders against young people has weighed heavily on his mind. Now he is convinced that another teenager has been killed. In Ellen's eyes, this is just one of the possible explanations. But she too is worried. Because the sweater could belong to Jonas, the son of her cousin Maja. Ellen had herself transferred to Mainz because Maja is helping her to look after her little daughter Greta. The Commissioner has developed a special bond with the reserved Jonas. The 13-year-old was supposed to be on an outing with friends after the school festival the night before, but Ellen can't get in touch with him there. Jonas' parents aren't worried yet - unlike those of 16-year-old Marie Blixen. Marie was also at the school festival, but never returned from there. The wealthy parents fear kidnapping to extort ransom from them. The hoodie, on the other hand, they claim, does not come from Marie. But who can say for sure about the widespread gray sweaters? The interrogations of Marie's classmates over the evening of the school party don't do much, not even Max, with whom Marie had flirted, has anything to say. Then a ransom demand is actually received. An attempt is made to hand over the money - but Marie is already dead, slain and left behind on a deserted site. There are traces of the hoodie on the corpse. Ellen begins to fear that Jonas is involved in the case .
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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.
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The Böttger family runs a farm in the Black Forest, with great commitment, close to nature and connected to farming 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 his childhood friend manages his large family and the farm. Because the coroner did not confirm a suspicion of incorrect diabetes treatment against the Böttgers doctor, Friedemann Berg is relieved that the family can mourn in peace. Franziska Tobler, however, considers the doctor's statements to be protective claims and has other clues to keep the investigation going. The behavior of Torsten Schmidt, for example, Sonnhild's fiancé who lives on the farm. He and his younger sister Mechthild react conspicuously evasively to questions about Sonnhild's life and her illness. In general, Franziska seems strange about the life of the Böttgers, which is completely focused on the farm and the community. Friedemann, on the other hand, comes from a Black Forest farm himself and can better understand the commitment to small-scale agriculture and the fervor with which Volkmar Böttger talks about it. Especially since Volkmar welcomes him with open arms and wants to revive the previous friendship. When Franziska finds out that Torsten Schmidt belongs to a homeland security team, Friedemann also takes a closer look and the inspectors discover not only inconsistencies in the statements about Sonnhild's last months and her death, but also the Böttgers' attitudes, which are strongly reminiscent of the attitudes of ethnic settlers. Volkmar's commitment to Torsten now appears in a completely different light.
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In a forum they incited each other to hunt "Birdy" in order to get revenge on her. The investigations show, however, that Doro had long since logged out of the portal. The operator of "Love Tender" used your photos for a false profile and financially excluded its customers. No usable traces were found at the crime scene, but Sieland and Gorniak are able to narrow down their search to two murder suspects after intensive questioning. One of them is Petrick Wenzel, who takes care of his terminally ill mother and hopes for great love. The second suspect is the young entrepreneur Andreas Koch. He was also near the crime scene on the night of the murder. The life of a witness who witnessed the murder on the phone is in danger. In order to move the investigation forward quickly, Karin Gorniak and Henni Sieland decide to go on an undercover mission against the wishes of their chief police officer, Schnabel. In search of the murderer, the commissioners immerse themselves in the world of online dating, in which potential perpetrators and victims are in search of great love. The investigators initially have no idea that their situation will soon escalate.
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A terminally ill woman is murdered, and prosecutor Klemm becomes the prime suspect due to a cat feud. Inspector Thiel goes undercover at a zoo, linking the case to documented animal losses and a mysterious venom that Boerne detects.
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"The two of us on the other side of the S-Bahn. When was that before me?" asks Leitmayr Batic when he hesitates to undertake the six-hour joint drive there and back to Traitach. The trace 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 live together on an old farm who have renounced the Federal Republic and declared their country their own national territory. 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" receives expert advice and support. The free countries include the single parent Lene with her blind daughter Maria, Roland, Klaus, and Gustl with his sons Luis and Max. Florian, who was dead, was also part of the free countries. He was responsible for the bookkeeping until he fell out violently with Ludwig and went back to his mother in Munich. She soon found the 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 way of the free countries and they wanted to make a murder look like suicide, why was the murder weapon not appropriately deposited at the crime scene? The investigation leads Batic and Leitmayr out of Munich, in the middle of a network of strange dependencies and alliances. You meet Ludwig and his people, but the interrogations do not reveal anything. You are not advancing an inch. Actually, they wanted to go back on the same day, but then they stay - as the only guests in the Traitach inn "Zum alten Eber", where it hangs stuffed on the wall. In the past, says the inn owner Alois, the boar ate the naughty children in the village. First the feet, so that they couldn't run away, and then the rest. From his hunter's stand, he observes the goings-on in the open every day like a strange circus. He and Ludwig Schneider have a business relationship 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 has sausage from the machine. The next day doesn't get her any further either. The imposing fence with which the open-air areas shield themselves also exists in the minds. The police status of the investigators from Munich does not count. The responsible public prosecutor has long since resigned and the head of the Traitach police station in Mooser refers to the mountains of files already accumulated on charges of trespassing, insulting officials, driving with wrong license plates and various administrative complaints as well as forgery of documents. He doesn't want any more trouble. Better to stay out of the way and eat his lunchtime roast pork in the "Alten Eber". In the resolution of this case, Batic and Leitmayr find themselves in the truest sense of the word alone.
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German police officer tries to save his daughter from an influence of a vicious crime organization.
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A woman presumed deceased for seven years reappears with a patchy memory.
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A woman is convinced that the previous wife's house is out to get her
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The new Berlin "crime scene" with Rubin and Karow deals with 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 the Kurfürstendamm, Tom Menke, operator of the "Robista" coffee shop, lies dead in his kiosk. The robot, which is serving and selling coffee instead of a human, stands still. A young woman 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. Forensic doctor Nasrin Reza finds wild boar hair in the victim's large wound. Nina Rubin takes over the investigation into the case of the dead Carolina Gröning, while Karow is concentrating on the Tom Menke case. He must have died servicing his barista robot. Was that an accident? Kathrin Menke seems strangely untouched by the death of her husband, she is more interested in her cats. An old man also attracts Karow's attention: Albert can see exactly the crime scene from his window. But are the stories he tells true? Finally, in both cases, the victims' marriages come into focus. Because even with Reno Gröning and his wife Carolina there was tension, a great loss overshadowed the relationship.
S1 • E1067
A discovery of the remains of a human skeleton in a fire site forces detectives to go undercover and investigate illegal martial arts fights with high betting stakes, that draw fighters from poor countries and rich foreigners to Germany.
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Near Vienna, a charred body is found near a lonely country road in a wooded area.
S1 • E1069
In "KI" an exciting story about Artificial Intelligence is told.
S1 • E1070
An emergency call is received by the Bremen police, calls 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 neck of the dead pose a particular mystery to Bremen's chief inspectors Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund. A traumatized eyewitness can only give the investigators the disturbing clue "vampire". While Inga Lürsen is putting the clues and clues together step by step, Stedefreund gets caught up in a feverish whirlpool of mystical superstition. When the investigators meet Nora Harding and her father Wolf Harding, events roll over.
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After an acquaintance is murdered, a man gets caught in his own web of lies and his life is shattered.
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In a Munich villa, the parents of a little girl are murdered in a particularly brutal way. Little Lena survived the massacre. She was drugged. Batic and Leitmayr find them sleeping in their floating tent in the garden. The Chinese au pair Chi Ling danced the night away. She tells the commissioners that before the murder, Lena spoke of a Santa Claus who would be coming 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?
S1 • E1074
Dr. Steinfeld is found slain in his practice. The renowned psychiatrist specialized in war trauma; his patients include civilian victims of armed conflicts as well as traumatized military personnel from the US Air Base in Ramstein. People with different experiences of violence, one of whom may have turned against his 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 suffered from depression. Above all, however, the case of Mirhat Rojan attracts Lena 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 actions. The Rojans have disappeared from the scene, but the more Lena and Johanna deal with the two of them, the more concrete the suspicion that they are planning a drone attack grows: an assassination attempt on Jason O'Connor, Secretary of State at the US Department of Defense, who is currently in Germany is expected.
S1 • E1075
Inspector Tobler investigates the murder of a teenage girl and her tennis teacher, shot to death in the woods. A law student cannot cope, although a frat brother and his girlfriend stick by him. A corpse is found in a burned-down shed.
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Janneke and Brix are called to a crime scene at night. A young woman, scantily clad, with a plastic bag pulled over her head, lies dead at the feet of one of Frankfurt's bank towers. While Janneke arrives early at the secured and cleared crime scene, Brix is late. The KTU is also not there yet. Janneke goes alone into the tower and gets a first impression of the crime scene, takes photos, as is so often the case. Suddenly she hears footsteps behind her. She instinctively reaches for her camera. A couple of times a flashlight illuminates the scene, then a blow. When Brix finally arrives, he finds Janneke unconscious in the elevator. She is taken to hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Brix goes to work alone and quickly reaches the limits of the hermetically sealed tower. When Janneke regains consciousness in the hospital, she can only vaguely remember. She is also under strong medication and no longer trusts her own head. Only her photos give her something to hold onto in her extremely foggy memories. The perpetrator himself cannot really be recognized in any of the pictures, only sections, blurry details, overexposed fragments. Together, Brix and Janneke try to put together a clear picture of the crime from the contradicting scraps of memory, the photos and witness statements. All threads come together in the tower. The commissioners have to gain access again.
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A dead Indian is fished from the Ilm. Weimar commissioners Kira Dorn and Lessing go undercover in a western town. Did the hobbyists have a lynch party in their desperation?
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It is a night traffic check with far-reaching consequences. When policeman Frank Lorenz asked the young man to get out of his car, he saw only one way out: Pascal Pohl fled. He runs to the nearby train tracks. Just a few seconds later he is dead - run over by a tram. But what looks like a tragic accident at first glance turns into an opaque revenge campaign. Lorenz, who is well connected in the scene, knows that the Russian mafia was obviously after the young drug dealer. Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk take over the investigations .
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In this episode, a body is found on the lake bed of Lake Wolfgang in a car. Through extensive investigations, the offender is finally convicted and the murder cleared up.
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A man is murdered in context of a steel work conspiracy involving an isolated police informer.
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A nursing student, Vanessa, is found murdered after a party. Inspectors Stellbrink and Emmrich discover she was likely mistaken for her roommate, Anika, leading them into a complex case involving human smuggling, and deadly secrets.
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Charlotte Lindholm gets a case in Göttingen where a girl of 15 has baby. Both girl and baby are lost.
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Chief Inspector Felix Murot gets into a time warp: he encounters the same passers-by, colleagues and criminals in a hostage operation and is killed each time in a different way.
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The day in Bayreuth begins like any other. But then there is a murder. A Bayreuth lawyer shoots a judge in the course of the trial. Shortly before the act, he looks at the clock and waits for the full hour. Then he escapes. Exactly an hour later, a university employee dies. Again, lawyer Peters is the culprit. There is initially no recognizable motive, no connection between the perpetrator and the two victims. But there is a pattern. Here, too, Peters waited the full hour. And it is still fleeting. Is there a third murder looming on the hour? Who will be the victim? And where is the act planned? Felix Voss, Paula Ringelhahn and their team are investigating in a rapid race against time to save another human life.
S1 • E1086
Supermarket cashier Peggy Stresemann looks curiously into the window of the neighboring house - the married couple Victoria and Thomas Dell are performing a joyful dance. Apparently they have become lottery millionaires. A world is collapsing for Peggy: Why are she and her husband Micha never so lucky? When the neighbors apparently take their time to redeem their winnings, Peggy secretly gains access to their house and looks for the lottery ticket. She is surprised by the homeowner. When Inspector Borowski and his colleague Mila Sahin enter the crime scene a little later, they are presented with a picture like in a gangster film: Thomas Dell is lying on the marriage bed covered in blood .
S1 • E1087
Summer heat, shimmering light, mild nights. A man and a teenager drive through the Black Forest, close to each other, but also with a subliminal tension. A couple? Or rather father and daughter? When a youth steals a laptop bag from the two of them, the man becomes so nervous that he follows the thief on the winding road. A short time later he has the bag again - but the thief and his moped are lying in the abyss. The police quickly realized that there was outside interference and that the driver is on the run. Friedemann Berg takes over the investigation, while Franziska Tobler takes care of the case of the missing Emily Arnold, which has been open for two years. Her mother thinks she saw her daughter alive. Friedemann already knows this and is expecting a new disappointment, Franziska nevertheless investigates the matter meticulously. And there is a breakthrough: When the accident car is tracked down in Friedemann's case, it contains DNA from Emily Arnold. It seems possible that the now 15-year-old is actually still alive. But then it is unlikely that she will be traveling alone. Together, Franziska and Friedemann are looking for Emily and a stranger .
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Prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm rushed into the homicide squad with angry rage: only a short time after a dead person was found behind the cathedral, the first videos appeared on social networks. And now this photo on the front page of the daily newspaper - how could Frank Thiel be photographed laughing at the crime scene? The investigations have barely started when the commissioner is already under criticism. Especially since Prof. Boerne cannot provide any evidence of a perpetrator either. A motive or other suspicious factors cannot be found in the vicinity of the murdered. She told friends that someone had followed her in the past few days. Then Prof. Boerne reports: Another fatality was recovered in the canal. And there is an indication that there is a link between the deaths .
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The demolition expert Peter Krämer is killed in an aerial bomb explosion. Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder and find a lead to the entrepreneur Gebel, who is planning a construction project, and to Sascha Feichdinger, who, like Krämer, wanted to buy a house in the project. It turns out that Krämer's widow Alena and his friend Haug are blackmailing the building contractor because he did not remove the existing duds on his site. That's why Krämer had to die and Haug's life is also in danger .
S1 • E1090
Crime scene hospital: In the early morning the internist Dr. Gisela Mohnheim discovered lifeless in the quiet room of the emergency room. The dead woman is not fully clothed, her head is in a plastic bag. Suicide? Unlikely, because the door was locked from the outside. But none of her colleagues on the ward saw anything. Nobody here has time for homicide anyway. The department is notoriously understaffed. The doctors and nursing staff are on constant duty for acute emergencies. Chief Physician Dr. Dr. Andreas Norstädter stands in front of his people: He is convinced that none of the clinic staff has anything to do with the death of the colleague.
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By chance, construction workers discover the corpse of a woman hidden under a street. In the murder investigation, Bremen investigators Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund dig into a finely woven network of corruption and illegal financial transactions. They find out that the tote worked for a real estate development company. The company is in the sights of BKA officers Maller and Kempf, who are trying by all means to prevent the homicide investigation. Stedefreund also seems to keep important information to itself. Is it woven into the current case? And what is his relationship to Maller and Kempf? Inga Lürsen soon no longer knows who she can trust and who not. The last case will be a heavy burden for the Bremen team.
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Dresden Commissioner Karin Gorniak is seriously injured in a dangerous operation. The wanted killer can escape.
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A routine operation for disturbing the peace gets out of control and a young policewoman dies by a bullet. The son of Rubin was also involved in this mission and he was the only one unharmed. Questions arise.
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The 17-year-old stepson of the popular television-talk master Maarten Jansen is murdered. His broken body was found wrapped in plastic bags. Soon Jansen gets entangled in contradictions and the suspicion falls on him.
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Two old people die within a short time. Despite suspected killing, both cases are ultimately considered natural deaths. But on the second death, Bootz and Lannert continue to investigate. A carer gets into the center of the investigation.
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An old friend of Leitmayr gets seriously injured in a knife attack. Mikesch escapes from the hospital shortly afterwards. Despite his difficulties, he does not want to accept any help from Leitmayr.
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In the house of a politician there is a terrible bloodbath. His wife is murdered, his daughter barely survives and is put into an artificial coma. Eisner and Fellner discover that more than a failed robbery is behind it.
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A routine job ends in disaster and costs the lives of a policeman. Then a suspect is murdered and the tracks lead into the ranks of the police.
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A former police officer admits the murder of a boxing promoter. He kidnapped his niece because the professional boxer wanted to testify about doping. There are only a few hours left to find the hiding place.
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Leonie Winkler and Karin Gorniak try together to clarify the murder of the restaurant owner Benda.
S1 • E1101
A staged robbery runs completely out of control.
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A wheelchair stands on the bank of the Rhine. His owner has disappeared, only a wallet has remained behind. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern take up the investigation and come across dodgy car tuners and an ambitious brain researcher.
S1 • E1103
Lessing is suspected of murder. Dorn tries to save her partner from the prison.
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After a supposed ritual murder, Lannert and Bootz are dealing with an occult sect.
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A murder witness rescues herself in a remote old police station. There, Murot is visiting his old buddy Brenner. Shortly thereafter, the assassin's attack on the area takes place.
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Last assignment for the Swiss team. On a ship there is an attack on the guests. As a result, many injured and a dead captain remain. Right in the middle is Reto Flückiger and his girlfriend.
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The self-sufficient market champion of the Münster weekly Wagner is murdered by poisoned licorice. The list of suspects is headed by licorice seller Bellekom.
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When detective Karow notices a suspicious stench from the adjacent apartment, he discover the dead body of his neighbor.
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Lena Odenthal investigates the death of a policeman in the province and meets an old acquaintance, the department head Stefan Tries. His team seems to have something to do with the murder of his colleague.
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In the mountains of Carinthia, Fellner and Eisner have to investigate the murder of an unpopular wooden baron. Foolish, only one shoulder implant left from the corpse. Moritz meets an old friend whom Bibi does not trust.
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A sniper shoots a truck driver in a truck stop, and the perpetrator escapes undetected. Thorsten Falke and Julia Grosz investigate the forwarding agency: Is it a mentally disturbed individual perpetrator or a dispute in the trucking environment? During their investigation, Falke and Grosz encounter a wall of silence. While they assume more and more of a blackmail, the perpetrator strikes again .
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An Alzheimer's disease victim is found buried next to a dead dog on the beach. Borowski suspects that an eight-year-old boy has seen the culprit. The solution of the case seems to be in the past of the victim.
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Nadeshda is kidnapped just before Christmas. An anonymous caller forces Thiel and Boerne to reopen an actually closed case.
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An employee of an aid organization and shortly afterwards his girlfriend are murdered. In Kenya, an employee of the same organization is being arrested for drug smuggling. Batic and Leitmayr don't believe in coincidence.
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A police murderer has already murdered 4 senior officers in North Rhine-Westphalia. In order to end the series of murders, a team of 7 colleagues from different departments should work together and deliver quick results.
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Gümer asks the suspended Nick for help in protecting a leniency worker in a drug lawsuit. His brother, also a witness, has already been murdered. Apparently the drug dealers have an informant with the police. Yalcin tries to unmask it.
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A 17 year old student is murdered on a lake shore. Ballauf and Schenk determine the victim's classmates. The teenager was apparently often the victim of bullying attacks due to his sexual orientation.
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A ticket inspector's murderer is killed on the run. A large amount of ammunition and a radio are found near the body. Apparently there is an accomplice who is planning a killing spree. Batic and Leitmayr try to prevent this.
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The murderer of Faber's family, Markus Graf, kidnaps Pawlak's daughter in order to force Faber to commit suicide. Only then will he release Pawlak's daughter.
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Falke and Grosz investigate after a murder in the Hamburg red light milieu.
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Philip Kiehl is murdered in his hotel room. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg investigate.
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The two police superintendents Ringelhahn and Voss arrest a permanent murderer. But there remain doubts about the quick confession of the perpetrator.
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Odenthal and Stern investigate young people in a difficult social environment after a murder of a pub inn.
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A student is shot in the open in front of her university out of nowhere. Apparently there is no motive for the murder.
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A youth official with many enemies is found killed under a bridge.
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After an attack on Commissioner Lindholm, colleague Schmitz has to shoot the apparently mentally confused man. In the course of the investigation, Lindholm and Schmitz come across a second body. The events are apparently related to a deployment of the Bundeswehr abroad.
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The convicted Louis Bürger is suspected of killing a motorcycle policeman with a baseball bat. Despite his claims of innocence, he is arrested and detained. However, with the help of his wife, he managed to escape and the family wanted to move to Croatia. Gorniak and Winkler put him in front of the home where his son currently still lives. There is a hostage-taking.
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In their first case, the new Saarbrücken police commissioners Schürk and Hölzer deal with the murder of the potential new managing director of a family company. The family appears completely hostile and the victim's father has also died under mysterious circumstances. The background to the events seems to go back to the Second World War, when the company employed forced labor.
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After a night of heavy drinking detectives Janneke and Brix get called to a crime scene in the woods. In a lonely cabin they find a male body that was seemingly tortured. To their surprise their college Matzerath confesses at the scene.
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Lindholm and Schmitz investigate a politically sensitive case of a feminist right-wing activist who was found dead in the woods. The young woman was a well known Alt-Right blogger with her own successful website called "National Feminin".
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When a young woman takes her life in front of police trainees, it triggers a chain of devastating events. As detectives Borowski and Sahin delve into the investigation, they find themselves increasingly entangled in the unfolding tragedy.
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The chief doctor of a psychiatric clinic is murdered. Ballauf and Schenk investigate in the hospital.
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A serial killer who announces his actions by letter keeps the Stuttgart investigators in suspense. A "1" appears in the letter that is addressed to Lannert and Bootz. What is behind it will soon become a sad reality. On the same day, a woman is shot long range on the open road. The cartridge case that is found has an "1" engraved on it. The second letter contains a claim for money. However, the perpetrator cannot be caught when the money is handed over and a second murder occurs. At the second crime scene, traces of red nail polish are found in addition to the cartridge case. Another trail. When the commissioners examine the lives of the murdered, they come closer to the drama behind the murders.
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Marlies Schrey, wife of the knitwear manufacturer Gerd Schrey, is killed in front of the terrace of a popular excursion restaurant in broad daylight - and nobody has seen anything. Since Marlies was tied up and gagged, Kira Dorn and Lessing assume that the kidnapping was unsuccessful. The assumption is confirmed when shortly afterwards they find a ransom demand of over two million euros in the Villa Schrey. Gerd was also kidnapped, so it is up to his son Maik to find the money. The Schreys have signed a kidnap and ransom policy that is about to expire. Did Gerd Schrey stage his own kidnapping to save his ailing company? Maik, who is courting his father's favor, is also targeted by the investigators, because Marlies was his stepmother and the relationship between the two was extremely difficult. When one of the kidnappers is found dead and Maik takes off for the transfer of money with Gerd's sports plane, are there indications that the allegedly estranged father-son team has forged a diabolical plan?
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A thirteen-year-old boy is found dead in the Isar. His cellphone track ends at a parking lot known as a hangout for anonymous sex, 20 kilometers from the Isar. The commissioners suspect that the boy may have filmed something compromising. The investigation leads to the families of the victim and his best friend.
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A bodybuilder who appears to be dealing in anabolic steroids is murdered. Fredo investigates incognito on site and literally gets a red nose.
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A young adult falls to his death in an old factory. The evidence that it was murder quickly hardened. The footsteps lead to an American family well integrated into the neighborhood.
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On the way home from a wine festival in the Kaiserstuhl, radio presenter Beate Schmidbauer, a friend of police chief Cornelia Harms, is knocked unconscious and raped by an unknown perpetrator. Although the man's DNA can be ascertained, Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg do not find any equivalent in the databases. Cornelia Harms is close to the case, but given the circumstantial evidence, she can give her friend little hope that the perpetrator will be identified. When, however, the news comes from Alsace that a man with identical DNA has been wanted for years for rape and manslaughter, Franziska and Friedemann rely on a collaboration. Because the French colleagues have an extended DNA feature 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 to focus on three suspects. Neither of the three is ready to give up DNA samples. At the same time, persistent investigations by the police are not without impact on their lives.
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The Berlin building contractor Klaus Keller is found shot 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 current largest project was the construction of a documentation center on the Shoah in Israel. A right-wing assassination attempt? Much seems to speak for it. But there is another lead. A youth photo of the crime 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? Economic miracle child and winner of the turnaround is one - Stasimajor, SED functionary and loser is the other. Two post-war routes that diverged with the division of Germany and could not reunite even after '89. Nina Rubin and Robert Karow ask why and delve into a complex family history in which the generation of sons also plays an important role. Michael Keller runs his father's construction company and Gert's son Fredo is the owner of a printing company in Pankow. Moritz, Klaus' grandson, recorded a video of his beloved grandfather on the occasion of the birthday party - the last document from Klaus Keller - his last words. Moritz 'attractive friend Ruth, politically committed student and waitress in Klaus Keller's regular restaurant, knows the family well. Can their internals help Karow advance the investigation? Rubin and Karow encounter the German past and its consequences and in the end are faced with a crime of which they had no idea.
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On her first day at work, the profiler Tessa Ott was immediately thrown into the deep end: a body of fire with a head-shot wound was found near Lake Zurich. At the scene of the crime, Ott is greeted frostily by her new colleague Isabelle Grandjean - 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. Reluctantly, Grandjean includes the profiler in the investigation. But she soon notices that Ott has little practical experience, but makes up for this with persistence and analytical mind. And as different as the two women are, they complement each other ideally in the murder investigation. They are highly complex. So it seems almost impossible to find out the identity of the corpse. Their Buddhist back tattoo and the little psychotherapy card in their pocket take the investigators one step further and lead them 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 has now had murderous consequences. The crowd of suspects consists almost exclusively of exponents of the movement who are now of retirement age. Including a committed punk musician, a cold-blooded journalist, a loner who never got over the tragic events of the past. A drug addict friend of Teresa Ott also joins 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 to get a more precise picture. But when gruesome courier mail arrives at the farewell drink for the departing police commander, the case is catapulted into a new dimension. And instead of one, the police officers are suddenly confronted with several murder victims.
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In the current "Krank" case, 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 makes waves and a bitter, highly emotional argument breaks out. Should she really have died, or could she have been saved with other treatment? Was your father, a well-known representative of alternative medicine and co-founder of the "Medicina Lenia" company, guilty of treating his daughter? A lawsuit acquits him from such allegations. But then he is murdered immediately after his acquittal. Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner's investigations lead them to shaken family members, convinced prophets of salvation and unscrupulous machinations. So the Viennese investigative duo finds itself in the middle of a religious war that is not about religions in the original sense, but rather about something that is of existential importance for everyone: health. The struggle between the representatives of so-called conventional medicine and the supporters of alternative healing methods is waged with downright fanatical severity - and in the end the most profitable of all industries blurs all moral boundaries .
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When the HR manager of a Stuttgart company is found dead in the forest, the inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begin their investigations in the company. They hear no special incidents - CEO Joachim Bässler does not mention his conflict with former employee Oliver Manlik. He was imprisoned for corruption in the USA for over three years as a pawn by the company. 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 evades him. At least at the company, Oliver Manlik wants to achieve something. Reinstatement and compensation for his imprisonment are the bare minimum for him. Bässler's consistent rejection, trimmed for efficiency, continues to incite his feelings of revenge. When a bomb attack is carried out on the CEO's car, he is convinced that Manlik is the culprit. Suddenly he found it convenient that Manlik is considered the chief suspect in the HR manager's case. However - Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz have not yet found evidence of this. But it is clear to them that they have to prevent an escalation of the fight between the increasingly desperate Oliver Manlik and the less scrupulous Joachim Bässler .
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After dinner with his closest colleagues, Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne suffers a catastrophic car accident on his way on 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 is suspicious of the matter - his gut feeling tells him that something is wrong with Boerne's accident. Was it really an attempted murder? Prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm 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, a young, charismatic colleague who has just returned from Brazil. He quickly wins Silke "Alberich" Haller's sympathy, and together the two of them look for the truth at Thiel's side.
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The 14-year-old Talia has surprised a murderer in her house shortly after his crime and thus becomes the most important witness for the investigative team.
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As soon as Felix Murot has arrived on vacation and is having a good glass of wine in the garden of the local restaurant, the irritated waitress slams a knuckle on his table that he has not ordered. She confuses him with Walter Boenfeld, a married used car dealer who sits at the other end of the restaurant garden and waits in vain for his meal. Murot goes in search of the real owner of the knuckle and gets to know Walter, who is like one egg to another. Inspired by this strange encounter, the two different men spend the evening together, drink too much and talk about life in a sauna. When Murot woke up the next day hungover on Walter's porch swing - and thanks to a drunken swap in the clothes of his doppelganger - the inspector discovered that Walter was killed on the road that night. Was it his wife Monika, whom Walter had said last night that she wanted to kill him? Murot decides to leave his everyday life as a detective temporarily behind, to immerse himself in the life of his twin and to investigate undercover. Murot falls more and more in love with the idea of leaving his old life behind. But Magda Wchter won't let her boss get away that easily.
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For Luca Modica, the family is everything. He runs a small pizzeria in Dortmund with his wife Juliane. The restaurant is not doing well, but deliveries come regularly and are reloaded on site: cocaine, on behalf of the 'Ndrangheta. Their 17-year-old daughter Sofia does not know where the money that the family lives on comes from. Pippo Mauro suddenly shows up with a delivery. He committed a murder in Munich. Luca has to offer him shelter, the 'Ndrangheta demands it. After some initial hesitation, the two men approach. Pippo gives Luca new business ideas and he smells big money. At the same time, Juliane urges Luca to finally get out of the illegal business. While the Dortmund investigators Peter Faber, Martina Bönisch, Nora Dalay and Jan Pawlak are observing the Modicas' restaurant, their Munich colleagues Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr arrive to bring Mauro to account for the murder in Munich. But the Dortmunders want to find out more about the family's background organization before they take action. Nora Dalay believes she has found someone in Juliane who could help them with this. Nobody has any idea what consequences this case will have for the commissioners.
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Sofia Modica suffers from the fact that her mother betrayed the family to the police in Dortmund. She went into hiding with her father Luca and Pippo in Munich. The hope that they can quickly travel on to Calabria is little consolation for Sofia. They are dependent on the Italian entrepreneur Domenico Palladio, a high-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta, who uses Pippo and Luca for his own purposes to whitewash drug money in the construction industry in Munich. It doesn't take long for Pippo and Luca to make a mistake that puts the chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr back on track. Peter Faber also has a score to settle. When Sofia can no longer suppress the desire to contact her mother, she becomes a danger for Palladio. A race for Sofia's life begins.
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The "Haus Lüdecke" has a long history and is known beyond the borders of Münster. A body is found in the moat of the old moated castle - in knight armor. The dead person is the newly crowned lord of the castle Manfred Radtke. Was it an accident or is there more to it - as Inspector Thiel suspects? Only a few months ago, the former fair king Radtke bought the venerable castle and wanted to organize medieval games here with his family in the future. Central theme: the bloodthirsty story of the Anabaptists in Münster. Boerne is appalled by this; You don't joke with Münster's blackest chapter. But the preparations are already under way. Does the whole project have to be called off in view of the dead man?
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Detectives Fellner and Eisner investigate a death in the homeless scene. It looks like routine, most likely a quarrel about money or alcohol has lead to the fatality. A second killing grows doubts, and a much more sinister story unfolds.
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Club operator Timur Kerala considered himself the rising star in the Ludwigshafen security business. But before he can beat the top dog Gerhard Arentzen out of 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 to politics and is unassailable. What, in turn, does not impress Lena Odenthal: When Kerala's ex-wife and daughter are threatened, Lena Odenthal, against all advice, is determined to convict Arentzen. And thus ends up in the line of fire.
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In the middle of the day, a money messenger was murdered in cold blood in front of a jewelry store in downtown Weimar. Kira Dorn and Lessing accidentally become witnesses and pursue the perpetrator. Lessing is injured in an exchange of fire in the cave and the perpetrator escapes. The dead messenger is Ludgar Döllstädt, managing director of the security company "Geist Security". While Kurt Stich is convinced that the act is a robbery, Kira suspects more behind it: Lessing had stopped the murder victim a few days earlier with Maike Viebrock, a department head of the state administration office, at a traffic control. There was a rare parrot in the trunk. Did the owner of the security company, John Geist, want to liquidate his managing director to protect his company from an animal bribery scandal? Kira Dorn and Lessing give everything to find the culprit in this complex case in which nothing is as it seems .
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In the exclusive Hotel Rheinpalais, a woman is found hanged in her room. On the surface everything points to suicide. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk have doubts: For them it looks like a brutal execution. First testimonies indicate a connection between the 60-year-old victim Kathrin Kampe and the owner of the hotel Bettina Mai. When the suspicions against Bettina Mai intensify and her arrest is imminent, she brings Inspector Schenk into her power and flees with him as a hostage .
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Four weeks ago, the members of the Ostfildern Oasis building community moved into their building and the foundation has to be re-excavated due to a sealing problem. An even bigger problem emerges: an unidentifiable female corpse. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz try to find their way between group meetings and expressions of feelings by the residents in order to obtain clues about the identity of the dead. They encounter the idealistic dream of living together as well as the conflicts that appear between the apartment owners when they become aware that one of them may have been the perpetrator. Especially since the dead person could be a former applicant who at some point disappeared without a trace. Part of the group makes their own suspect outside of the house and thus makes life easier for themselves. The commissioners, however, are not prepared to be influenced by aura and gut feeling. Rather, it gives you to think that the missing applicant had caused a stir among some of the residents .
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When the investigative journalist Imke Leopold asks Thorsten Falke for help in solving a supposedly illegal real estate deal on Norderney, he initially reacts skeptically. When Imke is the victim of an attack shortly afterwards, which she survives only by luck, Falke regrets his hesitation and asks Julia Grosz to investigate with him on the island. Does the attack have anything to do with a large-scale construction project that was waved through due to the approval of some local politicians on the island? The lawyer and broker based on the island, who arranged the deal and made appropriate hints to Imke, is unfortunately unable to provide information - Falke and Grosz find him slain in his house .
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During an operation on the banks of the Dresden Elbe, the paramedic Tarik Wasir is suffocated in the vehicle with a plastic bag. His young colleague Greta Blaschke can no longer help him. Investigators Karin Gorniak and Leonie Winkler as well as commissariat manager Schnabel are investigating in all directions. The rioting patient Arnold Liebig, from whom the health insurance company has cut benefits, is just as suspicious as Greta's colleague Hagen Rigmers, who seems to be hiding something and threatens his colleagues. A short time later, a second attack was carried out on an ambulance at the same location. The paramedic Elena Jancowicz is seriously injured, any help comes too late for a colleague. At the rescue station headed by operations center manager Peter Fritsche, fear of further attacks increases. Greta Blaschke has run out of strength due to the murder of her colleague and the exhausting job. The single mother hopes for a distraction from an evening date with Jens Schlüter, whom she met in her daughter's kindergarten. Little does she suspect that on this path she will be confronted with a traumatic experience from her past and that she will be in extreme danger.
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When the committed "Rock gegen Rechts" concert organizer Tillmann Meinecke was found shot, the suspicion of an attack was obvious. Meinecke saw herself threatened by the right-wing extremist scene and had applied for police protection, including from Lena Odenthal. His death triggers a manhunt, which Ludger Reents is online. Reents shoots Police Chief Superintendent Katja Winter during a police check and is arrested while his girlfriend Hedwig Jörges escapes. Reents is a member of a right-wing extremist organization. He actually had Meinecke in his sights and was at the scene at the time of the crime, which he also admits. Nevertheless, he vehemently denies having committed the murder. Supported by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern examine Meinecke's environment. Meinecke's friend Maria and her mother are asked about the circumstances of the crime. Maria is convinced of the stop thesis and is in shock. She falls out with her mother, who makes no secret of her dislike for Meinecke. When Maria wanders through Ludwigshafen at night, her path crosses with that of the fleeting Hedwig. The two know nothing about each other, feel lost that night, and so an unexpected moment of fellowship arises between them.
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After a fire in the basement of the Gerberzentrum, a high-rise housing estate in Dortmund, the charred body of a young woman is found. The new member of the Dortmund homicide squad, Rosa Herzog, quickly realizes that the victim was slain. There are also indications of attempted rape. During the investigation, the team is confronted with racism, police violence and fake news.
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Entrepreneur Hans-Konrad Chevalier is found dead in a luxurious villa - he is killed and shot. The brutal approach suggests a relationship act. The murdered man ran the famous Chevaliers chocolate factory - together with his daughter Claire. The investigations lead the profiler Tessa Ott back to her roots, the posh residential area on the Zrichberg. In this area of the super-rich everyone could lead a happy "Schoggilabe" (a chocolate life, read "A life on the sunny side"). But appearances are deceptive. Apparently the company boss Chevalier was depressed and suicidal. His homosexuality was never accepted by his own family. His mother Mathilde obviously never thought much of her gay son. After his murder, she is now pushing back to the top of the company. Past granddaughter Claire, who works day and night in the company and wants to succeed her father. However, the company has been in the red for a long time. Claire's dubious fiance takes advantage of the messy situation. At the same time, Claire disappears a conflicting will from her father. The commissioners realize that a power struggle is raging at "Chocolat Chevalier". Was the murdered patron his first victim? The investigation is difficult. There is every indication that the housekeeper Esmeralda Rivera witnessed the crime. But she went into hiding with her daughter. As an illegal immigrant ("sans paper"), she is threatened with deportation. Esmeralda therefore does not want to cooperate with the police under any circumstances. Tessa Ott has an idea, while Commissioner Grandjean follows another lead. She is chasing a mysterious man who is on the road with the murder weapon and must also have been at the crime scene. The suspect later turned up in a hotel suite and left a highly stressed impression. For Isabelle a clear indication: the suspect is under high pressure and is accordingly dangerous. Isabelle Grandjean herself is also under pressure. She wants to leave Zurich. In the case of a promotion to which she is entitled, she will be ignored. She also misses her son and wants to get closer to him again. And she does not trust her new partner Tessa Ott, considers the colleague from a better house to be unprofessional and overwhelmed. Unfortunately, at a crucial moment, Isabelle gets right. When she sees the main suspect face to face and urgently needs the help of her colleague, she fails. Isabelle realizes: She can't rely on the profiler.
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The battered body of a young woman is found on a wasteland near a popular club in Kiel. The video surveillance of the club soon supplies Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin with a suspect: Mario Lohse. The intimidated outsider regularly watches misogynistic videos in the internet forum of the so-called "pick-up artist" Hank Massmann. Since Lohse cannot provide a valid alibi, Borowski and Sahin decide to make a temporary arrest. But Borowski soon notices signs that make the crime appear in a completely different light: In the immediate vicinity of the crime scene, he thinks he recognized a "14" stamped in the soft ground, a symbol of American neo-Nazis. When Mila Sahin found out that further attacks on women in Kiel were being propagated on hate lists on the Internet, she too was alarmed. When trying to warn the Kiel politician Birte Reimers, who is apparently acutely threatened, she comes across a rape victim. As an undercover agent in the Massmann area, Borowski has to experience the enormous energy behind the calls.
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Ella flees from her abusive husband and tries to go into hiding with no money and no friends. The homeless Monika takes Ella under her wing and shows her how she survives on the street. But Ella leaves Monika alone when she meets Axel in a fast-food restaurant and finds shelter in his small apartment. The next morning, the one who promised her protection is dead. Commissioners Ballauf and Schenk start the investigation.
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The discovery of a dead person in a desolate residential area is reported anonymously in the early hours of the morning. Jana Gruber was overwhelmed and brutally killed in her house. Circumstances suggest that the woman worked as a prostitute and that she had a child. But the nursery is orphaned, there is no trace of the child, a ten-year-old boy. The anonymous caller is identified and, surprisingly, there is an act related to him: Gustav Langer used to often come into conflict with the law and had known the victim - as a suitor - for a longer time. But is he Jana's murderer too? Moritz and Bibi doubt it. Very soon, however, they see similarities between the current case and an unsolved murder some time ago. Investigators are deeply alarmed by the possibility of the existence of a planned serial offender. The commissioners are challenged to the utmost, they investigate to exhaustion against time and a psychopathic murderer.
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The student Jessi (18) has a date. But not in the disco, she goes to the nearby forest on the outskirts. A short time later she is dead. First, a carbon arrow hits her in the thigh, then a knife stab straight into the heart. When a jogger found the body the next day, it showed, among other things, bite marks and a twig in its mouth. The Saarland team of investigators around the chief inspectors Leo Hölzer and Adam Schürk is faced with a riddle, because the branch in the mouth indicates an old hunter's custom. Is it a ritual crime? First of all, the commissioners investigate the victim's school environment and question teachers and classmates. Because from Jessi's diary it emerges: She had a secret love. On the other hand, there were also plenty of spurned lovers. And suddenly Adam's father also appears on the scene: Roland Schürk, who woke up from a 15-year-old coma towards the end of the first episode ("Das industrious Lieschen"), claims to know who the perpetrator is. Meanwhile, another lead leads the chief inspectors Esther Baumann and Pia Heinrich to France. Together the team comes closer to a solution.
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A kiosk operator in Ludwigshafen is brutally slain. It looks like robbery - if it weren't for coins in the dead man's windpipe. A signal for Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern that there could be a private motive for the deed. Her investigations are focused on two customers of the kiosk. Anton Maler looks charming, takes care of his sick ex-girlfriend and is so overly accommodating to the inspectors that he looks suspicious again. Jannik Berg, on the other hand, was not only seen with the possible murder weapon, he tried to evade the police officers and sowed distrust of Anton Maler. Witnesses and suspects who lie and gloss over are nothing new to Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern. This time, however, they have the impression that they are supposed to be manipulated beyond the usual extent.
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The Federal Police are investigating Russian arms dealers who, as alleged manufacturers of agricultural machinery, have built up a perfect entrepreneurial facade. Julia Grosz, who has just been promoted to chief inspector, is in charge of the operation. When the undercover agent died shortly before the mafia-like structures were discovered, the whole operation seemed to have failed. But the arms dealer Timofejew has a niece, Marija, who works for the LKA and distanced herself from her family years ago. In order to prevent the complete failure of the operation, Grosz tries to bring Marija into position against her own family. Falke, who was once Marija's superior at the LKA, is not enthusiastic. The matter seems too dangerous and uncontrollable. But Marija accepts Grosz's suggestion and starts a double game of life and death.
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The suspicious fall of the stairs of the 78-year-old industrialist widow Elisabeth Klingler calls the inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg on the scene. Klingler had just announced an amendment to her will for her daughter, her son, her granddaughter and the notary: the family villa should go to her carer Elena Zelenko after her death. A shock for their children, who react with vehement indignation. It was only when their mother was dying that Gesine and Richard found out that Elisabeth Klingler and Elena Zelenko had secretly married. Unlike their niece Toni, they don't want to accept this fact. Especially since it is now about more than just the villa. Torn between grief, the feeling of being rejected and the fear of the financial repercussions, the duped heirs present the commissioners with various references to Zelenko's involvement. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg follow up, but also keep an eye on the family members. Especially since they discover in their investigations that the Klinglers and Elena Zelenko had a common past whose shadows weighed on Elisabeth Klingler.
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No cell phone, no papers, no clothes: a naked male corpse is found in a moorland area. Thanks to Prof. Boerne's instinct, of all things, the young man's identity is quickly clarified: It is Maik Koslowski: vegetable farmer, nude model and advocate of free love. He was also the leader of group seminars such as "Sexuality and Tantra" or "Drumming and Ecstasy". During their research on the Erlen farm with the adjoining trailer park, Thiel and Boerne encounter cackling geese, curious alpacas and confusing network of relationships. In order to bring light into the darkness, Thiel asks his "Vadder" for help: He should ask around undercover in the commune. The perpetrator seems to be found quickly, but the evidence clearly contradicts Thiel's suspicions. Has his otherwise so reliable gut feeling let him down? Professor Boerne too has doubts about his appointment: of all people, he is suspected of plagiarism; he is said to have passed the research results of a colleague as his own. An affront or a justified accusation? As if that weren't enough mess, the assistants Silke Haller and Mirko Schrader also have to admit a fatal mistake to their bosses. If only it were that easy .
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A summer in Vienna. It is hot. Too hot. Bibi jogs through the forest and quite by chance runs into a senior official from the Ministry of the Interior. A little later the man is dead. Moritz Eisner, who is due to start a long-awaited project at Europol and the EU anti-corruption agency OLAF in The Hague in a few days, decides to take on this case. But is it even a case? The ministry is pushing for the cause of death to be presented as a simple heart attack. Apparently there was no outside influence, and the traces of the doping agent in the blood of the deceased do not prove poisoning. Although the dead man was feared in the Ministry, he apparently only had friends. He leaves behind an honestly grieving widow, a neighbor who is friends and a caring sports doctor. Exactly at the time when Moritz Eisner tracks down the first gaps in the dead man's sparkling past, it is announced that he will not get the job in The Hague. The exemption, however, which he had applied for in order to be able to go to Holland, was granted. Now Moritz Eisner is suddenly rid of the case and his new professional perspective. This does not slow him down. On the contrary: He takes up the fight against seemingly overpowering opponents and not even Bibi can hold him back.
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Five-year-old Mike has disappeared. For three days, his separated parents think that their son is with the other, respectively, until the mistake is discovered. Now the mother angrily suspects the father, the father the mother. But where is Mike really? What truth does the forest hide behind the house where the boy often hid when his parents quarreled? Did Mike run away this time? But how far can a five-year-old get on his own? Or was he not alone at all? What is Mike's connection to 17-year-old Titus, who feels persecuted and whose fear drives him all the way to Amsterdam?
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The Bremen police are on the alert: shortly after the birth, Sophie Völkers' baby is kidnapped from the clinic, many officers are involved in the search, and the police are almost exhausted. A young man is found dead in front of an abandoned industrial building. At first glance, it looks like he's leaning on death. Who should take on this case? And is there a connection between the two cases? In the tense situation, the Dane Mads Andersen has to do it again, although he is actually already sitting on his suitcase and is on his way back to Copenhagen. Liv Moormann appears at his side, who wants to prove herself on the homicide squad. The BKA investigator Linda Selb is put to the side. They discover knife wounds on the body of the deceased, which make suicide seem unlikely. The investigation quickly reveals that the dead person is Jannik Waltz, a well-known drug dealer. Was it a murder in the drug milieu and the brothers Lenny and Tim Maurer, with their friend Marco Stiehler, know more than they reveal? And then there are Marco's father, the disappointed ex-soccer player Rudi Stiehler, and his daughter Jessica, who also just had a child. During the investigation, Liv Moormann, Mads Andersen and Linda Selb have to get together quickly because they are investigating a swamp of drugs, lies, jealousy and broken dreams.
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Eviction in Berlin: Otto Wagner and his family had to leave the apartment on a cold November morning. After Ceylan Immobilien took over the tenement house, it was demented bit by bit. Old appointments are no longer valid and so the moving company from Axel Schmiedtchen ensures a quick, swept-clean handover. Recently the house was still a symbol of the famous "Berlin mix". Now Gülay Ceylan, the boss of the small family business, wants to renovate the house in a luxurious way so that it can later be converted into condominiums. But there is resistance. Four tenants in the house cling to their affordable apartments and want to keep them. And everyone has their reasons for it. The young Malovcic family has offspring, the old Mrs. Kirschner has lived in the house for almost 60 years, Jenny Nowack is a single parent, her children have her friends in the neighborhood and Peter de Boer hardly earns anything as a freelance journalist. With his rent rebels he fights in social networks against the injustice on the Berlin housing market. When the junior boss of the real estate company, Cem Ceylan, lies dead in front of the house, the Berlin homicide squad has a new case. Rubin and Karow are investigating the time of Covid-19 in the apartment building in Wedding. The two inspectors are confronted with the Berlin rent madness and the existential concern of people for their "third skin", the four walls in which they live and which are more than their home.
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In the middle of the day, Frederick Seibold is struck down by four people masked with dog heads on a golf course near Frankfurt. When he comes to in a dark basement hole, the two Frankfurt chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are already entrusted with his case: Frederick's ex-girlfriend, Bille Kerbel, had received a cut finger that she took straight to the police. Konrad Seibold, Frederick's father, a well-to-do business lawyer, does not see the point of paying a ransom, as he believes his son Frederick himself is behind the kidnapping. Janneke and Brix are surprised by Seibold's stubbornness, who also received a finger and did not react. When it turns out that the severed fingers were not from Frederick, the father appears to be right. Via Bille, the trail leads the inspectors to Conny Kaiserling, who runs a studio for women's self-defense courses. Brix comes up with the idea of smuggling Fanny undercover there. Janneke and Brix are called to a woman's corpse in the Taunus. Antonia Wagner, the dead, was apparently pierced by a fence post. In search of outside interference, the coroner finds fragments of Frederick Seibold's skin under her fingernails. Was Antonia involved in the kidnapping?
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Susanne Elvan met her husband Tarek, a convicted violent criminal, through a penpal portal while he was in custody. The wedding took place before his release. When Susanne was found murdered, Tarek was only recently at large. The case seems clear. But when assistant Norbert Jütte sees that the murderer has tied a belt over his victim's eyes, the case takes an unexpected turn: Jütte is convinced that he has had something to do with the murderer before .
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Alarm in Kiel: In the event of an uprising in the forensic clinic, the murderer of women Kai Korthals manages to escape from security custody. Korthals, who crept and killed numerous women in their apartments, became Borowski's personal nightmare six years ago when he kidnapped his fiancée Frieda Jung. At that time the inspector managed to free Frieda, but his relationship broke up. Commissioner Mila Sahin wants to hunt down Kai Korthals by all means. But is Borowski ready to face his adversary again? In Kai's cell there are letters from admirers: Apparently, numerous women were attracted to the killer and made promises to him. These women are now in grave danger. Then the corpse of a young woman is found on the bank of a lake .
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Sudden cardiac arrest at the age of only 29: Anna Schneider collapses in broad daylight on the street in front of her café. The Dresden investigators Gorniak and Winkler convince their boss Schnabel to start the investigation into this mysterious death, although the forensic doctor Jonathan Himpe wants to rule out poisoning. They found out that Anna Schneider had recently filed a criminal complaint against an unknown stalker. In addition to the psychological distress, the victim has recently suffered severe physical pain. Every touch, no matter how small, made her flinch. Gorniak is alarmed: She too has had pain attacks for a few days that she cannot explain. Even the medical officer cannot determine a medical cause. Anna Schneider didn't know her, but could there be a connection between the two women? Schneider's ex-boyfriend Nils Klotsche quickly falls into the sights of the inspectors. He works as a technical assistant in a medical laboratory specializing in the development of nanobots in cancer research. Is it possible to manipulate the molecules in such a way that they can be used as weapons? His boss Professor Mühl and his colleague Martha Marczynski consider this to be impossible. Other suspects are also found: the married Lucas Dreesen, who had a brief but intense affair with Schneider, could also be the stalker. There are increasing indications that Gorniak is actually being persecuted. She receives mysterious threatening phone calls and repeatedly receives video recordings showing party scenes from around 20 years ago. Isn't the motive for this case jealousy at all?
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The gas station attendant is shot dead in a gas station in Mainz - the second and this time fatal attack within two weeks. The only witness is the blind law student Rosa Münch, who still lives with her parents and longs for a life beyond the overprotective control of her father. Ellen Berlinger and Martin Rascher investigate the traces of the two perpetrators and follow the indications of the blind: the smell of an expensive perfume, the voices of suspects, the details heard and felt by Rosa at the crime scene. The commissioners want to put the vulnerable Rosa under police protection, but the young woman refuses. On the contrary, when a young woman tries to get in touch with her, whose voice sounds familiar, she keeps it to herself. Ellen Berlinger and Martin Rascher suspect that Rosa knows more than she says - maybe even knows the perpetrators, likes them, finds them attractive - lets herself into something that she withholds from them. The investigators have to continue investigating without your support and resort to unusual methods to prevent further deaths.
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After the release party for her debut novel, 19-year-old author Luise Nathan is found dead. Everything looks like a suicide at first. Publishing director Roland Häbler and editor Marvin Gess are reproaching each other: Could Luise not withstand the high pressure of expectations? Luise's book, which is about the socially disadvantaged teenage girl Luna, is a sensation in her eyes. Luise's mother Friederike, councilor for social affairs, on the other hand, cannot imagine that her strong daughter would commit suicide. The Frankfurt chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix soon discovered that massive outside influences had led to the young woman's death. Outside of the publishing house, her investigations lead her to Luise's friend Nellie, who grows up in a less middle-class family with her mother Jessie and her little sister. Luise's novel is increasingly coming into focus: While Brix and Janneke initially devote themselves thoroughly to the victim's novel, when they investigate they become aware that it is based on the reality of the two girls and that it provides decisive traces .
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Following a bizarre confession to a murder that may have taken place only in the confessor's dreams. One of the main themes of this psycho drama is performance pressure under which brilliant musicians struggle, ending in self destruction.
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Weekend in Berlin: in search of an unforgettable night, party-goers and party-goers roam the wintry streets. A young woman finds a suitable date in the couple Dennis Ziegler and Julia Hoff via a dating app. The next morning, a body is found near Dennis' apartment. Her face is disfigured so that identification seems impossible. A missing person report and a subsequent DNA comparison reveal to inspectors Nina Rubin and Robert Karow that the dead woman is the medical student Sophia Bader. When Rubin and Karow deliver the news of death to Marianne and Helmut Bader, the parents deny that the dead woman is their daughter and deny that she used dating portals. To the police's surprise, Dennis Ziegler and Julia Hoff appear at the police station. They explain that after consensual sex with Sophia, they broke up that same evening. But Dennis doesn't seem innocent. A thick police file testifies to allegations of arson, assault and rape. But he was never convicted. The suspicion quickly arises that his parents - the patrol officer Doris and the security expert Claus Ziegler succeeded time and again in pulling the son's neck out of the noose. And again the parents' fingers seem to be involved, the investigators run into a wall. Rubin and Karow have to employ drastic methods to break through the psychogram of the Ziegler family - and to understand why Sophia's parents so vehemently deny their daughter's death.
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Murot investigates a series of murders including his former philosophy professor who lived below a bridge as a homeless person when he was killed. Murot suspects the prof's estranged children were keen to inherit their parental fortune.
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The 28-year-old Nicolas Schlueter does not come back from his morning jogging session: A car hit the police chief. Schlueter was about to be promoted, he was popular at the police station and had good friends, his wife Simone is expecting their first child. There does not seem to be any evidence of a murderous motive or a suspect. And the bruises that Schlüter suffered a few days before his death, according to Simone Schlüter, can be traced back to a riding accident. Peter Faber, Martina Bönisch, Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak investigate in all directions - including at the police station in Dortmund-Hörde. There Martina Bönisch meets an old friend: At the police school, she got along very well with Katrin Steinmann. Today the head of the guard stands protectively in front of her team. In the weeks before his death, Nicolas Schlueter had apparently targeted a doctor in particular: Dr. Johannes Oberländer, who has made a name for himself as a seminar leader. Men should be able to learn from him how to be well received by as many women as possible.
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A man's body is found in the harbor. Liv Moormann and Linda Selb find out: The dead man was a doctor - and what a doctor. A do-gooder, a Samaritan, someone who treated the poor of the city pro bono, a helper with great ideals. And now he lies here, executed, on a dusty harbor quay - run over and with his skull broken. What is the secret behind the brutal act? Whose anger and hatred has discharged here? At first no motive is recognizable, the traces in the area of the deceased run into the void. Moormann and Selb continue to investigate meticulously and find a number of suspects: the doctor's assistant Kirsten Beck, the activists Ann Gelsen and Vicky Aufhoven and Charlotte Aufhoven, the boss of a once noble family business. They all have a lot to hide because they have a lot to lose. The crew of a freighter anchored next to the scene of the crime are also persistently silent. This is the mission for the Dane Mads Andersen, who tries to get on the freighter and get more information. But this time he can neither convince the captain nor the crew - the situation escalates and Mads Andersen is in serious danger. He also has to fight his very own fight against shadows from the past.
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The auditor of a nunnery in the foothills of the Alps is found murdered. The Munich commissioners Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr investigate the apparently contemplative life of the godly nuns.
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Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm travels privately from Göttingen to Hamburg to meet secretly with a man in a hotel. But he's dead when she arrives - and Charlotte Lindholm is an urgent suspect.
S1 • E1184
The morning after an insurance company's Christmas party, an employee lies dead in the foyer. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz reconstruct the evening.
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The manager Josef Micklitza found a body with a gunshot wound in the Dortmund harbor area late in the evening. The dead man is his financial advisor Claus Lembach.
S1 • E1186
Inspector Thiel wakes up in a hotel room and has lost the memory of last night. His former boss is found dead nearby.
S1 • E1187
Chief Inspector Leo Hölzer and Chief Inspector Pia Heinrich find the body of Cora Reuters in a villa in the best residential area.
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Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.
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Former police officer Benno Rose was stabbed. Before his death, he had tried several times to contact Sara Manzer.
S1 • E1190
Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago, a friend reported her missing at the time. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest while preparing for an urn burial. A dispute at the site distracts Faber: It can hardly be overheard that inspector Bönisch and the KTU specialist Sebastian Haller are already fighting their private quarrel on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is a burden on herself and her work does not leave Faber indifferent. Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: the gravesite was reserved here a few days after Feline Wagner's disappearance. It was paid for in cash by a man who gave a false name. Another murder victim is recovered, just steps away from the first. There was a year between the two murders - and soon twelve months will have passed again.
S1 • E1191
Carnival in Munich. The body of a 70-year-old man is found on a staircase on the banks of the Isar. A first trace leads to "Irmis Stüberl", where the man apparently had an argument with a costumed carnival guest. The most important witness of the argument is a "Little Red Riding Hood", who is clearly too drunk to be questioned that evening. Batic and Leitmayr therefore take it with them without further ado. Silke Weinzierl, as "Little Red Riding Hood" is called, is very annoyed the next morning. She obviously slept really badly in the detox cell. No, she doesn't know the man and doesn't know why the argument came about. It quickly becomes clear: Batic and Leitmayr are not only dealing with a tricky case, but above all with a very unusual woman.
S1 • E1192
What starts out as a "normal" murder investigation continues to spread: the shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found dead in his apartment. But neither his happy bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes a youth heartthrob in the dead man, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers amorous entanglements at the same time. And when the protection of the constitution appears in the shady characters Muster and Mann, it becomes absurd. Apparently, Thiel and Boerne stabbed a wasp's nest and even drew the attention of an assassin. But how is it all connected? And what about the little dog that loves to eat bananas?
S1 • E1193
In an abandoned factory building, cosmetic surgeon Beat Gessner came across the corpse of his son Max, wrapped as if in a cocoon. Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean discovered that the corpse not only had tattoos on the face, but also on the cornea of the eyes. The shocked father reports that he has not had any contact with his son for a long time. Initial investigations lead the inspectors to a sectarian artists' commune. This is led by the charismatic Kyomi. Her "disciples" are exactly like the deceased Max: shaved head, tattoos on the face and cornea - an incredibly painful process. A second trail leads via Kyomi to the gallery owner Bruno Escher. He markets Kyomi's art and could capitalize on Max's death. Would Escher go that far? While Isabelle puts the unscrupulous gallerist through the wringer, Tessa deals with Kyomi's way of thinking and working: like art objects, her followers should wear the pain of her past on their skin and reflect it in their eyes. Did this philosophy lead to Max's death as the ultima ratio of the mind game? Isabelle Grandjean observes Tessa Ott's apparent fascination with Kyomi with great concern: does her colleague run the risk of being exploited by the artist? Is the bright-eyed Kyomi trying to play cat and mouse with the police herself? Or did Beat Gessner not tell the whole truth?
S1 • E1194
Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country whose president is about to pay a state visit to Germany. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid the official celebrations of the state visit. Whatever the reason, Juan's disappearance puts the Bergsons, the teachers who run the school, in distress. The good reputation of the school is its most important asset. In the course of the investigations by Falke and Grosz, the boy's bodyguard comes under suspicion, especially when a blackmail letter appears: Juan's kidnappers are trying to free imprisoned opponents of the regime and journalists.
S1 • E1195
Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are on duty on the banks of the Rhine in the early morning. A man's body was washed up here. He was a mechanic on board a pleasure boat and apparently involved in a fight shortly before his death. When Chief Inspector Schenk contacts the captain of the "Agrippina", the case takes a dramatic turn: on board the ship that has just cast off is Daniel Huberty, a former high school teacher, who is now threatening: "I will take the ship in blow up if you don't comply with my demands." He demands justice. It did not exist in the court case when he was sentenced to imprisonment for a liaison with an underage student.
S1 • E1196
Eisner and Fellner are called to a crystal clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who alerts the police himself and waits for the investigators at the crime scene. Murder weapon, motive and factual confession included. Murder out of jealousy, a paraded husband who lost his nerve. Everything could have gone so "smoothly" if the country's most cunning lawyer hadn't taken on the defense of the accused and obtained an acquittal. Shortly thereafter, the lawyer himself ends up on the autopsy table - and the acquitted disappears without a trace. To top it all off, Inkasso Heinzi, an old acquaintance of Moritz and Bibi, turns up to once again put their friendship to a hard test.
S1 • E1197
After an autumn storm, a skeletonized body is found under an uprooted oak tree. As Borowski suspects very quickly, it is the remains of his first girlfriend Susanne. When Borowski was 16, he wanted to hitchhike with her to the legendary Jimi Hendrix performance on Fehmarn. After an argument, however, Susanne disappeared without a trace. Borowski had tirelessly tried to explain the disappearance. What was a gloomy suspicion at the time is now abruptly bitter certainty when the forensic doctor Kroll unequivocally identifies the corpse. More determined than ever and without consulting his colleagues, Borowski pursues the unexpected opportunity to catch the perpetrator after all these years. When Mila Sahin sees through this, she is shocked by the tragic fate of her colleague and initially covers for him. But Borowski's constant solo efforts finally force her to involve her superior Schladitz. He then withdraws the case from Borowski.
S1 • E1198
In the middle of the night, a young couple calls the police. In a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt, the two discovered a woman's body. But when chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arrive, the body is gone. A car registered to Maria Gombrecht was observed near the suspected crime scene. Although the car has also disappeared, massive traces of blood indicate that Maria was the victim of a crime. Confronted with this fact, the husband Ulrich Gombrecht and the two daughters Kristina and Judith continue to cling to the fact that Maria is in France for a fast hike and will appear again. Gombrecht is seriously ill, Kristina is heavily pregnant, and Judith is going through difficult rehearsals as a theater director. For the investigators, it initially looks like a robbery, but then the traces lead right into the middle of the family. Janneke and Brix soon discover that everyone here has secrets from each other. And in the end, the truth is far more gruesome than expected.
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The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.
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Nine-year-old Marlon is found dead at his school. He was pushed down the stairs and shows signs of a previous fight. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern soon noticed that this death caused ambivalent reactions at school: Marlon's conspicuous behavior made him an outsider who pushed his teachers, his own parents and also those of his classmates to their limits. It is depressing for the detectives that in Marlon's surroundings there is almost more relief than sadness about his death. Lena and Johanna are all the more dependent on Marlon's only friend Pit and his only adult ally, the social worker Anton Leu, for their investigations. Piece by piece, the inspectors reconstruct the last days of a boy who couldn't cope with his own emotions and whom not a few wanted to get rid of.
S1 • E1201
A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. She knew the dead man from the Spree, he had revealed to her that her husband Yasha is a leading member of the Russian mafia in Berlin. Rubin decides to help the young woman and tells the detective director. Julie wants to be included in a witness protection program if she can produce incriminating material about her husband in return. However, contact with Julie puts Rubin in a dilemma, because from now on she has to keep Karow out of the investigation so as not to endanger the young woman. Karow investigates the identity of the dead man, but senses more and more that his colleague is hiding things from him. Trust has been a thorny issue between the two from the start, and Rubin's behavior hurts Karow - especially since they've also become closer privately. All the more the old problem breaks out again. In her latest case, will Nina Rubin be able to free Julie from the clutches of her crime family?
S1 • E1202
A woman's body is found in her wedding dress
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A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigations: the traces in the house were manipulated, apparently the break-in was faked - but the forensic technicians found older remains of blood ... Neighbors and colleagues give different information, but there are indications that Fischer's wife hit and terrorized. Did he want to prevent her from leaving him, killed her and faked a kidnapping? Or did Kathrin Fischer secretly prepare the escape and stage the bloody deed to incriminate her husband because she can only be safe from him when he is in prison? Her friend Beate Lindweg plays a dubious role in this marriage: Before Kathrin, she was in a relationship with Simon Fischer... The Dresden investigators have to find out what happened and descend into the abyss of a toxic marriage.
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When Julia Grosz' friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator, disappears without a trace, Grosz goes in search of her. Under a false identity, she enters the hedonistic, liberal milieu in which her friend seems to have lost herself.
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Alois Meininger is released from prison after more than 30 years in prison for murder. Shortly thereafter, he commits another murder and goes into hiding. Ivo Batic and Leitmayr try to get help from his former therapist - but he is now suffering from dementia.
S1 • E1206
Bibiana Dubinski, best ager, wealthy and determined to enjoy life for as long as possible, dies of insulin shock. Her close friend Charlotte Mühlen, less wealthy but recently happily in love with young Hannes Petzold, inherits the villa and fortune. Two friends in the so-called prime of life, one rich, the other heiress, plus a 30-year-old ex-con who is ensnaring the heiress - is it experience, instinct or a fallacy that all the alarm bells are ringing for Ellen Berlinger? She is convinced that a crime has happened and suspects Hannes Petzold. But the evidence is not very reliable and prosecutor Winterstein closes the case. Martin Rascher persistently fought for a tight window of time for further investigations. The detectives comb through the entire case again, putting pressure on Charlotte Mühlen with suspicions about her lover.
S1 • E1207
Ann-Kathrin Werfel is cruelly killed. The first suspicion falls on her ex-husband, whom she had accused of domestic violence.
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Top lawyer Corinne Perrault knows no mercy when her clients' interests are at stake. One morning she floats dead in Lake Zurich. What appears to be a suicide turns out to be an insidious murder. As a lawyer for the law firm Clement and Widmer, she represented the up-and-coming pharmaceutical company Argon. Allegedly, their drug Volmelia caused devastating damage during the test phase - for example with Klara Canetti. The girl is in a wheelchair because of a rare disease. After taking Volmelia, Klara's condition has now worsened. Now her mother has sued Argon. There is a lot at stake for the group, because the outrageously expensive drug is about to be approved. In the event of a ban, the company with its shooting star Dr. Regula Arnold misses many millions, which makes the pharmaceutical woman the main suspect in the murder of Corinne Perrault, especially in the eyes of Tessa. Perrault's death causes dismay in the firm. The noble company loses a qualified colleague. For lawyer Matteo Riva, Corinne was more than that, and boss Martina Widmer also had a lot in common with the dead. But Isabelle and Tessa do not trust the demonstrative dismay of the two. Then the commissioners find out that Corinne had given up the Volmelia mandate and was on sick leave for a longer period of time. The investigators are still pursuing a third lead - mainly at the instigation of Isabell. In her eyes, Klara's mother Dorit has a double motive for murder. The hatred of Corinne Perrault, who aggressively attacked her daughter in a survey, as well as the prospect of high financial compensation. Isabelle tries to gain Klara's trust. Then Klara collapses while being questioned by her and has to be put into an artificial coma. Isabelle blames herself because she feels guilty about Klara's condition. In addition, the girl is missing an important witness who could shed light on the death of Corinne Perrault.
S1 • E1209
In the evening, babysitter Ben Dellien hits a cyclist and leaves him to die. Through the meticulous taking of evidence, Lannert, Bootz and forensic pathologist Vogt are getting ever closer to the escapee.
S1 • E1210
Murot is drugged and robbed at a hotel bar by a hostess with knockout drops in a wine glass. In the same hotel, a murder occurs in a hotel room.
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Manfred Gabler is found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Numerous injuries indicate that he cannot simply have fallen, but was severely abused in a hopeless fight before his death. For Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner, there are only very few immediately usable traces around the place where the body was found. Nevertheless, some peculiarities are noticeable from the beginning: Manfred Gabler was a Catholic priest, he had remarkably few social contacts - and strangely enough an amulet with the Satanic symbol with him. A possible reason for this is soon found: Prelate Gabler was active on a special mission, he was one of the few priests in the so-called deliverance service, which still exists in many countries and dioceses - Gabler was what is commonly called an exorcist. Shortly before his death, as Eisner and Fellner soon find out, he had an appointment with an unknown person "N" - possibly an important witness. But nobody can tell the two who this person is, nobody knows a name or an address. Moritz and Bibi take a closer look at the dead man's surroundings. Gabler's successor in office did not always agree with his methods, a somewhat eccentric scientist is interested in data that Gabler is said to have possessed, the psychiatrist who regularly examined Gabler's clients is deliberately taciturn, and what role does a former pimp play in this case? And above all: Where is the motive for a murder?
S1 • E1212
The ideal world of Göttingen is shaken by a serial offender who ambushes women in remote corners and forces them to engage in sexual acts.
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Inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are confronted with the death of six women and men, all of whom took part in a psycholysis session and died during the therapy session. As part of their investigation, they come across Dr. Adrian Goser, a controversial psychoanalyst and the sole survivor. Goser is known for conducting a particular form of psychoanalysis that uses psychedelic drugs to achieve absolute self-knowledge. While Brix considers Goser to be an impostor who consciously steers his patients into addiction, Janneke remains ambivalent about his therapy. In the hope of being able to reconstruct the last hours before the crime, Goser, as the main suspect, is brought to his villa to inspect the crime scene. While the investigators put pressure on Goser and hope for a confession, he denies any guilt and positions himself as the victim of a cruel act, the exact circumstances of which he cannot remember. During the inspection, all entrances to the house are suddenly blocked by an unknown person and a first shot is fired. Is Goser telling the truth? Is this an attack by the actual perpetrator, who now also wants to execute the last victim? And what does the performance artist Ellen, who disappeared a year ago, have to do with the case?
S1 • E1214
Commissioners Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of Cologne. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, went on the street for her addiction. Her best friend, Kim, who is the same age, suspects that Lara was killed by a customer.
S1 • E1215
The family man Gerd Vogt and his five-year-old son Noah have disappeared without a trace from their family home in a new housing estate in Breisgau. The wife Sandra gets caught up in contradictory statements. The commissioners from Freiburg investigate.
S1 • E1216
In Münster, a dissatisfied client threatens his lawyer Nikolas Weber. The lawyer is found dead in his rundown office the next day. Commissioner Thiel investigates the murder case.
S1 • E1217
The Dresden Team is dealing with a kidnapping case involving the timely topic of conspiracy theories. How can an otherwise intelligent adult possibly believe in the most nonsensical and bizarre lies spread by clever internet operatives?
S1 • E1218
After the death of Nina Rubin, Robert Karow is on his own for the time being and has to investigate on his own.
S1 • E1219
Leitmayr and Batic let Kalli persuade them to take part in a murder mystery dinner with their colleagues. Now as "Chief Inspector Francis Lightmyer" and as "Constable Ivor Partridge" they are supposed to find the murderer in an English mansion.
S1 • E1220
Freddy is alarmed because an arson attack has been carried out on his daughter's restaurant. In the burned out "miracle lamp" the police find a charred corpse beyond recognition. Freddy takes up the investigation together with Ballauf.
S1 • E1221
Patrick Teichmann finds the corpse of his mother-in-law in a nursery run by three generations of the family. Garden worker Juri is the first to be targeted by investigators Gorniak and Winkler.
S1 • E1222
In Dortmund's Westpark, Pawlak and Herzog are standing in front of a large pool of blood, but there is no body. However, Richter, the head of a Dortmund real estate company, is missing. With his business model he has made a number of opponents in Dortmund in recent years. He buys real estate and transforms shared apartments into coveted luxury objects.
S1 • E1223
Lena Odenthal has to reconcile work and family. Her aunt Niki, a retired public prosecutor, arrives in Ludwigshafen for a visit. At the same time, Lena and Stern deal with the death of a nursing home resident who was killed by an insulin overdose.
S1 • E1224
Saturday. Gameday. A Saar-Palatinate football derby keeps all the emergency services in Saarbrücken in suspense, including the chief inspectors Leo Holz, Adam Schürk, Esther Baumann and Pia Heinrich. Because after the game, a death is reported from the emergency room. Andreas Schneider collapsed in the emergency room with skull fractures and a stab wound and could not be saved. It quickly turns out that he spent the "third half" in a field match. But whether he also suffered the fatal injuries there remains unclear for the time being. As hostile as the hooligan groups are, they all agree that the biggest and common enemy is the police. Therefore, they confront the Saarbrücken team with silence and clarify their fights among themselves. Adam Schürk also conceals certain truths. However, when he is mugged at home because someone is looking for the millions from his father's bank robbery, he has to let Leo Bäumer know.
S1 • E1225
Tobler and Berg step into a cold case that went unsolved more than a decade ago. Hoping to finally bring peace to a family, they corner an outsider in the process.
S1 • E1226
Young, popular and extremely successful: Marlon Unger is the hotshot of an IT company. One evening he is attacked and stabbed in front of his apartment. While Moritz Eisner, Bibi Fellner and Meret Shame begin to investigate the case, the picture they get of the victim changes several times. Was he popular now? Or not? An unscrupulous guy or someone with a conscience? One who would win hearts, or one who didn't give a damn if he made enemies? In any case, the case is becoming increasingly opaque and depressing. Because when the circle of suspects finally gets smaller, another crime happens that puts the investigators under pressure and faces dramatic decisions... In their new case, Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner have to deal with the murder of a young, extremely successful IT employee who is difficult to picture. At first glance Everybody's darling, clues and insights emerge in the course of the investigation, which not only put Eisner and Fellner, but above all their colleague Meret Shame, before a great test.
S1 • E1227
The social media have so far passed Thiel and Boerne, there is only one murder case and one corpse in reality. But now a case leads them into the middle of a virtual world in which women in particular play a leading role. The late Evita has a huge following as MagicMom.
S1 • E1228
The young Adam Moser dies in a motorbike accident at night. But the death raises questions and ultimately leads Batic and Leitmayr to Munich's Hasenbergl.
S1 • E1229
Almost all of Alt-Bützenich is deserted and barricaded. At night, a security service checks that everything is in order. It was decided that the houses and the church would have to give way to opencast mining. Then climate change will bring new hope: the old village can stay. But the once sworn village community has long since lost itself with the move to Neu-Bützenich. as dr Christian Franzen, the local doctor, is informed that his vacant house has been broken into, he sets off immediately - but does not return home. His wife Betje goes to the police, who find her husband shot dead in the old village. Even though everyone here was a patient of the doctor, he was not particularly popular. During their investigations, detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk uncover a divided community. Time cannot simply be turned back here in the lignite mining area. While Schenk always drives to Cologne after work, Ballauf makes friends with the former innkeeper Karin Bongartz, who tells him a lot about the old village and the now radically changed life in the countryside near Cologne.
S1 • E1230
In Bremerhaven, one of the largest automobile transhipment ports in Europe, a body is found at one of the car terminals - the head of the driver department lies dead in the trunk of a car.
S1 • E1231
Robert Karow is called to a crime scene. Everything indicates that the young security police officer Rebecca Kästner took her own life in her apartment the night before: drugs, custody dispute, excessive demands. But when Karow finds her four-year-old son Matti in the garden, he has doubts about the suicide. What mother does that in front of her child? Then the last call from the dead to an unusual number: Susanne Bonard, a former LKA great who now teaches at the police academy. She is a luminary whose standard work everyone knows. Before Karow knows it, she is at his side for the investigation in this case. Back on the road again at 62? Bonard was in the process of uncovering right-wing tendencies at her academy, no longer wanted to put up with her director's decreed muzzle and would take action against the dubious teaching methods of her colleague Götz Lennart. During the investigation into Rebecca's death, the detectives also found connections to the right-wing scene, which Bonard quickly suspected was a large right-wing network. Karow thinks that's paranoid. Until he and her have to realize that they are actually confronted with a larger context than initially thought.
S1 • E1232
Karow investigates the murder of a police officer and discovers a right-wing extremist group in the police force and arms smuggling.
S1 • E1233
When his 17-year-old son Noah disappears, Jon Makoni turns to the police in desperation, even though it could be dangerous for him and his wife Hope to be targeted by the authorities, even though the Makonis have been living and working in Hanover for years , they have no papers and are therefore practically non-existent. The investigators Falke and Grosz first lead the search for a smuggling network to Hanover. An unknown body is found in a truck. Jon offers himself as a witness in the hopes that investigators will help him find his son. In order to clarify the identity of the dead man and to save the missing Noah from a similar fate, Falke and Grosz penetrate deep into Hanover's informal economy.
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When Peter Faber joins Jan Pawlak and Rosa Herzog in the early morning, the forensics team is almost done with their work. Tram driver Hamza Arkadas was stabbed while working the night shift. There are no witnesses, but the images from the surveillance camera show how Arkadas was first provoked and then attacked by a young passenger. The perpetrator pointed his face aggressively at the camera before fleeing, but the recordings are of little help at first. He does not seem to be known to the police, and prosecutor Matuschek does not want to go public with the pictures yet. Rosa Herzog, who took over the acting management of the homicide squad in Faber's absence, gets support from police officer Beate Gräske. She is a "super-recognizer" with the special ability to recognize faces - much better than her colleagues and the technology can do. With the help of surveillance cameras, she sets out to track down the perpetrator.
S1 • E1235
After a charity event in a posh hotel on Lake Zurich, the host of the evening is found murdered in his suite.
S1 • E1236
A passer-by is pushed in front of a moving truck on the Kiel Fjord: an outbreak of violence out of nowhere. Inspector Borowski asks around at a nearby vocational school. A little later, the chief inspector ends up in the intensive care unit with a serious head injury. Mila Sahin is of great concern. Why wasn't she with him when her colleague needed her? She suspects a connection between the senseless act and the attack on Borowski. And then there are these strange calls that reach the chief inspector on his sickbed: a girl named Finja claims to have been kidnapped by her sister Celina. Celina Lübbert is one of the girls Borowski interrogated at the vocational school. When Mila Sahin finds Celina's grandmother stabbed shortly afterwards, the question arises: How dangerous is the girl? Is Celina also responsible for the attack on Borowski? Will she harm her little sister Finja? While Borowski investigates from the hospital bed and tries to gain Celina's trust, Mila searches for the girls: a race against time.
S1 • E1237
Miriam Schenk and Paul Wolf, with their almost adult children Zoé and Benno, were a well-functioning blended family for many years. The fact that there are cracks only becomes apparent when Benno's best friend Christopher is killed and inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg also investigate those close to the Schenk-Wolf family. Chris, they find out, was involved in the Freiburg drug scene and it seems likely that his death had something to do with it. What did his close friend Benno know about it? After all, the two wanted to raise the money for a trip around the world. And Zoé was also out and about with the two of them more than their parents ever realized. Miriam and Paul's trust in their children and in each other is crumbling, while Tobler and Berg gather more and more evidence of the step-siblings' involvement in dubious and increasingly dangerous financial transactions.
S1 • E1238
Unknown people shoot a young policewoman at a traffic stop. The commissioners find out that the murderers may have come from their own ranks.
S1 • E1239
A young woman becomes the key in a case of organized crime: Azra has been working as an informant for the police for some time and, as an informant in the department for white-collar crime, is supposed to collect clues in the environment of the Datviani clan, which has grown dangerously. But then a murder occurs: the boss's brother is shot dead in front of one of his clubs, and the BKA begins investigating. When Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner arrive at the scene of the crime, it is difficult to foresee what could happen to them: an internal feud among the clan members or even a larger gang war? In any case, the people of Datviani keep their mouths shut, despite promised cooperation with the police, and the usual investigative methods only deliver disappointing results. However, when the investigators manage to get in touch with the informant Azra, the tide turns: after all, nobody gets as close to the suspects as she does. But even if the project sounds promising, it is highly risky and a real game with fire for both Eisner and Fellner as well as for Azra - which comes true at the latest when contact with her breaks off after an action and Azra can no longer be found.
S1 • E1240
After years without contact, Voss is invited by his old friend Borchert to give a sermon. But the sermon never comes. Marcus is murdered first.
S1 • E1241
Finally, there is some progress for the Stuttgart detectives in their current, dragging-on case of alleged drug trafficking resulting in death. At least that's what the message that Sebastian Bootz received from his colleague Thorsten Lannert seems to mean. The only trouble is that when Bootz finds his colleague, he's in a really good mood, but mentally far away from police work. Apparently someone gave him a hallucinogenic substance that doesn't help his concentration or memory. All that's left besides hilarity is the vague memory of an important deal that same night... Sebastian Bootz has a hard time putting the sparse clues together and tracking down the suspects. Especially since the support effort for the eager but not very goal-oriented Thorsten Lannert is high and the extraordinary potential for danger must not be ignored.
S1 • E1242
Inspectors Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern investigate the mysterious disappearance of young Boris Wolter, the branch manager at a bank who privately has a passion for medieval jousting. The trail leads to the tranquil Palatinate wine town of Deidesheim and to a breathtaking find that not only fascinates Johanna Stern: the coins found in the trunk of the missing person are centuries-old, valuable pieces of gold, apparently from that time of the Nibelungs. What initially seemed completely improbable becomes a certainty thanks to the expertise of Albert Dürr, the director of the Nibelungen Museum in Worms: the legend of the mystical gold sunk by Hagen in the Rhine is being brought to life again. The two investigators become hunters for the lost treasure, at the latest when a second corpse appears, in whose blood forensic scientist Becker secures another coin. A coin from the treasure of the Nibelungen.
S1 • E1243
Am Rande eines Waldgebietes fahren nachts zwei Autos über einen Feldweg. Darin Brix (Wolfram Koch) und weitere Polizeibeamte. Außerdem ein Verdächtiger, Anton Schilling (Niels Bormann), der kurz zuvor zur Polizei gekommen ist und berichtet hat, dass der Polizist Simon Laby (Sebastian Klein) erschossen und dann am Waldrand vergraben wurde. Die Suche verläuft schwierig. Schilling kann sich nicht mehr erinnern, wo die Stelle genau liegt. Es ist dunkel, er hat getrunken. Auch scheint er Angst zu haben. Als man schließlich das Waldhaus Labys durchsucht und dort große Mengen an Essensvorräten, Waffen, Munition und ein falsches Polizeiauto entdeckt, bekommt der Fall eine ganz neue Dimension. Ein alter Bekannter von Brix scheint in die Sache verstrickt zu sein. Brix kann oder will das zuerst nicht recht glauben. Janneke (Margarita Broich) aber vermutet schon bald, dass es bei der Suche in dieser einen Nacht nicht nur um einen Toten geht.
S1 • E1244
In the Zurich Oberland, a woman lies shot to death in a car, and two dead men lie in front of the car - also shot in the head.
S1 • E1245
Amira falls from the balcony of her apartment. Investigator Berlinger concludes it was suicide. Police Commissioner Thomas Engels doesn't believe that.
S1 • E1246
Max Winkler, head of a pig farm, lies dead on the floor in the stable. Two Schoberhof employees find the body and notify the authorities. When Moritz and Bibi arrive at the crime scene, two Romanian cousins behave suspiciously, but don't seem to be the perpetrators. And just as the forensic investigators had begun to systematically search the stable, the automatic stable cleaning suddenly started and destroyed the few remaining traces. Little is known about the victim either: Max Winkler wanted to expand and become the big player in pig breeding in Austria. However, he was unsuccessful because the project of a feed factory, which he wanted to have built in Bulgaria with the support of the EU and in cooperation with an agricultural multinational operating from Vienna, had failed. The investigators targeted an animal protection NGO that repeatedly carried out acts of protest and sabotage at the Schoberhof. But then new movement comes into the case: Supported by an official from the European Anti-Fraud Authority and a lawyer from the European Public Prosecutor's Office, Moritz and Bibi get to the bottom of Winkler's international business entanglements. Aid fraud is likely to have been carried out on a large scale - and there was an anonymous complaint against the Bulgarian company a few weeks ago, which seems to indicate precise insider knowledge at Schoberhof.
S1 • E1247
Murot confesses to his shrink that he is lonely and unhappy. Investigating two bizarre murders he encounters and succumbs to a novel way of experiencing total bliss - with harrowing side effects.
S1 • E1248
There was an attempted murder at the summit meeting of Bavarian product queens: the president of the Bavaria Association was attacked with a captive bolt gun and has been in intensive care ever since. Batic and Leitmayr discover that the victim exploited his position for sexual assault: no queen was safe from his harassment. So everyone had a motive to get back at him - including the organizer of Queen's Day. The investigators immerse themselves in the supposedly perfect world of the vegetable monarchy and investigate among hay bales, tractors and white and blue pennants; between asparagus, honey and white sausage queens from Aschaffenburg to Berchtesgaden. Fortunately, they receive support in their investigation: The Nördlingen Onion Queen is a police student in her civil life.
S1 • E1249
A woman wakes up disoriented with a knife in her hand next to her stabbed boyfriend. When Leonie Winkler arrives at the crime scene, she recognizes her as her old school friend Sarah.
S1 • E1250
The man whose body washed up in the Neckar was seriously ill and clearly drowned. However, external influence cannot be ruled out and so Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz begin investigations. Wife, son, the craft business in a village, friends, Matthias Döbele's life is examined for suspects. The inspectors are irritated when they realize that forensic pathologist Daniel Vogt recognized the dead man as a childhood friend during the examination, without sharing this knowledge. Even more irritated when they get the impression that Vogt didn't examine the dead person thoroughly enough. The case seems to be causing lasting concern for her otherwise calm colleagues. Thorsten and Sebastian don't know that shortly before his death, Matthias Döbele had asked his childhood friend Daniel Vogt to call him back in vain. This omission leaves Vogt no peace. Instead of sharing his knowledge with the inspectors, he begins to investigate himself in his hometown.
S1 • E1251
A dead infant is found in a car park near Kiel. Everyone concerned is driven by the search for perfect happiness, which in the end turns out to be a deadly trap.
S1 • E1252
Rushing through the city every day with hundreds of packages in the delivery van - in the run-up to Christmas it's pure stress for Milan Strasser. And anyone traveling for Sybille Jäger's shipping company should also wear a Santa Claus costume. As Milan is about to take packages out of the hold on his tour, a masked figure suddenly confronts him and threatens him with a knife. The young father of a family is murdered in the middle of a residential area. When Ballauf and Schenk arrive at the crime scene, almost all of the packages have been searched and emptied. Do you have to investigate a robbery-murder?
S1 • E1253
Inspector Thiel is faced with a challenge: instead of solving a murder, this time he has to prevent one. Meanwhile, Professor Boerne tries to be a patron, Silke Haller goes looking for clues with Mirko Schrader. The reason for all this is Stan Gold, a long-lost son of the city who has returned to his homeland from the Paraguayan jungle. Gold is not only now a star author, but also Münster's new city clerk - and a former classmate of Thiel's. Only back then his name was not Stan Gold, but simply Hotte Koslowski and he was otherwise rather mediocre. It is only thanks to the courageous intervention of Professor Boerne that he can enjoy his late triumph for more than a few hours. As soon as the new city clerk is elected, he almost dies of anaphylactic shock. And that's just the beginning of a whole series of dramatic events in which Stan Gold becomes involved.
S1 • E1254
When the sculptor Annette Baer finds her adult son Lucas with bloody hands in the bathroom of their shared apartment at night, she knows that something terrible has happened - even if Lucas claims to have done nothing. The next morning, inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix are called to the body of young Cara Mauersberger. Cara came from the small Saxon town of Döbeln and had only moved to Frankfurt a few months ago. Leon Hamann, a property management employee, discovered the dead woman. The knife wounds in Cara's body indicate an emotional act, the smashed balcony door indicates a break-in. But Hamann, who has apparently been watching Cara closely, knows that the dead woman had an argument with her boyfriend the day before. So it doesn't take long until Janneke and Brix find a connection between Cara and Lucas Baer. Annette Baer manages to divert the focus of the police investigation from her son. Instead, the commissioners discover that Cara was a gamer in her free time and commented live on her games on a streaming platform under the pseudonym Chipmunk. The fact that she openly refused sexist depictions did not only earn her goodwill in the male-dominated scene. Her follower CancelChipmunk, who pursues an aggressive, ideologically colored agenda online, is targeted by the commissioners. Is Lucas, who like his mother very talented artistically, who wanted to develop a game design with Cara? Just as Janneke and Brix discover CancelChipmunk's identity, psychology student Denise is also found murdered.
S1 • E1255
A stranger asks Thorsten Falke to meet him. He hopes, he says, that the commissioner will keep a promise that is more than 20 years old and help him out of an emergency. Since the stranger demands a commitment without revealing the further circumstances, Falke refuses. Shortly afterwards the man is pulled dead from the Elbe. It turns out he had been living under a false identity. In order to find out who the man really was, Falke and his colleague Julia Grosz have to delve deep into their own past. And with the man the two ultimately suspect, nothing seems to be as initially assumed.
S1 • E1256
An unknown man is found dead on the banks of the Rhine. He suffered a heart attack. However, he was not alone at the time of his death; someone previously sprayed pepper spray into his face. The investigators notice a mysterious witness.
S1 • E1257
The opportunity of a lifetime comes to André Stamm out of nowhere. A comrade from his army days offers him a promising job at the investment company "Concreta". Brock Andersen made a lot of money with the company.
S1 • E1258
Shortly before closing time, a jeweler in Stuttgart is robbed. He himself is injured and his customer dies while trying to escape. The robbers' actions are similar to an attack from the previous year.
S1 • E1259
The investigators argue because Leo Hölzer had to discover that his partner Adam Schürk was in possession of the loot from his late father's bank robbery. Shortly afterwards Leo is almost run over by a car on the country road.
S1 • E1260
After the murder of an inmate in the prison, Inspectors Leitmayr and Batic have to move their office to the prison with the help of Kalli Hammermann, who was recently promoted to senior inspector, in order to investigate between the fronts of two rival prison groups with the support of correctional officer Claussen. Their leaders are driven by power games, vigilantism and corrupt dealings, making it extremely difficult for the police to solve the murder. When the model prisoner Scholz, who was released at the same time and who finally wants to live with his musically gifted son Ferdinand again, comes into the sights of the investigators, events come to a head for Leitmayr and Batic. Is the boy in danger?
S1 • E1261
Kriminaldirektor Liebig feiert im Göttinger Polizeipräsidium seinen 60. Geburtstag, als das Fest jäh gestört wird: In der angrenzenden Altstadt gab es einen schweren Unfall. Ein Transporter ist in eine Menschenmenge gerast. Charlotte Lindholm und Liebigs Ehefrau Tereza, Ärztin am örtlichen Krankenhaus, sind als Erste am Unfallort. Ilie, der Fahrer des Wagens, wird auf die Intensivstation der Klinik gebracht. Parallel beginnen die Ermittlungen: Was, wenn es eine Amokfahrt war? Aber aus welchem Motiv sollte Ilie diese schreckliche Tat begangen haben? Um das zu klären, tauchen Charlotte Lindholm und Anaïs Schmitz ein in die Welt der Niedriglohnarbeiter: Der Fahrer war für einen Paketdienst unterwegs. Dieser bestreitet jede Verantwortung und verweist auf den Subunternehmer Mischa. Der sieht sich in die Enge getrieben und versucht zusammen mit seiner Frau Jutta, die als Krankenschwester bei den Schwerstverletzten arbeitet, die Ermittlungen abzuwehren. Als sich Charlotte Lindholm in ihren Ermittlungen von Kriminaldirektorat Liebig nicht genügend unterstützt fühlt, bittet sie den Ehemann ihrer Kollegin, Gerichtsmediziner Nick Schmitz, um Hilfe.
S1 • E1262
Hauptkommissar Faber ist zurück im Dienst, doch sein Job als Chef der Mordkommission ist erstmal weg. Und Staatsanwalt Matuschek hätte nichts dagegen, wenn sich daran auch nichts mehr ändern würde. Kommissarisch übernimmt nun erst einmal Fabers Kollegin Rosa Herzog die Leitung. Hauptkommissar Jan Pawlak hingegen hat offenbar nur noch wenig Interesse an seinem Job. Stattdessen vergnügt er sich lieber im Wettbüro "Mutluluk" (türkisch für "Glück") von Alkim Celik. Als Celiks Schwager Lukas Becker tot aufgefunden wird, steht das "Mutluluk" plötzlich im Fokus der Ermittlungen. Auch ein alter Bekannter von Faber erscheint jetzt wieder auf der Bildfläche: Tarim Abakay ist nicht nur Präsident des Fußball-Regionalliga-Clubs TUS Hörde, auch im Dortmunder Drogen- und Glücksspielgeschäft hat er seine Finger im Spiel. Dieses Mal will Faber ihn nicht davonkommen lassen. Doch sein Spürsinn bleibt nicht lange ohne Folgen: Auf dem Parkplatz vor dem Pflegeheim seines Vaters wird Faber von Ira Klasnic und ihren beiden bewaffneten Begleitern abgefangen. Hat Abakay sie geschickt?
S1 • E1263
The notoriously unfaithful Tobias Exner has been cheating on his wife Greta, from whose money he lives, for a long time. With his anonymous acquaintance "Kitty13", whom he met on a dating portal, Tobias plans to murder his wife in order to be rich and free. He already has a plan to make her disappear. But before Tobias Exner can implement his plan, he himself disappears without a trace. All lines of investigation lead Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin to the mysterious dating contact.
S1 • E1264
Der Clubbesitzer Otto Hübner, ein bunter Hund in der Wiener Nachtszene, wird erschossen aufgefunden. Kommissarin Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) muss am Morgen ohne ihren Partner zum Tatort fahren. Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer), der am Abend zuvor seinen 60. Geburtstag gefeiert hat, schläft noch seinen Rausch aus. Ein Verdacht fällt auf den Geschäftsführer Georgios Sideris (Eidin Seyed Jalali), mit dem das Opfer wegen verschwundener Einnahmen im Streit lag. Als Eisner, kaum wieder im Dienst, Sideris vernehmen will, schießt der Mann auf den Kommissar. Die Kugel streift Eisner nur, doch schon bald kommen ernste Probleme auf ihn zu. Tatortspuren und andere Indizien machen ihn zum Verdächtigen. Obwohl sich Eisner nach einem Filmriss an wenig erinnert, glaubt Bibi seinen Unschuldsbeteuerungen. Bei einem Hersteller von lebensechten 3-D-Masken stoßen die beiden auf Social-Media-Fotos des Ermittlers, die Lukas (Julius Feldmeier), der neue Freund von Eisners Tochter Claudia (Tanja Raunig), gepostet hat. Zwar glaubt Polizeichef "Ernstl" Rauter (Hubert Kramar) an Eisners Unschuld, doch "die Interne" zögert nicht, den Kollegen wegen Mordverdacht festzunehmen. Um herauszufinden, wer dem Kommissar einen Mord anhängen will, muss Bibi nicht nur einen Killer ausfindig machen, sondern sich auch früheren Fällen zuwenden.
S1 • E1265
Hauptkommissar Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) und Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) entdecken diesmal Ungeheuerliches in des Deutschen liebster Oase: dem Schrebergarten. Ist die idyllische Kleingartenanlage mitten im malerischen Münster tatsächlich ein Tatort? Oder hat hier eine ältere Dame auf ganz natürlichem Weg das Zeitliche gesegnet? Hauptkommissar Thiel und Professor Boerne scheinen überqualifiziert: Die tote Sabine Schmidt (Sybille Canonica) ist äußerlich völlig unversehrt, sie war bei allen beliebt, die Anlage strahlt eine harmlose Gemütlichkeit aus. Doch wie kam es zu den beiden toten Eichhörnchen direkt neben ihr, die anscheinend zeitgleich verstorben sind? Thiel findet nicht nur das merkwürdig, auch die anderen Pächter der Anlage scheinen etwas zu verbergen. Und so nimmt er sich gemeinsam mit seinem Assistenten Mirko Schrader (Björn Meyer) unter anderem Sabines spröden Nachbarn Klaus Karger (Tobias van Dieken) zur Brust, der eine ganz besondere Beziehung zu seiner Parzelle hat. Dazu zeigt der Historiker Ulrich Winer (Hans-Uwe Bauer) auffälliges Interesse an Thiels Ermittlungen, während seine Frau Vera (Almut Zilcher) das alles für Zeitverschwendung hält. Als der Professor in der Rechtsmedizin noch an der genauen Todesursache knobelt, fällt seiner pflanzenkundigen Assistentin Silke Haller (ChrisTine Urspruch) eine weitere Unregelmäßigkeit in Sabines Parzelle auf, die das Team zu Ermittlungen von internationaler Tragweite führt.
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Ein Mikroabenteuer wird zum Horror: Die Freundinnen Ayla Ömer (Pegah Ferydoni), Viola Klemm (Sophie Lutz) und Marlene Seifert (Inez Bjørg David) versuchen, ohne technische Hilfsmittel aus dem tiefen Wald zurück nach Hause zu finden. Sie wollen damit testen, ob dieses "Dropping" im unbekannten Terrain für ihre behüteten Teenager-Kinder sicher ist. Aber als die Nacht einbricht, sind die drei Nachbarinnen aus dem gutbürgerlichen Bremen-Schwachhausen im Wald verloren - und am nächsten Morgen ist eine von ihnen tot. Die Bremer Ermittlerinnen Liv Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) und Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram) treffen auf viele Ungereimtheiten und zahlreiche Verdächtige. Da ist einerseits der "Handy-Mann" (Alexander Wüst), der vor Jahren Camperinnen beim Schlafen heimlich fotografierte und verdächtigt wird, eine Frau ermordet zu haben. Andererseits bekommt die scheinbar heile Fassade der wohlsituierten Nachbarschaft mit den Ehemännern Klaus Seifert (Henning Baum), Emre Ömer (Özgür Karadeniz) und Mirko Klemm (Matthias Lier) nach und nach Risse. Auch unter den Teenager-Kindern (Lucy Gartner, Joel Akgün, Carl Bagnar, Marie Becker) herrscht Streit. Die Tante von Selb, Johanna Selb (Claudia Geisler-Bading), hat jede Menge Insider-Infos zu den Verdächtigen.
S1 • E1267
Workers find a female torso in a sewer beneath Munich Central Station. During their investigation, Batic, Leitmayr and Hammermann come across disturbing violent videos on the Internet. The cases seem to be connected and it quickly becomes clear that there could be another murder soon. In their desperate search for the perpetrator, the detectives encounter a frightening world of crimes displayed online - and end up in danger themselves.
S1 • E1268
At a crime scene in the zoo, detectives Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean experience a surprise: the victim is a chimpanzee. Although public prosecutor Anita Wegenast classifies the terrible act as damage to property in a formally legally correct but morally questionable way, Tessa, indignant, continues to investigate on her own. But little by little, more and more bodies appear in Zurich, which at first glance have little in common. There could also be a crime behind the disappearance of a suspect. The investigator Ott and Grandjean are forced to act. Only when they recognize a pattern in the actions can they solve the murder mystery. However, the fact that her careerist superior Wegenast, who is well connected and working on her promotion, wants to take advantage of the results of the investigation turns out to be a risky move in a political game.
S1 • E1269
A man was killed in a secret location under a bridge. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk find out that the victim, the unemployed Peer Schwarz, was deliberately run over by a car. In his apartment they find large amounts of cash and documents that point to the systematic blackmail of well-known personalities. Schwarz obviously looked for incriminating material in their social media past. Did Peer Schwarz have to die at the hands of one of his own blackmail victims? A trail also leads Ballauf and Schenk to the popular former pop singer Mariella Rosanelli, who now runs a youth center. During the investigation, an argument breaks out between Ballauf and Schenk. Freddy accuses Max of not really paying attention. He isn't either, because Nicola Koch, editor of the city magazine "Cologne Alive", has recently won Max Ballauf's heart. Just another short affair, as Schenk suspects, or will Max Ballauf finally settle down? When Ballauf realizes that there could be a possible connection between his private happiness and the current case, his newfound work-love balance becomes a tightrope act for him.
S1 • E1270
In Berlin-Lichtenberg a man died in his house from multiple stab wounds, but there are no signs of a break-in or evidence of robbery. Karow and Bonard are on the case.
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Hansi Pagel sitzt schon einige Jahre im Maßregelvollzug ein, verurteilt wegen Gewalt gegen seine Ehefrau Andrea und die Kinder. In den Fokus der Kommissare Franziska Tobler und Friedemann Berg gerät er, als die Psychologin und psychiatrische Gutachterin Lisa Schieblon erdrosselt im Kofferraum ihres Wagens gefunden wird. Schieblon arbeitete an einem neuen Gutachten zu Pagels Persönlichkeitsstörung, von dem er selbst sich seine Freilassung versprach. Eine These, die entschiedene Gegner hat: Andrea Pagel und der Sohn Leo sind froh, dass der aggressive Hansi sicher eingesperrt ist, und wollen auf gar keinen Fall, dass er wieder zur Familie zurückkehrt. Zimmergenosse Milan Vukovic erträgt es nicht, dass Hansi, die wichtigste Stütze seines prekären emotionalen Gleichgewichts, die forensische Klinik verlässt. Und die Ärzte der Klinik halten ihn weiterhin für gefährlich. Zumal sich herausstellt, dass Hansi gegen alle Regeln allein mit der Gutachterin am Schauinsland unterwegs war.
S1 • E1272
Up-and-coming rapper Ted Candy is found dead and his entourage is crawling with suspects. In order to track down the killer, detectives Fellner and Eisner have to delve deep into the Viennese underworld.
S1 • E1273
Tobias Benzinger is shot dead, a young lawyer in a law firm with a considerable number of rather shady clients and a high success rate in criminal cases. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg suspect that his death could have something to do with the law firm's cases. The head of the law firm, Rainer Benzinger, is extremely negative towards this theory. He retreats entirely into attorney-client confidentiality, refuses to allow any insight into his clients' affairs, and is not swayed by the fact that Tobias was his stepson. Friedemann Berg is outraged by this behavior, especially since he has learned that the two Benzingers had different opinions about the direction of the law firm. While he uses an informant to find out more, Franziska Tobler involves her father in the investigation. Bruno Tobler had dealt with Rainer Benzinger's cases during his active time with the police and had even encountered the weapon with which Tobias Benzinger was killed. Before this leads to any concrete results, an attack is carried out on Rainer Benzinger.
S1 • E1274
Psychologist Tristan can't cope with his dysfunctional family, cracks up and inadvertently kills a cop. Fate has it that the police ask him to treat the surviving family of the deceased. He is unable to confess and spirals out of control.
S1 • E1275
Everyone in prison liked Lenni who took his own life and everyone believed his innocence. Shortly afterwards, another death occurs. At the end two families, united in grief and loss, face each other, separated by anger and guilt.
S1 • E1276
WW2 criminal Hagen is transferred to Germany to face trial. In 1944 he and Rother investigated the murder of a British pilot who crashed near a German village. He was carrying documents detailing the Allied invasion scheduled for June 6.
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Eine ehrgeizige Anwältin, die ihren Mandanten Erfolge vor Gericht erstreitet. Die die Schwächen der Gegenseite ausnutzt und an den Rändern des Berufsethos' agiert. Sollte sie im aktuellen Fall der Ludwigshafener Kommissarinnen zum Mordopfer werden? Autor und Regisseur Martin Eigler lotet im 80. Lena-Odenthal-"Tatort" das Machtgefälle vor Gericht aus, wenn geringerer sozialer Status die Chancen beeinflusst, seine Interessen durchzusetzen. In der Kanzlei von Anwältin Patricia Prinz wird ihr Ehemann erschossen. Jasper Ünel war ebenfalls Jurist, doch bei den Ermittlungen von Lena Odenthal und Johanna Stern erweist sich seine ehrgeizige Frau als diejenige, die Aggressionen auf sich gezogen hat: Patricia Prinz agiert tough und nutzt im Interesse ihrer Mandanten alle Spielräume des Rechtssystems aus. Aktuell ist es Marie Polat, vor kurzem fristlos als Mitarbeiterin eines Callcenters gekündigt, die Prinz' Geschick und Skrupellosigkeit vor Gericht nicht gewachsen ist. Für die junge Frau hängt nicht nur ihr Job, sondern auch das Sorgerecht für ihren Sohn davon ab, dass sie den Prozess gegen das Callcenter gewinnt. Lena Odenthal und Johanna Stern erleben, wie massiv Polats Glaubwürdigkeit im Prozess von Patricia Prinz untergraben wird. Als Marie Polats Prozessgegner, der Manager des Callcenters, vermisst wird, vermuten die Kommissarinnen, dass die beiden Fälle zusammenhängen. Aber nicht nur Marie Polat gerät in den Verdacht, das Recht in die eigenen Hände genommen zu haben, auch Lena Odenthal sieht sich dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt, sich nicht an das gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Vorgehen gehalten zu haben. In einem internen Verfahren ist sie plötzlich Beschuldigte wegen ungerechtfertigten Schusswaffengebrauchs, mit Johanna Stern als Hauptzeugin.
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Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) wird von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt. Vor neun Jahren kam ihr Bruder Martin bei einem Einsatz im Dienst ums Leben. Er arbeitete damals auf der gleichen Wache wie die beiden Polizisten, die jetzt bei einer Verkehrskontrolle an einer Landstraße niedergeschossen wurden. Zusammen mit ihrer Kollegin Karin Gorniak (Karin Hanczewski) und dem Kommissariatsleiter Peter Michael Schnabel (Martin Brambach) koordiniert Leonie Winkler unter Hochdruck eine großangelegte Suchaktion nach dem Schützen, der unerkannt entkommen konnte. Doch der Fall wirft Fragen auf: Weshalb war Leonie Winkler ganz in der Nähe, als die Tat passierte? Und warum ergriffen die beiden jungen Polizistinnen Leila Demiray (Aybi Era) und Anna Stade (Paula Kroh), die bei der Schießerei ebenfalls vor Ort waren, die Flucht, statt die Verfolgung des Täters aufzunehmen? Revierleiter Jens Riebold (Andreas Lust) legt für seine Leute die Hand ins Feuer. Doch den Kommissarinnen scheint auf seiner Wache etwas suspekt. Vor allem Winkler ist sich sicher, dass es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem aktuellen Fall und dem Tod ihres Bruders gibt. Sie beginnt eigene Recherchen und gerät dabei nicht nur in Konflikt mit ihrem Vater (Uwe Preuss). Während Winkler, Gorniak und Schnabel bei ihren Ermittlungen mit Vertuschung, ungutem Korpsgeist und falsch verstandener Loyalität in den eigenen Reihen konfrontiert sind, geraten sie selbst unter Feuer.
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When a body is found on the beach, Borowski and Sahin are confronted with many leads. At the same time, a mysterious woman becomes the focus of the investigators, but tracking her down turns out to be more difficult than expected.
S1 • E1280
Hanna Riedle has only just moved away from her village and started a new life in the city when she becomes the victim of a violent crime. During their investigation, detectives Lannert and Bootz discover that she has left in a dispute.
S1 • E1281
When the janitor of one of Cologne's largest brothels falls to his death from the seventh floor, Ballauf and Schenk are called to the scene. Evidence quickly mounts that the victim was pushed and other people's lives might be in danger.
S1 • E1282
After the death of his colleague Grosz, Thorsten Falke is taking a break in the remote St. Joseph monastery when the parish pastor dies in a fire. Child pornography material is found in his estate, which confirms Falke and his colleague Eve Pötter's suspicion that the fire may have been set intentionally.
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Christmas in Bremen: Investigators Liv Moormann and Linda Selb are on holiday duty. That suits them just fine, because both are happy not to have to celebrate with their families. Then they are called to a crime scene.
S1 • E1284
The body of the lawyer Oskar Weintraub lies - completely pierced by the spear of an exotic warrior sculpture - in the middle of Doreen Prätorius' house. How did this fragile-looking woman end up in this situation?
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Adventszeit in Zürich. Wer möchte jetzt allein sein? Kommissarin Isabelle Grandjean lernt auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt den gutaussehenden Marek aus Warschau kennen. Spontan lässt sie sich auf ein Abenteuer mit dem verführerischen Unbekannten ein. Stunden später erhält die Kripobeamtin eine kryptische Nachricht mitsamt GPS-Koordinaten. Ohne ihre Kollegin Tessa Ott zu informieren, fährt Grandjean zu dem Ort. Dort findet sie eine Leiche, die an einen früheren Fall erinnert: einen Doppelmord, dessen Aufklärung den Grundstein für ihre steile Polizeikarriere legte. Eine antike Münze im Mund des vergifteten Opfers lässt die Ermittlerin verschwinden. Während sich Tess und Staatsanwältin Anita Wegenast einarbeiten, versucht Grandjean auf eigene Faust einen fatalen Fehler gutzumachen. Sie glaubt, dass der damalige Täter, der sich im Gefängnis das Leben nahm, einen Komplizen hatte. Oder gibt es einen Nachahmer? Als sich Grandjean wieder mit Marek trifft, ahnt sie jedoch nicht, wer er wirklich ist.
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A young woman is arrested in an Asian shop. She is completely beside herself. Her clothes, hands and face are covered in blood. She is holding a knife in one hand. Did she commit murder? And what about the "Chinese dog" that is said to have seen everything? The Dortmund homicide squad team is initially in the dark. But then the fine gold chain that the young woman is wearing around her neck provides a clue to her identity. A jeweler recognizes the piece of jewelry: he had made the valuable chain several years ago for the Dortmund steel dynasty Haiden family. The suspect is the 25-year-old daughter of the factory owner family. She claims to have killed someone, but can't remember anything. All in all, a murky case with traces from the Ruhr area to China.
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Paul wird auf offener Straße entführt. Eine aufmerksame Nachbarin wird vom Entführer getötet, bevor sie eine Aussage machen kann. Zwar geht eine Lösegeldforderung bei den Eltern ein - aber die Kommissarinnen Lena Odenthal und Johanna Stern stellen fest, dass es sich um ein Ablenkungsmanöver handelt. Der Fall ähnelt frappierend einer neun Jahre zurückliegenden Entführung, bei der der damals neunjährige Swen nach Monaten der Gefangenschaft äußerlich unbeschadet freikam, der oder die Täter:in aber bis heute nicht ermittelt werden konnte. Swen scheint die schrecklichen Erlebnisse seiner Kindheit überstanden zu haben. Aber er kann den Kommissarinnen dennoch nicht weiterhelfen, auch wenn es Johanna Stern gelingt, ein gutes Verhältnis zu dem labilen jungen Mann aufzubauen. Den Kommissarinnen wird klar, dass Swen von Gespenstern aus seinen Kindheitserlebnissen verfolgt wird und er immer noch traumatisiert ist. Sie brauchen seine Erinnerung, um den Weg zum Entführer zu finden.
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Schulden eintreiben ist sein Job. Und darauf versteht sich Fabian Pavlou bestens. Bei der international tätigen Firma Correct Inkasso gilt er als einer der erfolgreichsten Außendienstmitarbeiter. Doch jetzt wurde Pavlou auf dem Nachhauseweg brutal überfallen. Als die Kommissare Max Ballauf und Freddy Schenk am Tatort erscheinen, fehlt vom Opfer jede Spur. Hat einer der Schuldner, mit denen der Inkasso-Manager zuletzt zu tun hatte, sich gerächt - oder keinen anderen Ausweg gesehen? Da gibt es zum Beispiel die Steuerfachangestellte Stefanie Schreiter, der wegen der Schulden ihres Ex-Mannes eine Lohnpfändung bevorsteht. Oder den vollkommen überschuldeten Masseur Timo Eckhoff , der seine Stromrechnung nicht mehr bezahlen kann. Oder das Ehepaar Monika und Jost Lehnen, dem die Zwangsversteigerung ihres Eigenheims droht ... Da melden sich die Kollegen von der Fahndung. Sie haben Pavlous Handy geortet. Auf einem Autobahnrastplatz in der Nähe von Köln. Doch der Punkt auf der Karte bewegt sich. Max Ballauf nimmt sofort die Verfolgung auf.
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In a dimly lit apartment in Kiel, Detectives Borowski and Sahin discover a 40-year-old insurance agent shot in her bed. An erotic party was held the night before, and traces of multiple sexual partners and drugs linger in the air.
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Zu allem entschlossene Geiselnehmer, ein Kommissar unter den Geiseln und der andere am Eingreifen gehindert - Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz müssen im "Tatort - Verblendung" unter Zeitdruck und hoher emotionaler Belastung arbeiten. Sebastian Bootz ist unter den Gästen einer Stuttgarter Filmpremiere, als die Leinwand plötzlich schwarz wird und ein Mann und eine Frau das Publikum mit Waffengewalt bedrohen. Panik bricht aus, etliche Menschen können fliehen, Schüsse fallen - und ein Securitymitarbeiter liegt tot am Boden. Als Sebastian Bootz dessen Waffe ergreift, um die Geiselnehmer aufzuhalten, wird er bedroht und schießt den Mann an. Doch die Täter lassen sich dadurch nicht aufhalten. Bootz wird entwaffnet und mit den verbliebenen Gästen zu Geiseln der beiden Unbekannten. Weil es ihm gelungen ist, unbemerkt Thorsten Lannert zu verständigen, gehört der zu den ersten, die in der Einsatzzentrale die Arbeit aufnehmen. Fieberhaft arbeiten er und die Mitglieder des Krisenstabs daran, herauszufinden, wer die Geiselnehmer sind, wie man sie stoppen und weitere Tote verhindern kann. Und was von deren Forderung zu halten ist, in Stammheim einsitzende Verbrecher freizulassen, weil die angeblich in Lebensgefahr schweben. Viel hängt von der Zusammenarbeit unter den beiden Kommissaren ab und die muss sich jetzt auf Entfernung beweisen.
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Saarbrücken, tief in der Nacht. Eine Explosion zerreißt die Stille. Die schlaflose Hauptkommissarin Pia Heinrich ist als Erste am Tatort: Bei einem brutalen Überfall auf einen Geldtransporter wurde ein Wachmann getötet. Als die Hauptkommissare Leo Hölzer und Adam Schürk eintreffen, bietet sich ihnen ein verstörendes Bild, das eine gewaltige Explosion hinterlassen hat. Was bedeutet die auf die Straße gesprühte Zahl? Führt eine Spur zu einer international gesuchten Verbrecherbande ins benachbarte Frankreich? Hauptkommissarin Esther Baumann aktiviert ihre Kontakte zur französischen Polizei. Oder weiß der überlebende Wachmann doch mehr, als er zugibt? Kaum hat das Team die Ermittlungen aufgenommen, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse und Pia gerät in Gefahr.
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Janusz vanishes during a high school graduation party. After a classmate reports him dead, he's run over on a country road. Detectives Winkler, Gorniak, and Schnabel investigate, uncovering secrets among Janusz's friends and family.
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Am helllichten Tag wird im Zentrum von Berlin, nahe am U-Bahnhof Friedrichstraße ein Mann aus großer Entfernung von einem Scharfschützen erschossen. Susanne Bonard (Corinna Harfouch) und Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) stehen unter Druck - und unter Beobachtung: Die Vorkehrungen für einen großen Staatsbesuch in Berlin laufen und die Innensenatorin ist durch den Mord beunruhigt, Staatsanwältin Taghavi (Jasmin Tabatabai) verlangt schnellstmögliche Aufklärung. Der Tote, Jürgen Weghorst, war ein aufstrebender Jungpolitiker, der sich nach einer Affäre aus der Politik zurückgezogen hatte. Zuletzt arbeitete er als Berater für einen Interessensverband der Lebensmittelwirtschaft. Bonard und Karow ermitteln zunächst in alle Richtungen. Ulrike Menzel (Tara Marie Linke), die Chefin des Lebensmittelverbandes, lässt sie allerdings kalt abblitzen. Was hat sie zu verbergen? Das erste Attentat entpuppt sich schnell als Auftakt einer Mordserie, als nur wenige Stunden später Elizabeta Alvarez (Clelia Sarto), eine führende Beraterin für politische Kommunikation, während eines Banketts direkt vor Karows Augen erschossen wird. Um herauszufinden, was die beiden Opfer miteinander verband, begeben sich Karow und Bonard mitten im politischen Berlin in Welten, die auch ihnen verschlossen sind. Während Karow die mühsame Ermittlungsarbeit unter Zeitdruck zunehmend wütend macht, versucht Bonard einen kühlen Kopf zu bewahren. Jürgen Weghorst wollte am Tag seiner Ermordung einem Journalisten ein großes Exklusiv-Interview geben, das im Zusammenhang mit einem Untersuchungsausschuss gestanden haben könnte, der Weghorst zu seiner Reise 2021 nach Afghanistan befragte. Die Menschenrechtsaktivistin Soraya Barakzay (Pegah Ferydoni) setzt sich für die Rechte der ehemaligen Ortskräfte in Afghanistan ein, deren Situation auch Jahre später immer noch ungeklärt ist. Sie hat Weghorst erst kürzlich bei einer Demonstration bedroht. Hat sie etwas mit den Morden zu tun? Der Täter scheint dem Ermittlerteam ständig einen Schritt voraus zu sein. Bonard und Karow arbeiten gegen die Zeit: Hat der Killer bereits das nächste Opfer im Visier?
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Detectives Leitmayr and Batic are called in to investigate the murder of a woman found in an abandoned military vehicle during a NATO training exercise. Teaming up with Military Police, they dive into an so called embedded investigation.
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A group of friends from Cologne's 1990s techno scene reunites at a DJ's funeral, where dark secrets from their past begin to resurface.
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With only days left until his retirement, Borowski uncovers a chilling case linked to a dark house. As he investigates, he's stalked by a killer who anticipates his every move, all while racing against time before his career ends.
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Eine tödliche Eskalation in einer Gondel, ein unberechenbares Paar auf der Flucht durch den Schwarzwald und eine aufgebrachte Bevölkerung: Franziska Tobler und Friedemann Berg sehen sich einem Fall ohne erkennbares Motiv, aber mit großem äußerem Druck gegenüber. Christina Ebelt schrieb und inszenierte den "Tatort: Die große Angst" mit Eva Löbau und Hans-Jochen Wagner, in dem Pina Bergemann und Benjamin Lillie in den Episodenhauptrollen zu sehen sind. Es ist heiß, es ist eng - die schwangere Nina und ihr Mann Sven stehen unter Stress, als sie in die Seilbahngondel einsteigen, die sie vom Gipfel ins Tal bringen soll. Während der Fahrt gerät Nina in Streit mit einem der Mitfahrer. Daraus wird ein Handgemenge. Als die Gondel an der Talstation ankommt, ist der Mann tot. Franziska Tobler und Friedemann Berg werden von den Zeugen aus der Gondel auf Nina und Sven hingewiesen. Doch dem Paar ist es gelungen, unbemerkt zu verschwinden. Mit allen verfügbaren Einsatzkräften suchen die Kommissare nach den Flüchtigen und forschen parallel nach einem Motiv für Ninas unberechenbares Verhalten. Sie können nicht sicher sein, wie gefährlich die beiden tatsächlich sind, die sie in den Tiefen des Schwarzwalds auftreiben müssen. Dabei stehen die Kommissare unter doppeltem Druck, denn der Fahndungsaufruf hat Ängste in der Bevölkerung hervorgerufen, die drohen, sich zur Hetzjagd zu steigern.
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Ira Klasnic will, dass Rosa Herzog und Peter Faber einen tödlichen Autounfall mit Fahrerflucht aufklären. Doch schnell wird klar, dass vielleicht mehr hinter der Geschichte steckt. Bei dem Unfallopfer Angela Herrig handelt es sich um die Ex-Freundin des mutmaßlichen Clan-Mitglieds Lorik Duka. Hatte er noch eine Rechnung mit ihr offen? Laut Obduktionsbericht von Dr. Greta Leitner muss der Fahrer sie mit hoher Geschwindigkeit frontal getroffen haben. Da erscheint plötzlich ein alter Bekannter auf der Bildfläche: Ira Klasnic hat Kommissar Daniel Kossik vom LKA eingeschaltet. Früher war Faber sein Chef. Die beiden gerieten immer wieder aneinander und sind nicht im Guten auseinandergegangen.
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After an exuberant party at the medical faculty, where Chief Inspector Frank Thiel and Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne were also celebrating more or less exuberantly, the body of student Chris Haffmeister (Jonas Stenzel) is discovered. He has died as a result of a mysterious stab wound. During the autopsy, forensic pathologist Boerne quickly realizes that Chris was not alone in his last moments. As the investigation progresses, the team delves deeper and deeper into the world of university life in Münster. When another murder takes place, the case becomes increasingly opaque. Together with Silke Haller (ChrisTine Urspruch), Professor Boerne and his students finally carry out a groundbreaking experiment that sheds light on the case.
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Bibi und Moritz stecken in der Krise. Moritz glaubt, Bibi überlegt, zu einer anderen Dienststelle zu wechseln, und Moritz' unausgesprochene Reaktion darauf bringt Bibi an den Rand der Verzweiflung. Um den Tod eines egomanischen Gourmetchefs aufzuklären, muss sich das kriselnde Ermittler:innen-Duo Adele Neuhauser und Harald Krassnitzer also auch auf sich selbst besinnen. Den Anstoß dazu holt sich Bibi bei "Inkasso Heinzi" Simon Schwarz als zugewandtem Knastorakel. Auch die weiteren Episodenrollen sind mit u. a. Martina Ebm, bekannt aus "Vorstadtweiber", und dem 2024 mit dem Deutschen Filmpreis ausgezeichneten Simon Morzé exzellent besetzt. Regisseur Gerald Liegel bettet die spannende Krimihandlung in eine brillant erzählte Milieustudie ein: Hinter der Küchentür eines Nobellokals köchelt ein Sud aus Ausbeutung, Übergriffigkeit und Affären ... Im Wiener Gourmettempel "Efeukron" von Chefkoch André Brauer (Daniel Keberle) werden jeden Tag die Messer gewetzt - wortwörtlich zum Kochen, aber auch sprichwörtlich untereinander. Während die wohlbetuchte Kundschaft gediegen speist, herrschen in Brauers Küche ein vergiftetes Betriebsklima und militärische Sitten: Wenn in der "Brigade" jemand fällt, rückt in der Hierarchie der Nächste auf. Als der egomanische Chef - nach einer Zecherei mit seinem Team und ohne Ehefrau Alicia (Martina Ebm) - vor seinem Wohnhaus erstochen aufgefunden wird, suchen Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) und ihr Kollege Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) beim Personal nach der Tatwaffe und dem Täter. Ins Visier geraten dabei gleich mehrere Angestellte; zudem auch ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter, der wegen einer kaum nachvollziehbaren Kleinigkeit an die frische Luft gesetzt wurde, mehrere Frauen, mit denen Brauer kurze sexuelle Verhältnisse hatte, und seine eifersüchtige Ehefrau. Diese wiederum hatte ihrerseits ein Verhältnis mit dem Souschef Lars (Simon Morzé), der ein Geheimnis hütet, von dem nur er, Brauer und sein Bruder, der einschlägig vorbestrafte Ex-Junkie "Ratte" (Manuel Sefciuc), etwas wussten.
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Im Schutz einer dichten Menschenmasse tötet ein Messerstecher in Hannover zwei Menschen. Die überregional einberufene Ermittlungsgruppe, zu der auch die beiden Hauptkommissare Thorsten Falke und Anaïs Schmitz gehören, steht vor einer schweren Aufgabe: Es gibt keine Spur des Täters. Und es besteht die Gefahr, dass er erneut zuschlägt. Um mögliche Anhaltspunkte zu gewinnen, wird entschieden, die neuartige Software KROISOS anzuwenden. Das Programm präsentiert nach einer umfassenden Datenanalyse schnell einen wahrscheinlichen Täter: den psychisch kranken René Kowalski. Dessen Schwester Nora hält es jedoch für ausgeschlossen, dass ihr Bruder der Täter ist. Auch Falke bleibt skeptisch. Da geschieht eine weitere Tat, die mit der ersten beinahe identisch ist und alle Gewissheiten umstößt.
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Die Weltspitze des Schachs kommt zu einem Turnier in den Alpen zusammen: sieben Männer und eine Frau. Die "Königin" Natalie Laurent (Roxane Duran) ist genial, provokant und möglicherweise eine Betrügerin, was ihr in der Männerdomäne Schach viele Feinde eingebracht hat. Als Laurents Sekundantin vom Dach des Nobel-Resorts in den Tod stürzt, gibt es viele Hypothesen: War ein Frauenhasser am Werk? Sollte eine Mitwisserin zum Schweigen gebracht werden? Oder hat sie sich selbst das Leben genommen? Während des laufenden Turniers müssen Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl), Batic (Miroslav Nemec) und Hammermann (Ferdinand Hofer) das Taktieren und Täuschen hinter den Kulissen durchschauen, um den mysteriösen Todesfall zu klären. Überraschende und unschätzbare Hilfe erhalten sie dabei von ihrem Gerichtsmediziner: Dr. Matthias Steinbrecher (Robert Joseph Bartl). Er entpuppt sich als Schach-Ass und beweist den Kommissaren, dass auch Bauern einen König zu Fall bringen können.
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Als am Weser-Strand eine Leiche angespült wird, stehen die Bremer Ermittlerinnen Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram) und Liv Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) vor einem Rätsel. Es gibt zunächst keine Hinweise auf die Identität der Leiche. Im Verlauf ihrer Ermittlungen stoßen die Kommissarinnen nicht nur auf Stalking-Täter und -Opfer, sondern auch auf brisante investigative Recherchen und toxische Abhängigkeiten. Währenddessen durchlebt Rani Ewers (Via Jikeli) einen Albtraum: Überall lauert ihr Ex-Freund Marek Kolschak (Jonathan Berlin) der Alleinerziehenden und ihrer Tochter Mia (Pola Friedrichs) auf - am Spielplatz, auf der Straße, vor der Haustür. Als sie nach einem Spielplatzbesuch die gerahmten Familienfotos an ihren Wänden entstellt vorfindet, drängt Mitbewohnerin Paula Södersen (Sarina Radomski) sie, ihn endlich anzuzeigen. Gerichtsmedizinerin Edda Bingley (Helen Schneider) liefert dem Team die entscheidenden Spuren. So eindeutig, wie der Fall zunächst scheint, verschwimmen die Grenzen mehr und mehr, Zeugen werden zu Verdächtigen und Verdächtige zu Zeugen, die plötzlich selbst in Lebensgefahr geraten.
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Was mit einem skandalträchtigen Todesfall bei einer Demonstration beginnt, führt in ein Geflecht aus militantem Protest, internen Konflikten und dreisten Umsturzfantasien. In seinem 36. Fall begibt sich das Wiener "Tatort"-Duo Adele Neuhauser und Harald Krassnitzer auf heikles Terrain und legt sich mit dem österreichischen Staatsschutz an. Als mutige Bundeskriminalamtsermittlerin und abgebrühter Nachrichtendienstler rücken Christina Scherrer und Dominik Warta ins Zentrum eines raffiniert aufgebauten Vexierspiels. Der mehrfach ausgezeichnete Autor Rupert Henning verfilmte sein Drehbuch im Stil eines Politthrillers, der gesellschaftliche Konflikte und bedrohliche Szenarien in eine temporeiche Krimihandlung einbettet. In der Wiener Innenstadt herrscht Aufruhr: Ein wütender Protestzug möchte das Regierungsviertel stürmen, ein Demonstrant bleibt tot auf der Straße liegend zurück: Jakob Volkmann (Tilman Tuppy), ein Teilnehmer aus vorderster Reihe. Major Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) und ihr Kollege Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) übernehmen die heiklen Mordermittlungen. Während Einsatzleiter Schuch (Wolfgang Oliver) die harte Räumung verteidigt, wächst in den sozialen Medien die Wut auf die Polizei. Ist ein Schlagstock die Ursache für den Tod des aktenkundigen Systemkritikers Volkmann? Als ein Anschlag auf die BK-Ermittlerin Meret Schande (Christina Scherrer) verübt wird, nimmt der unübersichtliche Fall noch dramatischere Formen an. Eine Spur führt zu einer militanten Untergrundgruppe, die "das System" stürzen möchte. Das Opfer gehörte der Organisation ebenso an wie die Aktivistin Katja Ralko (Julia Windischbauer), die den Staat wie die Polizei verachtet. Als Bibi, Moritz und Meret dahinterkommen, was hinter der Gewalteskalation steckt, fällt auch auf ihre Kollegen ein Verdacht.
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At dawn, little Zoe, her face blackened by soot, almost runs in front of a car in a housing estate on the outskirts of Dortmund. Her mother is found dead of smoke inhalation in the family home. Her father, Jens Hielscher, has an alibi. Her half-brother, Finn, has disappeared. While it quickly becomes clear that the fire was arson, a motive is initially unclear. The dead woman's name is Meike Gebken. She had been living in a women's shelter with her young daughter for four weeks. But what is the motive for the crime? To find out, Rosa Herzog goes undercover in the women's shelter.
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Vanessa Tomasi is hanging from a treetop - one side of her long blonde hair has been shaved off. In a nearby bunker. Detectives Grandjean and Ott, along with public prosecutor Wegenast, find the body and discover traces of a horrific.
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The discovery of a body raises questions: The man, missing for two years, was buried two meters deep in the earth in the floodplain near Nuremberg. Andreas Schönfeld, a 37-year-old bicycle dealer at the time of his death, was considered friendly and popular with his neighbors, yet Franconian investigators discover that he had no close friends. Chief Inspector Felix Voss - in his first case without his long-time partner Paula Ringelhahn, but strongly supported by Wanda Goldwasser and his current driver Fred - wonders: What connections led to the bicycle dealer's gruesome death? A visit to the victim's mother, Erika Schönfeld, reveals a loving mother-son relationship, and the pain is immense. In their further attempt to reconstruct Schönfeld's life, Felix and Wanda encounter the blind Lisa Blum.
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Several people died of cardiac arrest almost simultaneously on a Saturday morning in Zurich and the surrounding area. The cause was electric shock from implanted defibrillators (ICDs), whose manufacturer had fallen victim to a cyberattack.
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Carrying a moving box, Chief Inspector Hamza Kulina heads down to the basement of police headquarters and enters his new workplace: the "Old Cases Department." Maryam Azadi, the department's head and sole employee, is friendly but also a bit aloof: She doesn't expect her new colleague to stick with the old cases for very long. And barely have the two exchanged a few words when the first assignment arises: During the clearing out of an elderly man's apartment, the human remains of his daughter were discovered. Maryam Azadi and Hamza Kulina quickly discover that the murder took place several years ago - and that the perpetrator's handwriting is reminiscent of other unsolved murders. The clues lead them to a notorious serial killer who appears to have led a nearly perfect double life. But when the media learns of the discovery of the body parts and their reporting jeopardizes the investigation, the two are under pressure to identify the victims as quickly as possible. A race against time and a journey into Frankfurt's past begins. Maryam and Hamza stay for three days to work through criminal files dating back to the 1970s and finally give grieving relatives some certainty. Later, the two come across a victim who, at first glance, doesn't fit the serial killer's pattern, but could give the case a new, gruesome twist.
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Die 16-jährige Lilly-Marie (Dilara Aylin Ziem) und ihr Freund Pascal (Florian Geißelmann) hauen nachts aus dem Jugendheim "Siebenschläfer" ab. Am nächsten Morgen wird Lillys Leiche tot in einem See in der Nähe aufgefunden. Der 17-jährige Pascal ist flüchtig. Leonie Winkler (Cornelia Gröschel) und Peter Michael Schnabel (Martin Brambach) nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und veranlassen die Fahndung nach Pascal. Das "Siebenschläfer" präsentiert sich auf den ersten Blick als Vorzeige-Heim. Unter der Leitung von Saskia Rühe (Silvina Buchbauer) leben hier Kinder und Jugendliche, die es in ihrem Leben bisher nicht leicht hatten. Der Erzieherin Jasmin Hoffmann (Aysha Joy Samuel) geht Lillys Tod sehr nah. Von Pascal berichtet sie, dass er als schwierig und aggressiv gilt. Deswegen wird er, wie auch andere Kinder des Heims, vom Psychiater Lukas Brückner (Hanno Koffler) therapiert. Die Fahndung nach Pascal läuft auf Hochtouren, als ein weiteres Verbrechen passiert: Der zuständige Abteilungsleiter im Jugendamt, Torsten Hess (Peter Moltzen), wird ermordet aufgefunden.
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Im Alten Land wurde der rumänische Aushilfsbauer Victor enthauptet. Der örtliche Polizist Olaf Gerke geht von einem tödlichen Arbeitsunfall mit einer Landmaschine aus. Doch Charlotte Lindholm will das nicht recht glauben. Warum fehlt der Kopf? Da ein paralleler Großeinsatz des LKA alle verfügbaren Einsatzkräfte in Anspruch nimmt, muss Charlotte Lindholm weitestgehend Dinge allein regeln. Sie folgt ihrem Instinkt und mietet sich kurzentschlossen in das freie Pensionszimmer des Biohofes ein, auf dem das Opfer zuletzt gearbeitet hat. Nach und nach taucht sie ein in das komplexe Psychogramm der Bauernfamilie und deckt toxische Beziehungen untereinander auf. War es doch kein tödlicher Unfall, sondern Mord? Was hatte die Biobäuerin Marlies mit dem Opfer zu tun? Spielt der im Dorf heiß diskutierte Einsatz von Pestiziden in der Landwirtschaft eine Rolle? Charlotte erfährt auch, dass Marlies' Sohn Sven und dessen Frau Frauke den Hof nicht übernehmen wollen. Doch ist das überhaupt wichtig?
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Ein junger Lieferdienst-Fahrradfahrer wird in einer Berliner Seitenstraße von einem Auto überfahren. Der Verkehrsunfall entpuppt sich schnell als Mord. Susanne Bonard (Corinna Harfouch) und Robert Karow (Mark Waschke) suchen im Umfeld des Opfers nach Hinweisen: Der Tote Tomás Rey kam aus Venezuela und wohnte mit seinem Bruder Luis (Henry Morales) und einem Freund in einer WG. Alle drei hatten keine gültigen Aufenthaltspapiere, lebten und arbeiteten unter falschem Namen in Berlin. Das Opfer hatte ein Verhältnis mit einer älteren Frau: Annika Haupt (Annett Sawallisch) ist Sicherheitsmitarbeiterin der Bundesdruckerei. Die Kommissar:innen vermuten einen Zusammenhang. Doch in der Bundesdruckerei fehlt nichts. Die Sicherheitsvorkehrungen machen jeglichen Diebstahl unmöglich. Nach und nach können Bonard und Karow einen größeren Plan aufdecken. Aber wer sind die Drahtzieher und ist die trauernde Geliebte des Toten involviert?
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Mike introduces his girlfriend Nisha to his parents. The meeting is awkward, becomes increasingly hostile, and escalates. Suddenly, Mike and Nisha find themselves confronted by two dead bodies. Panicked, they decide to cover up the crime.
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When Berg learns of his brother Reinhard's escape from the psychiatric hospital, he suspects the worst. Reinhard does indeed arrive at the Berg family's isolated farm, accompanied by the taciturn Mika Novak and the violent Luke Badrow.
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Warum wurde eine junge Frau wochenlang von niemandem vermisst? Im "Tatort: Überlebe wenigstens bis morgen" sezieren Richy Müller und Felix Klare als Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz das Leben einer Frau, die Wege aus der Einsamkeit suchte und dabei womöglich ihrem Mörder begegnete. Der Leichnam einer jungen Frau lag offensichtlich bereits seit Wochen in ihrer Wohnung, als er gefunden wird und die Stuttgarter Kommissare Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz die Ermittlungen aufnehmen. Wieso hat niemand Nelly Schlüter vermisst? Weder ihre Eltern noch ihr Bruder und schon gar nicht ihre beste Freundin Fine Slowinski? Im Gegenteil, Fine scheint eher erleichtert, dass Nelly nicht mehr in ihrem Leben mit Ehemann Niclas und dem neuen Baby vorkam. Dass Nellys Ex-Freund Felix Vietze nichts auffiel, wundert die Kommissare weniger - bis sie feststellen, dass die beiden offensichtlich in den Wochen vor dem Tod der jungen Frau telefonischen Kontakt hatten. Alle schildern Nelly als aufgeschlossen und munter, waren aber nicht an mehr Nähe zu ihr interessiert. Und auch bei den Männern, die Nelly beim Online-Dating traf, schien sie keinen Wunsch nach engerem Kontakt ausgelöst zu haben. Sie sei zu anhänglich gewesen, heißt es, hätte gleich intensivere Beziehungen gewünscht. Genau das aber wollte offensichtlich niemand von ihr. War Nelly Schlüter wirklich so einsam, wie es aussieht, fragen sich Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz und suchen nach der Person, die Nelly besser nicht in ihr Leben gelassen hätte.
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Vor sechs Jahren verschwanden die dreijährige Viktoria Reiter und ihr Vater Julian spurlos. Als die Ermittlungen nach einem Jahr ohne Ergebnisse blieben, wurde der Fall mit Verdacht auf erweiterten Suizid zu den Altfällen gelegt. Doch Viktorias Mutter, Anna Reiter (Maren Eggert), zweifelt an dieser Theorie - und sucht Jahre später noch unermüdlich nach ihrem Kind. Auch Maryam Azadi (Melika Foroutan), die damals als Kommissarin bei der Vermisstenstelle ermittelt hat, lässt der mysteriöse Fall nicht los. Als Anna in ihrer Verzweiflung einen Aufruf auf Social Media startet und eine Belohnung für jeden noch so kleinen Hinweis auf Viktorias Verbleib in Aussicht stellt, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Ein obdachloser Mann behauptet, Viktoria lebe noch und bittet Anna um ein Treffen. Kurz darauf verschwindet auch Anna - und wird zur Hauptverdächtigen in einem Mordfall. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Kollegen Hamza Kulina (Edin Hasanovic), der sich zeitgleich durch eine interne Ermittlung schlägt, nimmt Maryam die Ermittlungen auf.
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At the presentation of a new bicycle model, instead of the innovation, a freezer containing a frozen corpse is unveiled.
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Man trifft sich im Leben oft zweimal, lautet eine alte Redeweise ... und verkündet in der Regel nichts Gutes. Harald Krassnitzer und Adele Neuhauser ermitteln in ihrem 37. Fall in einem Seniorenheim. Hier sollten die Bewohner idealerweise einen möglichst angenehmen Lebensabend verbringen. Doch die Realität sieht anders aus. Und das liegt in diesem Fall nicht nur an dem überlasteten Sozialsystem, denn auch in den Bewohnern des Heimes schlummert die eine oder andere Lebenslast. Als einer von ihnen auf verdächtige Weise ums Leben kommt, bringt das Ermittlertandem ebenso delikate wie düstere Geheimnisse ans Licht. Das Autorenduo Roland Hablesreiter und Petra Ladinigg bettet die spannende Tätersuche in das ungewöhnliche Krimisetting einer Seniorenresidenz ein, in der auch das am Limit arbeitende Personal unter Verdacht gerät. In dem wunderbaren Cast geben Michael Edlinger und Claudia Kottal, beide bekannt aus dem Wien-Krimi "Blind ermittelt", eindrucksvolle Gastspiele im Austro-"Tatort". Ein Rauchalarm im Altersheim führt minutenlang zum Chaos. Als die Sirene Ruhe gibt, liegt ein 73-jähriger Bewohner tot in der Badewanne: Danijel Filipovic (Roman Frankl), der ehemalige Haustechniker. Für den leitenden Pfleger (Michael Edlinger), der ihn sicher arretiert im Hebekran über dem Badewasser kurz allein lassen musste, steht fest: Da hatte jemand die Finger im Spiel. Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) und Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) übernehmen den Mordfall. Welche Rolle spielt Filipovics Tochter (Gabriela García-Vargas)? Tötet womöglich ein bislang unbemerkter "Todesengel"? Ins Visier gerät der vorbestrafte Fußpfleger und Kriegsveteran Ivica (Aleksandar Petrovic). Um zu verstehen, was in den Chaosminuten passiert ist, tauchen die Ermittler in die Geheimnisse der Senioren ein. Die elegante Anna (Elfriede Schüsseleder) und der gewitzte Ex-Oberkellner Fritz (Johannes Silberschneider) helfen gerne mit Gossip. Auch mit einer charmanten Pflegepatientin (Martina Spitzer), die Eisner von früher besser kennt, als er Bibi sagen möchte, müssen sich die Ermittler auseinandersetzen. Erst als die beiden herausfinden, wer mit wem eine Rechnung offen hat, stoßen sie auf den Schlüssel zu dem Fall.
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Car dealer Joe Glauning vanishes without a trace. Federal Police Chief Inspector Thorsten Falke takes on the case, which leads him to the Netherlands. He is assisted by cyber expert Mario Schmitt and Dutch police commissioner Lynn de Baer.
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Black Snow picks up directly where A Good Day left off.
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During a performance of Chekhov's play The Seagull the up-and-coming actress Nora Nielsen collapses on stage and dies. Detectives Batic, Leitmayr, and Hammermann investigate behind the scenes, amidst jealousy, affairs, and casting dramas.
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When Eva loses custody of her little son she kidnaps him from the courtroom and hides him in a remote cabin. While shopping she causes an accident and is hospitalized with a brain trauma. Murot's task: find the marooned child. But where?
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Die 16-jährige Amanda wird nachts verwirrt und verletzt mitten in Dresdens Innenstadt aufgefunden. Sie hat ein blutiges Skalpell bei sich und wiederholt immer wieder aufgelöst, ihr Vater würde sie verfolgen. Bei der Befragung im Kommissariat Dresden fleht sie Kommissarin Leonie Winkler um Hilfe an: Sie sei eingesperrt in einem Keller aufgewachsen. Ihr Vater lasse sie hungern, wenn sie nicht "artig" sei. Und noch immer sei ihre Schwester im Verlies gefangen, ohne Nahrung. Amanda wirkt verwirrt und ist gewaltbereit. Kommissariatsleiter Schnabel zweifelt die Geschichte der jungen Frau an, ebenso wie die erfahrene Psychologin der Jugendanstalt, in der Amanda untergebracht wird. Leo Winkler glaubt ihr, obwohl Amanda sie angreift, doch Amanda kann nicht beschreiben, wo sich der Keller befindet. Von der Großstadt, durch die sie stundenlang irrte, ist sie überfordert. Verletzungen zeigen, dass Amanda versucht hat, sich umzubringen. Am Skalpell, das sie bei sich trug, befindet sich das Blut von Personen, die mit ihr verwandt sein müssen. Amandas Vater wird mithilfe eines DNA-Abgleichs gefunden - und behauptet, er kenne das Mädchen gar nicht. Fieberhaft fahnden die Kommissare nach Amandas Mutter. Für die Ermittler beginnt die Suche nach der Nadel im Heuhaufen. Kleinste Details, Geräusche, Gerüche in Amandas Schilderungen helfen. Das Verfolgen ihrer Erinnerungsfetzen wird zur Schnitzeljagd. Vieles deutet bald auf einen anonymen Wohnblock in einem Neubaugebiet hin. Als Schnabel in der Nähe eine Ärztin erstochen auffindet, wird Amanda vom Entführungsopfer zur Hauptverdächtigen in einem Mordfall.
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Ein alleinstehendes Haus im Schwarzwald und eine Leiche im See, eine verschwundene Mutter und ein Kind, das sich vor dem Wolf versteckt: Im "Tatort: Das jüngste Geißlein" ermitteln Franziska Tobler und Friedemann Berg in einer Welt des Schauermärchens. Friedemann Berg ist gar nicht im Dienst, als er in einem Haus am Waldrand Kinderweinen hört. Er betritt das Haus und findet ein Mädchen, das sich verängstigt im Kasten der Standuhr zusammenkauert. Sowie Blutspuren, die auf ein Verbrechen hindeuten. Die neunjährige Eliza ist allein im Haus und verängstigt. Wo ihre Eltern sind und was Schreckliches passiert ist, kann sie nicht sagen. Als die Leiche des Vaters mit Steinen beschwert in einem Waldsee gefunden wird, sieht es für Franziska Tobler nach einem Fall von häuslicher Gewalt aus. Hilfe erhofft sie sich von Dr. Evelyn Kaltenstein, die Eliza psychologisch betreut. Von ihr erfährt sie, dass das Mädchen schon seit Jahren mit niemandem außerhalb ihrer Familie spricht. Auch nicht mit der Psychologin, die umso entschlossener ist, das Kind möglichst vor polizeilicher Einflussnahme abzuschirmen. Aber die Mutter bleibt verschwunden und ohne Elizas Aussage kommt Franziska Tobler nicht weiter. Deshalb ist sie froh, dass es Friedemann Berg gelingt, einen Weg in das Gemüt des Mädchens zu finden, das sich die Welt mit Hilfe seines Lieblingsmärchens erklärt.
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An employee of the Cologne Opera House is found dead, posed in a costume dress, with a replica firearm missing. Inspectors Ballauf and Schenk delve into a web of dubious characters - then another murder strikes.
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Steckt ein Verbrechen hinter dem Verschwinden des kleinen Hugo? Und spielt dabei die Vergangenheit seiner Mutter als republikweit bekanntes Glamour-Girl eine Rolle? Die Ermittlungen in einem möglichen Entführungsfall konfrontieren Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz mit einem Elternpaar, das in einer speziellen Ehehölle gefangen ist. Dass sie mal ein von vielen bewundertes It-Girl war, merkt man der völlig durchnässten Frau nicht an, die in einer Regennacht verzweifelt in einer Stuttgarter Polizeistation auftaucht. Pony Hübner meldet ihren SUV als gestohlen. Das Schreckliche daran: Ihre beiden Kinder Hugo und Penelope saßen im Auto. Die Polizei findet zwar den Wagen im Neckar, aber nicht schnell genug, Penelope kann nur noch tot geborgen werden. Hugo dagegen ist genauso verschwunden wie der Autodieb. Die Hübners sind wohlhabend, Thorsten Lannert und Sebastian Bootz sehen eine Entführung als wahrscheinlichstes Szenario. Zumal Pony Hübner aussagt, dass sie sich seit einigen Wochen verfolgt fühlte, was ihr Mann offensichtlich für Überspanntheit hielt. Überhaupt wirkt das Verhältnis zwischen Pony Hübner und ihrem Mann Stefan angespannt, vielleicht sogar zerrüttet, auch die Angst um Hugo bringt die beiden nicht enger zusammen. Dabei müssen sie mal ein gutes Team gewesen sein, Stefan als Verleger von Regenbogenpresse und Pony als eine seiner meistfotografierten Prominenten. Heute managt er Influencerinnen, während sie abgemeldet ist und ohne ihr altes Leben verloren wirkt. Während die Kommissare untersuchen, ob es im Umfeld der Hübners Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen gibt, treffen tatsächlich Erpresserbriefe ein. Dass auch glaubhafte darunter sind, stärkt die Hoffnung, dass Hugo noch lebt.
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Ein Todesfall im Bremer Studentenmilieu beschäftigt die Kommissarinnen Liv Moormann (Jasna Fritzi Bauer) und Linda Selb (Luise Wolfram), die von ihrem Kollegen Patrice Schipper (Tijan Njie) vom KDD (Kriminaldauerdienst) unterstützt werden. Im Laufe der Ermittlungen tut sich ein Abgrund an Einsamkeit, Überforderung und enttäuschten Hoffnungen auf. Die Jurastudentin Annalena Höpken (Annika Gräslund) wird morgens in der Nähe eines Nachtclubs tot aufgefunden. Sie wurde offenbar eine Treppe hinuntergestoßen und starb an einem Genickbruch. Zuvor hatte sie nach ersten Recherchen massive Auseinandersetzungen in ihrer Wohngemeinschaft (Shirin Eissa, Mitja Over, Joyce Sanhá, Michael Schweisser). Außerdem gerät der Obdachlose Emil Klaßen (Robin Bongarts), der Selb attackiert und das Handy der Toten bei sich trägt, in den Kreis der Verdächtigen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Annalena Höpken unter immensem Leistungsdruck litt, den sie mit Aufputschmitteln zu kompensieren versuchte. Für die Ermittlungen ergeben sich eine Reihe von Fragen: Warum kam es zu diversen Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der Wohngemeinschaft? Wieso ahnte die Mutter Gabriele Höpken (Catrin Striebeck) nicht, wie sehr ihre Tochter unter Druck stand? Ihre Schwester Betty Höpken (Mathilda Smidt) scheint ebenfalls Geheimnisse vor der Mutter zu haben. Und was hat Bettys Freund und Nachtclub-Betreiber Mike Hanisch (Niklas Marian Müller) mit alldem zu tun?
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Am Rande Berlins wird ein Obdachloser tot aufgefunden, der möglicherweise von einer Wölfin gerissen wurde. Bonard und Karow schlagen mit dieser Information einen Wildniswanderer in die Flucht. Es ist Bonards letzter Fall vor ihrem Renteneintritt, kurzentschlossen schließt sie sich der Wildnislehrerin an. Währenddessen findet Karow heraus, dass das Opfer ermordet wurde. Auf einer Industriebrache am Rande Berlins wird ein Obdachloser mit Bissspuren tot aufgefunden. Möglicherweise wurde er von einer Wölfin gerissen. Bonard und Karow schlagen mit dieser Information einen Wildniswanderer in die Flucht. Es ist Bonards letzter Fall vor ihrem Renteneintritt, kurzentschlossen schließt sie sich der Wildnislehrerin Prof. Dara Kimmerer an und überlässt den Fall Karow. Während Bonard Überlebenstraining im Wald macht, findet Karow heraus, dass das Opfer ermordet wurde und trifft erneut den geheimnisvollen Mann aus dem Wald. Das Ermittlerteam taucht ein in die Welt der Survivalisten und Prepper, denn jeder bereitet sich anders auf das Ende vor.
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A village on the French border is paralyzed by old hatred. When businessman Emil Feidt is found murdered, the Saarbrücken investigation team is led to Hohenweiler, the hometown of Chief Inspector Esther Baumann, which she left behind decades ago. It quickly becomes clear: Emil Feidt's murder could be connected to the unsolved death of his daughter Becky, who drowned in the river five years earlier. Was it really an accident or did Claire Louis, Becky's former best friend, kill her? As the spiral of violence in the village spins relentlessly and the investigators are drawn deeper and deeper into a web of guilt, revenge, and suppressed truths, one final question arises: Is evil truly confined to a single individual or has it long since taken hold of all of Hohenweiler?
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Mehrere Morde führen Peter Faber (Jörg Hartmann), Rosa Herzog (Stefanie Reinsperger) und Ira Klasnic (Alessija Lause) auf eine Spur, die tief in die Gewaltgeschichte der Jugoslawienkriege reicht. Die Morde im Dortmunder Rotlichtmilieu deuten zunächst auf einen Streit in der Unterwelt hin, eine junge Bosnierin wird verstört in einem Bordell aufgegriffen und als wichtige Zeugin befragt. Einer der Toten lebte unter falschem Namen - er war untergetaucht, weil er wegen Kriegsverbrechen verurteilt wurde. Als sich die Identität des Opfers klärt, nehmen die Ermittlungen plötzlich eine politische Wendung. Stefanie Reinsperger ist im "Tatort: Schmerz" zum letzten Mal in ihrer Rolle als Kriminalhauptkommissarin Rosa Herzog zu sehen.
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Ein Fahrradkurier wird von einem Lieferwagen überrollt. Es könnte ein tödlicher Unfall in dem auf städtischen Straßen tobenden Kampf um Vorrang sein. Doch Lena Odenthal und Johanna Stern vermuten, dass Absicht dahintersteckt, und setzen bei ihren Ermittlungen auf nicht ganz offizielle Methoden. Johanna Stern schaltet nicht schnell genug, als Fahrradkurier Marc Weinert abends im Polizeipräsidium auftaucht und eine Selbstanzeige machen will. Enttäuscht verlässt der junge Mann das Gebäude - und stirbt, weil er von einem Lieferwagen überrollt wird. Johanna ist erschüttert. Sie und Lena Odenthal vermuten Vorsatz, zumal Fahrerflucht vorliegt und Helmkamera und Tablet des Toten verschwunden sind. Marcs Kollegen beim Kurierdienst Velopunks begnügen sich mit der Unfallthese, auch weil sie die alltägliche Fehde auf den Straßen Ludwigshafens am eigenen Leib erfahren. Die Firma wurde als selbstverwaltetes Projekt gegründet, alle strengen sich an, um sich mit internem Zusammenhalt, Unabhängigkeit nach außen und jeder Menge Energie am hart umkämpften Markt zu behaupten. Johanna Stern hofft mehr über den Toten und die Firma herauszufinden und nutzt spontan eine günstige Gelegenheit, um Marc Weinerts Nachfolge als Kurierfahrerin anzutreten. Keineswegs zu Lenas Freude. Doch sie deckt den ungeplanten Undercover-Einsatz, sogar dem Leitenden Polizeidirektor gegenüber. Denn auch Lena vermutet, dass Velopunks Geheimnisse hüten und in die Tat verwickelt sind. Während sie mit Mara und Nico die Geschäftsbeziehungen der Firma durchleuchtet, strampelt Johanna sich im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes für die Ermittlung ab. Und verschafft sich dabei Einblicke in ungewöhnliche und gefährliche Lieferbedingungen.
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Jahre nach einem verheerenden Hochhausbrand mit 13 Toten trifft Kommissar Hamza Kulina (Edin Hasanovic) auf einer Mahnwache seine Ex-Freundin wieder. Almila (Seyneb Saleh) hat ihre Mutter in den Flammen verloren und kämpft seither unermüdlich für Gerechtigkeit. Das Hochhaus mit Sozialwohnungen stand binnen weniger Minuten in Flammen - womöglich aufgrund von billigem Dämmmaterial, das entgegen den Vorschriften verbaut wurde. Als ein Untersuchungsausschuss, der die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft ziehen soll, ergebnislos zu enden droht, bittet Almila Hamza um Hilfe. Die Ermittlungen führen Hamza Kulina und seine Kollegin Maryam Azadi (Melika Foroutan) von einem mysteriösen Todesfall zu dem Geschäftsführer eines Baustoffkonzerns (Stephan Luca) mit engen Verbindungen in die Politik. Doch je näher die Kommissare der Wahrheit kommen, desto größer wird die Gefahr - für ihre Ermittlungen und für sie selbst.
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