Sur les lieux du crime

Customs investigator Kressin returns from a Mediterranean cruise. Shortly before Hamburg, tour guide Ben Canitz behaves suspiciously. The next morning, Kressin reads in the newspaper that Canitz has been found dead in a canal in Hamburg. He gets involved in the police investigation and comes across a gang that is smuggling large quantities of drugs into Germany.

Two serious criminals have been caught abroad. The German police pick them up and transport them to Cologne in a special compartment of the Nordexpress. The gang, led by their boss Sievers, plans to kidnap the two. Members of this gang replace the locomotive driver and train staff with their own people so that they can safely stop the Nordexpress at a location of their choosing. Customs investigator Kressin, on his way back from Denmark, where he was dealing with porn smuggling, is on the train. He manages to prevent the kidnapping of the serious criminals.

A man collapses in Beethovenstrasse. His murderer flees. The dead man, a private detective from New York, was on the trail of an international blackmail ring. Supported by customs investigator Kressin, Sandy, the dead man's partner, takes over the case. He manages to sneak into the blackmail ring. But the turbulence of the Cologne carnival makes the case more and more confusing, inscrutable and ultimately ends in a dark, bloody nightmare.

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.

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.

Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Sina Wolf has an affair with her married schoolteacher. When one of her friends attempts to blackmail her, she lures him to the forest and kills him. Kommissar Finke does not believe her story she fabricates and continues to investigate.

After her husband's death, Claudia Bernhold discovers that he was a blackmailer. Suddenly she has an explanation for how, despite modest income, she could afford a small villa and a relatively lavish lifestyle. During his research, Haferkamp comes across the wealthy Eckart Waarst. Could he be the blackmailed man? But how can he be blackmailed? In the files of unsolved cases, Haferkamp finds a lead, but no proof. He has to resort to a ruse.

16-year-old Andreas is friends with Biggi, a saleswoman in his father's delicatessen. Who killed the customer Frau Böhmer?

Two prisoners on remand take a prison officer hostage and escape from the prison. In front of the main gate, Sergeant Jakobs shoots one of the escapees, the Turk Suk. Inspector Haferkamp is faced with a difficult situation, because Sergeant Wörlemann accuses his colleague Jakobs of having shot prematurely and unnecessarily. Since Jakobs denies the truth of this statement, the fugitive Tomi Selzer would be an important witness, but Tomi does not turn himself in because he does not want to go back to prison. He was innocently imprisoned, but the hostage-taking means he can expect a several-year sentence. Haferkamp uses all means to get hold of his suspicious witness. These complications almost inevitably lead to catastrophe.

The 47-year-old business manager Kurt Wiedemann became unemployed due to the decline of his company. Because of his age, he cannot find a comparable position. Wiedemann fears that, as his financial difficulties grow, he will not be able to maintain his standard of living and therefore his younger, attractive wife. Karin Wiedemann is actually having an affair with the up-and-comer Christian Zehle. Wiedemann lies in wait for his rival, murders him and arranges the circumstances so that it appears as if he had surprised Zehle and an "accomplice" during a break-in and shot Zehle while the second man escaped with the loot. To the murderer's great surprise, however, Inspector Haferkamp tracks down a certain Roll, who could well be the "accomplice" that Wiedemann had only invented.

The body of barge captain Heinz Petschek is found in the Duisburg inland port. He had been beaten and fatally stabbed. Chief Inspector Schimanski and his colleague Christian Thanner must solve this case.

When Schimanski comes home from work in the evening, a girl is sitting on the stairs with him. It is 17-year-old Katja. Her mother, manager of the specialty restaurant "Hawaii", has been murdered, murdered in a way that suggests the perpetrator's very personal motives. Schimanski and Thanner inevitably have to look after Katja: someone is after her, looking for something that was not found in her murdered mother's apartment. It's about drugs. The major dealer and suspected murderer of Katja's mother is Straub, owner of the restaurant "Hawaii". They'll catch him - it's only a matter of time. But then it turns out that things are much more complicated. The police now urgently need Katja's help.

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.

Thanner moved in with Schimanski because his girlfriend Sylvia kicked him out due to his constant jealousy. He brings order to Schimanski's somewhat chaotic household, but his own soul is in considerable turmoil. He refuses to accept the breakup with Sylvia and tries to undo what happened. Everything else—including his job—is currently of secondary or tertiary importance to him; let Schimanski handle it. And Schimanski does. He investigates the murder of Daddel Virks, a small-time sleuth and assistant to private detective Scholl, who was once a colleague of Thanner and Schimanski.

Walther and Stettner investigate the murder of a homeless woman in Berlin's Tiergarten. It seems that this was not an one-off case...

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. The motive seems clear: a cover-up of criminal environmental pollution on a large scale. But who were the perpetrators?

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. Is the dead man really the victim of the fans, or did he have something to do with the illegal recruitment of foreign workers, or did he perhaps want to monetize his knowledge and was therefore eliminated?

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?

Jutta Stark appears to have committed suicide; she lies dead in front of her apartment block. She and her husband were members of the "Church of the Community". Schimanski and Thanner investigate

Schimanski lands in a dangerous situation while assisting a young woman in search of her partner.

Schimanski fears for the life of a child and ends up playing a dangerous game.

Schimanski and Thanner are on the case after the head of a family furniture business is killed.

Paul Rhese, a hotel owner, is found dead in the freezer room of his hotel. As their investigation unfolds, Chief Detective Stoever and his colleague Brockmöller are astonished to discover what goes on behind the scenes at a large hotel. It soon becomes clear that the victim of this murder had enemies among the staff, as well as within his extensive family.

Schimanski investigates the suspected leader of a cunning criminal gang.

Uproar in a factory housing project in Duisburg: it is scheduled for sale and demolition. Industrialist Grassmann regrets the fate of the residents, but he, too, is forced by economic necessity. One of those affected, Alf Krüger, first kills his family, then himself. What are the motives for the family tragedy? Despair over the forced eviction? But why did the meticulous accountant overlook his youngest child? And what was the humble man doing in Marseille shortly before his death?

A dead man lies in a Duisburg bus - apparently the accidental victim of a stabbing. The murdered man was the owner of a dance studio that he ran together with his wife, Manuela Prinz. The investigation reveals that the perpetrator is a Thai. But when the detectives track him down, they find another body. Everything indicates that the Thai committed suicide. Schimanski suspects that the aloof Manuela is not telling him everything she knows. But suddenly it is she who asks him for help: her husband's "business friends" have contacted her and threatened her life if she is not willing to secure further "deliveries".

Thanner is annoyed: While he has to do the dirty work for the police - he has to identify the body of a prostitute - Schimanski is reopening a case that he, Thanner, closed long ago. And Thanner knows why: Ilona Vogtländer, daughter of Rolf Vogtländer, who is accused of murdering his wife Eva, is far too beautiful for Schimanski to resist.

Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with a case that happened a long time ago and that they were unable to solve: in 1978, one of the perpetrators was seriously injured during a bank robbery and was then executed in the bank by the leader of the gang. The perpetrators managed to escape - except for the Pole Zbiginiew Pawlak, who waited next to his dead brother until the police arrived. During the subsequent investigation, Pawlak was unable to say a word. The press then nicknamed him "Moltke", which he kept even during his prison sentence because he remained stubbornly silent.

A pot of half a million marks - donations for workers who want to prevent the closure of their factory by occupying the factory - disappears after a brutal robbery; and shortly afterwards one of them, the union official Broegger, is murdered. The atmosphere in Duisburg is heated, speculation is spreading. Schimanski knows that the case must be solved as quickly as possible. But now, of all times, his friend and colleague Thanner has left him; he has gone to Bonn, to a branch of the BKA.

Two Polish truck drivers are brutally murdered by an Arab hit squad at a scrap yard in Duisburg. At the same time, the exiled Pole Leczek, scrapyard owner and pimp, is apparently to be executed. But the attack fails. Schimanski and Thanner, who both witness the attack, can't believe their eyes.

A brutal serial rapist has plunged Ludwigshafen into a state of terror. Young Detective Lena Odenthal of the Vice Squad faces her first major case, focusing her investigation on three men with prior convictions. When one of the attacks ends fatally - and Lena unexpectedly takes charge of the Homicide Division - she decides to set a trap for the perpetrator, unaware that in doing so, she is putting her own life at risk…

When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.

Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat early on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski, who needs the boy's statement, tries to break his encapsulation. He has initial success - then Thomas is kidnapped under the eyes of the inspector.

Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. The trail leads to a luxurious club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. But suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou. He knows her from before, when she was still a child, his girlfriend's daughter. Back then he was like a father to her. But what is she doing here now?

This time the crime scene is an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. Schimanski happens to witness an armed robbery of the landlord Giovanni Salvatore. He intervenes and experiences a fiasco: his girlfriend Renate is pushed into the line of fire by one of the gangsters and dies. Knowing that he has killed an innocent person, he puts down his weapon. Thanner joins the manhunt for the two perpetrators and pays dearly for it: Schimanski finds him unconscious, with serious injuries, after a car accident.

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 together with their popular colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin: paintings owned by the GDR, which were extorted from museums and private individuals in the course of obtaining foreign currency, were put aside by former Stasi employees after the fall of the Wall and are now to be sold to the West via the old channels. The police suspect the Düsseldorf-based art dealer Schrader to be the key figure.

Schimanski is on a fishing holiday in an idyllic spot not far from Duisburg. There he witnesses a strange event: the veterinarian Karl-Heinz Ascher is found dead on his wedding day - hanged from a tree. Silke Faber, the bride, daughter of the richest farmer in town, is at a loss and asks Schimanski for help in solving the death.

Following an anonymous tip, Commissioner Lena Odenthal travels to the fictional Palatine village of Zarten. There, Höreth—an ethnic German repatriate from Romania—has been missing for two years; his clothing is discovered in the woods by a group of teenagers.

A bright Sunday morning - Schimanski and Thanner are having fun ice skating. During a daring maneuver, Schimanski breaks through and comes across the body of a little girl. The forensic pathologist determines that the child was raped and died of internal injuries. Since there is no missing person report, the police only manage to find the girl's mother after a few detours.

Schimanski's vacation turns into a fight for his life.

Chief Detective Bernd Flemming, Inspector Mariam Koch and Chief Inspector Max Ballauf have their hands full while the carnival is in full swing in Düsseldorf.

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.

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.

A baffling discovery shakes Ludwigshafen: on the misty banks of the Rhine, a mother and daughter discover the body of a young man - yet when the police arrive, the deceased has vanished. Inspector Lena Odenthal faces a mysterious case, for the man presumed dead had only recently crossed her path as a witness in a drug investigation. As she picks up the trail of a mysterious figure known as "Mother," she has no idea that she is thereby putting her own life at risk…

Chief engineer of Saarländ's Rosdorf nuclear plant Georg Bekker appears dead, supposedly of a drug overdose, and detective Max Palu takes charge of the investigation, meanwhile, Georg's sister starts recieveing mysterious floppy disks and becomes the target of threats along her daughter.

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.

A psychopathic former actor escapes from a psychiatric clinic to take revenge on the woman who put him behind bars: Detective Lena Odenthal. While Hans-Martin Carsdorff perfidiously stalks and psychologically terrorizes the detective, Odenthal must simultaneously solve the murder of an elderly woman.

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.

The Düsseldorf Art Academy is the scene of a mysterious murder. While working in the plaster workshop, student Till Bornemann is strangled by a masked man. Till's girlfriend, Pia, who was posing for a plaster cast, didn't see anything, but she heard the unsuspecting Till address his killer as "Gereon." However, art student Gereon Müller claims to have nothing to do with the murder, leading Inspector Flemming to suggest that the perpetrator might have used one of the masks he himself made.

Flemming and his team are dealing with the murder of a woman believed to be mentally ill and irregularities in a clinic.

Inspector Flemming and his colleague Miriam Koch find out that the unknown dead woman - together with other sufferers - lived in a discarded bus. They manage to notify the girl's brother, to whom she regularly sent her savings. Milan appears in Düsseldorf. When he finds out how his sister earned her money, he is determined to avenge her life and death and begins to research on his own. When Kurt learns that the young Croatian has tracked down the porn photographer Carlos, he fakes a suicide to deceive Milan and the police. But Milan suspects that the photographer is innocent of his sister's death and follows Kurt. But Flemming and Koch have long since seen through his plan for revenge. When the daring boy finally realizes that he has underestimated the two of them, it is almost too late for him.

A letter bomb explodes in a Berlin postbus and kills an innocent letter carrier - apparently an accident, as the parcel was intended for someone else. At the same time, the body of a young Russian woman with links to organized human trafficking of Eastern European women is discovered in the city forest. Inspector Roiter and his assistant Zorowski enter a brutal realm...

After a Miami drug bust goes sour, German cop Max Ballauf is sent home to be Cologne's homicide chief, and is immediately confronted with partner Freddy Schenk's professional jealousy - and the dead body of a former colleague. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach, 1997.

A teacher recently acquitted of sexual molestation charges is killed by a bomb blast at his school. Suspicions initially fall on the victim's accuser, and Ballauf and Schenk struggle to piece together what happened when a second death rocks the campus. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach. 1997.

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? Directed by Niki Stein, 1998.

The body of a banker is found in the woods near Cologne; next to his body is a pile of charred bank notes. Ballauf and Schenk investigate this mysterious murder, as protesters threaten violence over an exhibit of photos documenting Nazi atrocities. Directed by Niki Stein, 1998.

A woman's body is fished out of the Rhine, and the victim turns out to be an acquaintance of Ballauf's. The investigation leads to a chemical company, and the German intelligence services are found to be involved. Directed by Markus Fischer, 1998.

The charred body of a former star tenor is discovered in the basement of a luxurious retirement home. Suspicion falls upon two star sopranos who had been romantically involved with the notorious womanizer. Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner and his team find themselves caught in the crossfire between the rival opera divas and the suspicious director of the upscale facility.

A dancer is found murdered near the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, and the prime suspect is a patient with a history of violence. But Ballauf and Schenk’s investigation opens up new possibilities: Is the patient merely a pawn in a devilish game? Directed by Claus-Michael Rhone, 1999.

A boy is found dead in a school bathroom, and Max goes undercover to investigate. He discovers an ongoing war between gangs of German and Turkish teenagers, and an unemployed right-wing radical who claims he protects children from foreign drug dealers. Directed by Ben Verbong, 1999.

On its second mission, the new "Tatort" team has to solve a particularly delicate criminal case, because an extremely spicy situation becomes fatal for those involved: while the easy-going Roman Kraus and the escort girl he paid, Mirjam, are partner-swapping with the prominent couple Peter and Helene Pollak, Roman's wife, a well-known pharmaceutical researcher, is murdered and a valuable scientific discovery is stolen. All evidence found at the crime scene points to Roman Kraus as the perpetrator, but Chief Inspector Eisner believes that Kraus is innocent.

Freddy and Max investigate the death of a wealthy gynecologist who's found dead in his swimming pool. The doctor’s wife and son suspect a prominent Pro-Life group, but the search for the killer leads to a maze of half-truths and evasions. Soon, a number of possible killers emerge, each with a completely different motive. Directed by Wolfgang Panzer, 1999.

After a colleague’s long-time girlfriend is killed in the courtyard of a crowded apartment complex, Freddy and Max are frustrated when none of the residents admit to seeing or hearing a thing – and their frustration turns to bafflement when they discover that the victim was secretly pregnant. Who was the father of the child, and why was the victim planning a secret move to Hamburg? Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach, 1999.

The body of a four-year-old boy is found in a working class area. An autopsy reveals posthumous injuries. Schenk suspects they're dealing with a psychopath preying on the weak. Meanwhile, Max befriends Mirko, an emotionally neglected eight-year-old he suspects knows more than he's willing to admit. As they investigate the murder, they are drawn further into the world of children's fears, and grown up's dreams. Directed by Niki Stein, 1999.

In an open field on the edge of the Vienna Woods, a car burns out. The police discover the remains of a body inside the vehicle, around which a symbol has been carved into the earth. This unusual discovery presents Chief Inspector Eisner and his team of investigators with a baffling puzzle. The victim was the owner of a peep show. Is this ritualistic tableau the work of a psychopath, or is a killer from Vienna's pornographic underworld using this scenario to divert attention from their true motive?

The body of wealthy real estate magnate Gerd Wesibach is found, his pores emanating a familiar odor: bitter almonds. At first his death is thought to be an assisted suicide, but it is soon discovered that he was poisoned. Ballauf and Schenk have a long list of suspects, and soon uncover a dubious euthanasia ring. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach, 2000.

A blackmailer has been threatening the Kölsch brewery in Cologne. Concerned with his company's reputation, Belcher Sr. decides to pay the ransom in person, and is soon shot dead. But when the blackmailer demands a higher ransom and poisons the beer, Ballauf and Schenk suspect they're dealing with a copycat offender. Directed by Markus Fischer, 2000.

Viennese Inspector Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) had envisioned his vacation in idyllic Tyrol quite differently. On the very day after his arrival, while out hiking, he stumbles upon a dead body. Hubert Egger (Gregor Seberg)—the son of Mayor Alois Egger (Dietmar Schönherr)—has been murdered in a manner as gruesome as it is symbolic. Someone has nailed the actor playing Jesus in the Passion Plays—traditionally performed by the small community every eight years—to the cross. The still-inexperienced Inspector Roxane Aschenwald (Sophie Rois) is assigned to solve the case.

A man is shot dead in broad daylight in Cologne city center. The bullet was fired from 700 meters away and went straight to the heart. Chief Inspector Freddy Schenk believes he knows the murder weapon that can hit the target with pinpoint accuracy from such a great distance. The victim, Charly Hecker, was a successful businessman who apparently had never done anything wrong in life. During the interrogations of Hecker's young wife Franka, something happens to Inspector Ballauf that should not happen: He falls in love with the murdered man's widow and begins to meet her secretly.

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.

On a family trip to Holland, Freddy finds himself suspected of drug smuggling and is forced to go on the run to clear his name. Directed by Martin Giesach, 2000.

The Austrian Bankverein causes a stir with an exhibition of watercolors by the famous Austrian painter Egon Schiele. Even before the opening, the paintings pique the interest of Ester von Steinhof, an American Jewish woman who travels to Vienna specifically to clarify her inheritance claim to two of the works. A scandal erupts at the vernissage: Dr. Manfred Reichelt, the lawyer she has retained, skillfully provokes the crowd, thereby winning the press over to his client's side. Although Mrs. von Steinhof does not approve of this tactic, it certainly achieves its intended effect—after all, various restitution claims regarding "Aryanized" looted art continue to occupy lawyers and courts to this very day. [Eisner]

After a law student is shot on a college campus, Max suspects her hot-tempered ex-fiancé - but Freddy senses something more sinister. Directed by Christiane Balthasar, 2001.

A tragic family murder rocks Ludwigshafen, but for Detective Inspector Lena Odenthal, the case becomes personal when her mentor and police chief, Karl Kaysser, dies in a supposed car accident. It quickly becomes clear: it was murder.

After a badly-beaten child is left unclaimed at the ER, Ballauf and Schenk discover a flawed system unable to prevent child abuse. Directed by Claudia Garder, 2001.

While Moritz Eisner is visiting his Innsbruck-based colleague, Roxane, the housekeeper of the young parish priest in the small Tyrolean village of Oberleis, is found bludgeoned to death. Everything points to a burglar who was caught by surprise. However, it soon becomes clear to the young detective that this cannot be a simple murder.

When the daughter of a biker is brutally raped and murdered, Ballauf and Schenk must overcome their prejudices to make sure justice is served. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach, 2001.

An investigation into a murder at a warehouse leads Ballauf and Schenk into the deaf community. Directed by Martin Eigler, 2002.

Renata Lang is a guest at a high-profile medical conference centered on the subject of male fertility. Ingrid Knapp, a former university classmate of Renata’s, has invited her to visit and offer moral support. The scientist makes vague allusions that significant changes are soon to take place in her life. Shortly thereafter, the scientist is dead—and all signs point to circulatory collapse occurring inside the steam room. Renata is skeptical; she asks Moritz Eisner for help in ensuring that the body undergoes at least a forensic medical examination.

When lumberjacks find a murdered woman in the woods, it appears that a recently-released serial killer is at it again. Directed by Peter Fratzscher, 2002.

The newly qualified police officer Stefanie Gschnitzer takes on her first case with the Innsbruck murder squad: Richard Stecher, the member of a notorious poaching family, was found dead at the foot of a rock face. Shot, apparently in self-defense, by the hunting tenant and mayor Hopfgartner and his supervisor Buchberger.

Ballauf and Schenk find that the professional murder of a diplomat is linked to a massacre at an overseas embassy. Directed by Hans Noever, 2002.

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.

A body lies on a boat, a suspect runs away with the murder weapon in his hands, and there is evidence of robbery at the scene: Klara Blum's new case seems clear from the start. The prosecutor signs the arrest warrant without hesitation. With a confession from the suspect, the case would be complete. But Daniel Seefried denies the murder of the rich industrialist Wolfgang Reichert. He looks dazed and thinks he has been anesthetized. He himself did not know how he got into the ship and the knife. Difficult to believe and even more difficult to prove. Klara is suspicious of Seefried. But she is also irritated. Because in Seefried's telephone storage there is the number of Rita Fürmann, the wife of the public prosecutor.

The celebrated actress Araine Claasen is at the height of her career: she is beautiful and successful and will soon be awarded a television prize. But then the beautiful glow begins to crumble. First Ariane discovers that her husband and manager Roman cheats on her with the young pretty actress Pia Marshall, then her husband is suddenly shot in his villa under mysterious circumstances. Ariane himself is suspected of having killed her husband out of jealousy. How good that she has her sister Franziska at her side, who assists her, but probably knows more than she admits. Till Ritter and Felix Stark find it difficult to determine in the dazzling film world, especially since Ariane is at the center of a media mud battle.But soon her investigation will focus on the mysterious stalker Ricky, a psychopath who seems obsessed with Ariane.

A hospital worker is murdered right after an anonymous woman leaves a newborn in the baby drop-off. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2003.

Schenk walks into a bloody bank heist involving a kidnapped senior citizen strapped with explosives. Directed by Thomas Stiller, 2003.

Schenk discovers that a young man he helped convict and imprison may not have been guilty. Directed by Kaspar Heidelback, 2003.

A series of murders jolts the tourist town of Lahnenberg out of its cheerful bustle. Visitors are staying away, and a financial catastrophe looms for the local hoteliers. For detectives Moritz Eisner and Stefanie Gschnitzer, a race against time begins: every day, the perpetrator commits a murder—targeting a tourist—that is planned and executed with flawless precision. Is it mere coincidence that all the victims were guests at the Alpenhotel?

Ballauf and Schenk try to solve a murder with the help of teenagers living in a halfway house. Directed by Manfrew Stelzer, 2003.

When a driver for a ship chandler gets in trouble with traffic police, a policeman ends up dead. Against the rest of the police force, Borowski is determined that the driver is not the killer. Meanwhile, in order to avoid suspension for chaining up a reluctant murder witness on a brothel roof naked, Borowski meets with psychologist Frieda Jung.

The findings of forensic doctor Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne were an open skull fracture. A man's body is discovered near Lake Aasee. The first indication for Commissioner Frank Thiel are tire tracks in the mud. But instead of finding the perpetrator, this clue leads the investigator duo Thiel and Boerne to the identity of the victim. The murdered Wolfram Baermann was an engineer and had successfully entered the wind turbine business with his long-time friend Klaus Weisberg. The young widow Rike Baermann, a physiotherapist, describes her husband as an extremely reserved person who sometimes withdrew for days. Wolfram Baermann suffered from depression since his childhood.

Moritz Eisner’s first assignment as a member of a new special commission within the Ministry of the Interior—tasked with handling specialized criminological cases throughout Austria—takes him to the Arndorf Monastery in Carinthia. An international organ competition is taking place there, and a very special member of the jury is scheduled to receive personal protection. When the arrival of the Bishop—who was scheduled to open the competition—is delayed, the young organist Nikolaus Kutil steps in to fill the void. However, the spectacular opening concert ends in catastrophe: an organ pipe breaks loose from its mountings and crushes the young man to death in front of the assembled audience. Moritz Eisner and his new superior, Section Chief Schremser, are on the scene.

Strike at the Ostendorf shipyard in Kiel: Works council spokesman Bruhns wants to agree to the dismissal of a maximum of 50 men in order to ensure the preservation of the Kiel shipyard. The boss of the shipyard, Felix Ostendorf, tries almost desperately to make it clear to him that that won't be enough. But Bruhns remains firm, because he gains much personal advantage from his control over who is allowed to work. When Commissioner Borowski is called to the shipyard the next morning, Bruhns lies dead on a work raft.

Freddy puts his grandmother in a nursing home and investigates a murder there in the same week. Directed by Manfred Stelzer, 2004.

Münster. A body found at Lake Aasee resembles a scandalous murder from the 1950s.

The police suspect revenge by an immigrant family when a skinhead gets targeted by a sniper. Directed by Hannes Stöhr, 2004.

Having risen to the rank of investigator within a special commission of the Ministry of the Interior—an agency operating throughout Austria—Moritz Eisner is summoned to the Tyrolean village of Steinbach to solve a particularly difficult case alongside his Tyrolean colleague, Barbara Trenkwalder. Environmental activist Hermann Wegschneider—who had been a thorn in the side of many in the village due to his bitter struggle against the industrial exploitation of a local healing spring—has been found dead at the spring itself.

Freddy goes undercover as a janitor at an elite boarding school to investigate a series of murders. Directed by Hannes Stöhr, 2004.

The carefully draped corpse of 16-year-old student and talented pianist Rita Koehler is found on a grand piano in a concert hall, her body apparently embalmed. Could it have been assisted suicide? The body of an old man, also prepared, is then found - Karl Hahnemann, born in 1923. What did Rita and Hahnemann have in common? Both had a talent: Rita in music, Hahnemann a gifted chess player. A third victim makes it inevitably clear to the investigators that they are dealing with a serial offender: when the seven-year-old, highly talented Björn disappears, Borowski, his colleague Alim Zainalow, and police psychologist Frieda Jung urgently need to decode a pattern in order to track down the perpetrator.

Münster. Thiel and Boerne investigate when a body is discovered in a medical university's anatomy lab.

The severed thumb of a fugitive cop killer comes to Max and Freddy in the mail, leading them to a deserted town. Directed by Niki Stein, 2005.

On the day that Ulrich Wahl is called at home by his young Cuban lover Teresa, his fears are confirmed. Covered in blood and completely distraught, she begs him for help. There is a dead person in her secret love nest must go. Wahl feels compelled to act, else the fragile construction of his double life would shatter into pieces. The corpse that Chief Inspector Klaus Borowski confronts Ulrich Wahl with is not the dead man from his lover's apartment. It is a security guard who was found run over on a construction site by the entrepreneur Wahl. Borowski registers Wahl's cool response to the news. The security guard Bernd Ruda was run over with the car of Thorsten Brück, Teresa's husband. Brück also works for Wahl, but has now disappeared. When Wahl is then blackmailed, he confides in the inspector: someone blames him for the death of the security guard and is blackmailing him with it. But why is Wahl telling the commissioner about it?

One of the owners of a mine-removal nonprofit gets blown up during a jog, and his wife seems curiously unmoved. Directed by Torsetn C. Fischer, 2005.

Following a celebration held in honor of the winner of a violin competition, music professor Karin Landauer embarks on an erotic liaison with the winner's brother. When she returns to the bedroom from the bathroom, she discovers the young man murdered. Now, her infidelity can no longer be concealed from her husband—an internationally renowned violin virtuoso. However, the husband is far more devastated by the fact that a 300-year-old Stradivarius—"The Sleeping Beauty," which belongs to his wife—has vanished from their apartment, than he is by his wife's adultery. [Eisner]

A notorious liar wants to convince the Bremen detectives of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.

At the Ministry of the Interior, a German industrialist issues a threat: he will close his company's headquarters in Austria unless the murder of his wife—who was killed a year ago near their farmhouse in the Tyrolean mountains—is finally solved. Consequently, Moritz Eisner is dispatched to crack the case.

A beloved figure skating celebrity and competition judge is found dead on the ice. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2005.

A new case confronts Commissioner Borowski with grisly finds. In Kiel, the remains of human bodies appear in the sewers - teeth, hair, hip joints. They come from several bodies, and show clear traces of acid. Inspector Borowski and his colleagues are puzzled: where did the remains come from, how did they end up in the sewers, and how many people did they belong to?

After a snowstorm, a forester finds the very young Stefanie Thaller on the edge of an industrial park in the north of Munich: half naked and explored. Rarely have detective inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic faced a murder case with such poor information, and the father of the murdered man, Ludwig Thaller, a traveling salesman, is constantly breathing down the investigators' necks.

A shooting at a political demonstration thrusts Freddy and Max into a web of international conspiracy and intrigue. Directed by Martin Eigler, 2006.

Münster. Thiel investigates two murders connected by poison.

A diamond heist turned deadly causes Ballauf and Schenk to protect the sister of one of the outlaws. Directed by Hendrik Handloegten, 2006.

What inspector Borowski hears and sees at the crime scene this time also exceeds his imagination: the pregnant Stefanie Brückner had her baby cut out of her body shortly before she was born. The mother is in mortal danger, there is no trace of the child. Frieda Jung surprises Borowski with the assumption that it is very likely a woman who cannot have children of her own, socially isolated and unmarried. A clever analysis, but Frieda Jung is wrong about one important detail.

The internationally renowned physicist Raimund Jakobi is shot dead in broad daylight. The brilliant researcher—and head of department at the company Ultra Light Car (ULC)—was on the verge of completing a multi-million-dollar project: the development of a revolutionary new material for the automotive industry—a global first. Upon arriving at ULC, Detective Eisner encounters a tense and volatile atmosphere; the socially inept Jakobi was, to put it mildly, far from popular among his staff. Moreover, the very future of the company hinges on the success of his project.

In the Tyrolean mountains, a Black African asylum seeker is found murdered. The investigation by the local criminal police—led by Inspector Pfurtscheller—hits a dead end. Using the pretext that the crime might be a politically motivated assassination, Pfurtscheller manages to persuade the Ministry of the Interior to assign his old acquaintance—the Viennese special investigator Moritz Eisner—to this explosive case. [Eisner (Vienna) & Pfurtscheller (Innsbruck)]

Commissioner Borowski is on his way home from a fishing holiday when he is called for help at an unusual point: in the middle of the sea, on the way from Sweden to Germany, the captain of the ferry has disappeared without a trace. Borowski had seen him shortly before, when Captain Venske had been arguing with his First Officer Björndahl at the bar. Borowski has all the passengers on the ferry screened and reconstructs the captain's last hours. Even the first trace is strange: someone has opened the pilot door - the signal for an emergency. Did Captain Venske leave voluntarily, was it suicide, accident or murder?

It should look like an accident. But Prof. Boerne's autopsy findings are clear: the well-known clairvoyant Roswitha Brehm was murdered. Just a few hours before the crime, she had desperately tried to contact Inspector Thiel. Did she want to solve a crime again using a pendulum? Thiel is skeptical. But now the clairvoyant died in the mysterious villa that had already made big headlines in Münster. Years ago, almost the entire Steinhagen family was shot here. The case went unpunished and the bodies were never found. Only the adopted daughter Franziska survived the bloodbath. Is there a connection between the clairvoyant's death and the murder of the Steinhagens?

The murder of the successful lawyer Mohr leads Ritter and Stark into the world of big city singles. Mohr was a regular guest at various speed dating establishments, although he had an affair with his attractive colleague Nina (Aglaia Szyskowitz). Was jealousy involved? Because there is also Kirsten (Elena Uhlig), whom Mohr met during speed dating and with whom he began a relationship. Both women have a motive; and Kirsten, the impulsive saleswoman in a boutique, had also learned through an indiscretion that Mohr's law firm was not averse to tax fraud. Kirsten runs away when she realizes that the police are on her trail. But her older brother Paul (Timo Dierkes), who has an extremely close relationship with his sister, also comes under suspicion of murder.

Max gets commended in the paper for excellent police work, and finds himself targeted by a maniac in response. Directed by Thomas Stiller, 2007.

Silke Rohwedder's empty sailing boat is found on the open sea. Her jacket, shoes and handbag on board, there are no signs of her.

When a truck is robbed, one of the drivers is killed and another is seriously injured. The investigations always lead Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper back to the shipping company, because it quickly becomes apparent that there was an informant within the company. When Lena and Kopper find out about the shipping company's payment difficulties, the perpetrator seems to have been identified. But then a second murder occurs and the two detectives have to start their investigation all over again.

En route to work, Eisner suddenly stumbles upon a police operation—a double suicide has occurred. It is nothing out of the ordinary for Inspector Weiler, the slightly indifferent colleague investigating at the crime scene. A man has apparently shot his wife and then himself. A clear-cut case—but not for Moritz Eisner. He spots suspicious traces, suggesting that a third party must have been present in the apartment.

Two scuba divers discover a man's body during a dive in Lake Achensee in Tyrol. The body has been weighed down with chains and an umbrella stand and sunk. Apparently, the deceased had been lying at the bottom of the lake for about 15 years. The autopsy reveals that the man was shot with a shotgun. Surprisingly, it turns out that the murdered man came from the former East Germany. [Eisner (Vienna) and Pfurtscheller (Innsbruck)]

A desperate mother leads Lursen and Stedefreund on a quest to see if cell phone radiation makes people sick.

The city of Kiel goes on lockdown after a sniper shoots a man on the Hörn Bridge.

Batic. „ A gmahde Wiesn “ means in Bavarian both „ a mowed meadow “ and colloquially „ a project that cannot go wrong “ - „ a surefire thing “. And „ die Wiesn “ is of course also the synonym for the Munich Oktoberfest, the largest folk festival in the world. As every year, showmen and Munich hosts are preparing for the race for the coveted places. The violent death of the influential city councilor Hubert Serner (Bruno Graf) is therefore an issue in the city: Serner's assistant Diana Aljescu (Anita Matija) found the lawyer in his garden pond.

Münster. Professor Boerne's past catches up with him when a skeleton is found in a wooded area near the city.

A professional was at work here. Police officer 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? To ensure that nothing is swept under the rug, the "Internal Investigations" department intervenes: Samland, who worked for the motorway police, was involved in illegal dealings with the underworld, claims Detective Inspector Brauer. He takes over the case from the homicide squad.

A mysterious traffic accident in the snow, leaving five people dead, presents special investigator Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) with a host of riddles. For alongside the two drivers—both university students—police discover three additional deceased individuals inside the wrecked vehicle who, by all appearances, had died prior to the crash. [Eisner]

Private detective Peter Mang is found half-naked in a construction pit with a dog tattoo on his neck and puncture wounds in his back. Has he become the victim of his secret investigation? The trail leads Inspector Thiel to the villa of the industrialist family Rummel. Despite the clean facade, Sabine and Markus Rummel's marriage obviously seems to be crumbling: after all, the photos taken by the detective show that the factory boss and his new assistant Christine Schauer have more in common than just an employment relationship. Meanwhile, Prof. Boerne is once again investigating on his own. The fact that the murdered private detective looked so similar to him is something that doesn't bother the forensic doctor. The dead man's striking tattoo leads him to a relevant tattoo studio in Münster. Here he meets the Belarusian Jan Sievic – and his fighting dog.

Borowski goes undercover, placing a personal ad to bait a killer who seems to find victims through a lonely hearts site.

A gruesome sexual murder shocks Münster. The victim, a young law student, was found strangled in her apartment. “Do we all have to be afraid now?” is the headline in the local press. But there is not much to suggest that a serial killer was actually at work here. However, the victim's ex-boyfriend André Pütz, a freelance photographer who mainly travels to crisis areas around the world, is an urgent suspect. Recently he had repeatedly stalked the young woman. When Inspector Thiel and Prof. Boerne surprise him at home, he flees headlong. And yet Thiel resists drawing hasty conclusions. He discovers parallels between the crime and other cases. Above all, the extremely attractive bank employee Anna Schäfer, whose apartment was recently broken into, won't let him go. But at first he meets her very aloofly.

A salt mine reveals the body of a security guard reported missing months earlier.

A young Turkish woman - Ayse Ozbay - is found hanging from a tree in the forest near the Tyrolean market town of Telfs. At first the police assumed it was a suicide, because within a year three other Turkish girls and a young man hanged themselves from the same tree in order to avoid being forced into marriage by the family.

A body is found in a Leipzig canal. The chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler manage to find out the identity of the man: it is Peter Schneider, a successful Leipzig entrepreneur and family man.

A murder without a motive? - Inconceivably. And yet the murder of the 48-year-old senior physician Hermann Johns seems completely unfounded. The renowned physician, who worked in the maternity ward of a Cologne clinic, seems to have been popular with patients and hospital staff alike.

Boris Blaschke's body lies on the garbage amid leftovers and packaging that could have come from the shops he worked for, because Blaschke was area manager at the discount chain Billy and responsible for three Ludwigshafen branches. When Lena Odenthal and Kopper inspect his apartment, they realize that there was practically nothing else for Blaschke besides work.

The suicide of medical student Rojin Lewald poses a number of puzzles for chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund. The young woman, who comes from a Turkish family, wanted to divorce her German husband. She leaves behind a two-year-old daughter. Her wealthy parents are successful and respected citizens of Bremen, open-minded but devout.

In his 15th case, inspector Fritz Dellwo has to investigate on his own because his colleague Charlotte Sänger is undergoing further training. But Dellwo is ripe for a vacation and decides to take some time off - a forty-year-old detective in midlife crisis. He visits his old love Katrin and subjects his life to a thorough examination. But even in the supposed idyll, crime catches up with him.

A dead body is found in the swimming pool of the "Schloss Hamberg" boarding school: Stephan appears to have committed suicide. Lovesickness may have driven the introverted son of a renowned banker and a celebrated actress to his death. However, an inconspicuous laundry button changes the entire scenario.

Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are investigating the case of a man who was found shot dead in the Filder near Stuttgart Airport. The murdered man appeared to have lived beyond his means, but apparently had no apparent enemies. However, Lannert and Bootz come across unforeseen connections in the professional environment of the dead man, who worked as a customs officer at the airport.

Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are confronted with the excesses of the modern job market. Temporary work and illegal employment seem to encourage abuse of people. A young manager Armin Lohmann is found dead in his apartment. The first suspicion falls on his wife Katrin, but chief inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler find bloody footprints at the scene of the crime, which indicate the presence of a strange woman on the night of the crime.

A police officer is shot dead during an identity check at Hanover-Langenhagen Airport. What looks like a criminal's panicked reaction becomes increasingly mysterious. All surveillance cameras were out at the time of the crime. For Charlotte Lindholm, however, the case seems clear after just a few hours.

It's a picture-perfect summer's day when Prof. Boerne's golf tournament in Grothenburg is suddenly interrupted by a dead man in a tuxedo. With the tournament victory firmly in mind, Boerne is briefly tempted to deny his profession and to assume that Dr. Raimund Strothoff, the Münster banker, killed himself. But bondage marks on one of the ankles cause Boerne to call Inspector Thiel. [Münster]

This case takes the Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic to their limits: the television astrologer Doro Pirol is found shot to death in her Nymphenburg villa. Not only Doro's husband Remy and her stepfather Prof. K.D. Mosberg are shocked. Even the longtime housekeeper Annemarie Weigand can hardly believe the sudden death of the ethereal beauty. Doro and Remy acted as popular esoteric stars in their TV show "Astraltime" in front of the camera. Selina works as a fortune teller behind the scenes.

Cenk Batu is investigating undercover in the Hamburg Special Operations Command (SEK) on behalf of his superior Uwe Kohnau. Some officials there are suspected of working illegally as trainers abroad and selling their specialist knowledge. Batu manages to gain the trust of SEK man Lars Jansen, who is also said to be involved in the deal. The case seems almost solved when the SEK is suddenly called because of an alleged hostage situation.

A dead man on the subway calls inspectors Ritter and Stark into action. It is the building contractor Horst Baumann, who had already come to the fore in the past due to a spectacular company bankruptcy. After a long stay abroad, he returned to Berlin to renovate real estate with the help of his attractive wife Alissa and his opaque partner Alsfeld. The investigations quickly bring the inspectors on the trail of the craftsman Rothe, who was ruined by the bankruptcy at the time. Had he wanted revenge on Baumann?

Gerhard Nieser, a wine inspector at the Saarland Institute for Food Research, is found murdered in a house on the outskirts of Saarbrücken. A man like that has a lot of responsibility - and power. Vintners tremble before him, wine shops fear his visit.

It's a tough case for Borowski: The body of the eight-year-old girl has hematomas and a broken rib - both older injuries. The inspector takes a closer look at the family: Michelle's parents, Nadine and Thies Nowak, have financial problems and are struggling with enormous marital problems. To make matters worse, Nadine is pregnant, and then Thies' ex-girlfriend reappears on the scene.

Florian robs a gas station to get money for drugs: he needs the money to meet a dealer. The deal is supposed to take place in an abandoned warehouse - but a SEK unit is already waiting there, having received a tip. Everything goes wrong here: Florian escapes, a SEK officer is shot. During their investigations, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper encounter a wall of silence.

A dead body is caught in the net of a German fishing boat off the Norwegian coast. But the dead man seems to be the second officer of the container ship MS Karina, Radek Jankowski, and he is apparently not missing. To Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund's astonishment, neither the water police nor the shipping company in Bremerhaven are willing to help.

When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch is found in the Danube on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, the alarm goes off in the Vienna Ministry of the Interior and Moritz Eisner is immediately dispatched as a special investigator. On the spot, Eisner learns that the reporter had been researching a red-hot story, which she surprisingly no longer wanted to publish.

Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann have been a well-rehearsed team for years, working well together and also getting along privately. It is all the more dreadful when Klara finds out that Perlmann unexpectedly finds himself in the crosshairs of the investigations involved in the murder of a young woman because he had met Constanza on the evening of her death.

A male body is found in the Weser. For chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund, it quickly becomes clear that the dead man is a student who met men for money. Are Lürsen and Stedefreund dealing with a serial offender? The inspectors try to reconstruct the last few days before the murder and keep coming across the name of Leon Hartwig, a young electrician who was always exactly where the victim was. Coincidence?

The two inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz receive an order over the police radio: a woman with a Slavic accent has called for help. When the two inspectors arrive at the specified address - a luxurious apartment - a young woman lies dead in bed. Before Lannert and Bootz can react, they come under fire themselves.

The puncture wound is deep: Prof. Julius Gann has lost a lot of blood. When he and his wife returned home from a charity gala, an unknown attacker stabbed them in the villa. While help came too late for Carmen Gann, Prof. Gann is now being treated in his own private clinic - and even in this situation he remains the boss.

Sofia Martens, star architect and owner of a large architecture office, asks her old friend, public prosecutor Scheer, for help: her assistant Anett Berger has disappeared. Scheer draws Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo's attention to the case, but they are not exactly enthusiastic about it as the search for missing persons is not one of their duties. At first, they are reluctant to investigate the disappearance of Anett, but they are increasingly fascinated by this completely different world of Sofia Martens.

Margret Saloschnik, in her mid-fifties, is found dead in front of a hotel in Kiel. Everything indicates that she threw herself off the roof of the hotel. Klaus Borowski and police psychologist Frieda Jung soon find suspects who all had a relationship with Margret.

Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk have to solve the murder of a young homeless man. Apparently the young drug addict Andi Lechner was poisoned. The bottle of wine he last drank was laced with antifreeze. Was it a targeted attack on him? Or was it a coincidence? Their investigations lead the detectives into the world of people on the fringes of society.

Lena Odenthal gets a call: a witness wants to testify something important about a murder, but when Lena Odenthal arrives at the meeting point, the witness is dead. The case she wanted to testify about was twelve years ago, the murderer confessed and has served his sentence. So what else did Michaela Bäuerle want to share?

The spectacular suicide of the Munich journalist Rainer Truss makes waves. Truss was known for solid front-line research when it came to exposing grievances or corruption. And Ivo's childhood friend comes under suspicion for the murder.

Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is on his way home when he witnesses an old man being ruthlessly run over by a car. When Boerne rushes to the dying victim's aid, he is almost run over himself. The "accident" appears to have been a targeted murder attempt with an unusual murder weapon: Father Thiel's taxi. [Münster]

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 aren't bothered by the fact that the company was involved in a rotten meat scandal years ago.

For Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm, her vacation comes to an abrupt end when a man is shot dead in front of his wife. He is the third victim of a serial killer, a sniper who kills seemingly at random. Age, profession, gender of the dead do not show any correspondence - the victims did not know each other and do not fit into any recognizable pattern.

A youth center burns down. The body of 40-year-old Ulf Meinert is found in the building. At first everything indicates that he started the fire, but then chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler find a lead that leads to the owners of the land where the youth center was located. The Kleebergs want to sell it because their auction house is heavily in debt. So far, the project has failed due to resistance from the youth center operator. Did the Kleebergs order the arson to survive financially?

Ivo has amnesia and is suspected of murdering a colleague.

The death of Willy Schubert, over 80 years old, came as no surprise as he had been seriously ill for a long time. But an attentive medical officer discovers that Schubert's death was caused by drug poisoning. Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz now have to investigate within the grieving family.

Ballauf is at the center of a murder investigation during his class reunion.

Charlotte has a car accident but doesn't remember it the way her rescuers say it happened.

Detectives Lursen and Stedefreund investigate a very personal murder case.

A child goes missing from a social housing development.

Borowski finds himself in the backwoods of Finland searching for a young man who escaped custody during extradition.

A mummy is discovered in a local villa. [Münster]

When the financial manager of a major drug syndicate is found murdered, Moritz Eisner is sent undercover.

A mysterious murder leads Eisner to investigate a dangerous cult.

Ballauf and Schenk investigate after a man's fiancée is murdered.

A murder in the JVA Stadelheim prison serves as a distraction for a meticulously planned escape. The chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr are on site when Hassan Adub flees. It soon becomes clear that the escape would not have been possible without help.

The wife of a respected asparagus farmer is murdered. [Münster]

When a 15-year-old boy dies after imbibing an energy drink, Borowski suspects a worker from the manufacturing plant.

Charlotte's boss wants a quick resolution for an arson case that resulted in a woman's death.

A case for Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr: Konstanze Schiller, the successful and desirable owner of a Munich spa, is found dead in a chocolate bath - an almost perfect murder that does not skimp on symbolism. A beauty dies during a beauty bath in her own beauty temple... a victim of her pride?

A farm owner is at the center of an investigation into a child's death.

This episode begins with the trial of Markus Rapp for rape and murder. Munich Chief Inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are in the dock as a defense attorney on her first case tears holes in the prosecution. The public becomes more interested in the trial with every passing day as Franz and Ivo's case begins to fall apart.

Parts of a man's body are found in an animal trap at the scene of the crime at a country estate near Kiel. This man was a member of a hunting party and everything indicates that militant animal rights activists are behind the murder. But Borowski soon finds out that even the hunting party there seems to have something to hide. This estate was deliberately chosen by the hunting party. Bears have been bought and now the aim is to illegally hunt bears here undisturbed.

Ballauf and Schenk investigate a publishing house after a young consultant is murdered.

A witness at the center of Lursen's investigation is in danger of becoming the next victim.

Eisner teams up with a new partner to investigate a series of murders of young people.

The high-stakes game of professional soccer proves fatal.

The 32-year-old Tini Bürger only knows one boss: the devil alcohol. Since her husband Lassnik died in a car accident two years ago, she has been alone with her daughter Nessi. Depression keeps her in front of the television. Her 13-year-old daughter organizes the household, the cooking, and cares for her "alleged grandmother" for a few euros. Early one morning, Nessi witnesses a man being shot dead at a gas station. What exactly did Nessi see?

Thiel and Boerne investigate the murder of a prominent local businessman. [Münster]

Eisner and Fellner investigate when a naked man is found dead in a shopping cart.

A normal weekday. The chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called to the outskirts of Munich. Max Lasinger is waiting excitedly in a glass shop behind the front building, where he confesses he had seen light and wanted to catch a "burglar". When he attacked, he lashed out, but was it self-defense? And will his dementia make his confession untrustworthy?

Eisner is sent to Tyrol to track down a construction magnate's killer.

Ballauf and Schenk dive deep into the life of a Cologne district after a landlady is murdered.

A murder investigation leads Thiel and Boerne to a Münster tennis club.

Köln. Ballauf and Schenk must solve an act of sabotage with deadly consequences.

A young woman has disappeared without a trace and her boyfriend, a beat cop, is convinced she was murdered.

Two seemingly unrelated cases bring Germany and Sweden together to catch a serial killer. In Kiel, a man jumps into a bathing lake - and is impaled by bamboo sticks. For Borowski and Sarah Brandt, it is initially not clear whether it is the act of a madman who accidentally finds his victims. Or did someone want to punish the dead?

Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are in an internal competition for "Policeman of the Year". Then the phone call: a dead man in the new Jewish synagogue, presumably outside their jurisdiction. The public prosecutor begs them to be sensitive in their inquiries in the Jewish community, but the investigators approach the case like any other.

Charlotte delves into the secrets of a man found murdered in the countryside.

Köln. A dead retiree in the park puzzles detectives Ballauf and Schenk.

Eisner and Fellner investigate a bus driver's murder.

Inspector Frank Thiel and forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne are investigating the case of a former female criminal investigation officer who was found dead in the street – wearing only panties. Boerne found no signs of violence on the woman's body. [Münster]

After three bodies are found in a shipping container, Eisner and Fellner face off against the Chinese mafia.

Köln. Ballauf and Schenk are in a race against time to find a killer.

Köln. The body of a young man is found in an old military bunker.

A desperate call alerted the Kiel police emergency number: "He's in my apartment. He just comes through the wall." But for Carmen Kessler, any help comes too late. The young woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment.

A wedding party puts detectives Lursen and Stedefreund at the center of their next investigation.

Faber and his team investigate a possible serial murder.

The Kiel author Dirk Sauerland is found dead on his yacht. Sauerland was known beyond the borders of Kiel. In recent months he had been working on a spectacular disclosure story.

Faber investigates the death of a local pimp and drug dealer who was the right-hand man of a shady businessman.

A murdered naturopath leads Thiel and Boerne into the world of alternative medicine. [Münster]

The body of a 16-year-old girl turns up in an incineration plant.

Charlotte finds herself in high society circles as she investigates the murder of a young girl.

Köln. Public prosecutor Wolfgang von Prinz is alarmed: Ingo Broich, the managing director of the cleaning company of the same name, was stabbed to death in his neighborhood. Everyone in this upscale Cologne neighborhood is well known. But his wife, attorney Beate von Prinz, also has close business ties to the murder victim's father.

A failed assassination attempt at a major international conference leads Eisner and Fellner into danger.

Lürsen and Stedefreund embark on a controversial murder investigation.

The murder of a journalist is linked to a famous pop singer. [Münster]

Freddy and Max are faced with a mystery when a child is kidnapped on the street. [Köln]

Falke investigates a series of car arsons. (Hamburg)

Jingle bells on the Kiel Fjord: while Commissioner Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt are celebrating Julklapp in the Presidium, a murderer is preparing a dark crime in neighboring Schleswig. At the Lucia Festival parade at a Danish school, a man suddenly caught fire. Kriminalrat Schladitz, who spent his childhood in this place, becomes an involuntary witness to the brutal attack. The dead man, Michael Eckart, was the headmaster here and is a member of the Danish minority. At first everything indicates that the murderer can be found in the immediate vicinity of the dead man.

A nighttime emergency call from a moving car alerts the police in Carinthia: "Eisner, BKA Vienna, service number 318-12-58. Need support!" A short time later, Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner is found seriously wounded by a shot to the head and motionless behind the wheel of his car in a quarry. When he wakes up in the intensive care unit, he has no idea what has happened. He suffers from "retrograde amnesia", which blocks out the traumatic experience itself. A fatal consequence of the gunshot wound.

Bibi Fellner tackles the case of a twelve-year-old boy accused of a brutal act of violence.

Thiel and Boerne investigate the murder of a well-known artist. [Münster]

Faber and his team investigate when a teenage girl is found dead.

Falke and Lorenz investigate a murder on the North Sea island of Langeoog. (Hamburg)

Weimar's Sausage Queen goes missing and a surprising turn of events occurs when the police get a phone call.

The geriatric nurse Sabrina Dobisch witnesses a traffic accident and bravely tries to save the life of the young pedestrian Christian van Meeren. She then accuses the driver Doris Ackermann of premeditated murder. While Sabrina is celebrated as a courageous rescuer and enjoys public attention, Inspector Borowski remains skeptical: Apart from the testimony, nothing indicates a capital crime. Until his colleague Sarah Brandt finds a gun in Doris Ackermann's glove compartment. Is there a connection between Christian van Meeren and Doris Ackermann? And what role does the piano teacher André Rosenthal play, who often spent time near the dead man?

Ballauf and Schenk must solve a murder and urgently help their colleague. [Köln]

A girl is found dead in a forest and Faber suspects someone close to the victim.

Things get out of control after two police officers receive an emergency call on their nightly patrol.

Eisner and Fellner make a gruesome discovery in a demolished home.

A series of arson attacks shocks the city of Köln.

On a nocturnal boat trip by the company Marex, the lawyer Jens Adam is spectacularly shot. His body disappears into the sea. Marex is a world leader in the mining of raw materials in the deep sea, specializing in rare earths. By mining these metals, which are found in every mobile phone, Marex wants to land a business worth millions. Does Adam's death have anything to do with the killing of an environmentalist who was protesting the destruction of the ocean floor? Jens Adam's wife Marte could also have killed her husband out of jealousy, because he had several affairs.

Thiel and Boerne search for a superhero serial killer. [Münster]

Falke & Lorenz investigate a series of car arsons.

There is a point in every human being when they are lonely. Lisa Brenner knew that moment. When her body is found one gray morning in front of a high-rise building, having fallen from the 12th floor balcony, 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 her favorite. A tricky case that also deeply shakes the trust between Leitmayr and Batic.

Freddy investigates after Max witnesses a crime. [Köln]

The death of Bibi's father leads the investigators to an unknown safe deposit box and a possible smuggling ring.

Nasir al Yasaf, the fifth son of the Emir of Kumar, leads a glamorous life in Munich. Protected by his diplomatic status, the young man takes every liberty: fast cars, extravagant parties, drugs. And the police stand by and do nothing. When Nasir's expensive sports car once again races through Munich, ignoring every red light & stopped only by police blockade, the body of his friend Karim is found in the passenger seat. Batic and Leitmayr are tasked with solving Karim's murder, but their hands are tied when it comes to their investigation. Batic rages, Leitmayr urges "diplomatic" action. But to their amazement, the Emir's son cooperates.

Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a popular dating coach. [Köln]

The body of a German Syrian is found in a park near Oldenburg.

A large meat producer appears to be a murder target just as he's about to roll out a new product.

As Dorn and Lessing investigate the death of a woman during a robbery, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems.

A man falls from the top floor of a luxury hotel in Vienna. The Iranian diplomat and nuclear physicist Dr. Bansari apparently committed suicide. But why did he buy expensive opera tickets for the same evening? Moritz Eisner and his colleague Bibi Fellner want to investigate the matter, but the Iranian embassy and the Austrian Foreign Ministry immediately get involved. The case is subject to the strictest secrecy - the dead man's laptop and cell phone are confiscated. The two investigators are annoyed, but do not give up. The hotel's surveillance video leads them to the trail of the shady lobbyist Johannes Leopold Trachtenfels-Lissé. He has arranged a secret deal with Dr. Bansari. Eisner and Fellner find out that the case involves valves and pumps that are needed for nuclear reactors. A trainload of the high-quality components is to be sent to Iran via third countries. For the two investigators, a race against time begins - and against the Israeli secret service Mossad.

The head of the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene is found murdered in a suspected act of vengeance.

The severed head of a young man is found in Mundsforde, a small village near Kiel. Before his violent death, 20-year-old Mike was apparently addicted to the drug crystal meth. Inspectors Klaus Borowski and Sarah Brandt investigate the drug scene in Kiel. After a manhunt call, Rita, the girlfriend of the deceased, gets in touch. She tells the inspectors about her love for Mike, a story full of hope for a new life, intoxication and ecstasy. Although recently clean, Rita refuses to cooperate with the police. Rita reminds Borowski of his daughter Carla. He puts pressure on Rita and promises to protect her. In her distress, Rita accuses two dealers - and thereby puts herself in danger.

Freddy and Max investigate the death of a young musician. [Köln]

A young man's disappearance in 1968 leads Eisner and Fellner to a present-day mystery on the Czech border.

A case involving a missing seven-year-old resurfaces ten years later.

An apartment bathroom is covered in blood with no body in sight.

The 60-year-old alcoholic Onno Steinhaus is found dead in a working-class district of Kiel. Steinhaus had a criminal record for pedophilia and, as Borowski and Brandt quickly find out, lived in complete isolation. Ironically, however, a group of children seemed to have gone in and out of the dead man. Apparently they exploited the dead man's desires, but - as they claim at least - never complied with his wishes. The police officer responsible for the district, Thorsten Rausch, seems to have capitulated in view of the social neglect in his area. Sarah Brandt's investigations bring to light a video that shows a boy - Timo Scholz - in a catchy situation with Onno Steinhaus. Timo denies having been abused. Borowski has to observe that Sarah Brandt is conspicuously often trying to get close to her police colleague Rausch.

Falke jumps into action when Lorenz is caught in a hostage situation.

What the French call a "petite mort" actually ends fatally in a forest near Nuremberg. Christian Ranstedt, married and father of two children, a professor at the University of Erlangen, and a respected citizen of the city of Nuremberg, was killed by two shots to the head at close range while making love in his car. Ranstedt's wife, Julia, believed her husband was at the university. For her and their two children, a world that seemed indestructible suddenly collapsed. Why was Christian Ranstedt murdered? Why at such a piquant moment? And how did whoever was in the car with him survive?

When the owner of a popular bar is murdered, Freddy and Max investigate. [Köln]

The team gets involved in the investigation of a seriously injured man found in front of a Dortmund clinic.

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.

Franz Leitmayr leaves town for Oktoberfest because he can't stand it, but is called back because his fingerprints are on a dead man's wallet. The victim appeared drunk but has almost no blood alcohol level. His GHB level is another story, and shutting down the beer tent where he obtained his tainted alcohol is a problem during Oktoberfest. And the victims continue to pile up.

Falke and Lorenz investigate after a suspect is killed in police custody.

The team investigates the tragic case of a six-year-old found dead at a playground.

Karow searches for the killer of his former partner.

The murder of a military pilot's wife reveals an unwritten code of honor.

A confused woman is found on the Kiel Fjord. Her statements give reason to fear that the notorious murderer of women, Kai Korthals, has reappeared. Inspector Brandt informs her colleague Borowski about the serial killer, with whom she once had traumatic experiences. Borowski finds the new case highly inconvenient. He's in love and wants to get married. But when his bride disappears without a trace, he has to ask himself whether the murderer has returned because of him.

Two shots are fired in a family home in Munich. Batic and Leitmayr find Michaela Danzer dead and her partner Daniel Ruppert unconscious. Quirin, the dead man's six-year-old son, has disappeared along with the murder weapon. During the emergency operation, the doctor discovers a scar from an old gunshot wound on Daniel Ruppert's abdomen, leading Batic and Leitmayr to the trail of an attempted family suicide in Augsburg fifteen years ago. Back then, in an act of sheer desperation, Daniel Ruppert shot his wife and young son. He himself survived, as did his then seven-year-old daughter Ella, whom he couldn't bring himself to shoot. He dismissed her before turning the gun on himself. The fact that the perpetrator from back then is the victim of today is a major headache for Batic and Leitmayr, as is the search for Ella, who is now a young woman and whose trail is lost after numerous therapies. Who shot Ruppert and his new wife that night? And where is Quirin?

Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a local financial consultant. [Köln]

Felix Murot and Magda Wächter are called to the parking garage of a casino in Wiesbaden in the morning where a dead man was found in a stairwell. While securing evidence, Murot discovers another body in the trunk of a car. He finds out that one of the dead had just won a large amount of money, but the money has disappeared. Was it really all about money or is there more to the murders? Then it happens: Ulrich Tukur himself is suspected of murder. A film within a film. Tukur, who plays Tukur, quickly realizes that there are no loyalties in the film industry. But he also poses other questions related to the nature of cinematic illusion and his own role in the hilarious game of genre contradictions, a self-reflective game in which the main character spins around himself in interesting turns. What is it actually like when you play a commissioner, while you are actually Ulrich Tukur, although you are only playing him here? "Who am I?"

Faber stumbles upon a murder case that connects to a 14-year-old missing person investigation.

A music manager is found strangled before the final round of a TV talent show.

A pair of murders rocks an upper-class neighborhood in Köln.

Falke teams up with BKA investigator Julia Grosz on a murder case.

Leitmayr's investigation of a Romanian pimp gets a fast conviction. Batic was not part of the investigation because he was a childhood friend of brothel operator Harry Schneider, for whom the victim supposedly worked. But the total indifference of the defendant irritated him. Back in the office, he asks again for the file of the convicted Romanian, because in all his years of service he had never experienced such a quick confession and not a single attempt to reduce his sentence.

Ballauf and Schenk investigate the stabbing death of a doctor. [Köln]

In the bone collection at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg, a young doctoral student discovers a skull that doesn't match the rest of the skeleton with which it was filed. The skull is significantly younger than stated in the death certificate. That same morning, twenty-year-old Steffi wants to complain to her mother for not waking her up. But Andrea Schwinn is found strangled in the parlor of the inn that the family has run for generations. Her father, Holger Schwinn, is nowhere to be found. One of his hunting weapons is missing. While Chief Inspector Felix Voss and his colleagues, Chief Inspector Paula Ringelhahn, Inspectors Wanda Goldwasser and Sebastian Fleischer, and the head of forensic science, Michael Schatz, begin their investigation at the inn, an elderly woman pitches a small tent on Jakobsplatz directly in front of the Nuremberg police headquarters because she cannot accept the police's refusal to take action in the case of her missing adult son.

A group of high school girls close ranks over a hit-and-run.

An eight-year-old girl is the only witness to her family's murder. [Köln]

A Turkish businessman's murder puts Eisner and Fellner on the trail of a human trafficking ring.

The Dortmund homicide squad investigates a conflict in the criminal rocker scene.

Ben Schröder is stabbed by a stranger while walking with his family in broad daylight, before the eyes of his wife Ayumi (Luka Omoto), his six-year-old son Taro, and numerous witnesses. During the interrogations, Batic and Leitmayr found a confusing multitude of truths, when the observations of the eyewitnesses contradict each other. The highly complex investigations drag on for several months without any results until the investigation is closed. Then a second victim is stabbed.

At the heart of the story is a student who accuses her brother of murdering another student. The next morning, Maria's body is actually recovered from the fjord. Investigative duo Klaus Borowski and Sarah Brandt find clues as to why Julia's brother could have committed the crime, but Julia's betrayal cannot be explained by the commissioners. Only when they discover that she has secretly converted to Islam does light seem to be slowly coming into the dark. But Borowski and Brandt are not alone in their research: the state protection department at the state criminal office around head Kesting apparently pursues its own unscrupulous interests.

Hanoverian Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm and Kiel Commissioner Klaus Borowski are confronted with a former elite soldier, who wants to take revenge on his ex-girlfriend after his assignment in Afghanistan before her wedding to a comrade.

Karow is held hostage after his key witness gets gunned down in front of him.

A neighborhood watch leads to tension on the streets when a shop owner's son is shot dead. [Köln]

Eisner and Fellner are caught in a PR nightmare when a kidnapper harnesses the power of social media to rail against the prevailing social system.

After discovering he has two days to live, Lupo takes the police chief hostage to force Dorn and Lessing to hand over his murderer. [Weimar]

Competition between carnival dancers turns deadly.