Season 42 (2011)

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.