The Internet post of a homeless man being put of fire is on the popular channel of reputed student prankster Florian 'FloFame' von Haben, who convinces Heldt he would never be so cruel and tasteless, probably an attempt to sabotage him. So they check out his eccentric local rival at at Mediajuice agency's studio, stuck-up Beauty-Blogger Luca Limoni, who also denies, but holds a deep grudge having been Flo's butt in his precious signature haircut. 'Ingrate' Flo's former manager Ralf Elmau is also suspect, so Heldt volunteers for makeover by Luca before he can set a ...

Trying to raise cash by garage sale on Carlo's pub doorstep to buy a rare comic, Heldt is shocked to be turned down as some of the cash is counterfeit, probably part of a large scale problem in Bochum and the region, even over several states in Germany. *State attorney and lover Bannenberg depresses him by announcing, unilaterally, she accepted a promoted with move to Passau in Bavaria. He remembers having go a fake note from silver spoon schoolboy Alexander Nehrsbach, who points at his denying arts teacher, would be-artist Hanno Schultz, who is deep in debt. Mario ...

Heldt's swiftly saves from a bus high-pregnant Simone Petri who fainted, believing to have spotted her fiance Andreas Bender, whom two cops failed to prevent from jumping to his presumed death from a bridge seven months ago, hours after allegedly beating to death gaming designer Christian Kaul in a fight. No corpse was found, yet the rest of the team prefers to concentrate on the recent wave of arson attacks o t local courier service. Despite an unfortunate first meeting, Heldt and foxy new profiler Julia Tietz soon grow closer, with her joining his ...

Eager to dump the painstaking identification of an adult male skeleton dug up in the woods on Mario, Heldt jumps on the claim from acquainted maverick senior Alfred Sieling who belied having photographed, while bird-watching, what may be the stabbing of his annoyingly-noisy, eccentric neighbor, painter Arno Limpinski, whose in-living muse Zoé Knaup only reports him missing after pushy gutter reporter Ulf Hund prints his sensationalist version. While commissioner Grün assesses Arno's excusive gallerist-dealer, Heldt treats Julia Tietz to a picnic and stumbles upon a ...

Stefan Zoller's poorly staged hanging-suicide in Bochum left him comatose, prisoners and staff remain suspiciously silent to Grün and Korthals but Heldt volunteers to go undercover posing as a posh Italian Amalfi-mob middleman Tom Becker. In Zoller's cell he finds heroin of a lethally high grade and is roughed up by Russian jail dealer Viktor's henchmen. Heldt refuses to be withdrawn, despite the danger, seeing the unexpected transfer of ex-Interior minister Uwe Herbst, murder but his biological father, who plays a confusing part in the further investigation.

As the team is after a robbers scam which cleans out homes of wedding couples while they are in the town hall registrar ceremony, no doubt tipped off from there, Heldt goes undercover as the groom with beat cop bride Angela Mertens, who seeks to redeem herself back to field work but needs an appendectomy the night before each time, so Ellen must take her place as his bride. The conspirators are found and a confession obtained against from registrar Claudia Meisner against double-unfaithful married lover René Schwartz, but there's a bloody ending, until Heldt wakes up ...

An armored car carrying the shopping huge mall's lottery prize is cleverly raided. Guard Gunnar Polt is fatally short, his mate Sven Mielke having broken safety protocol to avoid missing an foxy Internet date. A presumed accomplice's corpse is found, Nikolas's mechanic friend Thomas Marowski is somehow involved. The team soon suspects an inside job, Mario having found out a cellphone was hidden among the cash to trace it and sets a trap, which proves dangerous. Niklas finds the mall detective dirty and more.

Reputed family therapist Dr. Claas Sandner is comatose, hit by a brick thrown into his home practice. *Heldt's team lists possible motives. Wife Sibylle Sandner only fakes concern, their rascal teen son Jonas openly cares only for his mechanic apprenticeship at Bruno Zahn's bicycle repair shop and calls his father a neglectful hypocrite. The doc got a court order against former patient Elke Palass who lost custody of her child after he certified her unfit, but Sandner's colleague Dr. Thomas Mücke, who lost his therapeutic license for handing in a ghostwritten doctoral...

Seeing the golden pocket watch on a skull-smashed, next dumped corpse in a construction pit makes forensic doc Hannah Holle faint: it's her thirty years-missing college days flame Jonas Becker, whose innovative ideas inspired the interdisciplinary progress of the science. Heldt's team allows her to escape dismissal from the case for personal implication due to 'crucial knowledge' at her fervent request. . *Jonas's and Hannah's former mentor, professor Weingarten, points out his scholarship now went to obnoxious Oliver Tusch, who has an alibi. Jonas' father Herbert ...

Corporate restructuring shark Michael Ramme's home has been vandalized and tagged "You'll pay" by a masked intruder, so the family gets police protection. Brat daughter Larissa, on leave from Swiss boarding school, turns out a buddy of state attorney Bannenberg's equally rebellious daughter Emily, who claims she and Heldt 'dumped her' being forced to move to Passau, so Nikolas stays around a while. On the beat cop's night shift, an intruder kidnaps Larissa, leaving Emily gagged. Sacked employee Simon Stehr is proven the vandal, but no more. Heldt and Ahmed rightly ...

Carlos's bar and its 'savings club' are the latest victim in a series of robberies and muggings in Bochum, which caused affected small business people like Lisa Mensinga to form a vigilante posse and hire as security posts Neonazi Jörg Kabel 's biker gang-linked firm, which culminates the hostile atmosphere against immigrants, even Ahmed. The police disapproves of self-justice, but Heldt's nocturnal trap only gets Mario lightly wounded, inadvertently sabotaged by the 'militia'. Iraqi asylum seeker Armir's teen son Amir must be arrested for stealing sneakers and ...

Chief commissioner Detlev Grün actually called the bomb squad when his student niece Lena Herzog, whom he visited on Ruhr-Universität Bochum to appease doubts about his marriage, found an abandoned sports bag in the Chinese garden girls toilet. Heldt is delighted to look into the fossil it contained, while none was reported stolen or missing. *Palaeonthology professor Habakuk, a creative has-been star, is excited it's the "Missing link" for his thesis, mammals like birds descend from dinosaurs, but it's stolen and he knocked-down during a false fire alert while he ...

Chemistry teacher Walter Weiss's corpse was posthumously acid-affected in Dr. Specht's Freiherr-von-Liebig Gymnasium (state school)'s lab. Alumnus Mario Korthals and forensics can only work out he produced and sold popular, academic performance enhancing pills there. Commissioners Heldt and Grün go undercover as his successor viz. gym coach, trying befriending viz. disciplining pupils. Questions include the meaning of a mysterious coded list from the lab. Brilliant primus Sven Lugner proves most helpful in all matters, his classmates Jana Lose the cheap bitch and ...

Shortly in succession, four female lawyers report being the sleeping victim of a nocturnal visitor who marked their bellies 'I was here' while they were drugged but performed no sexual acts. Heldt worries Ellen may be next and initially looks into the first three's cleaned-out ex-husbands, who became friends. The fourth case is falsely confessed by the ex-con who may well have been framed the earlier time his victim claimed rape. After a wild night with Grün, whose wife jealously threw him out fearing his midlife crisis meant he seeks sexual variation, Heldt wakes up ...

Achmed is hospitalized with a major concussion inflicted by the nocturnal intruder in retired Otto Böhring's repair cafe where they work their handyman magic among other volunteers, the premises where vandalized, probably in search of something. Only single mother Jannika Montag's pendulum clock, brought in last evening and of little value, is reported stolen, but Heldt's team soon finds various items, allegedly beyond repair, were 'disposed off' by furtive Internet sale. Volunteer Ralf Wester is an ex-con, former cellmate of bank-robber Rudolf Kraska, whom the stolen...

Achmed's uncle Berat Özer is hospitalized, poisoned by an overdose of tranquilizer in the signature dish "döner" of his pitta bar. While daughter Elif Özer and cousin Yusuf Celik, promised 'engaged' since childhood, run the business, Heldt's prime suspect is neighbor baker Cordula Melker, who believes her beloved dog on diet 'poisoned' by Berat feeding it, which isn't even the case. he also canceled his meat orders with recently paroled ex-con Harald 'Hacki' Lüschen for selling laced pork as pure lamb to the Muslim.

Trick or treating in Bochum in Halloween zombie costume with DA Ellen's brat daughter Emily, Heldt stumbles upon the corpse of Martin Sachs, asphyxiated at home wearing a pumpkin head in costume. The fired security agent at Dr. Renate Leiphold's genetic manipulation firm Bereschit AG branch actually died from excessive pumpkin toxin in two helpings of soup, made from the firm-modified hybrid that allowed him to break the winning streak of horticultural society champion Michael Brehmer, which he was unable to taste as terribly bitter as an early symptom ('ageusia') of ...

On disciplinary filing and research duty to prepare the precinct's contraband auction, playful Heldt and his toy robot stumble upon a message in a game machine from ex-con inventor Johannes Korritke, who was recently electrocuted to death working on it. *Narcotics branch big suspects mysterious Freddy Q. to have killed him, perhaps for an invention to grow weed undetected or for the gambling machine, which Achmed helps check out, not as expected. So Heldt teams up discretely with Dutch drug detective Jan Kramer, his stand-in during Nikolas's three years on Mallorca. ...