Bukow's nemesis Subocek returns and forces Bukow and König to covertly work for him because he has proof that the detectives tampered with evidence in an older case. Will both of them agree to forever yield to Subocek's blackmail threat?

Before Vincent can start his job as a detective he moves into his apartment. That night his new neighbor Bastian is killed. Vincent meets his team partner Adam while both are busy investigating Bastian's family who recently struck it rich.

A single mother and her son are found dead in a family home. She was murdered with multiple stabs. Her son, who was paralyzed from the neck down, died of a stroke because nobody could change his IV fluid. A death in complete solitude. Katrin König investigates Jens Sommer, the ex-husband and father, and the Genth family, who were good friends with the Sommers. Do Jule and Holger Genth have anything to do with the death of the summers - or their foster children Emma and Max? When Max suddenly disappears and the suspicion against him is confirmed, Katrin König joins the...

A dead girl, wrapped in plastic, buried. No usable traces. No concrete clues. Chief inspector Elisabeth "Bessie" Eyckhoff tries to solve the murder of 16-year-old Laura Schmidt. Together with Dennis Eden, who has now also switched to homicide, Bessie searches for clues and comes across an earlier case: the disappearance of Anne Ludwig, who was also 16 at the time. Is there a connection between these two cases? Both girls got into a white van after the evening's ice skating. Suddenly Caroline Ludwig appears in the police station. She wants to know if the girl found is ...

After a party weekend in Berlin, 21-year-old Adam Dahl is taking the train back to Magdeburg with his friend Tomi. The two are happy and in love. But the mood changes abruptly when Christof Oschmann climbs into the train compartment with the young couple. Something is triggered in Adam - not sure exactly how. But it is what chief inspector Doreen Brasch is desperately looking for later - what is called a "trigger". Adam Dahl kills Christoph Oschmann. Later he cannot say why he did it. He just doesn't know. He doesn't even know the man. Brasch intuitively feels a ...

A woman is found dead at the foot of the Brocken after Halloween. Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch does not initially associate the murder with superstitious or even spiritual rituals. The fact is strange though. The body was burned, on a kind of pyre. And finally it turns out that the victim was tortured - with methods of the medieval Inquisition. Who is behind this act? The victim, Tanja Edler, returned to the Harz Mountains from Berlin just a year and a half ago to take over the family-run hotels. Now her mother, Stefanie Edler, decides to postpone her own retirement ...

The Polish geologist Magdalena Nowak is found dead in a forest near the village of Fehlow on the edge of a former lignite mining area - apparently suffocated with a plastic bag. Detective Chief Inspector Adam Raczek and Detective Inspector candidate Vincent Ross can initially rule out a sex crime. But why was the young woman alone in the forest in the middle of the night? According to her friend Tom Grabowski, Magdalena wanted to go to her camper. She has only lived here for a short time and is working on a soil survey for the renaturation of the former mining area, ...