On a wood road near the rifle club a forester find the corpse of fatally shot avid member Hans Ackermann, who seemed to have no enemy. Teen son Martin is remarkably untouched, on a rare visit from foreign boarding school, where the knave spent four years after a fatal accident killed his girl playmate Steffi, whose 18th anniversary it would have been. Her parents Frank and Maja Erb always wanted vengeance, but the team works out the fresh widow Petra Ackermann played a multiple-twisted part in a secret family drama, like bully father Hans.

Near her waste bin, Finnish exchange constable Leena Virtanen notices the strangled corpse of a man, identified by the landlord as bank manager Stefan Kaminski. His colleagues are remarkably blase about him being missing for days, but notice the man isn't their boss but losing rival employee Markus Rohde, who worked the previous day. Both were hard on the others, especially laughing stock Jens Niemann. The team has a hard time fitting the apparently separate cases together, involving an abduction.

The morning Sven must testify in a major criminal gang trial, after sex with his local lover, he is abducted in a van to the woods. His first escape attempt fails, by the second his appearance interval at court is already canceled. Reuter convinces the stat attorney to have the case suspended while his team investigates the worrying disappearance. Sven's home only yields a romantic trail to art dealer Sandra von Lüder, missing from her home where the door was forced, perhaps to abduct Sven. Bank security video next shows Sandra von Lüder and a mystery woman, ...

Involuntarily early-retired engineer Hugo Benning died from a stairs fall after a fight at home and was dumped in the trash. Single old neighbor Hansen didn't react to her dog's barking then, but noticed a rare visiting younger man *. Loner Hugo Benning was back at university, mainly to collaborate with junior professor Dr. Holger Zeidler on a potentially most lucrative motor invention. His visiting daughter form Cologne, Simone Michalke, admits he never accepted her spouse, investment consultant Roland Michalke. He and Zeidler hid even from senior project supervisor ...

Pawn shop owner Martin Johnen is skull-smashed there with a candle stick. Cousin Hanna Holtmann and employee Lorenz Stumpf -whom nobody else wanted- praise Johnen as fair boss,but Lorenz Stumpf's wife had rekindled her youth love with Martin, allegedly platonic.Recent customers include single mother Inga Nolte, who pawned a heirloom chain, and Oder Uwe Rückert, whose pawns and due private loan hide for his father the family metal manufacture is virtually bankrupt.

Fatally shot huntress Beatrice Fesser's corpse is found by joggers, definitely not an accident. She made many enemies, for one as strict public official who withdrew concessions even for minor offenses and complained maximally. Pedantry made her unpopular in private life, mourned only by fiance Markus Daud, who rater points at Bea's ex-husband, who was ruined by heir divorce. The team also finds a case of adultery.

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Paramedics can't prevent the death by hit and run of professional education teacher Ulf Marwick, stepson of principal Jürgen Marwick, allegedly a case of nepotism at his recent return to Wismar. Someone used unconscious Ulf's phone to call the emergency line. Ulf's fiancee Maja Rohde is a fellow teacher, whose parents even built a double home for them to live in next door. The janitor noticed Ulf had an animated meeting with vandal student Kevin Bahnsen and his aggressive father Hajo, who even threatened Ulf.

Tarot 'truthsayer' Belinda Balthasar is strangled to death in her seance room, the old-fashioned safe robed empty. Desinherited daughter Silke Jaspers claims falsely Belinda called to urgently tell her something, then that it was telepathy. Many clients suffered private or business losses trusting her false predictions, some even bribed by rivals. Her heir and successor is Hansen 'Alberto' Hansen, also on old 'firend' of the police.

On captain Reuter's day off, Elena Trakies is found at the beach skull-smashed with an iron rod thrown in the sea. The Latvian was one of the attractive Baltic potential brides offered by dating service "Ostseesonne". Managing owner Hannelore Kramer says she can't imagine why Elena returned after her match with school principal Heinrich Braake fell through, as he found her a gold-digger. The team finds there were many dissatisfied male clients, but about the time of the murder the while card database is gone and reported a robbery. Reuter goes undercover and charms ...

Lotto King.

Super market manager Felix Benner was skull-smashed behind is branch with an iron bar dumped around, next to the dumpster which is regularly raided by food waste-hating environmentalist activist Hanno Fries, who won a court case. Teller clerk Dana Rust 'forgets' about her impending sacking, like many of Benner's female staff, part of an abusive web of blackmail. Benner actually died from a cardiac arrest, triggered by electrocution.

Promising, popular surgical intern Dr. Roland Heidemann is expertly stabbed to death outside the hospital where staff just celebrated his early tenure. Chef professor Mattes Kaspar can't believe addictive pills were found besides his rising star. While the team questions colleagues, pupil nurse Carmen makes a failed escape from the ladies loo. Forensics finds suspiciously frequent, covered-up faults in his surgical record, alongside brilliant achievements. Dr. Heidemann's private life seems obscure, his career having started in crisis area medicine, but he's not the ...

Constable Lars Pöhlmann returns from the pharmacy, finding the precinct shut and locked while only captain Reuter is on duty there. In the drunk cell is psychotic but never violent regular Felix Kuhn, yet mysteriously entered arms are heard. Sonja Schreiber's car is on the police parking, not hostage as presumed but holding Reuter and panic-prone Felix at gunpoint. Key to the case is the perfectionist's super-stressed job and especially home situation, which includes a murder.

Reuter is stunned when classmate Benno Grabert, now a Hamburg brothel scene boss, marches in to demand an investigation into the murder of his estranged mother Martha Sell. She was indeed poisoned by birthday surprise chocolates delivered trough a school boy, yet hadn't long to live given her cardiac condition. She loved modestly but regularly donated significant sums under false names, without paperwork, to Rüttges's animal asylum, reverend Thielsch's parish and Dr. Teichmann's museum and Benno's goons use their own investigation methods. Would be author Ralf Binder ...

In a grass field near the rail-track lies the corpse of foxy local Anna Blume, bloodily injured and dress torn as in a fight. Fiancé Georg Frese points firmly at her ex Oliver Kielgrass, who once threatened to kill her is she dumped him. Anna was meeting him to announce her engagement to his rival. Why did she leave the train returning home and come to the field at night? Near the spot a gang of copper thieves has been robbing more railroad cables, so the team tracks them down to the slick fence, and establishes some surprising character links.

Responding to bedroom-hiding Anita Peschel's alarm call, Lars Pöhlmann and Leena find fatally stabbed in the hobby cellar her husband Martin. The avid model trains collector had pieces dazzling amateur Lars, even one 'green crocodile' estimated over 100 000 Euro. It's missing, was the pride of the local miniature railroad society's greatest exhibition and apparently among recently Internet-auctioned pricey pieces. For a trap, Reuter poses as Finnish rich buyer. Sven stumbles upon a double web of deceit, yielding ample motives.

Deadly flirtation.

Popular car mechanic Ringo, who generously hired looser youths, was fatally shot in his workshop after a hefty fight, suggesting a strong killer, with a gun dropped in oil to erase all fingerprints. * Fiancée Nadine Zorck and apprentice Jessica Schmöller jealously point at each-other, but Nadine takes over as firm boss and actually was Ringo's discrete wife by business agreement, having invested. teen apprentice Tim Freitag has a crush on man-eater Jessica, as dis his late big brother, whose death in a car accident or illegal race crushed their devoted parents ...

Gifted but undiscovered landscape painter Holger Rasmussen made a deadly fall in the Strachwitz family estate, probably pushed down the stairs. Regina Strachwitz sponsored Rasmussen despite opposition from her son Johannes, who needed the money for the family business. In his atelier is a recent sketch of the Jensen family home with a figure in the window: an aged versions of Sigrid Jensen who was presumed dead without corpse years ago, and later walks into the precinct.