Episode list

Kaiser drags his mostly unenthusiastic detectives to team-building, unplugged to solve a silly ball course building challenge. As they can't be reached, constable Sibylle "Bille" Beyer starts investigation a brad new murder scene with the forensic experts Dr. Benedikt Förster and Jan Arnaud, later joined by Jo, who slips away precisely to enable squaring an additional challenge. Charismatic gastronomic chef Edgar Wehrle, ran an innovative, popular rural B&B with wife Anja where he's murdered. They gradually find out waitress Maribel Schröder's boyfriend, disgruntled organic produce farmer Timo Koschke, knew about his unwanted moves, and the body was moved from the cooling cell. .

Driving to a medical trial, the attorney of the defendant hospital dies from recent poisoning, fitting a secret stash there. The clinic is systematically overburdened, understaffed, yet administrative manager Vivienne Wald denies any medial malpractice and doubts a link with the murder. Father Kaspar Kovac sued it and the surgeon in vain for the death of his teen son in OR, but denies private vengeance. Sued surgeon Dr. Christof Schleicher is clearly dangerously overworked, yet lacks any apparent motive, like devoted nurse Anne Lindner, whose emotions prove relevant.

Astrophysics professor Kurt Mahler, who did controversial research for alien civilizations in an international program, disappeared at night from the Stuttgart institute, leaving behind so much blood murder is likely. It seems he had an affair with assistant Elvira Kröger. His wife, exo-biologist Dr. Anabel Mahler, can't say if opponents or funds rivals make plausible suspects. Deutschen Zentrums für Raumfahrt und Forschung director Conner McCallum considered the program a waste of means. Uniformed constable Sibylle Beyer deals with 'Ufo expert' in tin foil hat Peter Ehrlich's claim it's an alien abduction, but another disappearance occurs, while a priceless meteorite is stolen from the campus. Yet an expensive experimental Chinese therapy proves the key.

Schrotti's youth friend, used cars salesman Moritz Grolmann, was skull-smashed. Two homeless youths are suspects, spotted lurking by Wally Müller, a neighboring competitor, hence also has a motive. Young Julian Frey is caught for questioning, his girl friend Sam Fitz escapes long, until Jo Stoll finds her visiting Schrotti, as her late mother revealed he or long-estranged Moritz is her biological father.

Environmental activist Lukas Kohler's mates are shocked to find him fatally stabbed in their U4Green tent camp, about to be cleared by uniformed police. With press also around, all traces have been confounded or damaged. Lukas Kohler might manage to stop the construction of a road through the forest. He recently denounced for violence constable Walter Roth, whose daughter Sarah Roth participated in the protests, but stand by her father. Lukas's estranged, very different brother, farmer Sven Kohler, clashed with him over a land deal.

Stuttgart 'Kunsthochschul' sculpting professor Christian Schilling was skull-smashed with a bottle, left on the pieces of student Julian Koch's work he smashed during his last lesson. He was often that brutal, the bottle was allegedly dumped drunk by fellow art professor Mara Weinrich that evening, who feels he got a college post she deserved by old boys network, then bagged on live on TV culture talk-show. Author Naina Berger, Christian's usual model and muse, declares being Mara's housemate but in an affair with Schilling, but that may be Naina, who is expecting his baby. The team finds out about more lies and fraud for money, recognition and love.

Cleo Stettner, who recently became CEO of a 'traditional' Stuttgart car building firm, dies instantly hit by a car. The trade unions heavily campaign against her bank-instigated plan to convert "Stettner Werken" into making rotors for electric motors, ending combustion engine production and many jobs. Corporate board president Holger Filbert leads the protests with his son Lars, who hides an affair. Cleo's stepmother Annette Stettner, the now sole-succeeding joint CEO, fails to hide their ongoing bitter policy conflict and blames a mystery man, allegedly a former lover. It's unformed constable Sibylle Beyer's husband Dr. Jakob Appiah, who owns a relevant tech-start-up, and is becomes prime suspect, given matching paint of his company car, an intellectual authorship dispute and pictures on is smartphone suggesting an affair, which he claims planted.