Episode list

On a girls night with police colleagues in a local bar, Karoline Joost happens to see Peer Seiler put K.O. drug in Sina Blohm's glass, yet can't prove it. Next morning, Peer Seiler is found murdered in his sail making workshop. He was popular, slick, yet kept a large supply of the drug he didn't need to score dates, none of which ever filed any complaint. Peer Seiler had long-standing trouble with Sina Blohm, who like husband Hendrik becomes a main suspect. However the dosing doesn't fit at all, requiring a general re-thinking of the case.

Shortly after her void attempt to stop an illegal drug race, truck mechanic Jessy Winter is found skull-smashed in the workshop she recently took over from her late father, returning to Wismar after her Rostock apprenticeship. She started an affair with Alex Lohmann, whose rivaling shop sells parts and does some car tuning. It looks like she found out and threatened to expose his use of cheap, inferior Chinese spare parts for German cars. She has no alibi, but the team also digs into her family, brother and mother having their own potential motives.

While gym club Magdeburg is on training camp in Wismar, where its two representatives are to be selected for the national championships, favorite Mia Lebedew is found dead after a probably pushed fall besides the bar, having sneaked in to train without supervision. Bitter competition meant the girls aren't friends, making her rivals prime suspects, notably Nele Klein, who really does it for her father Heiko, and whose secret boyfriend, Rafael Thomas, can only see her sneaking in. Helene's autopsy shows a long list of injuries from over a long period. Coach Gustav Haller once had to quit his Olympic team post after his ruthless training methods were suspected to have drive a girl to suicide.

Spanish 'digital nomad' Arturo Ramirez's corpse is found in a breeding tank of the Baltic fish reintroduction program managed by Dr. Stella Liebnitz, who found him but claims not to know him. He was the most charming member of the Mecklenburg-based, hedonistic IT collective "Work, Life und Nature Center" with Amelie Haag and Simon Dehler, who inherited the estate, and was hired by Stella to write 'routine' software, but had Arturo jump in for him, not a first. Another center boarder, retired romantic author Elke Schanderer, flirts with Lars as she did with Arturo, whose fate roughly fits that of her tragic Spanish novel lead, stable-hand Alejandro who drowns in a lake. Elke's jealous husband Norbert Schanderer admits having 'stalked' her from a Wismar hotel room. Dr. Stella Liebnitz hid her own, atypical affair with Arturo.

Playing in Wismar's dilapidated public swimming pool, a young man stumbles upon a female skull- it's 17 years-missing Christina Bellstedt. Recently reported missing is 'rollator gramps' Günter, a senior friend of detective Karoline Joost's kids, yet nobody seems to know his full name- research says it's late Christina's father Günter Metzger, whose blood is found near her skull, a murder case. The never charged only suspect in her disappearance was her husband, Lars's former sports teacher, 'handsome Klaus' Bellstedt, whose reputation as pupil seducer proves a figment of girlish imagination to render desirable boys jealous. Finally there's the paternally-abandoned pupil whom Günter virtually adopted.

Reinhard Koller, Wismar's well-known and -liked "beach pirate", who collects amber by the sea and runs a shop, floats skull-smashed in the Baltic. His apparently fatal burn by phosphor, which man can confound with amber, doesn't prevent Helene's autopsy: lethal neck fracture, foul play, and dragged to the beach afterwards. Developer Irene Gehrmann bid in vain on Reinhard Koller's land by the beach, for a huge hotel project, but officially shut that down months ago. Neighbour Helge Grimmiger lost a fortune as the option on her land was also undone, he needed the cash being physically disabled in an accident. Daughter Gretchen Koller ignores the true, major value of the big limp of 'magical amber' Reinhard believed to bring them luck, unlike the marine biology thesis student who helped out in his shop, where nothing else was stolen but that replaced with a cheap counterfeit.

Someone fatally shot well-reputed dog breeder Daniel Kahlke in the forest and dug a grave, but was chased. His high-pregnant girlfriend Annabelle Kruse seems shocked, and after brutal threat goes in hiding with butch Till Göbel, who later turns out no goon but her over-protective step-brother, who has a criminal record. Daniel Kahlke was bluntly threatened by retired boxer Hauke "Axe" Schulz, for selling him a sick puppy whose death in days broke his granddaughter Lilly's heart to turn mute indefinitely. Kennel inspector calls Daniel Kahlke exemplary, but probably helped cover up illegal sale of puppies from dubious provenance, not in he bloodline books.

Pensioner Beate Steinmann lies death in bath after two fatal head wounds, indicating a previous struggle, probably catching a nocturnal robber, who was picky, concentrated on the bathroom, perhaps staged, but ignored the small fortune is sash she kept rolled into toilet paper rolls. The lock was pocked professionally, as if by locksmith Markus Metzger, who has clients in the neighborhood all the time, whom she hired just too late. Steinmann and many other victims attended a crime prevention class for seniors "Sicher im Alter", organized by the Home Ministry, notably Beate Steinmann's granddaughter's fiancee Felix Brechtel, while she rather points at her estranged 'neglectful' widower father Benjamin Steinmann. Beate was expected to be absent, having been gifted a culture trip to Hamburg from her moved-in neighbor Irene Naber, who ignored Beate refused to stay in a hotel and lied to have won the trip herself.

Eco-farmer Andreas Hidde was left skull-smashed after someone pulled away the supports from under his car while he changed his tires. He left his wife and teen son Lenny as he became an obsessive prepper, building his atomic shelter. Inside it the detectives find his present girl Daniela Kuhn, who is traumatized and needs help, even having called the police paranoid. Andreas apparently considered returning to his family and home. Fellow prepper and lunatic conspiracy theory follower Ulf Karmann was caught by Andreas Hidde doing illegal bomb tests.

French teacher Jörg Bessan was skull-smashed besides the tomb of Franz Taler. Passionate genealogist Jörg Bessan proudly traced his Hugenot roots to the chef of Sun king Louis XIV. Recently Jörg Bessan discovered actually being adopted, given up by his Taler birth parents and nearby contacted ailing biological mother Bärbel Taler and brother, investment adviser Armin Taler, who took her in. Jorg's wife Susanne and teen son Valentin weren't told. Susanne cheated on Bessan with genealogical society and personal buddy Henning Biermann, who was leaving his family and expected her to as well, which she denies, but a secret leaked.

Teacher Christian Wullbrandt made a fatal fall from a hunting high chair, which was deliberately sewn to collapse. He was unpopular as contrary in the neighborhood, even recently killed neighbor girl Laura's act as bird killer, making her father Andi Dehler a suspect, having threatened Wullbrandt. Fresh widow Heidrun Wullbrandt was estranged since the death of their son, supporting none of his complaints against neighbors, and cashes a hefty recent life insurance.

After sending three teenagers home from a playground, responding to a complaint about drinking and noise, constable Timmermann recognizes the rebellious one, Simon Hofmeister, found next morning skull smashed against a stone in the nearest park. He never arrived home with his academic adoptive parents, literature professor Peer Hofmeister and piano teacher Kerstin, who describe him as perfect heir, but allegedly ignored Simon secretly wanted to follow neither's footsteps. Simon recently neglected school totally and started an apprenticeship with his biological father, stone mason Jürgen Bauer, where he got wounded in a mild accident. Simons school and band mates for years, Marek Seilinger and Violetta, didn't tell all about the playground night either.

Fishermen spot in Wismar harbor a wine crate, containing live turtle Hermine, next the floating corpse of its devoted, retired owner, Willi Seeberg, unclear whether he drowned by cardiac arrest or the other way around after a fight. He accepted a few days earlier to pay 20,000 Euros ransom -advertised as reward, most of his life savings- for it, being the last gift of his late wife, stolen from his boathouse fridge (hibernating), perhaps mistaken for wine, but nothing else was robbed. Reuter mounted an extraordinary search for the animal as Willi Seeberg is an old angling friend. The team suspects young mates Eric Tiele, Thore Mayer and Lorenz Bock, who reacted on the reward advertisement. But his own son Klaas Seeberg desperately needed money for the house in need of constant repairs, after a failed career switch, his wife was told he got Willi to pay but they learned the armored memorial got priority.

Beekeeper Eddi Holm was fatally electroshocked, due to his pacemaker, left by his bees, but several hives have been stolen, nearly impossible to retrieve. His home was thoroughly ransacked, hardly anything stolen, duly presumed a frustrated search. Eddi Holm's public fight to prevent bee deaths from pesticides opposed him to neighboring bio fruit farmer Nils Nielsen, who no longer found beekeepers prepared to fertilize his trees, but adult son Thilo Nielsen started keeping bees himself, while helping to keep the ailing family estate going with kid sister Emma.

Retired veterinarian and animal asylum owner Erik Zierling lies skull-smashed and drowned in the water container in a stable box, the fatal, bloody tile was dropped nearby. Erik Zierling was repeatedly fined or arrested for vandalism, offending officers and so on in the course of animal rights demonstrations. Fake-Italian circus-owning director 'Franco Franconi' has decided to close down as the climate, started by Erik's annual protests and complaints, dwindles audiences, so he had elephant dung delivered at the asylum. Internet rumors that Erik Zierling sexually abused a minor girl volunteer prove unsubstantiated lies from a jealous rival there, but the murdered believed it.

While restoring stained glass in Wismar church, Jonas Pentke made a fatal fall due to the sabotaged scaffolding, that must have happened at night, when the sexton heard a bang and saw a car. Jonas Pentke may have hastily caught the robber who steals from various construction sites. However, Jonas Pentke may not be the intended victim, as most of the restoration was being done by his business and romantic partner Daniela Becker, who left her much older husband and fellow glazier Matthias, who still wants her back, for Jonas Pentke. Overprotective Daniela is pathologically opposed to her younger sister Heike Sabitzki's ex-con husband, ex-con Timo Sabitzki, whom she falsely assumes another wife beater.

Wismar shipping pilots guild president 'Ältermann' Carl Lauritzen's corpse floats in a boat in the harbor, neck broken in a fall previous evening, fatally pushed. Chief Jan Reuter was a friend since GDR childhood and when Carl Lauritzen was a captain at sea and patron of a marine NGO helping children worldwide. He was childless, to wife Ulrike Lauritzen's deep regret, but corresponded with an African whom she may recently have realized must be his bastard.

Contractor Hendrik Reschke made an improbable neck-breaking fall, actually pushed down a staircase at night, in the baroque Hansa merchant mansion he was restoring with a single remaining laborer, systematically late with pay till recently. *Weakthy owner Hannes Werth risked the restoration being delayed or even stopped now a 17th fresco is found on site, which might be declared a protected monument. Constable Timmermann is convinced Hendrik Reschke must have stumbled on another treasure in the basement, and actually finds Swedish coins.

Just gymnasium-graduated, Ole Janisch and Juuls Kampwirth planned a gap year sailing the world. Ole spent the last night on board, but is found by his buddy, skull-smashed. His ex Sandra Hansen claims she dumped him on account of the long boys trip, and bought the sugar that failed to sabotage the motor, but someone expert, like Juuls's mother Katja, sabotaged the rudder. Ole best buddy Ronnie Gorkow came up with the sailing plan, but was dropped having failed his final exam, Ole and Juuls didn't wait till his makeup-exams. Former sailing hero Mierisch, now a lush, made a crucial observation.

Michael Behrens made a fatal fall on a rustic road after his breaks-sabotaged, sneakily upgraded ''pedelec' (e-bike) speeded uncontrollably. As a life-long pedantic serial law suitor, he made countless enemies. His estranged only son and heir intestate own a bike shop, hence is capable to manipulate and had access to the home basement where it was kept, but as turns out not the fatal evening. The team also looks into Michael's uncooperative, sneaky maid-or-more, and the landlady who eagerly pointed to her.

Rainer and Rita Tiedemann run with their teen son a mobile company which steam-cleans dawn beds, all over northern Germany. During another visit to Wismar, they find in the steam cabin the skull-smashed corpse of regular discrete major customer (with his own key) Sven Ole Gerstner, junior employee in old Norbert Tötensen's pest control firm, and the childless widower's informal son. Rita Tiedemann hides an affair with him, but only their son knew about it, not devoted husband Rainer. Sven Ole Gerstner frequently called with deputy manager Yves Sundermann, who hired him discretely for the city's posh hotel. Who knew what proves crucial, plus bed bug DNA.

Near-high-school graduate Niklas Norberg is found skull-smashed after a pushed fall aboard the boat he inhabited at sea and planned to make a world tour in 'couch surfing'. After his parents' fatal car crash, Niklas was raised in his aunt Merle Christensen's family, as 'elder brother' of their doting own teen son Björn Christensen. A while ago, he moved out after abandoning his apprenticeship as Hagen Christensen's potential successor as local supermarket manager, turning against capitalistic 'excessive consumerism', raiding the firm's waste container for 'perished' food with his girlfriend, daughter of a divorced manager, who planned to sneak off with him after ditching her studies, who has a remarkably tragic admirer.

Shortly before the next national selections, retired senior high jump champion Elisabeth Mayer is murdered, the a fall on her daily jogging round staged. Viktoria Böhmer now has a shot at the Wismar spot, and the sponsoring sports equipment firm just decided to stop paying for both. GDR days rival Marianne Stegemann was on the same 1964 (last 'joined German') Olympic team, where both met and fell in love with Ruderer Dieter Mayer, whom Marianne Stegemann only just now told he sired her now adult daughter, having returned to the FRG and receiving false report from Elisabeth, who wed Dieter Mayer and domineered hum utterly, that he allegedly passed away.

*Angling on his day off, chief Reuter fishes op the corpse of Romy Hellmann, who was skull-smashed and dragged. She gave the parenting courses at the "Mama-Laden" baby shop, which is managed by her sister Linda and husband Jesper Steffens, who took Romy on free of rent, returning after a long stay in Hamburg, but hides poorly she resents their sickly mother Marianne Hellmann, whom Linda and her husband care for, always favored lazy Romy, who sort of pretended to take over the shop unilaterally, without having any shares.