Wismar strife cop Olav Hinzmann enlisted hot young colleague Tom Friese's help to sell his wife Gunda's car to surprise her with a new model, but they got scammed by a fox, who paid with counterfeit cash, so their boss has to rescue them from formal questions at the bank. Meanwhile Anne Krohn was strangled. Her daughter Lilly in-living 'cousin' Robert Haacke, Anne's lover, are caught telling lots of lies, while Lilly ignored the lovers' plan to buy a Spanish house. The autopsy disproves the general claim a mystery disease made Anne work-unfit. Anne's nosy neighbor, graphical artist Edgar Treptow, has his own secrets.