Episode list

After circus Fratinelli's travelling show, director Bernd Krumme is found by his mobile home, fatally stabbed with one of the knife-thrower's blades, but everyone seems to cover each-other in the tight community. Fresh widow Dora wanted to settle with the kids, the circus being financially unsound anyway. Rico Sander finds out recently engaged mental magician René Bayer has a record as thief by hypnosis. Bernd's simpleton brother, clown Holger Krumme, found him a bad guardian. Flirtatious Russian snake woman Olga Notovnova seeks any husband to get naturalized, Bernd Krumme stood her up. Stoll sympathizes with Bernd's doting fifteen year-old foster son and apprentice Kevin, who would loose his first-ever home if the circus is sold. Forensic specialist Jan Arnaud surprisingly traces dust particles on the murder weapon.

Gaming producer Steve Schöttle was fatally stabbed at his home-hosted birthday party, obviously by a guest. *First or last with him was friend and firm partner Florian Abel, who recently declined a lucrative job in the US 'out of loyalty'. Steve's DNA now shows he was one of to robbers who killed a Heilbronn jeweler, probably the starting capital for the firm, so Florian may have been his partner, but that's disproved later. *IT-Spezialist Rico Sander find out the jeweler's daughter, Nina Schilling, recently moved in town as Florian Abel's girl friend. Shortly after Nina is hospitalized, hit by her ex friend Franziska Wenzel's car, but she confesses only another crime. Jo also looks into to her nursery, run by loving husband Florian, who isn't the biological father of son Jacob.

Georg Menzinger, pastor of a Stuttgart congregation, is found bludgeoned to death. The first lead leads the SOKO investigators to "Claudius von Seggern", a candidate for priesthood.

Wealthy, bossy attorney Dr. Lutz Waiblinger is fatally wounded by a bomb exploding in his office, next to his son Björn -with political ambition- and neurotic daughter in law Miriam, both also firm lawyers. Prime suspect is gore racist Sven Wiese, who threatened Lutz just before getting off with community service, but seems to have an alibi. Chief Kaiser, widow Katharina Waiblinger's friend since 30 years, isn't amused that the family is duly vetted, initially without potential motives. Then Jo discovers in the secret apartment Rico finds in Waiblinger's name, which Lutz Waiblinger visited recently, a symbolically heart-stabbed silicon female doll, clue to sickly relationships.