S3.E5 ∙ Der Kavalier-Killer

A drama about Maria whose fantasy takes into the surreal world of Cybersex, but the one night when she tries to make fantasy into reality danger lurks.

Berlin, während des Zweitens Weltkrieges: Anfang der 1940er-Jahre treibt ein unheimlicher Serienmörder in S-Bahn-Zügen einer gewissen Linie sein Unwesen. Seine Opfer sind stets Frauen. Die Bevölkerung ist beunruhigt. Im Nazi-Deutschland wünscht man sich eine schnelle Klärung des Falles, die auch zur Eigenpropaganda benutzt werden soll. Dem Triebtäter habhaft zu werden, ist jedoch mehr als schwierig. Er kann beinahe problemlos weitermorden.

A bank manager embezzles his clients' money and disappears without a trace. His wife, who knew nothing of his machinations, is the one who has to face the judge and the investors who have been cheated.

Cleo inherits a carnival and announces in the newspapers that her show will be operated free of all grifters, dips, three-shell men, confidence artists, and hookers. Flash and Luke, a couple of dips, see in this policy their big chance and, passing themselves off as honest men, find work in Cleo's show. Flash is greatly attracted to Cleo, but she rebuffs him when he tries to cultivate her friendship too fast. Red Moon, the carnival's concession manager, robs the office safe and lays the blame on Flash. Red later kills Luke, and Flash goes after Red in a rage, breaking his neck; Flash is reinstated in Cleo's good graces and finds solace for the loss of his friend in her love.

When government attorney Mike Mandell begins to suffer from a mental disorder that periodically transforms him into another mobster personality known as "Sonny," his strange behavior doesn't escape the notice of a narcotics agent.

In a small French town, a pirate radio begins telling lies (or are they unsavory truths) about people and nobody seems able to catch the guilty party or even guess his or her identity.