S1.E1 ∙ Erster Teil

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.

Runaway truck with gang leader's corpse crashes into Johnny Cain's club. Gang threatens Cain to solve murder. CIA investigates Communist plot involving crime syndicate.

Ture is born Sture but due to a speech problem, he has changed his name, but is still, in his own eyes, Scandinavias' best private dick. Still he rarely has any cases to solve, but has some rather strange clients.

A man arrives in a Swedish port city to work as a waiter at the Hotel Busarewski. The man befriends two co-workers: the talkative Gustav "The Count" Svensson and the beautiful waitress Anna. Anna says that she is only there working temporarily, just like the man himself, and that she will soon move on to work at a seaside hotel. The Count, who is skilled in making others do what he wants, reveals to the man a plan he has that would bring them both lots of money and convinces him to assist in a poorly planned and failed attempt to free a friend of The Count who is in jail.

A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.

A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.