For a change, it is not just any violent criminal, but veterinarian Kauth who is putting the gun to Sophie's head: he wants to turn their affair into a solid relationship, and even move in with her. Before Sophie makes a decision, she first solves the mystery of the seriously injured electrician Poppelrath, who is lying in the garden of the housewife Kafka with an inexplicable head injury and a heart attack. Is the blame really on the newly arrived man from East Germany, who is behaving in a highly suspicious manner - at least in the eyes of the Hengaschers? Or does the victim's pathologically jealous wife have a hand in it? And has a crime even been committed? If so, Sophie is the only police officer who is interested, because Dietmar prefers to deal with a series of strange spy cameras in Hengascher bedrooms, and Bärbel is a total failure because he is finally in love. Since she fell head over heels for the carpenter Mathilde, she has not been able to think clearly. In contrast to Sophie, who, with plenty of selfishly motivated support from Zielonka senior, has to realize that her love for Kauth is not enough to fundamentally change her life in favor of a relationship, Bärbel realizes one thing above all: love has more facets than she previously suspected.
