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- An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Centenarian Margot Friedländer herself tells her life story: How the teenage Jewish girl escaped the Gestapo several times before she was deported to Theresienstadt. She survived while her mother and brother perished in the holocaust.
- Divorced, withdrawn Inga buries herself in her work as a forensic biologist while neglecting her friends and her grumpy father who lets her know she has a half-sister. Everything changes when Inga agrees to take care of a tame falcon.
- Prinzessin Polly hat es nicht leicht. Das Königreich befindet sich in einem Ausnahmezustand: Seit Pollys Bruder vor Jahren verschwand, herrscht Trauer. Der König erträgt kein Lachen. Doch ausgerechnet Prinzessin Polly fällt das besonders schwer, sie liebt es, Witze zu machen und andere Menschen aufzumuntern. Als Polly bei der Trauerfeier zum Gedenken an den Prinzen ihren Nebenmann zum Lachen bringt, breitet sich dieses Lachen wie eine Lawine unter den Umstehenden aus. Es kommt zum Streit - Polly geht. Zeitgleich überquert der Abenteurer Leif die Landesgrenze. Möglichst schnell will er durch dieses trauernde Land reiten, muss dann allerdings den Widerstandskämpfer Hagen retten, der vor seinen Augen abgeführt werden soll. Den Wachen des Königs können die beiden nur mithilfe einer magischen Alten entkommen. "Jeder muss seine Last auf den Rücken nehmen!" ist die Maxime dieser geheimnisvollen Frau, bei der auch Polly bereits Unterschlupf finden konnte. Sie fordert die jungen Menschen um sich heraus und öffnet ihnen neue Horizonte. Schaffen sie es gemeinsam, die Zukunft des Landes umzugestalten und es von der Last der Trauer zu befreien?
- After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.
- The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.
- A young woman is murdered in a hotel room. The police soon arrest a hotel waiter, but Haferkamp doubts that the young man is guilty. Then a second murder occurs.