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- Loss.
- Everything but love.
- Small satellite.
- A well known singer is blackmailed by a former employee for the murder of his wife, but behind that is something else.
- Chemistry of a murder.
- Dead capital.
- After having obtained a mild sentence for a gang of burglars who robbed a casino and never made the loot be found, Dr. Renz announces to Matula his intention to retire and move to a farm he is buying in Italy. But when the loot is found in Renz's home and several evidences point to him, he is arrested. Matula finds for him a young lawyer, Dr. Rainer Franck, whom he had met shortly before at a motocross event and who had just stolen his girlfriend.
- A businessman asks Renz for help in a strange case of his that looks more and more incoherent as Matula looks into the matter.
- The big rage of the little Paschirbe.
- A man with a head wound and seemingly amnesia, wandering around in town, finds his way to Matula who tries to find out what happened to him.
- Businessman Harry Ziegler asks Dr. Franck for help: he accepted to buy a huge amount of dirty money paying for them a half of their value, but he then discovered that he received a suitcase of fake money. Rainer advises him to go to the police, but there they are informed that who organized the exchange has just been found killed and Mr. Ziegler is the main suspect. His ex wife decides to hire Matula to help him.
- An unexpected lottery win leads to some turmoil, confusion and even more.
- After arriving in Germany, Matula is detained again and has to go to trial. In this trial, things got an unexpected turn.
- Dr. Franck is called by fine elderly French lady Marie-Hélène Richarz who wants to write her will. The lady lives with her stepson Axel, his wife Gudrun and his daughter Beate, whom she would like to leave her possessions, including a part of her family estate in France. But the girl disappeared since months and Mrs. Richarz's conditions are that in absence of Beate her possessions would go to her siblings in France. Rainer feels from her stepson's attitude that there is something wrong behind and asks Matula for help.
- A tax inspector suspects foul play in Mrs. Hufschmid's import-export company. Having received threats, he asks Dr. Renz for help.
- Two years after his acquittal from the allegation of the murder of his young neighbor Miss Aumüller, Jochen Scherbach comes back to his lawyer Dr. Franck: he is scared because a new girl moved into the victim's apartment and he found some pictures of her in the building's swimming pool. He fears that someone is trying to provoking him to show that he was the killer. Dr. Franck sends him Matula to keep an eye, but begins having some doubts of his client's real innocence.
- A theater actor receives less flowers every day from an unknown source that in his eyes are a hint to someone having intentions to kill him.
- Matula is eyewitness of a curious bank robbery, where the robber is immediately shot dead by a passing-by policeman. During the interrogatories, Mr. Hermann Maier is accused for complicity in the robbery because his gun was found with the killed thief. Matula, feeling that there's something too unclear in this story, advises him to ask Dr. Franck for defense.
- Rich businessman Rüdiger Hillmann asks Matula to do a security service during his birthday party, in order to avoid his angry son Alexander to rush there and make a scene. Indeed when this happens, Matula manages to bring him out and to watch him at home until the party's end. But the day after, Hillmann is killed in an explosion and Alexander, obviously the main suspect, asks Matula for help to show his innocence.
- Two convicts escape during a court trial and Matula and Renz team up to stop them.
- Painter Sylvia Beckmann asks Dr. Franck for help: her husband, a journalist who was investigating connections between drug trafficking from Colombia and a bank in Frankfurt, disappeared, but the police believes it's still too early to be alarmed. Matula soon finds him dead and police commissioner Körbel, an old friend of Dr. Franck, is sure of the wife's guilt, although basing his allegation on very few clues.
- Matula has been hired by young Tanja Wilhelms, who wants to know if her husband betrays her. When he confirms it to her, she spends the whole night out drinking and meets young photographer Sascha Rentrop, who once worked for her husband, and who brings her at his home. After having spent the night together, the morning after Tanja finds Rentrop killed. But she has drunk so much that she cannot remember anything of that night, so she calls Matula for help.
- While Dr. Franck is arranging his new practice, sketchy dude Heinz Rose visits him pretending to know the address of Berthold Kramm, a client of Dr. Renz, and threats him with a gun. Kramm is curiously linked with the first job Rainer has got for Matula: to guard the home where Renz's client once lived and now is owned by a young woman who has received some inexplicable threats.
- Pop star Christian Berger is arrested after witnesses saw him running away from the home of a prostitute who was found killed. He proclaims his innocence to his lawyer Dr. Franck, but due to the embarassment of the situation he hides too many particulars, which then Matula must find out: for example, the existence of a maniac fan who persecutes him and of two sketchy managers rivaling each other.
- A businessman hires Matula to tail one of his employees, Lebanese Madarak Lavassani. But what seems an easy job evolves soon into a big trouble: during one of the tails Lavassani is killed in a yard. Matula sees the killer on a bike, but while chasing him he hears from the radio that the police is searching for him as the probable killer.
- A young and ambitious journalist seems to be the addressee of letters from a supposed serial killer.
- The CEO of a computer company gets murdered and one of his employees is suspected of this murder. First, everything seems clear and he as the logical killer, but during the trial things become more complicated.
- Matula's young friend and small-time burglar Babsi Dietrich is arrested after a killed man is found in her room. After initially rejecting any involvement, she then soon admits to Dr. Franck that she has killed the man for self defense: she had stolen his suitcase at the airport, but he reached her at home and after having recovered his suitcase he tried to kill her. Babsi is afraid of having been involved in a spy story, but Matula manages to recover the suitcase and trace back the owner: a charity organization. But Babsi's suspects seem to be reconsidered after Matula is attacked and robbed of the suitcase just after having found it.
- After the murder of his wife, a man is confronted with the denial of his water-proof alibi.
- A teacher has an affair with an older, married woman. One day, his ex-lover lies dead in his apartment, but he has no recollection of what happened. After he gets rid of the body, he receives a letter with a picture of the dead woman.
- Building contractor Timo Jensen is killed hit by his own car. His business partner Jürgen Hintze is accused for the murder: family Jensen had indeed decided to oust him from the business after he caused a loss of 3 millions Mark and they had a huge fallout just before. Hintze tells his lawyer Dr. Franck that he believes there is a plot against him. Matula discovers that Jensen had a lot of enemies, at work and in his own family.
- When Matula gets asked for help by an old friend regarding her husband who shows more and more of strange and inexplicable behavior, he finds himself in a difficult situation because he gets framed.
- After a huge loss in a poker game a man is accused of murder. Renz defends him and finds himself as target of increasing attacks on his person. The question is who is responsible for those attacks, so Matula starts to investigate.
- Dr. Franck defends a boy accused of robbery and murder. After the attorney asks for life imprisonment, the day after the trial the boy commits suicide in his cell. Rainer feels guilty and decides to investigate with Matula: he is not only sure that the boy was innocent, but also suspects that his suicide was indeed a murder.
- In Frankfurt there is a wave of thefts in hotels committed by a self-called 'Gentleman': the burglar never leaves damages or traces, but only a printed card with his signature. But one day his card is found in a room where a jeweler is found killed and his goods are stolen. A witness recognizes as the 'Gentleman' taxi driver Harry Kroll, who denies any involvement: his niece Nina asks Dr. Franck to take his defense.
- Businessman hires Dr. Franck and Matula after some mysterious money disappearances from his business' accounts. He mainly suspects his accountant Volker Ritter and, although Matula couldn't find any relations so far, he insists that he continues following this lead. Matula manages to become friend with Ritter, but one night this tells him a quite different story about the business.
- Dr. Franck's client Heiner Kühne, a businessman who's trying to start new activities after big financial problems, is accused of the murder of his former partner Regelski, who ruined him. Kühne was in Regelski's office in the night of the murder and stole money and papers from his safe: despite admitting the robbery, he pleads not guilty for the killing. Kühnes repeated lies make the investigation difficult for Frank and Matula, who meanwhile discovers that Regelski's bodyguard is a buddy of him and has got a relationship with Mrs. Rigelski.
- A little crook and so called loser steals some jewelry out of a house as contract work. Afterwards, he is confronted with murder and asks Dr. Renz for help.
- Three teenager rob a bank but only demand 17.000 DM. After the police followed them, they take a hostage and hide in the house of the hostage parents.
- Former legionnaire Bracko is killed with cyanide in a hotel room. Witnesses saw his comrade Gunther Wegner coming out of his room and he is arrested, but maintains his innocence and asks Dr. Franck for defense. Matula begins investigating on Bracko's other comrade Rolf Kaminsky, but also on the witnesses, the hotel receptionist and an elderly guest, who seem to hide some secrets.
- Feminist writer Karina Masur is at the Frankfurt Book Fair presenting her latest book, in which she advises women to kill their violent husbands and tells stories about women who did it. Young Christian Neumann, son of one of the victims mentioned in the book, publicly threatens her at the presentation and just shortly after Karina Masur is found killed at the stand. Neumann is arrested but his mother is sure he is innocent and asks Dr. Franck for help.
- Mr. Düllmann catches a thief in his villa and shoots him dead. The thief's wife, Mrs. Seiffert, doesn't believe that her husband would have ever done anything similar and asks Dr. Franck to defend her at the trial: she wants to prove that her husband was purposely murdered.
- During her birthday party at home, Dr. Stephanie Bernsdorf catches her boyfriend Dr. Christian Mahler flirting with another colleague, Dr. Margit Rebelein. Short after the party end Dr. Bernsdorf finds Dr. Mahler severely wounded in the garage and brings him to the clinic where they work, but they cannot save him. Dr. Bernsdorf, who asked assistance to Dr. Franck, is then arrested with the accusation of murder, but Matula's investigations immediately show that Dr. Mahler was involved in something really sketchy.
- Young policeman Josef Hermann Matula of Frankfurt is accused of violent behavior against a car thief, represented by lawyer Dr. Dieter Renz. When Matula gets into a relationship with the thief's sister, this retires the accusation, but Matula go again on trial when he has to cover him after having caught him again at stealing cars. This time he asks Dr. Renz for defense.
- A lost daughter returns home to her family and soon after her arrival, troubles begin and questions need to be answered.
- Prostitute Nicole Weber is arrested for the murder of her violent procurer. Her sister Clarissa, a bank manager who was in business with the same victim and previously refused to help Nicole with him, asks Dr. Franck to take her defense. Nicole admits the murder for self-defense, but Rainer begins to suspect that she isn't the real murder and that she is covering someone.
- A young car mechanic arrested with the allegation of having killed his girlfriend is released after his alibi is verified. The girl's father, sure of his guilt, gets mad and promises to kill him. His wife, the girl's mother, scared by his attitude, asks Dr. Franck and Matula for help.
- A young homeless is killed in a slum. Alcoholic Kurt Glanz, who had been his tutor at work, is accused for the murder after having been seen arguing with him shortly before. But his wife Hedda is sure of his innocence and asks Dr. Franck for help. To investigate, Matula has to move for some days in the slum, posing as a homeless.
- Mrs. Corinna Schuster asks Matula to tail her violent ex husband Viktor Brandau who is annoying her little daughter. When Brandau asks her new husband Thomas a huge amount of money in order to stop the stalking, Matula advises the couple to ask Dr. Franck for support.
- Attorney Rudolf Berger almost hits with his car alcoholic Erwin Stobbe and runs away after this gets mad. The day after Stobbe is found killed and in his pocket the police finds a paper with Berger's name and address: the attorney is arrested with the accusation of murder, just while he was attending a trial where his counterpart was represented by Dr. Franck, who accepts to defend him. Berger admits that Stobbe had blackmailed him some hours after the accident and that he met him just where he was later found dead, but rejects any involvement in the murder. Matula's investigations immediately show that both the family of the victim and the one of the alleged murder hide unpleasant situations.
- Karl Sander asks his lawyer Dr. Franck to manage the payment of the ransom for his kidnapped daughter without letting the police intervene. But the girl's mother Renate, Sander's ex wife, rushes to Dr. Franck's practice and demands to be involved in the dealing. Her presence will cause a lot of problems.
- Dr. Franck defends Mr. Arndt Vasall, accused of having killed his own brother and who denies his involvement, despite the hate between the siblings and the fact that the gun used for the murder belongs to him. At the same time, young Peter Schröder asks Matula help to find his missing girlfriend, who is incidentally the daughter of Rainer's client, Kathrin Vasall.
- Young painter Marianne Sprenger, who lives in Sicily, comes back to Frankfurt after the death of her father and discovers that the gold he had collected is not to be found. She asks Dr. Franck for help because her father was a member of a sect and she and her father's administrator Till Münzer suspect that the gold was extorted by the same sect.
- Matula slowly learns more about the relations in the troubled family and gets involved in dangerous and potentially deadly affairs.
- An ex-convict gets into new troubles right after release from prison.
- Young postman Jochen Billiger is unwillingly involved in a robbery at the post office. When the two burglars give him a third of the loot, he is terrified by the consequences. Despite his money problems and his girlfriend's happiness for the amount of money obtained, he asks Dr. Franck to anonymously return it to the post office. But this move will lead to a series of troubles.
- After many years a widow claims to have seen her dead husband in the streets and asks Renz and Matula to investigate in this matter. They quickly realize that this matter is much more complicated as it seems.
- Dr. Franck's client Ingo Ferber is released from prison after 7 years, after the confession of the real culprit of the murder he was accused of. Ferber wants to get back at the judge who condemned him and begins persecuting him and threatening him in public. One day the judge is found killed in his car and Ferber is arrested again, but he swears he isn't the murder.
- Mrs. Petzold, a client of Dr. Franck, is found dead in a wood dressed as a prostitute. Her husband Dirk is sure that she never worked as a prostitute and asks Dr. Franck why she asked him for help. Bound by professional secrecy, Dr. Franck convinces him to hire Matula instead to try to find out the truth.
- Policeman Lebus is shot dead during a night patrol at the harbor. His colleague Keller recognizes as murder businessman who has been caught running nearby: the man maintains his innocence, but refuses to tell to his lawyer Dr. Franck why he was at the harbor at night and whom he met.
- Private detective Willi Schumann is victim of some killing attempts and asks his colleague and friend Matula for help. But the man, who has to take care of his disabled wife after a road accident, is clearly hiding too many secrets to Matula and Dr. Franck.
- An auction house gets robbed and the director blackmailed afterwards.
- A young woman dies from heart attack and after her death no one can explain the amount of money she had. But her mother likes to know so she hires Matula to investigate.
- Dr. Franck is appointed by the court to defend Thomas Spengler, who sits in prison since months: he was caught while delivering an extortion letter to a supermarket, threatening to poison food, and a woman just died of food poisoning. The man states that he was only asked to deliver the letter, without knowing what it was about, but the court is determined to show his guilt.
- A young woman accused of having killed her boyfriend meets Dr. Franck in the court and begs him to defend her, because she doesn't trust anymore her lawyer Dr. Winter. Rainer refuses, because he doesn't want to do a discourtesy to a colleague and friend, but then the same Dr. Winter, then appointed by the court, proposes him to work together to the case. The lawyer is sure of his client's guilt, but Rainer and Matula are determined to follow every lead.
- An African comes into Renz' bureau and tells him about a German electronic company that produces parts for weapons used in Africa. Later, he supposedly kills the boss of this company, but Renz has serious doubts about that.
- Young advertising artist Paul Gartz asks Dr. Franck to help him getting back his job, after he was fired with the allegation of sabotage of a business presentation: he fears that his artist director, a girl who is the lover of the agency owner, just intended to get rid of him. Rainer advises him to ask Matula for help, but just before he starts his investigations the artist director is found killed in her home and Mr. Gartz is arrested, but he maintains his innocence although having been found right on the crime scene.
- Helma Soleg asks Dr. Franck for help for her brother Ralf, who sits in a wheelchair after having been hit by a car: although officially considered an accident due to drunk driving, the woman believes that it was a killing attempt ordered by someone who could strike again.
- Young farmer Anne Körner asks Dr. Franck for help: her boyfriend, sentenced for a jewelry robbery of whom the loot was never found, was awaited to come home from jail, but never came. A mysterious man is threatening her, demanding to know where her boyfriend is hiding.
- Mrs. Susanne Böhm asks Dr. Franck to defend her boyfriend, young artist Martin Sutter, accused of having robbed a bank. Mrs. Böhm, who is divorced, is sure that there is a plot against her boyfriend. Meanwhile she has to deal with the rage of her son Robin, who never accepted her divorce.
- Playboy Ringo Ritschel threats to burn down a pub after a fight with the owner and some waiters, due to a debt of 20.000 Mark a waitress owes him. Some days later there is indeed a fire in the pub, which causes the death of a singer who was exhibiting there, and Ringo is seen nearby: he then runs to Dr. Franck to ask for protection, but the police arrests him after having found his medallion in the pub. To exonerate him, Matula intends to prove that it wasn't only an arson, but a premeditated murder.
- A former client of Dr. Franck is killed at night and the police files the case as a settling of scores. Rainer is sure that the boy had left the crime and wants to help his mother to find the truth: he and Matula investigate about young Heike Landers, who was unwillingly involved in the shooting and who is recovering from the injuries in a clinic. Her involvement seems initially a pure casualty, but now someone is threatening her as a dangerous witness.
- Dr. Franck is visited by Damaschke, a burglar he defended six years earlier: the guy had confessed his participation to a bank robbery, whose loot was never found, and the kidnapping of its director, but refused to tell the names of his accomplices in order to protect his own family. Now he's out of jail but, although not indenting to search for his share, he's sure that someone is tailing him.
- Businessman Kleinert is kidnapped and his wife asks Dr. Franck to take care of the delivery of the ransom money the kidnappers asked for. During the delivery, Matula follows Rainer unaware of him and discovers that the money never reached the kidnappers but was thrown in an abandoned villa.
- The son of a banker sees his life in danger because of a drug deal in his past. Renz investigates while Matula protects him. After a while is becomes clear that it's not about the drug deal, but about something else he did at that time.
- Businessman Sieburg disappeared four years ago when his business went broke. Now his wife, who receives some anonymous calls since some time, has found his medallion for sale in a jewelry and contacts Dr. Franck for help: she is sure that her husband is back in Frankfurt and is trying to get in contact with her.
- Mrs. Irma Westermühl rushes terrified at night to Dr. Franck asking him help with her husband Alfred, who is threatening to commit suicide in his workshop, but right when they reach him the workshop blows up. But when Dr. Franck brings Mrs. Westermühl home, he notices that her husband is alive in the house: surprised, Alfred Westermühl kidnaps him and locks him in the cellar. Matula has then to search for his missing boss.
- Professional cyclist Lucki Kämper comes out from prison after 8 years: he was arrested with the allegation of having killed his girlfriend, as witnessed by his coach Hasler, but he always claimed his innocence. Now he asks his lawyer Dr. Franck to arrange a new trial to show his innocence: since this is a difficult way, he decides to force Hasler to deny his testimony.
- A young girl looking for her father gets entangled in a dangerous game about money and love.
- A man gets divorced from his wife and everything seems clear until Matula discovers some curiosities.
- Chaffeur Willi Niemann, a client of Dr. Franck in prison with the allegation of having driven a gang for a jewelry robbery whose executors and loot were never found, tries to commit suicide. After his recovery, just one day before the beginning of the trial, the man finally admits his participation to the robbery and his wife Elke pulls Dr. Franck out of the assignment. Rainer, upset and highly skeptic, decides to privately do some investigations with the aid of Matula.
- The police finds cocaine in the motor-home of popular folk singer Karl Kärner, who forms a duo with his wife, and arrests him. Since he doesn't know the origin of the drug, he asks Dr. Franck for defense. Matula investigates and finds strange backgrounds in the duo's work environment and in his family.
- Young businessman Felix Hartwig spends the night in the home of just met Sonja Frey after two masked men attacked him in front of a club. The morning after he hears from the radio that his fiancee reported his missing after having found his damaged car, so he thinks that he could take advantage of the situation to really fake a kidnapping in order to get rid of some enemies and of his upcoming wedding. He asks help to his lawyer Dr. Franck, who refuses to cooperate. But the day after Hartwig is found killed and Rainer fears to be involved as being known of Hartwig's plan.
- While leaving his accountant's office, Dr. Franck finds a dead man lying in the lift. But when, after having called the police, he and the accountant go back to the lift to check, the corpse is disappeared. The day after the police finds a dead man in the building's garage and Rainer recognizes him as the man of the night before: incidentally, the man accused for his killing is right asking him for defense.
- Sports journalist Georg Flemming is hit and killed by a car just after having left his office after his last work day at the newspaper: indeed he had just celebrated his moving to a bigger newspaper. The car belongs to his colleague Matthias Weinreich, who hated him and is arrested, but claims he's innocent, although not having clear memories of that night because he was drunk after the office party. Weinreich's colleague and ex lover Tatjana Molden asks Dr. Franck to help him show his innocence.
- Antoine Monot Jr. and Wanja Mues play the extraordinary investigative duo in the case of a fateful friendship.
- Young Oliver Lohmann is arrested after his girlfriend felt from her balcony: her neighbors found him on her apartment's door right afterwards. His grandmother asks Dr. Franck to defend him, being sure of his innocence. Matula investigates about the girl's ex husband, Ingo Kremmler, who owns a curious meditation school.
- An old wealthy man in a wheelchair is killed in his home and it seems clear who the killer is as a man is fleeing the crime scene. But it doesn't take long for a few suspects to turn up.
- Young Russian bouncer Wassili Kurassow is arrested after a boy with whom he had a heavy argument in front of the club is found killed, but he declares his innocence. Wassili's girlfriend Vera asks Dr. Franck to defend him. Matula's investigations initially focus on the club owner and the victim's friend Michael Marten: the two are indeed linked by a drug trafficking.
- Drug dealer Michael Hagen escapes from arrest while visiting his mother at the hospital. But his girlfriend never sees him coming back home and asks Dr. Franck for help: she fears that some of his enemies from the drug underground could have killed him while escaping.
- Gert Schultheiss, a compulsive gambler who Dr. Franck made ban from casinos in order to protect him, disappears and his wife asks Rainer for help. Matula soon finds him in a gambling den together with his daughter Lissy, who works as a prostitute for Heinz Kottke, her father's bookie, who has both in check due to Schultheiss' gambling debts.
- During the birthday party of Kurt Brocker, his stepson is kidnapped. Brocker is called by the kidnappers, who ask him to kidnap a woman in order to get the boy back alive. He asks for help to Dr. Franck, who already defended him in the past, and Matula.
- Professional car thief Uwe Kroll is arrested after having stolen the car of attorney Dr. Naumann, but the main accusation is something worse: the car had just hit and killed a man. Kroll asks Dr. Franck for help, stating that he had stolen the car only some time after the accident. Franck and Matula have to investigate on Dr. Naumann and his family.
- Herbert Lersch disappeared after having gone to a job interview. Some days later, his wife Friedel decides to ask Dr. Franck and Matula for help. Their investigations show immediately a link between this disappearance and a mysterious murder case of a businessman some days before.
- Mr. Arthur Deck visits Dr. Franck at night telling him he just killed his former business partner Buchmüller: he had gone to him to ask a financial support, but when this laughed at him he shot him in a fit of anger. Rainer tries to persuade the police that this is a consequence of Mr. Deck's heavy depression, but meanwhile another problem comes up: Deck's wife is threatened by an unknown who accuses him of having stolen 500.000 Mark to the victim.
- A break-in into a house ends with the owner of the house being shot. The question is: was one of the robbers really the killer or someone else?
- Young prostitute Hanna wants to leave her job to marry her boyfriend Walter: after having admired Dr. Franck at a trial where he successfully defended another prostitute who killed her violent procurer, she asks him to deal with her own procurer to free her from him. Matula takes care of the dealing and everything seems to go well, until one night Hanna is found killed in her home and Matula is arrested because he was seen coming out from her home shortly before.
- Teenager Daniel Winter turns himself to the police stating to have killed a girl. His mother doesn't believe it and asks Dr. Franck to defend him, but he insists on his version that he simply wanted to kill someone to experiment the feeling. While Matula investigates on the victim's boyfriend, Rainer tries to bring the boy back to his sense, suspecting that he invented this story only to get noticed by his absent father.
- Matula travels to France to prove his innocence and finds some strange connections there.
- An aggressive man attacks another man and his girlfriend on the streets, seemingly for no reason. Some hours later, the attacked man is dead and the other one arrested. Matula soon finds strange things having going on in the background.
- Dr. Franck defends young Hanno Bremer, who confessed to have killed the managing director of a department store because he was trying to aggressively flirt with him. When during the trial the court seems to believe more to an organized murder and thinks to a life sentence, the boy suddenly changes his version: he states that his former school teacher Prof. Kepich paid him a lot of money to confess the murder in his place.
- Tamara Lippens, a young woman with a serious shopping addiction, is found killed in a park near her home. Her husband Jan, with whom she had often violent arguments, is arrested: although all the clues being against him, he maintains his innocence and asks Dr. Franck for defense. Matula discovers that the woman was trying to make money smuggling fake art works.
- Mrs. Ingrid Seefeld kills her husband, who was going to leave her to move with her friend Lore Potofsky, and then reports his missing to his lawyer Dr. Franck. When the police finds him, she tries to flip the suspects on Miss Potofsky, who indeed is arrested and asks Dr. Franck and Matula for help to prove her innocence.
- Marion Kesten is found killed in her home by her husband Dieter, who just came drunk and confused at home. The fact that the couple often had violent arguments and that the man cannot provide an alibi for the murder time leads the police to arrest him. Sure of his own innocence but not remembering anything of the night before, Dieter Kesten asks Dr. Franck for defense.
- Two brothers are accused of murder. Are both guilty, only one or no one of them?
- Young art thief Hartmut Kolb is killed by a bodyguard while caught trying to steal a painting from the home of his own girlfriend Lisa Feyninger. The girl doesn't believe the story and asks Dr. Franck, who had been Hartmut's lawyer, for help. Matula investigates in the underground of art thieves, but also the same bodyguard Schorsch Rischka and the possessive father of the girl, Mr. Horst Feyninger.
- Businessman Simons asks Dr. Franck for help after a fire in his not-yet-opened restaurant which caused the death of the cook. Simons suspects that it was either linked to racketeering or to the nearby innkeepers who already had to argue with him. Rainer asks Matula to investigate, but he's not really big on the idea because the nearby innkeeper Karin Winter is a close friend of him and her pub is his favorite one.
- Businessman Jürgen Hilgers is arrested after having found his wife killed at home, because several signs point to him. Pleading not guilty, he asks Dr. Franck for defense and suggests him that the murderer could be his ex lover Karen Lehnert, who often threatened him after their break-up. But Matula discovers that she isn't Hilgers' only enemy.
- Young Michael Hude is arrested for the murder of a department store security guard. He admits the murder, but his mother Angelika is sure that he is lying and asks her friend Dr. Franck to defend him and to try to find out the truth. Although Michael states to have killed the guard in a fit of anger, Matula discovers that he had been tailing the victim since several weeks.
- Businessman Friedrich Winkler is found catatonic in a hotel room beside the dead body of his wife Sonja, who was filing for divorce, and is arrested for the murder. His family, sure of his innocence, asks Dr. Franck to defend him, but the man doesn't tell a word. Meanwhile, the Winklers are blackmailed by someone who asks one million for some compromising papers about the family business.
- Matula wakes up on the floor of the living room of a luxurious house with a shot person in a small room nearby. After the police arrives, it seems clear to them that Matula is the killer and he escapes to prove his innocence.
- A man is released from prison and after his release he is contacted by the mother of the woman he killed. Soon after that, turbulent events rapidly unfold.
- A woman is found killed in a hotel room and a callboy is accused of her murder. Because he's black a dubious racist organization is going against him with a policeman conspiring with them, which brings all involved in danger.
- An ex-convict gets blackmailed by an unknown man and the order to kill a woman.
- Successful novelist Horst Zoller commits suicide. His sister Dora asks Matula to find something wrong in his wife Tamara, who just inherited the whole heritage of her late brother, in order to contest his will. Tamara is represented by Dr. Franck, making this the first case in which he and Matula work on opposite directions, at least unless something unclear emerges.
- Cantor Ludwig Zils is arrested with the allegation of having killed a choir singer who had been his lover, after a heavy argument witnessed by the other singers. His friend Dr. Franck has to help him not only showing his innocence, but also saving his marriage. Meanwhile Matula discovers that the victim had a lot of enemies.
- A Turkish father asks Renz to find his lost daughter that may be involved in drug affairs. Matula dives into the milieu and finds same odd facts.
- Mr. Egon Manz wakes up in a hotel room after a night out with friends and finds a dead prostitute in his bed. His friend Reinhold Beckert calls immediately Dr. Franck, who persuades him to go to the police: unfortunately, due to heavy drinking, Manz cannot remember anything of that night and so he is arrested. Matula has got to investigate to prove his innocence, while Dr. Franck takes care of saving his client's marriage.
- TV director Karl Liebeck is going to publish a book in which he tells hot details about some showbiz people, but he and the publishing home receive some threats which lead them to ask Matula to investigate. Meanwhile, singer Catarina May, who is reported in the book having played in a porn movie some time earlier, asks Dr. Franck to intervene and make the publishing of the book stop.
- A former client of Renz appears in his bureau and informs him about plans to commit an undefined crime.
- Mrs. Julia Lohring asks Dr. Franck for help: her daughter Christine is going to marry young Stefan Reichner, but she doesn't trust him and she knows he has a relationship with another woman and wants to prove it to her daughter. Matula manages to come in contact with this woman, Angela Winter: she is terrified because someone is threatening her and asks him for protection.
- Dr. Franck defends a gallerist whose gun was used to murder a famous artist. The gallerist has got an alibi, confirmed by his wife, but shortly after she, who has been married with the victim in the past, precises that she's not sure anymore and her husband is arrested. Matula and Franck investigate in the background of modern art, where the victim had many enemies.
- The circumstantial trap.