SOKO investigator Patrick Grimm gets a surprising call from Namibia. His father Antonio, whom he last saw 30 years ago, is dying. Patrick decides to travel to Africa to say goodbye.
Businessman Gerald Kuhn meets two young women in a hotel bar. He goes up to his room with them and is found shot dead the next day - handcuffed to the bed.
Twelve-year-old Julia Schwenke has disappeared without a trace. A witness saw her with an unknown man. SOKO gets the case when pensioner Felix Urban is seen with Julia's backpack and arrested shortly afterwards.
Just as the SOKO team is visiting Jan, who has recovered from his accident, in the hospital, private detective Kurt Nieß is found dead behind an esoteric shop.
In front of the house of Dr. Thiel, a man is murdered in a robbery. Thiel calls the police but does not give his name. The two perpetrators fled before the police arrived at the scene.
The self-employed Internet specialist Paul Förster is found dead in his bathtub. It's obviously murder. Förster's last assignment in an investment company made him many enemies.
Dr. Daniel Götz collapses dead in the hospital. He was poisoned. The investigations focus on Timo Schneider, whose wife died due to medical malpractice, and Sabrina Karstens, Götz's ex-girlfriend and doctor at the same hospital.
After an undertaker discovers traces of a violent crime on 80-year-old Herta Kollwitz, he calls in the police. In fact, according to the forensic medical examination, the alleged heart attack turned out to be caused by suffocation.
The security guard Rainer Dornfeld is shot dead on a parking deck in downtown Leipzig. According to SOKO, the cold-blooded nature of the execution of the crime indicates a professional killer.
A beating video appears at the school of Jan Maybach's son Benni. The mobile phone film shows indistinctly how three unrecognizable youths severely abuse a man.
A sex murder from 1986, an old case from GDR times must be reopened again. Hajo, who was investigating the case at the time, gets the chance to find the real culprit through an anonymous letter.
On a farm in the Leipzig area, Helga Kubiki is overrun by a herd of bison and trampled to death. The circumstances surrounding her death are so mysterious that murder cannot be ruled out.
As Ina's pediatrician Dr. Fuchs is found dead in his practice, an extraordinary case begins for SOKO. But above all for Ina: She has to coordinate her job and private life because her son Paul is not allowed to go to kindergarten.
At the funeral of his childhood friend Karl, Hajo meets his old sports buddies Manne, Siggi and Ingo from the boxing club. He hasn't seen they for 40 years. But the circumstances of his friend's death irritate Hajo.
Wagging rascals find the head-shot corpse of local mother Marion Heidt, who lived separated since eight year-old son Dennis died a month before in a car crash. Father Thorsten Heidt admits having sneaked in and stolen a fat cash envelope.
When Kerstin and Uli Braun come home after a party, there is no trace of their twelve-year-old son Niko. A broken window suggests a kidnapping. SOKO investigates and finds discrepancies at the crime scene.
Is it just a harmless burglary, or has the tenant been kidnapped? While Jan, Ina and Patrick are still wondering what they are dealing with, Hajo is already in the middle of his worst nightmare.
Double murder of a Syrian couple. Aysha, who was called Silke Kern in her previous life and who converted to Islam out of love, is suspected of murder. The dead man was her husband, the dead wife his young second wife.
The murder of law student Valeska Helmer is solved in record time by a new forensics unit under Prof. Grundelach. But Hajo is dissatisfied with the results because the perpetrator Marianne Reng doesn't want to fit in with the crime.
An armed robbery at a gas station. The previously convicted perpetrator is shot by the patrolman Ralf Decker when he resists arrest. Colleague Edith Thierse can confirm the self-defense thesis, but more and more questions arise.
Chief Inspector Hajo Trautzschke gets a worried call from London early in the morning: his godchild Charlotte Fischer, who is studying in London, was kidnapped near Tower Bridge. Hajo and Ina immediately travel to London.
Investigator Patrick Grimm brutally beaten up by three neo-Nazis. Two of the perpetrators were arrested shortly thereafter and made serious allegations against the police officer: Patrick is accused of raping a woman.
A bank robbery on a Leipzig branch. When the SOKO officers arrive, everything looks like a failed robbery followed by a hostage-taking. But this mission soon becomes a very special case.
Bankrupt entrepreneur Richard Steffenhagen is found dead in his apartment. The 60-year-old died from a bullet that he apparently shot himself in the head.
As Dr. Conradi disappears without a trace from the forensic medicine rooms during an autopsy, the investigators are initially puzzled. SOKO gets help from Sabine Rossi, former pathologist and old acquaintance of Hajo.
When Jan and Ina are called to an apartment from which shots have been heard, they have no idea that a colleague has been murdered: Solveig Lamehr, who, as a police student, was allowed to investigate with the SOKO team for a day.
The blackmail video leaves no doubt: the 76-year-old private banker Erich Holter was kidnapped in front of his office and buried alive in a coffin somewhere. A race against time begins for the SOKO investigators.
The doctor Elisabeth Trepplin was murdered in her house in a particularly insidious manner. In the bathroom, which was locked from the outside, she suffocated on the toxic fumes of a long-banned pesticide from the GDR era.
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By what name was Leipzig Homicide (2001) officially released in Canada in English?