Wed, Jan 7, 2015
After the first hot date in years with his Hamburg ex Leonie Buchwald, Nils Theede wakes up in a hotel room next to her murdered corpse. Only at autopsy he realizes the victim is a lookalike, although Leonie never even mentioned a sibling. The other members of his former Hamburg band are also in town, including her husband Richard Buchwald, whom she planned to leave for Nils. The team identifies the victim as her at birth separated twin sister Inka Wolf, adopted and raised without telling either by infertile couple Hans-Peter and Sabine Wolf. Nils draw a drastic conclusion.
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Wed, Jan 14, 2015
A Hansabank employee gets a cardiac arrest during a robbery, which yields only 3000 Euros, the culprits leave by Oldtimer motorbike, like only pastor Helge owns in Wismar. Retired crime mind Hansen Hansen cashed checks there shortly earlier and is late for a police interview, due to relatives begging his help with a most illegal problem. Former Wismar constable Lars Pöhlmann ends his Interpol training early, being dispatched back home on a mission to bug a yacht in the harbor, where organized crime is to meet planning the illegal import of protected wildlife, wood and so on. Getting in tight shoes as found-out fake emergency doctor, he calls upon the short-staffed team for urgent help and is invited to rejoin them as Nils has resettled in Hamburg with his mother.
Wed, Jan 21, 2015
While leading a team to disable a British bomb, expert Werner Jugert is killed as it explodes. An anonymous e-mail claims it was criminally manipulated, but is later found a mere knavish prank. Meanwhile his colleague finds the fatal error most improbable for such a well-reputed pro. Jugert's wife Tamara stresses he fell in last minute for Jens Klante, who was diagnoses with food poisoning, but both hide a secret.
Wed, Jan 28, 2015
City financial officer Astrid Reinders was fatally stabbed with her kitchen knife. Even husband Axel Reinders, a traveling salesman, claims ignoring she moonlighted in the bordello runs by Reuters' ex, Hella Morgenroth. Haughty daughter Saskia's wedding plans with a posh doctor might be compromised if the pimping became known. Someone anonymously called the emergency services, but without reporting anything. The team digs up adultery and blackmail.
Wed, Feb 4, 2015
Sonja Buscheck was fatally shot. She had just sold a legendary set of poem manuscripts to her great aunt Josefine Heyer, the lover of the "Red Baron" Manfred, the ace of Great War German air force who shot down allied planes by the dozen, by him. Expert Manfred Steinhardt paid her 50 000 Euro the evening before, but the cash is missing. Shortly after he's knocked down, the manuscripts stolen. Great war fan constable Timmermann's research helps the team see trough sets l-of lies then and now.
Wed, Feb 11, 2015
Ruud Jonker, a director of the Dutch central bank in Wismar from the half-yearly German-Benelux informal monetary summit, was skull smashed on the beach, and carried 50,000 Euro cash, now missing. He was personally given the VIP treatment by luxury hotel manager Wolf Baumgart, yet Ruud visited his predecessor Sandra Carstensen, who was fired for alleged malversation and became an alcoholic shortly after Jonker's previous summit attendance in Wismar. Hotel maid Anneke van der Meer, also Dutch and assigned to wait on him, suddenly resigns, but is found out an off duty cop, who tried to trap Jonker as 'sexual predator'.
Wed, Feb 18, 2015
Inge Lojewski finds her terminal elder brother Hans dead in bed, the undertaker spots a fatal injection spot in his back. Inge's son Theo confirms Hans wanted euthanasia. Inge Lojewski was devoted to her brother, who carried her on his back despite advise to leave her behind as 'as good as dead' during the 1945 flight from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) while the Red Army killed their parents, events he was obsessed by, collecting all possible documentation, which only gymnasium student Maja Dold showed interest in, but it turns out the collection contained a hidden treasure.
Wed, Feb 25, 2015
Thomas Holtmann was fatally stabbed in the pub where his ex Irina Stern held an elaborate post-friendly divorce party, complete with male stripper Harald Kern. The decapitated marzipan groom on the cake suggest recent beef. Specialized agency "Happy End" event planner Natalie Krüger secretly had an affair with Holtmann, whom she called often, even at night. Businesswoman Hannah Stern, Irina's mothering sister, badly scolded Holtmann during the party. Freddie Mücke, gay Harald's fellow beach lifeguard and Irina's jealous new lover, also attended.
Wed, Mar 4, 2015
A group of cycling tourists' organized Baltic coast route, organized by specialized event planner Caro Malchow, would have been a blast without blunt eternal whiner and stirrer Bernhard Metternich, who suddenly collapses, vomits and dies on the spot, as turns out from massive kitchen salt poisoning. Dental surgery left him unable to smell anything. Tired of his constant rudeness, wife Barbara Metternich openly flirted with single Markus Bölling. Adolescent Oliver Rauscher, the only who rather got on with Bernard, takes surprisingly strong offense at his divorced father Moritz for unclear reasons. The team must follow the salt to a complex, tragic truth.
Wed, Mar 11, 2015
A male corpse in a ditch has a South African driver's license on the name of Peter Moller, a local reported missing 20 years ago by his teacher. His odd, isolated mother Bianca Möller claims to utterly ignore his whereabouts and return, but never showed interest and reportedly neglected the boy before his disappearance. Peter's wife, who inherited her South African shipping company, says he planned to visit his mother for closure. On extended honeymoon, Peter, Maria and her less competent maternal half-brother Ruid de Vries sailed on a yacht to Wismar, where the in-law men had a row and left angry, his rental car is found abandoned near the Moller home. However the team is most stunned by female lies.
Wed, Mar 18, 2015
Private school 'Leonardo' teacher Uta Schmidt has a deadly car crash, due to sabotaged breaks. Over-ambitious parents campaigned to have her fired for 'not challenging the kids enough': "Frau Schmidt muss weg". An anonymously posted video, from the masked "weißen Ritter" (white knight), shows their plotting against her. The team unmasks the night and finds the expensive school was in financial trouble while principal Jana Prinz made Uta collect annual fees in advance. Meanwhile family troubles are also uncovered.
Wed, Mar 25, 2015
Popular Ricardo Prahl was skull-smashed in the retirement home where he brilliantly performed a year of social service. He was found in his room by ex-con resident Hilmar Wiesel, the buddy of grumpy, former strict chemistry teacher Dr. Gernot Sieveking, who caused Lars to repeat a year in grammar school. Although he thoroughly hated drugs, a large stash is found in Ricardo's room, and it definitely looks like he sold it in Berlin clubs. His ex-junkie girlfriend may have relapsed, her grandmother and guardian is also a home resident. Lars and colleagues dig up some dirty secrets all around the rest home and discovers minor crimes before the tragedy is cleared up.
Wed, Apr 1, 2015
Matthias Henschke is found with slit wrists in a house being demolished. Over a year earlier, he and cahoot Jan Weber brutally and unprovoked beat up Nele Neumann, he recently ended his jail term. *His bloody head wound proves no suicide, but murder. Nele Neumann wants revenge, remaining traumatized, but also overprotective ex David Meinecke for their stress-crumbled marriage. Henschke's accomplice Jan Weber also threatened him by phone.
Wed, Apr 8, 2015
Young Sarah's corpse is found in a lake, but actually died in a car crash and was clumsily dumped. She went missing during the youth club's "Geländespiel" which she left after a row with other participants. Around was noticed a red model airplane, which she allegedly followed. Local 'weirdo' Karl Wagner possesses such one, and it was the passion of her long-gone father. The car paint trail from the crash leads not to Wagner but Mike Reichelt, who has a conviction for an earlier 'hit and run' car crash, which links surprisingly to Sarah's father.
Wed, Oct 7, 2015
Anne Lausick, a superior swimmer and favorite to win Wismar's regional mermaid performance competition, beaches up drowned, but the real cause of death was an overdose of painkiller. Several people had access, including main rival model Melanie Wuttke while husband Michael Lausick's first wife also died in a suspicious accident and is a former pharmaceutical salesman.
Wed, Oct 14, 2015
While indoor mobility appliances salesman and installer Meinhard Bommer 'tests' with flirtatious senior Rebecca Ruland her new persons bath lift, the cardiac patient suffers a fatal crisis, his tablets being switches for placebos. Steady girl friend Liese Brambach may be mortally jealous. Meinhard lived isolated with close twin brother Wenzel Bommer, for years also sharing 'artificial girl friend' Doris, so far exclusively, up for repairs by the converted mechanic Robert Steiff who customizes these 'sex robots'. Meinhard's self-made employer Florian Wagner can't hide his own problems.
Wed, Oct 21, 2015
Wismar-born American football-pro Enno "The German Panzer" Kossert was fatally shot at his modest home shortly after returning after 18 lucrative years, yet broke due to medical expenses for cerebral 'boxers syndrome' and terminal. Fans adored Enno Kossert but were shocked he ignored them back in Wismar, neighbors found him erratic. Ex Nadja Reisinger even lost his monthly checks for their daughter Lucy (18), whom he never showed real interest in. On Enno's last evening he had a row with most promising, ambitious local football player Maiky Merten, who hoped for tips from his idol but was told, like at his Berlin club, to bow out due to his own cerebral risks, but kept training his tail off with local though coach Gero Tatzel, who once discovered and molded Enno 'old school', mercilessly pushing to the very limit.
Wed, Oct 28, 2015
Heinrich Lenz drowns in his inflatable pool after being knocked unconscious with his garden gnome. The neighborhood resembles a ghost town, as all holiday cabins are closed down without tenants on a court order Lenz obtained, complaining about neighborly nuisance. A financial disaster for owners like Jens Neumeyer, who needs the rent to supplement his ailing handyman business, which also sustains model stepson Tim Brandt. Heinrich Lenz' school and angling buddy Edgar Sichler testifies everyone ganged up on him, and he finally withdrew his complaint. The team gets a false confession.
Wed, Nov 4, 2015
Captain's widow Annabell Petermann was skull-smashed, clumsily staged as fall from a stepladder. The untouched coffee spread suggests she welcomed her killer. The evening before she rowed with her neighbor and demented best friend Inge Lepin, who supported her son Holger Lepin's view that her mental state required moving into a rest home, but offered an alternative. Annabell's grandson Jonas Petermann, whom his mother wickedly kept from gran until he was 18, became a regular guest and received generous gifts, purposefully out-staging the estranged daughter.
Wed, Nov 18, 2015
Art student Leonie Mertens is found by constable Anneke van der Meer who feels to reanimate her, a head wound from a fall being fatal, but the corpse was moved onto the road. She was studying restoration of castles and estates in Mecklenburg, mainly Neoclassicist. She even stayed at the "Schlösschen", a mansion owned by retired cabby Harald Schmitz, who invested his life savings to restore it, mainly himself, and is looking urgently for investors, the bank denying credit. Leonie rowed with Schmitz after making a historical discovery. Leonie was also interested in the nearby residence of the noble family von Gravenitz, getting an heirloom necklace and pregnancy out of an affair with son and heir Alexander, who is engaged to an industrial heiress to pay off haughty matriarch Hermine's bad investment debts.
Wed, Nov 25, 2015
Petty financial adviser Robert Meier was buried alive on a obstruction site with an excavator, after a brutal beating left him unconscious. Meier's wife reports a hefty row with client Leon Kroedde, who explains Meier lead a double life as 'Russian collector', roughing up 'protection money' extortion victims. Among them fries stand keeper Paula Plate, who lies about his last 'visit', and the family run nursery Thiel, whose excavator was used, but accessible to all. Widow Heike's second husband Henning Brehm's stepson Joris Thiel is irate when the police tells them Henning has been helping Meier, but he swears that's years ago, and as soon as Joris becomes a suspect, makes a dubious confession.
Wed, Dec 9, 2015
Managing owner Lutz Bölkow lies skull-smashed in his office at the amusement arcade, which has a graffiti painted of "Verpiss Dich von hier" ('fuck off'), the safe is robbed empty. Bölkow was often targeted with rotten eggs or stinky bombs. Despite his efforts for good neighbor relations, Sandra Meier gets complaining against the arcade, to no effect. Regular player Olli Freitag was excluded a day earlier, his wife having complained hysterically, as the playing debts resulted in their impeding home foreclosure, yet he was convinced one machine was about to restore his fortune. The team keeps looking further in his, staff and clients' past.
Wed, Dec 16, 2015
Clara Brand is fatally electrocuted while preparing breakfast in her kitchen, apparently by one the many appliances that were fixed at mat rates, like many other devices, in the 'repair cafe' she hosted permanently, an environmental initiative, as turns out a toaster, smartly sabotaged and covered up. The fixer team is shocked by her death, especially grandpa Dieter Bornemann, who had a terrible crush on her, frustrating fellow Siggi Schulz, the ex she dumped a few month ago, being an anti-capitalist environmentalist extremist. Dieter is hospitalized with a cardiac crisis, deeply worrying student grandson Adrian, whom he raised for years. The team digs up a seemingly unrelated fatal incident.
Wed, Dec 23, 2015
IT programmer Jonas Vogt sought quiet meditating a week at a Catholic monastery, but his corpse is found train-wrecked on the nearby rail. What seemed a suicide is staged, as he was dragged and suffered a bad blow on the head. Vogt's wife Eva-Marie visited him and rowed in the convent the previous day. Jonas's electronic calendar shows he got flowers every Friday from Anna Schönfeldts, who denies any non-commercial relationship. Prior Markus is Anna's brother, Jonas and his wife were involved in a much earlier traffic drama which may prove relevant now.
Wed, Dec 30, 2015
(Feindliche Übernahme) Philip Zander is found passed-out down a water pit by his partner Sabine Feiner, who calls for an ambulance and faints having climbed in but he died from toxic CO2 built up inside. Philip was thrown in, knocked unconscious. His daughter Cosima (4) lied with her late mother Marie's parents Martin and Dore Schilling since her death 'by last will', until he won a court custody battle. Former Internet business partner Jürgen Wiegand was after Sabine and sabotaged their common firm into ruin, without profit.