Thu, Jan 5, 2017
Mattes and Melanie must escort Nigerianer Ifemelu Okoye and pre-teen son David to airport for repatriation as her marriage went on the rocks shortly before the required three year term for German nationality. They find Ifemelu breaking int ex-husband Udo Muskau's home, she manages to lock in Melanie and escape after hitting Mattes in the nuts. Muskau demands their arrest for immediate expulsion, catches her breaking in again -to pay for a false passport- and is found injured with his own knife. Hans insists to resume work after his daughter's funeral, and grimly sides with Franzi's blind maternal solidarity against Udo, who is well-connected and subtly leans on captain Haller.
Thu, Jan 12, 2017
After a pregnant woman's fatal accident during an illegal motor race, Tarik and Claudia witness one racer escape, a second sneaks out of ER after treatment. The crash was executed with the motorbike register by Timo Röder, who maintains it was stolen, but Mattes helps prove it was driven by his hothead brother Jannik Röder, an irresponsible dropout who was little left to loose. As Timo feared, Jannik is ready to end his life with a bang, if he can get his hands on a dream machine, which Tariq and Wolle guess with some help from Tim, whom Jannik knocked down as alleged traitor when found on the family boat.
Thu, Jan 19, 2017
The local coffee roasting firm's administrative head is knocked down, having many enemies. Hans and Franzi concentrate on the staff, Mattes and Melanie on former employee Harald Borsdorf, who can no longer support his wife and young son Kilian financially or emotionally and claims she wrecked his life by a false testimony in court after the fire accident that left him in a wheelchair and jailed for arson. The team finally discovers she had a secret that could wreck the firm and two families.
Thu, Jan 26, 2017
Hans and Franzi investigate single Verena Riwa's claim that 'stalker since weeks' Roman Goldt broke in but sole nothing. His mailbox proves she's the never-steady ex who stalks him, demanding he stops 'denying heir love'. Shortly after Verena admits most of Roman's complaints, she's treated in ER for knife injuries, which are found self-inflicted, after which she confesses a false break-in report, which finally shatters he confidence of her overprotective brother Jakob Riwa, who rushed to her rescue from Bremen and physically intimidates Roman. Hansuor captain Haller are amused by Franzi's pigheaded 'maternal solidarity' to keep insisting Verena might be at least partially right.
Thu, Feb 2, 2017
The hospitalized apparent driver of a crashed car sneaks out, having used a false name. The police soon suspects its' Bernd Kowalski, who just robbed a jeweler, the loot being missing. A mysterious note makes them search and find teen Leon Badura, whose ex-con father Peter seems reformed but may be the accomplice. Leon lets Bernd in as fake pest controller and bonds with the studly thug, whom he begs for a loan to pay off school bully Hendrik. Bernd sends Peter a selfie holding a gun behind Leon, who soon finds that and takes it to his extortionist.
Thu, Feb 9, 2017
Leukemia patient Jennifer Mikesch refuses medical treatment, having joint the 'reconductive therapy' invented by Dr. Arndt Becker at his private clinic. Her father Ulf Mikesch is arrested for entering and disturbing the peace, his complaint is rejected as Jen is of age. *Hans must question him as prime suspect when Dr. Arndt Becker is beaten to death shortly after. Cancer-recovered Melanie goes undercover to expose the sect as quackery and convince Jennifer to seek proper medical help. Mattes discovers Becker suffers Parkinson and covers it up with pills, which won't help long. What about his staff?
Thu, Feb 16, 2017
Hans and Franzi respond to a routine alert from the Miniature-city where person unknown sneaked in at night for subtle changes to one scene, showing Mattes and Melanie executing an intervention taking place the next morning, rescuing from assault a businessman who sneaks off and actually paid his assailant, an ex-con who can't identify him. A further miniature counterfeit shows Melanie and Mattes, even the car vandalism by painted red heart which they incur soon after. Hans and Mattes come to realize very late it's all part of the fake c-victim's obsession with Melanie, who dumped him within minutes on their first actual date despite a perfect online dating profile.
Thu, Feb 23, 2017
Cage fighter René Sievers drags himself to ER and collapses from his wound, unwilling to admit a fight. Tarik, whose ex lures his kid son away from grandma's sixtieth birthday with a camping holiday, and Claudia focus on mixed martial arts championship organizer Kevin Poller and René's scheduled opponent Jens Rasch, who was expected to lose the title. René Sievers's girlfriend Bianca Friesen testifies against her ex: Jens Rasch. Kevin Poller allegedly staged an illegal fight. René Sievers's rise made more enemies. Mattes is injured worst then he admits during the final arrest.
Thu, Mar 2, 2017
Although hasty hospitalization by husband Freddy Lürsen saves her life after another suicide attempt, now by pills, Juliane Lürsen screams accusations suggesting him a murderer and sneaks out of ER before doc Jasmin, who has doubts about the medication, can transfer her to the psych ward. Sympathizing, Claudia insists, against Tarik and Matte, to check out the theory the tea heiress's low-born husband, who has an affair with a neighbor, wanted to escape the stringent prenuptial as her guardian. He furiously denies and point at Juliane's obsessively leaned-on psychiatrist Dr. Mertin, whose record arouses more questions.
Thu, Mar 9, 2017
Female Hamburg police officer Nicole Wittich, whom captain Haller mentored twenty years ago, makes a bad fall from her home widow. yet she refuses to testify about being pushed, claiming improbable amnesia. She was in charge of a community project to improve police contacts in a troubled neighborhood. The team also looks into her husband André and their son Jonas.
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
Family Berghoff prepares since weeks to take in Syrian refugees, but is increasingly terrorized by extreme right thugs. Tarik and Claudia find even a burning effigy in the front lawn doesn't deter obsessive activist Daniela Berghoff, while even the neighbors feel too unsafe. A hooligan gathering in their street even throws bottles at the cops, mildly wounding Claudia, Tarik is put on desk duty as his Turkish roots act as red on a bull. The container being prepared to house refugees is set on fire, family father Jens Berghoff hospitalized for burns, his teen son Moritz is found interacting with police-recorded Neo-Nazi hooligan Sascha Maslowski. Neighboring Turkish entrepreneur Birdal Pamuk is found having his own lucrative agenda. Mattes must be hospitalized after collapsing after ignoring his back-ache far too long.
Thu, Mar 23, 2017
Hans and Franzi answer domestic strife case, which turns out an explosion risk: an attempt to blow up their colleagues in precinct 21. Shortly after, a senior patient in Elbkrankenhaus takes hostage ER doc Jasmin and her boss Lindberg, whom she threatened with resignation over inevitable budget cuts, wearing a bomb belt, refusing to name terms. The ill-reputed supervising state police officer Lothar Retzky is ready to resort to violence. Captain Haller and Hans can only hope to negotiate if the colleagues find out his past and motives. However he seems suicidally desperate, having lost everything already, family and future, blaming hospital and police.
Thu, Mar 30, 2017
Tarik and Claudia find bloody traces of a problem birth in an abandoned hotel room. The team frantically looks for mother and child, but the only likely trail is a girl brought to ER, where confidentiality is invoked, as must apply if it's the mother who dropped her baby in the 'adoption shelve' - based on anonymity- that morning, which is being reclaimed by another woman claiming it was a home birth. Tarik rather thinks it's the teen who is brought to ER by her businessman father, bleeding after a birth he didn't suspect, no trace of her baby. It starts looking like the adult is mentally disturbed since losing her own baby.
Thu, Oct 5, 2017
Called to a break-in where hardly anything was stolen, Tarik quickly takes to the owner's son Paul, who flatters him by suggesting he may become a cop too. That changes when it turns out Jan Mazinger, the man he recognizes from mug shots, has a valid alibi and an incorrigible stepson Dustin Neumann, who only posed as education professor Gernot Bahnsen's real son Paul, who feels neglected in favor of juvenile scum charges. Tarik reconsiders again, confronted with Paul's mischievous record and Dustin's family handicap.
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Thu, Oct 12, 2017
After Hans takes recently returned Africa NGO worker Malte Lampert to the precinct to instill the validity of a court order banning him to approach his wife Karen Jensen and now 17 year-old son Till, only Tariq shows pity, but must send him off for a clumsy bribery attempt. Desperate, Malte takes Tariq, who gets wounded at the head, his partner and captain Uwe Bachmann of a port tour boat hostages with a single demand: phone contact with Till. Hans finds the knave, who is a petty drug pusher and unwilling to cooperate, which changes only when he learns his mother lied Malte never showed interest in him while working in Africa, which his health disabled.
Thu, Oct 19, 2017
Juvenile re-offender Tilo Busse escapes a conviction which would mean jail for beating up Benedikt Lübecke on a technicality and due to glowing defense by his parole officer Asmus Schröter but father Prof. Dr. Lübecke threatens Tilo, in front of equally frustrated Hans. Shortly after Tilo is beaten up on the street but claims he didn't get a good look at his assailant, which proves improbable. So he must be covering for someone, such as his neglectful father, a lush veteran. Benedikt provides his father a false alibi although it's an impossible to please bully, is found a petty school drug dealer and is suspiciously concerned about Tilo. Then someone snaps.
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
Mattes is all but amused when national action movie star Tim Schneider, a womanizer even he can't compete with as if that would stop either macho, is assigned to accompany him and Melanie on a badly pre-picked patrol day. Hamburg is exceptionally hectic as the triathlon and Schlagermove music festival parade coincide with ecological activists attempting to block atomic fuel and waste shipping, where Tariq is all but amused finding his babysitting sister Kayra Coban dragged his three year-old son Lucas to a stand-off at the docks. Captain Haller has a hard time dismissing Schneider's terror and conspiracy theories after the star uses his fame to coax the activists without bad press, and a gun is found.
Thu, Nov 2, 2017
Tarik and Claudia are assigned the new host patrol for action movie star Tim Schneider, who eagerly offers his expertise and research resources in the next case: preacher Beate Winter's husband's tomb was desecrated for a satanic ritual, which matches a macabre display found by Matte and may be the initiation prelude to worse. Beate points at unruly Goth former catechism charge Olaf Franzen, who has a gore past, yet denies, but whose gentle, doting brother Daniel is Beate's daughter Anne's classmate and boyfriend. Tim Schneider's analysis of the ritual symbols suggests a satanic wedding, to a virgin exactly like Anna, who goes missing.
Thu, Nov 9, 2017
Generally liked shipping employee Tobias Blum assumes a prank went wrong when locked all night into a refrigeration container, in ER for frost treatment. Mattes realizes it was no accident, but Blum's jacket with cellphone being missing, he borrowed one from Karsten Kramm's 50 owner-manager Oskar Politz, who may be the real target and whose wife is known to Hans and obsessed Franzi as abuse victim, still refuses to file a complaint, but becomes the victim of an inefficient car bomb. Tobias has an affair with Kramm's wife, while the workaholic elder partner refused to accept a lucrative bid as Oskar wants most of all. Hans is tired of Franzi's immature emotional attitude, barely in time to prevent the next crime being deadly.
Thu, Nov 16, 2017
Mattes must alert Melanie, who bugs him about an alleged glass ceiling, she fails to watch the road, but the patrol car already hits into hospital even more careless passer-by asylum-granted Iraqi-Kurdish schoolgirl Amira Barzani. Hans brings to the same ER Birgit Kramer, who was knocked down at the home she shares with husband Christian, also teacher at Amira's school, where her protective big brother Sedat works in the mess. The couple hides its marital troubles, which have to do with the refugee charity she abandoned, suspecting like Sedat that Amira was involved with Christian. Amira disappears, the team disagrees who to suspect but Sedat has the key, a missing outdated computer, the only thing stolen from the Kramer home.
Thu, Nov 23, 2017
Bernd Lüders is in ER after a crisis for an urgent kidney transplant after 8 years on the European waiting list. A fit organ is sent from Berlin, but the paramedic courier knocked down to steal it before Alex Escher can bring it to hospital. It can only be sued for Bernd in the next hours. Then a ransom is demanded anonymously, but Bernd refuses to compromise his family's financial future. The team checks out Bernd's drop-out son Felix, in debt and tries a fake ransom delivery. Finally they learn Alex's crippled son Karl is the key.
Thu, Nov 30, 2017
Near-cripple pensioner Lotte Uhland is hospitalized after a fall at home, but diagnosed abused and/or neglected by Martin Rohde's private nursing service. She refuses to speak out against anyone, while her helpful neighbor, fellow pensioner Elvira Grün, tried to hide having called the ambulance and turns on the police, whose fist suspect is landlord Gunnar Jacobs. Hans's resemblance to Lotte's late husband may win her confidence, while the hospital staff helps check on nursing fraud.
Thu, Dec 7, 2017
Wealthy Jörg Schwennicke reports only his shotgun stolen at a robbery, for which no further evidence is found by Mattes and . Melanie, who feels sabotaged in her promotion ambition and blindly blames captain Haller. Schwennicke's socially utterly misfit son Enno, aged 16, is missing and fits the profile of a trouble maker who may have seized the gun to slaughter people at his school, which is therefore evacuated. Enno is found without weapon, and tells nothing at interrogation. His equally uncooperative best friend Mika, who was brought into ER with a head wound, may be the key.
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
Grey mouse Thomas Meyer freaks out when he finds his home robbed, even his two year-work model ship destroyed. *Dragon wife Miriam ignores his broken pride, even scolds his secrecy about savings for their dream trip trough Canada, now stolen. Mattes and Hans sift trough the clues flooding the precinct as Thomas offers a huge reward, finding everything but the cash with simpleton Ulf Oswaldt, whose publican girl Celina Berendson denounces him, all too easily, while bitter Thomas is out of control. Dropout son Sönke was fired from that pub, one of the Meyer men must be guilty of beating Uwe unconscious into the river. Haller is not amused that Melanie's reporter friend prints her 'glass ceiling' theory, which he calmly disproves.
Thu, Dec 21, 2017
Mattes somewhat reluctantly protects Werner Karger, who can't be tried again having been cleared 20 years ago for a girl's murder, against the blind mob raised by his tirelessly vindictive mother Heike Bundschuh, which shouts and vandalizes at the home of his host and youth buddy Peter Martinek, worse the ever since recent DNA evidence probably would have got a conviction. Car sabotage lands Werner in ER, under police protection. Impish bad loser Melanie further provokes precinct boss Haller, wearing out his patience.
Thu, Dec 28, 2017
Returning from a Mexican holiday, Alex Bischoff (25) collapses on the street, causing his cabby to crash, fails to crawl away. Mattes and Melanie take him to ER, where he checks out despite dangerous intestinal congestion, before the x-ray reveals he must have swallowed drugs in dozens of condoms . Alex' Freundin Jenny rushes him to her home, worried less for his health then what the dealers might do if they can't deliver the cocaine, she even receives her thug cahoot Bruno to force it out. Mattes searches smartly and finds them semi-accidentally.