Thu, Jan 2, 2020
Called for a petty shop robbery alarm, Mattes and Melanie face an armed youngster, whom she must shoot in the shoulder as he refuses to put down his revolver. Seeing a video of the incident posted on Internet, the team rightly suspects teen perpetrator Ansgar Trautner, planned being shot and hospitalized. There are soon indications he has a female accomplice, probably his lover, who proves worse. Melanie's psychiatrists ex works his magic on Ansgar to get vital information.
Thu, Jan 9, 2020
Demir Kaplan reports yet another robbery at his kiosk, presumably again the work of a gang that strikes all over Hamburg, but this time Paula, his insolent teen daughter who side with her late mother. The masked teen robbers duo escapes Hans and Franzi thanks to parkour. That scene yields two prime suspects, cocky Simon Schultz with a telltale limp and his cautious photographer mate Tim Fichte . Mattes an Melanie' reconstruction shows Demir's story doesn't fit, and he's not the only 'miscast'. Franzi is flattered that old police academy buddy Sven Reimers flirts with her, but Hans duly doubts his motives and timing.
Thu, Jan 16, 2020
The priceless showpiece of an exposition in the ethnological museum, an allegedly magically talking tribal ancestor skull, is found stolen from the shipment of pieces donated by Erika Johannsen, the disinterested widow of the private collector, heir of a colonial trading company in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. Professor Harald Munze, the curator, and his thesis student assistant Martinez, discovered the theft while unpacking the crates in the presence of a Papua New Guinean official who was to take home all pieces presumed acquired illegally by the late collector. Most likely fence would be never-caught shady dealer and presumed forgery mastermind Daniel Vikander, specialized in archaeological rarities. Mattes focuses on the dysfunctional donor family Johannsen, daughter Britta even claims to communicate with the skull. Academic assistant Martinez is hospitalized, luckily merely for malaria, and plans the return to the neighboring tribe he got devoted to during field study.
Thu, Jan 23, 2020
Jörn Gutscheidt is hospitalized, bloodily beaten on the head with an iron bar by a girl who vandalized his car. Mattes finds the culprit also in ER: wayward teen Anna Klüver, mentally unstable, furious at her single mother, who has formal custody but had it suspended in favor of grandmother, a strict Bible fanatic who considers her granddaughter a fruit of sin. Yet another crime is the clue. Mattes is stunned finding his ex Eva is back from Boston, temporarily filling in at ER, but didn't even contact him, so he feels betrayed again.
Thu, Jan 30, 2020
Richard Drewitz brings to Dr. Eva Grünberg in ER his wife bruised, amnesiac Annette, reporting she was violently mugged. Hadi Rahmani, a highly qualified R&D project collaborator Annette recruited, was fired by her during her erratic rage, pinnacle in a recent series. Elder lesions suggest Annette Drewitz may be victim of domestic violence, and she openly accuses Richard of an affair with her sister. Eva's further diagnosis proves most relevant, while Mattes wrestles with collaboration given his trauma over being dumped and systematically ignored.
Thu, Feb 6, 2020
Stefan Menzel is hospitalized badly wounded after a probably intentional hit and run in front of his family by an unidentified car. Hans finds he owed a considerable private debt to a youth friend, investment banker Gideon Storm. Or was the real target his wife, Annika Menzel? She fails in ER to appease their daughter Tara, who concludes from blood types that Stefan can't be her biological father and storms out after abusing both as consistent liars, but the shocking news gave Stefan a mild cardiac crisis. Annika keeps changing her story to family and police, from ignoring the attacker to him being Tara's father by never-reported rape. Only observed receiving cash from a man, she admits' it's Tara's sire, her scorned lover, judge Konstantin Ortner, unaware the brat followed and meets him, alone. Mattes guards Stefan's hospital room, deals with Gideon and finally has opportunity to start dealing with Eva, who seeks a 'physical' lovers reconciliation, assuring she'll stay in Hamburg long.
Thu, Feb 13, 2020
Natural, cocky pickup-artist Mark Ringer easily flirts to Melanie's phone number while jogging, but she and Mattes, responding to a neighbor's alert, find him stuck under his beloved car in the garage, (under)pants yanked down and privates 'covered' by a turned-over bowl of red paint. Assisted by shy vlog-cameraman Erik Bahlke, Mark sells pricey seduction seminars for desperately single men, stressing a "Flirtmeister" takes no account of female emotions, but his own helplessly exposed state is now also on Internet. Motives abound with 'scored' women, notably Tabea Scholl, who has an overprotective boyfriend, but also disgruntled client men, as Mark never repays but even shows some textbook failure flirt attempts on his blogs. The culprit's next attack is arson in Mark's garage.
Thu, Feb 20, 2020
TV-Comedian Daniel Lohse is hospitalized, having collapsed during his application as 'intendant' (manager) of Lessing theater, yet drunk nor stoned. Was the substance meant to sabotage his career move, which would fit main competitor and former stage partner Bernhardt Lippe, or Lohse's wife Sandra, who suspected adultery, or Petra Steinert, whose floating theater would be competed into the ground now cultural subsidies are down. Mattes and Dr. Eva Grünberg must finally deal with her return from Boston.
Thu, Mar 5, 2020
Lisa Franck, aw ell-reputed port logistics firm executive, is hospitalized with serious head injury from a fall after finding irregularities during a container inspection. Lisa's employer Cord Viersen relies on the workaholic's competences, so disabling her might enable the big competitor to buy up the firm like most in Hamburg. Lisa's pregnant Lesbian, Brazilian wife Ornela Gilberto-Franck felt unacceptably neglected in favor of work. While the team looks into Cord and semi-retired father Jan Viersen's desperate financial situation and possible illegal trade as way out, Mattes learns from Eva her medical career is at risk due to a US law suit.
Thu, Mar 12, 2020
Kris and Pinar respond to a robbery alert from Lena Marx, his ex since his poker days years ago, whose story of random attack he duly doubts. They find Lena runs weekly illegal high-roller poker evenings, which may attract thugs. Suspicious players include bikers band member Simon Becker and choleric millionaire Patrick Dräger, a bad looser. Dealer Natalie Milich as her own bone to pick with Lena. Pinar worries Kris may be blurred by lingering feelings for Lena, whom he puts up in his flat, actually to win her trust.
Thu, Mar 19, 2020
Harvard professor Nick Brown's arrival, for an international medical study program, shocks Eva, who must now face her US incident, which caused her hasty return to Hamburg: she's blamed for the death of a Boston patient and Brown knows all about it, while vindictive widower Walter Benning is coming to confront her. That very day Eva messes up treating troublesome patient Sven Klamm, whom the police must restrain from attacking her and Kris talks out of filing a complaint. Mattes comforts Eva when Jasmin has to suspend her.
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
Franzi and Hans find an abandoned car-sharing-sports-car containing ER scan results from missing passenger patient Sandra Heinemann, who will die unless found fast. Franzi's brat daughter Emma gets Haller's permission to report on the precinct in her school video project, but breaks the confidentiality rule, which also proves unconventionally helpful in the case. Video recordings show an unsuspecting prankster's naive involvement.
Thu, Apr 9, 2020
Nino, aged ten, is hospitalized, found unconscious at the docks after a fall with the birthday present bike he didn't like, being jealous of his elder stepbrother Felix's cooler one. Mother Steffi Gebhardt and her sons-friendly new partner Benno Höft visit sulking Nino in hospital, while his ex Juliane Keutner reports her son, Felix (13), missing. Kris and Pinar find Nino and Felix met behind their parents' backs, trying to disentangle a web of complex step-family relationships.
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
Kris and Pinar investigate a brutal attack beating into hospital cop Karin Berger, who prevented serious injury to junior companion Elina Sherzova, daughter of Chechen crime clan Achmat Sherzov, as part of a police project attempting to offer the younger generation a legal alternative to organized crime. Either Achmat wanted Elina abducted, or his rival, Albanian crime lord Granit Hoxha, who wants to take over a large port turf. The police faces a clan war with a Rimeo and Juliet twist: Granit's cousin Bilal Hoti, who was ordered to shadow Elina, fell in love and sired her unborn child, all three remain at double threat.
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
'Nature healer' Adinda Weyrauch refuses to acknowledge the break-in at her place Kris Pinar and responded to was a crime, maintaining in ER she bumped into a cupboard sleepwalking with a ghost during a seance, yet she was robbed. Adinda's doting elder neighbor, former stalking suspect Paus, is always ready to help her out, but may feel neglected. Her 'patients' and especially their partners hold grudges as she can't heal, just get gullible believers obsessed with nonsense. She discharges herself.
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
Psychotherapist Dr. Norbert Paulsen was injured in his practice, where nothing was stolen, so the team suspects a disgruntled or crazy patient. On his calendar for that day was only troubled teen Lars Ahlers. Paulsen fails to hide from Mattes his marital tension with Dunja. Adult patient Stephan Niemeyer was furious to see his aggression therapy terminated recently, and viciously jealous of his ex-girlfriend Nina Blum's mystery lover Kai, who turns out an alter-ego, whose secret identity is central to an impending suicide attempt.
Thu, Oct 22, 2020
Prosecution official Gerald Renner warns shocked Pinar that her Turkish mob clan brother Bruder Malik, whom she helped arrest, is being released after their father's Aslan-clan managed to get rid of crucial evidence. Does he stay in Hamburg for revenge, maybe a gang coup? Mattes and Melanie investigate vandalism and break-in cases, as in Conny Woite's cafe and a known rocker band member's home. Both those involve Malik's cousin, fellow Aslan-Clan henchman Dr. Ayoub Durmaz. Malik seeks revenge but finds a though adversary in Ramon Praatsch and his Wheel Devils biker band, who kidnap him to torture him into submission. Pinar absurdly suspects partner Kris due to a postcard he got on holiday from a friendly Turkish waiter who lives in the Aslan home town, and despite her vehement denial to care for her crime family claims to be Malik's only chance.
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
During an emergency SWAT exercise in a high-school, Kris and Pinar, who didn't keep back to back as prescribed, hear a real explosion in an adjoining building where pupil Kaya Böhme (17) is found in shock, having blown off a finger manipulating illegal fireworks. She refuses to talk about cahoots and a presumable stock of such dangerous contraband. Only Kaya's classmate Lasse Wirnitzer, near suspension for mischief, ends up talking about his date Lea Sander who dumped him for refusing to continue her insane 'Internet prank' plans, including more explosions.
Thu, Nov 5, 2020
Shortly before concert pianist Hannah Jacobi's concert in the Elbphilharmonie, which may launch her internationally, agent Valentin Vasmer reports presumed ill intent, when her hand gets injured by a smashing limousine door as autograph hunters swarm around, coming clean on Internet threats till then only shared with her PA and lover, Thilo Bahnsen. As all professional protection officers are guarding the Swedish royal visit, Hans and Franzi take the first shift. That night, a masked intruder knocks down Tillo and escapes, possibly having entered the wrong hotel room. Hannah requests Hans to stay on her case, confides in him her won part but the dangerous party still has to be uncovered.
Thu, Nov 19, 2020
Alexander Schmölzer finds his wife Laura at home, cuffed and gagged all night. Kris and Pinar assume a robbery, yet Laura keeps contradicting herself while denying. Laura is diagnosed pregnant, Alexander is convinced not to have sired, suspecting the (fake?) intruder. The senior neighbor's drone recording, testing it as a gift for a cousin, shows the intruder, which identifies as drug-convicted ex-Cambridge-qualified Torben Reimers, who runs a flower shop with mother Marlies and brother Jan, insisting to ignore Laura, whose dark secret affects both families thoroughly. Hans experiments with a dating app, assisted by Franzi to post his profile.
Thu, Nov 19, 2020
Station captain Wolf Haller has a nightmare evening after a swell opera visit: on the way home his wife Sybille, who insisted to drive, confesses she 'met another man' and is badly hurt as a big black of wood is swung to the car window from a bridge. Both wake up in hospital but Sybille remains comatose for days, and prefers to see her new admirer, a Kiel professor with Turkish roots. Although officially on sick leave, Haller wants charge rather then Melanie, whom he ends up scolding a career vulture. He focuses on family man Sven Dörner, who reports, after fake social media posts Haller knows to be a legally safe trap, admits he touched the log but swears not to have thrown it. Drop out-knave Lennart Grolmann is pinpointed having been on site at the time, but denies and gets a probably false alibi from his protective elder brother Pascal. Haller's obsession with Donner meanwhile gets out of control.
Thu, Dec 3, 2020
Drug dealer Jack Engel ceases the pursuit of Mia Beier (16) who stole form him but nearly runs under Hans and Franzi's police car and escapes after ER checkup, using a classmate's name, to bring the loot, from the hospital pharmacy, to her sick father. Police and dealer track her down, while her remarried mother explains the brat refused further contact after her father was abandoned, claiming she ignored Max Beier became dependent on painkillers after a serious construction site back injury. Hans's Internet date Rita Wolgast proves hard to shake off, turning up in the precinct.
Thu, Dec 10, 2020
Justin Hertels is brought to ER, electrocuted in his bedroom, allegedly knocked out by a robber. Mattes and Melanie doubt it, as a neighbor reports Hertel's daughter Sina (11) fled the home. Sina's Bulgarian mother Elena is missing, the running brat found by Hans and Franzi and checked out for mild abrasions while Sina's class teacher Amira Samimi helps see clear the family got into trouble as Justin was semi-disabled by car accident injury aftermath forcing him into street begging.
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
Popolar gymnasium (high school) principal Meike Daschner is hospitalized after electrocution by door under current, after stepping into a water balloon puddle, all part of the sixth formers' authorized end of term prank orgy. Perhaps the intended target was unpopular janitor Jürgen Jahn, who raises his sixth former daughter -alone on the flat that goes with the job. The ream focuses on the prank feast organizing committee: klutzy Jannis Schröder, who has a beef with Jahn, and Tamina, Pauline's arrogant but crafty buddy. Helpfully knowledgeable is even more ambitious school paper editor Tim Baaske.