Wed, Jan 3, 2018
Achmed's uncle Berat Özer is hospitalized, poisoned by an overdose of tranquilizer in the signature dish "döner" of his pitta bar. While daughter Elif Özer and cousin Yusuf Celik, promised 'engaged' since childhood, run the business, Heldt's prime suspect is neighbor baker Cordula Melker, who believes her beloved dog on diet 'poisoned' by Berat feeding it, which isn't even the case. he also canceled his meat orders with recently paroled ex-con Harald 'Hacki' Lüschen for selling laced pork as pure lamb to the Muslim.
Wed, Jan 10, 2018
Trick or treating in Bochum in Halloween zombie costume with DA Ellen's brat daughter Emily, Heldt stumbles upon the corpse of Martin Sachs, asphyxiated at home wearing a pumpkin head in costume. The fired security agent at Dr. Renate Leiphold's genetic manipulation firm Bereschit AG branch actually died from excessive pumpkin toxin in two helpings of soup, made from the firm-modified hybrid that allowed him to break the winning streak of horticultural society champion Michael Brehmer, which he was unable to taste as terribly bitter as an early symptom ('ageusia') of his MS. * Forbidden his usual dodgy tactics against the legally well-shielded firm, Heldt traps Laura Wimmer's vandalizing environmental activist group to enable him intruding, yet needs more clues closer to Sachs's home.
Wed, Jan 17, 2018
On disciplinary filing and research duty to prepare the precinct's contraband auction, playful Heldt and his toy robot stumble upon a message in a game machine from ex-con inventor Johannes Korritke, who was recently electrocuted to death working on it. *Narcotics branch big suspects mysterious Freddy Q. to have killed him, perhaps for an invention to grow weed undetected or for the gambling machine, which Achmed helps check out, not as expected. So Heldt teams up discretely with Dutch drug detective Jan Kramer, his stand-in during Nikolas's three years on Mallorca. Korritke's past points to Bochum video arcade "Daddelkönig". while Kramer focuses on allegedly reformed ex-con dealer Markus Wilkens, but Freddy Q.'s identity proves a major complication.
Wed, Jan 24, 2018
Three months after a bomb wrecked his bar, Niklas remains worried- sick about his disappeared mate, its owner Karl-Heinz "Carlo" Funke, son in no mood to help Mario plan his promotion celebration. Grün and Bannenberg are reluctant, failing proof, to press Heldt's theory Carlo's was burned like five other hospitality business by the local racketeers queen Sofia Cassano. The apparent latest victim, cafe keeper Klaus Risse, was brutally beaten into hospital by her thuggish henchmen Matteo and Angelo but dares not speak up, only his clueless wife Ilka spills the beans, so Ellen impersonates her as lure. Heldt, who pursues Carlo's case pseudo-officially, catches his mate in flagranti buying from a drug dealer, yet keeps quiet to his team, confiding only into Achmed but is soon seen trough. The team works out the embarrassing truth, also about Carlo's desperate action.
Wed, Jan 31, 2018
Grün sadly finds his retired predecessor and mentor Erich Kisters, formerly nicknamed 'the elephant' thanks to his memory, who is caught burglarizing near-neighbor Stefan Winkler, is and Alzheimer patient, who recently turned too unpredictable for his loving wife Agathe to handle since med student Bastian Hallerbach since moved in next door, whom Erich attacked instantly. Kisters wanders off shortly after into a clinic, searching for a girl using a newspaper picture of Emma Watson. Heldt suspects the senior may be working on some confused recollection and enlists Mario Korthals to go trough his 25 years of cases for links with current persona. Grün even remembers they failed to solve the kidnapping and non-return despite ransom payment of Swedish millionaire's daughter Eva Gunnarsson in 1992, an exchange student at the local university, where Bastian Hallerbach, not even born at the time, is studying to become a third generation doctor, and 'his' DNA was found. Heldt stages a memory restart.
Wed, Feb 7, 2018
The precinct drops everything to search for missing schoolboy Elias Müller (ten), who is found unharmed in the car-booth of family father Richard Menden, whose alibi checks out. Cool cop Nikolas bonds with Elias over superhero comic "Laserman" and gets the enterprising knave to admit he staged his own abduction as cry for attention from his ever-absent workaholic father Markus Müller, who goes missing the next day. .Meanwhile Grün must tell bankrupt, fatal car crash victim Paul Klausmann's brother Robert and fresh widow Carla it was a poorly cover-up suicide, hence no insurance payoff. Checking Markus Müller's dodgy business and Swiss banking actually ties up both cases.
Wed, Feb 14, 2018
Heldt is ex Julia Tietz's only hope to find out who stalks her without her looking paranoid. Pretending they jointly prepare a seminar, Heldt checks Julia's three pending cases, but finds neither convincing. Alkohol addict Arndt Recker is charged with domestic abuse. Cocky student Lukas Ahrberg, whom only widowed father Thorsten Ahrberg can control, risk juvenile time for ear-boxing a bitch teacher. Arrested pimp Frank Struck's accomplices may be pressuring Julia to clear him. Receiving roses, Julia admits there's another suspect: court employee Jonas Pauser, whom she dumped but can't shake off, yet isn't capable of nasty moves. Heldt's attempt to scare his 'rival' off gets noticed by Ellen, who puts the whole team on the case. Julia can't control herself at Lukas's court hearing, where a manipulative incident inspires a more convoluted suspicion, to which a trap is set.
Wed, Feb 21, 2018
Heldt's beloved vintage car in a parking lot clash with hare-costumed Britta Clemens , whom he must hospitalize with a stick-induced head wound. The lonely rest home orderly was taking therapist Frederike Faust's 'cuddling course', which the team screens, first focusing on married, apparently unfaithful florist Tobias Weiss, whose alibi checks out. Britta lent hers savings to 'patient' Falk Schmidt, a serial wedding scammer's alias, so Niklas and Heldt set an undercover trap, but Brita's helpful neighbor Arne Seehusen inspires another angle.
Top-rated
Wed, Feb 28, 2018
Heldt and Bannenberg compete in a team-building-seminar in a rustic castle against Duisburg and Essen police-judicial detective duos, in bad mood two days after their joint Westphalian human traffic bust was sabotaged by an unknown mole. Grün and Mario Korthals resent being left behind at the precinct, fearing Heldt will wreck Bochum's reputation at the prestigious event, so they resort to legally dubious reactivation of an undercover bug. Only Heldt quickly warms to the old-fashioned who done it murder game, solving a murder staged by seminar host-director Kleine (who plays the victim), "Butler" Moritz Hackforth and "cook" Natascha Meisterjahn. Essen's brutish commissioner Kathrin Hardt and state attorney Dr. Sebastian Pringel start no less enthusiastic as Duisburg commissioner Erik Schubert, whose attorney Winterbauer is medically excused. Pringel however son starts courting amused Ellen, Heldt fails to hide his jealousy, the men sharing a room and hold a mild prank war.
Top-rated
Wed, Mar 7, 2018
After a night in the castle, romantic notably for Ellen and Heldt, who sneaked out of his shared room, seminar director Kleine alias Baron von Protznitz is missing as 'victim', but actually also in reality, all participants, cook Meisterjahn and Butler Hackforth (both hired actors) finally want to end the game fast. Despite some rivalries, state attorney Sebastian Pringel and commissioners Kathrin Hardt and Erik Schubert applaud Heldt working out the clues to the murder mystery. Kleine is found really stabbed in a storage room. Ellen claims nearest jurisdiction and commissions Heldt to officially investigate the castle, which is locked down as murder site, so nobody can leave. Heldt first finds the impoverished real baron von Protznitz, who noticed an outsider car. While the castle is searched, which proves dangerous with two criminals, an external one as well as a traitor, who ruthlessly traps several people while finding himself in danger. In Bochum Grün and Mario Korthals's parallel research is surprisingly fruitful, which turns out necessary.
Wed, Mar 21, 2018
Bird-watching off duty from a forest observation post, commissioner Grün must call in he's sitting on a bomb, which is defused just in time. While evacuating anglers Axel and Kai Uwe at the nearby trout fishing pond, Heldt is commandeered by neighboring kiosk owner Simone Milowski to find half-wit pond employee Andreas 'Andi' Wolters, who was analyzing the water, and tells instant buddy Niklas his guardian Hartmut Haschek, the pond owner, and he normally shared coffee that observation platform at the time of the explosion. Heldt assumes Hartmut was the target, but he' killed in a car crash after a cardiac arrest shortly after. Hartmut's cousin and heir Michael 'Mike' Haschek, so reneges on his promise to 'unherit as charge' Andi, whom Ahmed finds dumped on the street, so Niklas seeks a better guardian while putting him up at home and in the precinct so-long. Tricking uncooperative top law firm partner Tiberius Stranach finally puts Heldt on the right trail, albeit barely in time.
Top-rated
Wed, Mar 28, 2018
While investigating with Grün Bochum's part in a wider crime wave of identity theft to have online orders -mostly luxury goods- fraudulently delivered at addresses, like food at Nikolas's former primary school teacher Waschke's home, Heldt finds it fits many cases in that neighborhood since three months, actually supplied over Darknet. Heldt wonders why 'cheap' food and stakes out a delivery, so he can observe 15 year-old paperboy Adrian Schlosser, whose mother Nina 'manages' his even less caring stepfather's DJ-career, leaving Adrian to look -well- after kid brother Leon (eight). Heldt gets state attorney Ellen Bannenberg to take them in her home rather then call in child services during his investigation, to see if Adrian also dealt in luxury contraband. The knave points at ex-con pizza deliveryman Michael Gruber, who is caught smuggling drugs, but clearly only the courier.
Top-rated
Wed, Apr 4, 2018
Only Heldt sympathizes immediately when unsavory Iggy reports the disappearance of his fellow homeless street mentor, Horst Wilmenrod, after the pair spent the night in the local 'ghost house'. Believer Mario Korthals looks into the history of the house, property of wheelchair-ridden antiquarian Harald Waldheim and his daughter Carolin, Grün laughs at such superstition but is chicken-dared by Niklas to help stake-out the house anyway. Iggy invites himself, eager to illegally 'assist Heldt' in the case, the more worrisome as former literature professors Dr. Wilmenrod 's blood is found in the basement, and proves himself knowledgeable in street life and furniture, which is also found in the house, but fake antiques. They even see the 'white female specter', allegedly Haral's daughter Elisabeth Waldheim, who committed suicide there in 1950. Harald Waldheim has a record of harshly warding off 'disrespectful' intruders, Carolin wants it torn down. Grün, Ellen and street worker Tanja Mützner dig into Iggy's past and that of Horst, who proves more concerned for his disciple then Iggy held possible.
Wed, Apr 11, 2018
After another -discrete- romantic night in Ellen's office, Heldt is in a jolly mood. Grün wonders about it and rivals with him, so they jump each at one of two new cases, apparently unrelated. Heldt looks into local radio talk show host Toto Emmerling, who claims amnesia after beating into hospital with concussion just after his last show before moving to Costa Rica. Grün looks into the escape from jail, shortly before his scheduled release, of diamond robber Daniel Keller, whose loot was never found, and suspects he contacted his -denying- brother and presumed cahoot Achim. Heldt takes Toto's place to lure the anonymous puzzling female caller from his last show, and stumbles onto a links with the Keller case.
Wed, Apr 18, 2018
While Heldt in away for a mandatory police ITC seminar, secret lover Ellen, ITC buddy Mario and section chief Grün examine nocturnal Molotov arson in the practice of reputed plastic surgeon Dr. Jochen Seligmann and his devoted gay husband and sub-standard assistant Christoph Schober, who was jealous of fired predecessor Astrid Enders, who ended up with a better job. Botched-up patient Wolf Neuhaus has an alibi. Mario Korthals must try to go undercover as potential patient to meet regular queer customer Harald Pfeiffer, and sneakily get access to the practice computer files 'Heldt's way'. Ex-model Ellen's teen brat daughter Emily commits to teacher Carolin Stammheimer's school campaign against 'beauty obsession, which links uncomfortably with the arsonist, who isn't done yet.