Wed, Sep 25, 2019
At the Blauregenweg garden party, popular hedonist Olaf Liebermann is poisoned but not fatally by snail pesticide in his beer, his wife suspects an earlier ladder accident wad none either. Heldt moves in as patent lawyer Nikolas Richter in mentally unstable neighbor Franziska Lagura's roof quarter while her investment banker husband Frieder is constantly in London. Heldt's soccer fan club "Never steig ab" mate, local midwife Claudia Liebermann, also reports a sabotaged lawn-mower. The yuppies who succeeded regular residents are extremely competitive fashionista health freaks. Foxy control freak Jule Kuchenbecker is married to dentist Jens. Single Sophie Wilkens distributes vanilla sugar from her pharmaceutical R&D lab, as to Franziska and Olaf. The fiend strikes again.
Wed, Oct 9, 2019
An ominous morning call warns Heldt his day won't be easy. Next, anonymous "Simon" blackmails his boss Grün for 7 million euro ransom and keeping Heldt blindly in line for eight hours, having kidnapped and bomb-taped Grün's wife Barbara. The only one who may help them to such fortune is Nikolas's biological father, jailed ex-interior minister Uwe Herbst, whose secret bank accounts were never confiscated by EOKS agent Henrik Stein. Heldt visits Uwe Herbst in jail and must accept his condition: a meeting with Nikolas's half-sister Chloé Maibaum. As feared, even secret protection from Ahmed and Mario can't prevent a major mishap.
Wed, Oct 23, 2019
Heldt flees Ellen's balcony half-naked to avoid her daughter Emily discovering them, as their affair is grounds for a forced transfer. Heldt nearly runs into cycling schoolboy Konstantin Hillesheim, whose bike breaks are found by Dr. Holle to be sabotaged, first nor last 'accident' befalling the gentle nerd. Konstantin rivals straight AAs-classmate Leonie Meinerzhagen, or rather there impossibly ambitious helicopter parents, Yvonne Hillesheim and Gero Meinerzhagen, for a spot in the most prestigious private school. Yvonne even made Konstantin falsely accuse his gym teacher Miroslav Wosch for 'abuse', who got suspended, just because he gave poor grades. Konstantin is hospitalized, poisoned in the school mess, which the corrupt principal Dr. Brigitte Niemöller personally supervises, bribed by Gero Meinerzhagen. Yet Heldt comes up with healthy childish motive.
Wed, Oct 30, 2019
The Bochumer precinct ICT is taken hostage by a hacker, who threatens to reveal sensitive files, so cyber crime specialists Sanjay Kapoor and Björn Seibert from Düsseldorf takes charge from station administrator Ulf Becker, who already ordered IT lock-down. Heldt was the one who naively opened a trap attachment. Mario Korthals is nearly badly wounded next morning in the archive when a fire bomb destroys a file folder, Hole's new forensic assistant Linda Montgomery can pull him out just in time, but is also an obvious subject. Ulf Becker is shot-wounded while the backup server is stolen, so Grün enforces a physical lock-down with the culprit inside. Heldt sets elaborate traps to find and for plausible hackers, organizing a breakout helped by cab buddy Achmed.
Wed, Nov 6, 2019
After an alleged boogieman attack in the forest, the team realizes Bochum suffers a wave of crimes allegedly involving mythical creatures from local Ruhr folklore. Grun refuses even to think along such ridiculous lines, but Mario Korthals loves checking up on such fairy-tales. Heldt consults the authority, retired Prof. Erik Thalberg, who runs the folklore museum, but also discovers its late benefactor, an industrial tycoon, also funded a more naive society of 'saga hunters', whose president, to be determined by 'fitting competition', basically gets access to his entire fortune. The team now tests and tricks the contenders.
Wed, Nov 13, 2019
Heldt is excited when the arrival of a new drug type from Vienna occasions the detachment on such case of his Austrian kindred hero, major S. Mayerhofer. Alas, the reputed maverick police detective they pick up at the airport turns out a gentleman to captain Grün's classical taste. Worse, the hunt for Oliver Dominic's drug mob keeps going pear-shaped, until both men realize after a confrontation with the Viennese original Kafkaian red-tape how they're being sabotaged and welcome a fir rescuer.
Wed, Nov 20, 2019
At the backyard of exclusive deli "Jacobi", Tobias Brandt incurs a serious neck wound when attacked while raiding the dumpster with his college girlfriend, art student Rike Neumann, who uses the (wrongly dismissed' foot for protest collages. His life-threatening organ failure then next day can't result from the blow, nor food poisoning, but someone injected poison into chocolates. Team Heldt fear a fatal trap. Rike mentions their aggressor wore a pirate suit, fitting Tobi's social media enemy Uwe Zeckowski, who also raids dumpsters but only to eat being a working poor. Deli clients Ellen Bannenberg and Detlev Grün find fancy owner Maike Jacobi excessive protective of her waste products. Heldt thinks of another possibility and sets a clever trap.
Wed, Nov 27, 2019
Heldt awakens in a huge, private "prepper" bunker, while his colleagues and state attorney-lover Ellen Bannenberg frantically worry where he went. He had checked up on a list of inconspicuous citizens in a case of illegally acquiring military grade weapons, presumably for Neo-Nazis. Educator Harry Meyer picked up a shipment, but Heldt realizes he only stood in for his sick neighbor, Armin Raschke, whom he found practicing survival skills in the wood but was knocked out by. Heldt is 'recruited' for deluded Raschke's nuclear winter practice, with his estranged wife Bettina Wendt and nerdy Marius Dahl. Manfred Neuhaus's fingerprints on illegal arms import from Poland put the team on the trail of his extreme right wing movement. Heldt must deal with Armin Raschke, the only one who knows the entry code, helped by Bettina but jealously detested by Marius Dahl, who turns on the cop who takes his place as Armin's confident.
Wed, Dec 11, 2019
An anonymous call announces a car booth bomb at Bochum precinct. Heldt spots and stop just in time the suspect car and presumed perpetrator, chemist Derja Afridi, an Afghan Taliban-widowed refugee employed by paint firm Kraft Farben. It's a fake, possibly a ploy to shut up Derja, whose uncooperative supervisor Luca Wollenhagen and devoted management secretary Luise Krugkamp consider her a threat to the company reputation as toxic product whistle blower. Heldt poses as dirty cab form owner to dubious local reporter Thorsten Geilandt and illegally uses Achmed's hacker talent. State attorney Ellen, already uneasy about their illicit affair, turns on Niklas, who grills the family management.
Wed, Dec 18, 2019
Achmed's girl Carlotta's car was joyridden during car-sharing and returned by missing-reported teen Melanie Brahms. Alas, confrontation with her mother Judith shows Melanie's identity was stolen by minor car thief Lucy Kolenda, using an app on Melanie's smartphone which she 'found' in a ruin and acts as if she only rebelled to work-absorbed single father Markus Kolenda, understandable to single mother state attorney Ellen Bannenberg. Heldt, Grün and Mario find the whole story an elaborate hoax, enabling to be released. A pawn shop security video links them to Melanie Brahms as accomplice to various scams in Bochum.