In the Ostseeklinikum, where forensic pathologist Dr. Helene Sturbeck lies with a broken leg, staff section chief professor Heinrich Hellmer is murdered in an empty wing. Hellmer was the transplant specialist, accused by anonymous mail falsifying disqualifying lab results to favor certain candidates, thus robbing valid ones of the are available donor organs. Recently appointed hospital administrator Dr. Angela Fahrenholz is clueless, Dr. Reichenbach finds it hard to believe his esteemed colleague would have cheated. Helene enjoys model care form cheerful nurse Michael and semi-romantic visit from commissioner Martin Boldt, who took leave from his Hamburg police academy job, arousing implicit jealousy with hospital-allergic chief Reuther.
—KGF Vissers