Wed, Feb 1, 2017
A few bone fragments in a metallic art work at Uwe Brandt's garage strike visitor Katrin Stoll, so it's disassembled and declared the murder site and weapon for the murder of Ingo Schlöttke, long missing dodgy trader in vintage GDR cars, Uwe's partner of the owner in a business that millions until the 1990 German reunion ended the monetary base. The case is the first in the special unit for senior detective Henrik Mertens, who hides his terrible wound, and his brilliant junior Benjamin Kuttner, after Mirko and Yannck jumped at a UN project in Africa. They investigate Uwe and Ingo's long-abandoned son, wheelchair-bound Ronny Schlöttke, once his doting teen runner, and his overprotective, vindictive mother Marion.
Wed, Feb 15, 2017
A corpse wrapped in a great goat wool rug was found hidden on the roof of a Berlin multiple family home. She died from a heroin OD in the 1970s. The team strongly suspects foul play, identified her, the club and the drug dealer. The motive and hence murderer however are far less obvious, whether private or drug trade-related. Mertens stubbornly soldiers on despite his disabling back condition, refusing to consider surgery.
Wed, Mar 30, 2016
When the Berlin Wall fell in Holger Bruhns, GDR border guard Holger Bruhns was beaten to death. Now a wild boar devoured the hand, wearing a Totenkopf ring (emblem of Himmler's elite), of Dennis Schmidt. His son Tobias Hagenau is blatant Neonazi, in the bunch employed by Georg Stahl's security firm, infiltrated by Holger's former police colleague Hendryk Kast.
Wed, Apr 6, 2016
Berlin state attorney Bernd Eschenbach arrests Arne Gasch for digging up the bones of his big brother Sören, whose fall from a skyscraper, officially a suicide, he claims to be a covered-up murder because the boys were attempting to smuggle film to the West showing the abusive conditions in the GDR juvenile workhouse they were confined to. The team finds proof he actually succumbed from a knife fight and looks into the knaves conspiring bunch as well as former Stasi captain Detlef Wolf.
Wed, Feb 22, 2017
A corpse in a car is identified as an investigative reporter who went missing during the nuclear fallout panic after the 1986 Chernobyl power plant explosion. His last case was the groceries firm of Reiner Berg, but the team also suspects ruthless methods within his newspaper, involving the present editor in chief and the photographer he made travel incognito all the way from Ukraine to prove the fraud with provenance of food fro the Berlin market.
Wed, Feb 10, 2016
A male corpse dragged out of Berlin's river Spree, mysteriously contains a female's DNA. She disappeared years ago after a wild nightclub party. He's identified as jeweler Serge Repin's son Igor, who received a life-saving bone marrow transplant from her, which exceptionally kept her DNA. But the operation was highly irregular, as turns out because the donor was blackmailing the patient's father. She ran away from her devout Catholic father Andreas Huber, who immigrated from the rich West. Meanwhile Mirko starts teaching his workaholic lover Katrin to respect their collaborators' normality, including Jannik's dream shaped in a culinary video blog.