A confused woman reports to the police. She was allegedly drugged in a club and then raped. Even her best friend, who was partying with the victim that evening, doesn't seem to be able to provide any information about the crime.
The young musician Gesine Bentheim was shot dead in the Jewish cemetery. Her companion Jacob Silberstein, a Holocaust survivor, has to be hospitalized with injuries. It quickly becomes clear that the fatal shot was actually aimed at him.
The severed head of a young girl is found on the banks of the Elster. When Tom recognizes the dead woman, he blames himself. A few days earlier, his friend Tanja Hamann had asked him to help find her daughter Lucy.
Dr. Plate, a doctor in a psychiatric institution, was murdered. The perpetrators can only be carers or patients. The suspect is the former soldier Karl Henschel, who painted pictures showing the doctor cruelly mutilated.
An old aircraft bomb is found in a forest near Leipzig and the corpse of a young woman right next to it. It turns out that this very woman had been autopsied a few days earlier by Prof. Rossi and a group of students.
The father of the family, Roman Benkelmann, was attacked and killed in front of his house. Because the victim's expensive SUV was stolen, the inspectors initially assume it was a robbery and murder.
An emergency call to the police at night is the last sign of life from 21-year-old Mona Kraft. Shortly thereafter, her cell phone is found in a park. There is no trace of her herself.
The body of Georg Zander, a convicted garbage thief, is found in a container at the Pelzow couple's recycling depot. Michael Koch was in charge of supervision and only took his eyes off the containers for a lunch break.
In an exclusive retirement home in Leipzig, 93-year-old Moritz Sand is given the wrong pills, and he dies as a result. His premature death is just as convenient for his daughter Inge Schmidt and for the director of the home, Lukas Franzen.
Shock for Leni Maybach: early in the morning she finds her boss Henning Grothe dead in the backyard of the newspaper office. It quickly becomes clear that someone pushed the editor-in-chief off the roof terrace.
A customer is shot dead during an armed robbery at a renowned auction house. The masked perpetrators escape with several valuable porcelain figurines. It turns out that Hajo knows the owners of the action house from an earlier case.
Jan and Ina witness Michael Kürten beating up his girlfriend on the street. After a wild chase, Ina is able to confront him. But he doesn't make it easy for her. She has to be tough to arrest him. A short time later Michael dies.
Hajo and his team are called to a grisly crime scene. In a cemetery, a man was murdered by countless stab wounds. On their way to find a suspect, investigators Jan Maybach and Tom Kowalski burst straight into an exorcism.
Roberto Damiani, the acclaimed author of a factual novel about the Italian mafia, is in grave danger. Constant death threats make everyday life hell for him. In an attack in the hotel room, not he but his brother is killed.
The body of 22-year-old Lukas Schneider is found in an alley near a Leipzig student club. The odd thing: the victim is wearing a green morphsuit, as are some of the other guests who were at the party.
Olivia is very worried about her friend Aynin from Bangladesh, who disappeared after a night of partying in Leipzig. At the same time, investigators were called to the Benzel Textil company. One of the two bosses died in a fire.
A witness observed Daniel Rohrbach near the body of Mandy Krömer. The social worker fell victim to a sex murder in the park of a facility for the disabled. Everything points to Daniel Rohrbach, who suffers from intellectual disability.
The past catches up with Hajo Trautzschke. 25 years after Sebastian Böger's disappearance on the sidelines of the Monday demonstrations, the missing person appears at his own funeral service. They just had him pronounced dead.
Mila, Benni's new girlfriend, asks Jan Maybach to pick her up from a concert in the Leipzig area. But the trip back to Leipzig takes a fateful turn: Jan and Mila get into the nightmare of being taken hostage.
The body of 35-year-old jewelry dealer Inga Uhland is found in a forest near Leipzig. She was robbed and strangled with a wire noose. Apparently her husband Oliver was also in the car. But there is no trace of him.
A serial killer is targeting young blonde women. A woman has been missing for several days. His next victim manages to escape the perpetrator at the last moment and, in shock, only vaguely describes the area to which she was taken.
The Leipzig investigators are called to a car accident. The occupant of the car, Sandra Völkers, is on drugs. She is unharmed, but there is someone else's blood on her clothes. Ina Zimmermann and Jan Maybach are alarmed.
The CEO of a pharmaceutical company is found murdered in his hunting ground. His son and sole heir Simon Bölling makes no secret of hating him. As an anti-globalization activist, he despises his father's profit-oriented advancement.