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.
Wed, Jan 22, 2020
Nikolas Heldt stops at night in the forest at the car of shocked Antonia Lange, who is convinced she hit someone, but no victim is to be found, only in a nearby wood, in bathing robe, locally TV-famous 'bath tub king' Erwin König, with a fatal head wound and evidence of another crash, no shooting. König's daughter-employee Stephanie remains icy. Recently fired mechanic Ralf Klose hated the choleric despotic ego-tripper but has a crush on Stephanie. Heldt sleeps at Antonia's who suspects a stalker, notices Klose lurking around at night, and later catches a surprise visitor. Lacking solid proof, Heldt gets rue stickler Mario Korthals to trick Klose and thus discovers entirely different crimes, yielding new motives and suspects. Autopsy shows the victim died in salted water.
Wed, Feb 1, 2017
After informant Anne Lerch was shot at home, commissioner Nikolas Heldt only hears her puzzling dying last word (later found squirrel in Spanish) and is kidnapped himself, chained in a decommissioned swimming pool, but still as determined to find out about 'the lawyer' who ordered his parents' murder, with due suspicion. Interior minister Uwe Herbst shows great interest and promises state attorney Bannenberg a promotion. Even chief commissioner Grün agrees to bend the rules when Achmed comes up with a way to clone Heldt's cellphone, allowing Karl-Heinz "Carlo" Funke track Nikolas down, in time for truth time, which he has to add the last puzzle piece to.
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.
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, Oct 25, 2017
As the team is after a robbers scam which cleans out homes of wedding couples while they are in the town hall registrar ceremony, no doubt tipped off from there, Heldt goes undercover as the groom with beat cop bride Angela Mertens, who seeks to redeem herself back to field work but needs an appendectomy the night before each time, so Ellen must take her place as his bride. The conspirators are found and a confession obtained against from registrar Claudia Meisner against double-unfaithful married lover René Schwartz, but there's a bloody ending, until Heldt wakes up from the nightmare back at his bachelor party in Carlo's pub. Then the whole day starts over, despite him remembering no significant changes seem possible, hence the whole cycle starts over again almost as a time loop, or an excessive déja-vu.
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, Sep 27, 2017
Trying to raise cash by garage sale on Carlo's pub doorstep to buy a rare comic, Heldt is shocked to be turned down as some of the cash is counterfeit, probably part of a large scale problem in Bochum and the region, even over several states in Germany. *State attorney and lover Bannenberg depresses him by announcing, unilaterally, she accepted a promoted with move to Passau in Bavaria. He remembers having go a fake note from silver spoon schoolboy Alexander Nehrsbach, who points at his denying arts teacher, would be-artist Hanno Schultz, who is deep in debt. Mario Korthals works out the exceptionally professional paper comes from Alexander's father's mill. Observing the knave leads to pub keeper Doris Kloppke, Mario's former flame and aunt-guardian of Alexander's near-orphan buddy Dennis. Schultz disappears and everyone is most edgy until Heldt ties everything together.
Wed, Dec 20, 2017
Shortly in succession, four female lawyers report being the sleeping victim of a nocturnal visitor who marked their bellies 'I was here' while they were drugged but performed no sexual acts. Heldt worries Ellen may be next and initially looks into the first three's cleaned-out ex-husbands, who became friends. The fourth case is falsely confessed by the ex-con who may well have been framed the earlier time his victim claimed rape. After a wild night with Grün, whose wife jealously threw him out fearing his midlife crisis meant he seeks sexual variation, Heldt wakes up naked in a wheelbarrow by the precinct. Links are found to a yoga gym and between the 'abused' women.