Fri, Mar 24, 2006
On the way home juvenile Franziska Upholt bumps on her bike into Wilsberg and tells him her child was kept away from birth by her parents to be adopted. Wilsberg finds the adoptive parents: Gunnar and Suzanne Frau Weltenbrink, who run a construction firm. Baby Lisa is kidnapped shortly after, then Wilsberg finds Franziska staged the clash to get his help for free. Georg and Alex are arrested as presumed kidnapping cahoots. Franziska is helped by Lisa's father Sven and his ex-con brother Mathias demanding a 100 000 Euro ransom, to start anew in Australia. The police and Wilsberg mess up the ransom delivery, leaving the Weltenbrinks desperate and unable to meet the million new demand, which Wilsberg volunteers to deliver, but he finds himself knocked down besides a corpse and blamed at gunpoint.
Fri, Dec 1, 2006
Hospitalized after an accident and leg surgery, drugged Georg believes to have witnessed his night nurse being beaten up by doctor Siegbert Suhlke. *Hospital staff, Alex, Ekki and Anna dismiss his 'drug nightmare' and bug him by fuzzing about his temporarily wheelchair use. Wilsberg withdraws his reluctance to move in with Anna as he discovers her home has a view on clinic chief Suhlke while she hopes he's ready to get closer romantically. Wilsberg wheels over after observing Suhlke hiding something under his apartment floor, would have been caught without help from Ekki and Alex, and makes a new fall, landing him back in hospital, as Dr. Suhlke's patient in grave non-medical danger. Ekki meanwhile helps trace some fraudulent practices in the hospital.
Fri, Feb 16, 2007
Wilsberg is fired in favor of two goons as security agent at Miss Munsterland pageant, for covering up the intrusion of his mate and former colleague Harry Jonas, who is murdered before he can properly explain his interest in mayor Peter Horstmar's competing daughter Rebecca. Wilsberg finds her car crashed a young woman who landed in a wheelchair, whose boyfriend hired Harry to find the culprit, but her car was reported stolen. Slutty Rebecca's electorally 'inacceptable' lover and 'agent' Moritz plays a puzzling part, courting rival competitor Margo and even her mother. Munster's mayor pressures commissioner Anna Springer to curb Wilsberg during his reelection campaign. Team Georg also looks into the rivals, notably Ekki dating jealous Rebecca and/or Margo, who seem ready to any dirty trick. Yet a vindictive motive spells a new crime at the miss election.
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Sat, May 26, 2007
Georg grudgingly attends charge Alex's graduation party of her first employer's law firm, waves flirting from her 'well-connected' former college classmate Maike Lehmann and seeing her hit a car, which could coast her the bar exam, takes the blame by posing as the driver when the police arrives and drivers her home, but refuses a sexual 'bonus', after which a champagne bottle nearly misses him outside. The next day specialist police detective Michael Bach must investigate an absurd sexual abuse charge against Wilsberg, seems to sympathize and share his suspicion its' staged, but evidence seems to pile up. later Bach has to fatally shoot Maike's wealthy father Christian Lehmann, who pointed a gun at 'his daughter's rapist', but team Wilsberg suspects darker motives, such as her vindictive squander-bug mother Marlis Ossiger, who viciously blames once lover Georg for her 'meager' divorce settlement and the loss of Maike when only her father remained wealthy. Furthermore, another insanely abused ex indicates Maike has a ruthless habit, and even a convenient lover-accomplice.
Fri, Dec 26, 2008
Ekki must bunk up together after his car breaks down while he gently drags ingrate Wilsberg to his high-school's 30 years graduation jubilee, which the grump hates. Ig guest interesting when boastful classmate Bernhard is killed but his corpse disappears from the pool. Wilsberg, Ekki and commissioner Anna, who stays incognito as his wife, find out about various motives and opportunities among guests, the hosting classmate who runs the castle hotel and his disgruntled waitress Ines, who has the hots for Ekki, hence confide. The murderer strikes again, Wilsberg works out which business or personal grudges ended up lethal.
Fri, Apr 10, 2009
After the wild celebration at Wilsberg's for Alex's first successful trial, defending slick sports student, barman and playboy Manuel against jealous heirs, party guest Babette Behrendt is left badly wounded on the street, near Ekki's car, which ran over her, actually watched by her fiance Gordon, son and deputy of contractor Lennart Haller. Commissioner Springer arrests drunk Ekki, who refuses to explain, covering for an unsuspecting, equally drunk mate mate. Georg's army Afghanistan veteran acquaintance and former romantic rival Klas Teunissen only hints at Ekki's innocence, refusing to testify. Wilsberg's team discovers and links more secrets and crimes, at his own peril.
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Sun, Dec 20, 2009
On Christmas Eve, Wilsberg's gang prepares for Springer's orange duck home dinner at his home, but she lacks orange marmalade. While Ekki is bored at the tax office party,. Alex shops for a present at the jeweler when a female Santa robs it at gun point and ignores the blind man who 'sees not' how she changes is Ekki, who toyed with a blind man on the loo's cane. Ekki's adulterous boss Grabowski and his gross floozy Margot witness jeweler Friedhelm Thies being abducted in a car booth, but he tries to prevent her eagerness to testify exposing their affair. Wilsberg buys a Christmas tree and driving it he with Alex stops to prevent a desperate Santa jump to his death, later finds the abduction limousine with blood traces, which the police is reluctant to investigate. Friedhelm Thies is meanwhile tortured to reveal his valuables.
Fri, Mar 19, 2010
Private detective Georg Wilsberg is hired by Torsten Schmitt to prove his wife Elvira's adultery but finds a hit murder. Overeager to impress the police-supervising alderman's daughter, police recruit Johanna Landau, Overbeck races to a 'suspected bank robbery' only to run over a mystery man and give a PR-suicidal interview, requiring Georg to take him in as hideout for the press. Lush has-been reporter Ingo Peters is murdered shortly after announcing a major scoop but his notes seem meaningless. Prodded by his tax department supervisor Grabowski to 'kill', Elkki plans to take down the butch who stole his parking spot, and thus stumbles into the account of Heiko Kehrer's agricultural machines factory, which is involved in shady dealings attractive expert undercover attention.
Wed, Nov 24, 2010
Flirting, Ekki forgets to pay his drink at the police ball and accepts instead to give waitress Jule Köhler's date Michael Klarmann a lift home. On the lonely rural road, they stop for road-kill and are shot at- Ekki mildly wounded, Michael dead. *Wilsberg must investigate, however skeptical, to appease Ekki, who goes in hiding at Georg's, fearing to be the target. Michael's father bitterly regretted his late wife having handed the 'knave' the power to wreck the family firm. Poor hunters cooperation leader Ulf Hagen holds Klarmann abuses the hunting rights lease, bitterly enough to wish him grave harm, and lost his savings in Michael's speculative investment, which probably wrecked. Jule's dream to get out of the rat-hole and become rich with Köhler, A second murder forces the police to take Wilsberg's theories seriously, turning to a long-hidden past.
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
Hearing his foxy new girl friend Denise Schulte repeatedly about her ex Gisbert Lotze, Ekki hires Wilseberg to check them out. He suspects her a 'working girl' but rather finds she also has an affair with commissioner Overbeck. Accountant Lotze's employer's corpse is found by Alex, whose client he was. Springer must now question as suspects her assistant and best friends, in a case revolving around tax fraud, with Denise playing a dirty part at every turn (even compromising Ekki's job), yet also being played by someone from her past.
Wed, Sep 28, 2011
Mentally exhausted, Ekki anonymously seeks quiet and 'himself' in Melkwegen priory's retreat program for burnt-out executives. However Overbeck is undercover there to train four monks in military style to take charge of security for an incognito visit by German pope Benedict to take the legendary Peace Bible to Rome. Wilsberg must join the program as cover, being called in by an anonymous monk to discretely investigate the drowning in a blue dye tub of 'cellerarius' (treasurer) monk Bertram, officially reported as simple cardiac arrest. Alex was hired by contractor Stritt as the monastery never paid the solar energy system he installed three months earlier, is denied entry as female but sneaks in, bumps unto Georg and is later discovered showering by Overbeck, so they and Ecki team up. Doctoral student Angela is allowed in the library to study the precious bibles, but hides her own secrets, which proves perilous. Shortly after, friar Ansgar is murdered in a seemingly similar way. The gang gradually finds out about dire priory finances, true identities and kinship.
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
In Münster suburb Horsthausen, Thomas and Melanie Rensing's schoolboy son Max is reported missing, presumed kidnapped. Kinsman Ekki Talkötter provides a 10,000 Euro loan and gets buddy Georg Wilsberg to help deliver a ransom, but the police sabotages that and concentrates on the arrest on local pedophilia suspect Wolfgang Schwendter, believed to have avoided conviction a technicality years ago, now Alex's first major criminal client. Wilsberg smells a rat as Ekki's attempt to deliver ransom is sabotaged by his flirtatious youth neighbor and future fiancee according to his parents, Silke Sestendrup. Thomas's firm is in deep trouble, his partner plotted with him, but not to kidnap. Wilsberg investigates the mentally challenged soccer coach Nils Erdel and his rowdy brother Kevin, and the mother's adulterous affair.
Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Nils Erdel conspiracy theory 'Bielefeld doesn't exist' inspires Ekki, who seemingly can't disprove it, but is waved by Georg, even after Nils's fatal accident running into a car, but Georg's friend Manni, a Bielefeld municipal employee, and a fatal injection found in autopsy inspire Georg to twist the commissioner's arm into opening an investigation. While Nils's buddy Dominik proves a marketing vulture, murder suspect Frank Albers's past touches a woman who also gets murdered. The pictures Nils believed 'alien top-secret' really tie in with construction permits for a toxic risks plant.
Fri, Apr 6, 2012
Wilsberg's school days acquaintance Lea's adolescent son Marc Sonnenborn is missing, so she hires him to search the knave. Wilsberg finds his corpse besides the site of a drag race he engaged in with classmate Tobias, his love rival for Mina, whose love-making he couldn't handle having observed. Ekki gives a tax service recruiting lecture at the kids' Goethe school, where eh finds the brats as vicious as staff warned. They must contend with Marc's step-dad lawyer, cocky classmate Ludger & weed dealing ex-con Steffen.
Fri, Jan 25, 2013
Wilsberg investigates the disappearance of his attorney friend Alexandra 'Alex', who was tied up and gagged by the blunt murderers of her gangster client Horst Fahrenbrink. Overbeck and Springer worry mostly about the loss after attending a costume party of a luxury car belonging to a cocky criminal state detective, who also seems to team up with Wilsberg. Ekki bought cheap a pawned Inca statue and worries finding it may be one of five stolen ones. All above cases are tied together by cocaine.
Tue, Mar 5, 2013
Overbeck is undercover as 'enforcer' for extortionists extracting 'protection payments' from entrepreneurs like restaurant owner Franko. Attorney Alex's lover and colleague, suave divorce lawyer Jan Faber, may be the link between a number of crimes. A female murder victim was partner in a duo of 'fidelity testing' private eyes hired by mistrusting women, such as unaware Ekki's bossy Silke, making him her last client. Wilsberg still uncovers more dirty twists, yielding surprising alternative motives.
Fri, Aug 30, 2013
Ekki has inherited his aunt's house and field in a country village. Inspecting it, he and Wilsberg find it in a terrible state, plus the corpse of local farmer Hans Habicht, who pioneered a local bio energy plant, and was murdered. he boycotted and would would compete with village cop Heinrich Brandstetter"s son Oliver's regional employer's wind mill project. Ekki plans to donate his aunt's ruin to spinster neighbor Ulla Falkenberg, who nursed his aunt and has a crush I-on him since he spent the summer with her as a schoolboy. Next the aunt's autopsy shows she was poisoned.
Tue, Oct 15, 2013
Commissioner Anna Springer blind-dates Karsten Breiderhoff, whose brother Richard is charged with murdering his wife Anke. Her sister and stud farm-partner hired as lawyer Alex, who is robbed when she transports a cool-box with their stud farm's star stallion's precious sperm. Overbeck hopes to earn a promotion by stepping in for lately often flippantly-absent 'dating-crazy' Anna, but looks terrible when Wilsberg finds she was kidnapped, while seeking motives relating to the prize stallion's costly sperm. Ekki sexual finds a date in sexual abuse course but must brave the man-hating instructor's crush.
Tue, Jan 7, 2014
Wilsberg investigates when his godchild Alex finds her colleagues know of an Internet post of her in bed with a lover who didn't even say it as recorded, which compromises her lawyer career. It turns out to be a whole pay per view soft porn portal, all 'candid', run by a loverboy *who is found murderer 'pantless'' and his ruthless commercial partner. Wilsberg finds a link to Munster's leading plastic surgeon, whom even commissioner Springer consults hesitantly. Ekki befriends a nerdy secretary while auditing the sex portal "Diskretvision" which yields more clues and a dodgy way to solve Alex's problem.
Fri, Mar 21, 2014
*Clumsy youngsters Lukas Feldmann and Marvin Berg make a failed attempt to rob Wilsberg's antiquary library, during which Ekki manages to knock down shy Marv. When Lukas is found murdered by pushing down a bridge, Overbeck insists to haunt Wilsberg, who tracked them down, as prime suspect, who prefers to run and conduct his own parallel investigation. The knaves' lonely senior neighbor, in a wheelchair, is found dead for weeks in his apartment. Ekki takes risks to investigate suspicious irregularities in the books of investment firm manager Horst Große-Eschhaus, whose money-laundering turns out to link with both murders.
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Fri, Jan 2, 2015
Alex is ordered by the law firm boss to defend Enno Fellner, suspect of shooting Kamilla Marks, co-owner of the country estate stars restaurant Markshof, which the tour bus driver must avoid by restraining order, being released after serving a five years term for her alleged, never proven rape. Wilsberg, whom she asked as her bodyguard, believes in Enno's innocence, goes undercover in Markshof as kitchen mate under destitute cook Wolfgang 'Paco' and gets Ekki to accompany vindictive Enno on bus tours, but after initial bonding the creep snaps and new crimes are committed.
Fri, Oct 9, 2015
Overbeck risks being fired rather then promoted as he hoped, being found unconscious in his car after a K.O. drops overdose while chaperoning Kriminalrat (police chief) Landau's law-school graduating brat daughter Juliane, whose paramedic boyfriend helped ditched the naive babysitter at a nightclub, and she's missing. While Wilsberg tries to establish client Overbeck's innocence, a murder also points to him. Alex, new a law school assistant, spots an academic anomaly. The drops trace to a clever home-made designer drug network.
Fri, Nov 27, 2015
Shortly after hiring Wilsberg to prove his wife Andrea's adultery, actually with Ekki's tax office boss Grabowski, 'alternative' quack Christopher Seekatz is fatally skull-smashed at home and his corpse staged 'ritually. Ekki reports a ticking backpack, leading to z SWAT intervention and the sacking of illegally-immigrated cleaner Hasim Hemidi, whose family Ekki wants to liberate from an abusive privately-run asylum camp. Seekatz's ambition to launch his own 'cures' caused trouble. Alex's client Dr. Oliver Stegner's pharmaceutical firm expects her to 'motivate' an MP to simplify the expensive medical test procedure. It all ties together in Dr. Vermellen's subcontracting test firm, with another murder and a multiple attempt.
Fri, Jan 1, 2016
Ekki claims medical and other damages after a fall in as supermarket, but loses credibility due to falsified coupons suggesting he's an alcoholic. Snooping around at night, he stumbles upon the manager's corpse in a dumpster. Wilsberg goes undercover and has to invent a cover for Ekki as HQ inspector. Helped by an autistic son-employee, they stumble upon tax fraud and bio fowl quality fraud and serial infidelity. Overbeck's profiler course allows him to be spotted by the chief as team leader material, so Springer files for early retirement..