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- Mattes and Melanie serve the young, activist artists group "Wilde 13" an order to stop squatting within 24 hours. They find in the cellar down the stairs badly wounded the collective's benefactor Jupp Kohler, who was pushed and injured his spine critically. He cooled down so badly, he must have been left ere a long time. A disguised man manages to escape from the scene in mattes' presence. Jupp keeps claiming it was an accident, no attack, but leaves the ER suddenly and without a trace after a visit from his alleged teen daughter, squatter Lilly Bach, risking a permanent or even fatal spine collapse. Jupp's past and illegitimate progeny prove key to the case.
- Fear for Emma.
- A video going regionally viral on Internet showing Mattes manhandling a juvenile thief is bound to see him suspended pending or during an AI investigation, which may compromise his entire career. Forensic medical expert Dr. David Lindberg declares to recognize the abused youth as the burglar thug who, while escaping, committed a hut and run landing doc in a wheelchair for life. Mattes promises Lindberg an informal investigation, but finds with the team Juri Danilow is 'only' a petty street gang thief who didn't cripple Lindberg, so the must lean on him and his mate to turn on the abusive gang boss.
- After Hans takes recently returned Africa NGO worker Malte Lampert to the precinct to instill the validity of a court order banning him to approach his wife Karen Jensen and now 17 year-old son Till, only Tariq shows pity, but must send him off for a clumsy bribery attempt. Desperate, Malte takes Tariq, who gets wounded at the head, his partner and captain Uwe Bachmann of a port tour boat hostages with a single demand: phone contact with Till. Hans finds the knave, who is a petty drug pusher and unwilling to cooperate, which changes only when he learns his mother lied Malte never showed interest in him while working in Africa, which his health disabled.
- After anonymous threats, which Mattes and Melanie came investigate routinely, haughty theater director Jens Harting falls badly, not fatally, before their eyes through a stage trap. Suspects are the Romeo and Julia cast, especially the leads Timo Knof and Anna Liska, and stage crew, including prompter Kupfer. Wolle is in annual murder mood during spring cleaning, snapping at Tarik and Claudia.
- Tax adviser Michael Otterberg is mugged while driving with his lover Katja Sorensen in his luxury car, which is stolen and seems his main concern. Tariq discovers there was a small wave of such thefts, apparently linked by a 'geo-caching' (treasure hunt with geo-navigation) site and sets out tracking down the game clues-riddled trail, looking for crime clues.
- Mattes and Melanie respond to robbery alert in fish snack bar "Kallis Kutterklause" which was vandalized and robbed of all seafood. Yet owner Kalli is more secretive then cooperative, being a dodgy petty criminal himself. The sandwich they bring from there to hungry Tariq makes him ill, as turns out due to fish from a batch Kalli stolen from a fishy monger, which also contained smuggled medication. That trails to Dr. Jasmin Jonas's colleague Dr. Evgenji Pawlow, who discretely treats patients without Insurance, and ultimately his supplier Waldemar Rebel, a big fish.
- On dreaded stickler Wolf Haller's first day as the new precinct 21 commander, he's blackmailed byTheo Mendes, who was just released after serving 25 years, maintaining his innocence. Theo burnt a car to render credible his claim he'll murder a kidnapped innocent unless the real murderer turns himself in that day, holding Haller responsible -besides parties meanwhile deceased- for his conviction and lost life. The dynamic, demanding new chief makes a good impression on Tariq, a bad on the ER doc team and was in academy with Claudia.
- Hans cautiously and Franzi glowingly testifying in favor of troubled youth rehab program charge Zlatko Tesic who is about to be tried for robbery with injury of Maria Büttner, the girl friend of Kevin Assmann, bitter crime rival of the Tesic family, only her absence causes a delay. *. Tarik and Claudia find and hospitalize Maria just in time to prevent a toxic cocktail suicide attempt succeeding. Working out her motivation changes everything.
- Mattes is all but amused when national action movie star Tim Schneider, a womanizer even he can't compete with as if that would stop either macho, is assigned to accompany him and Melanie on a badly pre-picked patrol day. Hamburg is exceptionally hectic as the triathlon and Schlagermove music festival parade coincide with ecological activists attempting to block atomic fuel and waste shipping, where Tariq is all but amused finding his babysitting sister Kayra Coban dragged his three year-old son Lucas to a stand-off at the docks. Captain Haller has a hard time dismissing Schneider's terror and conspiracy theories after the star uses his fame to coax the activists without bad press, and a gun is found.
- Hamburg private management college student Nils Kosta is deeply concerned when his pregnant peer girl friend Nadine Krüger collapses during an exam. He swears after her miscarriage, the endurance drug causing it, found in her blood, was against her nature. The lawyer-headhunter who got her a prized Asian bank job in Frankfort reports abuse by Nils, but.the drugs are linked to fellow student Frauke Prinz.
- While the precinct guards a building to be torn down, explosives supervisor Lutger Dörr secretly carries out his own criminal plans. *By the time Mattes semi-accidentally finds out he lost his license and slipped in after eliminating colleague Hagen, Tarik is stuck inside with a high pregnant woman and a female colleague, while another became the suicidal ex-fireman's infuriating hostage, and he demands to see his bitch ex who caused his dismissal.
- Hans and Franzi respond to a routine alert from the Miniature-city where person unknown sneaked in at night for subtle changes to one scene, showing Mattes and Melanie executing an intervention taking place the next morning, rescuing from assault a businessman who sneaks off and actually paid his assailant, an ex-con who can't identify him. A further miniature counterfeit shows Melanie and Mattes, even the car vandalism by painted red heart which they incur soon after. Hans and Mattes come to realize very late it's all part of the fake c-victim's obsession with Melanie, who dumped him within minutes on their first actual date despite a perfect online dating profile.
- Maja Vogel, a 16 year old transgender girl, is reported missing by her parents after not returning home from a party.
- Prime suspect, with record, in a Wilhelmsburg clock shop robbery is Thomas Steiger, Kris Freiberg's estranged school-mate and protector, believed reformed after a gang period. Steiger is philanthropically employed by sick old Bernd Vogt with equally suspected Vera Niemann. Shop owners Martin and Beate Brümmer's marriage was rocky until he finally fathered their baby, and adultery ended. Kris must also work out if fellow newcomer Pinar is reliable by working out her rapport with her arrested mob brother.
- Family father Achim Kessler is hospitalized, badly stabbed in the gut, reporting he tried to break up two teens attacking a younger boy. The knave suspects Jens Schulz and Hakan Bulut are arrested, but convincingly confess only to minor, non-violent crimes, and no kid victim is found. Achim's firstborn Roman found them first, attacked with a baseball bat and was overpowered, bruised before Peter Leitl arrived to rescue him. Gently questioning kid son Jakob reveals Achim beats the boys' mother, who confesses as soon as Achim admits there was no threatened boy, the team suspects she's covering too. Meanwhile Wolle looses a parrot he was minding and the precinct prepares a surprise goodbye gift as it's Leitl's last day there.
- The precinct is eager to meet the new cop, succeeding Kai, who emigrated to Canada. Melanie hoped for a veteran partner but gets handsome academy graduated rookie Mattes Seeler, to work in. He proves a natural during their first case. Alexa Marschewski was mugged and raped on plane day. Prime suspect Fischer seems to have a perfect alibi and slips away from ER under Mattes' eyes, but the rookie guesses what unusual accomplice enabled that and works on him subtly.
- Law professor Jens Liebermann is taken to ER, no serious diagnose, after collapsing on campus during his jogging in front of a hanged effigy of himself. He claims it's a mere, yet unacceptable prank and hints at three wayward students, Lars Hansen (kin of detective Melanie), fanatical prankster Erik Bruckner and the latter's girlfriend and roommate Pia Rafalczyk, who spread the unsubstantiated rumor that Liebermann blackmailed her for sex. Team Mattes also looks into the strange reactions of the equally uncooperative professor's ambitious teaching assistant Cruschmann.
- Police chief Martin Berger opposes brat daughter Lena (16) attending a party with her Turkish new boyfriend, 'insurance apprentice' Kumsal, whose picture on a police record Martin assumes to prove he's a professional lover-boy, but the identification is disputable and the girl sticks to him. While Henning discovers an unlicensed brothel, a scattering juvenile harlot Nadine falls badly. House owner Henning claims it's run by an elusive Turkish tenant Tarik Alpay, whose mob may employ the lover-boy.
- Hamburg mayoral candidate Harald Brodersen's home is the latest to be wrecked, during a party his brat daughter Scarlett gave in his absence, by a ape-masked bunch which struck repeatedly the last months, but this time Scarlett's best friend Bianca was pushed down a staircase, needing hospitalization. Tarik and Hans first suspect Fred Schirmer, a known anti-establishment vandal but get suspicious when Harald Brodersen, who claims nothing was stole from his broken-up desk, turns uncooperative and publicity-shy. He's on good terms with captain Wolf Haller but is also suspected of corruption. Then Scarlet is kidnapped.
- Torben Manstein, who moved back in with his psychiatrist mother Gertrud, is shortly arrested by Mattes and Melanie as his mean divorced wife Ariane Petri called the police for 'custody breach' when he demands to shortly speak at her home their five year-old daughter Lucie, who misses him. Ariane is shortly after hospitalized, unconscious with a dubious medicinal cocktail including Benzodiazepin and claims it's a setup by Torben, who finally obtains temporary custody by court order. Lucie can't handle the strife and runs away and Mattes finds the real drug monger.
- Introducing at night a railway building to spray graffiti, Lukas Sonntag falls from a ladder and incurs a dangerous electric shock, but is saved in ER. Mattes and Melanie find the secret codes of graffiti imply artist rivalry as possible motive, after convincing Lukas' leg-plastered buddy Philipp Peters, who stood guard but noticed no culprit, explains and even helps set a trap. It proves dangerous, also for Hans, who objected to experienced but out of practice Wolle as partner, yet he saves gas-poisoned Hans thanks to though research. Mattes finds last-minute that Lukas's bluntly neglectful selfish mother Esther and haughty girl friend Ava Schulte are the root cause of a tragic, devious plan coming to a fatal climax.
- Tarik learns hat his partner co-coaches a program to rehabilitate former prostitutes when she recognizes former charge Marina Petrowa, who was beaten into hospital wearing a fake cop uniform, actually dumped with the trash to die. *She worked in the illegal escort-service run by Russian Galina Sorokina, an emigrated survivor of the Siberian clan Urki, eradicated in Russia under Putin, known for its pathological Ortodox piety mixed with sadistic cruelty. With Wolle researching the Urki and Mates joining the field research, they concentrate on escort Tatjana Nikiforowa and her ambitious 'driver-protector' and lover Boris Memedow, who has his own dangerous plans.
- During an anarchist demonstration on St. Pauli square against a luxury apartments project on a therefore re-qualified trailer park, punker Kaczinski's head is badly hurt, in need of ER treatment, his sister Ira leads a headless protest which turns brutally against the police, taking Franzi hostage with Leo Schuster, whom she pursued, in their squatted building, which 'spokesman' Sebastian Voigt painstakingly got regularized recently. The plot twists as several secret agendas are revealed. Mattes or Melanie is up for internal promotion.
- While Melanie jogs, her clueless mother Marlies Hansen catches an intruder at home and is abducted by him. He demands the return of his laptop as ransom. The team works out it's a case of mistaken identity trough a website, where Mel deleted her profile, the kidnapper mistakes her for a predatory prostitute who drugs and robs clients with an accomplice. Mattes serves as lure to trap them.
- Tarik and Claudia are assigned the new host patrol for action movie star Tim Schneider, who eagerly offers his expertise and research resources in the next case: preacher Beate Winter's husband's tomb was desecrated for a satanic ritual, which matches a macabre display found by Matte and may be the initiation prelude to worse. Beate points at unruly Goth former catechism charge Olaf Franzen, who has a gore past, yet denies, but whose gentle, doting brother Daniel is Beate's daughter Anne's classmate and boyfriend. Tim Schneider's analysis of the ritual symbols suggests a satanic wedding, to a virgin exactly like Anna, who goes missing.
- Called for a petty shop robbery alarm, Mattes and Melanie face an armed youngster, whom she must shoot in the shoulder as he refuses to put down his revolver. Seeing a video of the incident posted on Internet, the team rightly suspects teen perpetrator Ansgar Trautner, planned being shot and hospitalized. There are soon indications he has a female accomplice, probably his lover, who proves worse. Melanie's psychiatrists ex works his magic on Ansgar to get vital information.
- Kai Norden visits his dementing mother Martha in the rest home, far from enthusiastic about her suddenly revived old dream to visit Canada, which would require him accompanying her overseas. Several residents are pressing staff to investigate the disappearance of various a-items and some cash from their rooms. Asked as a cop, he calls in the team to look fro a thief. Suspects include the residents, among which only Martha isn't ruled out, and staff, from whom only last-recruited nurse Matthias Rehmert is suspended as easy scapegoat. Kai keeps searching and picks up accidental clues from his mother, whom Dr. Jasmin Jonas assures can still make her dream voyage if accompanied.
- Claudia's son Max eagerly starts his police internship in the precinct, alas with only tame old Wolle as mentor, but proves himself a fine researcher. The daily cash receipts of Lars List and fiancee Iris Schwan's trendy restaurant were stolen at night without apparent lock forcing, so the trusted staff, who all have keys, are suspects, firstly Lars's ex Maja Urbancic, whose was found on site and suggests jealous Iris set her up. Tariq finds Maya's wheelchair-bound teen son Kristof, who was injured in traffic accident, carrying an even larger cash sum. .
- The hospitalized apparent driver of a crashed car sneaks out, having used a false name. The police soon suspects its' Bernd Kowalski, who just robbed a jeweler, the loot being missing. A mysterious note makes them search and find teen Leon Badura, whose ex-con father Peter seems reformed but may be the accomplice. Leon lets Bernd in as fake pest controller and bonds with the studly thug, whom he begs for a loan to pay off school bully Hendrik. Bernd sends Peter a selfie holding a gun behind Leon, who soon finds that and takes it to his extortionist.
- Ambulance Dr. Philipp Haase is out of whack, incurring another minor injury and unwilling to get standard treatment from hospital's ER chief. He advises hypochondriac patient Heinz Heuer, who wrongly believes to have terminal cancer, a psychosomatic clinic, in vain. Heinz is wrongly presumed to be the Internet soulmate -using pseudonyms- of cow farm girl Mäggy, who came to the city fearing he's suicidal.
- Hans celebrates his impending promotion with pay rise first in the precinct, then with his daughter Nelly, insisting to finance her studies, so she resigns her waitress job. Walking home after a celebratory dinner, they are attacked by two young men, when of which grabs panicking and Nelly. Overprotective, tipsy Hans not only scares away the assailant, but beats his mate, who tried only to drag them apart, unconscious into hospital. Hans's colleagues start both a search for the other youngster and a formal investigation of his conduct, which looks nasty after Nelly's former boss's accidental witness observations describe him disproportionately violent. The victim, Jannik Lennarz, is a promising football (soccer) player and seems to have lasting breathing trouble. Nelly's mother Marion hails 'hero' Hans, the girls accidentally spots and follows the escaped thug, which gets her into acute problems, but Tariq steps in timely to save her and Hans, who ignored his suspension to go after mug shot-identified Marcel Greifswald, from themselves.
- On his way to precinct duty, Wolle pursues an accidentally observed petty but violent ATM client robber but gts stuck with him in an elevator. The colleagues frantically search for him and equally missing, high-pregnant Ariane Junker, locked in with the duo. While Ole Karch snatches Wolle's duty weapon, Ariane gets contractions. The elevator is not supervised, as the building is locked down for a holiday.
- After the mass car crash in Hamburg port, several victims are unconscious and/or unidentified in hospital, so the team must help complete the list and clarify who caused it, which the couple is desperate to prevent, with her in ER. Matt's mother Dörte Seeler cares for baby boy Benny, whose presumed mother is Anna Bülow, as the wwoman in whose car it was found, maintains in hospital hers wasn't there, as turns out a case of illegal host mother contract. Hans finds missing von Loewenstein left in an SM dungeon.
- Notoriously wayward Schiller gymnasium (high school) pupil René Marwort, who rebels against his overbearing parents, files an abuse complaint against his old-school math teacher who ear-boxed for insolence and class vandalism, but nobody believes Udo Ahlmann is responsible for his black-eye, as René maintains. Shortly after, the knave is hospitalized after a bad fall on his motorcycle, the breaks being tampered with, and again René improbably accuses the teacher. René's ex-girl fears, dumping him aiming for his best classmate Ruben Sievers turned René suicidal. Ruben however never committed to her. Some school vandal painted 'R+J' in a heart at school. A note in René's motorcycle "I blow your cover" inspires alternative motive theories, involving unconventionally concerned language teacher Jette Lürsen. The precinct meanwhile buzzes about Tarik resolving to offer an heirloom wedding ring to Pauline, the mother of his newborn son whom he barely knows.
- Olivia Sanchez witnesses the street mugging of an old man she knows as informal housekeeper, rushes to see he'll be alright as an ambulance is called and rushes off, being an illegal immigrant. Tarik rushes after her, just in time to chase away the mugger, whom she can identify, or rather to see that was already done by friendly passer-by Adrian Halt, who wins her trust, apparently shyly after a mere coffee date. Tarik realizes Olivia pretending the culprit isn't in a line-up, guessing like Adrian she's not from Spain as she claims but South American, Wolle's holiday Spanish course suffices to help Mattes to track down a trace to her Ecuadorian home, where her Hamburg address is known, near the mugging site. Olivia ignores the danger she's in, and not just from the mugger.
- Returning from a Mexican holiday, Alex Bischoff (25) collapses on the street, causing his cabby to crash, fails to crawl away. Mattes and Melanie take him to ER, where he checks out despite dangerous intestinal congestion, before the x-ray reveals he must have swallowed drugs in dozens of condoms . Alex' Freundin Jenny rushes him to her home, worried less for his health then what the dealers might do if they can't deliver the cocaine, she even receives her thug cahoot Bruno to force it out. Mattes searches smartly and finds them semi-accidentally.
- Teenager Denny Kovacz is beaten up by a street gang, until a masked man in 'Superhero' costume comes to his rescue, gets knife-stabbed by chases the scum and flees, technically a wanted assailant himself. The unsavory scene is posted on Internet. *Hospitalized teen thug Boris 'Bärchen' ('bear cub') nor Denny are prepared to identify anyone else, obeying to the derelict neighborhood's code of silence, which in Denny's case is soon recalled in cruel and demeaning ways . Mates, Tariq, Hans and their partners get little cooperation of the field, even worse, except from disheartened street worker Harald Ihlenburg, and valuable research from Wolle,, also pointing them to local journalist Sebastian Reckziegel, who runs the super-hero's 'fan site' but maintains it's impartial and necessary in the authorities-neglected context. He's the next to get beaten up, at home, but macho gang-leader Sven Ehring isn't done.
- Pro photographer Lasse Marquardt, who shot Melanie as poster girl for a police recruitment campaign, is badly beaten into hospital in an apparent robbery. Pre-teen son Max, due for a custody turn in Hamburg, was turned against him by his divorced mother, citing backlog financial support. Lasse was bothered by a disgruntled firm client and go tin financial trouble due to clients failing to pay. He also was shifty during Melanie's shoot, maybe weary of a loan shark. As his studio was ransacked, the team speculates he may have stumbled upon and shot something compromising, now missing, found with unfaithful celebrity Mark Wenske, who was blackmailed.
- A local prep school's rowing team is worried about the atypical non-show at training of their straight AAs-champion *Als der Eliteschüler Viktor, who is brought to ER, collapsed after a bloody beating, luckily without lasting damage. Finding a fake gun and robbery mask in his sports bag, Tarik suspects he entered the drug trade -perhaps like Mirko who was recently beaten up the same way by drug lord Drazan Kostic- to keep up with his wealthy schoolmates' lifestyle. Viktor's overqualified, hard-working ex-GDR father Eugen Bossmann couldn't afford to grant Viktor a decent allowance but can't believe his pride and joy entered crime. The knave's room suggests a far more lucrative income then his waiter job, which nobody knows anything about. His teammates Fabian Frenz, Sinje and coach Uwe Kästner , her father, a tight clique, clearly hide something, and Viktor's computer contains the key: a porn website.
- Station captain Wolf Haller has a nightmare evening after a swell opera visit: on the way home his wife Sybille, who insisted to drive, confesses she 'met another man' and is badly hurt as a big black of wood is swung to the car window from a bridge. Both wake up in hospital but Sybille remains comatose for days, and prefers to see her new admirer, a Kiel professor with Turkish roots. Although officially on sick leave, Haller wants charge rather then Melanie, whom he ends up scolding a career vulture. He focuses on family man Sven Dörner, who reports, after fake social media posts Haller knows to be a legally safe trap, admits he touched the log but swears not to have thrown it. Drop out-knave Lennart Grolmann is pinpointed having been on site at the time, but denies and gets a probably false alibi from his protective elder brother Pascal. Haller's obsession with Donner meanwhile gets out of control.
- Without saying anything to her father, Kira Sharif takes part in a controversial environmental campaign. Shortly thereafter, she disappeared without a trace.
- Justin Hertels is brought to ER, electrocuted in his bedroom, allegedly knocked out by a robber. Mattes and Melanie doubt it, as a neighbor reports Hertel's daughter Sina (11) fled the home. Sina's Bulgarian mother Elena is missing, the running brat found by Hans and Franzi and checked out for mild abrasions while Sina's class teacher Amira Samimi helps see clear the family got into trouble as Justin was semi-disabled by car accident injury aftermath forcing him into street begging.
- Captain Haller pairs precinct PK 21 additions and veterans: brilliant, spontaneous ex-cadet Kris Freiberg with Franzi, quiet experienced transferee Pinar Aslan from Berlin with Hans. All investigate the seemingly routine threats reported by a prostitute but soon guess right the real danger in for ER Dr. Jasmin Jonas. Hans and Pinar guard her outside, despite her refusal. Kris and Franzi go after possible culprits, notably a domineering ex.
- The Hamburg police soon realizes a shooting in the port is an escalated drug deal. The trail leads to constable Pinar's brother, Malik Aslan, whom the prosecutor's office also orders observed as part of their investigations in their Berlin-based Turkish criminal drug clan. *Pinar fears her colleagues suspect her of crime family loyalty, but partner Kris and captain Haller keep an open mind Malik Aslan takes fatal risks while the rival 'Rocker gang', Wheel Devils, escalate a grudge into a possible gang war.
- In hiding for 30 years after a shooting only Wolle remembers, borough swindler Dieter "Dandy" Hartmann is the victim of a fight at the city's most reputed curry sausage stand, where Mattes Melanie and investigate. Wolle asks captain Haller to let him investigate the case, Hartmann's disappearance being linked to his first unfinished murder and, and convinced old Hamburg rivalries are playing up even now, possibly boding a gang war with Alexander Jashow's thugs. The precinct colleagues nevertheless work on several other possible angles, including the stand owner's mirky aspects.
- Mentalist Felix Baum's spouse and magic show partner Kaya Baum is in ER after a violent attack. She had claimed to make psychic contact with Ulf and Angelika Neudeck's daughter, reported missing for decades after an abduction, but there's a further secret. Themagic couple was breaking up, and in debt with illusion inventor Alexander Stahlberg, who 'magically helps himself'.
- Kris and Pinar escort to school teen class dodger Hermann Fleischer, whose father Uwe declared their home a 'sovereign republic', part of a series of 'Reichsbürger' who consider all German laws invalid. The beat cops nearly stumble into a bear trap in the garden, set up by Uwe's wife Britta, who is in ER for an injury from the same, a trail leading to Uwe's dodgy lawyer Dr. Rösner, the mastermind behind the 'rebel republics'. Young Hermann, who was raised a white supremacist, runs and 'defends' his home with father's loaded revolver.
- In an exclusive Hamburg private club, a lock-down fails to turn up loot or thief when pilfering of various valuables from the locker-room and elsewhere is spotted. Mattes and Melanie gaze at the rich pickings. Next night, the trusted club waiter Magnus Brennecke, who puts his orphaned kid sister through college, is brutally attacked at home, where nothing is worth stealing, yet reports no motive. A stakeout leads to a senior club member, whose former investment firm partner Armin Jentsch blames him for ruinous fraud. Pinar covers for partner Kris who drew his weapon in panic as the case turns nasty at the office, the key being an evidence data stick.
- Eccentric, hedonistic senior fashion guru Helene Huck has a seemingly drunk car accident, but is diagnosed in ER high from a novel blue brand of crystal meth, which she denies ever having taken, possibly mixed in her morning tea. Opportunity has devoted housekeeper Elfie Fischer, daughter Miriam Huck-Wölfers, who seeks to have her declared incompetent on mental heath grounds to run the firm, and ex-con lover René von Talbrück, who receives lavish gifts, the last two pointing at each-other as gold-digger. René secretly has a gay lover, Bruno Weinert, whose car Helen bumped into. The team also tracks down green petty drug dealer Oliver Kurze, in trouble with the neighborhood's ruthless Russian gang, to learn whom he sold the meth. Kris urges Pinar not to dismiss her meddling family's alarm about her grandma's declining health.
- Package delivery man Jan is brought to ER after a bad accident, having driven despite a pneumonia. His independent employer Klaus Rombach is suspected to have forced him to keep working, to avoid serious losses he can't afford. Kris finds soon the 'accident' was arranged, but against him or the firm? Suspects include union rep Lara Wehner, whose exploitation story doesn't quite check out, and pensioner Rentner Lothar, who had it in for Jan. Pinar must decide whether to accept an invitation for her grandma's Muslim funeral or avoid the risks of publicly consorting with her crime family.
- Demir Kaplan reports yet another robbery at his kiosk, presumably again the work of a gang that strikes all over Hamburg, but this time Paula, his insolent teen daughter who side with her late mother. The masked teen robbers duo escapes Hans and Franzi thanks to parkour. That scene yields two prime suspects, cocky Simon Schultz with a telltale limp and his cautious photographer mate Tim Fichte . Mattes an Melanie' reconstruction shows Demir's story doesn't fit, and he's not the only 'miscast'. Franzi is flattered that old police academy buddy Sven Reimers flirts with her, but Hans duly doubts his motives and timing.
- The priceless showpiece of an exposition in the ethnological museum, an allegedly magically talking tribal ancestor skull, is found stolen from the shipment of pieces donated by Erika Johannsen, the disinterested widow of the private collector, heir of a colonial trading company in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland. Professor Harald Munze, the curator, and his thesis student assistant Martinez, discovered the theft while unpacking the crates in the presence of a Papua New Guinean official who was to take home all pieces presumed acquired illegally by the late collector. Most likely fence would be never-caught shady dealer and presumed forgery mastermind Daniel Vikander, specialized in archaeological rarities. Mattes focuses on the dysfunctional donor family Johannsen, daughter Britta even claims to communicate with the skull. Academic assistant Martinez is hospitalized, luckily merely for malaria, and plans the return to the neighboring tribe he got devoted to during field study.
- Jörn Gutscheidt is hospitalized, bloodily beaten on the head with an iron bar by a girl who vandalized his car. Mattes finds the culprit also in ER: wayward teen Anna Klüver, mentally unstable, furious at her single mother, who has formal custody but had it suspended in favor of grandmother, a strict Bible fanatic who considers her granddaughter a fruit of sin. Yet another crime is the clue. Mattes is stunned finding his ex Eva is back from Boston, temporarily filling in at ER, but didn't even contact him, so he feels betrayed again.
- Richard Drewitz brings to Dr. Eva Grünberg in ER his wife bruised, amnesiac Annette, reporting she was violently mugged. Hadi Rahmani, a highly qualified R&D project collaborator Annette recruited, was fired by her during her erratic rage, pinnacle in a recent series. Elder lesions suggest Annette Drewitz may be victim of domestic violence, and she openly accuses Richard of an affair with her sister. Eva's further diagnosis proves most relevant, while Mattes wrestles with collaboration given his trauma over being dumped and systematically ignored.
- Stefan Menzel is hospitalized badly wounded after a probably intentional hit and run in front of his family by an unidentified car. Hans finds he owed a considerable private debt to a youth friend, investment banker Gideon Storm. Or was the real target his wife, Annika Menzel? She fails in ER to appease their daughter Tara, who concludes from blood types that Stefan can't be her biological father and storms out after abusing both as consistent liars, but the shocking news gave Stefan a mild cardiac crisis. Annika keeps changing her story to family and police, from ignoring the attacker to him being Tara's father by never-reported rape. Only observed receiving cash from a man, she admits' it's Tara's sire, her scorned lover, judge Konstantin Ortner, unaware the brat followed and meets him, alone. Mattes guards Stefan's hospital room, deals with Gideon and finally has opportunity to start dealing with Eva, who seeks a 'physical' lovers reconciliation, assuring she'll stay in Hamburg long.
- Natural, cocky pickup-artist Mark Ringer easily flirts to Melanie's phone number while jogging, but she and Mattes, responding to a neighbor's alert, find him stuck under his beloved car in the garage, (under)pants yanked down and privates 'covered' by a turned-over bowl of red paint. Assisted by shy vlog-cameraman Erik Bahlke, Mark sells pricey seduction seminars for desperately single men, stressing a "Flirtmeister" takes no account of female emotions, but his own helplessly exposed state is now also on Internet. Motives abound with 'scored' women, notably Tabea Scholl, who has an overprotective boyfriend, but also disgruntled client men, as Mark never repays but even shows some textbook failure flirt attempts on his blogs. The culprit's next attack is arson in Mark's garage.
- TV-Comedian Daniel Lohse is hospitalized, having collapsed during his application as 'intendant' (manager) of Lessing theater, yet drunk nor stoned. Was the substance meant to sabotage his career move, which would fit main competitor and former stage partner Bernhardt Lippe, or Lohse's wife Sandra, who suspected adultery, or Petra Steinert, whose floating theater would be competed into the ground now cultural subsidies are down. Mattes and Dr. Eva Grünberg must finally deal with her return from Boston.
- Lisa Franck, aw ell-reputed port logistics firm executive, is hospitalized with serious head injury from a fall after finding irregularities during a container inspection. Lisa's employer Cord Viersen relies on the workaholic's competences, so disabling her might enable the big competitor to buy up the firm like most in Hamburg. Lisa's pregnant Lesbian, Brazilian wife Ornela Gilberto-Franck felt unacceptably neglected in favor of work. While the team looks into Cord and semi-retired father Jan Viersen's desperate financial situation and possible illegal trade as way out, Mattes learns from Eva her medical career is at risk due to a US law suit.
- Kris and Pinar respond to a robbery alert from Lena Marx, his ex since his poker days years ago, whose story of random attack he duly doubts. They find Lena runs weekly illegal high-roller poker evenings, which may attract thugs. Suspicious players include bikers band member Simon Becker and choleric millionaire Patrick Dräger, a bad looser. Dealer Natalie Milich as her own bone to pick with Lena. Pinar worries Kris may be blurred by lingering feelings for Lena, whom he puts up in his flat, actually to win her trust.
- Harvard professor Nick Brown's arrival, for an international medical study program, shocks Eva, who must now face her US incident, which caused her hasty return to Hamburg: she's blamed for the death of a Boston patient and Brown knows all about it, while vindictive widower Walter Benning is coming to confront her. That very day Eva messes up treating troublesome patient Sven Klamm, whom the police must restrain from attacking her and Kris talks out of filing a complaint. Mattes comforts Eva when Jasmin has to suspend her.
- Franzi and Hans find an abandoned car-sharing-sports-car containing ER scan results from missing passenger patient Sandra Heinemann, who will die unless found fast. Franzi's brat daughter Emma gets Haller's permission to report on the precinct in her school video project, but breaks the confidentiality rule, which also proves unconventionally helpful in the case. Video recordings show an unsuspecting prankster's naive involvement.
- Nino, aged ten, is hospitalized, found unconscious at the docks after a fall with the birthday present bike he didn't like, being jealous of his elder stepbrother Felix's cooler one. Mother Steffi Gebhardt and her sons-friendly new partner Benno Höft visit sulking Nino in hospital, while his ex Juliane Keutner reports her son, Felix (13), missing. Kris and Pinar find Nino and Felix met behind their parents' backs, trying to disentangle a web of complex step-family relationships.
- Leon, a classmate of Ole Jacobi in his new, exclusive boarding school, faints from blood-loss, having an L-shape carved in his back, but he's too scared to talk. Ole has been writing fake excuse notes and stealing cash. Ole's cop step-father Nils Meermann can't get him to talk. In fact bully brats Sven, Max and Mike extort the knave and use a knife on his bared bottom as cruel warning against 'dobbing'.
- Kris and Pinar investigate a brutal attack beating into hospital cop Karin Berger, who prevented serious injury to junior companion Elina Sherzova, daughter of Chechen crime clan Achmat Sherzov, as part of a police project attempting to offer the younger generation a legal alternative to organized crime. Either Achmat wanted Elina abducted, or his rival, Albanian crime lord Granit Hoxha, who wants to take over a large port turf. The police faces a clan war with a Rimeo and Juliet twist: Granit's cousin Bilal Hoti, who was ordered to shadow Elina, fell in love and sired her unborn child, all three remain at double threat.
- 'Nature healer' Adinda Weyrauch refuses to acknowledge the break-in at her place Kris Pinar and responded to was a crime, maintaining in ER she bumped into a cupboard sleepwalking with a ghost during a seance, yet she was robbed. Adinda's doting elder neighbor, former stalking suspect Paus, is always ready to help her out, but may feel neglected. Her 'patients' and especially their partners hold grudges as she can't heal, just get gullible believers obsessed with nonsense. She discharges herself.
- Psychotherapist Dr. Norbert Paulsen was injured in his practice, where nothing was stolen, so the team suspects a disgruntled or crazy patient. On his calendar for that day was only troubled teen Lars Ahlers. Paulsen fails to hide from Mattes his marital tension with Dunja. Adult patient Stephan Niemeyer was furious to see his aggression therapy terminated recently, and viciously jealous of his ex-girlfriend Nina Blum's mystery lover Kai, who turns out an alter-ego, whose secret identity is central to an impending suicide attempt.
- Prosecution official Gerald Renner warns shocked Pinar that her Turkish mob clan brother Bruder Malik, whom she helped arrest, is being released after their father's Aslan-clan managed to get rid of crucial evidence. Does he stay in Hamburg for revenge, maybe a gang coup? Mattes and Melanie investigate vandalism and break-in cases, as in Conny Woite's cafe and a known rocker band member's home. Both those involve Malik's cousin, fellow Aslan-Clan henchman Dr. Ayoub Durmaz. Malik seeks revenge but finds a though adversary in Ramon Praatsch and his Wheel Devils biker band, who kidnap him to torture him into submission. Pinar absurdly suspects partner Kris due to a postcard he got on holiday from a friendly Turkish waiter who lives in the Aslan home town, and despite her vehement denial to care for her crime family claims to be Malik's only chance.
- During an emergency SWAT exercise in a high-school, Kris and Pinar, who didn't keep back to back as prescribed, hear a real explosion in an adjoining building where pupil Kaya Böhme (17) is found in shock, having blown off a finger manipulating illegal fireworks. She refuses to talk about cahoots and a presumable stock of such dangerous contraband. Only Kaya's classmate Lasse Wirnitzer, near suspension for mischief, ends up talking about his date Lea Sander who dumped him for refusing to continue her insane 'Internet prank' plans, including more explosions.
- Shortly before concert pianist Hannah Jacobi's concert in the Elbphilharmonie, which may launch her internationally, agent Valentin Vasmer reports presumed ill intent, when her hand gets injured by a smashing limousine door as autograph hunters swarm around, coming clean on Internet threats till then only shared with her PA and lover, Thilo Bahnsen. As all professional protection officers are guarding the Swedish royal visit, Hans and Franzi take the first shift. That night, a masked intruder knocks down Tillo and escapes, possibly having entered the wrong hotel room. Hannah requests Hans to stay on her case, confides in him her won part but the dangerous party still has to be uncovered.
- Alexander Schmölzer finds his wife Laura at home, cuffed and gagged all night. Kris and Pinar assume a robbery, yet Laura keeps contradicting herself while denying. Laura is diagnosed pregnant, Alexander is convinced not to have sired, suspecting the (fake?) intruder. The senior neighbor's drone recording, testing it as a gift for a cousin, shows the intruder, which identifies as drug-convicted ex-Cambridge-qualified Torben Reimers, who runs a flower shop with mother Marlies and brother Jan, insisting to ignore Laura, whose dark secret affects both families thoroughly. Hans experiments with a dating app, assisted by Franzi to post his profile.
- Drug dealer Jack Engel ceases the pursuit of Mia Beier (16) who stole form him but nearly runs under Hans and Franzi's police car and escapes after ER checkup, using a classmate's name, to bring the loot, from the hospital pharmacy, to her sick father. Police and dealer track her down, while her remarried mother explains the brat refused further contact after her father was abandoned, claiming she ignored Max Beier became dependent on painkillers after a serious construction site back injury. Hans's Internet date Rita Wolgast proves hard to shake off, turning up in the precinct.
- Popolar gymnasium (high school) principal Meike Daschner is hospitalized after electrocution by door under current, after stepping into a water balloon puddle, all part of the sixth formers' authorized end of term prank orgy. Perhaps the intended target was unpopular janitor Jürgen Jahn, who raises his sixth former daughter -alone on the flat that goes with the job. The ream focuses on the prank feast organizing committee: klutzy Jannis Schröder, who has a beef with Jahn, and Tamina, Pauline's arrogant but crafty buddy. Helpfully knowledgeable is even more ambitious school paper editor Tim Baaske.
- Frederik Tomke (seventeen) needs to be rescued and reanimated in ER after a fatal blackout in the pool during apnoea fin-swimming. Father Lukas, who hopes for his son to live his former ambition to the full, files a complaint against Frederik's coach Robert Seifert, the best in Germany, aiming for the European championship gold and once Lukas's medal rival, but also for Frederik's mother Mina. The boy was smothered by parental love and expectations into a desperate move, only noticed and reported by his frustrated club second by far, Klaas Färber. Hans's dreaded first live meeting with his Dating-app contact is a pleasant (non-)surprise.
- Young high school teacher Anna Mahler is hospitalized, after drinking floral atropine-poisoned wine. Although happily married, she was suspiciously close with several students, notably from the school play. Suspects thus include Andreas, Thomas and jealous girl friend Louisa. Henning Storm is in no mood to take serious his ex's latest pointless call for 'police' help, Kai arranges a home for his dementing mother.
- Kai Norden finds his mother Martha increasingly distracted, diagnosed in ER after a fall with dementia. Doc Jasmin has her doubts about he new colleague, but her chief isn't amused when she accuses him off hiding a near-fatal medication error and drinking, assuming she's lying to avoid sanctions for the kalium, so she gets suspended. However he's stopped for reckless driving and refuses an alcohol test, then is mysteriously cleared in lab, but the cops find out how.
- Retired cripple 'colonel' Chris Stein runs a box gym. When he's brought to ER, fallen badly from the ring stage in his wheelchair, cop friend Henning Storm refuses to believe that an accident, steps in as interim manager and has the whole team look for suspects and motives. They include a fighter dismisses for drug dealings and a dodgy rival who lost a lot plotting fights and transfers. Even Chris's protege Mike hides malversation.
- Motherless high school senior Tammo Bruns is brought to ER, found at the harbor half-naked with a broken nose on a sidewalk. It's Franzi's transferred new partner Nick Brandt's first case, and he impresses captain Haller with smart initiative but soon irritates the seniors as 'over-eager'. Tammo's father Volker Bruns feels guilty for neglecting his boy, who last night was dared by classmates after too much alcohol at a party to urinate of mob lord Vito Masia's car. Beat cops Jan Hasselfeld and Kiki Beutin were called by a mean crone neighbor about noisy drunk Tammo at his previous home before a recent move. Nick dares question of they handled the kid properly or had part is his bloody ordeal.
- During an intervention where a boy is injured, a teenager steals a defibrillator from the emergency vehicle. Dr. Haase is injured in the pursuit of the thief and is treated in hospital. In the previous intervention, a youngster was attacked by a dog. However, the dog owner assures that the dog was wearing a muzzle.
- While Mattes attends, for security, the funeral of biker gang leader Olli Kenner, several of the mourners collapse and are hospitalized, apparently poisoned, while the urn disappears, no fingerprints. The team first looks into rivalry with the stronger Mambas gang. However, the well-planned urn theft only fits an internal motive, so they look into biker conflicts, and next Olli's cheated wife and conservative mother, stumbling upon Olli's anti-macho secret.
- Med student Lisa (21), daughter of suspiciously clueless pharmacist Regina Krossmann, nearly died in a car crash, but her blood contains both a pharmaceutical cocktail and an incompatible sleeping pill. The latter is still unauthorized, so stolen from a promising research project. She also posed as a journalist student to interview missionary nun Agnes, who is visiting Hamburg from a Mexico, and has an old picture of her as juvenile, originating from Cologne like Regina.
- Dr. Jan Bergmann tries to stop a street mugging, decisively helped by passing-by Franzi's police badge. He seeks police help finding the rings are missing he carried as best man for clumsy buddy Arne Göhr, who is missing, also frantically looking. Mattes must take it seriously as the an's apartment was broken into and ransacked. Ring, intruder and Arne are found separately, all with separate stories, including misguided teen admirer Bill Müller.
- Jeweler Gerlind Köster (67) collapses during an armed robbery of her shop by a helmet-masked male, due to high blood pressure, likely to recover. Her grandson Paul Köster is Henning's prime suspect, although husband Manfred Köster seems to care more for the insurance payment and daughter Katrin claims her senior parents shouldn't keep the shop. The knave's late confession isn't convincing*.
- Mattes takes an instant liking to old Elli Pellenwessel, whose purse was robbed while she visited her husband's grave to refresh the flowers. A description of the attacker comes from young Tom Lanz, who gave chase in vain, and his girlfriend Merle Kahrs, who bonded with the widow at the funeral parlor where her granny's casket lies. Her mother Eveline insists to file a complaint for the theft of a precious heirloom necklace she wanted buried with the deceased, without proof, against her estranged sister, Beatrix Schützinge. An outsider with access was the ex-con florist, who reports Elli for stealing flowers as she can't afford his new tomb car tariff. meanwhile Wolle wrestles with a broken door at the precinct reception counter and Mattes with Melanie's suspicion he meddled with his promotion test papers in captain Storm's office.
- Jogging in the morning with commissioner Henning Storm, Mattes spots in the bushes a badly beaten sailor. During treatment in ER, he's identified as Chinese crewman Tanyu from a German company's freighter. After dragon mother Marion Buck drags her teen son Andreas to the precinct to complain about the cheap counterfeit junk running sneakers he bought, Mattes investigates at his school and learns he's the dealer, who 'found them', well bought from a Chinaman named - Tanyu, whose boss Hagen Nolting is lurking around in ER. Mattes finds checking out the dodgy firms premises dangerous but worthwhile, yet captain still can't make up his mind whether to punish Mattes's exam mishap severely.
- Mattes wonders why an old vet's practice was raided, as he has no drugs worth stealing and keeps no cash, but some heavy poison. Dr. Philipp Rost is not amused that playground sandbox in the day care center Franzi brings their daughter Emma to is found seriously polluted. The poisoned kid, Karla, is the daughter of contractor Torsten Weber, who gave the creche a deal on the sand and is the next person hospitalized with similar intoxication symptoms.
- Teenage orphan Jan Wörner needs ER care after smashing into a car during arrest for petty shoplifting -again- from Achim Weigand's convenience store. Tarik wonders about the owner's kid son Micki, who initially denies knowing Jan, but later turns up at the precinct, demanding to be rescued from his parents to the Carolingian home for boys, where Jan lives. While captain Martin Berger and a social worker hold back Achim and his wife Evelyn, who are desperate to get their kid back, the team works out Micki's frustrations, having lost his doting grandfather, and bonds with Jan, before he's returned and runs away, a stolen yacht compass proving the crucial clue, and Achim scoring points.
- Answering a domestic nuisance call, Hans finds in-living Brazilian housekeeper Maria Passa Cantando Oliviera not only stole cash from her illegal employer Silke Hajock, who refuses to file a complaint, but has an expired visa. She escapes by knocking out Franzi, but is caught at the same ER where Hans sent his colleague. Treated for her injured hand, she claims to be looking for her daughter who allegedly was stolen in a Rio hospital twelve years ago by a German doctor. Brazilian records ignore her maternity, but Dr. Manfred Hoffmann and his adopted teen Leonie may fit her story.
- August Gradka steals a van in front of his employer Anita Berens, who gives chase, resulting in a crash and her ER-admission. He's a gentle halfwit, living with his mother Irene. The drugs found inside don't fir his profile, but big brother Manfred, a drug dealer, who seems in league with drug lord Zak Maatouk, who was recently paroled or good behavior but immediately reactivated his gang. The team gradually discovers plot twists and surprising motives.
- Mattes rushes to a reported theft after the extra pieces for a Brazilian expo are unpacked in Hamburg Maritime Museum by curator Bernd Koberstein. Checking the crates Mattes get bitten by a red-white-black-striped serpent, soon identified as the deadly coral snake, yet despite the zoo reptiles expert catching the snake and finding its fangs emptied, no real symptoms occur: there must be another victim, possibly the man who rudely rushed by, nearly toppled, senior regular visitors Dieter and Käthe Krieger. A fainted patient fits the bill, but that's only half the plot. Meanwhile Hans bought juvenile friend Lothar Huse's too cool bicycle, which Wolle allows the knave to use.
- Answering a landlord's call, Tarik is shocked how rudely he expels and plans to search an old man, who is later brought in ER. He may have to reconsider as drugs are found in his reclaimed room. His daughter and grandchildren are surprised by his poverty, culminating in homelessness, having assumed he refused to help them out as a scrooge. The real drug crooks are found, Finn regrets having rejected his grandpa's make-up heirloom offer. Meanwhile Wolle is wrongly accused of loosing the memory-stick captain Martin Berger stored his hard-prepared seminar on, without backup.
- Not only does senior officer Hans Moor arrive atypically late at the precinct with a hangover and blackout -even forgot his car- after a party night, there are indications he may be involved in the disappearance of whore Paulina Kowalczyk, whom housemate Ilona Herwig reports missing. While IA officer Rainer Voss -again- gets him ordered off the case, treated as sole suspect given a bar brawl and blood traces, Hans is hell-bent to find the link with an earlier incident, when businessman Peter Gerold failed to bribe his son out of prosecution for drunk driving. Pressed for time, the team finds more, linking Gerold to an earlier scandal and the harlots.
- Mattes is stunned that Melanie plans to spend six holiday weeks in a Nepalese Buddhist monastery. They must investigate the stolen proceeds of socialite Van Oppen's latest foundation fundraiser at her villa. PA Henner Höhne and housekeeper Elfriede Kern had ample opportunity, but the former reports a mystery man slipping away, who apparently left behind a flower bouquet. Franzi's husband Dr. Philipp Rost demands proper arrangements for their kids. Hans and see are called about fighting, injuring charge Tomek, and other mischief at Jochen Kreuzer's alternative problem youth program. Kreuzer visited Van Oppen, or rather Höhner, needing a donation, spotted and reported by Kern, but the flowers were bought by a knave.
- First assignment for Kris' new patrol partner Daisy Petersen: The young rider Daria Karimi is found seriously injured at the Hamburg racecourse. Who wanted to get rid of her?
- After a celebration among politicians, PR consultant Silvia Reuter drags herself to the hospital EKH with her husband Bastian. She has no memory of last night.
- Forwarder Andreas Wolf left his bag right next to Melanie and Mattes at the coffee stand. A little later he is hit and ends up in the EKH hospital with serious injuries. The Hamburg police are investigating.
- Indira Walther is brutally attacked by masked thugs in Hafencity. The Hamburg police are puzzled because the reason for the robbery sounds very adventurous.
- During a routine operation, the patient Ulf Hartmann collapses under the treatment of the young emergency doctor Dr. Mila Andresen. Surprisingly, he reports against his rescuer.
- An unknown woman is found unconscious at the port of Hamburg. A missing persons report helps the officials to clarify their identity: the victim is Petra Küpper, who has been missing for a year.
- Simon Prager is found in his apartment badly injured: of all people, the man Nick had secretly researched using Melanie's police computer access.