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- Tales of rivalry and friendship between two families, one from Southern Italy and one from Milan, who own restaurants on the same square in Milan. Although they have different philosophies, the two chefs challenge with no mercy in order to get their first Michelin star, just when the other members of the families begin to become friends.
- Matula has been hired by young Tanja Wilhelms, who wants to know if her husband betrays her. When he confirms it to her, she spends the whole night out drinking and meets young photographer Sascha Rentrop, who once worked for her husband, and who brings her at his home. After having spent the night together, the morning after Tanja finds Rentrop killed. But she has drunk so much that she cannot remember anything of that night, so she calls Matula for help.
- Two years after his acquittal from the allegation of the murder of his young neighbor Miss Aumüller, Jochen Scherbach comes back to his lawyer Dr. Franck: he is scared because a new girl moved into the victim's apartment and he found some pictures of her in the building's swimming pool. He fears that someone is trying to provoking him to show that he was the killer. Dr. Franck sends him Matula to keep an eye, but begins having some doubts of his client's real innocence.
- Young advertising artist Paul Gartz asks Dr. Franck to help him getting back his job, after he was fired with the allegation of sabotage of a business presentation: he fears that his artist director, a girl who is the lover of the agency owner, just intended to get rid of him. Rainer advises him to ask Matula for help, but just before he starts his investigations the artist director is found killed in her home and Mr. Gartz is arrested, but he maintains his innocence although having been found right on the crime scene.
- Helma Soleg asks Dr. Franck for help for her brother Ralf, who sits in a wheelchair after having been hit by a car: although officially considered an accident due to drunk driving, the woman believes that it was a killing attempt ordered by someone who could strike again.
- Cantor Ludwig Zils is arrested with the allegation of having killed a choir singer who had been his lover, after a heavy argument witnessed by the other singers. His friend Dr. Franck has to help him not only showing his innocence, but also saving his marriage. Meanwhile Matula discovers that the victim had a lot of enemies.
- Former legionnaire Bracko is killed with cyanide in a hotel room. Witnesses saw his comrade Gunther Wegner coming out of his room and he is arrested, but maintains his innocence and asks Dr. Franck for defense. Matula begins investigating on Bracko's other comrade Rolf Kaminsky, but also on the witnesses, the hotel receptionist and an elderly guest, who seem to hide some secrets.
- Alma Becker, a former girlfriend of Dr. Franck, visits him at night wounded and shocked: her boss has just been killed and someone tried to kill also her as being a dangerous witness. Dr. Franck decides to help her while hosting her at home and asking Matula to investigate.
- Building contractor Timo Jensen is killed hit by his own car. His business partner Jürgen Hintze is accused for the murder: family Jensen had indeed decided to oust him from the business after he caused a loss of 3 millions Mark and they had a huge fallout just before. Hintze tells his lawyer Dr. Franck that he believes there is a plot against him. Matula discovers that Jensen had a lot of enemies, at work and in his own family.
- Feminist writer Karina Masur is at the Frankfurt Book Fair presenting her latest book, in which she advises women to kill their violent husbands and tells stories about women who did it. Young Christian Neumann, son of one of the victims mentioned in the book, publicly threatens her at the presentation and just shortly after Karina Masur is found killed at the stand. Neumann is arrested but his mother is sure he is innocent and asks Dr. Franck for help.
- Attorney Rudolf Berger almost hits with his car alcoholic Erwin Stobbe and runs away after this gets mad. The day after Stobbe is found killed and in his pocket the police finds a paper with Berger's name and address: the attorney is arrested with the accusation of murder, just while he was attending a trial where his counterpart was represented by Dr. Franck, who accepts to defend him. Berger admits that Stobbe had blackmailed him some hours after the accident and that he met him just where he was later found dead, but rejects any involvement in the murder. Matula's investigations immediately show that both the family of the victim and the one of the alleged murder hide unpleasant situations.
- Mr. Düllmann catches a thief in his villa and shoots him dead. The thief's wife, Mrs. Seiffert, doesn't believe that her husband would have ever done anything similar and asks Dr. Franck to defend her at the trial: she wants to prove that her husband was purposely murdered.
- Karl Sander asks his lawyer Dr. Franck to manage the payment of the ransom for his kidnapped daughter without letting the police intervene. But the girl's mother Renate, Sander's ex wife, rushes to Dr. Franck's practice and demands to be involved in the dealing. Her presence will cause a lot of problems.
- Professional car thief Uwe Kroll is arrested after having stolen the car of attorney Dr. Naumann, but the main accusation is something worse: the car had just hit and killed a man. Kroll asks Dr. Franck for help, stating that he had stolen the car only some time after the accident. Franck and Matula have to investigate on Dr. Naumann and his family.
- Marion Kesten is found killed in her home by her husband Dieter, who just came drunk and confused at home. The fact that the couple often had violent arguments and that the man cannot provide an alibi for the murder time leads the police to arrest him. Sure of his own innocence but not remembering anything of the night before, Dieter Kesten asks Dr. Franck for defense.
- Dr. Franck defends Mr. Arndt Vasall, accused of having killed his own brother and who denies his involvement, despite the hate between the siblings and the fact that the gun used for the murder belongs to him. At the same time, young Peter Schröder asks Matula help to find his missing girlfriend, who is incidentally the daughter of Rainer's client, Kathrin Vasall.
- Young art thief Hartmut Kolb is killed by a bodyguard while caught trying to steal a painting from the home of his own girlfriend Lisa Feyninger. The girl doesn't believe the story and asks Dr. Franck, who had been Hartmut's lawyer, for help. Matula investigates in the underground of art thieves, but also the same bodyguard Schorsch Rischka and the possessive father of the girl, Mr. Horst Feyninger.
- Mr. Egon Manz wakes up in a hotel room after a night out with friends and finds a dead prostitute in his bed. His friend Reinhold Beckert calls immediately Dr. Franck, who persuades him to go to the police: unfortunately, due to heavy drinking, Manz cannot remember anything of that night and so he is arrested. Matula has got to investigate to prove his innocence, while Dr. Franck takes care of saving his client's marriage.
- TV director Karl Liebeck is going to publish a book in which he tells hot details about some showbiz people, but he and the publishing home receive some threats which lead them to ask Matula to investigate. Meanwhile, singer Catarina May, who is reported in the book having played in a porn movie some time earlier, asks Dr. Franck to intervene and make the publishing of the book stop.
- Dr. Franck is asked for help by the husband of stage actress Ellen Schäfer, whose lover has been killed after she had an argument with him. The man believes his wife is guilty but cannot remember what happened because probably being in state of shock: Mrs. Schäfer should be indeed in a fragile emotional state after a heart transplantation, performed by the same lover, a well-known surgeon. But Dr. Franck suspects that the truth is much different.
- Dr. Franck is called by his client Paul Weller to his workshop: he finds him sitting drunk near his dead co-worker. Weller states that he has killed him, but Rainer doesn't believe it: only a couple of years before he had unwillingly killed the father of the victim but he was acquitted because it was for self-defense, but he never forgave himself and now he finds the occasion to be punished, no matter if he's guilty or not.
- Herbert Lersch disappeared after having gone to a job interview. Some days later, his wife Friedel decides to ask Dr. Franck and Matula for help. Their investigations show immediately a link between this disappearance and a mysterious murder case of a businessman some days before.
- Young farmer Anne Körner asks Dr. Franck for help: her boyfriend, sentenced for a jewelry robbery of whom the loot was never found, was awaited to come home from jail, but never came. A mysterious man is threatening her, demanding to know where her boyfriend is hiding.
- Mrs. Susanne Böhm asks Dr. Franck to defend her boyfriend, young artist Martin Sutter, accused of having robbed a bank. Mrs. Böhm, who is divorced, is sure that there is a plot against her boyfriend. Meanwhile she has to deal with the rage of her son Robin, who never accepted her divorce.
- Matula is eyewitness of a curious bank robbery, where the robber is immediately shot dead by a passing-by policeman. During the interrogatories, Mr. Hermann Maier is accused for complicity in the robbery because his gun was found with the killed thief. Matula, feeling that there's something too unclear in this story, advises him to ask Dr. Franck for defense.
- While Dr. Franck is arranging his new practice, sketchy dude Heinz Rose visits him pretending to know the address of Berthold Kramm, a client of Dr. Renz, and threats him with a gun. Kramm is curiously linked with the first job Rainer has got for Matula: to guard the home where Renz's client once lived and now is owned by a young woman who has received some inexplicable threats.
- Rich businessman Rüdiger Hillmann asks Matula to do a security service during his birthday party, in order to avoid his angry son Alexander to rush there and make a scene. Indeed when this happens, Matula manages to bring him out and to watch him at home until the party's end. But the day after, Hillmann is killed in an explosion and Alexander, obviously the main suspect, asks Matula for help to show his innocence.
- A Turkish girl is murdered in Frankfurt and her father, Mr. Mustafa Tüyen, asks Dr. Franck to defend his son Ismail: the boy is not yet accused, but the fact that he had publicly threatened his sister for her too much Western-like attitude risks to focus suspicions on him. Matula starts his investigation with the girl's ex-boyfriend and discovers that she recently had a baby.
- Young Oliver Lohmann is arrested after his girlfriend felt from her balcony: her neighbors found him on her apartment's door right afterwards. His grandmother asks Dr. Franck to defend him, being sure of his innocence. Matula investigates about the girl's ex husband, Ingo Kremmler, who owns a curious meditation school.
- Hired by a schoolgirl's parents, Matula discovers that the girl has got a relationship with her teacher. Her dad is upset and asks Dr. Franck to intervene, but legally he cannot. The day after the teacher is found killed just after the girl's dad went to him to discuss: the man is arrested, but his wife is sure of his innocence.
- Young painter Marianne Sprenger, who lives in Sicily, comes back to Frankfurt after the death of her father and discovers that the gold he had collected is not to be found. She asks Dr. Franck for help because her father was a member of a sect and she and her father's administrator Till Münzer suspect that the gold was extorted by the same sect.
- Playboy Ringo Ritschel threats to burn down a pub after a fight with the owner and some waiters, due to a debt of 20.000 Mark a waitress owes him. Some days later there is indeed a fire in the pub, which causes the death of a singer who was exhibiting there, and Ringo is seen nearby: he then runs to Dr. Franck to ask for protection, but the police arrests him after having found his medallion in the pub. To exonerate him, Matula intends to prove that it wasn't only an arson, but a premeditated murder.
- Mr. Arthur Deck visits Dr. Franck at night telling him he just killed his former business partner Buchmüller: he had gone to him to ask a financial support, but when this laughed at him he shot him in a fit of anger. Rainer tries to persuade the police that this is a consequence of Mr. Deck's heavy depression, but meanwhile another problem comes up: Deck's wife is threatened by an unknown who accuses him of having stolen 500.000 Mark to the victim.
- Businessman Simons asks Dr. Franck for help after a fire in his not-yet-opened restaurant which caused the death of the cook. Simons suspects that it was either linked to racketeering or to the nearby innkeepers who already had to argue with him. Rainer asks Matula to investigate, but he's not really big on the idea because the nearby innkeeper Karin Winter is a close friend of him and her pub is his favorite one.
- Businessman Jürgen Hilgers is arrested after having found his wife killed at home, because several signs point to him. Pleading not guilty, he asks Dr. Franck for defense and suggests him that the murderer could be his ex lover Karen Lehnert, who often threatened him after their break-up. But Matula discovers that she isn't Hilgers' only enemy.
- A former client of Dr. Franck is killed at night and the police files the case as a settling of scores. Rainer is sure that the boy had left the crime and wants to help his mother to find the truth: he and Matula investigate about young Heike Landers, who was unwillingly involved in the shooting and who is recovering from the injuries in a clinic. Her involvement seems initially a pure casualty, but now someone is threatening her as a dangerous witness.
- Young Michael Hude is arrested for the murder of a department store security guard. He admits the murder, but his mother Angelika is sure that he is lying and asks her friend Dr. Franck to defend him and to try to find out the truth. Although Michael states to have killed the guard in a fit of anger, Matula discovers that he had been tailing the victim since several weeks.
- Prostitute Nicole Weber is arrested for the murder of her violent procurer. Her sister Clarissa, a bank manager who was in business with the same victim and previously refused to help Nicole with him, asks Dr. Franck to take her defense. Nicole admits the murder for self-defense, but Rainer begins to suspect that she isn't the real murder and that she is covering someone.
- Dr. Franck defends a boy accused of robbery and murder. After the attorney asks for life imprisonment, the day after the trial the boy commits suicide in his cell. Rainer feels guilty and decides to investigate with Matula: he is not only sure that the boy was innocent, but also suspects that his suicide was indeed a murder.
- Dr. Franck is visited by Damaschke, a burglar he defended six years earlier: the guy had confessed his participation to a bank robbery, whose loot was never found, and the kidnapping of its director, but refused to tell the names of his accomplices in order to protect his own family. Now he's out of jail but, although not indenting to search for his share, he's sure that someone is tailing him.
- Businessman Kleinert is kidnapped and his wife asks Dr. Franck to take care of the delivery of the ransom money the kidnappers asked for. During the delivery, Matula follows Rainer unaware of him and discovers that the money never reached the kidnappers but was thrown in an abandoned villa.
- Young postman Jochen Billiger is unwillingly involved in a robbery at the post office. When the two burglars give him a third of the loot, he is terrified by the consequences. Despite his money problems and his girlfriend's happiness for the amount of money obtained, he asks Dr. Franck to anonymously return it to the post office. But this move will lead to a series of troubles.
- Businessman Friedrich Winkler is found catatonic in a hotel room beside the dead body of his wife Sonja, who was filing for divorce, and is arrested for the murder. His family, sure of his innocence, asks Dr. Franck to defend him, but the man doesn't tell a word. Meanwhile, the Winklers are blackmailed by someone who asks one million for some compromising papers about the family business.
- Young prostitute Hanna wants to leave her job to marry her boyfriend Walter: after having admired Dr. Franck at a trial where he successfully defended another prostitute who killed her violent procurer, she asks him to deal with her own procurer to free her from him. Matula takes care of the dealing and everything seems to go well, until one night Hanna is found killed in her home and Matula is arrested because he was seen coming out from her home shortly before.
- Businessman Harry Ziegler asks Dr. Franck for help: he accepted to buy a huge amount of dirty money paying for them a half of their value, but he then discovered that he received a suitcase of fake money. Rainer advises him to go to the police, but there they are informed that who organized the exchange has just been found killed and Mr. Ziegler is the main suspect. His ex wife decides to hire Matula to help him.
- While driving to theater, Dr. Franck and Matula rescue young Bruno Maschke who is trying to jump off from a bridge. Maschke just came out from prison and was abandoned by his wife Helen, who refuses to meet him again. Rainer manages to organize a meeting between him and his ex wife, but when Maschke reaches Helen's home he finds her killed: as main suspect, he hides himself at Dr. Franck's home.
- Pop star Christian Berger is arrested after witnesses saw him running away from the home of a prostitute who was found killed. He proclaims his innocence to his lawyer Dr. Franck, but due to the embarassment of the situation he hides too many particulars, which then Matula must find out: for example, the existence of a maniac fan who persecutes him and of two sketchy managers rivaling each other.
- A young car mechanic arrested with the allegation of having killed his girlfriend is released after his alibi is verified. The girl's father, sure of his guilt, gets mad and promises to kill him. His wife, the girl's mother, scared by his attitude, asks Dr. Franck and Matula for help.
- In Frankfurt there is a wave of thefts in hotels committed by a self-called 'Gentleman': the burglar never leaves damages or traces, but only a printed card with his signature. But one day his card is found in a room where a jeweler is found killed and his goods are stolen. A witness recognizes as the 'Gentleman' taxi driver Harry Kroll, who denies any involvement: his niece Nina asks Dr. Franck to take his defense.
- Young Russian bouncer Wassili Kurassow is arrested after a boy with whom he had a heavy argument in front of the club is found killed, but he declares his innocence. Wassili's girlfriend Vera asks Dr. Franck to defend him. Matula's investigations initially focus on the club owner and the victim's friend Michael Marten: the two are indeed linked by a drug trafficking.