Thu, Jan 21, 2010
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.
Thu, Jan 28, 2010
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.
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
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.
Thu, Mar 18, 2010
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.
Thu, Nov 4, 2010
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.
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
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*.
Thu, Dec 9, 2010
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.
Thu, Dec 30, 2010
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.