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Bukow's nemesis Subocek returns and forces Bukow and König to covertly work for him because he has proof that the detectives tampered with evidence in an older case. Will both of them agree to forever yield to Subocek's blackmail threat?

Before Vincent can start his job as a detective he moves into his apartment. That night his new neighbor Bastian is killed. Vincent meets his team partner Adam while both are busy investigating Bastian's family who recently struck it rich.

A single mother and her son are found dead in a family home. She was murdered with multiple stabs. Her son, who was paralyzed from the neck down, died of a stroke because nobody could change his IV fluid. A death in complete solitude. Katrin König investigates Jens Sommer, the ex-husband and father, and the Genth family, who were good friends with the Sommers. Do Jule and Holger Genth have anything to do with the death of the summers - or their foster children Emma and Max? When Max suddenly disappears and the suspicion against him is confirmed, Katrin König joins the search. In doing so, she acts against the explicit instructions of her superior, who himself had received clear instructions from "above": The Rostock team should keep away from foster child Max, since the boy lives with a concealed identity. In order to ensure that, inspector Melly Böwe travels from Bochum - who has a close connection to Max, as it turns out. And then Katrin König is also offered the position of team leader, which has been vacant since Commissioner Bukow left.

A dead girl, wrapped in plastic, buried. No usable traces. No concrete clues. Chief inspector Elisabeth "Bessie" Eyckhoff tries to solve the murder of 16-year-old Laura Schmidt. Together with Dennis Eden, who has now also switched to homicide, Bessie searches for clues and comes across an earlier case: the disappearance of Anne Ludwig, who was also 16 at the time. Is there a connection between these two cases? Both girls got into a white van after the evening's ice skating. Suddenly Caroline Ludwig appears in the police station. She wants to know if the girl found is her missing daughter Anna. Bessie has to deny this. When initial investigations revealed that Caroline Ludwig of all people was the last to speak to Laura, the very unstable-looking woman is under strong suspicion. Bessie believes in her innocence, but the evidence against Caroline Ludwig mounts.

After a party weekend in Berlin, 21-year-old Adam Dahl is taking the train back to Magdeburg with his friend Tomi. The two are happy and in love. But the mood changes abruptly when Christof Oschmann climbs into the train compartment with the young couple. Something is triggered in Adam - not sure exactly how. But it is what chief inspector Doreen Brasch is desperately looking for later - what is called a "trigger". Adam Dahl kills Christoph Oschmann. Later he cannot say why he did it. He just doesn't know. He doesn't even know the man. Brasch intuitively feels a connection to Adam and wants to help him find out the truth. Adam's father, Klaus-Volker Dahl, director a. D. of the LKA, tries to influence Brasch's investigations. He and his wife Bianca, an eminent psychologist, maintain Adam's innocence. Is it really just the love of two parents who want to protect their son? Do you know more than you say?

A woman is found dead at the foot of the Brocken after Halloween. Chief Inspector Doreen Brasch does not initially associate the murder with superstitious or even spiritual rituals. The fact is strange though. The body was burned, on a kind of pyre. And finally it turns out that the victim was tortured - with methods of the medieval Inquisition. Who is behind this act? The victim, Tanja Edler, returned to the Harz Mountains from Berlin just a year and a half ago to take over the family-run hotels. Now her mother, Stefanie Edler, decides to postpone her own retirement because she doesn't trust her son Reiko to run the business. Since her return, Tanja Edler has belonged to a coven, a group of modern witches. Their meetings are particularly popular with the men in town, above all with the doctor Dr. Petersen, for lack of understanding. During her investigation, Brasch does not fail to notice how deeply divided the relationship between women and men is. Together with Kriminalrat Lemp, she tries to get to the heart of this rift in order to convict the perpetrator. "Burning witches" is about strong women and powerless men who can only explain the successes, the aspirations, the power of women by saying that the devil must have acted.

The Polish geologist Magdalena Nowak is found dead in a forest near the village of Fehlow on the edge of a former lignite mining area - apparently suffocated with a plastic bag. Detective Chief Inspector Adam Raczek and Detective Inspector candidate Vincent Ross can initially rule out a sex crime. But why was the young woman alone in the forest in the middle of the night? According to her friend Tom Grabowski, Magdalena wanted to go to her camper. She has only lived here for a short time and is working on a soil survey for the renaturation of the former mining area, which is to be opened up for tourism. The investigators learn from the head of the project, Kristin Bredow, that one of the largest artificial lakes is to be created here. For the residents, a lot therefore depends on the report. Did someone want to influence the results? The longtime pastor of Fehlow, Simon Bredow, who has been caring for the shrinking community for decades and who knows everyone in the village personally, cannot imagine that Magdalena had to die because of this. When another body is found in a landslide not far from the first crime scene, Raczek and Ross must find out if there is a connection between the crimes that took place far apart in time. Is the perpetrator still active? Knowing that they can only solve the case with quick results, the two detectives focus on the residents of the village. They want to put the perpetrator under pressure with their presence and take quarters in Fehlow. The investigation is extremely challenging for Raczek and Ross, and Raczek ultimately makes a decision with far-reaching consequences.