Episode list

Dragan Trevic is shot in the head in his car, apparently suicide.

Branka Maric and Emil Perica investigate the death of a teenage girl in the Dalmatian mountains which may be connected to a murder there the year before.

In his luxury summer house, the Split police finds the corpse of sex symbol Goran Trevic, son adulated football legend Dragan Trevic, now a leading league official, and to the brass's horror a logical suspect as the murder weapon stems from his private vault. Branka Maric finds more family troubles. Dragan is also pointed at by his authorized biographer, sports reporter Stipe Rif. Dragan Trevic is shot in the head in his car, apparently suicide. Police chief Bilic orders the case closed, to avoid further scandal, but Branka's team informally searches on in both cases, calling in markers with forensics. Goran's widow, Jasna Trevic, hides her affair and his heavy, chemically emasculating medication without health need.

On the holiday island of Vis, Branka Mari is investigating a double murder: the criminal shot dead an antiques dealer and a collector. Both were lured to the island from Split to buy lost commemorative coins from the time of the Ustasha regime. The investigations by local police chief Jure Pokovic and statements by a witness incriminate a man who was in contact with the victims: Zoran Horvath, a self-confessed nationalist. When he arrives on Vis as ordered and visits the hotel of Pokovic's 22-year-old daughter Ivena, the policeman wants to close the case in his own way. At the last second, however, Branka throws a spanner in the works. She has long since noticed that someone is setting the wrong tracks. The detective finds out that the hunt for the coins isn't the only thing that connects the two dead people and the suspects: the three of them have been to Vis before - more than 20 years ago during the civil war. At that time, an atrocity must have happened that someone now wants to atone for. When Branka uncovers the terrible secret, she faces a difficult decision.

Town Planning official Mladen Ribar is murdered in his car by a man who plunges an ice pick into his heart with a note reading corrupt pig. Later, the investigation of Branka Maric begins to uncover a plot of urban corruption in the city.

A motor yacht crashes into the pebble beach of Split. On board are the unconscious skipper Mile and two women's corpses. The fact that the victims were shot more than 48 hours ago makes the incident even more puzzling for Inspector Stascha Novak and her colleague Emil. After waking up in the hospital, Mile pretends not to remember anything. Suddenly his father Zelic appears, introducing himself as the police chief of the Adriatic island of Brac. He wants to take his son and the bodies with him - and keep the homicide squad out of it. The unknown victims are refugees who may have worked for a winemaker under slave-like conditions. Is Zelic - as his son and his girlfriend Danka claim - really in cahoots with traffickers and exploiters? Investigating this is not part of Stascha and her colleagues' tasks. In order to solve the murders, they have to find out who is behind the brutal smuggling network on Brac.

Bachelor commissioner Emil Perica expected to be promoted chief detective of the Split police, but against their better judgment the chief gives the job to half-German Branka Maric. Their next case is the apparent robbery-murder of Ante Remic, who beached up in Split port after gambling way his meager family savings. The investigation focuses on his post-Yugoslavian civil war past as CO of a Croatian dependence fighters band after someone breaks into his home and steals all war memorabilia. The murder soon after of a war comrade apparently leaves only present real estate tycoon Jerko Novak, who suggests it's all about Remic's alleged war crime as sadistic "devil of Split", the other two being missing or died in action. One was Branka's sibling, whom she and her surviving brother assumed died in action years earlier, now being told he fell days before the end of the war. After Emil and colleague Borko trap a junkie who confesses Ante's fatal robbery, the team suspects that was a staged diversion, and goes after an alternative, financial motive. That proves dangerous, luring the killer into action, but also awakes surprise help.

The body of a drowned girl is found in the industrial port of Split. For Branka Maric there is no doubt that the twelve-year-old was the victim of a crime. Show traces on her wrist: The drowned woman was previously tied up - possibly by smugglers who kidnap girls and sell them to their tormentors. Branka doesn't give a damn about the instructions to leave the investigation to the organized crime department. Little did the Commissioner suspect how dangerous the case is for her when she went on to investigate on her own. During the night a bomb explodes on her lover Lado's yacht - with Branka on board. In order to solve the attack, the homicide squad receives unwelcome support from the capital: the successful, but unpopular detective Stascha Novak with her male colleagues. She wants to continue her track record with the spectacular case in order to force the overdue promotion in Zagreb. The division in Split, however, would like the case to be resolved by the domestic forces. Emil gets into a quandary: He and his colleague Borko should let Stascha run into the void.

The guests of a restaurant on Split's beach promenade experience a dramatic appearance: 20-year-old Leyla claims to be pregnant by her partner Jure in front of the speechless landlady Nika. Shortly afterwards the young woman is found dead. Not only the knife stabs, but also the brutal cutting off of the ring finger remind Inspector Stascha Novak and her colleague Emil Perica of an earlier case. The perpetrator at the time also has a connection to those involved today: Ivo is Nika's ex-husband - and was convicted at the time because of Jure's incriminating statement. Is the current murderer an imitator of the "Beast of Zadar"? Or, as Ivo's friend and lawyer Markovic claims, has the wrong person been behind bars for years? While Jure suddenly disappeared without a trace, Nika comes under increasing suspicion. When Stascha questions her previous assumptions, the chief investigator realizes that she herself is part of a sophisticated plan.

A half-decomposed corpse in a red dress poses a criminal mystery to inspector Stascha Novak and the investigative team from Split: The victim had been dead for at least a week when he was thrown from a great height from a rock. Not only the shattered body, but also the identity make the case seem unusual: it is a young man. For the local police chief Mikec it is clear that this could not have been a local. There are hardly any young people here anyway and certainly not transvestites. However, the homicide detective finds out that the dead Anton is from the region and grew up with his devout uncle Ivan Rukovic. In his house, the investigators find signs of Anton's decomposition. When the bodies of Mikec and Rukovic are found one after the other, Stascha begins to reconstruct Anton's tragic story with criminal empathy. She finds it difficult to contain her anger at open homophobia and pious fundamentalism. Her colleague Emil, on the other hand, keeps a cool head, delving into the family history of the victims and having to prevent Stascha from making a hasty decision.