Season 5
16 episodes
48 min. per episode
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A former cop turned farmer battles his past and a relentless arsonist while uncovering dark secrets in his hometown.
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A children's song booms through Eva Herzog's house at night, startling her awake. Terrified, she sneaks through the rooms, armed with a kitchen knife... When her husband returns home from a business trip the next morning, Eva is lying in the garden - with the knife in his chest. The song still echoes through the house. Lübeck detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen suspect this must be a crime of passion and target the grieving husband. In fact, the evidence against him mounts, but he denies all allegations. But few people knew about Eva's trauma, a miscarriage that threw her off track not so long ago. Who wanted to scare her with the song? The investigation gains momentum when Kiesewetter and Englen are able to access Eva Herzog's medical records from her treating psychiatrist, Dr. Georgi. Eva Herzog had a lot to hide. Was she being blackmailed?
A corpse on the idyllic Baltic Sea beach. The word "Schwein" (pig) is emblazoned in large letters on the naked, lifeless body of young Alexander Blohm. Investigators from the Lübeck Criminal Investigation Department quickly uncover the first clues that the dead man was not the well-behaved and popular student his father believed him to be. The family's former gardener, Heinz Gieck, blames Alexander for the death of his underage daughter, who drowned at a party. Is that why Gieck killed him? Alexander's three flatmates also make serious accusations against the dead man as detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen cross-examine them. But are the three students, including Alexander's girlfriend, cold-blooded enough to commit murder? Or has the dead man made other enemies?
Late one evening, Mariam Kalkus, in a panic, seeks shelter at the Lübeck Criminal Investigation Department (CID) station. From her balcony, the young woman witnessed a murder in the window of the apartment across the street. And the murderer saw her. Investigators Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen storm the apartment with a special forces team. But there is neither a body nor the slightest trace of a struggle. With a bad feeling, Finn and Lars bring the young woman back to her apartment. Did the unstable-looking Mariam Kalkus just make it all up? When a dead woman matching Kalkus's description of the victim is found in Lübeck harbor the next morning, her observation is confirmed. But Kalkus has disappeared. The Lübeck Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team is doing everything it can to find the young woman.
When Heidrun Kantereit visits her mother, she makes a gruesome discovery. The house is devastated, and the wealthy elderly woman lies dead in her closet. This brutal murder leads Lübeck detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen to a home for juvenile delinquents. The dead woman, Roswitha Wittling, had been very dedicated to the children in the home. Did one of the boys rob the elderly woman and then lock her in her own closet? When young Leon tries to escape, the detectives find the murdered woman's jewelry in his pocket. But Leon denies the crime. Lars is convinced they have caught the perpetrator. But Finn, who remembers his own childhood as an orphan, believes the boy and tries to prove his innocence. When Leon escapes from custody and evidence of a gruesome abuse scandal in the victim's past emerges, Finn must quickly do everything in his power to prevent further tragedy.
When Bernhard Wagner, chief physician at the Lübeck University Hospital, returns home from his night shift, he makes a gruesome discovery. His wife, Verena, is found dead in the sauna. Detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen are certain that this was a treacherous murder. The door was locked from the outside, and Verena died painfully in the overheated sauna. Rasmus Haffner, whose life is shattered after the death of his son, comes under suspicion. Haffner is convinced that his son died due to medical malpractice by Chief Physician Wagner. Was he seeking revenge? But Haffner has an alibi. The detectives target the grieving husband after pathologist Strahl notices massive, partially healed injuries on the dead woman. Was she a victim of domestic violence that has now escalated? Wagner and his sister-in-law, Dunja, who cares for him deeply, are horrified by these suspicions. The investigation takes another turn when Rasmus Haffner's alibi is blown. When Kiesewetter and Englen try to question him again, they are too late. Haffner has armed himself and is on his way to Wagner.
Finn Kiesewetter had left the police force to convert to an organic farm. But after a fire destroyed it, Finn found himself ruined and forced to return to law enforcement.