Schoolgirl Anja Cordt is found murdered in the foyer of Heinrich Heine High School. Shortly before, she had argued with her best friend Romy, but Romy insists she is innocent.

Former prisoner Sven Lohmeyer is murdered shortly after his release from prison. Ten years ago, he and his girlfriend Jana Pacht committed a robbery and shot 16-year-old Juliane Rothstein while fleeing.

The inconspicuous librarian Karin Hentschel has been murdered. Mick and Andreas investigate and uncover her surprising secret: she was a sex addict!

MasterChef Florian Reuter is smitten in the dining room.

Organic farmer Jacob Hoffmann is found dead in the cutting mechanism of a combine harvester. The only witness is the victim's girlfriend, Silke Reiss. However, she claims to remember nothing.

Lorenz Silber is seriously injured in a traffic accident. Investigators find a female corpse in the trunk of his car. Mick and Andreas are unable to determine the banker's identity.

During a bank robbery in Essen, a young employee is shot and Mick's daughter Isa is taken hostage. In a daring solo effort, Mick manages to free Isa from the getaway car before the bank robber speeds away unrecognized.

Velina, a “fortune teller and spiritual healer,” is dead. Mick and Andreas quickly identify a suspect. Heinz Schäfer's wife Bettina cannot have children and paid Velina 50,000 euros for aura healing.

A murder case leads Mick into the world of modern treasure hunting. Moritz Weber, founder of a geocaching club in Essen, is found dead in the woods next to his “treasure,” a small Tupperware container.

When kindergarten teacher Felix suddenly falls dead off his bike on his way home from work, Mick and Andreas know that something is wrong. They are convinced that it is murder.

A dead butcher named Schill is found in the forest. Meisner faces a problem: the dead man is completely drained of blood, and the wound on his neck does not match any weapon.

A nude cleaner appears at a wild bachelorette party. But during the show, he suddenly collapses and dies. A poison attack! Mick and Andreas take up the investigation.

Mick's former classmate Thomas Ambach was assassinated.

Mick has quit the police force and is living in a cabin in the woods. His colleagues miss him, especially Andreas, who has to deal with Mick's nerdy successor. But Mick has no intention of returning.

The striker Maren from the women's football club Fortuna Rüttenscheid was murdered in the locker room.

Herbert Kupp is found dead in the church of the parish of St. Betram. During the investigation, Mick meets his old buddy Bodo Romanski again after almost 20 years and is quite astonished.

The body of Silke Hansen is found in a wooded area. She had been attending a weekend seminar run by couples coach Bernd Neumeister with her husband Erik and her 17-year-old son Rasmus.

Markus Rietz finds his wife Monika beaten to death in their home. For him, this is the second blow of fate within a short period of time: just a few days earlier, his wife had been in a car accident in which their daughter Paula was seriously injured.

After the sausage-grilling contest at the “Südsee” campground, there is no winner, but one dead person: groundskeeper Harry is found murdered in his office—with the competition's winner's trophy, of all things.

His first case leads Mick to the past. Bruno Semmert, who was convicted for the robbery and murder of Tobias Berschel, is pulled dead from the Baldeneysee after spending 15 years in prison.

In Mick's next case the dead body of a man is found in a Santa Claus costume. Mick and his younger colleague gradually discover that the deceased has led a double life.

After a scuffle with a local resident, homeless man Benno falls to the ground in a playground and is dead. Thanks to Meisner, Mick and Andreas quickly discover that Benno was killed with rat poison and did not die from the fall.

Spending your last hours in a temple of love – for some, a wonderful idea. For tax officer Martin Trabert, it's a nightmare. He doesn't die in the arms of a beautiful woman, but is roasted in a sauna.

Mick notices a young woman, Annika, sitting huddled and distraught in front of the police headquarters. She claims to have killed her mother. Shortly afterwards, Mick and Andreas are in Annika's apartment. There is no sign of a body!

When the nurse Lea Buchwald is found strangled, Mick and Andrew are puzzled.

Feng Shui master Linus Nader is killed with a targeted blow with a Shaolin sword.

Three fully loaded delivery vehicles are stolen. During his investigation, detective Jan Schreck is killed: an unknown perpetrator drives a nine-centimeter-long nail into the private investigator's heart – with a pneumatic nailer.

An explosive device detonates at a bus stop in a suburb of Essen.

Bestselling author Anja Friedrich is found dead – cause of death: poisoning! The first suspects are revealed by her unusual private life, as Anja Friedrich lived with not one, but two men.

Tabloid journalist Ramona Landau is found beaten to death in the editorial office of the “Essener Abendkurier.” There are a number of suspects, but there is no trace of the murder weapon.

The red-light district has changed radically in Mick's absence: instead of prostitutes, lifelike AI sex dolls dominate the scene. When the operator Renate Kowalski is murdered, Mick and Andreas investigate a world that appears modernized but harbors old problems: jealousy, shame, and blackmail.

The body of DJ “Black Raver” is found in a garbage can. Behind his mask is Leon Heitkämper, who secretly worked as a call boy alongside his career in the spotlight. Despite his anti-drug image, he died of an overdose – or was murdered. What makes this particularly explosive is that Andreas' son Karl was also involved in this scene – and may know more than is good for him.

The bon vivant Sascha König is shot dead in a car repair shop.

A slightly different management training on the upper floor of a prestigious bank, fought with paintball weapons against burnout, is stopped when someone gets killed.

Young police officer Silke Dresbach, who was determined to be the first woman to join Essen's special task force, was murdered at the Essen Police Academy. Did “conservative forces” at the academy want to prevent Silke from taking this career step?

Fiona Mehring is found dead in a beach bar – she has been poisoned. The first clue leads Mick and Andreas to the Essen branch of a corporate group that helps companies throughout Germany get rid of unwanted employees.

Mick's childhood idol Rudi Moos, German soccer legend and popular advertising icon, disappears without a trace from one minute to the next. Instead, his dead gardener Dragan Pali shows up. The Serbian was shot in the back with a revolver bullet.

After a botched assignment, Mick is demoted and sent out onto the streets as a patrol officer. But Andreas is also having problems in his new job at the State Criminal Police Office. His colleagues don't accept him, and his boss Koller believes Andreas is trying to blackmail him.