After visiting a pub, investigator Hajo Trautzschke discovers two armed men and pursues them into a dark underground car park. Even before the requested reinforcements arrive, a fight ensues.
Wolfgang Welter had lost sight of his daughter in the botanical garden when seven-year-old Jule suddenly disappeared without a trace. The investigators get caught up in a bitter war of roses between the divorced parents.
Ina has to face an internal police investigation. It's about the suicide of a young woman who threw herself off the roof of the hospital after being raped. Ina did not succeed in stopping her from the desperate act.
The daughter of detective Dr. Woernle is found in her apartment badly injured by a shot in the stomach. Apparently she had a nightly visit from two young men she met in a nightclub.
During an emergency call, the patrol officers discover the actor Gojko Mitic with bloodstained hands next to the body of the doctoral student René Arent. But Mitic denies the crime.
After a young woman ran in front of a car driver in the middle of the night, SOKO was called to the hospital. The woman bears the marks of a struggle but can't remember anything - not even her own name.
During a 480-day mission to Mars, shortly before returning to Earth, Holger Jankus, the spacecraft's commander, is found dead in his bunk. Of course, the Mars mission is not a real flight, but a simulation in the psychological institute.
During a robbery at a beverage market in Leipzig, employee Manuela Geseke is shot dead by a masked perpetrator and an uninvolved witness is shot. At first everything looks as if the beverage store has been attacked by a serial criminal.
A fire devil has kept Leipzig in suspense for weeks. When there is a fatality in one of the burned buildings, the investigators are under great public pressure. The dead man was himself a member of the volunteer fire brigade.
Hajo Trautzschke gets a visit from his old friend Jack Meadow from London. Jack has meanwhile resigned from his police service. But it soon becomes clear that Jack didn't come to Leipzig because of Hajo.
Civil engineer Petersen is found dead in the river. Apparently, before he died, he was bound and tortured, and then suffocated. SOKO finds out that he was leading a double life, throwing secret fetish parties behind his wife Doreen's back.
A frivolous party in a posh neighbourhood: Heike Theumer's bachelorette party is being celebrated, hosted by landlady Tatjana Walz. In the end, the landlady Tatjana is dead and the bride Heike is a suspect.
16-year-old Mira König, who is treated as a great tennis hope, has disappeared. The girl did not come home after the evening training session, but initial investigations have revealed no evidence of a violent crime.
Professor Heinrich Feldhaus, the 60-year-old managing director of a private dental clinic in Leipzig, is brutally stabbed. Although the investigators were only able to arrest René Heppler shortly after the crime, the case is a mystery.
Norbert Eppelmann, managing director of a pharmaceutical company in Leipzig, is found murdered in his villa. The circumstances of the crime point to a professional execution.
The popular private tutor Markus Kilian is found shot dead in his apartment. He was a member of Scientology. SOKO assumes that the murderer is to be found among the opponents of Scientology.
On the way back from a crime scene, Jan accidentally catches ten-year-old Jakob shoplifting. Apparently it's a runaway who doesn't want to accept his mother Gitte Ehrmann's upcoming marriage to a new man.
Hajo Trautzschke is called to a badly battered corpse. The victim Dennis was a strength athlete in a gym where Jan is also a member. Investigators quickly figure out the illegal fight bets Dennis was involved in.
A criminal on record is murdered and leads the investigators on the trail of one of the most wanted violent criminals in Germany: Marvin Schröter. Prosecutor Binz expects the fastest possible arrest of the perpetrator.
Michael Terdegen is found seriously injured in a Leipzig backyard. Everything indicates that he had an argument with a hustler or his pimp. Shortly thereafter, the victim dies in the hospital.
Minna Tacke, an internationally successful Leipzig artist, is found murdered near her studio. It quickly turns out, it was a robbery and murder, because her latest pictures were cut out of the frames and have disappeared without a trace.
The SOKO team found traces of blood in an apartment in Leipzig, which indicate severe stab wounds. The apartment owner Rolf Metzger cannot be reached. But a taxi driver drove a young woman to the apartment the night before the crime.
Jan and Ina have to run for their lives in the Rochlitz mountains - pursued by Martin Wolff and his sons Ulrich and Bruno. Their escape is made more difficult by Rolf Metzger, whom they freed in the camp.