The corpse of a young man has been found in a lake where people of Leipzig used to swim. The team receives the notice of a burglary in the house of Mr. Orth and the drowned man is Thomas Orth.
The young soccer players of the RSV team are making their training. Two young men Tomasz and Mike had a little quarrel and some minutes later Tomasz and Mike jump to catch the ball with their heads and suddenly Mike falls down.
In Moscow there was a fire in a home for students and three German students died. Leni Trautzsche will travel to Moscow to investigate this case. She will meet an informer that has good information about the arson of the student home.
In the hustle and bustle of a Leipzig amusement park, the children Anna and Max disappear without a trace. Her mother searches in vain for them. A surveillance video shows the children walking with a man disguised as a pirate.
Murder in the Gewandhaus. During the entrance exam for a famous Leipzig string quartet, the candidate with the most promising chances, the talented violinist Judith Derneburg, is killed in the rehearsal room.
Martina Kessler, the successful new chief reporter of a Leipzig newspaper, tries in vain to elicit information from Chief Inspector Jan Maybach about a current case. The next morning she is found murdered in her apartment.
The junior boss Henning Lindner lies dead in the office of his construction company. First of all, all signs point to a robbery and murder. Apparently Henning caught the perpetrator in the act and was then ruthlessly slain.
The pub owner Rainer Oschmann is shot dead behind his counter at night. The empty cash register indicates a robbery. The SOKO learns from the widow that her husband had a heated argument with regular guest Klaus Mohn the previous evening.
Drama in the swimming pool. The weekly training session of the sisters Nathalie Hertz and Doreen Forster ends fatally for Doreen. The SOKO finds remnants of ketamine, a strong anesthetic, in Doreen's drinking bottle.
A dead Japanese man is found in a backyard in Leipzig. Brutally murdered and robbed. The pathological examination of the stomach contents leads the SOKO to a sushi bar.
A country road near a small abandoned village near Leipzig. Dr. Kai Westermann crashes into a tree in his car during the night and is instantly dead. The police officer Karl Schanzer observed the accident.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Köster lies dead in the moor tub of his own clinic. Cause of death: drowning. But before drowning, he was electrocuted. The electric shock was caused by a defibrillator, which is actually intended to save lives.
Karina Jaspers, a single young woman, was suffocated with a pillow in her bed. The self-amorous financial advisor Ralph Kessler quickly becomes the focus of the investigation. But Kessler denies having had an affair with Karina Jaspers.
A dead man in the south cemetery in Leipzig. Actually nothing unusual. But a murdered gravedigger next to a desecrated grave turns the place of rest and remembrance into a gruesome crime scene.
Gerhard Hoffmann, the manager of a construction site has been killed in the night: Hoffmann found his car with flat tires and saw a man, he tried to escape and went up in the construction site and the man pushed him through a window.
After her shift the policewoman Tanja Schubert went home and before the door of her house an unknown person broke her neck. She survives but remains paralytic and she can't speak.
Jürgen Sander, an 40 years old alcoholic man, has been fund dead on the sidewalk. The autopsy shows that he had 2 pro 1000 parts of alcohol in his blood. He was thrown out of the window with a broom.
The popular Leo Beckmann, artistic gymnastics coach from Munich has been found dead in his hotel room in Leipzig. The rescue man explains that Leo Beckmann used to take nitroglycerin for his heart condition.
Auto mechanic Walter Rogowski breeds Tosa Inos, Japanese attack dogs, in his spare time. One morning his customer Volker Hütter found him torn by a fighting dog in his workshop.
The restaurant owner Victor Achenbach was attacked and knocked down in his villa. The perpetrator can be identified quickly: Lea Greif. But she has the perfect alibi, because she is serving a prison sentence in the Leipzig JVA.
The high school student Till Bachmann races to his death in a car at night. The SOKO quickly realizes that it was not an accident. The brake lines were cut and the car was rammed by a second car.