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24 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
43 mins
Ludwig Hubachner was skull-smashed Sunday night in his office with an award his locks firm won. He just returned from his Fklorida villa with second wife Lea, having left the management to his son Karl Freidrich and proxy agent Jürgen Wieland, who blame each-other for the dire state of business. That was reported by devoted company secretary Bettina Reimers, who turns out to be Ludwig's lover. The porcelain has its own story. Meanwhile the precinct buzzes about the cabriolets lent to Ortmann by Salzburg car dealership owner Jens Fischer.
Episode 2
43 mins
The hiker who found Karl Langer skull-smashed in a mountain cabin believes he saw a man rush off. Karl attended the day before the opening of the testament of his stepbrother, who owned their father's traditional costumes workshop, which Karl managed till he was sacked in favor of an employee, who now inherits the firm, the family gets consolation prizes. To chief Achziger's horror, the prime suspects are state attorney Claudia Wölk, in whose hotel room some 100.000 Euro was found, and her husband, senior police detective Anton, both from neighboring district Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Fresh widow Miriam Langer,'s alibi proves leaky, and she cashed nice sums from a joint Langers account, which proves the key after coded black accounting is found. Stockl noses why the Wölks don't share a hotel room.
Episode 3
43 mins
Stockl and Marie Hofer, who was contacting him for a lecture at the music academy, become formal suspects, having stumbled upon the skull-smashed Haiku-poet Shiki Masaoka in Isolde Daritz's boarding house, where he was giving a literary course. Husband Josef Daritz knew about her affair with the author, who actually seduced several students, including Marion Süßmayr, flirtatious wife of the designated cult minister, and manufacturer's heiress Klara Merz, whose managing brother Ferdinand Merz is her alibi. Sergeant Micki finds out Shiki Masaoka isn't even Japanese, but a suave German swindler who adopted a long-dead poet's identity.
Episode 4
43 mins
A snow groomer triggers a rock avalanche in the mountains, killing businessman and bon vivant Nils Wendlinger
Episode 5
43 mins
Alpine society president Erhard Graupner is fatally shot during a beer wagon excursion. Hansen and Hartl doubt if he was the intended victim, not the driver or any member sitting besides him, looking into the neighborhood. Soon they also find possible motives for Graupner in business and society context. Meanwhile Patrizia is not enthusiastic about mother Gerlinde Ortmann visiting, so eager to do accounting while Sven entertains her.
Episode 6
43 mins
Deputy devotional city folklore museum director Oliver Becks is found skull-smashed there, besides a broken showcase from which the Byzantine top-ranking icon was stolen. He suspected housemaster Wilhelm Deisner of stealing Russian orthodox artifacts, at least twice before, several are fond at Beck's home, with his fingerprints clumsily added. Hansen and Hartl also look into director Dr. Elvira Ebert and closely befriended scientist Christian Mendel, who succeeds as deputy, being each-other's nocturnal alibi, him being recently married, yet Roswitha claims not to object to his affair. Mother Gerlinde Ortmann has dates for a romantic dinner for three by the lake with Hansen and a Brahms concert with Achtziger, so she can leave Patrizia with Sven.
Episode 7
43 mins
Mother Gerlinde Ortmann finds city tourist agency inspector Joachim Wallner fatally skull-smashed in his hotel room. Hansen and Hartl first question hotel staff, mainly owner Amelie Breuer, who feared for her hotel star rating n account of the 'untidy' kitchen, but such applies to more establishments, including the very chef Heinz Widmann's closed restaurant, allegedly having refused to bribe. Junior colleague Hermann Kuhn now gets his post. Gerlinde can't describe the person she saw slip out of Wallner's room and bumped her and her suitcase, presumably his alleged affair Camilla Menzel, who has a remarkable boyfriend.
Episode 8
43 mins
Eco-obsessed owner Mitterpriller is found skull-smashed in his ailing bio-shop. Hansen and Hartl question his son Quirin, who reluctantly helps as clerk, his musical career ambition being ignored, he's even disinherited, but has a remarkable report with his stepmother, the sole heiress. Chain executive Heinz Klostermeier could finally achieve a take-over under the new management. A secret affair yields other motives.
Episode 9
43 mins
Stefan Lechner, favorite for the national ice carving competition, is found skull-smashed in his ice sculpturing firm's cold storage by employee Andreas Benthues and PR agent Cosima von Windacker. Hansen and Hartl question firstly competitor Rüdiger Puchstett, who lodges and flirts with juror Marie Hofer, having left the competition after a recent row, but must leave her to re-enter, then find hidden bonds.
Episode 10
43 mins
Jürgen Schneider was shot dead while preparing a bid for the German Biathlon Championships in Ganting.
Episode 11
43 mins
Johannes Freisinger is found murdered in his garden, by the birdhouse. The pair of rare bearded vultures he was breeding are gone, so Stadler and Lind presume a robbery. Contractor Peter Koob's trail looks most promising, without alibi. Meanwhile Ortmann must help check the music academy's accounts as well as the victim's.
Episode 12
43 mins
Team cyclist Toni Horn broke his neck by fatal fall besides a field road, being pushed. Cycling club president Richard Wageneder admits their were rivalry conflicts, mainly with Heinrich Fellner, Horn's business competitor. Stadler and Lind investigate also club physiotherapist Andrea Laimer, who had affairs with Horn and Fellner, and may be involved in doping several club members. Achtziger expects VIP visits to the music academy's latest concert, notably ministry superior Lause-Köning and spouse, but fitting accommodation is rare, as for the musicians.
Episode 13
43 mins
Author and ladies' man Harry Rotburg is in Rosenheim reading from his book. Later, his agent is discovered dead.
Episode 14
43 mins
Innkeeper Fritz Grubmüller is found in the nearby lake, skull-smashed. Fresh widow Elisabeth inherits all but was often rowing and points to competitor Ernst Weixelbaumer. Korbinian is back, to investigate with Lindt. Elisabeth and Fritz's estranged brother Klemens try to hide an affair, but he also had one with employee Anna Leischko. Stockl suggests chief Achtziger helps Cornelia Kepplinger apply for a controller job for romantic interest.
Episode 15
43 mins
Mountain rifleman Gerhard dies during the rehearsal for the upcoming alpine mass.
Episode 16
43 mins
Dr. Bern Herzog awakens from three weeks in coma in hospital in presence of nurse Martha Solenka, his secret lover, and accuses colleague Dr. Kurt Weller of having beaten him so badly, but he has an alibi for the time testified by Mrs. Herzog. Korbinian and Lind learn both man rivaled for a promotion. Weller asks patient Achtziger for help against alleged ruthless plotter Herzog, so Sir takes charge in person. Herzog's wife Margit, who would get nothing in case of divorce, discretely has a hot lover months longer: junior doc Eduard Heinzen. Herzog is reported dead by Margit after Weller allegedly found him dead already seeking to settle their feud. Munich commandeers comptroller Ortmann half a year for a reorganization, to be replaced by insecure stickler Felix Seitz. A false-proven testimony proves key.
Episode 17
43 mins
Hotel Prinz guest Gebhart Rübesam is found murdered in his room by maid Sonja Krichhoff. He actually was an undercover alias for Christian Raabe, a hotel tester. Did hotel owner Dirk van Brinken prevent at all cost Prinz being audited? Hansen investigates with Stadler, who resides at Marie Hofer's farm, where new controller Seitz also moves in. Raabe systematically earned bribes.
Episode 18
43 mins
The rectory's housekeeper, Anna Faltermayr, is found dead in the garden of the rectory. Because of her gossiping, inspectors Sven Hansen and Anton Stadler theoretically consider anyone in the community to be a perpetrator
Episode 19
43 mins
Banker Waldhier's fatally bullet-pierced corpse is found by publican Joe and his 'golf pupil' coroner Sabine Eckstein on the local club links. Sven and Korbinian's prime suspect is contractor Volker Feisler, who sued him for a 1,5 loss. The detectives also look into the banker's deputy Ludwig, who believed to be his bastard son, the unaffected fresh widow and club staff, who report Waldhier was no gentleman player, while the president was about to have his credit canceled and probably had an affair with the fresh widow, who would go empty in case of divorce. A rare sharpshooter rifle was used. Meanwhile VIPs insist the upcoming golf tournament shouldn't be compromised and Munich budget official Felix Seitz informs about the upcoming quarterly accounts and volunteers to look into the banker's accounting and finds the fraud.
Episode 20
43 mins
Logging and sowing company boss Olaf Giese (57) is found in his villa by the shifty mailman, fatally stabbed with a letter opener. His missing coins collection and damages suggest robbery. His secretary Brigitta Marx points detectives Hansen and Korbinian, who wonder why fresh widow Sabine noticed nothing, to recently fired moonlighter Stephan Spieleder. Olaf allegedly had a secret affair with Brigitta, who claims Sabine knew she would be left. Meanwhile Seitz cues Stockl to apply for an expensive top-range coffee machine and orders it before it's approved.
Episode 21
43 mins
Golf trainer Tanja Sigl finds the president of the Rosenheim golf club, Walter Pacher, dead on the golf course.
Episode 22
43 mins
Rising football star Timo Krause was fatally stabbed at home, probably not by a robber. Hansen and Hartl look into stingy club coach and greedy agent Rainer Kosinsky, transfer rival player Ulli Stiegler and adulterous fresh widow Jessica. Chief Achziger dumps art boarding house Daritz's dreary exposition opening on ladies Hofer and Stockl, while Seitz lodges there, long ignoring his room #5 once was a murder site.
Episode 23
43 mins
Hansen and Hartl investigate the fatal skull-smashing with two different objects in the business law office of Dr. Wolfgang Jentsch's legal junior partner Marco Rehm. Jentsch was about to be replaced and Sebastian Burger, a fellow marathon runner who is now rid of his main rival for the promotion, suggests Rehm got into trouble as womanizer, also with former colleague Larissa Pohl, who claims to have waved his moves. A faked alibi closes the case. In Achtziger's absence on a legal conference in Munich, Marie and Stockl must tend to wining painter Isolde Daritz, who is holding an exposition in the music academy, and insists on a security chief, so Michi is commandeered, helping her husband Josef, Marie and caterer Jo Caspar, but she insists on a lightning system way above budget, while reputed critic professor Vorbach attends unexpected and praises the refreshing sobriety.
Episode 24
43 mins
A walker, with his Jack Russell, at the lake makes a gruesome discovery: a corpse floating in the reeds. The detectives begin their investigation.