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Hubert ohne Staller Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2017 - 2018
Episode 1
Der Räucherschorsch dreht durch
49 mins
Hubert and Staller are called to open an apartment where water damage is suspected. It quickly becomes clear why no one had answered the door for the caretaker: the young tenant had been bludgeoned to death with a frying pan. While Hubert and Staller examine the crime scene, events unfold rapidly elsewhere: the new bakery owner, Barbara Hansen, wants to buy a smoked ham from farmer Meißner's farm. The easygoing and even-tempered Räucherschorsch, as everyone calls him, seems restless and nervous that day. When Hansen accidentally discovers a stash of blood-stained clothing, she gets a bad feeling. Just as she dials Hubert's number, Meißner overpowers her and binds and gagged her in his barn. Meanwhile, Hubert and Staller learn from a witness at the crime scene that someone was seen running out of the house and getting into a van with the words "Räucherschorsch" on it. Now Hubert remembers the interrupted call from Barbara. Since the bakery door is locked, they force their way into the shop. There's no sign of Hansen, but her calendar shows an appointment with "Räucherschorsch" (a smoker)... It slowly dawns on the police: Something's fishy here. When they arrive at Meißner's farm, he barricades himself in the barn and threatens to blow up the biogas plant, and with it, himself and Barbara Hansen. Police Commissioner Girwidz intervenes personally in the face of the dramatic hostage situation and tries to defuse the situation diplomatically. But Räucherschorsch not only denies knowing the dead woman, he also refuses to leave the barn until his innocence is proven, keeping the entire precinct on its toes.
Episode 2
Heiliger Zorn
48 mins
Hubert and Staller are called to the community center. Cemetery caretaker Alois Berger was found dead in his apartment. He apparently took his own life by electrocuting himself. The pathology examination reveals that Berger had already been stunned with a stun gun. So it was murder. The deceased's superior, Pastor Paul Wiedemann, appears above all suspicion, but otherwise knows a great deal about the murdered man's private life. Only recently, the cemetery caretaker had mourned the loss of his beloved wife Marie. The man prayed devoutly for Marie, but when that proved unsuccessful, he began to struggle with God and his faith. During their investigation, Hubert and Staller find themselves at odds with Judge Saathoff, of all people, a situation that Police Commissioner Girwidz is not particularly pleased about and calls on his staff to show more respect for authority. The two police officers are unconcerned, but they discover that Berger apparently had increased contact with pharmacist Stefan Goldinger during his wife's long illness. He claims to the police that he was blackmailed by Berger, but that he had nothing to do with the murder. Hubert and Staller discover that the pharmacist was involved in the machinations of illegal euthanasia providers. Perhaps the euthanasia organization was even a thorn in the side of the Church, and Pastor Wiedemann and Berger worked together, blackmailed the pharmacist, and pocketed a considerable sum? Pharmacist Goldinger, in turn, had confessed several things to Pastor Wiedemann under the holy sacrament of confession. When Hubert and Staller try to investigate further in this direction, the seal of confession gets in the way. Pastor Wiedemann steadfastly refuses to reveal any more, but allows them to search the church. A short time later, the two police officers make a monstrous discovery.
Episode 3
Dringender Tatverdacht
48 mins
Impresario Ferdl Rauchschwarz is found dead in his apartment. The cause of death is a pulmonary embolism caused by a syringe of air injected into him. Suspicion quickly falls on Hubert's ex-wife, pathologist Dr. Anja Licht. She is seen on the video surveillance tapes, and her fingerprints are on the lethal injection. Hubert and Staller have no choice but to arrest her, especially since it turns out that the doctor and the deceased were lovers. Anja Licht has no memory of the previous night, and Staller vehemently doubts the pathologist's guilt. The police suspect that Dr. Licht was lured into a trap and begin investigating the deceased's professional background. Ferdl Rauchschwarz ran an agency for mental artists, mind readers, and illusionists. Rauchschwarz maintained a close relationship with his former partner, Pit Magnusson, which ultimately ended in a bitter argument. Also in the focus of the investigation are mind-reader Carola Schnoor, Magnusson's colleague and right-hand woman, and the rising star in the variety show scene, mental artist Yannick Riva. It quickly becomes clear to Hubert and Staller: the solution to the mystery lies in manipulation. Hubert takes heart and returns to the crime scene with his ex-wife Anja. During a role-playing game, in which the police officer takes on the role of the alter ego Ferdl Rauchschwarz, he attempts to unearth Anja's buried memories. Meanwhile, Staller tries hypnosis himself to get to the bottom of the matter.
Episode 4
Ausgebrannt
47 mins
When the wallet and car keys of hospital physician Dr. Heike Krämer are found flushed from a drainpipe, Staller wants to personally deliver the find to the attractive woman. However, in the clinic parking lot, the police officer makes a gruesome discovery: The chief physician of the private burnout clinic is stuck headfirst in a drain and appears to have drowned. Clinic owner Konrad Weiss is shocked but wants to downplay the horrific incident to protect his patients. The deceased's husband, psychologist Jürgen Krämer, remains reserved. He hints that their marriage was no longer in good shape, which is why he wasn't worried when his wife didn't come home that night. But then Hubert and Staller, with the help of Caroline Fuchs, a pathologist from Munich and herself a patient at the burnout clinic, discover that Heike Krämer had already drowned in the clinic's in-house pool and was subsequently transported to the drain. Later, when Hubert is alone in the office, his gun suddenly fires. His colleagues fear that he was trying to harm himself, as he is clearly suffering from the fact that his ex-wife, Anja Licht, has moved away. Girwidz seeks professional help and forces him to speak with psychologist Dr. Theresa Bayer. She has a very uncooperative patient, Hubert, but then an unexpectedly interesting job offer arises, which makes Hubert and Staller suspicious: Clinic director Weiss offers the psychologist the position of the murdered chief physician. Coincidence or calculation?
Episode 5
Eigentor
48 mins
Maxi's arrest is instantly forgotten. Hubert and Staller care for the confused children: Were drugs or alcohol involved? Forensic pathologist Dr. Caroline Fuchs can't confirm this, but rather suspects food poisoning. The children claim to have eaten lunch together at the Italian restaurant next to the soccer field before training. Hubert and Staller immediately close the restaurant. Landlord Fabrizio D'Angelo and his wife Lucia are horrified. They insist they had nothing to do with it. They also expect a lot of customers for the match between two youth teams next weekend. Police Commissioner Girwidz is also pushing for a swift resolution of the case. As the new patron of SV Münsing, he is also keen to ensure the smooth running of the upcoming matchday. An initial inspection of the restaurant seems to confirm the innocence of the operators. But then Dr. Fuchs discovers traces of fly agaric toxin in the dead coach's stomach. This can't be a coincidence. While Riedl is left to deal with the little backpack thief, Staller dares to conduct a selfless test: To quickly and unbureaucratically find out how and when the poison got into the food, he orders all the meals the poisoned players had eaten at the restaurant.
Episode 6
Schwein gehabt
48 mins
Hubert and Staller are faced with a nasty sight: rival pig farmers Ferdinand Mayer and Josef Schmidl are having a heated argument. When Hubert tries to intervene, Staller suddenly collapses. Then, in the hospital, he receives the sobering diagnosis: if he doesn't get his high cholesterol under control through a change in diet, he faces a heart attack, a stroke, and death. Staller plunges into a deep existential crisis and questions his entire life. Then, pig farmer Josef Schmidl is murdered. Suspicion quickly falls on Schmidl's son, who was seen wandering the streets covered in blood and drunk. But the blood didn't come from his father, but from Ferdinand Mayer's best breeding sow. It turns out that the boy stabbed her in revenge because Mayer beat his father. But Schmidl's wife soon comes under suspicion as well: Hubert discovers that she's having an affair with nutritionist Jan Kurtzmann. Of all people. Because he's just saving Staller's life by giving cooking classes. Nevertheless, he questions Kurtzmann during one of his cooking lessons. At the same time, forensic pathologist Caroline Fuchs finally identifies the murder weapon: a pan. Hubert orders an examination of Kurtzmann's pans, and sure enough, one of them is the murder weapon. The nutritionist denies committing the murder. Hubert and Staller are skeptical, but then the tables turn and they uncover a huge scandal. Of all things, farmer Mayer's dead sow helps solve the case.
Episode 7
Spieglein
48 mins
A young woman lies dead in a cow pasture - drowned in a puddle of water. On her arm, she wears a gold bracelet with engraved initials, which doesn't quite match her simple clothing. But who is the beautiful stranger? Hubert and Staller are faced with a mystery. They have a suspicion that is soon confirmed: The pretty woman had drowned and was already dead when she was brought to the meadow. From the petty criminal Baldur, Hubert and Staller learn who the dead woman is: Danila, a Romanian guest worker who had previously worked in the bar of the shady Konopka. Konopka had sexually harassed Danila, so she allegedly fled into the nearby forest in her bathrobe. After that, her trail went cold. Hubert and Staller reconstruct the escape and, after wandering through the forest for a while, come across the remote farm of farmer Magdalena Brandstetter. She admits that Danila had indeed shown up at her door a few months ago. Since the woman was looking for work, Magdalena promptly hired Danila as a harvest worker on her farm, which was threatened with decline. When the farmer's wife couldn't pay the agreed wages, Danila moved on and allegedly found employment with the wealthy farmer Theres Freydank. Hubert and Staller follow this trail as well, discovering that Theres Freydank employs illegal foreign workers on her farm. They also discover gold jewelry on her like the one they found on the dead woman, but how does this fit with a motive? Hubert and Staller try to put the various pieces of the puzzle together.
Episode 8
Überfall postum
48 mins
Hubert and Staller witness a gas station robbery. The robber escapes, but the case seems to be quickly solved: The DNA traces at the crime scene belong to Heiko Martens. There's just one problem: The man is dead. Martens was reported missing after a boating accident and was only recently officially declared deceased. Grieving widow Sabine Jäger-Martens harbors hope that her husband might still be alive. The dead man's sister, Roswitha Martens, has her own theory: Her sister-in-law Sabine wanted to kill the indebted Heiko on the boat to get his hands on his life insurance, but her attempt failed. Now her brother has returned to take revenge and prevent the money from being paid out. Hubert and Staller suspect a conspiracy by the couple: Heiko wanted to get rid of his debts and faked his death. Now he's back to pocket the life insurance with his wife. The two observe the widow meeting with a mysterious man. Is it Heiko? But when Hubert and Staller give chase, he escapes again. Then a decrypted video recording reveals: It wasn't the dead man who robbed the gas station, but his sister. Did she pretend Heiko was still alive so her sister-in-law wouldn't get anything? But that doesn't quite make sense. Roswitha continues to insist that her sister-in-law is responsible for her brother's death. When the boat on which Martens is supposed to have had the accident is brought into play, Hubert and Staller have to ask themselves whether the dead man's sister might not be right after all.
Episode 9
Über sieben Brücken
48 mins
District manager Girwidz dreams of a brilliant white Hollywood smile. Dentist Dr. Noll is supposed to fulfill this wish. But the visit goes differently than expected: The dentist has barely applied the first whitening tray when he is interrupted by a loud ringing at the office door. When Noll doesn't return, Girwidz goes to search for him and makes a horrifying discovery: Dr. Noll is lying dead in front of the door with a syringe in his carotid artery. The cause is quickly determined: death by poisoning. Caroline Fuchs finds a highly toxic pesticide that had been administered intravenously to the deceased. A case for Hubert and Staller. They soon discover that Noll's wife uses the same pesticide in her garden. Karin Noll even seems to have a motive. Because a stack of parking tickets from the same street in Munich was found in the office. Noll was a regular at a sauna club there. Hubert and Staller confront the dentist's widow with their discovery, but realize that there are apparently women who allow their husbands to indulge in such escapades. Impressed by the dentist's widow's tolerant attitude, they search for other suspects. A prime candidate is boat rental owner Bernhard Dobel, whose jaw was accidentally broken by dentist Noll during wisdom tooth surgery. He and Noll were competitors in an upcoming sailing regatta. Dobel believes Noll deliberately broke his jaw to eliminate him as a rival. But what does the mysterious note that pathologist Fuchs finds in Noll's lab coat mean? The trail leads Hubert and Staller directly to the dental laboratory of prosthetics manufacturer Volker Schütte, whom the police thoroughly investigate.
Episode 10
Zu gut für diese Welt
48 mins
During a routine check, Hubert and Staller stop the pretty Maria Strobl in her convertible. Only after the woman has left does Staller notice blood on his colleague's hand, who had been leaning on the trunk of the convertible. This matter must be investigated. They promptly issue an alert to their colleagues. Indeed, the wanted convertible stops shortly thereafter at an intersection directly in front of Riedl. Riedl recognizes Maria Strobl behind the wheel but lets her drive on. Riedl conceals the encounter from his colleagues and heads to the Strobl family farm himself. Meanwhile, Hubert and Staller have Dr. Fuchs examine the blood on Hubert's hand. A DNA comparison makes the case explosive: The blood on the convertible comes from Stefan Haider, a serious criminal from Vienna who has gone into hiding. At the Strobls' estate, Riedl meets Maria's brother Ben, who took over the farm after his father's death. Ben and Riedl know each other from school, as Riedl was dating Ben's sister, Maria Strobl - his great love. The reunion, however, is frosty: Riedl learns that Ben has gone astray in recent years and recently served a prison sentence. But now he intends to make a fresh start. Riedl doesn't know whether to believe Ben's intentions, and Maria also seems to be hiding something. The young woman brazenly claims that Riedl must have been mistaken: she wasn't even in the convertible. After a confidential conversation with colleague Lena Winter, Riedl lets Hubert and Staller in on his little secret. The two put so much pressure on the siblings Maria and Ben that Maria gives in: She tells the police where the bloodstained convertible is hidden, along with its very live cargo in the trunk. But it's suddenly gone.
Episode 11
Waidgerecht
47 mins
Called by an agitated couple of tourists, Hubert and Staller discover the hunter Flachsbichler in a tree stand - dead, his hand on the trigger of his rifle. In the nearby meadow, they also find eight hares - three of them killed, two more also killed, but strangely tied to the field, and finally, three still alive hares, also tied up. What was going on here? The case gains momentum when the investigators learn from a mysterious Russian student, who had apparently worked as an interpreter for the dead man, that he was planning to steal a valuable piece of land from his neighbor Sunninger and resell it to fellow countrymen of the young woman - for many times its current value. Because selling the land, which had been in the family for generations, was absolutely out of the question for Sunninger, Flachsbichler had apparently offered his neighbor a bizarre hunting bet: The goal was to kill as many hares as possible in a field during a full moon. Whoever shoots the most wins. If Sunninger-known as the best marksman far and wide-were to lose this bet, he would have to give up his property. Otherwise, Flachsbichler would have to pay off debts that had plagued Sunninger for a long time. Eliciting this from the stubborn Sunninger demands a great deal from Hubert, Staller, and especially the three rabbits, whom our investigators skillfully employ to corner their sole suspect and witness. And then Riedl, too, has to stand up for himself at an on-site meeting, putting in considerably more physical effort than he'd like-as a fake rabbit. But only in this way do Hubert and Staller succeed in uncovering what happened to the rabbits that night. There's just one important thing left to clarify: How did the hunter Flachsbichler die in his hunting lodge? Only a selfie of Staller with the mysterious Russian woman puts the investigation on the right track.
Episode 12
Dirndl-Krieg
48 mins
Hubert and Staller suspect him of planning to commit the murder in order to seize the thriving dirndl business in time for the divorce hearing. But Bär and the model cover for each other - using a shared breakfast as an alibi. When Dr. Caroline Fuchs, upon closer examination, finds traces of nail polish on the victim's neck, which can also be attributed to Emily Müller, the trail becomes increasingly hot. And when the owner of the nail salon, Uschi Bach, confirms that Emily Müller had an appointment with her that morning, the alibi is blown up. Hubert and Staller arrest the lovers in the beer garden, but then Girwidz gets in their way. Because of a visit from a major American investor, he doesn't want the operation to attract attention under any circumstances and wants the interrogation to be as discreet as possible. Emily Müller admits to the false alibi and the altercation with the owner of the traditional costume shop, but claims she had nothing to do with the murder. However, there might be a suitable motive: She, too, wants to become a dirndl designer and open a shop. But the victim's competitor, Gabi Morell, also has a compelling motive, hoping to take on a highly lucrative contract: 10,000 dirndls were ordered from Desiree Hopf - by Girwidz's American guest, of all people, who wants to build a Bavarian tourist village in the USA based on the model of Wolfratshausen. Since Hubert and Staller have no conclusive evidence in the murder case, but still don't believe it was suicide, they plan to set a trap for the suspects. Lena Winter poses as a newly appointed dirndl designer, and Girwidz arranges for her to secure the major contract from America. Yazid's workshop is promptly converted into a fashion studio, and a fashion show featuring the latest designs is intended to lure the real perpetrator into the net.
Episode 13
Der Pferdeflüsterer
48 mins
Hubert and Staller find a saddled but riderless horse by the side of the road. In the saddlebag, the two police officers discover a cell phone and are able to identify the owner: Tina Sandler, the daughter of stud farm owner Wolfgang Sandler. It quickly becomes clear: the young woman has been kidnapped. A kidnapper is demanding two million euros for her release. Hubert and Staller plan to arrest the perpetrator while he is handing over the ransom. Unfortunately, their plan fails. The kidnapper escapes with the money, and Staller is ambushed. During the chase, the man locks him in the very cellar where Tina Sandler is also being held captive. While Staller looks for a way out of the cellar, Hubert worries about his missing partner. With Lena Winter's support, the search for Staller and the kidnapper is in full swing. The two find an ancient bottle of chloroform on the kidnapped woman's riding route. It also turns out that wealthy horse owner Constantin Lech has a closer relationship with Tina Sandler than he'd like to admit. When a surveillance video proves that his car was near the crime scene at the right time, Hubert and Lena arrest the man. But he protests his innocence. Meanwhile, Staller manages to free himself and the kidnapping victim. While searching the basement dungeon, the investigators find the same chloroform bottles as those at the crime scene. It also turns out that the farm was once inhabited by a veterinarian who worked at the Sandler stud farm. She is now dead, and the Sandlers have had no contact with her for years. Is it a coincidence that the kidnapper hid his victim there, or does the crime have something to do with the family's past? Hubert and Staller are in the dark, but they are certain of one thing: The kidnapper won't escape them a second time.
Episode 14
Tulpen aus Ammerland
47 mins
Milk cans lead Hubert and Staller to a lonely country road. As they search the area for clues, they make a horrific discovery: a jogger is lying in the ditch, apparently run over. The victim is quickly identified: Horst Brendel, co-owner of the nursery in Ammerland. The search for the perpetrator is more difficult. His business partner and stepdaughter, Ulrike Lautner, and Boris Jablonski, the company's only employee, describe their relationship with him as good. When Hubert and Staller come across the vehicle used in the crime in a wooded area, its owner, Frank Hofmeister, is also ruled out as the perpetrator: He hasn't driven the car for weeks due to illness. But then suspicion falls on Boris Jablonski. He recently lost his driver's license for drunk driving. Staller has a suspicion: The employee may have been involved in shady dealings and was caught by his boss. It's a good thing that her colleague Riedl is currently attending the same preparatory seminar for the "idiot test" and can discreetly test Jablonski. But it's her smart colleague Lena Winter who puts her on the right track. During her research into the history of the Brendel/Lautner family, she stumbles upon explosive details: Ulrike Lautner's biological mother died in a mountaineering accident just a few months earlier - on the very day Boris Jablonski lost his driver's license. Now it's time to use a ruse to refute the supposed alibis of all the main suspects - and Hubert and Staller are known to be true pros at that.
Episode 15
Puppenmord
48 mins
Kerstin Wilm, the private cleaning lady of station manager Girwidz, is supposed to spruce up the police station for a press conference. But just as she's about to clean up Hubert and Staller's mess, she succumbs to poisoning - from tea bags. The first lead leads the two police officers to a luxurious breakfast café. According to a reservation confirmation, the dead cleaning lady had arranged to meet an unknown man for breakfast there. Surprisingly, the unknown man turns out to be station manager Girwidz. The cleaning lady had asked him for a favor in return for the cleaning. Girwidz can't say what the favor was. For Staller, the case is clear: jealousy was at play. Hubert has a different suspicion: Kerstin Wilm had private information about her clients that she always liked to gossip about. She hadn't even stopped at Girwidz. So what if she had discovered something about one of her clients that she shouldn't have? For example, there's Lotte Sommer, the lawyer's wife, who, together with her tomboyish gardener, did more than just trim the hedges; or her husband, notary Andreas Sommer, who is rumored to have inherited the chic lakeside house through inheritance swindles. Then there are the Iglhauts, who ran their deceased great-aunt's estate into the ground and were cruelly disinherited; or that sinister doll doctor, who still lives with his mother and restores fragile porcelain dolls. Suddenly, even more questions arise: What's the story behind the ominous letter that cleaning lady Kerstin inherited from her deceased great-aunt Iglhaut? Why the hell is Girwidz constantly interfering in the investigation? But even though Hubert rules out a relationship between Girwidz and Kerstin Wilm, it's Girwidz's connection to his cleaning lady that leads to the solution of the case.
Episode 16
Weiblich, böse, tot
48 mins
What a gruesome discovery for Hubert and Staller: The attractive brewery manager Sabine Münzer was strangled and placed in a wooden barrel in the boiler room of their brewery. It's clear to Hubert and Staller: This was no accident. The autopsy reveals a cufflink with a ram motif in the victim's neck. Apparently, the murderer deliberately placed it there. If that wasn't a crime of revenge. Sabine Münzer had many enemies in Wolfratshausen. She had a falling out with her brother Matthias when their father chose the younger daughter, not him, as his successor. Sabine Münzer's hot-tempered husband, Bruno Esser, is also prone to jealousy. Both could be possible perpetrators. But then Riedl discovers: The mysterious cufflink found in the corpse's neck belongs to the well-known rock musician Wastl Fischer. When Hubert and Staller confront the artist, he claims the cufflink was stolen ten years ago. But then he leads Hubert and Staller to a hot new lead: that of Jasmin Hollstein. She was Bruno Esser's childhood sweetheart, and Sabine Münzer was her rival. She ultimately won the competition and married Bruno Esser. That means four suspects without alibi. Nevertheless, the investigators are still in the dark. Staller suggests an unusual approach based on a precedent from Denmark. There, an innocent man was arrested in the hope that the real murderer would turn himself in for reasons of conscience. So Hubert and Staller turn to the nearest innocent man, Yazid, and arrest him. But will the Danish method also work in Wolfratshausen?