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WaPo Bodensee Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Feuerwerk
50 mins
At the yacht club's annual midsummer night fireworks, respected sponsor and mentor Uli is fatally shot from shore, his wife hospitalized with cardiac arrest from the shock. The team works out he actually made many enemies, including desperate debtors, and managed to duck abuse complaints as sailing mentor, in one case leaving the alleged victim paraplegic, her family dangerously desperate too.
Episode 2
Straußenjagd
50 mins
A widow who runs an ostrich farm with her senior father in law reports an unprecedented missing bird. It's found at the lake shore, died from many knife stabs, which Nele refuses to recognize as a crime. Denied a stake-out, Pirmin gets mildly injured holding one in his spare time. Prime suspect is the estranged son Jacob, who feels cheated out of his inheritance as mother keeps him out of management, allegedly incompetent.
Episode 3
Abgerutscht
48 mins
A female's corpse is found drifting in a boat on the lake, seemingly a romantic suicide, but forensics rues murder and posthumous move. Prime suspect is her halfwit pharmacist lover Felix Genzgen, but the team finds a web of debauchery, including his domineering crone mother Marianne.
Episode 4
Alte Liebe
48 mins
The corpse of Alfred Fischer, Swiss resident of the luxury seniors home, floats on the lake. The flirtatious big spender made friends as well as jealous enemies among the fellow residents, staff and visitors, including Nele's mother Mechthild Fehrenbach, who fits the description of a woman seen at a suspicious time, and soiled her dress. Sole heir is estranged, indebted cousin Reto Neumann, who finally visited after years. Pirmin solves the case, just in time as the killer may strike again.
Episode 5
Verschwunden
48 mins
A driverless boat on the Rhine initially alerts the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), as traces of blood are found on the deck. However, the supposed blood turns out to be red anti-rust paint, and so the case falls under the jurisdiction of the "WaPo" (Police and Police). Jäger quickly realizes something is amiss and, together with his colleagues Arda Turan and Frank van Dijk, sets out to find the owner. However, Duisburg businessman Niklas Brandt, who owns the boat, has disappeared, and his wife's behavior is rather strange. The "WaPo" colleagues want to take a closer look. An observation confirms their suspicions: The man has been kidnapped. But who is behind it? The "WaPo" discovers that Niklas Brandt has made a powerful enemy. However, there are even more people in his circle who are playing a dirty game. The situation is serious, and a race against time begins for Jäger and Arda. Will they manage to free Brandt from his kidnappers in time? And at home, Jäger has another problem to deal with: his daughter Nadine has separated from her boyfriend and is moving in with him along with her granddaughter Mira.
Episode 6
Der Seemärling
48 mins
Is a legendary sea monster from Lake Constance seeking its victims in the home of the head of the water police after 100 years? According to legend, the "Seemärling" (Sea Monster) claims three virgins on three consecutive nights, dragging them to the depths of the lake. First Caroline, who had spent the night at Johanna Fehrenbach's house, disappears, then her little sister Sina. Now, Nele's daughter Johanna would be next. Nele and her new colleague Paul Schott are savvy enough detectives to recognize the Seemärling as a myth and create a perpetrator profile that points to a sex offender. But then a boat catches fire several kilometers away, drawing all police resources away from Nele's house, where Mechthild, left alone, is desperately fighting an intruder. A shot rings out. When Nele and Paul realize they have fallen for a diversionary tactic, Paul's outstanding skills, which he apparently acquired as a police officer in Kabul, come into play.
Episode 7
Blutsbrüder
48 mins
It all looks like routine for the Water Police: A poacher disguised as a fisherman is caught, but manages to evade capture thanks to his nimble getaway boat. Meanwhile, Nele Fehrenbach and her colleague Paul Schott discover the body of wealthy farmer Otto Brunner, shot dead, on the nearby shore. Their investigation leads them to a pair of brothers who couldn't be more different. On one side of the property they inherited from their father, burdened with debt, lives the successful fruit grower Fred Romberg, and on the other side lives his rather neglected brother Sepp, who scrapes by with petty crime. Despite all their arguments, both brothers share a deadly hatred for their neighbor, the murdered Brunner. Brunner had recently hired private investigator Josef Stocker. Since an accident, Stocker has been confined to a wheelchair, lives on an old motor yacht in the port of Constance, and, on Brunner's orders, was not only searching for the mysterious poacher who had eluded the water police. He was also following Fred's beautiful wife, Vera, to an excessive degree. When she suddenly disappears, events spiral out of control. Long-hidden connections are suddenly revealed. For Nele, Paul, Julia, and Pirmin, time is now ticking far too quickly.
Episode 8
Schneewittchen
48 mins
Nele Fehrenbach and Paul Schott have never made such a strange discovery before: a sailing boat that had long been reported missing is drifting on Lake Constance - and on board is a TV star who is also missing, but who simply cannot remember how she got there. It quickly turns out that Nana von Lohe is the daughter of a deceased famous plastic surgeon who ran his clinic on the lake. When the police deliver Nana to her family, they get their first surprise. Instead of reacting with relief and joy, Nana's sister Benita and stepmother Ilsa seem rather uncertain and nervous. Curious, the police, supported by their Swiss colleague Captain Aubry, uncover a number of inconsistencies. Was medical malpractice being covered up? Benita von Lohe, who took over the clinic from her father as a surgeon, would be particularly interested in this. And who is the great unknown who is interested in the clinic? Did the stepmother want to get rid of the youngest child so as not to have to share the inheritance? Finally, it is the hands-on Mechthild Fehrenbach who, with her love of Baden cuisine, discovers a crucial clue. Nana von Lohe occasionally helped TV chef Eckehard Prinz as an assistant. And then she suddenly disappeared again.