The Best Episodes Written By Bernd Lange

A detective tries to extract the location of a body from a serial killer’s hardened lover. Then the inspector puts herself on the line and steps in.

The inspectors question a real estate developer about a missing handyman - and the skeleton found beneath his first project in the former East Berlin.

A once clear-cut case of domestic violence grows murky as a powerful father-in-law’s lawyer inserts himself into the mix to control the narrative.

The ninth crime scene from Franconia, "High Mass for Toni," takes Chief Inspector Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) into his private past. The press release describes that after years of no contact, he receives a surprise call from his old friend Marcus Borchert (Pirmin Sedlmeir), who is now a pastor. Marcus invites Felix to the Sunday sermon to reveal something about Antonia Hentschel, nicknamed Toni. Toni was Felix's great love during his student days in Berlin. But shortly before the service, Marcus is found murdered. Felix learns at the crime scene that Toni committed suicide two years ago.

Tobias Benzinger is shot dead, a young lawyer in a law firm with a considerable number of rather shady clients and a high success rate in criminal cases. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg suspect that his death could have something to do with the law firm's cases. The head of the law firm, Rainer Benzinger, is extremely negative towards this theory. He retreats entirely into attorney-client confidentiality, refuses to allow any insight into his clients' affairs, and is not swayed by the fact that Tobias was his stepson. Friedemann Berg is outraged by this behavior, especially since he has learned that the two Benzingers had different opinions about the direction of the law firm.