The Best Episodes Written By Max Färberböck

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - I see you

   S56:E219/14/2025

   The discovery of a body raises questions: The man, missing for two years, was buried two meters deep in the earth in the floodplain near Nuremberg. Andreas Schönfeld, a 37-year-old bicycle dealer at the time of his death, was considered friendly and popular with his neighbors, yet Franconian investigators discover that he had no close friends. Chief Inspector Felix Voss - in his first case without his long-time partner Paula Ringelhahn, but strongly supported by Wanda Goldwasser and his current driver Fred - wonders: What connections led to the bicycle dealer's gruesome death? A visit to the victim's mother, Erika Schönfeld, reveals a loving mother-son relationship, and the pain is immense. In their further attempt to reconstruct Schönfeld's life, Felix and Wanda encounter the blind Lisa Blum.

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   #2 - Why

   S53:E165/1/2022

   The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.

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   6.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Despite

   S55:E2110/6/2024

   Everyone in prison liked Lenni. And everyone believed in the 25-year-old's innocence. When Lenni takes his own life, his sisters are plunged into deep despair. Shortly afterwards, another death occurs: this time Karl Dellmann and his wife Katja and their family are directly affected. Like a devilish game of dominoes, events in Nuremberg unfold one after the other - at the end of which two families, united in grief and loss, face each other, separated by anger and guilt. Paula Ringelhahn, Felix Voss and Wanda Goldwasser must try to stop a series that leaves a trail of destruction and death behind.

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   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Munich - At the End of the Hall

   S45:E185/4/2014

   There is a point in every human being when they are lonely. Lisa Brenner knew that moment. When her body is found one gray morning in front of a high-rise building, having fallen from the 12th floor balcony, she leaves behind a number of men who adored and loved her. Lisa was so close and devoted to all of them that in the end nobody knew if he was really her favorite. A tricky case that also deeply shakes the trust between Leitmayr and Batic.

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   #5 - I don't kill anyone

   S49:E154/15/2018

   Two bodies are found in a dilapidated house on the outskirts of Nuremberg. A 58-year-old Libyan and his sister were both brutally murdered with a rebar. They came to Germany 15 years ago, were fully integrated, and have now lain for days in their own rotting blood. The brutality of the crime is shocking. Ahmad, the victim's highly admired and highly gifted foster son, has disappeared. Was he perhaps a witness to the crime? Or the perpetrator? The pressure is mounting rapidly, and the public is demanding swift explanations. Felix Voss and Paula Ringelhahn are leading the grueling investigation. But what are they dealing with? A family tragedy, a robbery-murder, or a pure act of bloodshed? Research into the right-wing scene yields no leads. Shortly thereafter, a colleague from the fraud unit dies unexpectedly while driving from a fatal drug interaction. He leaves behind his wife and two children. For Paula, this news is catastrophic.

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   #6 - The Night belongs to you

   S51:E83/1/2020

   Babs Sprenger, a successful businesswoman who lives alone in a spacious apartment in Fürth, was active on various dating sites under an assumed name until a few months ago. She celebrated her birthday alone with her colleague Theresa Hein. The next day, Babs Sprenger was dead. Stabbed with a sushi knife that the police found in the dishwasher, thoroughly cleaned. The knife was Theresa's gift to Babs. How did it become a deadly weapon? What happened that evening? Even after Theresa's confession, the question of why remains unanswered. Voss and Ringelhahn suspect that the truth lies much deeper. What could Theresa be hiding?

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   4.0/10(6 votes)

   #7 - Heaven is a place on Earth

   S46:E154/12/2015

   What the French call a "petite mort" actually ends fatally in a forest near Nuremberg. Christian Ranstedt, married and father of two children, a professor at the University of Erlangen, and a respected citizen of the city of Nuremberg, was killed by two shots to the head at close range while making love in his car. Ranstedt's wife, Julia, believed her husband was at the university. For her and their two children, a world that seemed indestructible suddenly collapsed. Why was Christian Ranstedt murdered? Why at such a piquant moment? And how did whoever was in the car with him survive?

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   4.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - This is Going to Hurt

   S47:E144/3/2016

   Leitmayr's investigation of a Romanian pimp gets a fast conviction. Batic was not part of the investigation because he was a childhood friend of brothel operator Harry Schneider, for whom the victim supposedly worked. But the total indifference of the defendant irritated him. Back in the office, he asks again for the file of the convicted Romanian, because in all his years of service he had never experienced such a quick confession and not a single attempt to reduce his sentence.

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