A Case for Two

- Season 10

(1990)

Mrs. Petzold, a client of Dr. Franck, is found dead in a wood dressed as a prostitute. Her husband Dirk is sure that she never worked as a prostitute and asks Dr. Franck why she asked him for help. Bound by professional secrecy, Dr. Franck convinces him to hire Matula instead to try to find out the truth.

Professional car thief Uwe Kroll is arrested after having stolen the car of attorney Dr. Naumann, but the main accusation is something worse: the car had just hit and killed a man. Kroll asks Dr. Franck for help, stating that he had stolen the car only some time after the accident. Franck and Matula have to investigate on Dr. Naumann and his family.

Dr. Franck defends Mr. Arndt Vasall, accused of having killed his own brother and who denies his involvement, despite the hate between the siblings and the fact that the gun used for the murder belongs to him. At the same time, young Peter Schröder asks Matula help to find his missing girlfriend, who is incidentally the daughter of Rainer's client, Kathrin Vasall.

Matula is eyewitness of a curious bank robbery, where the robber is immediately shot dead by a passing-by policeman. During the interrogatories, Mr. Hermann Maier is accused for complicity in the robbery because his gun was found with the killed thief. Matula, feeling that there's something too unclear in this story, advises him to ask Dr. Franck for defense.

During the birthday party of Kurt Brocker, his stepson is kidnapped. Brocker is called by the kidnappers, who ask him to kidnap a woman in order to get the boy back alive. He asks for help to Dr. Franck, who already defended him in the past, and Matula.

Young art thief Hartmut Kolb is killed by a bodyguard while caught trying to steal a painting from the home of his own girlfriend Lisa Feyninger. The girl doesn't believe the story and asks Dr. Franck, who had been Hartmut's lawyer, for help. Matula investigates in the underground of art thieves, but also the same bodyguard Schorsch Rischka and the possessive father of the girl, Mr. Horst Feyninger.

Drug dealer Michael Hagen escapes from arrest while visiting his mother at the hospital. But his girlfriend never sees him coming back home and asks Dr. Franck for help: she fears that some of his enemies from the drug underground could have killed him while escaping.

Private detective Willi Schumann is victim of some killing attempts and asks his colleague and friend Matula for help. But the man, who has to take care of his disabled wife after a road accident, is clearly hiding too many secrets to Matula and Dr. Franck.

Marion Kesten is found killed in her home by her husband Dieter, who just came drunk and confused at home. The fact that the couple often had violent arguments and that the man cannot provide an alibi for the murder time leads the police to arrest him. Sure of his own innocence but not remembering anything of the night before, Dieter Kesten asks Dr. Franck for defense.

Mrs. Corinna Schuster asks Matula to tail her violent ex husband Viktor Brandau who is annoying her little daughter. When Brandau asks her new husband Thomas a huge amount of money in order to stop the stalking, Matula advises the couple to ask Dr. Franck for support.