A Case for Two

- Season 12

(1992)

Dr. Franck defends young Hanno Bremer, who confessed to have killed the managing director of a department store because he was trying to aggressively flirt with him. When during the trial the court seems to believe more to an organized murder and thinks to a life sentence, the boy suddenly changes his version: he states that his former school teacher Prof. Kepich paid him a lot of money to confess the murder in his place.

A young car mechanic arrested with the allegation of having killed his girlfriend is released after his alibi is verified. The girl's father, sure of his guilt, gets mad and promises to kill him. His wife, the girl's mother, scared by his attitude, asks Dr. Franck and Matula for help.

Stage director Thomas Bruck asks his friend Dr. Franck for help: someone tried to kill his wife Anke, who just filed for divorce due to his infidelity, and she intends to expose him for this. Indeed, a divorce would have meant for him no more finances for his theatre, making him the main suspect. Meanwhile, Matula, who had already been hired by Anke to tail her husband, takes care of her security.

Dr. Franck is visited by Damaschke, a burglar he defended six years earlier: the guy had confessed his participation to a bank robbery, whose loot was never found, and the kidnapping of its director, but refused to tell the names of his accomplices in order to protect his own family. Now he's out of jail but, although not indenting to search for his share, he's sure that someone is tailing him.

Businessman Sieburg disappeared four years ago when his business went broke. Now his wife, who receives some anonymous calls since some time, has found his medallion for sale in a jewelry and contacts Dr. Franck for help: she is sure that her husband is back in Frankfurt and is trying to get in contact with her.

Gert Schultheiss, a compulsive gambler who Dr. Franck made ban from casinos in order to protect him, disappears and his wife asks Rainer for help. Matula soon finds him in a gambling den together with his daughter Lissy, who works as a prostitute for Heinz Kottke, her father's bookie, who has both in check due to Schultheiss' gambling debts.

Painter Sylvia Beckmann asks Dr. Franck for help: her husband, a journalist who was investigating connections between drug trafficking from Colombia and a bank in Frankfurt, disappeared, but the police believes it's still too early to be alarmed. Matula soon finds him dead and police commissioner Körbel, an old friend of Dr. Franck, is sure of the wife's guilt, although basing his allegation on very few clues.

Businessman Friedrich Winkler is found catatonic in a hotel room beside the dead body of his wife Sonja, who was filing for divorce, and is arrested for the murder. His family, sure of his innocence, asks Dr. Franck to defend him, but the man doesn't tell a word. Meanwhile, the Winklers are blackmailed by someone who asks one million for some compromising papers about the family business.

TV director Karl Liebeck is going to publish a book in which he tells hot details about some showbiz people, but he and the publishing home receive some threats which lead them to ask Matula to investigate. Meanwhile, singer Catarina May, who is reported in the book having played in a porn movie some time earlier, asks Dr. Franck to intervene and make the publishing of the book stop.

Dr. Franck defends a boy accused of robbery and murder. After the attorney asks for life imprisonment, the day after the trial the boy commits suicide in his cell. Rainer feels guilty and decides to investigate with Matula: he is not only sure that the boy was innocent, but also suspects that his suicide was indeed a murder.