A Case for Two

- Season 14

(1994)

Mrs. Ingrid Seefeld kills her husband, who was going to leave her to move with her friend Lore Potofsky, and then reports his missing to his lawyer Dr. Franck. When the police finds him, she tries to flip the suspects on Miss Potofsky, who indeed is arrested and asks Dr. Franck and Matula for help to prove her innocence.

Mrs. Susanne Böhm asks Dr. Franck to defend her boyfriend, young artist Martin Sutter, accused of having robbed a bank. Mrs. Böhm, who is divorced, is sure that there is a plot against her boyfriend. Meanwhile she has to deal with the rage of her son Robin, who never accepted her divorce.

Dr. Franck defends a gallerist whose gun was used to murder a famous artist. The gallerist has got an alibi, confirmed by his wife, but shortly after she, who has been married with the victim in the past, precises that she's not sure anymore and her husband is arrested. Matula and Franck investigate in the background of modern art, where the victim had many enemies.

Dr. Franck is called by his client Paul Weller to his workshop: he finds him sitting drunk near his dead co-worker. Weller states that he has killed him, but Rainer doesn't believe it: only a couple of years before he had unwillingly killed the father of the victim but he was acquitted because it was for self-defense, but he never forgave himself and now he finds the occasion to be punished, no matter if he's guilty or not.

A young woman accused of having killed her boyfriend meets Dr. Franck in the court and begs him to defend her, because she doesn't trust anymore her lawyer Dr. Winter. Rainer refuses, because he doesn't want to do a discourtesy to a colleague and friend, but then the same Dr. Winter, then appointed by the court, proposes him to work together to the case. The lawyer is sure of his client's guilt, but Rainer and Matula are determined to follow every lead.

Dr. Franck is asked for help by the husband of stage actress Ellen Schäfer, whose lover has been killed after she had an argument with him. The man believes his wife is guilty but cannot remember what happened because probably being in state of shock: Mrs. Schäfer should be indeed in a fragile emotional state after a heart transplantation, performed by the same lover, a well-known surgeon. But Dr. Franck suspects that the truth is much different.

Policeman Lebus is shot dead during a night patrol at the harbor. His colleague Keller recognizes as murder businessman who has been caught running nearby: the man maintains his innocence, but refuses to tell to his lawyer Dr. Franck why he was at the harbor at night and whom he met.

Mr. Arthur Deck visits Dr. Franck at night telling him he just killed his former business partner Buchmüller: he had gone to him to ask a financial support, but when this laughed at him he shot him in a fit of anger. Rainer tries to persuade the police that this is a consequence of Mr. Deck's heavy depression, but meanwhile another problem comes up: Deck's wife is threatened by an unknown who accuses him of having stolen 500.000 Mark to the victim.

Young advertising artist Paul Gartz asks Dr. Franck to help him getting back his job, after he was fired with the allegation of sabotage of a business presentation: he fears that his artist director, a girl who is the lover of the agency owner, just intended to get rid of him. Rainer advises him to ask Matula for help, but just before he starts his investigations the artist director is found killed in her home and Mr. Gartz is arrested, but he maintains his innocence although having been found right on the crime scene.

Businessman Harry Ziegler asks Dr. Franck for help: he accepted to buy a huge amount of dirty money paying for them a half of their value, but he then discovered that he received a suitcase of fake money. Rainer advises him to go to the police, but there they are informed that who organized the exchange has just been found killed and Mr. Ziegler is the main suspect. His ex wife decides to hire Matula to help him.