A Case for Two

- Season 16

(1996)

Dr. Franck's client Heiner Kühne, a businessman who's trying to start new activities after big financial problems, is accused of the murder of his former partner Regelski, who ruined him. Kühne was in Regelski's office in the night of the murder and stole money and papers from his safe: despite admitting the robbery, he pleads not guilty for the killing. Kühnes repeated lies make the investigation difficult for Frank and Matula, who meanwhile discovers that Regelski's bodyguard is a buddy of him and has got a relationship with Mrs. Rigelski.

Matula's young friend and small-time burglar Babsi Dietrich is arrested after a killed man is found in her room. After initially rejecting any involvement, she then soon admits to Dr. Franck that she has killed the man for self defense: she had stolen his suitcase at the airport, but he reached her at home and after having recovered his suitcase he tried to kill her. Babsi is afraid of having been involved in a spy story, but Matula manages to recover the suitcase and trace back the owner: a charity organization. But Babsi's suspects seem to be reconsidered after ...

Sports journalist Georg Flemming is hit and killed by a car just after having left his office after his last work day at the newspaper: indeed he had just celebrated his moving to a bigger newspaper. The car belongs to his colleague Matthias Weinreich, who hated him and is arrested, but claims he's innocent, although not having clear memories of that night because he was drunk after the office party. Weinreich's colleague and ex lover Tatjana Molden asks Dr. Franck to help him show his innocence.

Two years after his acquittal from the allegation of the murder of his young neighbor Miss Aumüller, Jochen Scherbach comes back to his lawyer Dr. Franck: he is scared because a new girl moved into the victim's apartment and he found some pictures of her in the building's swimming pool. He fears that someone is trying to provoking him to show that he was the killer. Dr. Franck sends him Matula to keep an eye, but begins having some doubts of his client's real innocence.

Dr. Franck's client Ingo Ferber is released from prison after 7 years, after the confession of the real culprit of the murder he was accused of. Ferber wants to get back at the judge who condemned him and begins persecuting him and threatening him in public. One day the judge is found killed in his car and Ferber is arrested again, but he swears he isn't the murder.

Building contractor Timo Jensen is killed hit by his own car. His business partner Jürgen Hintze is accused for the murder: family Jensen had indeed decided to oust him from the business after he caused a loss of 3 millions Mark and they had a huge fallout just before. Hintze tells his lawyer Dr. Franck that he believes there is a plot against him. Matula discovers that Jensen had a lot of enemies, at work and in his own family.

Feminist writer Karina Masur is at the Frankfurt Book Fair presenting her latest book, in which she advises women to kill their violent husbands and tells stories about women who did it. Young Christian Neumann, son of one of the victims mentioned in the book, publicly threatens her at the presentation and just shortly after Karina Masur is found killed at the stand. Neumann is arrested but his mother is sure he is innocent and asks Dr. Franck for help.

During her birthday party at home, Dr. Stephanie Bernsdorf catches her boyfriend Dr. Christian Mahler flirting with another colleague, Dr. Margit Rebelein. Short after the party end Dr. Bernsdorf finds Dr. Mahler severely wounded in the garage and brings him to the clinic where they work, but they cannot save him. Dr. Bernsdorf, who asked assistance to Dr. Franck, is then arrested with the accusation of murder, but Matula's investigations immediately show that Dr. Mahler was involved in something really sketchy.

Pop star Christian Berger is arrested after witnesses saw him running away from the home of a prostitute who was found killed. He proclaims his innocence to his lawyer Dr. Franck, but due to the embarassment of the situation he hides too many particulars, which then Matula must find out: for example, the existence of a maniac fan who persecutes him and of two sketchy managers rivaling each other.

Dr. Franck is called by fine elderly French lady Marie-Hélène Richarz who wants to write her will. The lady lives with her stepson Axel, his wife Gudrun and his daughter Beate, whom she would like to leave her possessions, including a part of her family estate in France. But the girl disappeared since months and Mrs. Richarz's conditions are that in absence of Beate her possessions would go to her siblings in France. Rainer feels from her stepson's attitude that there is something wrong behind and asks Matula for help.