SOKO Wismar

- Season 14

(2016)

Half Wismar applauds Timo Westphal and his girl friend Natalie Precht as they return after sailing the world. The next day, Timo's corpse is found aboard his yacht. The team seeks motives and suspects in the competitive racing, but also in romantic infidelity, and the fake claim of piracy forcing a route change.

Samuel Bertz's corpse is found, crushed by boulders in a stone quarry, besides four kilo packs of white powder, looking like cocaine but actually baking powder, one with a tracer. *The team speculates it's linked to a shipload that arrived in Hamburg in banana crates and was distributed via supermarkets, as Sam worked in one with lazy buddy Max Lorenz, while girlfriend Tina Sommer's infidelity may have corrupted their friendship, like greed a possible set-up motive. In the artists commune where he lived, a cash cache is found. His father Martin Bertz worried his ...

Amidst floating boats in the Wismar marina, apparently a prank, the police finds blood and the corpse of beaten and fatally frozen Thomas Norden who returned from his AA meeting, first names (no more is known even to the chair) are only given reluctantly. Member Klaus Schlappke, his former colleague, points to Jasmin Reeker, with whom Thomas cheated on wife Henrike Norden, who claims she knew and it was long over. A publican saw Norden fight with jasmine that evening, and his drinking wasn't under control despite Henrike's claim, according to his blood autopsy.

Organizer Ewald Dolmar is found knocked down in his greenhouse, the participants of his experimental herbal cure seminar are all dead. Leni Rehberg, Dolmars partner, claims many previous cures went without problems. Neighbour Ingo Käfer lives in a caravan on Dolmar's estate, in exchange for acting as his enforcer in a scary mob-like alias. Dolmar's estranged adult son Richard blames him for the death of his mother, who waited too long for proper treatment while his cure didn't work and is sole heir.

Would be-actor David Schumacher is found murdered in a common gardens estate, his plot was thoroughly searched. Officially penniless, he lived without title in a mobile home on school buddy Marcel Werner's plot. *In fact, David Schuhmacher lived the good life, paid by the couple Leon and Nina Braun, who run an alibi agency and escort-service, praise David as model employee but rather sabotage their own database then grant access to the police, obviously hiding a crucial secret.

Trucker Andreas Blum died from cardiac arrest, beaten and tied to a gas station. Blum was separated due to drug addiction from his vindictive wife Jennifer and their three school age sons. Neighbor Frieda Stöcker knows he was away that night and heard noise in the house after his death. He had a box without legally required marking of beluga caviar from local producer Rem Steinert, whom he met in drug rehab. Speed is found in his home. Blum's choleric former employer Klaus Hartwich, who prevented him finding employment as driver elsewhere, is also Jennifer's present ...

A masked robber at a fashion shop steals the till, kills owner Carla Ritter after receiving the key, leaves employee Jessy and haughty regular customer tied-up until the neighboring baker Becker alerts Timmerman, unable to enter with the usual croissant order. He knew his way around the shop and probably that Carla Ritter took 80 000 Euro cash from her Bank that morning. Professional fashion stock buyer Heinrich Thomsen, von Carla Ritter's partner, pretends ignorance, but the team finds he was involved in designer cloths counterfeit fraud. Jessy's father Robert Dietz ...

Real estate agent Ines Wenzke was fatally heart-stabbed in her office, where she dumped a yellow roses bunch. Apprentice Viktor Ahlbeck, fails to hide she was about to sack him for systematic malversation of petty cash. Husband would lose her fortune as she planned to divorce him, having evicted from the firm earlier. Ines's workshop tenant Thomas Brähmer, an ex-con date-killer, was about to be evicted for a development project, and his fingerprints are all over the place. His naive present girl-friend, creche attendant Sabine Ahlbeck, gives him a false alibi under ...

Hans Schmitt, generally known as French legionnaire Jean, is beaten to dead in the harbor, after finding, in detective Lars Pöhlmann's presence in their regular pub, a rendezvous note too mysterious to take seriously by Lars. *Publican Olli and his wife Iris act equally surprised, suggesting it's about Jean's Foreign Legion past, which proves fake. Was the boastful killer hired as hit-man, maybe backtracking? He was an incorrigible womanizer, including waitress Kim who recently dumped fiance Joscha Seltmann, but that's not the only relationship his flirtation ...

The owner of a rose breeding firm's corpse is found, died from a cardiac crisis, yet races someone wiped all traces. His son and daughter dreaded seeing the police, as they raised the ransom for their mother, which wasn't found. The police grills the family, including the deceased's brother, who felt cheated having sold his share of the family firm inheritance.

Egg farm owner and former Olympian decathlete Bodo Wittke dies from hacked sabotage of his private cry-therapy device at home. His devoted manager Kurt Holterbeck grimly points at ever-pestering animal right activists. Bodo's teen son and heir Jonas, who loves with his divorced mother, has hacker skills, but convincingly claims to have been content with his father as easy-going provider. Rich Bodo recently planned to invest big in castle estate Seelow, owned by bankrupt playboy freiherr (baron) Ben von Seelow, or rather his heiress wife Verena, who take care of his ...

Student Paul Jörgensen was skull-smashed in the home he shared -not since long- with Gertrud, Mary-Lou and Carla, of different generations, who claim they were a happy family, he generally liked. They rather point to the hostile neighbors couple, who complained about constant noise which burnout patient Taler can't handle, he even moved with wife Frieda from their previous home too close to a subway. Video recordings reveal Paul had affairs with each of his housemates, but further research shows they ignored his real identity.

Handsome womanizer Felix Klausen was killed at home, no break-in. The 'pick up-artist' founded Wismar's only flirting-seminar teaching single men to seduce into bed with lies and manipulation. The formula yielded vehement feminist hostility. Mika Streitz had an affair with Klausen, who obtained a court order against her, after she sacrificed her marriage and family with kids he dumped her thoughtlessly. Shy seminar client Jakob Mahlo, inscribed by his mother who hoped he would finally start his own family, felt humiliated before the whole group.

Psychotherapist Dr. Olaf Bode spontaneously confesses to Reuter having murdered a dead-boring patient, then refuses to make a formal statement or cooperate, claiming he simply tests for research purposes the commissioner's crisis reactions. Reuter fears it was a real crime. The team must first find a corpse to prove a crime, going through his patients, apparently only missing Dr. Karin Kuske, an ornithologist, is found in the bird sanctuary, which Timmermann isn't allowed to intrude but watches like a hawk. Bode's practice assistant remembers another patient who ...

Greta Brüggemann's drowned corpse beaches up near the burnout-clinic where she was in therapy, apparently successfully, with suspiciously secretive Dr. Karani, who tries to hide he had an unethical affair with Greta, whose longs contain the Dead Sea water only available in therapy baths, so it's murder, not suicide. her jealous husband may have got wind of her adultery, but the doctor's license was also at stake, and further rehab staff is investigated.

Max Tewes (14) is reported missing by his mother Karla after a beach trip to the estate her new partner recently restored near Wismar. Exceptionally Max didn't spend the weekend in the city with his father Martin Tewes, who was ill. Neighbor boy Lukas Ullmann, who only took Max along at their mothers' insistence, left Max at the lake, where his bicycle is found, around noon, as turns out to be with his elder gay mate.

Young Thai Araya is found dead by asphyxiation in a car, shortly after she decided to leave shocked husband Rainer Müller and return to start an independent life in Siam. Araya's best friend Tessa Winkler claims Müller stalked his wife. Her cellphone brings the team to discover she dumped adulterer Tom Bergmann after a love night to make him stay with pregnant wife Tessa. She worked in Dr. Dreher's fertility clinic, where the team stumbles on whole other plots, while a fittingly surprising cause of death is worked out.

Ship wharf manager Phillip Tellkamp's teen daughter Ella is kidnapped, the parents receive a ransom video for a million Euros on the company account and his resignation as CEO in favor of engineer Steffen Beckmann within hours. Employees Schlosser Paul Nowak and Erwin Pusch feared for their jobs. Beckmann claims not to want the 'promotion'. Philipp's wife, heir of the founder, has the controlling share, he none, she feels neglected and the firm is in dire straits.

Erroneously 'speed-radar-spotted' in his service car, constable Kai Timmermann finds it 'manned' by skull-smashed, police-contracted Carsten Schweiger, the hard disk was removed. Fresh widow Ariana Schweiger, Kai's ex for years, got Carsten to take her shift, hence may be the intended target, and hides an affair with employer Sascha Grimm, being frustrated by the nasty job. The team also looks into possibly vindictive regular speeders, like local farmer-forester Kai-Uwe Holzer and car freak Tobias Noll, who is one spotting from jail.

When shoplifter Nicoletta hide sin vain with fellow teen mate Lissi Dernbach, the police learns Lissi's mother Simone is missing since days. Lissi's youth services case officer confirms her mother can't cope and may simply have left her behind. The team discovers Simone Dernbach's double life as candid escort, unknown even to Lissi, and her poorly-run business got into trouble as well.

Timmermann believes serial fraudster Alexander Hauff once again fake a cardiac crisis to prevent an arrest, Dr. Helene Sturbeck decides after his fainting to bring him to hospital, where he dies at night in observation despite positive prospect and with beat cop Anneke guarding is room, actually murder. That night someone breaks I to his home and knocks over his girlfriend Nicole Schöffel who is found cuffed. Treating physician Dr. Julia Malawski -also was one of his girl friends, but the ladies are also part of a web of fraudulent deceit which made him made enemies.

Experienced pilot Dr. Bela Hingsen crashed to his death in his plane on Wismar air field. The cause must be the drone that regularly flew in the forbidden zone lately. Dr. Hingsen actually was a fake alias for fraudster Karsten Ranft, who scammed in town all over northern Germany. Local Dr. Berthold Engelmann lost 1,2 million Euro to him. Victims include Uwe Mahr, ruined and haunted by debt collectors. The drone pilot is known only by class dodger Max, the team also looks into his private life.

Firemen find in the cellar of a burning home its fire-consumed owner Holger Geier, who runs a successful poultry farm. His firm and private garage were regularly tagged with bloody chick graffiti by animal right extremists. His regular electrician Caroline Köhler was last on the murder site, yet lies not to have seen Holger Geier there, but neighbors saw them. She changes her story apparently to protect her daughter, schoolgirl Melina Köhler, who claims her designer tags aren't nearly as clumsy and denies arson.

Forester and gamekeeper Hans Berger was fatally shot while deer-hunting. Headstrong, pig-headed Berger made many enemies. He meanly refused prolonging mayor Matthias Wittkamp's son Tobias hunting license after part of the private forest was expropriated for a road. In-living, penniless widowed sister Ute Berger now applies for the buyout Hans always refused for the forest they co-owned. Mayor Wittkamp and Berger had a morning meeting. On spot is autistic teenager Ole Christiansen, walking his doted dog Henry (gift of sole friend Ute) there often, who took pictures, ...

Roofer Werner Kleinschmidt fatally van-hits a tree just after scamming pensioner Gertrud Messner by pretending after a free checkup she needs his cheap services. A second driver's license in the van proves his real identity: Willi Kutter, with a long record as 'roof shark' fraudster permanently on the move to select single senior victims. Helene Sturbeck's long-neglected uncle Sigi is among them and she finds the indirect death cause: laser blinding. Kutter's estranged hooligan son Mario hated him, also for beating his mother. Yet the team remarks another familiar ...