Probation officer Klara Sonntag (Mariele Millowitsch) approaches her work with heart, but pays attention to correctness. Of course, the officer knows her legal coordinate system when she is supposed to write an expert opinion on the accused Henning Stehmann (Tim Bergmann). However, she would have to give up her court assistance order to look at the investment fraudster for mitigating or aggravating circumstances out of bias: Henning is her childhood sweetheart "Struppi"!
Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), a gunmaker, has retired to a remote planet with his wife and daughter Jyn (Felicity Jones). However, the Empire tracks him down and forces him to follow them to build the Death Star. Jyn escapes and joins a group of rebels. Can they stop the construction of the ultimate superweapon?
Lawyer Hanno Wegener (Daniel Urban) is found dead in his apartment. The murder weapon is next to him, no signs of a break-in are visible. Everything indicates that he knew his killer. Chief Inspector Caspar Bergmann (Thomas Heinze) has now settled into the team well, and his eye for detail is always in demand. The young pathologist Dr. Luisa Geiger (Sidonie von Krosigk) supports the investigators with her expertise where she can.
When Jana (Anna Unterberger), a self-sacrificing wife and mother, sends her domestic help Natalia (Kristina Yaroshenko) to run an urgent errand, Natalia suffers a serious accident and falls into a coma. Natalia's eight-year-old daughter Anna (Anna Cheban) is left alone in Jana's modern terraced house in Berlin. When the police rang their doorbell later that evening, Jana kept Natalia's child a secret. She realizes that she hardly knows anything about her young cleaning lady from Moldova.
The banker Rafael Hauser (Maximilian Grill) unexpectedly disappears from his office early in the morning - of all things just before an important business deal that he had been working towards for a long time. His colleague Britta Voigt (Judith Neumann) reveals that Rafael was under great stress and performance pressure in his job. This caused Rafael's marriage to Katrin Hauser (Karolina Lodyga) to fall apart. She now lives with her son Finn (Aithon Avgoustakis) with her brother Joachim Zermos (Till Wonka).
