Bar owner Helga, who keeps her colleagues from the "WaPo" happy behind the bar, is attacked and shot.
The attack on the landlady of their local pub causes consternation. The entire police force wants to solve the case as quickly as possible and bring the perpetrator to justice. To this end, even Jäger and his archrival Carsten Heinrich from the criminal investigation department form an alliance. All witness statements incriminate Tarik Alkan, who was the first to help Helga, but was the family man really the perpetrator?
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