Derrick - Season 20 (1993)

Irene, a former model, has been released from psychiatric care after withdrawing from alcohol and cocaine. The press is already swarming around her. One journalist makes a daring article about her former lover, who gets shot soon after.

Eight years ago Andreas left his family behind and vanished. He's been living in Rome and now he has come back, allegedly to reunite with his wife, daughter and son. The police have their own suspicions for his coming back.

Hilde lives together with a wealthy, divorced man, Walter. One day she returns from the grocery shop to find him dead in his bed. Heart attack is ruled out: He has been narcotized and suffocated. The family is quick to come after his mammon.

Doris Stein, a waitress, is found murdered in the railway yard. Her boyfriend is waiting for her to come home. A cop who has been suspended for drinking on the job keeps interfering with the investigation.

Mr. Kronau accidentally receives an apartment key intended for his son Achim. Feeling curious, he has a look in the apartment. It turns out that he and his son really could have lived without his investigation.

Three high school boys go to watch a night show of a violent movie. After a noisy scene with lots of gunfire, someone notices a dead man in one of the seats.

A lady working as an escort, available for hire through a hotel's portier, is found murdered in her apartment.

Keepers of a hostel of questionable services recruit new girls to keep the patrons happy. A chick from the old batch helps a rookie escape and ends up on the run herself.

Karoline is very popular in the building where she takes her English lessons. But on one unlucky evening, a tenant returning home finds her at the bottom of the stairwell, strangled to death.