Notruf Hafenkante

- Season 9

(2014)

Martial arts fan Tarik is delighted the case takes him to the Hamburg operetta theatre where Rocky musical lead Drew Sarich has collapsed from a non-fatal overdose tranquilizer which must have been slipped into his drink just before the performance which will be attended by a major casting directors. Surprisingly producer Mikkelsen doesn't field Drew's aging double Florian Ellinger, to assistant Janne Abraham's fury, but fitter last reserve Henry Gravert. A vindictive actress has also been sighted but Mikkelsen stubbornly refuses to cancel any show, despite ...

Hans deals with Jürgen and Sandra Jendrich, whose five year-old son Jason disappeared from their garden while she was at home they moved into recently. After receiving a blackmail note, they admit adopting Jason nearly broke up the family, especially brat daughter Lena. External prime suspect is the boy's biological father, Mats Rasmussen.

Hans sneaks off during hours to visit in ER his never-faced Internet chess partner Viktor Uhlmann, who admits being a terminal cancer patient and begs help to restore contact with his estranged son Boris, who dropped out of ITC studies, like pa, hoping to open a bar with lover Maya Opitz, so far a waiting-colleague. At the in they work in, Boris is being hard-handed by a thug but also tries to run, so Hans fears drug trade. That proves false, but both Uhlmanns play a part in crime baron Carsten Raschke's Internet fraud. Meanwhile captain Haller becomes the entire PD's...

Recently-wed Ergin and Ayla Ögül report the theft of her jewelry from the home they share with her brother Halil Kunkardes, who hints Mattes and Hans should look closely at nosy neighbor crone Hildegard Müller, whose ex-con grandson Peter Schlüter hides his sneaky business i and about the building. Another neighbor is ER nurse Frauke's buddy-colleague Adriana Dassler, a pathological horder as now turns out, who fails to hide she was beaten up and a stolen bracelet is fond amongst her junk.

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Catering-entrepreneur Bosse nearly died locked in the freezer vault, but employee Uwe Willemsen found him during an early stock check for an event where the rest was working. Also present could have been apprentice Maja Aguilar, daughter of Spanish visiting ER Antonio Aguilar, who gives her a false alibi while refusing to believe she and other girls were allegedly groped by Bosse, which his wife denies knowing about or even believing, unlike assertive apprentice Sandy Meyer and her devoted lover Ole Kamp. Further possible motives are found. While investigating, Tariq ...

While working out after hours, with the police fitness tests coming up, Mattes witnesses national competition-candidate Josh Baier, a friend at pro-level, fall and be hospitalized after a pole jump because it broke. Captain Haller berates Mattes 'self-righteous' initiative to investigate, but it's most atypical and probably no coincidence that a training device installed for Josh by club ground caretaker Paul Gabriel 'mysteriously' broke down. Coach Alex Wissmann, a grumpy slave-driver in a 'race wheelchair' with Paralympic ambitions, actually objects to medical care ...

Tarik is not amused when blatant bigot shopkeeper Kowski reports being mugged and baseball-beaten by a masked 'Turk like him', shocked when his uncle Adnan Aydin's gentle son Murat becomes the prime suspect and captain Haller takes concerned Tarik off the case as kin, by the book. Shop regular André Delling, a proud gay boy, is patched up in ER after a painful confrontation with Murad's tough big brother Emre, discharges himself and provides cute Murad an alibi which the family violently rejects. Murad rather confesses the robbery, which Tarik's clever but forbidden ...

Mark Eising believes his marriage wrecked and uses his fists on neighbor Robert Philipsen, whose wife Laura passed on photos of the 'adultering' spouses kissing made by her PI Jürgen Helbing. While there firstborn Fabian and Imme enjoy a budding affair, Robert suffers repeated further abuse but maintains his innocence and files an abuse complaint, forcing the police to investigate the case. Despite Mattes's initial lack of sympathy, he helps verify Tariq's theory that Robert was framed.

Dementing concert pianist Friedrich Magnus shares his villa with cheap-renting gifted music students Daniel Weller and Paula Tennhagen, who help him out. His greedy, less-gifted daughter Constanze Magnus wants them out, claims Frriedrich is dementing and ordered a 'business assessment' from the former precinct commander's wife. Karin Berger, who wouldn't file a complaint, unlike Constance who called the police, against the students for throwing her out whereby she accidentally was scratched. Tariq finds the students are in their legal right but Constance claims they ...

Ambulance doc Philipp Haase is traumatized when a clown masked youth kidnaps him and leaves in the ambulance, leaving him tied to a metal fence in the marina. Diabetic physics student Paul Neuhaus's overprotective mother reports him sassing from his dorm, where pictures of wearing such scary masks pale besides his dropping out from college. A stolen limousine with caged cat is the next prank crime, each posted anonymously in Internet as a Gotcha game. Paul is brought into hospital with an insulin crisis, there must be at least one other culprit. The team looks into ...

Senior constable Hans Moor is surprised to meet again his Dresden hippie days flame Marion Hilbig. She's the unsuspecting mother of Nelly, who was battered on the street 'without witnesses' and points to her pimp, nightclub owner Marcel Gohde, who wasn't amused she no longer want to strip-dance her way trough college and sent some cash to her unemployed mother, but frightens any potential witness. Tarik investigates the break-in at Nelly's apartment, where only her notebook was stolen, yet she hesitates to admit it contains proof of Gohde's other illegal lucrative ...

Kiosk owner Freddy Eilrich is robbed of his wallet, holding rich daily earnings, assumes it's by a car widows-cleaning pair of young gypsy beggars he tries to apprehend, but jumping to escape, Jal trips over a car and needs hospitalization. His brat sister Samira rudely plays the obvious discrimination victim, but makes herself prime suspect my sneaking out of hospital, where nurse Frauke saw her counting a packet of cash, after hiding the wallet, and Eilrich's library card is found in their backpack. Mattes, grumpy as he had to sleep on a precinct table due to his ...

Mattes investigates the thefts in Franzi's father Rufi's seniors-shared apartment. Housemate Klaus Wielich turns on his Thai post order bride Sai Chandharat after her spicy curry bring him in ER, Rufi's blind defense of her lands him in police jail. Housemate Jochen Röder, a handicapped artist, has trouble to pay his rent share and a dark secret. A nosy neighbor with a crash plays a nasty part. After eliminating suspects, a perfidious alternative is considered.

Talented architect Stef fails to enter for a major competition, suffering an allergic shock while driving. ER finds he was bitten by a tarantula, which Hans does not enjoy catching in his abandoned car, even fears in Wolle's care at the Hamburg port precinct. Stef's clingy mother first suggest it was planted by a business rival, later it was meant to scare her out of the family home. Former colleague Niklas Reitmüller left Bloomberg's firm, but remains a friend. Temporarily homeless Mattes hastily left patrol partner Melanie's place, due to her jealousy over his girl ...

Albanian mob-connected businessman Gor Kassabian is shot, but survives. Mattes and Melanie follow the unidentified shooter's trail to small island Neuwerk, lose him there and must spend the night in a single inn room. Flight car owner Bernhard Buttfanger's niece Femke trades jewelry made from the local specialty, amber, in her non-lucrative petty shop, Kassabian is a major client but neither dares testify against the mobster. Dodgy tramp Ollo Bornkamp brings acquainted Hans Kassabian's cellphone. Mattes also looks into Femke's brother Hark Buttfanger and stumbles upon...

Apo Genc awakes in ER with amnesia after jumping in front of a tourist couple's parked mobile-home. he forgot all about the last three days and how drugs landed in his bag. Then his wife reports their pre-teen daughter Maja missing, assuming Apo took her after school to abduct her to his native Turkey, as the content of his car suggests. The team must find out the truth and the girl's whereabouts, which proves dangerous due to ruthless drug-dealer Marcel Zittner.

Vladimir and Irina Kusnezow came to Hamburg for advanced surgery on pre-teen daughter Elena's tumor, but their private insurance doesn't cover it as they missed the last premium and 'mediator' Marlies Schlosser tricks them and files a complaint on top for 'stalking', which is mysteriously dropped. Mattes ponder if she just bluffed or there is more to it- in fact her own teen son Torben Schlosser, who sympathized with the couple, was abducted by desperate Vladimir.

A Hamburg towing company reports a pre-teen boy who locked himself into a car. Mattes needs junk-food bait to lure Linus Ulmke out and take him to the precinct, where 'grandfatherly' Wolle -also the name of his cuddly toy, meaning 'wool' in German- bonds with the cute, bright rascal, who still ends up escaping trough the bathroom window. Tarik meanwhile found a beaten-up man who was dumped on a dock, only robbed for appearances, who is hospitalized and identified as Linus's father, bank 'premium account' investment advisor Sebastian Ulmke. He made enemies by losing ...

Nils Steinbach was beaten badly in front of his home after a fight with wife Jessica but makes contradictory declarations when questioned in hospital, as if terrorized. Nils was previously convicted for abuse of his first wife , but explains what really happened. Jessica's brother Frank Wittek or teenage-son Yannick, who claims to have seen nothing, may have fought off the stepfather, while the biological father recently returned from abroad, subject to a restraining order having been convicted years ago for abuse, hoping to contact his growing-up boy, so far in vain....

Tariq in not amused to find his high-pregnant ex, Pauline Becker, snooping as impish reporter at the site of Maren Reinhardt's car crash because her breaks were manipulated. *But the car belongs to her husband, financial director Hendrik Reinhardt, hence possibly the real target. Since a while he was viciously mobbed, at management instigation, in fashion firm Textofair, which dumped Bangla Desh contractors but whose Czech alternative proves just a sweatshop front. Tarik gets hurt, yet worries most about his baby and its mother, who fakes contractions to escape from ...

Notoriously wayward Schiller gymnasium (high school) pupil René Marwort, who rebels against his overbearing parents, files an abuse complaint against his old-school math teacher who ear-boxed for insolence and class vandalism, but nobody believes Udo Ahlmann is responsible for his black-eye, as René maintains. Shortly after, the knave is hospitalized after a bad fall on his motorcycle, the breaks being tampered with, and again René improbably accuses the teacher. René's ex-girl fears, dumping him aiming for his best classmate Ruben Sievers turned René suicidal. Ruben ...

Hans celebrates his impending promotion with pay rise first in the precinct, then with his daughter Nelly, insisting to finance her studies, so she resigns her waitress job. Walking home after a celebratory dinner, they are attacked by two young men, when of which grabs panicking and Nelly. Overprotective, tipsy Hans not only scares away the assailant, but beats his mate, who tried only to drag them apart, unconscious into hospital. Hans's colleagues start both a search for the other youngster and a formal investigation of his conduct, which looks nasty after Nelly's ...

Tarik dislikes even more then Claudia the assignment to assist Immigration officer Bernd Dillinger in the court-ordered deportation home of Colombian Eva Escobar who lived 14 years illegally in Germany with teen daughter Isabella. Tarik's open sympathy infuriates Dillinger even before. Eva Escobar faints and Isabella escapes trough the window, without access to diabetes medication. Disgraced Hans isn't amused having to join the search with his imposed nosy new partner during Franci's maternity leave, adopted Vietnamese Alexa Seifart. The Escobar's social counselor is ...

Claudia and Tarik catch a knave aged 16 cashing with a certain Amelie's credit-card 1000 Euro at an ATM, but he gets away while being returned to his 'home', which turns out as fake as the name Finn he gave, well a neighbor boy's. Hans and Alexa find the credit card-owner Amelie Hartmann absent, having abandoned for days teen daughter Kim and son Sidney (7), fearful to be placed in uninterested grandfather Rolf Hartmann's custody. The plot thickens when the thieving knave is found in an adjoining room and a blackmail threat over his cellphone from dodgy dealer Kemal ...

Tarik and Claudia take fat Lola (16), who collapsed while fleeing after robbing an old lady's handbag, to ER, where she remains in danger for lack of a conclusive toxicological diagnosis. All points to improperly monitored diet pills, which her mother Kerstin Schneider can't believe. Nurse Frauke finds in Lola's bag a business card from the dodgy medical institute run by doc Jasmin's ruthlessly ambitious former college mate Dr. Sabrina Matschewski, who denies prescribing them, being part of a scientific test program, and refuses to cooperate. Fat Frauke intrudes as ...

At Fischmarkt, student Milla's unidentified attacker escapes. Treating her, Haase gets a crush on her and embraces nurse Frauke's suggestion to treat her to a ballad at his band's impending performance. Composing progresses poorly, but hearing his Tourette-affected brother play a composition of his own, gets permission to play it dedicated to Milla, who loves it. A break-in at Milla's home teaches the cops she has a stalker and Haase's band performance holds a scary surprise.