SOKO Wismar - Season 12 (2015)

Heinrich Lenz drowns in his inflatable pool after being knocked unconscious with his garden gnome. The neighborhood resembles a ghost town, as all holiday cabins are closed down without tenants on a court order Lenz obtained, complaining about neighborly nuisance. A financial disaster for owners like Jens Neumeyer, who needs the rent to supplement his ailing handyman business, which also sustains model stepson Tim Brandt. Heinrich Lenz' school and angling buddy Edgar Sichler testifies everyone ganged up on him, and he finally withdrew his complaint. The team gets a ...

Captain's widow Annabell Petermann was skull-smashed, clumsily staged as fall from a stepladder. The untouched coffee spread suggests she welcomed her killer. The evening before she rowed with her neighbor and demented best friend Inge Lepin, who supported her son Holger Lepin's view that her mental state required moving into a rest home, but offered an alternative. Annabell's grandson Jonas Petermann, whom his mother wickedly kept from gran until he was 18, became a regular guest and received generous gifts, purposefully out-staging the estranged daughter.

Above the clouds.

Art student Leonie Mertens is found by constable Anneke van der Meer who feels to reanimate her, a head wound from a fall being fatal, but the corpse was moved onto the road. She was studying restoration of castles and estates in Mecklenburg, mainly Neoclassicist. She even stayed at the "Schlösschen", a mansion owned by retired cabby Harald Schmitz, who invested his life savings to restore it, mainly himself, and is looking urgently for investors, the bank denying credit. Leonie rowed with Schmitz after making a historical discovery. Leonie was also interested in the ...

Petty financial adviser Robert Meier was buried alive on a obstruction site with an excavator, after a brutal beating left him unconscious. Meier's wife reports a hefty row with client Leon Kroedde, who explains Meier lead a double life as 'Russian collector', roughing up 'protection money' extortion victims. Among them fries stand keeper Paula Plate, who lies about his last 'visit', and the family run nursery Thiel, whose excavator was used, but accessible to all. Widow Heike's second husband Henning Brehm's stepson Joris Thiel is irate when the police tells them ...

Managing owner Lutz Bölkow lies skull-smashed in his office at the amusement arcade, which has a graffiti painted of "Verpiss Dich von hier" ('fuck off'), the safe is robbed empty. Bölkow was often targeted with rotten eggs or stinky bombs. Despite his efforts for good neighbor relations, Sandra Meier gets complaining against the arcade, to no effect. Regular player Olli Freitag was excluded a day earlier, his wife having complained hysterically, as the playing debts resulted in their impeding home foreclosure, yet he was convinced one machine was about to restore his...

Clara Brand is fatally electrocuted while preparing breakfast in her kitchen, apparently by one the many appliances that were fixed at mat rates, like many other devices, in the 'repair cafe' she hosted permanently, an environmental initiative, as turns out a toaster, smartly sabotaged and covered up. The fixer team is shocked by her death, especially grandpa Dieter Bornemann, who had a terrible crush on her, frustrating fellow Siggi Schulz, the ex she dumped a few month ago, being an anti-capitalist environmentalist extremist. Dieter is hospitalized with a cardiac ...

IT programmer Jonas Vogt sought quiet meditating a week at a Catholic monastery, but his corpse is found train-wrecked on the nearby rail. What seemed a suicide is staged, as he was dragged and suffered a bad blow on the head. Vogt's wife Eva-Marie visited him and rowed in the convent the previous day. Jonas's electronic calendar shows he got flowers every Friday from Anna Schönfeldts, who denies any non-commercial relationship. Prior Markus is Anna's brother, Jonas and his wife were involved in a much earlier traffic drama which may prove relevant now.

(Feindliche Übernahme) Philip Zander is found passed-out down a water pit by his partner Sabine Feiner, who calls for an ambulance and faints having climbed in but he died from toxic CO2 built up inside. Philip was thrown in, knocked unconscious. His daughter Cosima (4) lied with her late mother Marie's parents Martin and Dore Schilling since her death 'by last will', until he won a court custody battle. Former Internet business partner Jürgen Wiegand was after Sabine and sabotaged their common firm into ruin, without profit.

Local fisherman Ronny Roth drowned in a lake at night, both feet in a concrete bucket. he live alone in a cabin at the Baltic, with pictures and a letter from his youth at the GDR orphanage with the inseparable buddy Marco Busch and joint crush Luisa Wagner. retired orphanage director Frieda Busch remembers the girl disappeared when they were teen, but the case was buried by the communist authorities after a Russian deserter had been accused by the boys. The team wonders about the suspicious behavior of to uniformed cops in the village and find constable Timo Neumann ...

Fanatical, long pioneering bio potato farmer Paul Gödecke was skull-smashed with an iron bar, dumped in a pool in his corn field. Gödecke despised conventional farmers, even those who make some compromises, hence made enemies. Lately Paul turned on neighbor and former friend Jens Witte on account of his bio gas reactor, which he tried to sabotage by all means. Gödecke was estranged from son Christof, a bio engineer employed in his lover Gesa Peters' firm, who was planned to succeed in the farm but refused to run it in father's non-lucrative way, which was father's ...

In a motor yacht sunk in the marina drifts the corpse of gymnasium headmaster Clemens Holter, who was actually fatally shot repeatedly, no witnesses. Holter was a popular single womanizer. Yet former pupil Sören Reepmann blames Holter for not graduating, claiming his disqualifying cheat sheet was planted. Holter sneaked onto the yacht he was interested in buying from his teacher Frank Meersburger, who didn't make an appointment that night, but whose wife Lisa, also a teacher, has an affair with Holter, and she wasn't alone, even Sören's attorney mother Clarissa ...

Camping at the Poel beach on their annual coastal biking tour, Kilian Danneberg is found burning in his tent by childhood friend Jonas Erle, who gets his hands burnt but can't put out the flames with sand. The cause is a piece of white phosphor, beached up from allied bombs, which looks just like a piece of amber and ignites at room temperature, as it did in Kilian's pocket. Contractor Danneberg made many enemies in Wismar business circles by filing for bankruptcy after wrecking a development project by fraud for home building subsidies, including Reuther's buddy and ...

Harald vom Endt's plastic-wrapped corpse is fished from the sea, actually fatally stabbed on land. His girl friend Tabita Körner knows him as a wealthy villa owner, but her father Bertram rightly regretted her leaving for him ex Peer Schermann, who allegedly abused her and jealously wanted her back. Harald vom Endt never existed, he's just an alias of the Oldtimer car museum's head cleaner Emilio, 'his' villa belongs to millionaire Dr. Peter Arnheim, whose wife Alexandra Arnheim started an affair too with their cleaning lady's son, Emilio.

To constable Timmermann's horror, he and a parking inspector witness a car fatally crashing into a solid construction site container, due to aptly sabotaged breaks. The victim, Munich film maker Michael Adler, visited his native Wismar and styed with his brother, truck mechanic Thorsten, after their father Hans's funeral. Dreamy artist and womanizer Michael was favored over reliable family firm-continuing Thorsten who works his tail off for wife Claudia and teen son Paul, who secretly visited his doted uncle, but both kept quiet having found out a DNA test proved ...

Usually punctual Dr. Ellen Lindkamp was fatally skull-smashed in her practice-adjoining home, where patients are never admitted, with bruises. Surgery assistant Anja Krämer points at widower Christian Mohr, who threatened her recently again, blaming alleged misdiagnosis for his wife's death, despite a medical board ruling. Ellen Lindkamp's last appointment was with funeral undertaker Matthias Harthof, whose bed-ridden, cancer-terminal wife was Ellen's best friend and tells the police she knew and secretly approved of her affair with still dutifully-caring Matthias.

Robbed a second time in a short period, security courier Sven Keller is now shot leaving a client supermarket with the cash case in hand, watched by shocked colleague Jürgen Friedrich and fatally shoot his attacker. Friedrich blames the police for failing to solve the bloodless robbery, apparently by the same man. Sven Keller's self-defense claim is duly doubted on several grounds, including both men's past;, an elaborate plot unveiled.