Wilsberg - Season 1 (1998)

Wilsberg and the murder without corpse.

Wilsberg and the shot at dawn.

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Last resort - murder.

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On the way home juvenile Franziska Upholt bumps on her bike into Wilsberg and tells him her child was kept away from birth by her parents to be adopted. Wilsberg finds the adoptive parents: Gunnar and Suzanne Frau Weltenbrink, who run a construction firm. Baby Lisa is kidnapped shortly after, then Wilsberg finds Franziska staged the clash to get his help for free. Georg and Alex are arrested as presumed kidnapping cahoots. Franziska is helped by Lisa's father Sven and his ex-con brother Mathias demanding a 100 000 Euro ransom, to start anew in Australia. The police ...

Hospitalized after an accident and leg surgery, drugged Georg believes to have witnessed his night nurse being beaten up by doctor Siegbert Suhlke. *Hospital staff, Alex, Ekki and Anna dismiss his 'drug nightmare' and bug him by fuzzing about his temporarily wheelchair use. Wilsberg withdraws his reluctance to move in with Anna as he discovers her home has a view on clinic chief Suhlke while she hopes he's ready to get closer romantically. Wilsberg wheels over after observing Suhlke hiding something under his apartment floor, would have been caught without help from ...

Wilsberg is fired in favor of two goons as security agent at Miss Munsterland pageant, for covering up the intrusion of his mate and former colleague Harry Jonas, who is murdered before he can properly explain his interest in mayor Peter Horstmar's competing daughter Rebecca. Wilsberg finds her car crashed a young woman who landed in a wheelchair, whose boyfriend hired Harry to find the culprit, but her car was reported stolen. Slutty Rebecca's electorally 'inacceptable' lover and 'agent' Moritz plays a puzzling part, courting rival competitor Margo and even her ...

Wilsberg is employed by a priest. The church in Muenster gets strange calls from a group called the "Wiedertaufer".

Georg grudgingly attends charge Alex's graduation party of her first employer's law firm, waves flirting from her 'well-connected' former college classmate Maike Lehmann and seeing her hit a car, which could coast her the bar exam, takes the blame by posing as the driver when the police arrives and drivers her home, but refuses a sexual 'bonus', after which a champagne bottle nearly misses him outside. The next day specialist police detective Michael Bach must investigate an absurd sexual abuse charge against Wilsberg, seems to sympathize and share his suspicion its' ...

Ekki has a one night stand which does not end up well.

On her first case Alex helps a man to escape from the police. Wilsberg thinks it is a bad idea and Kommissarin Springer threatens to put her in jail.

A young female cop is found dead in a car crash. Kommissarin Anna Springer is told not to investigate.

Ekki must bunk up together after his car breaks down while he gently drags ingrate Wilsberg to his high-school's 30 years graduation jubilee, which the grump hates. Ig guest interesting when boastful classmate Bernhard is killed but his corpse disappears from the pool. Wilsberg, Ekki and commissioner Anna, who stays incognito as his wife, find out about various motives and opportunities among guests, the hosting classmate who runs the castle hotel and his disgruntled waitress Ines, who has the hots for Ekki, hence confide. The murderer strikes again, Wilsberg works ...

After the wild celebration at Wilsberg's for Alex's first successful trial, defending slick sports student, barman and playboy Manuel against jealous heirs, party guest Babette Behrendt is left badly wounded on the street, near Ekki's car, which ran over her, actually watched by her fiance Gordon, son and deputy of contractor Lennart Haller. Commissioner Springer arrests drunk Ekki, who refuses to explain, covering for an unsuspecting, equally drunk mate mate. Georg's army Afghanistan veteran acquaintance and former romantic rival Klas Teunissen only hints at Ekki's ...

While Wilsberg is investigating an adultery case, he witnesses the murder of a professor.

On Christmas Eve, Wilsberg's gang prepares for Springer's orange duck home dinner at his home, but she lacks orange marmalade. While Ekki is bored at the tax office party,. Alex shops for a present at the jeweler when a female Santa robs it at gun point and ignores the blind man who 'sees not' how she changes is Ekki, who toyed with a blind man on the loo's cane. Ekki's adulterous boss Grabowski and his gross floozy Margot witness jeweler Friedhelm Thies being abducted in a car booth, but he tries to prevent her eagerness to testify exposing their affair. Wilsberg ...

Private detective Georg Wilsberg is hired by Torsten Schmitt to prove his wife Elvira's adultery but finds a hit murder. Overeager to impress the police-supervising alderman's daughter, police recruit Johanna Landau, Overbeck races to a 'suspected bank robbery' only to run over a mystery man and give a PR-suicidal interview, requiring Georg to take him in as hideout for the press. Lush has-been reporter Ingo Peters is murdered shortly after announcing a major scoop but his notes seem meaningless. Prodded by his tax department supervisor Grabowski to 'kill', Elkki ...

Flirting, Ekki forgets to pay his drink at the police ball and accepts instead to give waitress Jule Köhler's date Michael Klarmann a lift home. On the lonely rural road, they stop for road-kill and are shot at- Ekki mildly wounded, Michael dead. *Wilsberg must investigate, however skeptical, to appease Ekki, who goes in hiding at Georg's, fearing to be the target. Michael's father bitterly regretted his late wife having handed the 'knave' the power to wreck the family firm. Poor hunters cooperation leader Ulf Hagen holds Klarmann abuses the hunting rights lease, ...

Fresh meat.

Hearing his foxy new girl friend Denise Schulte repeatedly about her ex Gisbert Lotze, Ekki hires Wilseberg to check them out. He suspects her a 'working girl' but rather finds she also has an affair with commissioner Overbeck. Accountant Lotze's employer's corpse is found by Alex, whose client he was. Springer must now question as suspects her assistant and best friends, in a case revolving around tax fraud, with Denise playing a dirty part at every turn (even compromising Ekki's job), yet also being played by someone from her past.

Mentally exhausted, Ekki anonymously seeks quiet and 'himself' in Melkwegen priory's retreat program for burnt-out executives. However Overbeck is undercover there to train four monks in military style to take charge of security for an incognito visit by German pope Benedict to take the legendary Peace Bible to Rome. Wilsberg must join the program as cover, being called in by an anonymous monk to discretely investigate the drowning in a blue dye tub of 'cellerarius' (treasurer) monk Bertram, officially reported as simple cardiac arrest. Alex was hired by contractor ...

In Münster suburb Horsthausen, Thomas and Melanie Rensing's schoolboy son Max is reported missing, presumed kidnapped. Kinsman Ekki Talkötter provides a 10,000 Euro loan and gets buddy Georg Wilsberg to help deliver a ransom, but the police sabotages that and concentrates on the arrest on local pedophilia suspect Wolfgang Schwendter, believed to have avoided conviction a technicality years ago, now Alex's first major criminal client. Wilsberg smells a rat as Ekki's attempt to deliver ransom is sabotaged by his flirtatious youth neighbor and future fiancee according to...

Nils Erdel conspiracy theory 'Bielefeld doesn't exist' inspires Ekki, who seemingly can't disprove it, but is waved by Georg, even after Nils's fatal accident running into a car, but Georg's friend Manni, a Bielefeld municipal employee, and a fatal injection found in autopsy inspire Georg to twist the commissioner's arm into opening an investigation. While Nils's buddy Dominik proves a marketing vulture, murder suspect Frank Albers's past touches a woman who also gets murdered. The pictures Nils believed 'alien top-secret' really tie in with construction permits for a...

Wilsberg's school days acquaintance Lea's adolescent son Marc Sonnenborn is missing, so she hires him to search the knave. Wilsberg finds his corpse besides the site of a drag race he engaged in with classmate Tobias, his love rival for Mina, whose love-making he couldn't handle having observed. Ekki gives a tax service recruiting lecture at the kids' Goethe school, where eh finds the brats as vicious as staff warned. They must contend with Marc's step-dad lawyer, cocky classmate Ludger & weed dealing ex-con Steffen.

Wilsberg investigates the disappearance of his attorney friend Alexandra 'Alex', who was tied up and gagged by the blunt murderers of her gangster client Horst Fahrenbrink. Overbeck and Springer worry mostly about the loss after attending a costume party of a luxury car belonging to a cocky criminal state detective, who also seems to team up with Wilsberg. Ekki bought cheap a pawned Inca statue and worries finding it may be one of five stolen ones. All above cases are tied together by cocaine.

Overbeck is undercover as 'enforcer' for extortionists extracting 'protection payments' from entrepreneurs like restaurant owner Franko. Attorney Alex's lover and colleague, suave divorce lawyer Jan Faber, may be the link between a number of crimes. A female murder victim was partner in a duo of 'fidelity testing' private eyes hired by mistrusting women, such as unaware Ekki's bossy Silke, making him her last client. Wilsberg still uncovers more dirty twists, yielding surprising alternative motives.

Ekki has inherited his aunt's house and field in a country village. Inspecting it, he and Wilsberg find it in a terrible state, plus the corpse of local farmer Hans Habicht, who pioneered a local bio energy plant, and was murdered. he boycotted and would would compete with village cop Heinrich Brandstetter"s son Oliver's regional employer's wind mill project. Ekki plans to donate his aunt's ruin to spinster neighbor Ulla Falkenberg, who nursed his aunt and has a crush I-on him since he spent the summer with her as a schoolboy. Next the aunt's autopsy shows she was ...

Commissioner Anna Springer blind-dates Karsten Breiderhoff, whose brother Richard is charged with murdering his wife Anke. Her sister and stud farm-partner hired as lawyer Alex, who is robbed when she transports a cool-box with their stud farm's star stallion's precious sperm. Overbeck hopes to earn a promotion by stepping in for lately often flippantly-absent 'dating-crazy' Anna, but looks terrible when Wilsberg finds she was kidnapped, while seeking motives relating to the prize stallion's costly sperm. Ekki sexual finds a date in sexual abuse course but must brave ...

Wilsberg investigates when his godchild Alex finds her colleagues know of an Internet post of her in bed with a lover who didn't even say it as recorded, which compromises her lawyer career. It turns out to be a whole pay per view soft porn portal, all 'candid', run by a loverboy *who is found murderer 'pantless'' and his ruthless commercial partner. Wilsberg finds a link to Munster's leading plastic surgeon, whom even commissioner Springer consults hesitantly. Ekki befriends a nerdy secretary while auditing the sex portal "Diskretvision" which yields more clues and a...

Ekki witnesses the death of a colleague.

*Clumsy youngsters Lukas Feldmann and Marvin Berg make a failed attempt to rob Wilsberg's antiquary library, during which Ekki manages to knock down shy Marv. When Lukas is found murdered by pushing down a bridge, Overbeck insists to haunt Wilsberg, who tracked them down, as prime suspect, who prefers to run and conduct his own parallel investigation. The knaves' lonely senior neighbor, in a wheelchair, is found dead for weeks in his apartment. Ekki takes risks to investigate suspicious irregularities in the books of investment firm manager Horst Große-Eschhaus, whose...

A model is stalked and Wilsberg is asked to investigate.

Alex is ordered by the law firm boss to defend Enno Fellner, suspect of shooting Kamilla Marks, co-owner of the country estate stars restaurant Markshof, which the tour bus driver must avoid by restraining order, being released after serving a five years term for her alleged, never proven rape. Wilsberg, whom she asked as her bodyguard, believes in Enno's innocence, goes undercover in Markshof as kitchen mate under destitute cook Wolfgang 'Paco' and gets Ekki to accompany vindictive Enno on bus tours, but after initial bonding the creep snaps and new crimes are ...

Wilsberg witnesses a car accident and ends up with 6 Russian ladies in his house.

Belly, legs, buttocks.

Overbeck risks being fired rather then promoted as he hoped, being found unconscious in his car after a K.O. drops overdose while chaperoning Kriminalrat (police chief) Landau's law-school graduating brat daughter Juliane, whose paramedic boyfriend helped ditched the naive babysitter at a nightclub, and she's missing. While Wilsberg tries to establish client Overbeck's innocence, a murder also points to him. Alex, new a law school assistant, spots an academic anomaly. The drops trace to a clever home-made designer drug network.

Shortly after hiring Wilsberg to prove his wife Andrea's adultery, actually with Ekki's tax office boss Grabowski, 'alternative' quack Christopher Seekatz is fatally skull-smashed at home and his corpse staged 'ritually. Ekki reports a ticking backpack, leading to z SWAT intervention and the sacking of illegally-immigrated cleaner Hasim Hemidi, whose family Ekki wants to liberate from an abusive privately-run asylum camp. Seekatz's ambition to launch his own 'cures' caused trouble. Alex's client Dr. Oliver Stegner's pharmaceutical firm expects her to 'motivate' an MP ...

Ekki claims medical and other damages after a fall in as supermarket, but loses credibility due to falsified coupons suggesting he's an alcoholic. Snooping around at night, he stumbles upon the manager's corpse in a dumpster. Wilsberg goes undercover and has to invent a cover for Ekki as HQ inspector. Helped by an autistic son-employee, they stumble upon tax fraud and bio fowl quality fraud and serial infidelity. Overbeck's profiler course allows him to be spotted by the chief as team leader material, so Springer files for early retirement..

Private detective Wilsberg goes undercover in suit, posing as a rich investor's representative to Munster's elite Michael Lobland circle's major development project, for which Springers' landlord needs to clear her building*. Ekki snoops in the tycoon couple's taxes, and stumbles upon a squatter murder during arson in the old quarter.

While her professional minder and procurator Gregor Cassell reports senile crone Hanni Haffner missing, she bugs Wilsberg in his bookshop. Accompanying her home, Wilsberg and Ekki find there a corpse: friendly colleague PI Erwin Zylla. Commissioner Springer's wheelchair-bound busybody niece Merle's computer skills help Overbeck research. *Wilsberg suspects greed motives for Gregor Cassell and Hanni's next of kin cousin Guido Haffner, who hires Alex to claim guardianship in court, successfully opposing Guido's daughter Vanessa Balders, who hired Zylla , and her husband...

In good faith.

Wilsberg finds his usual Christmas dinner party, all reported 'unavailable', involuntarily reunited. Ekki's ski invitation with study friends falls trough due to canceled train and stolen equipment. Host-cook Anna faked illness, but witnesses a bank robbery and calls Overbeck in too. Wilsberg accepts on Christmas Eve to seek Johannes, the missing boyfriend of high-pregnant Marie. Alex proudly accepted a first invitation to the prestige home party of judge Hartmut Rudolph but his equally adulterous wife Franziska is missing, allegedly kidnapped by clumsy ex-con Philipp...

Ekki gave a nocturnal ride right home to snooty Emelie Boll after her graduation party, but the next morning she's reported missing and her schoolmates having (re-)posted on social media, studly classmate Dustin 'Superdustin' Jörgereit recognizes the car and hence identifies Ekki as the 'kidnapper/killer' before joining a vigilante-style juvenile search and rescue mob, which disregards the police, except cool-posing Overbeck, who soon switches to the armchair version with whizz-kid Julius von Bebber. Wilsberg investigates, fearing the MO fits at lest two ...

Wilsberg gains the trust of young Nina Kröner whom he found dumped after a row, but before she can confide in him in a pub, she's murdered in the toilet, technically making him the prime suspect. *. She formerly headed the administration at PR agency Teerhagen Consulting. Ekki is also suspect, having dealt with Anti-lobbying-NGO "Lobby Watch" founder Carl Brinkhoff, the last to have rowed with Nina Kröner. Alex must file for her boss's friend Lutz Teerhagen a defamation complaint against NGO. Wilsberg and the police investigate the relations between all the above, ...

Prodded by his supervisor Grabowski to check out the anonymous informer who offers the tax office a 'leaks' CD on Munster socialites, Ekki hires Wilsberg. The press gets wind of it, and first publicly forthcoming fraudster, contractor Gustav Ehrenberg, hangs himself at home or is staged to have done so before giving a detailed declaration. Searching for the firm's dirty secrets, his record point the duo to his forest property, where cheap east European laborers are lodged miserably, but legally, notably from Jan Lindemann's meat factory labor subcontractor Joachim ...

Wilsberg finally accompanies Anna on a holiday, to East Frisian island Norderney, but she brings along godchild Merle while Ekki and Alex mind the bookshop. Wilsberg and Merle, who teams up with Overbeck, can't help snooping when a motel guest is found with his head in the loo and Norderneyer restaurant waiter Gregor Schott, who refused to explain, is found dead on the beach, poisoned and clobbered. Chief commissioner Jan Brockhorst claims jurisdiction, but clueless island constable Grit Vierboom wants to solve the case with hobby sleuth Insa Scherzinger, the ...

The glass criminal.

Elena Warnetzki 'hires' Wilsberg, for barter being penniless, to search for garbage man Thomas Warnetzki, her lover and housemate in a garden cottage the squat together while living parsimoniously from waste-collecting. Commissioners Anna Springer and Overbeck already investigate as Thomas's corpse is found in a garbage container, belonging to his employer, city-contracted waste company "Mynstermyll", where Alex was engaged as executive for PR and HR. Ekki goes undercover, garbage man being a boy's dream, as alleged experimental paroled employee mentored by 'professor...

Murderous return.

Nunnery 'treasurer' sister Ordensschwester Christa gained 1,5 million Euro by stock market speculation for the convent. Mother superior Helena and she hid the cash under a crucifix statue, but it's missing. Wilsberg must find it undercover and the presumed thief, starting as monastery 'retreat' guest. Real estate tycoon Arthur Hollerbach hired Alex, seeking to buy and make-over the rickety nunnery as a top-end senior home, but she finds he actually plans a luxury hotel. Shortly after Jewgeni, one of Marek's team of cheap Polish construction laborers contracted for ...

Wilsberg's prospective client Britta Mantzke's corpse floats in the Aa lake. Unlike Springer and Overbeck, he dismisses suicide, taking her case posthumously. Sister Frauke Weiß confirms Britta survived a grueling cancer therapy five years ago and had a doted daughter, Amrei, from one of the embryos frozen in the local fertility clinic "Beste Hoffnung GmbH". It's a client of the law firm where Alex successfully postulates, and she dates their clinic chief Dr. Thorsten Friedrichs, whom she dumps as 'too eager'. Ekki is thrown out of second hand cloths NGO for fitting a...

Alex is suspected of murdering her boyfriend. Wilsberg and Ekki try to prove Alex's innocence. Overbeck also interferes with the case.

Because Overbeck loses his weapon in an operation, Oberrat Havenstein initiates a preliminary investigation against him. Shortly thereafter, she is dead and Overbeck is suspected of murder.

Wilsberg and Ekki are on their way to Bielefeld. Wilsberg's old friend Manni is imprisoned there for assault and alleged acceptance of bribes. The two try to help Manni out of trouble.

Wilsberg is said to settle an inheritance dispute on the island of Norderney. The deceased disowned his children shortly before his death and instead bequeathed everything to his secretary.

Joy and problems for Ekki in one: his ex-girlfriend introduces him to his daughter Hanna and Silke Sestendrup wants to maintain Ekki retrospectively for six years. There are also problems in the tax office: a colleague is preferred to an upcoming promotion. Wilsberg advises Ekki to be careful about Silke and his daughter. But after the professional bankruptcy Ekki gladly "escapes" into his new father role. Then suddenly two more ex-girlfriends of Ekki appear and there are lies and intrigue. The disappearance of Ekki's lawyer is the culmination of the strange events.

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Private eye Wilsberg is asked to help the owner of a tailor's shop, who feels harassed by her landlord. Soon afterwards, her neighbor is murdered in front of her.

Neben der Politik-Referentin Sophie Lowitz, dem Unternehmensberater Björn Schilling und dem PR-Spezialist Tobias Eichholz nimmt auch Juristin Dr. Tessa Tilker an dem Seminar teil. Als diese eine Blutspur in der Hotelhalle entdeckt, ruft sie Wilsberg zu Hilfe. Der Münsteraner Privatdetektiv lässt sich nicht lange bitten und nimmt gemeinsam mit Ekki undercover die Ermittlungen auf. Für Overbeck ist klar: Tessa will sich nur wichtig machen. Tessa wiederum vermutet, dass hier ein Verbrechen vertuscht werden soll. Was die anderen Teilnehmenden verschweigen: Es war noch ...

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Wilsberg entdeckt, dass Heitbrinks Tochter Lea Grund hätte, ihren Vater zu verleumden. Als überzeugte Veganerin liegt sie mit ihrem Vater im ideologischen Dauerclinch. Hat der Einbruch in Leas Wohnung, die sie mit Jasmin Rudolph teilt, etwas mit dem Fall zu tun? Jasmin arbeitet ausgerechnet in dem Labor, das im Auftrag des Veterinäramtes die hygienischen Verhältnisse in Heitbrinks Fleischfabrik untersucht hatte. Beruflich leidet Jasmin seit einiger Zeit unter Differenzen mit ihrem Laborleiter Jan Redecker, die sogar ihr aktuelles Forschungsprojekt zum Thema ...

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Merle, die Patentochter von Hauptkommissarin Anna Springer, sucht für ihr Studium eine neue Bleibe in Münster. Anna würde ihr dabei gern behilflich sein, doch der rätselhafte Leichenfund am Stadthafen fordert ihre volle Aufmerksamkeit. Kommissar Overbeck erkennt sofort, dass die tote Nadja König die Jacke einer aufstrebenden Influencerin trägt. Was hatten die beiden Frauen miteinander zu tun? Zudem muss Anna wenig begeistert feststellen, dass das Opfer ausgerechnet die Telefonnummer von Wilsberg bei sich trägt. Wie sich herausstellt, wollte Nadja König diesen kurz vor...

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