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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.

50 years after the Munich Massacre, Munich is hosting a soccer game between an Israeli and a German football club. When things start to fall apart, it seems history might be repeating all over again.

When a grisly murder brings Detective Maik Briegand back to his small hometown, he finds himself dredging up bodies, clues and his own past traumas.

An incorruptible judge has spent his career fighting organized crime. However, the tables are turned when his son is guilty of a hit-and-run case.

ZERV" tells of the first years after the fall of the Wall, the breaks in life courses, of completely different biographies and of the successful coming together in the common fight against crime, which knows no East and West. ZERV stands for the Central Investigation Office for Government and Association Crime, founded in Berlin in 1991 by decision of the federal government.

Shortly after the end of the Second World War: In 1945 and 1946, the men of the British "War Crimes Investigation Unit" drove through northern Germany on the hunt for Nazi criminals. One of them is Captain Anton Walter Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Anton Walter Freud fled to London with his family from the Nazis in 1938. Now an intelligence officer, he's back to track down killers on Allied wanted lists: hitmen in pinstripes, brutal SS henchmen, and ruthless doctors who conducted medical experiments even on children. The soldiers who witnessed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp months earlier are not squeamish about it. 24-year-old Freud is a free spirit known for his unorthodox methods. He knows how to make war criminals talk. So he comes across a crime that has hardly been known before, the murder of 20 children in Hamburg in the last days of the war.

When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.

The stubborn bighead Gerhard Jäger, sentenced by the murder commission, reluctantly postpones service according to the regulations of the water protection police. Does he hate water like the plague? Until his new colleague Arda Turan, a former high-performance swimmer, brings a breath of fresh air to the WaPo team with her lively nature and direct Ruhrpottschnauze. Police chief Frank van Dijk, a real sonny boy and passionate water rat, is also on board. He spends every free minute jet skiing and flirting, but at WaPo he holds the wheel firmly in his hand. And then there is Lena Preser, the secretary of the troupe, who always gets amazing insights from the bottom of the ground with her perseverance. Under the strict eye of ambitious boss Maria Kruppka, the investigative team solves the most exciting cases and repeatedly clashes with the arrogant crime chief commissioner Carsten Heinrich from the main department.

Desperate for startup stardom, an overly ambitious finance mastermind lies, cheats and schemes his less-than-authentic company up the ladder to success.

A Black Forest village seems like an idyll - until the popular local GP dies. The village cop thinks it’s murder. And one murder leads to more...

The series tells the story of Leander Lost, an extraordinary detective who is autistic. Lost is transferred to the small fishing village of Fuseta. He must try to fit in with his new team somehow.

Inspector Katharina Tempel moves from the LKA to the Hamburg police. Under the leadership of her new superior, Chief Inspector Georg König , she begins a murder investigation in the Hanseatic city. She is supported by her new colleague Dela Tahiri, her husband Volker , the celebrated press spokesman for the Hamburg police, and her best friend and prosecutor Golda Hopkins.

The body of old Theodor Reifenrath is found in Mammolshain in the Taunus. Accident or Murder? Because the safe is open and empty, inspectors Pia Sander and Oliver von Bodenstein start investigations. In the dog kennel in front of the house, they make a horrifying discovery. Alongside to a nearly starved dog, she finds human bones in the ground. Three women's bodies are recovered by the forensic experts. But who are the murdered women? The dead man and his deceased wife Rita had used the large house by the lake as a kind of children's home and had raised many foster children here over the years. However, the two were not loving foster parents. Rita has been missing for many years. Probably suicide, but her body was never found. The investigators are concentrating on the foster children, who are now all grown up and in the middle of life. The pattern of killings is striking: Apparently the perpetrator always kills on Mother's Day. And that day is near.

For Vera, risk analysis was her profession and game theory an academic discipline. However, when her daughter is kidnapped, this is the only weapon she has left.

Hidden behind the laboratory doors of the forensic institutes, universities and research centres, scientists and experts uncover important information on how to convict the perpetrators.