Die Chefin - Season 5

Vera Lanz continues to investigate. Four new episodes accompany the single-minded, committed chief inspector and her team as they solve gripping murder cases in and around Munich. Traffic control in the Munich area. Patrol officers spot an empty parked SUV with blood stains on the back. Then one of the police officers is shot. When the colleague shoots back, the perpetrator flees on foot into the forest. At the scene of the crime, Vera Lanz is confronted with a colleague from the Rosenheim detective: Ferdinand Preiß, with whom she is to work on the case under her direction. As soon as Vera and Trompeter leave the crime scene, they are ambushed. The protective vest saves Vera's life Trumpeter is shot and kidnapped together with Vera's car. A race against time begins for Vera.
An anonymous tip leads the inspector to the sleepy village of Moosberg and on to the trail of local matador and hunter Stefan Meiwald. Is Meiwald Trumpeter's kidnapper? While Vera is investigating in the tangled milieu of the village, Meiwald's former hunting colleague Karl Schollmeyer can provide important information. Meanwhile, Trumpeter's chances of survival are getting worse and worse. Will the commissioner manage to find her colleague in time? Four new episodes of "Die Chefin" will be broadcast on Fridays at 8:15 p.m.

In her new case, Vera Lanz is not only challenged professionally. The investigations are also putting pressure on the tough policewoman in her private life. The assignment is more than inconvenient for Vera Lanz. Instead of meeting up with Dominik Schneider for one of the rare rendezvous, she is picked up by Paul Böhmer to a crime scene. The drug dealer known to the police, Rolf Hüske, was murdered. At the scene of the crime, Vera meets Veit Mahn, a colleague and friend of Trompeter who reported the murder. Schneider is also on site. He is investigating internally against Mahn, who is suspected of having embezzled cocaine during a raid.
The results of the forensics make the case even more complicated: In Hüske's shelter, traces of a female person are secured: Did the young, drug-addict Jessica Winsler shoot the dealer? The investigation of the ammunition brings unexpected movement into the investigation: The associated weapon is registered and belongs to none other than the internal investigator Dominik Schneider.

Torsten Hanke, the murderer of Dennis Bayer, is shot in front of the courthouse after his acquittal. Vera Lanz is quickly convinced: This was the act of a professional killer. But who wants to avenge Dennis' death and has the wherewithal to afford a professional? The investigations lead Vera Lanz and her colleagues Jan Trompeter and Paul Böhmer to the red-light district of the Bavarian metropolis. Böhmer's interrogation of Dennis' mother Liane Bayer provides a crucial clue. Dennis trained at a boxing club that Böhmer is not unfamiliar with. His physical investigations are not without results. Dennis' father, kept secret by Liane for a long time, is said to be Franko Holzinger, a well-known Munich milieu.
Did Holzinger hire the killer to avenge his son? But the DNA test also has a surprise in store for Holzinger: He is not Dennis's biological father. When Böhmer examines Liane Bayer's family background more closely, it quickly becomes clear to him that there must be a far more dangerous client behind Holzinger: Anton Slimemann, Liane's father, who knows more about Böhmer's past than the policeman would like. Vera Lanz and Jan Trompeter notice that Böhmer is beginning to investigate on his own. Does Böhmer still know which side he is on?

A helicopter, two corpses: It is a spooky scenery that Vera Lanz offers at the sawmill. Her new case reaches into the machinations of criminal high finance. The man hiding near the scene of the crime is Gernot Viehweg, the well-known astrologer and advisor to powerful business leaders. Viehweg admits that Vera was on the run from the tax investigators. After the helicopter landed, an attempt was made to shoot him. Contrary to all suspicions, public prosecutor Huber treats the astrologer with exquisite courtesy. Viehweg's notes can hook a big fish for the public prosecutor's office: the big criminal Manfred Gericke, who is responsible for bribery, drug trafficking and human trafficking.
But who is responsible for the bloodbath at the sawmill? The results of the forensics give the case a new direction: apart from Viehweg, a blonde woman must have been on board the helicopter. "Cherchez-la-femme" is now the motto of the investigation. A case that also takes a surprising turn for Vera Lanz. Last episode of the current season "The Boss".