Watzmann ermittelt - Season 3

A horse is blinded with a laser pointer and the successful tournament rider falls into a coma. While the detectives investigate at the stud farm, a race against time begins, because the big question is: will the perpetrator attempt another murder? 

Johanna and Jerry spend a romantic night in a tent celebrating the summer solstice in the mountains. The morning after the solstice, student Bennie Lindner is found dead below a rocky plateau. When the detectives apprehend a refugee at the green border with Austria who is in possession of Bennie's backpack, the case seems to be solved.

But then Beissl's daughter Eva discovers videos online of daring daredevil stunts that Bennie and his two climbing friends Sebi and Lena used to compete with each other. Did one of these daredevil stunts prove fatal for Bennie?

And what role do the victim's mother, Wally Lindner, and Lena's father, the enigmatic mountaineer Hans Staudinger, play? Both seem to be hiding something from the detectives.

Max and Caro find the body of a young man in a tent. Mia Sager, who was staying in the tent, has disappeared. Beissl and Jerry's investigations quickly lead them to a popular backpacker hostel. And to its operator, Tom Sager, the father of the missing girl. To his dismay, his daughter was in a relationship with the victim.

Beissl is increasingly annoyed by Tom Sager's lack of cooperation with the investigators – the conflict between the two fathers is escalating. And with it, the suspicion that Tom Sager killed his daughter's boyfriend to prevent her from running away with him.

But then Jerry finds out that the missing girl had every reason to be jealous of her boyfriend. Did she stab him in a fit of rage? The search for Mia Sager proves fruitless... until the detectives discover that she is being hidden by an old childhood friend.

Fly fisherman Werner Brandl is found dead in Hintersee. Who killed the head of a timber house construction company? Jerry is surprised at how little Beissl knows about the victim, given that they are both members of the same fishing club.

Suspicion initially falls on barbecue rowdy Lorenz Estermann, who, according to the dead man's wife, threatened her husband shortly before his death. And to Beissl's chagrin, the detectives also have to take action in the fishing club, especially with regard to club chairman Simon Spöck. The victim had botched the construction of Spöck's wooden house, forcing Simon Spöck and his family to live on a campsite.

Did Simon Spöck want revenge on his former friend? Or is Spöck's son Hannes behind the crime? He recently started dating Katharina, the victim's daughter, which Spöck did not approve of.

Beissl's less than impressive social skills also lead to some conflicts in the Beissl household, until Johanna finally has a frank conversation with her father.

Commander Sepp Breitinger is found murdered in the Berchtesgaden fire station. Initial suspicion falls on his deputy, Clea Doganis, who had clashed with him over differing views on gender equality in the fire department.

Does his death have anything to do with this? Or is the motive something else entirely? Was everything above board in the fire department? Can Beissl's first love, the dead man's sister Rita Weiß, help him solve the case? In any case, meeting Rita again after all these years does not leave him untouched...

Baron Clemens von Mahnfeld is shot dead in his forest while hunting. At first, noblesse oblige seems to be the order of the day in this case. Nevertheless, Beissl and Jerry discover that the relationship between the deceased and his brother Reinhard was not the best, partly due to inheritance disputes.

Cousin Markus also comes under the investigators' scrutiny. He has been poaching in the castle forest for some time. When Jerry notices that the deceased's wife, Monika von Mahnfeld, may have been a victim of domestic violence, she becomes the prime suspect. But it is only when Jerry manages to gain the trust of Monika's young son that the detectives are able to look behind the facade of the castle and solve the case.

There is also a lot going on in Beissl's private life. Beissl's eldest daughter Maria wants to move out, and in the end it is Jerry who makes this happen, much to Beissl's chagrin.

The day starts badly for Beissl. No room for his fishing rod in the new house, a daughter who wants to study for her university entrance exams in a friend's caravan, and then the news that a body has been found in the Ache river. His colleague Jerry, with the help of the medical examiner, has discovered that the deceased was the victim of an attack, in which the perpetrator targeted his laptop. The dead man was a blogger. In his blog, "Denz Uncovers," he tried to generate reach with scandals that Johanna had previously researched.

Bernd Rappenglück, president of the Berchtesgaden whip-cracking club, is found dead in the courtyard of his bakery. Just the evening before, the club had celebrated their victory against their rivals from Garmisch at their clubhouse. Did things get out of hand? Ferdi Brandner, one of the whip-crackers, quickly becomes a suspect in Sophia Strasser and Jerry Paulsen's eyes. His possible motive: The refugee Alfons Nkmura, nicknamed Fonsi, was allowed to lead the whip-crackers in the prestigious competition instead of Ferdl. Thanks to the help of Rappenglück and the club's equipment manager, Toni Kainz, Fonsi had quickly integrated, which didn't sit well with everyone.

Theresa Geiger is kidnapped in a traditional manner at her own wedding, eats a cake provided for her while waiting, and dies. The coroner diagnoses an allergic shock. Her friend Cecilia, with whom Theresa ran a café, insists that she made the cake in the cabin specifically without nuts, knowing of Theresa's severe allergy. However, an almost identical cake containing nuts is missing from the café's cold storage—did someone secretly switch it with the one in the cabin? Caro, who knew Theresa, wonders who could have harmed her friend.

Beissl has become quite fond of dogs. He actually believes that dogs have no place in the police station. But Spezl is special and is in shock. His owner was bludgeoned to death – with a spade, as forensic pathologist Sonja Bitterling soon discovers. Werner Murrer, founder and trainer of the Berchtesgaden Search and Rescue Dog Association, lay dead in the parking lot of his dog club, guarded by Spezl. His girlfriend, Josefine Scheffler, is stunned: Werner and his dog handler teams had saved nearly 100 lives and had no enemies. Mountain farmer Josef Holler is an exception. He blames the deceased for his wife Uli being in a wheelchair. And then there's Lilly Wengert, who is angry because her dog Zeus wasn't good enough for Murrer's dog unit.

The day starts off badly for Inspector Beissl. His daughter Maria is standing at the door canoodling with a man who turns out to be her landlord Toni, the water in the house is cold again, and then he is called to a mysterious death.
A client at Eveline Schober's beauty salon suddenly died during a treatment. Forensic pathologist Sonja Bitterling quickly became certain that anaphylactic shock was the cause. In short: The deceased suffered from a bee venom allergy.

While Benedikt Beissl suggests to his daughter Eva at breakfast that she become a teacher, Jerry Paulsen rushes to the scene where a boy's body has been found.
Pascal has been bludgeoned to death. It quickly becomes clear that the boarding school student wasn't particularly popular with his classmates

Somewhat reluctantly, photographer Josef Märkel helps his girlfriend, climbing legend Anna Falter, with a photo shoot on the mountain. As he's about to rappel down, the safety anchor comes loose. Märkel falls five meters and into a coma. The anchor was deliberately removed. 

Beissl is to blame. Jerry proudly shows him the old pearl ring at the station, the one he plans to use to propose to Johanna – and Beissl drops it.
The pearl breaks free from its setting and disappears. Where is Jerry supposed to get a replacement? Jerry and Beissl have different ideas.
Meanwhile, the case they're currently working on is quite tricky. Ranger Timo Roiss was pushed off a cliff and was injured beforehand. 

A shocking morning for Ms. Maierhofer! On her way to the town hall, she finds the body of a man who has been stabbed to death in his car. When Jerry Paulsen tries to ask Sophia Strasser to drive him to the crime scene, he can't believe his eyes. The policewoman is waiting for him in plain clothes. And Max is pushing her desk into the hallway… Sophia Strasser is finally a detective!

Geli Kreiser is dead. Strangled, as the new medical examiner, Dr. Phillipp Hartmann, informs the two investigators, Sophia Strasser and Jerry Paulsen. Beissl is quite happy to get out of the house, because his wife, with the help of their daughters, is looking for a new dirndl.

Beissl is far from pleased when a police patrol brings his daughter Eva home. Eva participated in an unannounced sit-in protest against a bypass, which shortly afterward prompts the slick local politician Ferdinand Erler to pay Beissl a visit. And then Jerry and Sophia call to report the discovery of a body: Marlene Thaler, Berchtesgaden's advertising icon and the face of the Alpenkönig cheese dairy, has been murdered.