S3 • E5 Dec 4, 2013 45m
8.6
An agitated walker claims to have seen a crocodile at the lake. Hubert considers the news a typical silly season story and is amazed when, together with Staller, he actually finds a small crocodile on the lakeshore - and not far from it, a corpse with bite wounds. Contrary to initial suspicions, however, this is by no means a gruesome death at the hands of a sea monster. The investigation reveals that Tobias Brunner, who regularly let his unusual pet swim in the lake, was bludgeoned to death with a solid object. However, there is no trace of the object. The pathological findings lead Dr. Anja Licht to conclude that the murder weapon must have been a green-painted metal object, and Yazid, Hubert, and Staller set out to search with a metal detector. Apart from a few coins and an antique necklace pendant, they find nothing on the lakeshore and give up in disappointment. They try their luck with Kai Brunner, the victim's brother, who ran a small animal pet shop with Tobias. While Staller explores the animal landscape with interest, Hubert learns that Tobias Brunner was visited by his ex-girlfriend Anke shortly before his death. Although Anke has been in a relationship with shoe store owner Gerd Obermeier for some time, she blames Tobias for her "ruined life." When Hubert and Staller discover that she can no longer have children since having an abortion during her relationship with Tobias, they seem to be on the trail of solving the case. So did she kill her ex-boyfriend out of revenge, or was it her new boyfriend Gerd Obermeier who knew about Anke's visits to Tobias? But the mystery is only solved when Staller promptly gives the necklace he found while searching for the murder weapon at the lake to Sabrina Rattlinger for her birthday, and Yazid organizes a gold-digging course on the lakeshore.
