S4 • E5 Apr 1, 2015 45m
9.1
Repeatedly trampled flowerbeds, broken glass, and party debris... When Hubert and Staller meet with allotment gardener Helga Kramer early one morning to assess the latest vandalism incidents at the local allotment site, they find the woman dead in her shed. Everything points to murder. Helga Kramer could have been the victim of the very group of rowdy youths who had previously caused her to spend the entire night as part of a vigilante group in the allotment site. However, association chairman Wilfried Schramm has no kind words for the dead woman, describing the murder victim as opinionated and pedantic. Kramer had meticulously documented even the smallest offenses committed by her fellow gardeners. Thus, Konrad Winter, who allegedly used his shed as a permanent residence without permission, and Gerd Marquardt, who allegedly operates an unregistered trade in vegetables from his greenhouse, quickly become the focus of the investigation. Hubert, who is going through a divorce, also suspects that widower Horst Kramer could no longer cope with his wife's domineering ways and was solving his marital problems in his own way. But Helga Kramer was also naturally at odds with Gül Dogan, who uses her strict father Ilkay Dogan's plot of land for the occasional secret round of Prosecco. When Hubert and Staller discover that Johanna Girwidz, their boss's daughter, is one of the young people who have gone too far in the allotment garden in the past, they get closer to solving the case: A conspicuous boot print in a flowerbed was deliberately left by the murderer to distract attention from himself and thus, literally, pin the crime on someone else. But Hubert and Staller turn the tables: Using high-tech, improvisational talent, and an early St. Nicholas gift, they finally lure the perpetrator out of hiding.
