S1 • E4 Mar 12, 2015 88m
5.6
The Insel lawyer Katharina Reiff hardly knows where her head is: her mother Marianne can only think of the upcoming Inselball and daughter Nele is in the middle of exam stress. As if that weren't enough, Katharina has to take on the case of the itinerant shepherd Manuel, whose flock of sheep wreaked havoc on a campsite, while he himself was almost killed by a falling tree while he was sleeping. What at first glance looks like a chain of unfortunate circumstances soon awakens Katharina's criminalistic instincts: the tree has apparently been cut and the mysterious Manuel doesn't seem to be what he claims either. With his quiet, sympathetic nature, he quickly becomes the object of Katharina's notorious helper instinct - and soon he reveals to her that he is actually not a shepherd, but an opera tenor who takes part in a BKA witness protection program. In order to free his great love Irina from the clutches of a powerful rocker boss, he made himself available as a key witness against the gang. Since then, a contract killer has been trying to kill the hopeless romantic to prevent him from testifying in court. So the good-hearted Katharina has to do on several construction sites at the same time: She has to stand by Manuel, keep the unnerved Nele happy and, incidentally, get her best friend Thies, who is secretly in love with her, to invite her to the island ball. Before the big dance begins, however, the two of them have to convict the professional killer as quickly as possible - he has been on the island for a long time and is well camouflaged, waiting for his chance.
