S8 • E3 Jan 27, 2026 48m
The undertakers are astonished. In the middle of Lake Constance, they are ambushed while transporting the body of convict Charlie Maurer. The kidnappers disappear with the coffin and its contents. Jakob and Paul are quite baffled when they later find the boat with the coffin, but without the body. The question that Nele and Julia are also asking themselves: Who would kidnap a dead convict who had no social contacts or relatives? The responsible corrections officer, Franz Kormann, states that he gave Maurer his daily thrombosis injection and found him dead shortly afterward. Social worker Josephine Peschko describes the deceased as a sick, elderly man who had a difficult life and occasionally spoke of a cognac bomber who had crashed into Lake Constance during the final days of the war and was now slumbering there along with 2,000 bottles of the finest cognac. Even Maurer's former cellmate, the Swiss tattoo artist Ludovic Tschanz, who gave the deceased several tattoos during his incarceration, can't offer any further information. When Maurer's body is found in Lake Constance, the case takes a new turn. The autopsy reveals that he died of an overdose of an anesthetic, ruling out natural causes. But the deeper the Water Police dig into this murky case, the more inconsistencies emerge. What role does the enigmatic nurse Ricarda Moniz play? Why did Peschko conceal her relationship to Kormann? Nele solves the puzzle in her own way. When a diving robot is stolen, a race against time begins. A treasure hunter is pursuing murderous goals... It's a good thing that Mechthild reveals the whole truth about the cognac bomber to Nele back home.
