On Christmas Eve, Wilsberg's gang prepares for Springer's orange duck home dinner at his home, but she lacks orange marmalade. Hospitalized after an accident and leg surgery, drugged Georg believes to have witnessed his night nurse being beaten up by doctor Siegbert Suhlke. Alex is ordered by the law firm boss to defend Enno Fellner, suspect of shooting Kamilla Marks, co-owner of the country estate stars restaurant Markshof, which the tour bus driver must avoid by restraining order, being released after serving a five years term for her alleged, never proven rape. Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo, 2005.A young woman's disappearance and murder seems connected to deaths at an assisted living home. Wilsberg gains the trust of young Nina Kröner whom he found dumped after a row, but before she can confide in him in a pub, she's murdered in the toilet, technically making him the prime suspect. Wilsberg, whom she asked as her bodyguard, believes in Enno's innocence, goes undercover in Markshof as kitchen mate under destitute cook Wolfgang 'Paco' and gets Ekki to accompany vindictive Enno on bus tours, but after initial bonding the creep snaps and new crimes are ...
The pictures Nils believed 'alien top-secret' really tie in with construction permits for a... The two try to help Manni out of trouble.
Flirting, Ekki forgets to pay his drink at the police ball and accepts instead to give waitress Jule Köhler's date Michael Klarmann a lift home. Ekki sexual finds a date in sexual abuse course but must brave ... Franziska is helped by Lisa's father Sven and his ex-con brother Mathias demanding a 100 000 Euro ransom, to start anew in Australia. Wilsberg, Alex, Ekki und Anna feiern ausgelassen bis spät in die Nacht.
Anna Anna Springer, a police officer of same age as Wilsberg, is the DCI of the Münster murder squad.
*Wilsberg suspects greed motives for Gregor Cassell and Hanni's next of kin cousin Guido Haffner, who hires Alex to claim guardianship in court, successfully opposing Guido's daughter Vanessa Balders, who hired Zylla , and her husband... A tax auditor goes from enemy to friend when he pitches in on one of Wilsberg's investigations.
Springer must now question as suspects her assistant and best friends, in a case revolving around tax fraud, with Denise playing a dirty part at every turn (even compromising Ekki's job), yet also being played by someone from her past. Ekki is thrown out of second hand cloths NGO for fitting a... Alex, new a law school assistant, spots an academic anomaly. Commissioner Springer's wheelchair-bound busybody niece Merle's computer skills help Overbeck research. Georg grudgingly attends charge Alex's graduation party of her first employer's law firm, waves flirting from her 'well-connected' former college classmate Maike Lehmann and seeing her hit a car, which could coast her the bar exam, takes the blame by posing as the driver when the police arrives and drivers her home, but refuses a sexual 'bonus', after which a champagne bottle nearly misses him outside. Ekki's adulterous boss Grabowski and his gross floozy Margot witness jeweler Friedhelm Thies being abducted in a car booth, but he tries to prevent her eagerness to testify exposing their affair. But after the professional bankruptcy Ekki gladly "escapes" into his new father role. Ekki is also suspect, having dealt with Anti-lobbying-NGO "Lobby Watch" founder Carl Brinkhoff, the last to have rowed with Nina Kröner.
Her sister and stud farm-partner hired as lawyer Alex, who is robbed when she transports a cool-box with their stud farm's star stallion's precious sperm. Commissioner Springer arrests drunk Ekki, who refuses to explain, covering for an unsuspecting, equally drunk mate mate. Wilsberg thinks it is a bad idea and Kommissarin Springer threatens to put her in jail. Overeager to impress the police-supervising alderman's daughter, police recruit Johanna Landau, Overbeck races to a 'suspected bank robbery' only to run over a mystery man and give a PR-suicidal interview, requiring Georg to take him in as hideout for the press. Wilsberg withdraws his reluctance to move in with Anna as he discovers her home has a view on clinic chief Suhlke while she hopes he's ready to get closer romantically. In Münster suburb Horsthausen, Thomas and Melanie Rensing's schoolboy son Max is reported missing, presumed kidnapped. Private detective Wilsberg goes undercover in suit, posing as a rich investor's representative to Munster's elite Michael Lobland circle's major development project, for which Springers' landlord needs to clear her building*. Overbeck is undercover as 'enforcer' for extortionists extracting 'protection payments' from entrepreneurs like restaurant owner Franko. After the wild celebration at Wilsberg's for Alex's first successful trial, defending slick sports student, barman and playboy Manuel against jealous heirs, party guest Babette Behrendt is left badly wounded on the street, near Ekki's car, which ran over her, actually watched by her fiance Gordon, son and deputy of contractor Lennart Haller.
Directed by Dennis Satin, 2001.Wilsberg becomes the bodyguard of the city treasurer, who's sure she doesn't need protection. Directed by Dennis Satin, 2004. While her professional minder and procurator Gregor Cassell reports senile crone Hanni Haffner missing, she bugs Wilsberg in his bookshop.