Hubert ohne Staller

Actually, Girwidz just wants to stop by Yazid's bakery before leaving work. But then he hears a woman's cries for help nearby. When Girwidz goes to check, he is overpowered and knocked out. He wakes up in a small windowless room - trapped, but to his great surprise, not alone. The blind Gerlinde Müller has been held captive there for a year. On the previous evening, she had almost managed to escape. It was she who had called for help. Meanwhile, there's concern in the police station because Girwidz hasn't shown up for duty and can't be reached. In Girwidz's apartment, Riedl encounters an unknown man, who however manages to escape. Yazid complains to the police station that Girwidz's service car is still parked in front of his bakery. When Hubert wants to pick up the vehicle there, he finds a bitten nut cracker nearby. A radio cell query confirms that Girwidz did not leave the area around the bakery the night before. During the search for their missing colleague, two residents arouse the suspicion of the police: the convicted Olaf Bode, who does not want to let anyone onto his property, and his neighbor Franz Schartl, who is also not being forthcoming.

Yazid's carnival party ends in tragedy: City councilor and real estate agent Achim Wiegand is shot dead. None of the party guests noticed anything in the festive chaos, not even district chief Sabine Kaiser and pathologist Dr. Fuchs. During their investigations, Hubert and Girwidz discover that the victim had allegedly won millions in the lottery shortly before his murder. A possible motive for the crime? But while Christina Bayer and Riedl are causing a stir in all of Wolfratshausen in their hunt for a beaver, the case also takes a turn: Achim Wiegand had forgotten to hand in the lottery ticket! Is the murderer his best friend Miro Schneider, with whom he had formed a lottery syndicate for years - out of anger and disappointment over the missed million-dollar win? Moreover, it turns out that Miro Schneider had hit Achim Wiegand's car with a baseball bat in a beaver costume at night. But then Hubert and Girwidz discover that Wiegand, as a city councilor, used internal information for his own business advantage, causing some trouble for various involved parties.

During a routine speed check, Riedl notices an unattended food truck. Attached to the vehicle is the body of Dennis Welter. The well-known food waste activist had taped himself to the truck to protest against food waste. However, his killer must have then stuck a piece of duct tape over his mouth and nose, suffocating him.  
 Hubert and Girwidz look around the activist's environment. They come across Welter's girlfriend, Nina Klatt, and a housing community where other activists have joined forces against food waste. They too have demonstrated with duct tape actions at various locations in Wolfratshausen. But what motive could they have to murder a like-minded person? The trader Konrad Rupp, who offers unpackaged organic goods, is also suspicious. The activist had recently been working for him. While Hubert sneaks his colleague Christina into the shared apartment to collect incriminating material, Girwidz and Riedl grill the owner of the unpackaged store and uncover a major fraud. His fruit, in fact, tastes suspiciously like that from the supermarket.

An unusual visit to the police station: Nine-year-old Lukas Aubinger reports a murder. Neighbor Josef Stark is suspected of killing his wife. Girwidz dismisses it as a child's fantasy, but the boy has alleged evidence in his backpack, including the woman's wedding ring with her initials. Could there be some truth to the story? Hubert and Girwidz investigate Josef Stark and uncover several inconsistencies - and Mrs. Stark has disappeared without a trace. An unusual visit to the police station: There, nine-year-old Lukas Aubinger reports a murder. From his bedroom, he claims to have seen neighbor Josef Stark dragging his wife's body through the garden. Girwidz considers this a particularly bizarre case of a child's vivid imagination. However, Lukas has brought evidence for his story. The most important piece of evidence is a wedding ring with Mrs. Stark's initials, which he found in the neighbor's garden. Could there be some truth to this? Hubert and Girwidz investigate the neighbor. Stark can answer all the questions - and he reports that Lukas is not playing detective for the first time. However, it remains suspicious that his wife is unreachable and is supposedly spending a long weekend with a friend. However, she doesn't know anything about it when the police question her. Lukas has gathered even more evidence incriminating the husband. It suggests that Josef Stark killed his wife last weekend and buried her somewhere. District Chief Kaiser is impressed. However, she urgently asks Lukas to stop his search for clues and to let the professionals take over from now on. But the boy doesn't even consider that and puts himself in great danger.

In the parking lot of the supermarket "Frische Felix", Christina Bayer discovers the murdered store detective. Did a convicted shoplifter take revenge? Girwidz enthusiastically assumes the role of a supermarket employee to investigate unnoticed on site. Hubert follows a different theory: He suspects a relationship crime, because the dead man had been writing love letters to the branch manager and was simultaneously having an affair with a saleswoman. But even this lead leads nowhere. It's not until Riedl involuntarily reinvigorates the investigation that things start to move forward. A small flirtation, a brief moment of inattention, has unforeseen consequences for policewoman Christina. In the parking lot of the supermarket "Frische Felix", she crashes into the parked car of store detective Ewald Wolker with her shopping cart. He is found dead at the wheel, murdered with a knife. Could the crime have something to do with Wolker's profession? Perhaps a convicted thief who wanted to take revenge? To find out, Girwidz stays at "Frische Felix" and assumes the role of a supermarket employee. At the same time, Hubert and Sabine Kaiser take a closer look at the private life of the murdered Wolker. They discover that he was having an affair with the supermarket employee Mira Heinemann and apparently also with the 'Frische Felix' branch manager Franziska Woitschek. Is this a crime of passion? The police only really get on the trail of the perpetrator when the eternal clumsy Riedl unwittingly finds out that Christina's supermarket flirt is an acquaintance of trainee Lukas Körner, the illegitimate and unloved son of the owner of 'Frische Felix'. Both are involved in dubious business dealings - and Detective Wolker might have noticed this.

Riedl secretly drives to Lake Starnberg during his duty hours to take a summer swim. While there, he stumbles upon the body of an unknown woman on the shore. The victim is identified as Silke Neumayr by the license plate of her car. A visit to her apartment reveals to Hubert and Girwidz that the victim was a passionate pilgrim. In her travel diary, Silke Neumayr documented how she came to know and love the widowed hotelier Peter Sirtl on the Way of St. James. It quickly became clear to both of them that they wanted to go on a world trip together, financed by the sale of a hotel-owned lake access. A plan that Melanie, the hotelier's daughter, was just as opposed to as she was to her father's new girlfriend. Very suspicious. And what role does Silke's husband Mark play? Although the two lived separately, he tried everything until the end to mend the relationship. Did Mark Neumayr know that his wife had already gone to the divorce lawyer? It's not until Riedl accidentally reunites with his old classmate Nadja Sommer that he gets a real clue. Nadja has now become a successful pharmaceutical sales representative and seems to be involved in the case herself.