Watzmann ermittelt

Farmer Gitte Schiller finds the body of her husband Lorenz, whom she had long believed to be dead, in a manure pile. He was buried eight years ago. But forensic pathologist Philipp Hartmann leaves no doubt that this body was alive just a few hours earlier.

Evi Mayr girlfriend of brewery owner Alois Ritter, is shot dead while preparing for a photo shoot. Her marketing ideas had caused conflicts, especially with Alois's daughter Lena. Investigators discover that Evi wasn't the intended target.
Meanwhile, at home, Beissl is struggling with mountains of laundry until Max helps him.

Elisabeth's performance with the brass band at construction contractor Norbert Grainer's 75th birthday party goes awry. Shortly before it's due to begin, she finds his son, the mayor, murdered. Jerry and Sophia initially suspect a jealous musician, and then the beautiful conductor, the deceased's girlfriend. Beissl worries that his daughter and Jerry might leave him for Frankfurt.

Hotel management student Samira Malouf, who fled Syria with her family in 2015, is found murdered in the hotel. Was it her colleague Julian Kunz, who disliked her, her brother Adil, or the candy manufacturer Butenberg?
Beissl is worried about Eva. His daughter still apparently doesn't know what to do after graduating from high school. 

Pharmacist Markus Wittig reads his own obituary and is murdered shortly afterward. Peter Lederer, the ex of Markus's girlfriend Tina, is the prime suspect, but trainee Lena also comes under scrutiny.
Meanwhile, Maria's boyfriend Toni successfully acts as a relationship coach for her sister Eva.

Sophia and Jerry witness a small plane go into a spin and crash. At the controls was amateur pilot and management consultant Pierre Gassner. There's no sign of his wife, Miriam, but a trail of blood in their house suggests foul play. Flight instructor Sascha Bick describes the deceased as an experienced pilot who had no enemies.
Meanwhile, Beissl, with the help of his daughter Eva, is preparing for a film shoot. Johanna's ex-boyfriend, director Tom Fosse, is flying in from Hollywood to shoot a promotional video about the Berchtesgaden police.

World champion, World Cup winner, fashion designer… Biathlete Laura Prell was something of a local hero in Berchtesgaden. She had just been discussing her biography with Johanna Beissl when her body was found in the woods. She had been murdered. Even the medical examiner, Dr. Hartmann, had tears in his eyes because he had so admired Laura. And Sophia blamed herself for having let the weeping Laura reject her just the evening before. Why was Laura Prell so distraught before her death?

Johanna had imagined things differently: When she tells Jerry she's pregnant, he's summoned by his father-in-law, Inspector Beissl, to a glamorous crime scene. In the mountain restaurant "Gipfelglück" (Summit Bliss), owned by the self-proclaimed gastronomy guru Herby Allgeier, the proprietor, Nina Allgeier, finds waiter Rudi dead one morning. Poisoned by a dose of cocaine laced with a pesticide, as Dr. Philipp Hartmann discovers. Cell phone data recovered by Caro Reiser reveals that the deceased had a mysterious girlfriend named Ana. He had planned to emigrate to Thailand with her. But initially, the detectives search for her in vain.

Beissl is faced with the fact that his youngest daughter, Eva, wants to study marine biology in Kiel. On top of that, he's deeply troubled by the murder of veterinarian Dr. Leitner, who was found bludgeoned to death in his brother Jakob's bird of prey aviary. A Saudi businessman had planned to invest a large sum of money there… While Beissl is relieved that Eva's gap year is drawing to a close, he and Elli are deeply saddened by the prospect of their youngest daughter moving out. Eva wants to follow her boyfriend to Kiel and study marine biology. But Beissl doesn't have much time to dwell on it.