Emma Mayer, a world traveler who last lived in Marrakesh, arrives in Mannheim and introduces herself as a psychologist on the radio show "The Night Psychologist". Benno, the head of the service, tells her that they are only looking for a telephone operator with "expertise" to pre-filter the calls. Emma is against the senseless waste of time, but since she is already there, she takes the calls and decides in a rather idiosyncratic way what is relevant and to be taken seriously for the show and what is not. She does not fail to notice that the presenter, Elisabeth Gira, is an aging psychoanalyst with an alcohol problem who has long since passed the peak of her career. From one second to the next, the entertainment show becomes deadly serious when a call from an unknown person is put through to the show. He claims to have seven hostages in a gas station. Elisabeth Gira is so shocked by this call that she immediately runs away. Emma decides to take her place. She does even more: She drives to the scene with Benno. The police are at a loss: the hostage-taker makes no demands. What does he want? Who is he? Emma decides to go to the gas station to negotiate with the hostage-taker and save the lives of the hostages. After a short "feeling out", Emma suggests a game to the hostage-taker: he should ask Emma questions about his life and she promises him insights into herself. In return, he will release a hostage for every question she answers correctly. But what happens if she fails? Then he will shoot her, says the hostage-taker. Emma gets involved in this exchange of blows, while outside the MEK prepares to storm the gas station.

Emma nach Mitternacht - Der Wolf und die sieben Geiseln

A year ago, Feline Wagner disappeared, a friend reported her missing back then. Her dead body is found in a burial forest during the preparations of an urn burial. An argument at the place where the body was found distracts detective Faber: It's hard to ignore that detective Bönisch and the forensic laboratorian Sebastian Haller carry out their private strife at work. It doesn't leave Faber cold to see how Martina Bönisch's feelings plague her and distract her at work.  Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak approach the funeral home Ihle: The tomb reservation was made here just a few days after Feline Wagner's disappearance. A man paid cash under a false name. Then, another murder victim is recovered just a few steps farther on. A year elapsed between the two homicides – and soon, another twelve months will have passed...

Love Me!

Transylvania, Romania: As a private investigator with a shady assignment, former soldier Hans Schüssler reluctantly returns to his old homeland. What initially appeared to be a simple, lucrative job turns out to be a nightmare: caught up in his own traumatic experiences, Schüssler comes across the masterminds of a major ecological crime during his investigations.

Blutholz

Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public... Read all