Stralsund – Still Waters

The sight of the corpse is hard to bear for the bystanders. The young man’s massive body hangs between the bars of a bicycle stand, a seat post protruding from his chest. His fall from the balcony could not have ended worse. Jule Zabek notices a young woman among the onlookers who is watching the scene of the crime in a state of shock. When Jule tries to talk to her, she flees, but is caught by the police inspector shortly afterwards. Is Jule already dealing with a suspect?

Alfie Stenz denies having anything to do with the murder of Devid Armgott. She had a friendly glass of wine with the former classmate. Then Alfie disappears from the scene. When Jule and her new colleague, Tomasz Nowak, investigate at Alfie’s workplace, the Zappelfisch restaurant, Tomasz and a gang led by the restaurant’s owner, Tim “Butcher” Busch, get into an argument. Back at the station, Hidde brings his colleagues up to speed on who they were dealing with at the “Zappelfisch”. The Knieper Jungschen are a family-like protective association under Matti Busch and Elke Jorga’s leadership, which worked its way out of illegality in the 1990s and is now respected as a charitable group of companies in Stralsund’s business community. For Tomasz, the Polish official on a European exchange, the Jungs were not just charitable. Then a desperate Alfie contacts Jule. She doesn’t know where to go and is scared. Jule takes Alfie home with her. While Hidde learns through a contact that the Knieper Jungschen have bought several restaurants in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, possibly financed with millions from a brutal gang from near Parchim, Alfie tells Jule about her relationship with Butcher Busch. She had helped him with the bookkeeping of the “Zappelfisch”. She had noticed inconsistencies that suggested money laundering on a grand scale. She showed the laptop with the accounting software to her old school friend and financial expert Devid Armgott. Devid was dead shortly afterwards. In their search for Butscher and the laptop, the police realize that the Knieper boys are involved in business with a sinister force that none of them can control. When Butscher lures Alfie out of Jules’ apartment in an unobserved moment and disappears with her, the detectives have to fear for their lives. Is Butscher the perpetrator, or is he also a victim of a mafia organization?