An investigation into a murder at a warehouse leads Ballauf and Schenk into the deaf community. Directed by Martin Eigler, 2002.

Renata Lang is a guest at a high-profile medical conference centered on the subject of male fertility. Ingrid Knapp, a former university classmate of Renata’s, has invited her to visit and offer moral support. The scientist makes vague allusions that significant changes are soon to take place in her life. Shortly thereafter, the scientist is dead—and all signs point to circulatory collapse occurring inside the steam room. Renata is skeptical; she asks Moritz Eisner for help in ensuring that the body undergoes at least a forensic medical examination.

The newly qualified police officer Stefanie Gschnitzer takes on her first case with the Innsbruck murder squad: Richard Stecher, the member of a notorious poaching family, was found dead at the foot of a rock face. Shot, apparently in self-defense, by the hunting tenant and mayor Hopfgartner and his supervisor Buchberger.

An investigative journalist is found dead. Suspicions quickly arise that the victim had been blackmailing former political extremists who were active in the 1970s. Almost all of the “former extremists” are now successful, well-established members of society. Inspector Inga Lürssen, who is investigating the journalist’s death, was also part of that group and finds herself under immense pressure.

Ballauf and Schenk find that the professional murder of a diplomat is linked to a massacre at an overseas embassy. Directed by Hans Noever, 2002.

The Tatort teams of Leipzig and Köln are brought together, when the driver of an art transport between the two cities is found dead in his van, minus the irreplaceable artwork he had in his custody.