Jana Winter's (Natalia Wörner) first day as head of her new Flensburg area of operations is anything but smooth. In the middle of the night Matthias Hamm (Ralph Herforth) secretly dug up the body of a former friend in the cemetery and had it autopsied. The responsible public prosecutor rages. But Hamm's instincts did not deceive him. Nicole Seidel actually did not die of natural causes. The case is particularly explosive because 15 years ago Nicole was the main witness in a case involving a missing girl.
Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) dishes up a big meal and, together with her husband Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst), a pedantic professor of literature, invites family and friends to dinner. But there is no sign of a relaxed get-together when a discussion about a first name escalates and the biggest secrets are revealed in the end.
Frank Martin (Jason Statham), ex-elite soldier, earns his living as a courier driver, specializing in illegal cargo. When Frank finds the package moving during one of his deliveries, he opens the forbidden cargo. In the box: The beautiful Asian Lai (Qi Shu). Now not only the police but also an unscrupulous human trafficking ring are after Frank. A hunt begins.
In the middle of the night, retired police chief Richard Linville (Robert Pickavance) is awakened from his sleep. A hooded man has broken into his home: he is torturing Linville to death. A little later, his daughter, the London Scotland Yard official Kate (Peri Baumeister), arrives - not only to organize the funeral of her adored father, but also to do her own research. The local police chief Caleb Hale (Dirk Borchardt), who is actually not making any progress, does not like this. As more crimes unfold, Kate is confronted with a dark secret from her father that shatters her ideal of Richard.
The French career banker Alexandra (Karin Viard) had just come to Tokyo in 2011 when the earthquake and tsunami in the Fukushima nuclear power plant triggered a meltdown: Tokyo was threatened with nuclear contamination. In the chaos that quickly sets in, the executive must decide whether to leave the country with the help of her bank like her French colleagues, or take responsibility for her Japanese employees, even if it means risking her own life.
