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.

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.