Nicole Jansen was killed with a crossbow in her office. There is much to suggest that her husband is the perpetrator, but he has a watertight alibi. At the time of the crime, he was in bed with police chief Sabine Kaiser.

Emergency call from the pathology department: a corpse has disappeared! The deceased is none other than the father of state parliament representative Elke Schwiers. For years, she has been pushing for the privatization of the clinic and thus also the closure of the pathology department.