During a robbery operation, Thorsten Lannert shoots the robber who has taken a hostage. The proportionality hearing of this act was supposed to be a routine matter, the perpetrator was dangerous and totally unpredictable. But the dead man's mother hired the lawyers Christian and Sabine Pfluger, who want to see Lannert charged with manslaughter. Sebastian Bootz relieved Thorsten Lannert in the survey - although he was actually in view of thecrucial seconds is not certain... Another witness is murdered before she can testify. Is there a connection between the robbery in the supermarket and the murder? The commissioners want to investigate, but Sebastian Bootz, who had visited the witness to substantiate his own testimony, is withdrawn from the case for attempting to exert influence. Now both commissioners are wondering if they didn't make mistakes. And that puts a strain on their cooperation.