Modern Murder

The Nest (1x7)

Air date: Apr 28, 2019

Dresden detective Karin Gorniak is severely injured when her new colleague Leonie Winkler makes a critical error during a dangerous deployment. The murderer they were after manages to escape and Gorniak is hospitalized. Winkler must take over the case in her absence. Gorniak is soon released from hospital, but she is the only one to have seen the perpetrator and can identify him. Her life is in danger as long as the killer walks free. In the interim, Detective Winkler has discovered certain characteristics and preferences of the perpetrator and has narrowed down the suspect pool to two men, a surgeon Dr. Christian Mertens, and a nurse Bernd Haimann. Just before the detectives can question the nurse, he disappears. Karin Gorniak believes that she recognizes Dr.Mertens as the perpetrator, but his family gives him an airtight alibi causing Gorniak to doubt her own judgment. She and Winkler must put aside their differences and work together to solve the case, and stop a killer.