Josef Wenzel and Bibi Lemberg's Nobel restaurant's star chef Nobu is found washed up on the beach, beaten and fatally shot. While Theo Clüver and Hinnerk Feldmann's police team works out Nobu made enemies, Bibi disappears from her blooded car, a huge ransom is demanded which Jozef' can't afford, but Theo blackmails the bank to put up a loan above the indebted restaurant's tax fraud proceeds. The ransom is collected brilliantly unnoticed, but the surprises keep coming.