Episode 08
Bernd Schneider is upset: Young crash kids are going berserk on the highway and in the Berlau city district with stolen luxury and sports cars, causing car crashes and almost running over half of Berlaus pedestrians with their 200 horsepower (or even more) cars. Inspector Frank Batimus gets the case of the juvenile joyrides as number one priority, and it seems suspicious that the kids are chosing to 75 percent a brand new and rather expensive Primus model.
While Frank interrogates Waldemar Piontek, since he owns the dealership where all the Primus originally came from, Sarah makes an urgent call that she is currently in pursuit of a stolen Merit Compact Sport, which plows its way recklessly through Berlau. Piontek states that he can not explain the fact that the Primus from his dealership are the preferred cars, and says that it might be due to the fact that Primus builds the best cars and are therefore sought-after.
Just in time, Bernd Schneider is in pursuit of the Primus flagship, the Imperator V12 - stolen just from the parking lot of the Miesens AG, delivered only a week ago by the Piontek Primus Handelsgesellschaft mbH.
Sarah is still in pursuit of the Merit Compact, but the crashed van that lost its load had a heavy box that bumped into Sarah´s rear left wheel arch, and that plastic part suddenly gets loose and jams the tire, causing the Zephorus to spin out and crash into a lamppost. Luckily, Sarah is unharmed.
But the stress is not over for the juvenile delinquent: A nailboard makes him evade onto the sidewalk, where Harald Walkowski speeds in an alley and matches his speed just to ram the Merit into dust. The uniformed police runs after the delinquent, and Harry desperately tries to get his ACR back to work, but the damage is too much.
In that moment Schneider is just a few blocks away in pursuit of the Imperator and a bus stops for the end of the line, as it is empty without passengers, Harry pulls out the driver and uses the bus to build up a roadblock. But the driver of the Imperator has no intent to stop, he even accellerates the V12 as hard as he can. Realizing that this will be potentially lethal, Harald jumps out of the bus while the Primus crashes through it. Schneider did not dare to harm his officer and made an emergency stop, sliding onto the debris ramp with only minor damage to his Swanson, but without a crane, the chase finally ended.
Meanwhile, the uniformed patrol failed to catch the runaway Merit driver, but found a bag he lost - it is from the Otto-Reuter-Oberschule. With a phantom image, Frank visits the school and the principal identifies the boy as Matthias Vosswinkel.
Sarah manages to arrest him at home, but he won´t say a word.
The next day, attorney Dr. Günther Bess finally picks up the replacement for his crashed Zephorus, a brand new yellow Primus Ares Turbo II - just to find the spot empty two hours later.
A cut to Polizeihauptmeister Uwe Holtmann: He is in pursuit of two crashkids - a Tio Eagle and a Primus Ares - what a coincidence. Bernd Schneider responds on the radio to take over the Ares, while Holtmann should focus on the Eagle. After a sharp turn, a Swanson surprise appears, as Batimus had hidden behind a parked bus and used the force of surprise to scare the crashkid. Losing control of the oversteering Eagle, the first arrest after more than 30 joyrides is finally the archievement of Frank Batimus. An old police radio was made to work as a portable and quickly fitted into the Tio, explaining why the crashkids do so well against the cops… The 15 year old Carsten Fischer was arrested with only superficial injuries - and also does not say a word.
Meanwhile Schneider finally wants to make a point and is in a dramatic 250+ kph chase against the Ares. Crashkid Felix not only sees a menacing Swanson in the mirror, but also the most dedicated cop he has ever seen, it even seems the eyes of the middle-aged man are glowing reddish. A construction site seems to be the solution - Schneider follows him closely. In the last moment, Felix swerves to the right, breaking through the barriers, while sending the irritated Schneider high up in the air - the Swanson patrol car even flies high enough to land on the old railway bridge - from where a furious Schneider watches the yellow sports car roaring to the horizon.
Sarah - as she is very young and still a believable high school graduate - works undercover, since both caught boys Matthias and Carsten were in the same class.
It turns out that Bert Unger, the school yard weed dealer, conveyed interessed students to a guy named Ulli Butzke. Sarah arrests him and finally makes a confrontation with Carsten and Matthias - under the pressure, Butzke confesses to be paid by Waldemar Piontek. He had the kids hired to sell more cars, since the insurance always pays…
Schneider and Frank arrive a second too late, as Piontek just escapes with his Primus Legacy 430, but as Harald and Sarah have built up a roadblock - this time a better one - Waldemar Piontek gives up without resistance.
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