After his predecessor turned off a majority of voters due to a juicy scandal, the new State Parliamentarian Alfons Zischl is working to get his electoral district back on track. Yet his attempt to rescue the jobs at an ailing firm blows up in his face. The company turns out to be a dubious armaments factory and the machinations of its owners draw Zischl into his next political scandal. Zischl does..

While Alfons Zischl is still frantically trying to save the armaments company threatened with bankruptcy, now by using not completely legal means to persuade his buddy Sepp Goldhammer to enter into the arms business, he unsurprisingly is faced with an even more urgent problem: he has to retrieve his hunting rifle before the police investigation brings some unpleasant truths to light. This is where..

The attack on the governor has set off a new debate in parliament about security, during which it is decided that the Bavarian police should be equipped with new weapons. Alfons Zischl sees it as a way to ensure the armaments factory in his district will get some new contracts. But before that can happen, he has to outmaneuver his rival in parliament, Diana Knaacke-Weibling, who has made quite a n..

At Marie’s urging, Alfons Zischl is undergoing chemotherapy while his buddy Sepp Goldhammer is desperately trying to save his very existence by palming off the armament company’s defective weapons to a Ukrainian separatist group. Yet this apparent avenue of escape must pass through a middleman in the Vatican due to restrictive arms export laws. This brings Zischl and his wife Marie to..

After the weapons deal with the Ukrainians ends in a complete catastrophe, Alfons Zischl and Sepp Goldhammer are facing problems that are unprecedented even for them. Krauss is now hot on their heels and digging ever deeper into the grim past and no less desperate present. To make matters even worse, mother-in-law Heidi takes perfect advantage of the domestic crisis to definitively drive a wedge b..

Zischl finally gets some good news: Governor Barbara Obereder has awakened from her coma and wants to make him an undersecretary, quite the honor. It would all be fantastic if it weren’t for Marie, who suddenly leaves Zischl. And his political party, which wants to make Zischl the face of their new right-wing faction. And the last dregs of the Baader–Meinhoff Gang, who appear out of no..