Executive Protection

After causing upheaval with his previous assignment, Falk is relegated to a desk job that hardly suits his temperament, and he ultimately accepts an offer from an old friend to invest in a private investigation agency. Another friend, Sven, has purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters pressure him to pay protection money, Sven hires Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers and then threatening Sven and his family. With nowhere else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.