Det handler om penge og moral. Mest om hvor dårligt de to ting går i spænd. Den unge advokat mod de højtlønnede kolleger, der forlængst har solgt deres sjæle til djævlen og hans kassekredit. Den unge advokat og hans forhold til en smuk klient. Det handler det også om. Men mest penge og moral.
Catherine har tilbragt de sidste år med at pleje sin far, Robert, der er et matematisk geni, men psykisk skrøbelig. Efter hans død kæmper Catherine med svære tanker om genialitet og galskab. Hvad har hun selv arvet? Hendes overvejelser bliver ikke nemmere af, at søsteren Claire dukker op efter mange års fravær, og at en af Roberts gamle studerende håber på at finde guld i Roberts efterladte notesbøger.
En rig arving bliver fundet brutalt myrdet, og hendes mand, Jack Forrester, anklages for mordet af en ivrig distriktsanklager, der har planer om at stille op til Senatet. Jack hyrer den tidligere anklager Teddy Barnes som sin forsvarer. Hun finder hurtigt hullerne i anklagermyndighedens sag, men hun finder også noget andet. Noget, der dårligt harmonerer med hendes rolle som forsvarer, og som måske kan vise sig at være dødsens farligt.
Advokaten Ann Talbot påtager sig at forsvare sin egen far mod anklager for krigsforbrydelser. Hun skal bevise, at hendes far ikke er den frygtede nazibøddel Mishka, og at der blot er tale om et kommunistisk komplot, men efterhånden som hun undersøger bevismaterialet, bliver selv datteren i tvivl om sin fars uskyld.
Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. Unfortunately, the editor's daughter Nina accidentally takes the tape with her to Munich, where she is about to visit her paralyzed Mom in a sanatorium. When this information reaches the CIA and the BND, both organizations compete to get hold of the tape. Meanwhile Erkan & Stefan, two loveable wannabe supercheckers from Munich, are assigned as bodyguards for Nina - of course, they are expected to mess up their job, so that the tape can be retrieved. But the two friends prove to be a bit more streetwise than CIA or BND ever expected.
Based on true events. 18-year old Jesse Winters, also know as The Butcher, was put to death in Louisiana for committing 23 grisly murders. There was no doubt that he was killer, the question was why? His mother, Kate, claimed that Jesse was possessed by a demon that drove him to fiendish brutality. Now, for the first time on film, Kate will attempt to prove her theories and clear her son’s name by inviting a demon to invade her body.
In the halls of power, a minister has fallen from grace. Government agent Beckett recruits a deadly operative Richards with a dubious past to restore control via coercion. As the power play unfolds, Beckett must confront the consequences of his choices while Richards seeks to safeguard his own interests.