Forsthaus Falkenau

- Season 20

(2009)

Das Island Abenteuer.

Stefan is puzzled when a local forest exploiter refuses to sell a tract for a great price because it's 'not his to dispose of'. It turns out Marianne's late husband Franz's illegitimate son's education was paid from its proceeds, and now he's famous he wants to buy it. Stefan's brat daughter brought a 'stray' deer calf home, and returning it to the mother is problematic as the crucial scent has been wrecked.

A single shot out of the blue leaves groom Stefan unconscious, bleeding from a head wound in the forest. It takes an hour until Joseph and Wolfgang find him and get him hospitalized, but luckily there is no lasting damage. Indignant newcomer Bachhofer waves Wolfgang's insinuation that his gun collection fits the ammo used. Josef helps recovering Stefan investigate whether there's a connection with apparent hare poaching.

Now Stefan is fully recovered, the church is booked again to prevent baby Likas being born out of wedlock, but during the service he decides otherwise. Daniel is atypically silent, seemingly uninterested, while the girls shirk the inevitable extra domestic chores. Stefan helps the small farmer who accidentally shot him with trouble over the sale, for lack of other assets, of his drought horse to a rich neighbor, who claims it's no good.

The Leitner family must adapt now baby Lucas and his mother arrive from hospital. Only Daniel isn't jealous of all the attention given to the youngest sibling, the girls however turn away indignant. On top of extra chores, Daniels volunteers to earn enough for a driving course by taking daily meteorological measurements. However an opportunity to driver mate Kurt's absent big brother's cool car is irresistible, Stefan finds out and cancels the deal. Curate Ambrose agrees to organize Stefan's third attempt to marry in secret, with a hot air balloon.

Daniel surprises everyone by earning the fee for his driver's license by mucking out cattle stables for a grumpy farmer. A storm causes lots of work in the forest tracts. Old Breitkreuz breaks a leg when knocked off his ladder by the impatient aforementioned farmer's tractor, which Daniel works out. Stefan seeks to prevent hospitalized Breitkreuz being fired by Bachhofer.

The village shivers due to an enterprising youth campaign against drunk driving after a bad accident. Daniel finally has saved up for his driver's lessons, but the chilling image of his sister nearly killed makes him loose his calm, so Stefan builds his confidence up again. Tailing a fox to his hole leads Stefan to the spot where the debris from Bachhofer's villa renovation must have been illegally dumped. The schemer denies and manages to sell that piece of land with 10 years usufruct, creating a legal accountability quagmire. Josef thinks he stumbled on Wolfgang ...

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Daniel's former girlfriend Vanessa (16) suddenly moves into the youth hostel, pregnant. After speculations and tension about paternity, she admits he's not the father but the only boyfriend she can trust. To Stefan's surprise, the charms of the mayoress, who further neglects her family, seem to persuade Max Bachhofer to withdraw his plans for construction on a forest tract. Instead he proposes to donate it for a nature reserve, provided Stefan and two other farmers throw in their neighboring parcels. The Lietner family counsel accepts.

Stefan discovers beaver activity requiring tree-protection and must tread carefully when a valuable natural wood oddity goes missing, only to be discretely returned. Daniel is not amused when pressed to be there for Vanessa, but Stefan accidentally discovers her father and finds him far more understanding then she claimed. Wood merchant Markus Rombach is startled when his wife Anna suddenly renounces her plan to stand for another mayoral term, out of guilt over an adulterous night with Max Bachhofer.

Stefan's staff must map and fight a plague of beetles, but a grumpy farmer misuses the traps. While Daniel is on model behavior, his brat sister Jenny exhausts Stefan's patience by letting her grades slip, party every night and be caught with drugs. Curate Ambrose presents her to former addict Björn, crippled for life. Josef minds a retired cop's sniffer dog, so Wolfgang concocts lucrative schemes, and discovers he can actually smell the pest beetle. Anna tells Markus she's renouncing another mayoral term, not why, but the tension remains, so she ends up confessing ...

Stefan discovers a maize bug epidemic, proving once more the dangers of monoculture, and works out it spares a single plot in Bachhofer's fields because of genetic manipulation, but fails to keep that secret before protests raise, with Josef and the publican he has a crush on as ringleaders. The Bavaraian ministry supervisor wants Stefan to mediate. He motivates the mayoress to use her romantic influence to make Bachhoofer destroy the field, but the rising marital tension in her household ends with her leaving Stefan's buddy Markus and taking his beloved son David ...

Stefan invites his depressed mate Markus Rombach, who is bitter because wife Anna's adultery was kept from him, to move in with the Leitners for a few days, not expecting he would turn up immediately. So Sonja, who plans to reopen her medical practice, wasn't even told and finds Marcus a rather demanding guest. Max Bachhofer engaged a new personal assistant to help organize a posh 'pheasant battue' for business relations. Stefan is expected to keep the peace and implores the hostile villagers to provide the required beaters, but only Josef can convince them by ...

Stefan educates the local farmers about how to react to the rising bio-gas-plants' lucrative demand for cereal growers byproducts. After a towel-down incident, Marcus realizes he's overstaying his welcome and moves out of the Leitner home, clearing the way for Sonja to prepare for her medical praxis reopening, while Marianne volunteers to mind the girls regularly. Finding a list of 'things to do', Wolfgang assumes it's buddy Joseph's and organizes one item, a dangerous ride with an agricultural machine, ignoring the actual list author.

Stefan gets fed up with Sonya's unwillingness to have sex months after Lucas's birth but the real shock is her ultimate confessions he's not the biological father. A wounded buzzard proves meanly aggressive. Curate Ambrose makes Wolfgang pay in charitable kind for the next listed dream, a macho motorbike ride.

Stefan is starting to deal with the shock that little Lucas isn't his biological son, but unlike him Sonya won't put their kids first and decides cowardly to move, even sees a buyer for her practice behind his back. Stefan must concentrate first on a Czech gang of dog-nappers after his trusted Sina becomes their latest victim right under his eyes while inaugurating the village's new horse riding course. Wolfgang struggles to find enough courage for Josef's extra-list dream, a parachute jump. To Stefan's horror, Sonya left him and took the children with her to a Passau...