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Customs investigator Kressin returns from a Mediterranean cruise. Shortly before Hamburg, tour guide Ben Canitz behaves suspiciously. The next morning, Kressin reads in the newspaper that Canitz has …
Two serious criminals have been caught abroad. The German police pick them up and transport them to Cologne in a special compartment of the Nordexpress. The gang, led by their boss Sievers, plans to k…
E10 · Episode 10
A man collapses in Beethovenstrasse. His murderer flees. The dead man, a private detective from New York, was on the trail of an international blackmail ring. Supported by customs investigator Kressi…
Having just arrived by plane from Istanbul, Kressin is waiting at the baggage carousel, keeping an eye on the charming Asian woman Lyn, who was sitting next to him on the plane. Instead of his suitcas…
One lonely evening, factory owner Martin Koenen takes a girl home with him. Irene Lersch was coming home from a nightclub and had missed the bus. She wasn't entirely unhappy about being picked up by a…
Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Sina Wolf has an affair with her married schoolteacher. When one of her friends attempts to blackmail her, she lures him to the forest and kills him. Kommissar Finke does…
After her husband's death, Claudia Bernhold discovers that he was a blackmailer. Suddenly she has an explanation for how, despite modest income, she could afford a small villa and a relatively lavish …
16-year-old Andreas is friends with Biggi, a saleswoman in his father's delicatessen. Who killed the customer Frau Böhmer?
E1 · Episode 1
E2 · Episode 2
E5 · Episode 5
Two prisoners on remand take a prison officer hostage and escape from the prison. In front of the main gate, Sergeant Jakobs shoots one of the escapees, the Turk Suk. Inspector Haferkamp is faced wit…
E7 · Episode 7
E9 · Episode 9
E10 · Episode 10
E11 · Episode 11
E12 · Episode 12
E13 · Episode 13
E2 · Episode 2
E3 · Episode 3
E4 · Episode 4
E5 · Episode 5
The 47-year-old business manager Kurt Wiedemann became unemployed due to the decline of his company. Because of his age, he cannot find a comparable position. Wiedemann fears that, as his financial di…
E7 · Episode 7
E8 · Episode 8
E9 · Episode 9
E10 · Episode 10
E11 · Episode 11
E12 · Episode 12
E1 · Episode 1
E2 · Episode 2
E3 · Episode 3
E6 · Episode 6
E9 · Episode 9
E10 · Episode 10
E11 · Episode 11
E2 · Episode 2
E4 · Episode 4
When Schimanski comes home from work in the evening, a girl is sitting on the stairs with him. It is 17-year-old Katja. Her mother, manager of the specialty restaurant "Hawaii", has been murdered, mur…
When the dead body of an asian child is discovered in a lateral river channel in Duisburg, chief inspectors Schimanski and Thanner have to investigate the case. The autopsy shows that the victim had t…
Walther and Stettner investigate the murder of a homeless woman in Berlin's Tiergarten. It seems that this was not an one-off case...
Dr. Waldorf, a physician is found murdered in his office. Suspect is Baumgarten, the director of the waste recycling company on whose behalf several of the doctor's patients, had regularly shipped car…
Schimanski seeks relaxation on the soccer field. And there, a man is beaten to death, apparently the victim of the increasingly brutal brawls between soccer fans. Is the dead man really the victim of …
Schimanski helps restaurant owner Guido against blackmailers, as a friend and as a professional, 'cause he is supposed to solve the murder of a boxer who must have something to do with this protection…
Jutta Stark appears to have committed suicide; she lies dead in front of her apartment block. She and her husband were members of the "Church of the Community". Schimanski and Thanner investigate
E4 · Episode 4
Schimanski lands in a dangerous situation while assisting a young woman in search of her partner.
Schimanski fears for the life of a child and ends up playing a dangerous game.
Schimanski and Thanner are on the case after the head of a family furniture business is killed.
E12 · Schimanski - Friend
Schimanski investigates the suspected leader of a cunning criminal gang.
E5 · Episode 5
Uproar in a factory housing project in Duisburg: it is scheduled for sale and demolition. Industrialist Grassmann regrets the fate of the residents, but he, too, is forced by economic necessity. One o…
A dead man lies in a Duisburg bus - apparently the accidental victim of a stabbing. The murdered man was the owner of a dance studio that he ran together with his wife, Manuela Prinz. The investigati…
Thanner is annoyed: While he has to do the dirty work for the police - he has to identify the body of a prostitute - Schimanski is reopening a case that he, Thanner, closed long ago. And Thanner knows…
Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with a case that happened a long time ago and that they were unable to solve: in 1978, one of the perpetrators was seriously injured during a bank robbery and was…
A pot of half a million marks - donations for workers who want to prevent the closure of their factory by occupying the factory - disappears after a brutal robbery; and shortly afterwards one of them,…
Two Polish truck drivers are brutally murdered by an Arab hit squad at a scrap yard in Duisburg. At the same time, the exiled Pole Leczek, scrapyard owner and pimp, is apparently to be executed. But t…
When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.
Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat early on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Sch…
Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. The trail leads to a luxurious club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. But suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou. He know…
E7 · Episode 7
E8 · Episode 8
This time the crime scene is an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. Schimanski happens to witness an armed robbery of the landlord Giovanni Salvatore. He intervenes and experiences a fiasco: his girlfrien…
A murder in connection with illegal art trading leads - shortly after the fall of the Wall - to the first East-West contacts in the field of crime. Schimanski and Thanner investigate together with the…
E1 · Episode 1
E3 · Episode 3
Schimanski is on a fishing holiday in an idyllic spot not far from Duisburg. There he witnesses a strange event: the veterinarian Karl-Heinz Ascher is found dead on his wedding day - hanged from a tre…
A bright Sunday morning - Schimanski and Thanner are having fun ice skating. During a daring maneuver, Schimanski breaks through and comes across the body of a little girl. The forensic pathologist de…
Schimanski's vacation turns into a fight for his life.
E4 · Episode 4
Chief Detective Bernd Flemming, Inspector Mariam Koch and Chief Inspector Max Ballauf have their hands full while the carnival is in full swing in Düsseldorf.
Joest is kidnapped after a rendezvous with his lover Ute Vonhoff; his driver is killed in the attack. A kidnapper likes to humiliate Joest. A renewed attempt to blackmail the family convinces the insp…
Two men break into the Düsseldorf building authority with the help of an employee. When they are surprised by the security guard while taking photos of site plans, they kill him and fake a robbery and…
Rich, 60-year-old Erika was the victim of a robbery and murder. Since the neighbor saw her grandson leaving the house with a video recorder under his arm, he was the first suspect.
The son of an old crook is murdered. This crime brings the Düsseldorf homicide squad, as well as Hans Gebhard (the father) and Kalle Maisch (his old criminal buddy), into action.
Flemming and his team are dealing with the murder of a woman believed to be mentally ill and irregularities in a clinic.
Inspector Flemming and his colleague Miriam Koch find out that the unknown dead woman - together with other sufferers - lived in a discarded bus. They manage to notify the girl's brother, to whom she …
E12 · Episode 12
A letter bomb explodes in a Berlin postbus and kills an innocent letter carrier - apparently an accident, as the parcel was intended for someone else. At the same time, the body of a young Russian wom…
E26 · Episode 26
E3 · Episode 3
E5 · Episode 5
E17 · Episode 17
After a Miami drug bust goes sour, German cop Max Ballauf is sent home to be Cologne's homicide chief, and is immediately confronted with partner Freddy Schenk's professional jealousy - and the dead b…
A teacher recently acquitted of sexual molestation charges is killed by a bomb blast at his school. Suspicions initially fall on the victim's accuser, and Ballauf and Schenk struggle to piece together…
While investing a highway rest stop robbery/murder, Ballauf picks up a little Filipino boy in flight. Could he be the lead they need to bust an international child-trafficking ring? Directed by Niki S…
The body of a banker is found in the woods near Cologne; next to his body is a pile of charred bank notes. Ballauf and Schenk investigate this mysterious murder, as protesters threaten violence over a…
A woman's body is fished out of the Rhine, and the victim turns out to be an acquaintance of Ballauf's. The investigation leads to a chemical company, and the German intelligence services are found to…
E1 · Episode 1
A dancer is found murdered near the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, and the prime suspect is a patient with a history of violence. But Ballauf and Schenk’s investigation opens up new possibilities:…
A boy is found dead in a school bathroom, and Max goes undercover to investigate. He discovers an ongoing war between gangs of German and Turkish teenagers, and an unemployed right-wing radical who cl…
Freddy and Max investigate the death of a wealthy gynecologist who's found dead in his swimming pool. The doctor’s wife and son suspect a prominent Pro-Life group, but the search for the killer leads …
E18 · Episode 18
After a colleague’s long-time girlfriend is killed in the courtyard of a crowded apartment complex, Freddy and Max are frustrated when none of the residents admit to seeing or hearing a thing – and th…
The body of a four-year-old boy is found in a working class area. An autopsy reveals posthumous injuries. Schenk suspects they're dealing with a psychopath preying on the weak. Meanwhile, Max befriend…
The body of wealthy real estate magnate Gerd Wesibach is found, his pores emanating a familiar odor: bitter almonds. At first his death is thought to be an assisted suicide, but it is soon discovered …
A blackmailer has been threatening the Kölsch brewery in Cologne. Concerned with his company's reputation, Belcher Sr. decides to pay the ransom in person, and is soon shot dead. But when the blackmai…
A man is shot dead in broad daylight in Cologne city center. The bullet was fired from 700 meters away and went straight to the heart. Chief Inspector Freddy Schenk believes he knows the murder weapon…
E22 · Episode 22
To mark the 30th anniversary of Tatort, there was to be a special anniversary crime thriller with this episode. The Cologne detectives Ballauf and Schenk investigate together with their East German co…
On a family trip to Holland, Freddy finds himself suspected of drug smuggling and is forced to go on the run to clear his name. Directed by Martin Giesach, 2000.
After a law student is shot on a college campus, Max suspects her hot-tempered ex-fiancé - but Freddy senses something more sinister. Directed by Christiane Balthasar, 2001.
After a badly-beaten child is left unclaimed at the ER, Ballauf and Schenk discover a flawed system unable to prevent child abuse. Directed by Claudia Garder, 2001.
E18 · Episode 18
When the daughter of a biker is brutally raped and murdered, Ballauf and Schenk must overcome their prejudices to make sure justice is served. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach, 2001.
An investigation into a murder at a warehouse leads Ballauf and Schenk into the deaf community. Directed by Martin Eigler, 2002.
E5 · Episode 5
E9 · Episode 9
When lumberjacks find a murdered woman in the woods, it appears that a recently-released serial killer is at it again. Directed by Peter Fratzscher, 2002.
E14 · Episode 14
Ballauf and Schenk find that the professional murder of a diplomat is linked to a massacre at an overseas embassy. Directed by Hans Noever, 2002.
E25 · Köln - Payback
The Tatort teams of Leipzig and Köln are brought together, when the driver of an art transport between the two cities is found dead in his van, minus the irreplaceable artwork he had in his custody.
A body lies on a boat, a suspect runs away with the murder weapon in his hands, and there is evidence of robbery at the scene: Klara Blum's new case seems clear from the start. The prosecutor signs th…
The celebrated actress Araine Claasen is at the height of her career: she is beautiful and successful and will soon be awarded a television prize. But then the beautiful glow begins to crumble. First …
A hospital worker is murdered right after an anonymous woman leaves a newborn in the baby drop-off. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2003.
E9 · Episode 9
E10 · Episode 10
Schenk walks into a bloody bank heist involving a kidnapped senior citizen strapped with explosives. Directed by Thomas Stiller, 2003.
Schenk discovers that a young man he helped convict and imprison may not have been guilty. Directed by Kaspar Heidelback, 2003.
Ballauf and Schenk try to solve a murder with the help of teenagers living in a halfway house. Directed by Manfrew Stelzer, 2003.
E21 · Episode 21
When a driver for a ship chandler gets in trouble with traffic police, a policeman ends up dead. Against the rest of the police force, Borowski is determined that the driver is not the killer. Meanwhi…
The findings of forensic doctor Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne were an open skull fracture. A man's body is discovered near Lake Aasee. The first indication for Commissioner Frank Thiel are tire tracks i…
E1 · Episode 1
E8 · Change of Shift
Strike at the Ostendorf shipyard in Kiel: Works council spokesman Bruhns wants to agree to the dismissal of a maximum of 50 men in order to ensure the preservation of the Kiel shipyard. The boss of th…
Freddy puts his grandmother in a nursing home and investigates a murder there in the same week. Directed by Manfred Stelzer, 2004.
E11 · Episode 11
Münster. A body found at Lake Aasee resembles a scandalous murder from the 1950s.
E14 · Episode 14
E15 · Episode 15
E16 · Köln - Odin's Revenge
The police suspect revenge by an immigrant family when a skinhead gets targeted by a sniper. Directed by Hannes Stöhr, 2004.
Freddy goes undercover as a janitor at an elite boarding school to investigate a series of murders. Directed by Hannes Stöhr, 2004.
The carefully draped corpse of 16-year-old student and talented pianist Rita Koehler is found on a grand piano in a concert hall, her body apparently embalmed. Could it have been assisted suicide? The…
E24 · Episode 24
E26 · Episode 26
Münster. Thiel and Boerne investigate when a body is discovered in a medical university's anatomy lab.
The severed thumb of a fugitive cop killer comes to Max and Freddy in the mail, leading them to a deserted town. Directed by Niki Stein, 2005.
On the day that Ulrich Wahl is called at home by his young Cuban lover Teresa, his fears are confirmed. Covered in blood and completely distraught, she begs him for help. There is a dead person in her…
One of the owners of a mine-removal nonprofit gets blown up during a jog, and his wife seems curiously unmoved. Directed by Torsetn C. Fischer, 2005.
A notorious liar wants to convince the Bremen detectives of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
E22 · Köln - Frozen
A beloved figure skating celebrity and competition judge is found dead on the ice. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2005.
E25 · Borowski in the Underworld
A new case confronts Commissioner Borowski with grisly finds. In Kiel, the remains of human bodies appear in the sewers - teeth, hair, hip joints. They come from several bodies, and show clear traces …
E27 · Episode 27
After a snowstorm, a forester finds the very young Stefanie Thaller on the edge of an industrial park in the north of Munich: half naked and explored. Rarely have detective inspectors Franz Leitmayr a…
E1 · Episode 1
A shooting at a political demonstration thrusts Freddy and Max into a web of international conspiracy and intrigue. Directed by Martin Eigler, 2006.
Münster. Thiel investigates two murders connected by poison.
A diamond heist turned deadly causes Ballauf and Schenk to protect the sister of one of the outlaws. Directed by Hendrik Handloegten, 2006.
What inspector Borowski hears and sees at the crime scene this time also exceeds his imagination: the pregnant Stefanie Brückner had her baby cut out of her body shortly before she was born. The mothe…
Commissioner Borowski is on his way home from a fishing holiday when he is called for help at an unusual point: in the middle of the sea, on the way from Sweden to Germany, the captain of the ferry ha…
It should look like an accident. But Prof. Boerne's autopsy findings are clear: the well-known clairvoyant Roswitha Brehm was murdered. Just a few hours before the crime, she had desperately tried to …
E29 · Love is blind
The murder of the successful lawyer Mohr leads Ritter and Stark into the world of big city singles. Mohr was a regular guest at various speed dating establishments, although he had an affair with his …
E1 · The Flowers of Evil
Max gets commended in the paper for excellent police work, and finds himself targeted by a maniac in response. Directed by Thomas Stiller, 2007.
E4 · Episode 4
Silke Rohwedder's empty sailing boat is found on the open sea. Her jacket, shoes and handbag on board, there are no signs of her.
E7 · Episode 7
E15 · The dark side
When a truck is robbed, one of the drivers is killed and another is seriously injured. The investigations always lead Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper back to the shipping company, because it quickly be…
A desperate mother leads Lursen and Stedefreund on a quest to see if cell phone radiation makes people sick.
The city of Kiel goes on lockdown after a sniper shoots a man on the Hörn Bridge.
Batic. „ A gmahde Wiesn “ means in Bavarian both „ a mowed meadow “ and colloquially „ a project that cannot go wrong “ - „ a surefire thing “. And „ die Wiesn “ is of course also the synonym for the …
Münster. Professor Boerne's past catches up with him when a skeleton is found in a wooded area near the city.
A professional was at work here. Police officer Gerd Samland was murdered in a brothel with two well-placed shots. Was Max Ballauf's friend and colleague actually a regular at this establishment? To e…
E1 · Episode 1
E3 · Episode 3
E4 · Episode 4
E5 · Episode 5
E6 · Episode 6
E7 · Episode 7
E8 · Episode 8
E9 · Episode 9
E10 · Episode 10
Private detective Peter Mang is found half-naked in a construction pit with a dog tattoo on his neck and puncture wounds in his back. Has he become the victim of his secret investigation? The trail l…
E17 · Episode 17
E19 · Episode 19
E21 · Episode 21
Borowski goes undercover, placing a personal ad to bait a killer who seems to find victims through a lonely hearts site.
E23 · Episode 23
A gruesome sexual murder shocks Münster. The victim, a young law student, was found strangled in her apartment. “Do we all have to be afraid now?” is the headline in the local press. But there is not …
E26 · Lindholm - Salt Mummy
A salt mine reveals the body of a security guard reported missing months earlier.
E29 · Episode 29
A young Turkish woman - Ayse Ozbay - is found hanging from a tree in the forest near the Tyrolean market town of Telfs. At first the police assumed it was a suicide, because within a year three other …
A body is found in a Leipzig canal. The chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler manage to find out the identity of the man: it is Peter Schneider, a successful Leipzig entrepreneur and famil…
A murder without a motive? - Inconceivably. And yet the murder of the 48-year-old senior physician Hermann Johns seems completely unfounded. The renowned physician, who worked in the maternity ward of…
E4 · Checkout
Boris Blaschke's body lies on the garbage amid leftovers and packaging that could have come from the shops he worked for, because Blaschke was area manager at the discount chain Billy and responsible …
E5 · Bremen - Family Constellation
The suicide of medical student Rojin Lewald poses a number of puzzles for chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund. The young woman, who comes from a Turkish family, wanted to divorce…
E6 · Uncharted Territory
In his 15th case, inspector Fritz Dellwo has to investigate on his own because his colleague Charlotte Sänger is undergoing further training. But Dellwo is ripe for a vacation and decides to take some…
E7 · Heart of Ice
A dead body is found in the swimming pool of the "Schloss Hamberg" boarding school: Stephan appears to have committed suicide. Lovesickness may have driven the introverted son of a renowned banker and…
Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are investigating the case of a man who was found shot dead in the Filder near Stuttgart Airport. The murdered man appeared to have lived beyond his means, but app…
E9 · Wallflower
Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are confronted with the excesses of the modern job market. Temporary work and illegal employment seem to encourage abuse of people. A young manager Armin Lohmann is fo…
E10 · Lindholm - The Ghost
A police officer is shot dead during an identity check at Hanover-Langenhagen Airport. What looks like a criminal's panicked reaction becomes increasingly mysterious. All surveillance cameras were out…
It's a picture-perfect summer's day when Prof. Boerne's golf tournament in Grothenburg is suddenly interrupted by a dead man in a tuxedo. With the tournament victory firmly in mind, Boerne is briefly …
This case takes the Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic to their limits: the television astrologer Doro Pirol is found shot to death in her Nymphenburg villa. Not only Doro's husband …
Cenk Batu is investigating undercover in the Hamburg Special Operations Command (SEK) on behalf of his superior Uwe Kohnau. Some officials there are suspected of working illegally as trainers abroad a…
E14 · Above and Below
A dead man on the subway calls inspectors Ritter and Stark into action. It is the building contractor Horst Baumann, who had already come to the fore in the past due to a spectacular company bankruptc…
E15 · Bitter Grapes
Gerhard Nieser, a wine inspector at the Saarland Institute for Food Research, is found murdered in a house on the outskirts of Saarbrücken. A man like that has a lot of responsibility - and power. Vin…
E16 · Borowski and the Ideal World
It's a tough case for Borowski: The body of the eight-year-old girl has hematomas and a broken rib - both older injuries. The inspector takes a closer look at the family: Michelle's parents, Nadine an…
Florian robs a gas station to get money for drugs: he needs the money to meet a dealer. The deal is supposed to take place in an abandoned warehouse - but a SEK unit is already waiting there, having r…
E18 · Sinking Ships
A dead body is caught in the net of a German fishing boat off the Norwegian coast. But the dead man seems to be the second officer of the container ship MS Karina, Radek Jankowski, and he is apparentl…
When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch is found in the Danube on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, the alarm goes off in the Vienna Ministry of the Interior and Moritz Eis…
E20 · In the Wake of Evil
Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann have been a well-rehearsed team for years, working well together and also getting along privately. It is all the more dreadful when Klara finds out that Perlmann unexpected…
E21 · Bremen - Dead Men
A male body is found in the Weser. For chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund, it quickly becomes clear that the dead man is a student who met men for money. Are Lürsen and Stedefre…
E22 · The Girl Galina
The two inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz receive an order over the police radio: a woman with a Slavic accent has called for help. When the two inspectors arrive at the specified addres…
The puncture wound is deep: Prof. Julius Gann has lost a lot of blood. When he and his wife returned home from a charity gala, an unknown attacker stabbed them in the villa. While help came too late …
E24 · Architecture of a Death
Sofia Martens, star architect and owner of a large architecture office, asks her old friend, public prosecutor Scheer, for help: her assistant Anett Berger has disappeared. Scheer draws Charlotte Säng…
E25 · Borowski and the Stars
Margret Saloschnik, in her mid-fifties, is found dead in front of a hotel in Kiel. Everything indicates that she threw herself off the roof of the hotel. Klaus Borowski and police psychologist Frieda …
Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk have to solve the murder of a young homeless man. Apparently the young drug addict Andi Lechner was poisoned. The bottle of wine he last drank was laced with antifreeze. …
E27 · Missing
Lena Odenthal gets a call: a witness wants to testify something important about a murder, but when Lena Odenthal arrives at the meeting point, the witness is dead. The case she wanted to testify about…
E28 · At Any Cost
The spectacular suicide of the Munich journalist Rainer Truss makes waves. Truss was known for solid front-line research when it came to exposing grievances or corruption. And Ivo's childhood friend c…
Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is on his way home when he witnesses an old man being ruthlessly run over by a car. When Boerne rushes to the dying victim's aid, he is almost run over himself. The "accide…
The Berlin meat king Hans Merklinger is found dead in the cold store of his factory. The dead man had been missing for several days, but was only reported missing by his lover Kathi. When Ritter and S…
For Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm, her vacation comes to an abrupt end when a man is shot dead in front of his wife. He is the third victim of a serial killer, a sniper who kills seemingly at ran…
A youth center burns down. The body of 40-year-old Ulf Meinert is found in the building. At first everything indicates that he started the fire, but then chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Kep…
E33 · We're the Good Guys
Ivo has amnesia and is suspected of murdering a colleague.
E34 · Contaminated Sites
The death of Willy Schubert, over 80 years old, came as no surprise as he had been seriously ill for a long time. But an attentive medical officer discovers that Schubert's death was caused by drug po…
Ballauf is at the center of a murder investigation during his class reunion.
Charlotte has a car accident but doesn't remember it the way her rescuers say it happened.
Detectives Lursen and Stedefreund investigate a very personal murder case.
A child goes missing from a social housing development.
Borowski finds himself in the backwoods of Finland searching for a young man who escaped custody during extradition.
A mummy is discovered in a local villa. [Münster]
When the financial manager of a major drug syndicate is found murdered, Moritz Eisner is sent undercover.
A mysterious murder leads Eisner to investigate a dangerous cult.
Ballauf and Schenk investigate after a man's fiancée is murdered.
A murder in the JVA Stadelheim prison serves as a distraction for a meticulously planned escape. The chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr are on site when Hassan Adub flees. It soon becomes clear that …
The wife of a respected asparagus farmer is murdered. [Münster]
When a 15-year-old boy dies after imbibing an energy drink, Borowski suspects a worker from the manufacturing plant.
Charlotte's boss wants a quick resolution for an arson case that resulted in a woman's death.
A case for Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr: Konstanze Schiller, the successful and desirable owner of a Munich spa, is found dead in a chocolate bath - an almost perfect murder that does not skimp on sym…
A farm owner is at the center of an investigation into a child's death.
This episode begins with the trial of Markus Rapp for rape and murder. Munich Chief Inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are in the dock as a defense attorney on her first case tears holes in the p…
Parts of a man's body are found in an animal trap at the scene of the crime at a country estate near Kiel. This man was a member of a hunting party and everything indicates that militant animal rights…
Ballauf and Schenk investigate a publishing house after a young consultant is murdered.
A witness at the center of Lursen's investigation is in danger of becoming the next victim.
Eisner teams up with a new partner to investigate a series of murders of young people.
The high-stakes game of professional soccer proves fatal.
The 32-year-old Tini Bürger only knows one boss: the devil alcohol. Since her husband Lassnik died in a car accident two years ago, she has been alone with her daughter Nessi. Depression keeps her in …
Thiel and Boerne investigate the murder of a prominent local businessman. [Münster]
Eisner and Fellner investigate when a naked man is found dead in a shopping cart.
A normal weekday. The chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called to the outskirts of Munich. Max Lasinger is waiting excitedly in a glass shop behind the front building, where he confess…
Eisner is sent to Tyrol to track down a construction magnate's killer.
Ballauf and Schenk dive deep into the life of a Cologne district after a landlady is murdered.
A murder investigation leads Thiel and Boerne to a Münster tennis club.
Köln. Ballauf and Schenk must solve an act of sabotage with deadly consequences.
A young woman has disappeared without a trace and her boyfriend, a beat cop, is convinced she was murdered.
Two seemingly unrelated cases bring Germany and Sweden together to catch a serial killer. In Kiel, a man jumps into a bathing lake - and is impaled by bamboo sticks. For Borowski and Sarah Brandt, it …
Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are in an internal competition for "Policeman of the Year". Then the phone call: a dead man in the new Jewish synagogue, presumably outside their jurisdiction. The public …
Charlotte delves into the secrets of a man found murdered in the countryside.
Köln. A dead retiree in the park puzzles detectives Ballauf and Schenk.
Eisner and Fellner investigate a bus driver's murder.
Inspector Frank Thiel and forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne are investigating the case of a former female criminal investigation officer who was found dead in the street – wearing only …
After three bodies are found in a shipping container, Eisner and Fellner face off against the Chinese mafia.
Köln. Ballauf and Schenk are in a race against time to find a killer.
Köln. The body of a young man is found in an old military bunker.
A desperate call alerted the Kiel police emergency number: "He's in my apartment. He just comes through the wall." But for Carmen Kessler, any help comes too late. The young woman is found brutally mu…
A wedding party puts detectives Lursen and Stedefreund at the center of their next investigation.
Faber and his team investigate a possible serial murder.
The Kiel author Dirk Sauerland is found dead on his yacht. Sauerland was known beyond the borders of Kiel. In recent months he had been working on a spectacular disclosure story.
Faber investigates the death of a local pimp and drug dealer who was the right-hand man of a shady businessman.
A murdered naturopath leads Thiel and Boerne into the world of alternative medicine. [Münster]
The body of a 16-year-old girl turns up in an incineration plant.
Charlotte finds herself in high society circles as she investigates the murder of a young girl.
Köln. Public prosecutor Wolfgang von Prinz is alarmed: Ingo Broich, the managing director of the cleaning company of the same name, was stabbed to death in his neighborhood. Everyone in this upscale C…
A failed assassination attempt at a major international conference leads Eisner and Fellner into danger.
Lürsen and Stedefreund embark on a controversial murder investigation.
The murder of a journalist is linked to a famous pop singer. [Münster]
Freddy and Max are faced with a mystery when a child is kidnapped on the street. [Köln]
Falke investigates a series of car arsons. (Hamburg)
Jingle bells on the Kiel Fjord: while Commissioner Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt are celebrating Julklapp in the Presidium, a murderer is preparing a dark crime in neighboring Schleswig. At …
A nighttime emergency call from a moving car alerts the police in Carinthia: "Eisner, BKA Vienna, service number 318-12-58. Need support!" A short time later, Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner is found…
Bibi Fellner tackles the case of a twelve-year-old boy accused of a brutal act of violence.
Thiel and Boerne investigate the murder of a well-known artist. [Münster]
Faber and his team investigate when a teenage girl is found dead.
Falke and Lorenz investigate a murder on the North Sea island of Langeoog. (Hamburg)
Weimar's Sausage Queen goes missing and a surprising turn of events occurs when the police get a phone call.
The geriatric nurse Sabrina Dobisch witnesses a traffic accident and bravely tries to save the life of the young pedestrian Christian van Meeren. She then accuses the driver Doris Ackermann of premedi…
E2 · Episode 2
Ballauf and Schenk must solve a murder and urgently help their colleague. [Köln]
A girl is found dead in a forest and Faber suspects someone close to the victim.
Things get out of control after two police officers receive an emergency call on their nightly patrol.
Eisner and Fellner make a gruesome discovery in a demolished home.
A series of arson attacks shocks the city of Köln.
On a nocturnal boat trip by the company Marex, the lawyer Jens Adam is spectacularly shot. His body disappears into the sea. Marex is a world leader in the mining of raw materials in the deep sea, spe…
Thiel and Boerne search for a superhero serial killer. [Münster]
Falke & Lorenz investigate a series of car arsons.
There is a point in every human being when they are lonely. Lisa Brenner knew that moment. When her body is found one gray morning in front of a high-rise building, having fallen from the 12th floor b…
Freddy investigates after Max witnesses a crime. [Köln]
The death of Bibi's father leads the investigators to an unknown safe deposit box and a possible smuggling ring.
Nasir al Yasaf, the fifth son of the Emir of Kumar, leads a glamorous life in Munich. Protected by his diplomatic status, the young man takes every liberty: fast cars, extravagant parties, drugs. And …
Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a popular dating coach. [Köln]
E29 · Blackout
The body of a German Syrian is found in a park near Oldenburg.
A large meat producer appears to be a murder target just as he's about to roll out a new product.
As Dorn and Lessing investigate the death of a woman during a robbery, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems.
A man falls from the top floor of a luxury hotel in Vienna. The Iranian diplomat and nuclear physicist Dr. Bansari apparently committed suicide. But why did he buy expensive opera tickets for the same…
The head of the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene is found murdered in a suspected act of vengeance.
The severed head of a young man is found in Mundsforde, a small village near Kiel. Before his violent death, 20-year-old Mike was apparently addicted to the drug crystal meth. Inspectors Klaus Borowsk…
Freddy and Max investigate the death of a young musician. [Köln]
A young man's disappearance in 1968 leads Eisner and Fellner to a present-day mystery on the Czech border.
A case involving a missing seven-year-old resurfaces ten years later.
An apartment bathroom is covered in blood with no body in sight.
The 60-year-old alcoholic Onno Steinhaus is found dead in a working-class district of Kiel. Steinhaus had a criminal record for pedophilia and, as Borowski and Brandt quickly find out, lived in comple…
Falke jumps into action when Lorenz is caught in a hostage situation.
What the French call a "petite mort" actually ends fatally in a forest near Nuremberg. Christian Ranstedt, married and father of two children, a professor at the University of Erlangen, and a respecte…
When the owner of a popular bar is murdered, Freddy and Max investigate. [Köln]
The team gets involved in the investigation of a seriously injured man found in front of a Dortmund clinic.
A tragic accident occurs in a chemical factory. Roswita, the godchild of Ernst Rauter, Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner's superior, is a victim of the chemical accident.
E25 · Episode 25
E26 · Episode 26
Franz Leitmayr leaves town for Oktoberfest because he can't stand it, but is called back because his fingerprints are on a dead man's wallet. The victim appeared drunk but has almost no blood alcohol …
Falke and Lorenz investigate after a suspect is killed in police custody.
The team investigates the tragic case of a six-year-old found dead at a playground.
E31 · Episode 31
Karow searches for the killer of his former partner.
The murder of a military pilot's wife reveals an unwritten code of honor.
A confused woman is found on the Kiel Fjord. Her statements give reason to fear that the notorious murderer of women, Kai Korthals, has reappeared. Inspector Brandt informs her colleague Borowski abou…
Two shots are fired in a family home in Munich. Batic and Leitmayr find Michaela Danzer dead and her partner Daniel Ruppert unconscious. Quirin, the dead man's six-year-old son, has disappeared along …
E38 · Episode 38
E39 · Used
Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a local financial consultant. [Köln]
Felix Murot and Magda Wächter are called to the parking garage of a casino in Wiesbaden in the morning where a dead man was found in a stairwell. While securing evidence, Murot discovers another body …
Faber stumbles upon a murder case that connects to a 14-year-old missing person investigation.
A music manager is found strangled before the final round of a TV talent show.
E7 · Episode 7
E8 · Episode 8
A pair of murders rocks an upper-class neighborhood in Köln.
E11 · Episode 11
Falke teams up with BKA investigator Julia Grosz on a murder case.
Leitmayr's investigation of a Romanian pimp gets a fast conviction. Batic was not part of the investigation because he was a childhood friend of brothel operator Harry Schneider, for whom the victim s…
Ballauf and Schenk investigate the stabbing death of a doctor. [Köln]
E20 · The right to worry
In the bone collection at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Würzburg, a young doctoral student discovers a skull that doesn't match the rest of the skeleton with which it was filed. The sk…
A group of high school girls close ranks over a hit-and-run.
An eight-year-old girl is the only witness to her family's murder. [Köln]
A Turkish businessman's murder puts Eisner and Fellner on the trail of a human trafficking ring.
E25 · Episode 25
The Dortmund homicide squad investigates a conflict in the criminal rocker scene.
Ben Schröder is stabbed by a stranger while walking with his family in broad daylight, before the eyes of his wife Ayumi (Luka Omoto), his six-year-old son Taro, and numerous witnesses. During the int…
E31 · Borowski and the Lost Girl
At the heart of the story is a student who accuses her brother of murdering another student. The next morning, Maria's body is actually recovered from the fjord. Investigative duo Klaus Borowski and S…
Hanoverian Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm and Kiel Commissioner Klaus Borowski are confronted with a former elite soldier, who wants to take revenge on his ex-girlfriend after his assignment in Afgha…
E33 · Episode 33
Karow is held hostage after his key witness gets gunned down in front of him.
A neighborhood watch leads to tension on the streets when a shop owner's son is shot dead. [Köln]
Eisner and Fellner are caught in a PR nightmare when a kidnapper harnesses the power of social media to rail against the prevailing social system.
After discovering he has two days to live, Lupo takes the police chief hostage to force Dorn and Lessing to hand over his murderer. [Weimar]
Competition between carnival dancers turns deadly.
Jürgen Sternow, head of the cyber crime department at the Kiel State Criminal Police Office, was the victim of a murder attack. It is reasonable to assume that the perpetrator is to be found in the ar…
A man is thrown from a bridge and run over by a lorry. Investigations show that he was dead before falling. Cologne DIs Ballauf and Schenk proceed to investigate the neighbourhood where the man had li…
While Paula Ringelhahn, Wanda Goldwasser, and Sebastian Fleischer begin investigating an arson attack on a refugee shelter in Bamberg, Felix Voss is still on his return flight from the Caucasus. The f…
Faber gets an explosive surprise when he begins to investigate the murder of two officers.
Eisner and Fellner investigate when the head of the police academy is found dead.
Verena Schneider is found dead by a neighbor. The trail quickly leads to architect Thomas Jacobi. Apparently, the two had a fight shortly before the crime. But Jacobi has an alibi. He was with his fam…
A teacher accused of sexually harassing a student is found torched in his garden.
There is a state of emergency shortly before the Kiel Week. Three million guests from all over the world are expected to celebrate the largest summer festival in Northern Europe. Now, of all times, a …
Eisner and Fellner investigate when the body of an African worker is found in a quarry - infected with the Ebola virus.
Long-distance bus driver Beni Gisler sees the man on the bridge, but there is nothing he can do. The body hits the windshield and is thrown away. In his previous life, Gisler was a train driver and wa…
Charlotte takes on an escalating kidnapping case after the victims have handed over the money.
Falke and Grosz investigate after a natural gas engineer is found dead.
A mentally-ill locksmith thinks he's receiving messages directing him to procure victims.
Falke and Grosz are assigned to a right-wing activist's security detail.
A turbulent 24 hours begin for the Weimar detectives Kira Dorn and Lessing when the triple murderer of women, Gotthilf Bigamiluschvatokovtschvili, known as Gobi, escapes from the forensic psychiatric …
Eisner and Fellner hunt for a serial killer.
Hotel employee Marion Faust was violently thrown from the balcony at home. Ballauf and Schenk find out that shortly before her death she had left several worried messages on Susanne Baumann's answerin…
Faber and his team investigate a rabies attack inside of the prison.
After a billionaire is killed during a burglary, the victim's wife shoots and kills the perp.
A package with a severed finger leads Rubin and Karow to an art film eerily paralleling their investigation.
Borowski's last case led to the transfer of his colleague Sarah Brandt. In order to escape the anger in the commissariat, Borowski plunges into a case that leads him into the vast landscape of the Nor…
E10 · Episode 10
E11 · Episode 11
A car, submerged in a Köln quarry lake, with a body in the trunk: Detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk investigate. [Köln]
E15 · I don't kill anyone
Two bodies are found in a dilapidated house on the outskirts of Nuremberg. A 58-year-old Libyan and his sister were both brutally murdered with a rebar. They came to Germany 15 years ago, were fully i…
Two shots were fired from Falke's weapon. He and his colleague Grosz come under suspicion and have to face internal investigations. But there are also others who had an interest in the young woman's d…
Ballauf and Schenk race against time to find a kidnapped girl during a murder investigation. [Köln]
E18 · Episode 18
A woman presumed dead for seven years reappears with a patchy memory.
A letter from his godchild Grete conjures up the spirits of the past with Commissioner Borowski. Heike Voigt disappeared four years ago. She was a friend's wife. Her husband Frank Voigt was suspected …
Rubin and Karow investigate a jogger attacked by a boar and a man murdered in a coffee kiosk.
This dead man almost went undiscovered. But the forensics confirm: It was the burnt bones of a person that were found in a fireplace on the outskirts of the city. The investigators also find the key …
Eisner and Fellner investigate when a charred body is found on a country road.
Falke and Grosz investigate a series of burglaries in Hamburg.
E35 · Episode 35
Ballauf and Schenk take over the investigation of a young man killed on the train tracks. [Köln]
Eisner and Fellner investigate when a body is found in a car at the bottom of a lake.
A man's murder gets wrapped up in a steel works conspiracy.
E5 · Episode 5
A 15-year-old girl and her newborn are missing, leaving behind only a trail of blood and unanswered questions.
The day in Bayreuth begins like any other. But then a murder occurs. A Bayreuth lawyer shoots a judge during a trial. Shortly before the crime, he looks at his watch and waits for the full hour. Then …
Supermarket cashier Peggy Stresemann looks curiously into the window of the neighboring house –. The couple Victoria and Thomas Dell are currently performing a joyful dance. Apparently they have becom…
Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a demolition expert. [Köln]
Crime Scene Hospital: Early in the morning the internist Dr. Gisela Mohnheim discovered lifeless in the rest room of the emergency room. The dead woman is not fully clothed; her head is in a plastic b…
Nina's son Tolja joins the police as an intern and gets shot on a routine call.
Two old people die within a short time. Despite suspected killing, both cases are ultimately considered natural deaths. But on the second death, Bootz and Lannert continue to investigate. A carer gets…
E20 · Vienna - Home Sweet Home
Eisner and Fellner investigate when a politician's house becomes a brutal crime scene.
E22 · Episode 22
Lessing is accused of murder and it's up to Dorn to exonerate him. [Weimar]
E29 · The Elephant in the Room
Robert discovers he's been living next door to a decaying corpse.
Eisner and Fellner investigate the murder of a timber baron.
Falke and Grosz investigate after a sniper targets a truck driver.
In a coastal forest near Kiel, Commissioners Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin run eight-year-old Simon out of nowhere. Confused, the boy reports that his grandfather was dead in the forest, that he had b…
State of emergency in North Rhine-Westphalia! Four inspectors from different departments have already been killed. There has never been a comparable series of murders in the history of the state. But …
Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a 17-year-old student. [Köln]
A murderer remains at the scene of the crime and demands to speak with Peter Faber.
Falke and Grosz investigate a murder in Hamburg's red light district.
Babs Sprenger, a successful businesswoman who lives alone in a spacious apartment in Fürth, was active on various dating sites under an assumed name until a few months ago. She celebrated her birthday…
A secret society of law students exercise strange control over a new member.
Not far from her apartment, a youth welfare officer is found murdered. [Köln]
A split-second decision during a standoff sends Lindholm and Schmitz down an Orwellian rabbit hole of conspiracy and deceit.
Lindholm and Schmitz navigate dangerous politcal waters to find the killer of a far-right blogger.
In the middle of an event at the police college, a young student freaks out and stabs her buddy. He still dies at the scene in the arms of the helpless main commissioner.
Detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk must solve the murder of the head physician of a psychiatric clinic. Ballauf himself is currently undergoing treatment: a trauma he thought he had overcome res…
Eisner and Fellner investigate the murder of a bodybuilder.
The murder of a 90-year-old Berlin building tycoon appears to be politically motivated.
Eisner and Fellner find themselves caught in a war between conventional medicine and alternate healing methods.
Eisner and Fellner investigate the death of a homeless man.
A journalist asks Falke for help investigating an allegedly illegal real estate deal on the island of Norderney.
During an investigation into a fire, the team is confronted with racism, police violence and fake news.
The abused body of a young woman is found on a wasteland near a popular Kiel club. The video surveillance of the club will soon provide Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) and Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) …
An anonymous call leads Eisner and Fellner to investigate the murder of a woman and the disappearance of a child.
A kiosk operator in Ludwigshafen is brutally slain. It looks like robbery - if it weren't for coins in the dead man's windpipe. A signal for Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern that there could be a priva…
A botched investigation leads to desperate measures for Falke and Grosz.
Eisner and Fellner investigate the death of a senior official from the Interior Ministry.
Five-year-old Mike has disappeared. For three days, his separated parents think their son is with each other, until their mistake is discovered. Now the mother angrily suspects the father, the father …
Bremen Harbor. A baby is kidnapped from a local clinic.
A realtor is murdered during evictions of an apartment building slated for remodel.
Alarm in Kiel: In an uprising in the forensic clinic, the woman killer Kai Korthals manages to escape from security custody. Korthals, who crept and killed numerous women in their homes, became Borows…
E26 · Episode 26
Karow and Rubin investigate the brutal death of a woman active in Berlin's night life.
Peter Faber and his team investigate after the police chief is involved in an accident.
Bremen Harbor. A man's body is found in the harbor.
The investigation into a murder case leads the Munich detectives Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr to Dannerberg in the foothills of the Alps. The deceased had most recently worked as an auditor in a nunne…
A private rendevous in Hamburg turns into a nightmare after Lindholm is accused of murdering her date.
The team investigate when the body of a man is found in the Dortmund harbor area.
Total Blackout: Upon waking up, Commissioner Thiel cannot for the life of him explain how he ended up in this hotel room. And what are Professor Boerne and that giant plush koala doing sitting on the …
Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater …
After four years in prison for the manslaughter of her father, Sara Manzer wants to look ahead. She has support for her new life - primarily from her friend Marlene, who takes her into her apartment. …
Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago and a friend reported her missing. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest during preparations for an urn burial. An argument at the site distracts Fabe…
What begins as a completely "normal" murder investigation takes on ever wider ramifications: The shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found beaten to death in his apartment. But neither his cheerful bowling …
Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics …
Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) are called to a crystal-clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who actually alerted the police himself and is waiting for the investigators …
After an autumn storm, a skeletonized body is found under an uprooted oak tree. As Borowski suspects very quickly, it is the remains of his first friend Susanne. When Borowski was 16, he wanted to hit…
A young couple alerts the police in the middle of the night. The two discovered a woman's body in a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt. But when the chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arriv…
The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.
A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she …
At first glance, the Bremen inspectors Moormann and Selb are dealing with the suicide of a mentally ill person. After a house fire, the tenant's body is found in her hermetically sealed bedroom. [Harb…
A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. G…
When Julia Grosz's friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator for the LKA, disappears without a trace, Grosz sets out to look for her. Under a false…
The chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of the city. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, be…
Freddy Schenk is alarmed because an arson attack has been carried out on his daughter Sonja's restaurant. In the burned-out "magic lamp" the police find a body that has been charred beyond recognition…
In Dortmund's Westpark, Jan Pawlak and Rosa Herzog stand in front of a large pool of blood, but there is no body. However, Andreas Richter, the head of a Dortmund real estate company, is missing. His …
Saturday. Gameday. A Saar-Palatinate football derby keeps all the emergency services in Saarbrücken on tenterhooks, including the chief commissioners Leo Hölzer, Adam Schürk, Esther Baumann and Pia He…
The Winterfeld family experienced a tragedy years ago when their daughter Rosa, still a teenager but already the mother of a daughter, disappeared without a trace. Now Rosa's body is found near the Bl…
Young, popular and extremely successful: Marlon Unger is the hotshot of an IT company. One evening he is attacked and stabbed in front of his apartment. As Moritz Eisner, Bibi Fellner and Meret Scham …
The recently deceased Evita Vogt has a huge fan base with her self-deprecating videos. As "MagicMom" she is one of the most successful so-called momfluencers: a likeable young mother who owns up to he…
Young Adam Moser has a fatal accident on his motorcycle at night. But the death raises questions and ultimately leads inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr to Munich's Hasenbergl. Here the dead man …
Almost all of Alt-Bützenich is deserted and boarded up. At night a security service checks on everything. It was decided that the houses and the church would have to give way to open-cast mining. Then…
In Bremerhaven, one of the largest automobile transshipment ports in Europe, a body is found at one of the car terminals - the driver area manager is lying dead in the trunk of a car. The Bremen inve…
Everything indicates that the young police officer Rebecca Kästner committed suicide in her apartment the evening before: drugs, custody dispute, excessive demands. But when Karow finds her four-year-…
Everything indicates that the young police officer Rebecca Kästner committed suicide in her apartment the evening before: drugs, custody dispute, excessive demands. But when Karow finds her four-year-…
When his 17-year-old son Noah disappears, Jon Makoni turns to the police in desperation, even though it could be dangerous for him and his wife Hope to be targeted by the authorities: even though the …
When Peter Faber joins Jan Pawlak and Rosa Herzog early in the morning, the forensics team has almost finished their work. Tram driver Hamza Arkadas was stabbed during his night shift. There are no wi…
After a charity event in a posh hotel on Lake Zurich, the evening's host is found murdered in his suite. Just a few days later, a top entrepreneur was found dead, tied to his rowing boat at the bottom…
A passerby is pushed in front of a moving truck at the Kiel Fjord: an outbreak of violence from nowhere. Commissioner Borowski is listening to a nearby vocational school. A little later, the main comm…
Miriam Schenk and Paul Wolf and their almost grown children Zoé and Benno were a well-functioning patchwork family for years. The fact that there are cracks only becomes apparent when Benno's best fri…
Leitmayr and Batic are shocked by a cold-blooded murder: unknown people shoot a young policewoman during a traffic stop. The cruel act is not the only shock. The inspectors find out that the murderers…
A young woman named Azra (played by Mariam Hage) becomes the key figure in an organized crime case. She has been working as a police informant for some time and is tasked—serving as a confidential inf…
The ninth crime scene from Franconia, "High Mass for Toni," takes Chief Inspector Felix Voss (Fabian Hinrichs) into his private past. The press release describes that after years of no contact, he rec…
The two Austrian detectives Moritz and Bibi Fellner investigate an unusual murder case that exposes the tension between sustainable and industrial agriculture, with far-reaching consequences extending…
A killed infant is found in a parking lot near Kiels. Where's the mother? Did she kill her child? A found entrance volume leads Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin to the sleepy town of Wacken in Schleswig-…
A stranger asks Thorsten Falke to meet him. He hopes, he says, that the commissioner will keep a promise that is more than 20 years old and help him out of an emergency. Since the stranger demands a c…
An unknown man is found dead on the banks of the Rhine. He suffered a heart attack. However, he was not alone at the time of his death; someone previously sprayed pepper spray into his face. The inves…
The opportunity of a lifetime comes to André Stamm out of nowhere. A comrade from his army days offers him a promising job at the investment company “Concreta”. Rocko Andersen made a lot of money from…
Shortly before closing time, a jeweler in Stuttgart is robbed. He himself is injured and his customer dies while trying to escape. The robbers' actions are similar to an attack from the previous year …
“The Curse of Money” begins where “The Cold of the Earth” ended. The chief inspectors argue because Leo Hölzer had to discover that his partner Adam Schürk was in possession of the loot from his late …
After the murder of an inmate in the prison, Inspectors Leitmayr and Batic have to move their office to the prison with the help of Kalli Hammermann, who was recently promoted to senior inspector, in …
Detective Director Liebig was celebrating his 60th birthday at Göttingen police headquarters when the party was suddenly disrupted: there was a serious accident in the neighboring old town. A van cras…
Chief Inspector Faber is back on duty, but his job as head of the homicide squad is gone for now. And prosecutor Matuschek wouldn't mind if nothing changed. Faber's colleague Rosa Herzog is now taking…
The notoriously unfaithful Tobias Exner has been cheating on his wife Greta, from whose money he lives, for a long time. With his anonymous acquaintance “Kitty13”, whom he met on a dating portal, Tobi…
When the club owner Otto Hübner is found shot, Inspector Bibi Fellner has to drive to the crime scene without her partner. Moritz Eisner, who celebrated his 60th birthday the evening before, is sleepi…
Chief Inspector Thiel and Professor Boerne seem overqualified: the dead Sabine Schmidt is completely intact on the outside, she was popular with everyone, and the facility exudes a harmless cosiness. …
A micro-adventure turns into horror: The friends Ayla Ömer, Viola Klemm and Marlene Seifert try to find their way back home from the deep forest without any technical aids. They want to test whether t…
Workers find a female torso in a sewer beneath Munich Central Station. During their investigation, Batic, Leitmayr and Hammermann come across disturbing violent videos on the Internet. The cases seem …
At a crime scene in the zoo, detectives Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean experience a surprise: the victim is a chimpanzee. Although public prosecutor Anita Wegenast classifies the terrible act as dam…
A man was killed in a secret location under a bridge. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk find out that the victim, the unemployed Peer Schwarz, was deliberately run over by a car. In his apartmen…
A dead man died in his house from multiple stab wounds, but there are no signs of break-in or evidence of robbery. Initial investigations also lead nowhere until Karow comes across a hidden door in th…
Hansi Pagel has been in prison for several years, convicted of violence against his wife Andrea and their children. He comes into the focus of inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg when the …
The Viennese rapper "Ted Candy" is on the way up: good-looking, talented - and business-minded! In order to switch to a bigger label, the newcomer breaks away from his mentor Akman Onur. When Ted dies…
Tobias Benzinger is shot dead, a young lawyer in a law firm with a considerable number of rather shady clients and a high success rate in criminal cases. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg suspect t…
Tristan Grünfels, a psychologist and victim counselor for the Frankfurt police, has problems. He keeps losing his temper, talking to himself and then losing touch with his already dysfunctional family…
Everyone in prison liked Lenni. And everyone believed in the 25-year-old's innocence. When Lenni takes his own life, his sisters are plunged into deep despair. Shortly afterwards, another death occur…
Hagen von Strelow is on a flight from South America to Frankfurt am Main. He is a wanted war criminal who is to be put on trial (belatedly) in Germany. Inspector Murot and his assistant Wächter are wa…
In the law firm of lawyer Patricia Prinz, her husband is shot dead. Jasper Ünel was also a lawyer, but during the investigations by Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern, his ambitious wife turns out to be …
During a traffic check on a country road, shots are fired in broad daylight - one police officer dies, a second is critically injured. Instead of helping their colleagues, two policewomen flee from th…
Hanna Riedle has only just moved away from her village and started a new life in the city when she becomes the victim of a violent crime. During their investigation, detectives Lannert and Bootz disco…
When the janitor of one of Cologne's largest brothels falls to his death from the seventh floor, detectives Ballauf and Schenk are called to the scene. Evidence quickly mounts that the victim was push…
After the death of his colleague Grosz, Thorsten Falke is taking a break in the remote St. Joseph monastery when the parish pastor dies in a fire. Child pornography material is found in his estate, wh…
Captain Hendrik Wilkens lies shot dead in his room on Christmas Day. He and his husband had taken in a Filipino sailor for the holidays. Together with Hendrik's children and grandchildren, it was supp…
The body of the lawyer Oskar Weintraub lies - completely pierced by the spear of an exotic warrior sculpture - in the middle of Doreen Prätorius' house. This house resembles a museum of exotic art, an…
Advent in Zurich. Who wants to be alone now? Detective Isabelle Grandjean meets the handsome Marek from Warsaw at the Christmas market. She spontaneously embarks on an adventure with the seductive str…
A young woman is arrested in an Asian shop. She is completely beside herself. Her clothes, hands and face are covered in blood. She is holding a knife in one hand. Did she commit murder? And what abou…
Paul is kidnapped in the street. An attentive neighbor is killed by the kidnapper before she can give a statement. The parents receive a ransom demand, but detectives Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern d…
Collecting debts is his job. And Fabian Pavlou is very good at it. He is considered one of the most successful field staff at the international company Correct Inkasso. But now Pavlou was brutally att…
In a rental property in Kiel, Klaus Borowski and his colleague Mila Sahin find 40-year-old insurance clerk Andrea Gonzor shot dead on her bed. Andrea Gonzor had apparently invited people to an erotic …
Sebastian Bootz is among the guests at a film premiere in Stuttgart when the screen suddenly goes black and a man and a woman threaten the audience with guns. Panic breaks out, several people manage t…
Saarbrücken, deep in the night. An explosion shatters the silence. Sleepless Chief Inspector Pia Heinrich is the first on the scene: a security guard was killed in a brutal robbery of an armored car. …
Janusz disappears during a high school graduation party. Marlin, a classmate, calls the police to report him dead before he himself is run over on a country road. Since evidence suggests a violent cri…
In broad daylight, a man is shot dead from a great distance by a sniper in the center of Berlin, near the Friedrichstrasse subway station. Susanne Bonard and Robert Karow are under pressure - and unde…
An unknown dead woman is found in a derelict military vehicle. Leitmayr, Batic and Hammermann discover that a vehicle is missing from a nearby army base. The dead woman was obviously employed as a "ci…
Techno, ecstasy and party, party, party: In the 1990s, Christian, Meike and René were part of the scene and celebrated above the rooftops of Cologne in the legendary "Colonius". It has been around 30 …
With only days left until his retirement, Borowski uncovers a chilling case linked to a dark house. As he investigates, he's stalked by a killer who anticipates his every move, all while racing agains…
It's hot, it's crowded – pregnant Nina and her husband Sven are under stress as they board the cable car that will take them from the summit to the valley. During the ride, Nina gets into an argument …
Ira Klasnić wants Rosa Herzog and Peter Faber to investigate a fatal hit-and-run. But it quickly becomes clear that there may be more to the story. The victim, Angela Herrig, is the ex-girlfriend of s…
Chief Inspector Frank Thiel and Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne are confronted with a student case that puts their professional and personal relationships to the test. After a party at the Münster Me…
At Chef André Brauer's Viennese gourmet restaurant "Efeukron," knives are sharpened every day—literally for cooking, but also proverbially for each other. While the well-heeled clientele dines in refi…
A knife attacker kills two people in Hanover under the cover of a dense crowd. The nationwide investigation team, including Chief Inspectors Thorsten Falke and Anaïs Schmitz, faces a difficult task: T…
The world's top chess players gather for a tournament in the Alps: seven men and one woman. The "Queen," Natalie Laurent, is brilliant, provocative, and possibly a cheat, which has earned her many ene…
When a body washes up on a beach on the Weser River, Bremen investigators Linda Selb and Liv Moormann are faced with a mystery. Initially, there are no clues as to the body's identity. In the course o…
There is unrest in Vienna's city center: An angry protest march attempts to storm the government district, leaving one demonstrator dead in the street: Jakob Volkmann, a front-row participant. Major B…
Meike Gebken is found dead. She had been living in a women's shelter with her young daughter for four weeks. But what is the motive for the crime? To find out, Rosa Herzog goes undercover in the women…
Vanessa Tomasi is hanging from a treetop – one side of her long blonde hair has been shaved off! In a nearby bunker. Detectives Grandjean and Ott, along with public prosecutor Wegenast, find the body …
The discovery of a body raises questions: The man, missing for two years, was buried two meters deep in the earth in the floodplain near Nuremberg. Andreas Schönfeld, a 37-year-old bicycle dealer at t…
Several people died of cardiac arrest almost simultaneously on a Saturday morning in Zurich and the surrounding area. The cause was electric shock from implanted defibrillators (ICDs), whose manufactu…
Frankfurt Commissioners Hamza Kulina and Maryam Azadi encounter unexplained murders in the archives of old police cases and discover links to a former serial killer who led a seemingly normal life.
After running away from the youth home “Seven Sleepers”, 16-year-old Lilly is found dead in a lake. Her boyfriend Pascal is missing. Investigators Winkler and Schnabel are encountering conflicting sta…
In the Altes Land region, Romanian farmer Victor, a temporary farmer, was beheaded. Local police officer Olaf Gerke assumes it was a fatal accident involving agricultural machinery. But Charlotte Lind…
A young delivery cyclist is run over by a car on a side street in Berlin. The traffic accident quickly turns out to be a murder. Susanne Bonard and Robert Karow search for clues among the victim's acq…
Mike, in his mid-twenties, introduces his girlfriend Nisha to his parents. The meeting is awkward, becomes increasingly hostile, and escalates when the young couple mentions wedding plans and a pregna…
When Friedemann Berg learns of his brother Reinhard's escape from the psychiatric hospital, he suspects the worst. Reinhard does indeed arrive at the Berg family's isolated farm, accompanied by the ta…
The body of a young woman had apparently lain in her apartment for weeks when it was discovered, prompting Stuttgart detectives Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz to begin their investigation. Why h…
Six years ago, three-year-old Viktoria Reiter and her father, Julian, vanished without a trace. When the investigation yielded no results after a year, the case was closed as a cold case with suspicio…
At the presentation of a new bicycle model, instead of the innovation, a freezer containing a frozen corpse is unveiled.
A caregiver in a nursing home lifts the mobility-impaired resident Danijel Filipovic into the bathtub, but leaves him alone briefly—upon his return, he finds Filipovic drowned. Detectives Moritz Eisne…
At a campsite in the German-Dutch border region near Emden, car dealer Joe Glauning vanishes without a trace. Since he left behind personal belongings such as his ID, keys, and cell phone, and traces …
The episode "Black Snow" picks up directly where the episode "A Good Day" left off.
During a performance of Chekhov's play The Seagull at a Munich theater, the up-and-coming actress Nora Nielsen collapses on stage and dies. Detectives Batic, Leitmayr, and Hammermann investigate behin…
Commissioner Murot suffers from the psychological strain of his job and undergoes a novel therapy: with the help of a machine, he can experience his own psyche as a walkable landscape. Meanwhile, sing…
A confused, 16-year-old girl is found in Dresden at night with a blood-stained scalpel. She reports that her father has kept her and her sister Jana imprisoned in a cellar for life, and that Jana is s…
In the Black Forest, Detective Friedemann Berg discovers a frightened nine-year-old girl (Eliza) hiding in a clock case. Shortly afterward, her father's body, weighed down with stones, is found in a f…
During the final rehearsal of Haydn's "The Creation," a member of the props department is found shot dead at the opera house—posed as if in a stage production. A weapon from the costume department is …
A toddler is found dead, his brother has disappeared. Stuttgart detectives Lannert and Bootz take up the investigation. At the center of the case is a family with a public past, whose internal conflic…
Bremen detectives Moormann and Selb are investigating the death of a law student who was pushed down a flight of stairs near a nightclub. Their investigation focuses on her conflict-ridden shared apar…
On the edge of a Berlin industrial wasteland, the body of a homeless man is found with distinctive bite marks. Initially, a wolf attack is suspected. However, the investigation by Susanne Bonard and R…
Businessman Emil Feidt is found murdered in a village on the German-French border. The Saarbrücken investigative team, led by Chief Inspector Esther Baumann, investigates the case, which takes them to…
In Dortmund, several men are murdered in the red-light district – initially, it appears to be a power struggle. However, a deeper motive quickly emerges: the victims have false identities and are impl…
Following the fatal accident of a bicycle courier who had shortly before been about to turn himself in, Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern investigate on suspicion of murder. Stern goes undercover at his…
Years after a high-rise fire that claimed 13 lives, Detective Hamza Kulina is reunited with his ex-girlfriend Almila, who lost her mother in the blaze. Evidence pointing to improperly installed insula…
E11 · Abiding (1)
They vow to each other not to be shot in their final case – a cliché Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are determined to avoid after 35 years of service. But their farewell case turns out to be extremely d…
E12 · Abiding (2)
Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr's retirement comes to an abrupt end when they learn that their last case was based on a lie. Kara Roth, the witness from back then, contacts them in a panic: she claims he…
E13 · Showtime
Frank Anders is the star of the cult children's show "Sachen und Lachen" (Things and Laughter), which he co-hosts with his wife, Caro. A well-established core team has been working on the show for yea…
