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Das Boot Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Neue Wege
Mon, Jun 17, 201960 mins
In the monumental submarine base of La Rochelle on the Atlantic, the Nazi Kriegsmarine (navy) prepares another crew for its latest U-boot, U-612. It's to be the first command of 'heir' Klaus Hoffmann, who is unorthodox and relies on experienced men like his by-the-book XO. While rank and file prepare for its maiden trip 'traditionally' with a sea of alcohol and 'curing the last virginity' in a brothel, a 'coward' is condemned to the fire squad. The Alsatian communication tech specialist Frank Strasser is forcibly enrolled as a knavish booze fire can't be repaired in time otherwise. Thus he must delegate to his sister, nurse Simone, the delivery of plans to the resistance, which fails and attracts the collaborating French police.
Episode 2
Geheime Missionen
58 mins
On his first mission, captain Klaus Hoffmann drills mercilessly, until the submarine can participate in an attack on a British convoy, only to be called away stat for a secret mission, which he was chosen for by the gestapo agent. The French doctor refuses to take more risks for the resistance, only to be defenestrated and have his morphine stolen. Simone is shocked to find herself assigned as translator to the questioning under torture of the woman she met the night before, Jacqueline. Members of the resistance approach her and ask her to bring her morphine.
Episode 3
Verluste
59 mins
Aboard submarine U-612, the atmosphere heats up with the implicit rivalry between 'parachuted son' captain Hoffmann and solid veteran XO Tennstedt, all mistrusting VIP passenger Samuel Greenwood, for whom they lost another man, and who now flaunts being an American opportunistic businessman investing in arms. Frank falls out of favor, nicknamed the Frenchie. Gestapo officer Hagen Forster invites Simone out privately. The resistance, led by a communist hothead, rewards Simone with a passport for Frank's secret Jewish bride who hides as brothel waitress, but also plan a bomb attack. The crew gets another shot at a convoy.
Episode 4
Zweifel
56 mins
Aboard, tensions grow somewhat out of control, as cocky macho crewmen rival to be the most unconditional patriots and act on rumors, leading to biter rivalry and abuse, while CO Klaus Hoffmann seeks to learn more and appease. Cynical arms trading US passenger Samuel Greenwood exhausts the officers' patience, until XO Karl Tennstedt actually pushes him in the sea during the delivery to a US freight ship, actually in exchange for ruthless U-boot captain Ulrich Wrangel, who asks in vain to break the gentleman's agreement ensuring both vessels can go home unharmed. Gestapo are to execute locals in retaliation for the bomb attack, but Forster seeks to focus on those responsible. Simone tries to look after her brother's girlfriend and child while Forster recruits her full-time as his personal translator.
Episode 5
Loyalität
55 mins
Having probed and stirred the tension aboard, Ulrich Wrangel legitimates taking command of a mutiny by being 'the highest ranking officer aboard'. XO eagerly sides with him, but honest seamen like Frank openly protest and risk being locked-up before marooning with CO Klaus Hoffmann. Gestapo chief Hagen Forster admits having some personal interest in Simone, meanwhile she's the lesbian lover of his now identified resistance target, Carla Monroe, who still pleads bloody methods regardless of innocent civilian victims.
Episode 6
Gegen die Zeit
60 mins
After marooning the CO, Ulrich Wrangel's mutineers are hit by an allied depth charge and start sinking. They hit a sand bank, but panic as the damage is grave and urgent, given oxygen and chlorine gas leaks. Rivalries are put aside as everybody is desperate to survive, even if that means one man must be chosen by straw draw for a suicide mission in the engine room. The Gestapo investigation into the bombing makes progress. While Simone curbs Forster's romantic moves, Carla pushes her to take great risks spying to help the resistance receive a weapons delivery on the coast.
Episode 7
Verdammt
57 mins
While Hagen must inform Simone that Frank's entire crew is missing presumed drowned, the submarine is actually operational again, but nearly out of fuel. So they risk entering the first passing ship. It turns out a Russian trailer, manned by German deserters and Romanians, who hide Jewish refugees. Captain Martin Chaffrof agrees with Ulrich Wrangel to hand over diesel in exchange for repairs, but those prove impossible and an armed conflict kills his crew plus one German seaman. Realizing how close Forster is to catching everyone, Simone calls for all to flee, but Carla Monroe insists to use the last bullets to capture the navy base commander, thus triggering the hostage reprisals commissioner Duval and others hoped to avoid.
Episode 8
Abrechnung
57 mins
The crew of U-612 copes with the recent events. In La Rochelle Forster receives bad news. Simone faces a tough decision.
