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Morden im Norden Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Liebesblind
49 mins
A children's song booms through Eva Herzog's house at night, startling her awake. Terrified, she sneaks through the rooms, armed with a kitchen knife... When her husband returns home from a business trip the next morning, Eva is lying in the garden - with the knife in his chest. The song still echoes through the house. Lübeck detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen suspect this must be a crime of passion and target the grieving husband. In fact, the evidence against him mounts, but he denies all allegations. But few people knew about Eva's trauma, a miscarriage that threw her off track not so long ago. Who wanted to scare her with the song? The investigation gains momentum when Kiesewetter and Englen are able to access Eva Herzog's medical records from her treating psychiatrist, Dr. Georgi. Eva Herzog had a lot to hide. Was she being blackmailed?
Episode 2
Dunkle Wasser
48 mins
A corpse on the idyllic Baltic Sea beach. The word "Schwein" (pig) is emblazoned in large letters on the naked, lifeless body of young Alexander Blohm. Investigators from the Lübeck Criminal Investigation Department quickly uncover the first clues that the dead man was not the well-behaved and popular student his father believed him to be. The family's former gardener, Heinz Gieck, blames Alexander for the death of his underage daughter, who drowned at a party. Is that why Gieck killed him? Alexander's three flatmates also make serious accusations against the dead man as detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen cross-examine them. But are the three students, including Alexander's girlfriend, cold-blooded enough to commit murder? Or has the dead man made other enemies?
Episode 3
Zweite Chance
48 mins
Late one evening, Mariam Kalkus, in a panic, seeks shelter at the Lübeck Criminal Investigation Department (CID) station. From her balcony, the young woman witnessed a murder in the window of the apartment across the street. And the murderer saw her. Investigators Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen storm the apartment with a special forces team. But there is neither a body nor the slightest trace of a struggle. With a bad feeling, Finn and Lars bring the young woman back to her apartment. Did the unstable-looking Mariam Kalkus just make it all up? When a dead woman matching Kalkus's description of the victim is found in Lübeck harbor the next morning, her observation is confirmed. But Kalkus has disappeared. The Lübeck Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team is doing everything it can to find the young woman.
Episode 4
Tödliche Mitschuld
49 mins
When Heidrun Kantereit visits her mother, she makes a gruesome discovery. The house is devastated, and the wealthy elderly woman lies dead in her closet. This brutal murder leads Lübeck detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen to a home for juvenile delinquents. The dead woman, Roswitha Wittling, had been very dedicated to the children in the home. Did one of the boys rob the elderly woman and then lock her in her own closet? When young Leon tries to escape, the detectives find the murdered woman's jewelry in his pocket. But Leon denies the crime. Lars is convinced they have caught the perpetrator. But Finn, who remembers his own childhood as an orphan, believes the boy and tries to prove his innocence. When Leon escapes from custody and evidence of a gruesome abuse scandal in the victim's past emerges, Finn must quickly do everything in his power to prevent further tragedy.
Episode 5
Hinter der Fassade
47 mins
When Bernhard Wagner, chief physician at the Lübeck University Hospital, returns home from his night shift, he makes a gruesome discovery. His wife, Verena, is found dead in the sauna. Detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen are certain that this was a treacherous murder. The door was locked from the outside, and Verena died painfully in the overheated sauna. Rasmus Haffner, whose life is shattered after the death of his son, comes under suspicion. Haffner is convinced that his son died due to medical malpractice by Chief Physician Wagner. Was he seeking revenge? But Haffner has an alibi. The detectives target the grieving husband after pathologist Strahl notices massive, partially healed injuries on the dead woman. Was she a victim of domestic violence that has now escalated? Wagner and his sister-in-law, Dunja, who cares for him deeply, are horrified by these suspicions. The investigation takes another turn when Rasmus Haffner's alibi is blown. When Kiesewetter and Englen try to question him again, they are too late. Haffner has armed himself and is on his way to Wagner.
Episode 6
Kinderherz
48 mins
Doctors can't save him: The serious injuries Patrick Nieberg, barely of age, sustains in a motorcycle accident are fatal. His grieving mother is surprised to learn that Patrick had an organ donor card and is scheduled for a heart transplant. When forensics determines that Patrick was the victim of a perfidious attack, the homicide squad is called in to investigate the accident. A wire had been stretched across the street - but what was the motive? Kai Holthusen comes under the scrutiny of detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen: a bitter man who has been vehemently opposing the speeding motorcyclists in front of his house since his wife was killed in an accident. But Mick Eckert, a young man who recently had a heated argument with the victim over a girl, is also a suspect. For Patrick's grieving mother, all of this is secondary. When she accidentally discovers that her son's heart now beats in 14-year-old Sarah, she seeks contact with her and her family. Sarah's father is anything but happy about this.
Episode 7
Kellerkind
47 mins
With her last ounce of strength, elderly woman Elli Wenzel calls the police, but when they arrive, she is already dead. She is found stabbed to death in her son Klaus's house. When pathologist Dr. Strahl finds a mysterious note in her apron, detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen examine the crime scene more closely and make a horrific discovery. In a basement dungeon, they find a distraught young woman. Stella Berthold was reported missing 19 months ago. While in captivity, she gave birth to a daughter, but little Mimi disappeared with her tormentor, Klaus Wenzel. Wenzel apparently killed his mother in a fit of rage when she learned of his dark secret. Finn, Lars, and their colleagues from the Lübeck police station are doing everything they can to find Mimi and her kidnapper. But he has an evil plan.
Episode 8
Schwarzer Peter
47 mins
A corpse floats in the Trave River. Lothar Klump drowned, heavily intoxicated, but also shows burns. This leads detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen to a burned-out sailboat. The boat was apparently hit with a Molotov cocktail. But was it intentional, or did Lothar Klum become a murder victim by tragic coincidence, because the perpetrator didn't know anyone was on board? Fingerprints make 16-year-old Dirk a suspect. The boy flees before he can be questioned. His confiscated computer contains all sorts of videos of highly questionable pranks. But Dirk isn't alone in them. Public prosecutor Zobel recognizes Kai Jahnke, the son of a well-known Lübeck judge. Kai claims to have been at home the night of the crime, but Finn doesn't believe the boy and is suspicious of the seemingly obvious sequence of events. Do vandalism and violence fit with Dirk's other criminal record? Just as Finn and Lars are about to put Kai Jahnke under pressure, the wanted Dirk shows up at the police station and makes a confession. But Finn doesn't believe his words.
Episode 9
Heilende Hände
46 mins
Alternative practitioner Knut Mendel was murdered with a dagger in his practice. The investigation by Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen quickly leads to a suspect. 24-year-old Sven Hansen, a former patient of Mendel's, justifiably makes serious accusations. Hansen's pancreatic cancer was diagnosed far too late, potentially wasting life-saving time. Now there's no chance of a cure. But is the seriously ill man, who makes no secret of his hatred for Mendel, even physically capable of committing murder? The missing medical records of five-year-old Emma Peters lead the detectives in a different direction. The deceased wanted to testify as a witness in a custody case. His appearance in court would have cost the father, Leif Peters, custody of his young daughter. The short-tempered Peters has no alibi for the time of the crime, and even his wife Hannah, who selflessly cares for the sick child, suspects he was capable of murder. But then Hansen suddenly disappeared. In his room, the detectives found evidence that he had built a bomb.
Episode 10
Jäger und Sammler
48 mins
While mushroom hunting, a young man, Georg, makes a gruesome discovery. A woman has hanged herself from a tree. He lovingly takes her off and carries her away. A day later, hikers find the young man in a remote forest cabin - he has been shot dead. From Georg's deeply shaken mother, Ilona, detectives Lars Englen and Finn Kiesewetter learn that Georg had severe learning disabilities and few social contacts. After all, a year ago, sawmill owner Michael Vogt hired him as a laborer, much to the annoyance of his colleagues, who feared Georg's handling of the dangerous machinery. Only the young management assistant, Gaby Zinke, had developed a modicum of friendship with Georg, but allegedly knows nothing about Georg's private life and quickly becomes entangled in contradictions. In the course of the investigation, the officers encounter many more inconsistencies and questions: What is the plant manager Bohlandt hiding from them? Why did Vogt, who otherwise lacks a social streak, hire Georg in the first place? What's behind his wife's mysterious disappearance? And above all: Why was the seemingly harmless young man murdered so brutally? The answer lies in the past.
Episode 11
Der letzte Kuss
47 mins
A reunion of old school friends - that's what it was supposed to be when siblings Nadine and Moritz Oldhoff visit their now highly successful friends, Anja and Oliver Isenberg, in their luxurious houseboat on the Trave River. After the men leave for their high school reunion, the friends find themselves alone for the first time in years. Old, repressed feelings resurface for the former lovers. When Nadine is found dead on the banks of the Trave the next morning, dejected and drowned, and her brother Moritz suffers from a severe blackout, detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen are forced to delve deep into the past of the four friends. Vincent Fedder, a former classmate, believes Moritz is guilty of his messed-up life. Fedder flees from Finn and Lars and is only caught after a breakneck motorcycle chase. But even though Fedder has a lot to hide, is he the murderer? Finn and his team suspect that the unusual friendship between the two women has caused more tension than those involved are willing to admit.
Episode 12
Dornröschen
48 mins
Maria Gonzalez passed away peacefully from carbon monoxide poisoning in an allotment garden community. Finn Kiesewetter and his Lübeck Criminal Investigation Team can rule out both accident and suicide. Someone administered sleeping pills to the attractive Latina and then tampered with the gas heater. All the evidence points to a crime of passion, which leads Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen deeply into the entanglements of a modern and seemingly happy patchwork family. Torsten Fahrig, the dead woman's fiancé, unwittingly puts the investigators on the first clue. His ex-wife, Johanna, seems to have had bigger problems with her ex-husband's new girlfriend than she'd like to admit. But Torsten Fahrig also lied about his alibi. As the noose tightens around the necks of their closest relatives, Torsten and Johanna Fahrig's daughter, Emma, is kidnapped. Suddenly, not only the case appears in a new light, but also the rescue of the girl requires the full commitment of the detectives.
Episode 13
Der Tod ist nicht das Ende
47 mins
A body is found in the trunk of a wrecked car at Rainer Ölschläger's scrapyard. Sophie Jensen has been beaten to death. The perpetrator, who appears to be familiar with the workings of a scrapyard, wanted to smelt the body without a trace. Detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen have many leads: Ölschläger, who lives in an old caravan at his scrapyard, can't provide an alibi. And who is behind the mysterious "J." in Sophie Jensen's diary? When pathologist Strahl recovers fresh DNA traces from Jannik Stapenhorst on the body, Finn believes he has found the perpetrator. But Lars knows Stapenhorst from a previous case: The man has been dead for eight years. The Lübeck investigators are faced with a mystery.
Episode 14
Über den Tod hinaus
48 mins
Self-made millionaire and brilliant inventor Ulrich Harmsen is dead. Due to his serious, incurable illness, he committed suicide - or so his family believes. Until an enraged Tanja Sanftrieder disrupts the funeral ceremony. She is certain: Harmsen was murdered. His body cannot be cremated, because then all evidence would be destroyed. Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen are aware of the delicate task of stopping the funeral of the respected Lübeck entrepreneur. But the autopsy reveals that Harmsen was murdered. The seriously ill man was forcibly administered an overdose of medication. Harmsen's family quickly becomes the focus of investigators. Shortly before his death, he had a heated argument with his daughter Isabelle. Harmsen wanted to cut off all financial support, arguing that she needed to learn to stand on her own two feet. That would have spelled doom for his daughter's pet project: an artists' residence for traumatized refugees in Berlin. Harmsen's wife, Eva, also arouses suspicion when she provides a false alibi. And his son, Alexander, suffered because his overpowering father never trusted him to run the company. But what role does Tanja Sanftrieder play, the woman who first set the investigation in motion and who, ironically, was more than just Harmsen's euthanasia assistant?
Episode 15
Schwere Zeiten
47 mins
Gudrun Schneider arrives at the police station in a panic. A photo has appeared in the cloud storage she shares with her husband Frank. In the photo: the lifeless body of Giselle Pape, one of her husband's colleagues. Gudrun Schneider cannot reach her husband Frank anywhere; he appears to have disappeared without a trace. At Hohmann GmbH, where Frank Schneider works, detectives Finn Kiesewetter and Lars Englen learn that the wanted man lost his job as an accountant two months ago. Gudrun Schneider is shocked: she had no idea about this. When the Lübeck investigators manage to track Schneider down, his wife is relieved to find him healthy. But the fears about Frank's colleague Giselle Pape become reality; she is found dead. Schneider, who has been going to a small café instead of work for the past two months, has secretly met with his colleague several times. He claims to have previously lost his cell phone, which was used to take the photo of the dead woman; he has an alibi for the time of the crime. He remains stubbornly silent about everything else. Why didn't he tell his wife about his unemployment? Was the staid-looking accountant having an affair with Giselle? How did his cell phone end up next to her body? Even Gudrun Schneider doesn't know what to think. While examining the dead woman's computer, Finn and Lars are faced with another mystery: The young woman had purchased spy equipment from an online shop some time ago. But why? Did she and Schneider perhaps want to spy on company secrets? But then the detectives find evidence that Giselle Pape wanted to achieve something entirely different with the hidden camera.
Episode 16
Filmriss
48 mins
The fishmonger Helge Hinrichs is hit by a car. The accident car speeds away and Hinrichs dies in the arms of his heavily pregnant wife. Since the driver of the car was caught in a speed trap a short time later, the case seemed clear to the Lübeck police team.
