Tatort Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Taxi nach Leipzig

Sat, Oct 4, 199788 mins

The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.

Episode 2

Saarbrücken, an einem Montag...

90 mins

After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.

Episode 3

Kressin und der tote Mann im Fleet

92 mins

Customs Investigator Kressin is on his way back home when he notices the strange behavior of tourist guide Ben Canitz. The next day the Papers read that Canitz has been killed. Kressin teams up with investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg and soon discovers a gang of drug smugglers. Can they stop the smugglers and arrest the killer?

Episode 4

Auf offener Straße

69 mins

Aboard a vessel in Mannheim Harbor young sailor Walter Hubert is preparing for shore leave. His first stop is a local pub where he has his first beer and is looking for a new job. A job that would not take him too far away from Milli, the girl he intends to marry. Too bad Milli doesn't think the same. She never planned to accept his proposal. In the middle of the night Hubert finds himself out in the street, gets into a fight and in the heat of the moment a knife is planted in somebody's gut. It's now up to investigator Eugen Lutz and his team to find out what happened and why.

Episode 5

Kressin und der Laster nach Lüttich

79 mins

Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.

Episode 6

Frankfurter Gold

87 mins

In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.

Episode 7

Kressin stoppt den Nordexpress

75 mins

Kressin is in Copenhagen at an information event when his boss is calling him back to Cologne. He decides to go back by train. On the same train are the two gangsters Brockhoff and Katolli, being escorted back from Sweden by some policemen. Their accomplices plan to free them as soon as the train reaches German ground. When Kressin gets wind of this, he does everything possible to stop the gangsters.

Episode 8

Blechschaden

106 mins

After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.

Episode 9

Exklusiv!

98 mins

Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.

Episode 10

AE 612 ohne Landeerlaubnis

105 mins

Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.

Episode 11

Der Richter in Weiss

120 mins

Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.

Episode 12

Mordverdacht

87 mins

A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.

Episode 13

Der Boss

56 mins

Episode 14

Münchner Kindl

80 mins

In München a child is abducted by a woman that escaped from a mental hospital. Kriminalhauptkommissar Veigl inspects the case but is not sure whether the woman is a threat to the child. The parents set a reward of 5000 DM.

Episode 15

Wenn Steine sprechen

85 mins

Ein neuer Kommissar stellt sich vor: Horst Pflüger aus Baden-Baden. Sein erster Fall: Ein todkranker Obdachloser will im Krankenhaus einen Mord gestehen, der 1939 an einem Westwallarbeiter begangen wurde. Vor seiner Beichte wird er von einem Unbekannten für immer zum Schweigen gebracht. Das Dunkel um dieses Verbrechen lichtet sich erst, als Pflüger jenen längst verjährten Mord aus der Vorkriegszeit aufgeklärt hat.

Episode 16

Der Fall Geisterbahn

73 mins

Episode 17

Kennwort Fähre

105 mins

Bei einer nächtlichen Überfahrt stürzt die Ehefrau Edith Reiser von Bord einer Bodenseefähre. Die sofort eingeleitete Suchaktion bleibt erfolglos. Es ist kaum anzunehmen, daß Frau Reiser in dem eiskalten Wasser überleben konnte. Ein Unfall? Je mehr sich Kriminalkommissar Lutz in den Fall vertieft, um so mehr kommt er zu der Überzeugung, daß es sich um ein Verbrechen handelt.

Episode 18

Kressin und die Frau des Malers

80 mins

Im Kölner Raum häufen sich Einbrüche in Kirchen und Museen. Eines Tages machen Zollbeamte in der Frachtabteilung des Flughafens eine merkwürdige Entdeckung: Eine Sendung Schaufensterpuppen hat zu lange in der Sonne gestanden, die Figuren - offensichtlich aus Wachs gefertigt - beginnen zu zerfließen, unter der Oberfläche einer Puppe erscheint eine kostbare Madonna aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. Die Spur führt nach Amsterdam. Kressin sieht sich einer hinreißenden Frau gegenüber, der Frau eines willenlosen Malters, die zu allem fähig ist und selbst vor einem Mord nicht zurückschreckt.

Episode 19

Strandgut

105 mins

Episode 20

Kressin und der Mann mit dem gelben Koffer

85 mins

Vor dem Portal des Bundeshauses bricht ein Mann tödlich getroffen zusammen. Der Mörder kann unerkannt entkommen. Der Tote soll einen gelben Koffer bei sich gehabt haben - doch dieser Koffer ist verschwunden. Kressin hat den gelben Koffer gesehen und einiges spricht dafür, dass die Spur einmal mehr zu Gansterboss Sievers führt. Sievers beschafft sich Kriegsmaterial, das von der Bundeswehr ausgesondert und zum Verschrotten bestimmt wurde. Auf diese Weise kann er seine Konkurrenten unterbieten. Konkurrent für Sievers ist Nobiling. Mit einem großangelegten Auftritt im Bonner Bundeshaus, sollte Sievers die einträgliche Bezugsquelle verstopft werden. Die Beweise befanden sich in dem gelben Koffer. Kressin gelingt es, nicht nur Sievers, sondern auch Nobiling zu stellen und der Polizei zu übergeben.

Episode 21

Rechnen Sie mit dem Schlimmsten!

90 mins

"Bitte, nicht ...", stammelt Jakob Tonndorf, Leiter eines Hamburger Rechenzentrums, angstvoll. Dann sackt er, von zwei Pistolenschüssen getroffen, vor einem Computer zusammen. Der Mörder drückt dem Toten einen länglichen Bogen Papier in die Hand, ein Computer-Protokoll mit den Textfetzen: "Angebot Nierentransplantat ... an Professor Becker vermittelt." Diese Angaben lenken die Nachforschungen des Hauptkommissars Paul Trimmel in eine bestimmte Richtung. Von Tonndorfs Mitarbeiterin Jill Biegler erfährt er, dass der Computer die Daten zwischen den Nierenspender und den Anwärtern auf ein Ersatzorgan vergleicht und damit über das Schicksal des Nierenempfängers entscheidet. Besteht die Möglichkeit zu Manipulationen? Trimmels Verdacht wächst, als die Polizei in Jills Wohnung gerufen wird. Jemand hat den Gashahn im Badezimmer geöffnet. Als das Mädchen wieder zu Bewusstsein kommt, flüstert es: "Lassen Sie sich vom Computer die Daten über Professor Lachnitz geben." Der Chirurg mit seinen ganz eigenen Vorstellungen vom Eintritt des klinischen Todes hat in den letzten Monaten eine Reihe von Nieren für Organverpflanzung geliefert. Nach dem Gespräch mit Professor Lachnitz verunglückt Trimmel schwer, weil die Steuerung seines Wagens versagt. Sollte er das dritte Opfer nach Jakob Tonndorf und Jill Biegler werden? Der Kommissar verstärkt seine Bemühungen, den Fall zu klären. Sein Weg führt zum Aufsichtsrat, der die Organvermittlungen durch den Computer überwacht, und zu Professor Becker nach München. Der besessene Chirurg hat in seiner Privatklinik ungewöhnlich viele Nieren auf vermögende Patienten übertragen. Unverblümt beschuldigt Trimmel den Arzt, er habe Tonndorf bestochen. Ehe Becker richtig antworten kann, bricht der Hauptkommissar zusammen. Eine rasche Operation des Chirurgen rettet ihm das Leben. Als Trimmel aus seinen Fieberträumen erwacht, in denen er mit den Mordverdächtigen ringt, erfährt er: Professor Becker und seine Frau haben Selbstmord verübt. Inzwischen verhören seine Kollegen Jill Bieglers zwielichtigen Freund Bertie Weyer. Sie finden auch heraus, dass Jills Schwester Helena, die ebenfalls mit Bertie befreundet war, zu den Anwärtern auf eine Niere gehört. Mehrere Personen hatten Grund, den bestechlichen Jakob Tonndorf aus dem Weg zu räumen. Während eines Verhörs von Jill und Bertie macht der Kriminalbeamte Petersen plötzlich eine verblüffende Beobachtung. Wenig später können die Beamten ihrem Kollegen Trimmel im Krankenhaus die Lösung des Falls mitteilen.

Episode 22

Rattennest

90 mins

Ein kleiner Ganove, der "untergetaucht" ist, wird von seiner Frau, seinem Sohn und Kommissar Kasulke gesucht. Er und seine Familie geraten dabei mehr und mehr in die Fänge einer Bande, deren Spezialität es ist, sich durch Erpressung Kneipen- und Barbesitzer gefügig zu machen und "abzukassieren". Dieser Fall führt zu einer Eskalation, an deren Ende jener ehemals kleine Ganove, inzwischen zu zweifelhaftem Ruhm in seinen Kreisen gelangt, bei der Abrechnung mit seinem Rivalen den Tod findet, während sein halbwüchsiger Sohn sich wie eine "Ratte" davonmacht.

Episode 23

Die Samtfalle

89 mins

Episode 24

Kennwort Gute Reise

90 mins

Episode 25

Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße

128 mins

An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.

Episode 26

Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Mord

100 mins

Episode 27

Cherchez la Femme oder Die Geister vom Mummelsee

91 mins

Episode 28

Stuttgarter Blüten

90 mins

Episode 29

Jagdrevier

95 mins

Episode 30

Weißblaue Turnschuhe

77 mins

In a Munich cemetery, a bum snatches an elderly woman's handbag containing glasses and ten marks. Instead of going on a well-deserved vacation, Detective Inspector Veigl takes on this minor case, particularly annoyed with the perpetrator for assaulting an 83-year-old woman. Veigl and his men not only find valuable jewelry in the bum's pocket, but also clues to another case.

Episode 31

Kressin und die zwei Damen aus Jade

90 mins

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 suitcase, a corpse is wheeled up, and Lyn has suddenly disappeared. Since 350,000 marks were found on the dead man, Kressin searches for the murderer in the smuggling world and stumbles upon two chess pieces that cause a stir.

Episode 32

Platzverweis für Trimmel

100 mins

Episode 33

Das fehlende Gewicht

77 mins

Episode 34

Tote brauchen keine Wohnung

77 mins

Episode 35

Frauenmord

89 mins

Episode 36

Nachtfrost

96 mins

Episode 37

Eine todsichere Sache

85 mins

Episode 38

Playback oder die Show geht weiter

88 mins

Episode 39

Acht Jahre später

87 mins

Episode 40

3:0 für Veigl

82 mins

Episode 41

Zweikampf

90 mins

Episode 42

Gift

87 mins

Episode 43

Gefährliche Wanzen

90 mins

In this episode, secret design plans and other documents repeatedly disappear from the nuclear reactor in Karlsruhe. Bugs are discovered in the laboratories and offices of an oil refinery. Initially, military espionage is suspected, but then Inspector Lutz discovers that this is a case of industrial espionage with tangible commercial interests at stake.

Episode 44

Mord im Ministerium

90 mins

Episode 45

Kneipenbekanntschaft

89 mins

Episode 46

Der Mann aus Zimmer 22

80 mins

A young woman is murdered in a hotel room. The police soon arrest a hotel waiter, but Haferkamp doubts that the young man is guilty. Then a second murder occurs.

Episode 47

Die Rechnung wird nachgereicht

90 mins

Episode 48

Als gestohlen gemeldet

93 mins

Episode 49

Tod eines Einbrechers

80 mins

Episode 50

Wodka Bitter-Lemon

86 mins

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 an older man-Koenen, on the other hand, is insecure and uptight. He offers Irene a drink. Then he goes to the bathroom to take a shower. When he returns, the girl is dead. Koenen loses his nerve. Instead of calling the police, he takes the body away, simply dumping it in a park.

Episode 51

Das zweite Geständnis

93 mins

Episode 52

Die Abrechnung

81 mins

Episode 53

Mordgedanken

97 mins

Episode 54

Schöne Belinda

90 mins

Episode 55

Urlaubsmord

90 mins

Episode 56

Treffpunkt Friedhof

81 mins

Episode 57

Tod im U-Bahnschacht

90 mins

Episode 58

Kurzschluß

96 mins

Episode 59

Augenzeuge

87 mins

Episode 60

Kassensturz

78 mins

DM 300,000 disappear from a Federal Postal Service money transport. At the same time, a senior postal inspector goes missing. The official is suspected of having stolen the money and murdered a man. Chief Inspector Gerber comes across a photo album with numerous portraits of various women, including the current girlfriend of the wanted senior postal inspector.

Episode 61

Zwei Leben

90 mins

Episode 62

Zwei Flugkarten nach Rio

89 mins

Episode 63

Wohnheim Westendstraße

88 mins

When an immigrant railway worker from Italy is found dead in Munich, homicide inspector Veigl and his team suspect murder. However, it turns out that the deceased died in an accident when he an his workmates did illegal construction work for one of their German colleagues who stole the building material from the railway company.

Episode 64

Fortuna III

95 mins

Episode 65

...und dann ist Zahltag

95 mins

Episode 66

Annoncenmord

90 mins

Episode 67

Trimmel und der Tulpendieb

79 mins

A money transport is ambushed in Hamburg. There is no trace of the perpetrators. An accomplice hints that they wanted to meet in REM. The two perpetrators meet on the REM island, in order to be picked up from there by boat to England.

Episode 68

Abendstern

83 mins

Episode 69

Transit ins Jenseits

100 mins

Episode 70

Das Mädchen am Klavier

92 mins

Episode 71

Himmelblau mit Silberstreifen

90 mins

Episode 72

Flieder für Jaczek

87 mins

Episode 73

Reifezeugnis

108 mins

Sixteen year old pupil Sina Wolf has a love affair with her married teacher Fichte. Also pupil Michael Harms, her ex-boyfriend, cannot resist her beauty. One day Michael follows Sina by the lake and sees her having sex with Fichte. Then he blackmails her and force her to meet him in the forest the following day, telling her that he can do what Fichte did to her. She accepts to show-up but he soon begins to kiss her wildly, she lay down quickly on the ground, not to be sighted. She finally stops him doing anything further by taking a big stone, later telling everyone that somebody tried to rape her in the forest while Michael was helping her. As the police begins to investigate Michael's death they regard teacher Fichte with suspicion. Things screw up for Sina as now Fichte stops dating her and police's questions are beginning to be uncomfortable.

Episode 74

Finderlohn

85 mins

Episode 75

Spätlese

94 mins

DCI Haferkamp informs Claudia Bernhold and her paralyzed sister Ingeborg that her husband Paul was killed by an unknown perpetrator. Since he believes both the sister and the family doctor Dr. Stolp are suspects, he has them followed.

Episode 76

Wer andern eine Grube gräbt...

94 mins

Episode 77

Schüsse in der Schonzeit

88 mins

Biwi and Dscho, two young men, supply an innkeeper with poached game. Biwi hates his stepfather Mader, his mother's second husband. The family runs a butcher shop. When Dscho wants to break into Mader's hunting lodge one night to steal a trophy, the man is there with a young woman. Dscho accidentally shoots the girl, picked up by Mader on his way out of Munich. Shortly afterwards, her body is found, which Mader has deposited in the forest. The police gets on the trail of the petty criminal Dscho - not caught so far - and his ostensibly solid buddy Biwi after two car thefts by Dscho. Several witnesses connect Mader to the young hitchhiker, so he can't avoid revealing his extramarital affair.

Episode 78

Drei Schlingen

82 mins

Episode 79

Der vergessene Mord

75 mins

Episode 80

Feuerzauber

86 mins

Episode 81

Das stille Geschäft

95 mins

Episode 82

Das Mädchen von gegenüber

96 mins

Episode 83

Rot - rot - tot

90 mins

A murderer of women is going around in Stuttgart. And he seems to have a thing for redheads.

Episode 84

Der Mann auf dem Hochsitz

86 mins

Episode 85

Zürcher Früchte

82 mins

Episode 86

Trimmel hält ein Plädoyer

86 mins

Episode 87

Rechnung mit einer Unbekannten

85 mins

Episode 88

Schlußverkauf

83 mins

Episode 89

Lockruf

90 mins

Episode 90

Himmelfahrt

86 mins

Episode 91

Der Feinkosthändler

87 mins

The delicatessen.

Episode 92

Mord im Krankenhaus

91 mins

Episode 93

Sterne für den Orient

100 mins

Inspector Behnke must investigate the murder of a Berlin doctor. The man was run over in a parking garage. Luxury cars are being stolen.

Episode 94

Schwarze Einser

88 mins

Episode 95

Die Kugel im Leib

90 mins

Episode 96

Der King

90 mins

Episode 97

Alles umsonst

90 mins

Episode 98

30 Liter Super

86 mins

Episode 99

Ende der Vorstellung

95 mins

Episode 100

Ein Schuß zuviel

95 mins

Episode 101

Freund Gregor

85 mins

Episode 102

Zweierlei Knoten

85 mins

Episode 103

Mitternacht, oder kurz danach

83 mins

Episode 104

Gefährliche Träume

105 mins

Episode 105

Mord im Grandhotel

85 mins

Episode 106

Schweigegeld

93 mins

Episode 107

Maria im Elend

81 mins

After stealing a Gothic Madonna statue, the perpetrators demand a ransom from a tabloid newspaper. Press photographer Lansky disappears during the money handover, and his body is later found in his burned-out car. Inspector Veigl investigates a suspected action group for the secularization of church property and follows leads to various businesses and witnesses.

Episode 108

Kein Kinderspiel

80 mins

It's about the disappearance and death of a ten-year-old girl from a difficult family background.

Episode 109

Der gelbe Unterrock

102 mins

Episode 110

Mit nackten Füßen

89 mins

Episode 111

Der Zeuge

95 mins

Episode 112

Hände hoch, Herr Trimmel

95 mins

Episode 113

Schussfahrt

88 mins

Episode 114

Spiel mit Karten

87 mins

Geroth, editor of an advertising newspaper, leaves a bar late at night and drives at high speed. When he tries to brake in a sharp curve, the vehicle does not react, flies out of the curve and overturns. He is dead.

Episode 115

Streifschuß

93 mins

Episode 116

Tote reisen nicht umsonst

100 mins

Episode 117

Mord auf Raten

85 mins

Episode 118

Schönes Wochenende

86 mins

Episode 119

Herzjagd

102 mins

Episode 120

Nebengeschäfte

90 mins

Episode 121

Schattenboxen

90 mins

Episode 122

Beweisaufnahme

90 mins

Episode 123

Usambaraveilchen

90 mins

Episode 124

Das Lederherz

88 mins

Episode 125

Das Zittern der Tenöre

90 mins

In the fictional town of Endwarden, pensioner Fintzel wants to renovate his attic. He finds a suitcase that belonged to his brother who died in World War II.

Episode 126

Duisburg-Ruhrort

97 mins

A dead person is found in the port of Duisburg. It is the inland boatman Heinz Petschek. He was stabbed. The skipper Jan Poppinga turns out to be urgently suspect; Petschek had a relationship with his wife.

Episode 127

Katz und Mäuse

98 mins

Episode 128

Slalom

90 mins

Episode 129

Mord in der Oper

90 mins

Episode 130

Im Fadenkreuz

89 mins

Criminal Scholz is disturbed by a police check while trying to pick up a suitcase full of robbed money from a Munich train station locker. When he tries to flee in a taxi, he is shot by a police officer, seriously injured and taken to hospital under police guard. The gang does not shy away from the murder of the taxi driver who drove Scholz. Scholz's lawyer, whom the gang assumes was informed by Scholz, is put under pressure by threatening phone calls and fears for his family. Meanwhile, a passer-by finds the key and the suitcase, but immediately attracts attention when paying with a high banknote of the hot money. So the police can secure the loot. Finally, policeman Lenz, disguised as a taxi driver, sets a trap for the robbers.

Episode 131

Grenzgänger

95 mins

Episode 132

Blinde Wut

90 mins

Episode 133

So ein Tag...

84 mins

Episode 134

Der unsichtbare Gegner

94 mins

Episode 135

Tod auf dem Rastplatz

61 mins

Episode 136

Wat Recht is, mutt Recht bliewen

80 mins

Episode 137

Sterben und sterben lassen

85 mins

Episode 138

Das Mädchen auf der Treppe

90 mins

When police officer Horst Schimanski came back late at night the young girl Katja is waiting for him. She came back from the privatschool and her mother did not stay at home. Next day the police found a dead woman not far from their home shot down. Has the old lover of her mother Henje something to do with the crime ? The soundtrack Das Mädchen auf der Treppe has been created by the german electronic band Tangerine Dream and has been their most popular track.

Episode 139

Blaßlila Briefe

102 mins

Pale lilac letters, addressed to Grete Steinbeiss by a Marion Winterfeldt, are necessary so that Lutz Waldner can cultivate his love affair with the addressee.

Episode 140

Kindergeld

95 mins

Episode 141

Trimmel und Isolde

95 mins

Episode 142

Mordkommando

88 mins

Episode 143

Kuscheltiere

90 mins

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 typhus, since this could lead to a dangerous epidemic, Schimanski and Thanner had to find out more information as quickly as possible, while under pressure from the press and the public. They soon discover that many couples in Duisburg use an illegal adoption agency in Amsterdam, which convey children from Hong-Kong to europe without asking to many questions. Following the cuddly toys, hence the name of the episode, the german word for it, "Kuscheltiere" of the kids, Schimanski, Thanner and their dutch coworker Hänschen have to cross borders and investigate in Amsterdam. Since the dutch authorities can't find any hard facts to support the german cops in their inquiry, they have to go their own way. But to find out more about the criminal scheming of the agency, Schimanski not only has to work undercover - he also has to cross the thin line between law and vigilante justice, getting himself in more trouble then ever before.

Episode 144

Mord ist kein Geschäft

100 mins

Episode 145

Fluppys Masche

85 mins

Episode 146

Miriam

86 mins

Episode 147

Blütenträume

90 mins

Episode 148

Peggy hat Angst

92 mins

Episode 149

Wenn alle Brünnlein fließen

97 mins

Episode 150

Mord in der U-Bahn

88 mins

Episode 151

Roulette mit 6 Kugeln

88 mins

Episode 152

Der Schläfer

90 mins

Episode 153

Rubecks Traum

78 mins

Episode 154

Freiwild

89 mins

The death of a woman brings turmoil to the world of tramps because the murder took place in Tiergarten, in the center of Berlin.

Episode 155

Verdeckte Ermittlung

95 mins

Episode 156

Kielwasser

90 mins

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 cargoes of toxic waste, is also killed.

Episode 157

Haie vor Helgoland

86 mins

Episode 158

Täter und Opfer

90 mins

Episode 159

Zweierlei Blut

88 mins

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.

Episode 160

Gelegenheit macht Liebe

90 mins

Episode 161

Heißer Schnee

88 mins

Episode 162

Geburtstagsgrüße

90 mins

Episode 163

Der Mann mit den Rosen

90 mins

Episode 164

Rechnung ohne Wirt

90 mins

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 racket. But what is Guido his roll?

Episode 165

Ordnung ist das halbe Sterben

90 mins

Episode 166

Acht, neun - aus

90 mins

Episode 167

Doppelspiel

92 mins

The investigation of a woman's suicide leads to the investigation of a cult which is controlled by Ork.

Episode 168

Irren ist tödlich

85 mins

Episode 169

Miese Tricks

95 mins

When the crook Wessel Gerda suggests playing his hostage for half the loot in a bank robbery, she agrees. After the robbery, Inspector Lutz discovers inconsistencies in her statement.

Episode 170

Der Mord danach

85 mins

Episode 171

Das Haus im Wald

94 mins

Episode 172

Nachtstreife

86 mins

Episode 173

Schmerzensgeld

75 mins

Episode 174

Tod macht erfinderisch

85 mins

Episode 175

Baranskis Geschäft

91 mins

Episode 176

Schicki-Micki

95 mins

Episode 177

Die kleine Kanaille

95 mins

Episode 178

Einer sah den Mörder

89 mins

Episode 179

Leiche im Keller

93 mins

Episode 180

Der Tausch

90 mins

Episode 181

Riedmüller, Vorname Sigi

97 mins

Episode 182

Aus der Traum

86 mins

Episode 183

Tödliche Blende

85 mins

Episode 184

Schwarzes Wochenende

95 mins

The furniture manufacturer Heinrich Hencken is shot dead in front of his hotel at night. The son of the biggest competitor of the victim delivers unsolicited alibis for all members of his family. Schimanski and Thanner are on the case.

Episode 185

Tod auf Eis

83 mins

Episode 186

Wir werden ihn Mischa nennen

88 mins

Episode 187

Automord

74 mins

Episode 188

Freunde

84 mins

Episode 189

Die Macht des Schicksals

93 mins

Episode 190

Eine Million Mäuse

90 mins

Episode 191

Blindflug

85 mins

Episode 192

Tod im Elefantenhaus

90 mins

Episode 193

Spiel mit dem Feuer

90 mins

Episode 194

Spielverderber

90 mins

Episode 195

Pension Tosca oder Die Sterne lügen nicht

114 mins

Episode 196

Wunschlos tot

90 mins

Episode 197

Gegenspieler

88 mins

Episode 198

Voll auf Haß

85 mins

Episode 199

Der letzte Mord

90 mins

Episode 200

Zahn um Zahn

93 mins

Schimanski and Thanner set out to prove a supposed family tragedy isn't what it seems.

Episode 201

Salü Palu

53 mins

Episode 202

Schuldlos schuldig

95 mins

Episode 203

Sein letzter Wille

90 mins

Episode 204

Die Brüder

90 mins

Episode 205

Gebrochene Blüten

89 mins

A dead man in a Duisburg public transport bus, apparently a accidental victim of a crime. The victim was the owner of a dance studio that he ran with his wife Manuela. Schimanski suspects that Manuela is not telling him the whole story.

Episode 206

Ausgeklinkt

95 mins

Episode 207

Spuk aus der Eiszeit

90 mins

Episode 208

Pleitegeier

90 mins

The Hamburg police are investigating the death of master electrician Krause, who was found in the garage of his company. Was it an accident, suicide, or murder?

Episode 209

Einzelhaft

88 mins

Episode 210

Tödlicher Treff

85 mins

Episode 211

Feuerwerk für eine Leiche

88 mins

Episode 212

Winterschach

90 mins

Episode 213

Programmiert auf Mord

90 mins

Episode 214

Moltke

91 mins

Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with an old case that back in 1978 they were unable to solve but a "blind passenger" in Thanner's trunk change things on Christmas 1988.

Episode 215

Kopflos

85 mins

Episode 216

Schmutzarbeit

95 mins

Episode 217

Der Pott

93 mins

Episode 218

Bier vom Faß

94 mins

Episode 219

Keine Tricks, Herr Bülow

80 mins

Episode 220

Armer Nanosh

100 mins

Episode 221

Alles Theater

80 mins

Episode 222

Blutspur

85 mins

Episode 223

Blinde Angst

90 mins

Episode 224

Die Neue

100 mins

Episode 225

Katjas Schweigen

89 mins

Schimanski must clear the names of colleagues who have been framed for robberies and murders, including the shooting of a cop.

Episode 226

Herzversagen

89 mins

Episode 227

Lauf eines Todes

90 mins

Episode 228

Tod einer Ärztin

77 mins

Episode 229

Howalds Fall

96 mins

The Bernese city police officer has to solve a mysterious arms trade and also struggle with family problems.

Episode 230

Medizinmänner

80 mins

Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski tries to break his encapsulation.

Episode 231

Rendezvous

97 mins

Two brutal murders point detective Lena Odenthal to a mysterious young woman who seems to have been sexually involved with both of the victims. But a motive and irrefutable proof is hard to come by.

Episode 232

Zabou

Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. This leads to a club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. Suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou, his ex-girlfriend's daughter. What is she doing here?

Episode 233

Zeitzünder

90 mins

Episode 234

Schimanskis Waffe

86 mins

Episode 235

Unter Brüdern

95 mins

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 with their colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin.

Episode 236

Seven Eleven

88 mins

Episode 237

Blue Lady

86 mins

Kommissar Palu muss den Mörder der jungen Anne finden, die ihr Geld mit Telefonsex verdient hat.

Episode 238

Animals

88 mins

Episode 239

Finale am Rothenbaum

80 mins

Episode 240

Wer zweimal stirbt

88 mins

Episode 241

Rikki

83 mins

Episode 242

Kameraden

100 mins

Episode 243

Tödliche Vergangenheit

92 mins

Episode 244

Bis zum Hals im Dreck

90 mins

Schimanski is on a fishing holiday. There he witnesses: the veterinarian Karl-Heinz Ascher is found dead on his wedding day - hanged from a tree. Silke Faber, the bride, is at a loss and asks Schimanski for help in solving the death.

Episode 245

Tini

90 mins

Episode 246

Tod eines Mädchens

90 mins

Episode 247

Telefongeld

Episode 248

Blutwurstwalzer

90 mins

Episode 249

Tod im Häcksler

80 mins

Lena Odenthal researches the vanishing of a late repatriate in a village two years ago after his clothes are found.

Episode 250

Kinderlieb

87 mins

Beim Eislaufen bricht Schimanski ein und entdeckt die Leiche eines Mädchens. Frau Czermak,die verwitwete Mutter,hat keine Ahnung,wer die Kleine getötet haben könnte. Auch ihr im Heim lebender Sohn Markus hüllt sich in Schweigen. Schimanski entdeckt,daß Herr Czermak vor seinem Tod einen gewissen Köglmeier wegen Kindesmißbrauchs vor Gericht brachte - erfolglos!

Episode 251

Die chinesische Methode

95 mins

Episode 252

Der Fall Schimanski

90 mins

Schimanski's vacation turns into a fight for his life.

Episode 253

Ein Fall für Ehrlicher

90 mins

Episode 254

Camerone

90 mins

Episode 255

Verspekuliert

88 mins

Episode 256

Blindekuh

93 mins

Episode 257

Experiment

90 mins

Episode 258

Der Mörder und der Prinz

90 mins

In ihrem ersten Fall muss ein Mord an einer jungen Frau von den Kommissaren aus Düsseldorf aufgeklärt werden. Zur Karnevalszeit wird auch noch der Taxifahrer der ermordeten Frau tot aufgefunden.

Episode 259

Tod aus der Vergangenheit

87 mins

Episode 260

Stoevers Fall

85 mins

Episode 261

Kinderspiel

89 mins

Episode 262

Kainsmale

90 mins

Episode 263

Unversöhnlich

90 mins

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 inspector that Joest is keeping a secret.

Episode 264

Marion

88 mins

Episode 265

Tod eines Wachmanns

90 mins

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 murder.

Episode 266

Bienzle und der Biedermann

90 mins

Episode 267

Falsche Liebe

90 mins

Episode 268

Amoklauf

90 mins

Episode 269

BERLIN - beste Lage

100 mins

Episode 270

Renis Tod

81 mins

Episode 271

Verbranntes Spiel

90 mins

Episode 272

Kesseltreiben

103 mins

Episode 273

Bienzle und die schöne Lau

85 mins

Episode 274

Flucht nach Miami

90 mins

Episode 275

Tod einer alten Frau

95 mins

Episode 276

Gehirnwäsche

90 mins

Episode 277

Gefährliche Freundschaft

88 mins

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.

Episode 278

Ein Sommernachtstraum

90 mins

A group of Satan's disciples are staying in the English Garden in Munich. One of her was found dead on the Isar after an overdose of drugs.

Episode 279

Alles Palermo

90 mins

Berger owned a nursery located in northern Munich next to a landfill site until he was murdered. The investigations lead Batic and Leitmayr into the red-light milieu, since the gardener often enjoyed the company of girls during his lifetime.

Episode 280

Um Haus und Hof

90 mins

Episode 281

Stahlwalzer

87 mins

Episode 282

Die Zärtlichkeit des Monsters

89 mins

Carsdorff, a once-celebrated actor, is in a psychiatric hospital after the murder of his girlfriend. He manages to escape with a hostage. In freedom, he hijacks a bus and uses the passengers as hostages. Carsdorff contacts the police, he wants revenge on Lena Odenthal.

Episode 283

Bauernopfer

90 mins

Episode 284

Himmel und Erde

84 mins

Episode 285

Deserteure

88 mins

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.

Episode 286

Bienzle und das Narrenspiel

90 mins

Episode 287

Die Sache Baryschna

90 mins

Episode 288

Ein Wodka zuviel

90 mins

Episode 289

Der Rastplatzmörder

90 mins

Episode 290

Mord in der Akademie

90 mins

Episode 291

Laura, mein Engel

90 mins

Episode 292

Singvogel

90 mins

Episode 293

Klassen-Kampf

91 mins

Episode 294

Jetzt und alles

90 mins

Eines Nachts knacken Jugendliche den Mercedes des Spielothekbesitzers Wille und entdecken im Kofferraum die Leiche eines Mannes, was Lucky auf die Idee bringt, Wille zu erpressen.

Episode 295

Die Frau an der Straße

90 mins

Detective Flemming gets into deep trouble by giving a patient a ride home from a clinic. The woman claims she's being held captive at the clinic. When the woman's lover is murdered, the police officer knows exactly where to begin his investigation.

Episode 296

Geschlossene Akten

105 mins

Episode 297

Herrenboxer

90 mins

Episode 298

Ostwärts

90 mins

Episode 299

Der schwarze Engel

90 mins

Episode 300

...und die Musi spielt dazu

88 mins

Episode 301

Tod eines Polizisten

90 mins

Episode 302

Ein ehrenwertes Haus

89 mins

The musician Steiner is found dead in his bathtub in a middle-class, average apartment building in Dresden.

Episode 303

Eine mörderische Rolle

90 mins

Episode 304

Die Kampagne

90 mins

Episode 305

Endstation

86 mins

Episode 306

Mordnacht

85 mins

Art auctioneer Hall has no idea that he is setting the cat among the pigeons when he hires private detective Leo Fellner to observe his wife. Elli Hall used to be a dancer, but had to interrupt her career when she was expecting a child. She lived with her little daughter Angie at her sister Traudel's until she met Hall and they got married. The older man loves her passionately and at the same time fears losing the attractive young woman to someone else. This is exactly what happens when Elli Hall discovers that her husband has set the detective on her. Fellner takes a shine to her and she flirts with him; when the detective wants to return the job and Hall confesses that he has fallen in love with his wife, he kills him in a fit of rage. He hides the body in his magazine and later dumps it in the Main. The next day Elli tells her husband that she wants to leave him and move in with Fellner. Hall implores her in vain to stay with him. The next morning, Elli is found stabbed to death in a wooded area near a sex bar. Since she has her papers with her, she can be quickly identified. Inspector Brinkmann takes over the investigation. He learns from Hall that his wife had jewelry worth several 100,000 marks with her when she left him. Since the jewelry has disappeared, the first suspicion is that Elli was the victim of a robbery-murder; however, the way the unknown perpetrator mauled her speaks against it. The first clue points to the striptease bar Elli visited on the night of the murder.

Episode 307

Im Herzen Eiszeit

89 mins

Episode 308

Die schwarzen Bilder

90 mins

Episode 309

Bienzle und der Mord im Park

90 mins

A murderer is on the loose in Stuttgart, targeting those living on the outermost margins of society-the homeless and bums. While investigating the homeless, Bienzle witnesses another attempted murder of a bum, Anne. Together with his friend and colleague Horlacher, Bienzle manages to catch the suspected "bum murderer."

Episode 310

Tödliche Freundschaft

90 mins

Episode 311

Rückfällig

88 mins

Episode 312

Falsches Alibi

95 mins

In the tranquil town of Freiberg, the body of car thief Kemper is found shot dead in a parking lot. Inspector Ehrlicher's son becomes a suspect.

Episode 313

Tod eines Auktionators

90 mins

Episode 314

Mordauftrag

90 mins

Episode 315

Bienzle und die Feuerwand

90 mins

Bienzle is dealing with a murder in connection with the machinations of a sect.

Episode 316

Herz-As

85 mins

Der totgeglaubte Brandstätt kehrt aus Neukaledonien in seine Heimatstadt Düsseldorf zurück. Als kurz nach seiner Ankunft sein früherer Geschäftspartner Martens ermordet wird, setzt sich Kommissar Flemming auf Brandstätts Spur.

Episode 317

Die Freundin

90 mins

Episode 318

Der König kehrt zurück

85 mins

Episode 319

Bomben für Ehrlicher

90 mins

Episode 320

Eine todsichere Falle

89 mins

Episode 321

Blutiger Asphalt

90 mins

Episode 322

Frau Bu lacht

90 mins

The Munich investigators Kommissare Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger determine in the milieu of marriage trade with Thai women and child abuse.

Episode 323

Der Spezialist

90 mins

Episode 324

Heilig Blut

90 mins

In the Holy Blood monastery, the young nun Theresa is found dead at the foot of the bell tower by her fellow sisters.

Episode 325

Freitags Mörder

81 mins

Episode 326

Schneefieber

90 mins

Episode 327

Wer nicht schweigt, muß sterben

90 mins

Ein Raubmord erschüttert Dresden und ausgerechnet ein alter Freund von Kommissar Ehrlicher, der heruntergekommene Journalist Paul Winter, steht unter Tatverdacht.

Episode 328

Tod auf Neuwerk

90 mins

Episode 329

Bei Auftritt Mord

90 mins

Episode 330

Das Mädchen mit der Puppe

90 mins

Episode 331

Fetischzauber

90 mins

Episode 332

Die Abrechnung

88 mins

Episode 333

Kolportage

90 mins

Episode 334

Lockvögel

90 mins

The investigators have to prove the innocence of a colleague who shot a man while working as an undercover agent in the right-wing extremist milieu.

Episode 335

Tod im Jaguar

90 mins

Episode 336

Frankfurt - Miami

90 mins

Episode 337

Aida

90 mins

Episode 338

Mein ist die Rache

90 mins

Episode 339

Der Phoenix-Deal

86 mins

The mysterious case revolves around a small amulet that lead the unequal partners Ernst Roiter and Michael Zorowski from the Berlin-Mitte homicide squad on the trail of a dark past this time. The guest of a TV talk show has been murdered, who obviously had a great preference for Asian art. Illustrations of a jewellery amulet in shape of a phoenix appear several times.

Episode 340

Schlaflose Nächte

88 mins

Episode 341

Schattenwelt

89 mins

Episode 342

Bienzle und der Traum vom Glück

90 mins

Episode 343

Der kalte Tod

89 mins

He is the swarm of pathology: Professor Dr. Sorensky, a music lover and a fine spirit in a class of its own. His business is death, day by day. He dissects corpses, pinpointing the cause of death. The pathologist is a man of exquisite humor - and he is a murderer, skillful and cold-blooded. At least Chief Inspector Lena Odenthal is firmly convinced of it. Stella, Sorensky's lover, has disappeared without a trace. The evidence points to a bestial violent crime. Hendryk Dornbusch, Stella's friend, has since gone into hiding. He seems strongly suspect, especially since he was seen at the scene. Lena and Mario Kopper, their smart assistant, set out to find Hendryk and the dead Stella. And face a mysterious riddle: what happened to Stella's corpse? Meanwhile, Sorensky starts a strange game. He tries to get close to the beautiful inspector, gives her hidden clues, makes her his confidante. Lena apparently lets herself be taken into confidence. She gets to know an impressive, extremely cultivated and successful man who is by no means unemotional in his craft. "This is the place where death happily rushes to the aid of life" - is written in scholarly Latin on the board in the section room. That sounds like a bad joke and corresponds to the philosophy of life of an ambitious scientist for whom life in death finds one last fascinating confirmation. Lena cannot evade the pathologist's charisma. She realizes that she has to face him, his charm, but also the dark, dangerous, dark side of this existence. Sorensky is obsessed with the abyss over which he hovers. He flirts with his downfall. Lena knows that: And she doesn't avoid him anymore.

Episode 344

Buntes Wasser

90 mins

Episode 345

Parteifreunde

90 mins

Episode 346

Krokodilwächter

90 mins

Episode 347

Der Entscheider

90 mins

Episode 348

Perfect Mind: Im Labyrinth

90 mins

Episode 349

Die Reise in den Tod

90 mins

Ehrlicher's wife is killed in a bomb attack in Poland, which Ehrlicher and Kain want to solve.

Episode 350

Tod im All

83 mins

When a famous ufologist disappears, the police in Ludwigshafen do not seriously consider foul play - but then a mysterious phone caller claims he was murdered.

Episode 351

Akt in der Sonne

88 mins

Episode 352

Ausgespielt

90 mins

Episode 353

Eulenburg

90 mins

Episode 354

Brüder

88 mins

Episode 355

Die Kommissarin - Gefährliche Übertragung

90 mins

Episode 356

Liebe, Sex, Tod

90 mins

Things are heating up in Munich. A heat wave is hitting the city when a police officer with sexual fantasies is murdered. The trail leads to the sex scene.

Episode 357

Bierkrieg

90 mins

In einer Brauerei in Dresden wird ein Mitarbeiter in der Nacht erschossen.

Episode 358

Hahnenkampf

85 mins

Episode 359

Alptraum

90 mins

Episode 360

Morde ohne Leichen

89 mins

Episode 361

Mordsgeschäfte

90 mins

Episode 362

Das Totenspiel

89 mins

Episode 363

Mord hinterm Deich

90 mins

A body was found in water 4 months ago. Now a female student has been strangled. Do the two murders have something to do with each other?

Episode 364

Tödlicher Galopp

90 mins

After a horse race the horse and his rider, Agnes Demrau, are disqualified on suspicion of doping. A short time later she is found dead by the horse stalls. The coroner suspects poison as the cause of death.

Episode 365

Bienzle und der tiefe Sturz

86 mins

Episode 366

Der Tod spielt mit

90 mins

Episode 367

Schlüssel zum Mord

87 mins

Episode 368

Geld oder Leben

90 mins

Episode 369

Der Teufel

88 mins

Episode 370

Eiskalt

90 mins

Episode 371

Willkommen in Köln

90 mins

First episode of Tatort in Cologne since 1973. Max Ballauf, who worked in Duesseldorf and also as a DEA Agent in the USA, returns to Germany to partner up with Freddy Schenk. Schenk has been working in the Cologne Police for a long time and doesn't agree with Ballauf joining the team. Obviously they don't get off to a good start, but meanwhile have to solve a murder: The dead body of a former cop is found in the Rhein river. He had worked in the drugs unit and he and his team liked to torture their convicts. Is the murder someone who held a grudge against him?

Episode 372

Bombenstimmung

90 mins

A teacher recently acquitted of sexual molestation charges is killed by a bomb blast at his school. Then a second death rocks the campus

Episode 373

Nahkampf

85 mins

Episode 374

Undercover Camping

90 mins

Episode 375

Bluthunde

90 mins

Episode 376

In flagranti

90 mins

Episode 377

Russisches Roulette

84 mins

Episode 378

Rosen für Nadja

90 mins

Episode 379

In der Falle

90 mins

Episode 380

Jagdfieber

90 mins

Episode 381

Blick in den Abgrund

90 mins

Episode 382

Gefährliche Zeugin

90 mins

Episode 383

Manila

90 mins

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?

Episode 384

Brandwunden

90 mins

Episode 385

Am Ende der Welt

90 mins

Episode 386

Arme Püppi

90 mins

The actual case gets to the experienced Chief Inspectors Stoever and Brockmöller: in a wooded area, the corpse of a baby is found. It is the little daughter of the Moelders family. A few days after its birth, the infant had been kidnapped from the hospital. The kidnappers did not know that the child was born with a heart defect; without medical care the baby had no chance of survival.

Episode 387

Fürstenschüler

90 mins

At an elite school, an attractive student is found dead in the water. The inspectors from Dresden are investigating.

Episode 388

Bildersturm

90 mins

Episode 389

Schüsse auf der Autobahn

90 mins

Episode 390

Ein Hauch von Hollywood

85 mins

Episode 391

Tanz auf dem Hochseil

90 mins

Episode 392

Money! Money!

90 mins

Episode 393

Der zweite Mann

87 mins

Chief Inspector Ernst Roiter is madly in love. Melissa is the name of his chosen one and an eyewitness of an armed robbery. She was a customer in an exquisite Berlin jewelry store, when a thief robbed the store, shot the security guard and subsequently abducted her as a hostage.

Episode 394

Bienzle und der Champion

90 mins

Episode 395

Todesbote

87 mins

Episode 396

Voll ins Herz

90 mins

Episode 397

Gefallene Engel

90 mins

Episode 398

Streng geheimer Auftrag

90 mins

Episode 399

Engelchen flieg

90 mins

Episode 400

Schwarzer Advent

84 mins

Rainer Wenisch offers his ex-wife Kirstin money if she's willing to return to him for a weekend with their two children. Wenisch desperately wants to present a picture of a happy family to his father, who is visiting from Chile after many years. In a fit of rage, Wenisch kills Kirstin because she wants nothing more to do with him. Now, events spiral out of control.

Episode 401

Berliner Weiße

85 mins

Episode 402

Allein in der Falle

90 mins

Episode 403

Habgier

90 mins

Episode 404

Nie wieder Oper

90 mins

Episode 405

Der Heckenschütze

90 mins

Episode 406

Restrisiko

90 mins

It's Carnival time in Cologne and Max and Freddy visit a club one evening when everyone is in costume and celebrating. The lead "dancing girl" leaves early and is found the next morning, strangled right outside the psychiatric hospital -- presenting no shortage of suspects. Cut to Ellen Strohmeier, attorney, posing for her client/lover, Harald Berger, who is impatiently sketching her. As the story develops, it turns out that Ellen met him during one of her routine visits to the psychiatric hospital, where Herbert Muh-Munn, a known serial killer, is held. The director of psychiatry at the hospital has a policy of allowing in-patients to leave for limited periods of time, although he cautions that there is always the danger of residual risk ("restrisiko"). Max and Freddy, not to mention many local residents, are naturally opposed to this policy and many locals meet to strategize against it. Because Ellen, in love with Berger, decides to leave her husband, Dr. Jurgen Strohmeier, he tries to convince her that Berger is an obvious wack-job and is no doubt the killer. In fact, Max and Freddy consider Berger and Muh-Munn to be the lead suspects, while their office assistant, Lissy, believes the estranged husband of the murder victim is the only possible suspect. Cowboyschusters, parades, papier-mâché heads, and crazy costumes fill the center of Cologne, making solving the case that much more difficult.

Episode 407

Starkbier

90 mins

Meindl, the marketing director of a brewery, is found dead in his car. The wife doubts it was an accident as her husband has been on the trail of irregularities within the brewery for some time.

Episode 408

Alp-Traum

90 mins

Episode 409

Mordfieber

90 mins

Episode 410

Der Tod fährt Achterbahn

90 mins

Episode 411

Kinder der Gewalt

90 mins

Episode 412

Blinde Kuriere

90 mins

Episode 413

Todesangst

90 mins

Fear of death.

Episode 414

Traumhaus

90 mins

The murder of a local journalist, who leads the inspectors on the trail of construction fraud, needs to be solved.

Episode 415

Absolute Diskretion

90 mins

Episode 416

Licht und Schatten

90 mins

The gynecologist, who had long been in the firing line of fanatical abortion opponents, is found murdered.

Episode 417

Dagoberts Enkel

90 mins

Episode 418

Auf dem Kriegspfad

85 mins

Episode 419

Bienzle und der Zuckerbäcker

86 mins

Episode 420

Der Duft des Geldes

90 mins

Episode 421

Strafstoss

90 mins

Episode 422

Drei Affen

90 mins

Keller, police officer at the Cologne Kripo, celebrates his exit from the drug investigation and his entry into the homicide department. Unfortunately, his future wife cannot be there, Monika, also a police officer. The next morning she is found dead in her neighborhood.

Episode 423

Das Glockenbachgeheimnis

90 mins

Episode 424

Kriegsspuren

90 mins

Episode 425

Die apokalyptischen Reiter

90 mins

Episode 426

Fluch des Bernsteinzimmers

90 mins

Duke George and his wife Anna were killed in their Jeep and found at the Elbe meadows. Suicide, according to the first diagnosis. Murder, says Klaus Ross, an acquaintance of the family, who discovered the bodies. An overdose of sedatives is detected at the autopsy. With the help of the servant Bob, the inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain quickly find them on the estate, which is was they were looking for to solve the case.

Episode 427

Bienzle und die blinde Wut

90 mins

Episode 428

Norbert

90 mins

Episode 429

Martinsfeuer

85 mins

Episode 430

Tödliches Labyrinth

85 mins

Episode 431

Offene Rechnung

90 mins

Open bill.

Episode 432

Einsatz in Leipzig

90 mins

Banks in Leipzig are attacked and robbed at regular intervals. The trio is so clever that it is reasonable to assume that they have an informant in the police force.

Episode 433

Blaues Blut

90 mins

The murder of a young television journalist poses a mystery for Stoever and Brockmöller. Did Anette Bille have to die because she wanted to sell a highly profitable show concept to the competition? Horst Bille, the deceased's husband and a partner in their company, comes under suspicion. Another hot lead leads to the highest social circles-the aristocracy.

Episode 434

Nach eigenen Gesetzen

90 mins

Episode 435

Der Millenniumsmörder

90 mins

Episode 436

Blüten aus Werder

90 mins

Episode 437

Bittere Mandeln

90 mins

Max and Freddy investigate the death-by-cyanide of a wealthy elderly man. With a wife living in Spain, and a mistress living in Cologne, he had at least two women who would profit by his death. Upon further investigation, Max and Freddy learn that the cyanide victim was responsible for a motorcycle accident which left the motorcyclist, a professional hockey player, paralyzed. The list of suspects continues to grow as they begin to suspect that a single source of cyanide is responsible for at least seven recent assisted suicides. If they discover the source, they may very well find the killer.

Episode 438

Viktualienmarkt

86 mins

A skeleton is discovered during construction work on a federal highway. Munich detectives Leitmayr and Batic are faced with the impossible task of determining the circumstances of his death based on the bones found. During their research, they stumble upon Munich's Viktualienmarkt.

Episode 439

Bienzle und der Mann im Dunkeln

90 mins

A young woman has been murdered in a villa in Stuttgart and her 16-year-old niece Sandra has been kidnapped. Bienzle is leading a special commission.

Episode 440

Kalte Herzen

90 mins

An American model is found murdered in her hotel room in Ludwigshaven, stabbed several times. Her husband Tom Soengen, a German actor with a promising career in Hollywood, has been supposedly far away; her affair, a Dutch photographer, has taken photographs of her dead body - did he commit the murder? While Kriminalhauptkommissarin Lena Odenthal collects evidence and suspects, an American police officer gets sent to investigate. Together with her assistant, they confront the other three: Max Tidof, his assistant Romano and his agent Frenzie. Was Max jealous? Why are the wedding rings engraved with "Oscar & Constance"? And what was the photographers role in this play? - As the story develops, secrets are revealed bit by bit, until the end...

Episode 441

Chaos

90 mins

Episode 442

Tödliches Verlangen

90 mins

Ehrlicher and Kain must search for a murderer in an emotional swamp of jealousy and greed. The body of the pretty Sabrina is fished out of a lake. The student was apparently beaten to death.

Episode 443

Der schwarze Ritter

85 mins

Louis Mercier, the popular leading man of the jousting games, is found dead behind the scenes of the pirate train.

Episode 444

Rattenlinie

90 mins

Episode 445

Von Bullen und Bären

90 mins

Hellmann and Ritter have to solve the murder of a taxi driver and a stock market journalist and get on the trail of accounting fraud and investment fraud.

Episode 446

Das letzte Rodeo

90 mins

Episode 447

Trittbrettfahrer

85 mins

Blackmail and murder, a gorgeous blonde, a sleazy private eye, and a brewery all feature in this well-done case for Max and Freddy.

Episode 448

Passion

90 mins

Episode 449

Direkt ins Herz

90 mins

Episode 450

Die Möwe

87 mins

Episode 451

Der Trippler

90 mins

Episode 452

Die kleine Zeugin

90 mins

After witnessing the murder of a banker, Tanja - a homeless girl - is protected by the police officer in charge.

Episode 453

Kleine Diebe

90 mins

Episode 454

Mord am Fluss

90 mins

Episode 455

Mauer des Schweigens

90 mins

Episode 456

Einmal täglich

90 mins

Episode 457

Der schwarze Skorpion

90 mins

Episode 458

Quartett in Leipzig

Sat, Feb 26, 200590 mins

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 colleagues Ehrlicher and Kain. The four have to solve two murders.

Episode 459

Bienzle und das Doppelspiel

88 mins

The journalist Fischer is working on an story about the trade unionist Damm. Shortly after she confronts him about it, she is murdered.

Episode 460

Die Frau im Zug

85 mins

As this episode ("Die Frau im Zug"/"The Lady on the Train") opens, Max and Freddy are in the process of arresting infamous gangster, Schwarz, known for human trafficking and drug smuggling. The tables turn quickly and Max finds himself held at gunpoint. Freddy saves the day, but there is hell for him to pay, chiefly coming from a glamorous blonde on his train as he attempts to escape to a rare getaway (by order of the Cologne Police Dept.'s psychologist). This may be the only episode to show Freddy in drag, so it is not to be missed. Lissy is no longer working for them, but her replacement, Franziska, wastes no time proving herself to be indispensable.

Episode 461

Tod vor Scharhörn

90 mins

Episode 462

Nichts mehr im Griff

90 mins

Episode 463

Mördergrube

90 mins

A student is shot on the campus of the Cologne law faculty. The two inspectors Ballauf and Schenk ask themselves: Was the victim Martha supposed to die or did she accidentally get into the line of fire?

Episode 464

Ein mörderisches Märchen

90 mins

Episode 465

Trübe Wasser

90 mins

Hahn returns to Leipzig. Here he grew up under the wing of his sports teacher Matzke. The next morning, Paul is found beaten to death on the banks of the Elster river.

Episode 466

Berliner Bärchen

90 mins

Episode 467

Unschuldig

90 mins

Episode 468

Der Präsident

90 mins

Episode 469

Bienzle und der heimliche Zeuge

90 mins

Episode 470

Gute Freunde

90 mins

Tobias and Frank were once friends. Their paths have diverged. Tobias became a media luminary as a talk show host. Frank is stranded. When his old friend appears on television, Frank revives. One evening, the drunk proudly shows a casual acquaintance Buchert's house. When the stranger mocks him, Frank strikes and kills him. The talk show host helps Frank remove the body from his property. Inspector Lena Odenthal investigates.

Episode 471

Totenmesse

90 mins

Leipzig. The old area of the trade fair ought to be built anew from ground. When his accountant is murdered, architect Frings seems to be prime suspect.

Episode 472

Kindstod

85 mins

When a 5-yr old girl with bruises all over her body is left unclaimed at the hospital's ER, Max & Freddie attempt to find the little girl's parents.

Episode 473

Der lange Arm des Zufalls

90 mins

Ein Räuber erschießt vor einer Bank den Fahrer eines Geldtransporters und flüchtet ohne seine Beute mit einem geklauten Wagen, in welchem sich ein kleines Mädchen befindet. Er stellt den Wagen ab, läßt das Mädchen frei und entkommt. Die Kommissare Ritter und Stark finden die Kleine und stellen erstaunt fest, daß der Vater des Mädchens derjenige war, der die 3 Millionen DM in der Bank bestellt hatte. Das kann doch kein Zufall sein! Der Vater (Jochen Horst), ein amerikanischer Pelzhändler steht kurz vor der Pleite und dem Ende seiner Ehe. Er beschließt, seine Tochter in die USA zu entführen. Mit seiner Frau hat er einen massiven Streit, er wirft sie aus der Wohnung. Am nächsten Morgen ist das Mädchen verschwunden und ihr Vater liegt mit eingeschlagenem Schädel im Flur. Die Mutter hatte den Räuber ausfindig gemacht (dank einer zufälligen Entdeckung des Mädchens) und diesen beauftragt, ihren Mann zu erschlagen. Nun glaubt sie, der Räuber habe ihre Tochter entführt und bietet ihm Lösegeld an. In Aussicht auf Geld sagt dieser nichtsahnend zu. So macht sich die Frau mit 30.000 DM zum Übergabeort, ebenso wie Stark und Ritter, die das Mädchen mittlerweile gefunden haben. Es kommt zur Tragödie.

Episode 474

Fette Krieger

90 mins

Episode 475

Böses Blut

90 mins

While Inspector Eisner is visiting his Innsbruck colleague Roxane, the housekeeper of the young pastor Santner is found murdered in the small Tyrolean village of Oberleis. Everything indicates that the woman was surprised by a burglar. But it soon becomes clear to the two detectives that it cannot be a simple robbery-murder.

Episode 476

Tot bist Du!

90 mins

Episode 477

Verhängnisvolle Begierde

90 mins

Episode 478

Du hast keine Chance

90 mins

Episode 479

Bienzle und der Todesschrei

90 mins

Episode 480

Havarie

90 mins

Episode 481

Zielscheibe

89 mins

Chief inspector Palu is battling desperately against the producers of a TV show that incites people to take the law into their own hands and track down a war criminal on the loose.

Episode 482

Kalte Wut

90 mins

Episode 483

Exil!

90 mins

Episode 484

Im freien Fall

90 mins

Episode 485

Eine unscheinbare Frau

89 mins

Episode 486

Hasard

85 mins

Episode 487

Bestien

88 mins

Ricky was raped and killed. Two people are therefore making serious allegations: Sarah ran away from the crime scene instead of helping her friend. Ricky's father thought the boxing match on TV was more important than picking up his daughter from the nightclub.

Episode 488

Gewaltfieber

90 mins

Episode 489

Und dahinter liegt New York

90 mins

Episode 490

Schrott und Totschlag

90 mins

Episode 491

Todesfahrt

85 mins

During a cycling race, racing driver Sebastian Zander falls from his bike for seemingly no reason and has to be taken to hospital unconscious.

Episode 492

Wolf im Schafspelz

83 mins

Episode 493

Schützlinge

86 mins

When the 3 teenagers break into a warehouse, they find the corpse of the manager there. Since the police are quickly at the scene of the crime, they manage to arrest Andy.

Episode 494

Bienzle und der Tag der Rache

85 mins

Bienzle is happy. Hannelore finally wants to live with him again. But the boxes haven't been unpacked yet when Bienzle's godmother Gerlinde shows up unannounced at the door with suitcases. She claims to have found a body upon arrival in the yard. Bienzle actually finds Mike Kuron beaten to death in front of the workshop. During an initial interrogation, Christian Kuron claims to have been with Susanne; they have an alibi. They keep quiet about the fact that they had already found the body before Bienzle. Susanne, who had just fought to break away from her husband, is threatened with a new dependency. Christian makes demands, and the more forcefully Susanne insists on keeping her distance, the more his behavior turns into blackmail.

Episode 495

Zahltag

90 mins

Episode 496

Lastrumer Mischung

90 mins

Episode 497

Tödliche Tagung

90 mins

Episode 498

Oskar

90 mins

Episode 499

Schlaraffenland

85 mins

Episode 500

Endspiel

90 mins

Episode 501

Der Passagier

90 mins

At the airport, Chief Inspector Jan Casstorff bids farewell to his son Daniel who goes on vacation. While he returns to the office, the unimaginable happens: Three criminals hijack the aircraft and stop it on the ground in the middle of the runway. The police immediately evacuate the airport and is putting together a crisis team. Senior Detective Müchler from the LKA leads the operation and immediately demands the experienced police psychologist Caroline Sever, so that they can continue negotiations with the kidnappers.

Episode 502

Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf

88 mins

Ballauf and Schenk must solve the death of an au pair who fell victim to a ritual killer.

Episode 503

Heiße Grüße aus Prag

88 mins

A famous musician from Prague is to give a concert in Leipzig. He is killed in the hotel.

Episode 504

Elvis lebt!

90 mins

Episode 505

Bienzle und der süße Tod

90 mins

Episode 506

Schatten

89 mins

Episode 507

Flashback

90 mins

Episode 508

Filmriss

90 mins

Episode 509

Verrat

90 mins

Episode 510

Totentanz

88 mins

Episode 511

Der dunkle Fleck

85 mins

Thiel's first case in the city of Münster. A body is found in a moor. The body appears to have been there for many years.

Episode 512

Undercover

90 mins

Episode 513

1000 Tode

85 mins

Episode 514

Rückspiel

87 mins

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.

Episode 515

Der Fremdwohner

90 mins

Episode 516

Alibi für Amelie

89 mins

Es geht um den Tod zweier High-Tech-Forscher und den Unfalltod eines Kommissars Palu bekannten Künstlers.

Episode 517

Fakten, Fakten...

87 mins

Jürgen Wilken is shot dead in front of Professor Dreiden's front door, a friend of Professor Boerne's.

Episode 518

Zartbitterschokolade

88 mins

Shortly after the psychologist and court expert Probst carries out confrontation therapy against fear of heights on the Grunewald Tower, he falls down from there himself.

Episode 519

Time-Out

86 mins

Episode 520

Reise ins Nichts

88 mins

Episode 521

Romeo und Julia

89 mins

Episode 522

Rotkäppchen

89 mins

The parts of an alleged woman's corpse in the container turn out to be a prosthesis. Less than half an hour later there is a dead person in the immediate vicinity.

Episode 523

Stiller Tod

86 mins

Episode 524

Die Liebe und ihr Preis

88 mins

Episode 525

Bienzle und der Tod im Teig

88 mins

Episode 526

Frauenmorde

90 mins

Episode 527

Mutterliebe

87 mins

Maria Wagner gives birth to a baby in secret and drops him off at the hospital. That night the baby is kidnapped and the nurse who picked him up is killed. After Maria's husband, Andreas, dies, Detectives Ballauf and Schenk realize that there is something strange about the Wagner family.

Episode 528

Schöner Sterben

87 mins

Episode 529

Hexentanz

89 mins

Episode 530

Der Prügelknabe

87 mins

Episode 531

Schattenlos

85 mins

Kommissar Schenk wird Zeuge eines ungewöhnlichen Banküberfalls. Heimlich alarmiert er Max Ballauf. Da eskaliert die Situation.

Episode 532

Außer Kontrolle

87 mins

Der Obdachlose Eddi wird ertrunken am Ufer aufgefunden. Der Rechtsmediziner stellt einen hohen Alkoholwert fest und schließt auf ein Ertrinken, möglicherweise auch Selbstmord.

Episode 533

Der schwarze Troll

89 mins

Episode 534

Harte Hunde

90 mins

Episode 535

Das Phantom

90 mins

Episode 536

Tödliche Souvenirs

90 mins

Episode 537

Rosenholz

89 mins

Episode 538

Bienzle und der Taximord

88 mins

A serial killer is on the loose in Stuttgart: he has already killed two taxi drivers. Bienzle is investigating.

Episode 539

Leyla

89 mins

Episode 540

Bermuda

88 mins

The female owner of a car repair and sales shop is killed. Clues lead to an orphanage with problem kids.

Episode 541

Mietsache

89 mins

Episode 542

Wenn Frauen Austern essen

87 mins

Episode 543

3 x schwarzer Kater

85 mins

Episode 544

Dschungelbrüder

88 mins

Episode 545

Sonne und Sturm

88 mins

Episode 546

Atlantis

88 mins

The manager Stefan Markowski was beaten to death on the grounds of the Atlantis amusement park. Strange excavations near the roller coaster and threatening letters indicate that the popular park was being blackmailed.

Episode 547

Die Liebe der Schlachter

90 mins

Episode 548

Im Visier

89 mins

Episode 549

Väter

90 mins

Detective Klaus Borowski, shown to use idiosyncratic methods, investigate crime while dealing with his ex-wife, the police psychologist, and his pre-teen daughter.

Episode 550

Der Schächter

90 mins

Episode 551

Sag nichts

90 mins

Episode 552

Das Böse

89 mins

Ein Mann wird von der U-Bahn überrollt und tödlich verletzt. War es ein Unfall, Selbstmord oder gar ein Mord? Frau Baum, einzige Zeugin, die direkt neben dem Opfer stand, ist überzeugt: Der Mann wurde gestoßen. Doch die Frau steht völlig unter Schock und kann sich an Details nicht erinnern. Ein weiterer Zeuge meldet sich - Petzold, ein gediegener Banker. Aber es stellt sich schnell heraus, dass er mehr Interesse an der Kommissarin Charlotte Sänger hat, als wirklich etwas zur Aufklärung des Falls beitragen zu können. Amtsleiter Fromm ist davon nicht sehr erbaut. Einzig Dellwo schaut sich Petzold genauer an und stößt dabei auf Unstimmigkeiten. Doch Sänger ist dem Bösen schon zu nahe gekommen.

Episode 553

Veras Waffen

89 mins

Episode 554

Eine ehrliche Haut

90 mins

Episode 555

Bitteres Brot

90 mins

Episode 556

Todesbande

90 mins

Episode 557

Waidmanns Heil

90 mins

Episode 558

Große Liebe

90 mins

During a robbery of an armored car, a passenger is shot dead. The driver, Hannes Buck, manages to escape with some of the money, while the robbers disappear with the remaining loot. During the investigation, Inspector Odenthal recognizes Buck as an old childhood friend. While she is convinced of his innocence, Kopper's investigations point to Buck's involvement in the robbery.

Episode 559

Heimspiel

90 mins

Episode 560

Tod unter der Orgel

90 mins

Episode 561

Schichtwechsel

90 mins

Borowski suspects that the death of a public works official could have been related to his refusal to support a plan for layoffs at the shipyard.

Episode 562

Abschaum

90 mins

Episode 563

Hundeleben

90 mins

Episode 564

Janus

90 mins

Episode 565

Mörderspiele

90 mins

A female body in bags has been found at Aassee. Just like 50 years before. But the prosecutor denies any connection to the murder of Rohrbach in 1950's. It was an embarrassing trial; shoddy police work, wrongful conviction and a murderer on the loose. A student Laura Schott asks the police for help because she believes the body is her university lecturer Solveig Helmhövel. When the police interviews her husband, they get to know Solveig is on vacation. Still, there is reason to believe Solveig is missing at the hotel. The Ukrainian Dr. Oleg Buykov also contacts the police, telling them his wife is missing.

Episode 566

Sechs zum Essen

90 mins

Episode 567

Der vierte Mann

90 mins

When an art restorer is murdered petty criminal Harry is picked up and escapes when he realizes he is a suspect. Inspectors Till and Felix chase him but also follow other leads, though time and again Harry is implicated.

Episode 568

Abgezockt

90 mins

Episode 569

Odins Rache

85 mins

Two skinheads are murdered with a sniper rifle. As Max and Freddy begin to investigate, these seem to tie into revenge for a fire bomb from some years past. A pretty female Federal Agent becomes part of the investigation. But all may not be as it seems.

Episode 570

Gefährliches Schweigen

90 mins

Episode 571

Bienzle und der steinerne Gast

90 mins

Inspectors Bienzle and Gächter are summoned to the Stuttgart Opera. At the celebration following the premiere of a new play, the ENT doctor and close advisor to the ensemble, Dr. Arnulf Sontheim, was found stabbed to death. Bienzle is immediately greeted by artistic director Bartholdy, who cannot imagine who could have killed the beloved doctor. During the interrogation of those present, the first person to stand out is lighting technician Conrad Lechner, who has a criminal record for a violent offense.

Episode 572

Der Wächter der Quelle

87 mins

Seit langem spaltet die Nutzung einer Heilquelle die Einwohner des Dorfes Steinbach. Nun hat der Streit sein erstes Todesopfer gefordert.

Episode 573

Verraten und verkauft

90 mins

Max and Freddie attempt to solve the apparent hit-and-run death of a young man on a busy highway outside Cologne. Freddie goes undercover as a janitor at a local posh boarding school. The solution stems from occurrences that took place in the Nazi regime of WWII.

Episode 574

Stirb und werde

90 mins

Detective Borowski, while continuing to use his idiosyncratic approach, ignores his health issues, trashes his relationship with his daughter, expresses disdain for fellow officers, his methods are boorish yet he can still be charming at need while trying to solve several deaths he believes are related.

Episode 575

Herzversagen

90 mins

The Frankfurt crime scene commissioners Sänger and Dellwo are not only dealing with "heart failure", but with a puzzling series of murders.

Episode 576

Märchenwald

90 mins

Episode 577

Teufelskreis

90 mins

Episode 578

Nicht jugendfrei

90 mins

When a pharmacist is found stabbed, the Munich chief inspectors Batic and Leitmayr encounter strange inconsistencies. Chief Inspector Menzinger is ordered back from his well-deserved short vacation at his mountain hut.

Episode 579

Teufel im Leib

89 mins

Es geht um den Mord an einer Ärztin und Künstlerin. Ein Gynäkologe führt misslungene Schönheits-Operationen durch.

Episode 580

Verlorene Töchter

90 mins

Inspector Casstorff and his team are confronted with an unusual and terrifying case: Ronja, just 14, has been murdered, setting off an investigation that leads to Hamburg's socially disadvantaged areas. The suspects are as young as the victim: a clique of underage girls who have already made headlines for various acts of violence.

Episode 581

Abseits

90 mins

Kommissar Ehrlicher wird kurz vor seinem Urlaub zum neuen Fußballstadion in Leipzig gerufen. Die Managerin liegt tot in ihrem Büro.

Episode 582

Eine Leiche zu viel

90 mins

Episode 583

Vorstadtballade

90 mins

Episode 584

Bienzle und der Feuerteufel

90 mins

Episode 585

Die Spieler

90 mins

Lawyer Sobeke reports to Klara Blum in the homicide department. His wife has disappeared. A dead woman is found afterwards.

Episode 586

Dunkle Wege

90 mins

In the police academy, a student is beaten up by his classmates during an exercise. Minutes later he is found dead.

Episode 587

Ein Glücksgefühl

89 mins

Episode 588

Feuertaufe

90 mins

A murdered woman is found on an industrial site. The only clue leads inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain to the company Leipziger Immobilien Consulting.

Episode 589

Schürfwunden

90 mins

In a robbery on a money transporter, the driver is shot. The perpetrator can escape with the loot, his presumed accomplice has to be released due to lack of evidence.

Episode 590

Der Name der Orchidee

90 mins

Episode 591

Todesbrücke

90 mins

The insolvency administrator Francke had a fatal accident on the autobahn, his car was thrown with stones from a bridge. Coincidence?

Episode 592

Schattenhochzeit

90 mins

Borowski investigates the death of a night watchman and all leads point to a man who has vanished.

Episode 593

Letzte Zweifel

90 mins

Episode 594

Der Frauenflüsterer

88 mins

Episode 595

Wo ist Max Gravert?

88 mins

Episode 596

Am Abgrund

87 mins

Episode 597

Minenspiel

90 mins

While jogging in Cologne's city forest, entrepreneur Lars Fresinger stepped on a mine and bled to death. Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are not the only ones who suspect a terrorist motive. That's why the State Criminal Police Office and the State Security Service, headed by Eva Bertsch, are also getting involved in the investigation. The first clues to the crime are quickly found. Fresinger was a board member of the "Land statt Minen" (Land Instead of Mines) foundation, and his engineering company had extensive business ties to Africa.

Episode 598

Nur ein Spiel

90 mins

Episode 599

Die schlafende Schöne

90 mins

Episode 600

Scheherazade

90 mins

Manu storms into the police offices telling her friend has been murdered. Arriving back home with the police no corpse can be found.

Episode 601

Tiefer Fall

90 mins

Eight-year-old Tommy Beck is found dead in a forest. Ehrlicher and Kain initially think it is a sexual crime. However, this is not the case.

Episode 602

Todesengel

90 mins

Episode 603

Bienzle und der Sizilianer

90 mins

Episode 604

Der Teufel vom Berg

88 mins

Episode 605

Erfroren

83 mins

A figure skating judge is found murdered on the ice at a rink where he likes to observe up-and-coming skaters.

Episode 606

Ohne Beweise

87 mins

Episode 607

Requiem

90 mins

Episode 608

Borowski in der Unterwelt

90 mins

A Catholic priest confesses to grisly murders in which dismembered corpses were found in sewers, but his behavior leaves Borowski unconvinced.

Episode 609

Leerstand

88 mins

Episode 610

Leiden wie ein Tier

90 mins

Episode 611

Atemnot

90 mins

Episode 612

Freischwimmer

90 mins

Episode 613

Tod auf der Walz

90 mins

Batic und Leitmayr haben es mit dem Mord an zwei Handwerksburschen zu tun, die sich auf der Walz befanden. Sie müssen in ein Umfeld eintauchen, das ihnen fremd ist.

Episode 614

Rache-Engel

90 mins

The foundation's nationally renowned chairwoman, Vera Schneider, is honored for her commitment to the rehabilitation of young prisoners. A few hours later, the charity worker is dead - having fallen from a balcony. A robbery and murder, as evidenced by the evidence left by a burglar in the apartment. Inspector Max Paul, his colleague, and Ms. Braun are faced with five suspects.

Episode 615

Der doppelte Lott

90 mins

At a demonstration against the right-wing extremist mayoral candidate Frieder Lott, his double was stabbed to death. Was the attack aimed at Lott or his double, the cabaret artist Montell? Meanwhile, forensic pathologist Prof. Boerne has to defend himself against the accusation that he caused a car accident while under the influence of alcohol. As he is unable to investigate himself, his Cologne colleagues Schenk and Ballauf have to provide administrative assistance with forensic pathologist Dr. Roth.

Episode 616

Im Alleingang

90 mins

Episode 617

Schneetreiben

89 mins

January. One of the coldest-ever winters in Munich. After a snowstorm the young Stefanie Thaller is found half-naked and frozen to death on the edge of an industrial estate in the north of the city. Never before did Detective Superintendents Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic together with Detective Inspector Carlo Menzinger have to cope with such a lack of evidence in a murder case...

Episode 618

Das Lächeln der Madonna

90 mins

Episode 619

Sonnenfinsternis

90 mins

Der Fahrer der Leipziger Käserei Dettmer Ludwig Noack erhält in der Nacht einen Anruf und eilt in die Käserei. Am nächsten Morgen wird er tot aufgefunden.

Episode 620

Blutdiamanten

Fri, Mar 17, 200690 mins

Max and Freddy are assigned the homicide case of a protester who was killed while protesting a powerful merchant who'd enriched himself selling blood diamonds. The protester had recently been to the Congo where he'd documented the merchant's trafficking. Their case takes them to Antwerp ("the Diamond City") with fatal results.

Episode 621

Schwarzes Herz

90 mins

In the district of Stade, farmer Schatz's empty VW bus is found on the edge of a forest, partly covered in blood. His wife Simone has disappeared.

Episode 622

Das ewig Böse

90 mins

Young Helena Stettenkamp reveals under hypnosis that her late grandfather was murdered by poison. Another poison murder happens and Hauptkomissar Thiel and Professor Boerne investigate.

Episode 623

Unter Kontrolle

88 mins

Episode 624

Feuerkämpfer

90 mins

Episode 625

Pechmarie

86 mins

A diamond heist turned deadly causes Ballauf and Schenk to protect the sister of one of the outlaws.

Episode 626

Der schwedische Freund

90 mins

Episode 627

Sternenkinder

90 mins

A woman is found by her husband after she is attacked and has her almost-full-term baby cut out of her womb. The woman survives, but the search is on for the missing baby. Soon thereafter, a respected research doctor is found in his office, having been bludgeoned to death. Burowski needs to find out the connection, if any, between the two attacks. Meanwhile, Burowski's partner, Zainalow, is imprisoned based on deposits made to reputed terrorist organizations in Iran. Burowski needs to prove Zainalow's innocence and his trust in him.

Episode 628

Kunstfehler

90 mins

Episode 629

Revanche

90 mins

Episode 630

Außer Gefecht

90 mins

Episode 631

Tödliches Vertrauen

91 mins

Episode 632

Stille Tage

90 mins

Episode 633

Bienzle und der Tod in der Markthalle

90 mins

Episode 634

Blutschrift

89 mins

Mrs. Schlösser, a collector of antiquarian and occult books, is rich and dead. The investigators find color copies of the "Blood Writing" - a manuscript of inestimable value - near the body. A thousand years ago, a monk wrote it with his own blood.

Episode 635

Tod aus Afrika

89 mins

Episode 636

Gebrochene Herzen

90 mins

Episode 637

Schattenspiele

88 mins

Episode 638

Der Lippenstiftmörder

90 mins

Auf einem Kleinstadtbahnhof vor den Toren Ludwigshafens wird ein junges Mädchen tot aufgefunden.

Episode 639

Mann über Bord

88 mins

Returning from a trip to Sweden, Borowski is approached by the ship's first officer after the captain goes missing.

Episode 640

Pauline

90 mins

Young teenager Pauline has been found dead after a fire department party. Charlotte Lindholm investigates. Who is responsible for the girl's death?

Episode 641

Bienzle und der Tod im Weinberg

90 mins

Ein mysteriöser Sturz beim Leichenschmaus der verstorbenen Mutter. Der Stuttgarter Kommissar Bienzle muss den Tod des Industrieeinkäufers Dippon aufklären, der mit zahlreichen Menschen im Konflikt stand.

Episode 642

Nachtwanderer

90 mins

Episode 643

Aus der Traum...

89 mins

The new team must solve the murder of their colleague Kathi Schaller, who had sung as a Marilyn Monroe double at Deininger's birthday party just a few hours earlier.

Episode 644

Das letzte Rennen

87 mins

Episode 645

Liebe am Nachmittag

90 mins

Brüggmann is found shot dead. He had previously had a heated argument with his wife. She is visibly shocked when she learns of her husband's death. Ballauf and Schenk suspect that something is being kept from them.

Episode 646

Das zweite Gesicht

90 mins

Boerne and Thiel shiver in the cold winter because the heating in Boerne's house is broken. The cold also leads to a death. The homeless man Kalle is found frozen to death. It is the first case that Nadeshda is allowed to work on alone. She only notes that Kalle had no identification papers or anything else identifying him with him.

Episode 647

Liebe macht blind

90 mins

The lawyer Mohr is found beaten to death in his apartment. Although the murder weapon is known, there are no fingerprints on it and the apartment shows no signs of a break-in.

Episode 648

Das verlorene Kind

90 mins

Episode 649

Der Tag des Jägers

90 mins

Episode 650

Schlaflos in Weimar

88 mins

During a day release from the Leipzig Picture Museum, the prisoner Köster seizes his chance and escapes. The prison officer Peter Vosskamp is unable to stop the determined man from carrying out his plan, and during the escape things come to the worst: one of Vosskamp's colleagues dies.

Episode 651

Die Blume des Bösen

88 mins

When an article in a local newspaper praises Max Ballouf's excellent police work, he unexpectedly becomes the target of a psychopath.

Episode 652

Bienzle und die große Liebe

90 mins

Auf der Stuttgarter Großbaustelle der neuen Messe geschehen in einer Nacht drei Verbrechen.

Episode 653

Schwelbrand

89 mins

Episode 654

Roter Tod

87 mins

Lena Odenthal has to investigate the death of a female hospital doctor. Soon it becomes clear that it might not have been suicide, although it looks like it.

Episode 655

Das Ende des Schweigens

88 mins

Episode 656

Der Tote vom Straßenrand

90 mins

A man falls dead from his car in the middle of rush hour on a busy thoroughfare in Saarbrücken, causing a traffic jam.

Episode 657

Bienzle und sein schwerster Fall

88 mins

Episode 658

Liebeshunger

88 mins

Inspector Casstorff must solve the murder of a prostitute with whom he himself had an affair years ago.

Episode 659

Ruhe sanft

90 mins

Episode 660

Dornröschens Rache

90 mins

Richard Merten is found murdered in his Berlin apartment. The investigation leads detectives Ritter and Stark to the Brandenburg countryside. Merten's daughter Paula, his only surviving relative, wants to bury her father in her childhood village. Exactly 20 years earlier, Paula's mother Emma was murdered in a nearby wooded area there. The perpetrators were never caught.

Episode 661

Die Anwältin

90 mins

Attorney Corinna Becker represented Ludwig. Now she faces uncomfortable questions, as Ludwig was killed after his acquittal.

Episode 662

Engel der Nacht

90 mins

Episode 663

Das namenlose Mädchen

90 mins

The corpse of a young girl is found in Osnabrück. DCI Lindholm can identify her as Carol Stern at first. But soon it becomes clear that this is not her correct name. Dramatic developments evolve.

Episode 664

Der Finger

90 mins

Episode 665

Die dunkle Seite

90 mins

Episode 666

Familiensache

90 mins

Episode 667

Racheengel

90 mins

During the Leipzig Book Fair, the literary agent Ulrike Oppermann is found dead. Chief Inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain investigate that the murdered woman was the famous star author Mimi Blaise, whose true identity was not known to anyone. To find the murderer and lure them into a trap, the Policewoman Anna Stein slips into the role of the dead.

Episode 668

Investigativ

90 mins

Episode 669

Tödliche Habgier

90 mins

Episode 670

Sterben für die Erben

90 mins

Senior boss Karl Grimm is found dead in the lobby of his hotel. This prompts his adult children, Heike, Walter, and Pia, to start a war over the inheritance. Each of them directs suspicion toward their siblings and presents themselves in the best possible light. Inspector Lena Odenthal must overcome a wall of lies, intrigue, and suspicion-and cannot count on the help of her colleague Mario Kopper, who is busy working in the hotel kitchen.

Episode 671

Strahlende Zukunft

90 mins

Episode 672

Blutsbande

90 mins

Episode 673

Macht der Angst

90 mins

Mitten in Kiel wird Harmsen von einem Scharfschützen erschossen. Kommissar Borowski nimmt die Ermittlungen auf.

Episode 674

A gmahde Wiesn

87 mins

Episode 675

Nachtgeflüster

90 mins

Episode 676

Unter uns

90 mins

Episode 677

Der Traum von der Au

90 mins

Episode 678

Satisfaktion

90 mins

Episode 679

Die Falle

90 mins

A few days before Ehrlicher's retirement, he was called to a new housing development on the outskirts of Leipzig. A woman lies dead in her house. Rudolf Hahn, the friend of the dead woman who found her, claims that she hanged herself. Chief Inspector Ehrlicher doesn't believe it, because the interior of the house is badly damaged. In the dead woman's house there is a room that indicates that the young woman had offered sexual services in exchange for money. A little later, Hans Meier, the general building contractor for most of the new houses in the area, is also dead. While Frederike and her colleagues try to organize a farewell party for Ehrlicher, he and his colleague Kain investigate the connections between the suspect Rudolf Hahn and the building contractor Hans Meier. They search the companies of Meier, who also ran a brothel. Eva, Chief Inspector Kain's new girlfriend, also lives in this settlement, and she was even friends with the dead woman. Her house was also built by Meier's company. Ehrlicher realizes that Cain is in a conflict of loyalties. Can he still trust him? Your relationship will be seriously tested.

Episode 680

Bevor es dunkel wird

90 mins

Episode 681

Spätschicht

90 mins

The policeman 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?

Episode 682

Schleichendes Gift

88 mins

Episode 683

Kleine Herzen

89 mins

Episode 684

Wem Ehre gebührt

90 mins

Episode 685

Fettkiller

90 mins

Episode 686

Der Kormorankrieg

90 mins

The investigators have to solve the murder of an environmental activist and get caught up in a dispute between conservationists and the fishermen.

Episode 687

Verdammt

90 mins

Episode 688

Borowski und das Mädchen im Moor

90 mins

Ein Mädchen verschwindet spurlos aus einem Internat in der Nähe von Kiel. Die Leiche wird bald im Moor entdeckt.

Episode 689

Und tschüss

90 mins

Episode 690

Hart an der Grenze

90 mins

Episode 691

Tod einer Heuschrecke

90 mins

Episode 692

Seenot

90 mins

Flückiger from the maritime police and his young colleague Steiner, who are supposed to be working with Klara and Perlmann, suspect the shipyard owner Stähli, who has disappeared without a trace, of having been involved in drug smuggling. But then Stähli's body is found in the lake.

Episode 693

Erntedank e.V.

90 mins

Episode 694

Schatten der Angst

90 mins

Episode 695

Müll

90 mins

A woman's mutilated body is found in a landfill. Her body is charred, her head and hands severed. Ballauf and Schenk are puzzled. In search of the woman's identity, they track down a huge garbage scandal.

Episode 696

Der oide Depp

90 mins

Episode 697

Exitus

90 mins

A mysterious traffic accident in the snow, with five dead, leaves Commissioner Moritz Eisner puzzled.