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WaPo Berlin Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Goldmädchen
48 mins
The Olympian Dagmar Ehwald is found dead in the water on the Grünau rowing course. The 35-year-old athlete recently qualified for the Olympics in the rowing pair with her partner Juliane Spieker. But as soon as it came, it went: Dagmar Ewald subsequently tested positive for doping. Now she has apparently been beaten to death. Juliane Spieker protests her innocence, although her former teammate's doping disaster will most likely cost her her Olympic qualification, for which she trained hard. She has long since returned to training with a new partner. Dagmar's husband, Steffen Ehwald, a busy staff officer in the German army, directs suspicion towards Dagmar's trainer, Martin Lubitsch, who is also responsible for looking after the athletes. But was it really about doping or was it murder out of jealousy? Steffen Ehwald was rarely present as a husband, so Dagmar sought out Lubitsch's company. Or had he pretended to love her in order to plant doping substances on his "golden girl"? And what role does Dr. Sylvia Kronenberg, who was responsible for examining Dagmar's doping sample, play? Little by little, the investigations reveal a deadly mixture of old guilt, eternal gratitude and explosive anger.
Episode 2
Tanz in den Tod
48 mins
Selda Bektas, front woman of the successful Berlin breakdance crew "Berlin Beasts", is fished dead out of the Spree. Fahri is particularly upset by the girl's death, because he knew Selda. For years he has been training young people in his free time at the Berlin youth club Prisma, which is run by Fahri's best friend Tom Naber. Selda Bektas' death quickly turns out to be a homicide, and Fahri is biased. Against Wolf's advice, Jasmin decides to keep Fahri on the team. Nobody knows the kids better than he does. Especially since there is increasing evidence that there were fierce arguments within the "Berlin Beasts" before Selda's death. The breakdance crew, consisting of the four friends Mahmud, Christopher, Jenny and Selda, was in danger of falling apart. Was that why Selda had to die? The WaPo investigates that Selda threw in the towel shortly before her performance at an international dance talent show. She would rather start an apprenticeship than wait for her big break. Everything suggests that the impulsive Mahmud pushed Selda into the water during an argument. For him, it's about much more than a bit of success and money. It's about his life. The performance would have given him the legitimacy to stay in Germany legally. Or is it perhaps about much more, namely the future of a club in a perfect waterfront location? In the end, the WaPo reveals the secret of the girl's tragic death, and the solution to the case is bitter, and not just for Fahri.
Episode 3
Moses
48 mins
After a baby is found in a bathtub on the Wannsee, the Berlin police are alerted. The investigators quickly find out that it is Leo Heppendorf. The baby comes from a wealthy family. His grandfather Klaus owns a traditional Berlin stationery company. The kidnappers are demanding two million euros. But when the police team tries to catch the perpetrators, they don't show up. Are the kidnappers really after money? Or is Leo's father Johannes Brinkfeld behind the kidnapping? He and Leo's mother recently separated. Everything indicates that he wants to put her under pressure. It also turns out that the company is not doing as well financially as Klaus Heppendorf claims. The domineering company boss has also made some enemies by cutting jobs. Is the kidnapping an act of revenge by a former employee? In addition, Klaus Heppendorf repeatedly tries to undermine the WaPo investigations by contacting police chief Alexandra Falkenbach, who he knows privately. But then events take a turn for the worse and Fahri makes a serious mistake.
Episode 4
Ein fast perfekter Mann
48 mins
The police are called after a dead man is found in Stößensee. It is evidently a case of murder. The first clue leads the police team to young Clara Richter, who has a small child and is just about able to make ends meet with her canoe rental business. A DNA test identifies the dead man as her boyfriend Stefan Sibelius. But officially this person does not exist. What kind of life did this man have and who killed him? Thanks to Dr. Conrad's efforts, the police finally come across a second woman, Judith Baumann, who puts the dead man in a completely different light. Who was the dead man really? To get to the bottom of his secret, the police must unravel a thicket of lies, half-truths, false friendships and lost dreams. The closer Jasmin and her team get to the truth, the more the motive for the crime remains in the dark. But they finally manage to decipher the dead man's final secret: the man was too perfect to be true.
Episode 5
Das Krokodil im Badesee
48 mins
An extremely uninvited guest in the middle of the bathing season is the prelude to a crime that leads the investigators of the WaPo Berlin into the scene of owners and smugglers of exotic animals. The water crime police are simultaneously confronted with a very elegantly dressed male corpse with a snake bite in a wrecked cargo boat and an escaped crocodile. Presumably from the same boat. Is a lockdown now also looming for Berlin's outdoor pools? With the help of the manager of the reptile house Claudia Kessler and her assistant Anna, the WaPo investigates the machinations surrounding the illegal, exotic animal market, which not least attracts militant animal rights activists. A conversation with the landlady of the victim's regular bar, Gisela, draws the investigators' attention to the best friend. Even though Karsten Steiberger emphatically emphasizes that their primary concern is important breeding, it slowly becomes clear that illegal animal smuggling is a multi-million dollar business. The investigators quickly become entangled in a network of legal and illegal species protection, the effects of which Marlene experiences on her own body. A solo criminal investigation leads to an unintentional acquaintance with free-roaming poisonous snakes and tarantulas.
Episode 6
Preis des Glücks
48 mins
The Köpenick pharmacist Stephanie Lindner is shot at close range on her waterfront property - anything but an ordinary case, because Dr. Jan Conrad, forensic pathologist at the Berlin WaPo, hears the fatal shot from afar and finds the dead woman. The victim was his best friend. Why had she called him early in the morning shortly before her death and was so keen to meet him? Jan seems more than shocked, and her husband Markus, who is financially dependent on his wife, vehemently denies having anything to do with her death. And the case does indeed take an unusual turn: During their research into the dead woman's working environment, the investigators find evidence of irregularities in the manufacture of cancer drugs. In case of doubt, this is a clue of enormous proportions, as it would have devastating effects on patients. Oncologist Dr. Jana Wacker expresses the suspicion that the drugs may have been adulterated and thus less effective. Jan, who learns of the suspicion, is beside himself and threatens to jeopardize the investigation. Luckily, Jasmin manages to get through to him and convince him to trust her team. When the detectives follow the path of the medication, the trail leads to the father of a deceased cancer patient. In the end, Jasmin and her team come across a drama about love, dependency and the price of promised happiness.
Episode 7
Abgeschleppt
48 mins
A soaking wet, mud-covered car on the banks of the Havel. Has someone illegally disposed of scrap here? Hardly, because Wolf and Fahri find the driver in the car - dead. The situation is almost too strange for a traffic accident: Who would first ram a car, push it into the water - whereupon the driver, barkeeper Markus Rost, drowns - and then pull the vehicle and the body back onto land with a winch? The Berlin police are faced with a mystery. Markus' mother Elke, the resolute landlady of the "Rabenklause", describes her son as an angel personified. But thanks to a tip from Elke's friend Bülent, it soon turns out that Markus had a tendency to take drunk women home from the bar after his shift and shamelessly exploit their helplessness. In the course of the investigation, the police team finds out that Paula's old friend Isa was also a victim of Markus some time ago. He had kept her tied up in his apartment for days. Isa's boyfriend David Pietsch avenged the abuse of his girlfriend with a beating. Was that just the first warning? When the investigation reveals that Markus Rost had picked up another woman on the evening of his death, a race against time begins. Can the Berlin police find the unknown woman in time? And who is Markus Rost's murderer?
Episode 8
Laubenpieper
48 mins
Finally vacation. Together with Makoye, Wolf repairs the roof of his beloved summerhouse with a view of the Havel. But then the building contractor Oswald Renger is found dead in the water right in front of his allotment colony. Murdered, as Jasmin and her team quickly discover. Was he in the wrong place at the wrong time and was the victim of a junkie attack? At least he didn't seem to have had any enemies. Or did he? Wolf is horrified when it turns out that Oswald Renger had recently not only become the new owner of his allotment colony's land, but was planning to demolish parts of the big city paradise. Did the two friendly chairmen of the allotment colony, Lisa Franke and Ulrike Messmer, know about this? Would allotment gardeners go over dead bodies to save their weekend idyll? Or is everything there much less idyllic than it seems? After all, Ulrike Messmer's boyfriend disappeared in a strange way some time ago, and everyone in the colony has been whispering behind closed doors for a long time about the strange hill behind the clubhouse. Wolf is right in his objection that there is such a hill in every allotment colony; people's imaginations just tend to run wild. But why did Oswald Renger want to start building there of all places?