Episode 1

S53 E01 • Saturday, Jan 1, 2022 • Jan 1 • 1h 30m

Greed and Fear

S53 E02 • Sunday, Jan 2, 2022 • Jan 2 • 1h 30m

The team investigate when the body of a man is found in the Dortmund harbor area.

The Devil's Long Breath

S53 E03 • Sunday, Jan 16, 2022 • Jan 16 • 1h 30m

Total Blackout: Upon waking up, Commissioner Thiel cannot for the life of him explain how he ended up in this hotel room. And what are Professor Boerne and that giant plush koala doing sitting on the edge of his bed? But things are about to get even worse: A body has been found in the woods nearby. The victim turns out to be Thiel’s former boss from his days with the Hamburg Homicide Squad—a man he hasn't seen in years. Or has he? Professor Boerne is fascinated by Thiel’s amnesia and joins him in the search for clues. (Text: ARD)

Episode 4

S53 E04 • Sunday, Jan 23, 2022 • Jan 23 • 1h 30m

Four years

S53 E05 • Sunday, Feb 6, 2022 • Feb 6 • 1h 30m

Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.

Sara's confession

S53 E06 • Sunday, Feb 13, 2022 • Feb 13 • 1h 30m

After four years in prison for the manslaughter of her father, Sara Manzer wants to look ahead. She has support for her new life - primarily from her friend Marlene, who takes her into her apartment. Sara, who has turned from a party girl into a reserved woman as a result of her imprisonment, wants to shake off memories and reorient herself. But then the police show up at her door. A former colleague was stabbed and old files of her case were found on him. She reluctantly admits that she spoke to Benno Rose before his death. He had new insights into her old case that should relieve her. Sara insists she had nothing to do with Rose's death. Which doesn't stop the inspectors from investigating.

Love me!

S53 E07 • Sunday, Feb 20, 2022 • Feb 20 • 1h 30m

Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago and a friend reported her missing. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest during preparations for an urn burial. An argument at the site distracts Faber: It's hard to miss the fact that Commissioner Bönisch and the KTU member Sebastian Haller are already having their private dispute on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is putting a strain on herself and her work doesn't leave Faber unmoved. Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: The gravesite was reserved here, a few days after Feline Wagner disappeared. It was paid for in cash by a man who gave a false name. Another murder victim is rescued, just a few steps away from the first. There was a year between the two murders - and soon twelve months have passed again...

Episode 8

S53 E08 • Sunday, Feb 27, 2022 • Feb 27 • 1h 30m

Prophet

S53 E09 • Sunday, Mar 6, 2022 • Mar 6 • 1h 30m

What begins as a completely "normal" murder investigation takes on ever wider ramifications: The shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found beaten to death in his apartment. But neither his cheerful bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes the dead man as a teenage crush, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers parallel amorous entanglements. And when the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution turns up in the shady characters Muster and Mann, things get absurd. Apparently Thiel and Boerne have stirred up a hornet's nest and even attracted the attention of an assassin. But how is it all connected? And what's the story with the little dog that loves eating bananas?

Episode 10

S53 E10 • Sunday, Mar 13, 2022 • Mar 13 • 1h 30m

Tyrannicide

S53 E11 • Sunday, Mar 20, 2022 • Mar 20 • 1h 30m

Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid the official celebrations of the state visit. Whatever the reason, Juan's disappearance puts the Bergsons, the teachers who run the school, in distress. The good reputation of the school is its most important asset. In the course of the investigations by Falke and Grosz, the boy's bodyguard comes under suspicion, especially when a blackmail letter appears: Juan's kidnappers are trying to free imprisoned opponents of the regime and journalists.

Episode 12

S53 E12 • Sunday, Mar 27, 2022 • Mar 27 • 1h 30m

Fair's Fair

S53 E13 • Sunday, Apr 3, 2022 • Apr 3 • 1h 30m

Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) are called to a crystal-clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who actually alerted the police himself and is waiting for the investigators at the crime scene—complete with the murder weapon, a motive, and a full confession. It appears to be a crime of passion—a cuckolded husband who simply snapped. Everything could have gone so "smoothly," were it not for the fact that the country's most cunning defense attorney had taken on the accused's case—and secured an acquittal. Shortly thereafter, the attorney himself ends up on the autopsy table—and the acquitted man vanishes without a trace. To top it all off, "Inkasso" Heinzi (Simon Schwarz)—an old acquaintance of Moritz and Bibi—shows up once again to put the pair's friendship to a grueling test.

Borowski and the Shadow of the Moon

S53 E14 • Sunday, Apr 10, 2022 • Apr 10 • 1h 30m

After an autumn storm, a skeletonized body is found under an uprooted oak tree. As Borowski suspects very quickly, it is the remains of his first friend Susanne. When Borowski was 16, he wanted to hitchhike Fehmarn with her for the legendary Jimi Hendrix appearance. After an argument, however, Susanne disappeared without a trace. Borowski had tried restlessly to clear up the disappearance. What was a grim assumption at the time is now suddenly bitter certainty when the forensic medicine Kroll unambiguously identifies the body. More resolutely than ever and without consultation with his colleagues, Borowski is pursuing the unexpected opportunity to face the perpetrator at the time after all these years. When Mila Sahin sees through this,she is shaken by the tragic fate of her colleague and initially covers him. But Borowski's constant going it alone finally forces her to involve her superior Schladitz.

Darkness

S53 E15 • Monday, Apr 18, 2022 • Apr 18 • 1h 30m

A young couple alerts the police in the middle of the night. The two discovered a woman's body in a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt. But when the chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arrive there, the body has disappeared.

Why

S53 E16 • Sunday, May 1, 2022 • May 1 • 1h 28m

The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.

Episode 17

S53 E17 • Sunday, May 8, 2022 • May 8 • 1h 30m

The Girl Who Goes Home Alone

S53 E18 • Sunday, May 22, 2022 • May 22 • 1h 30m

A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. However, contact with Julie puts Rubin in a dilemma, because from now on she has to keep Karow out of the investigation so as not to endanger the young woman. Karow investigates the identity of the dead man, but senses more and more that his colleague is hiding things from him. Trust has been a thorny issue between the two from the start, and Rubin's behavior hurts Karow - especially since they've also become closer privately. All the more the old problem breaks out again. In her latest case, will Nina Rubin be able to free Julie from the clutches of her crime family?

Love Frenzy

S53 E19 • Sunday, May 29, 2022 • May 29 • 1h 30m

At first glance, the Bremen inspectors Moormann and Selb are dealing with the suicide of a mentally ill person. After a house fire, the tenant's body is found in her hermetically sealed bedroom. [Harbor Crimes.]

Cold house

S53 E20 • Monday, Jun 6, 2022 • Jun 6 • 1h 30m

A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigation: the traces in the house were manipulated, the break-in was apparently faked - forensics finds older traces of blood... Neighbors and colleagues give different accounts, but there are indications that Fischer beat and terrorized his wife. Did he want to prevent her from leaving him, did he kill her and fake a kidnapping? Or did Kathrin Fischer secretly prepare the escape and stage the bloody act to incriminate her husband, because she can only be safe from him if he is in prison?

Living in the Shadows

S53 E21 • Sunday, Jun 12, 2022 • Jun 12 • 1h 30m

When Julia Grosz's friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator for the LKA, disappears without a trace, Grosz sets out to look for her. Under a false identity, she goes into the hedonistic, liberal milieu in which her friend seemed to have lost herself.

Episode 22

S53 E22 • Sunday, Jun 19, 2022 • Jun 19 • 1h 30m

Episode 23

S53 E23 • Sunday, Jun 26, 2022 • Jun 26 • 1h 30m

Episode 24

S53 E24 • Sunday, Sep 4, 2022 • Sep 4 • 1h 30m

Episode 25

S53 E25 • Sunday, Sep 11, 2022 • Sep 11 • 1h 30m

Episode 26

S53 E26 • Sunday, Sep 18, 2022 • Sep 18 • 1h 30m

Episode 27

S53 E27 • Sunday, Sep 25, 2022 • Sep 25 • 1h 30m

The Gates of Hell

S53 E28 • Sunday, Oct 2, 2022 • Oct 2 • 1h 30m

The death of a priest sends Moritz and Bibi into the world of exorcisms and the occult. [Vienna]

Episode 29

S53 E29 • Sunday, Oct 9, 2022 • Oct 9 • 1h 30m

Episode 30

S53 E30 • Sunday, Oct 16, 2022 • Oct 16 • 1h 30m

Episode 31

S53 E31 • Sunday, Oct 23, 2022 • Oct 23 • 1h 30m

The chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of the city. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, became a street prostitute because of her addiction. Her best friend, Kim, who is the same age, suspects that Lara was killed by a customer.

Episode 32

S53 E32 • Sunday, Nov 6, 2022 • Nov 6 • 1h 30m

Episode 33

S53 E33 • Sunday, Nov 13, 2022 • Nov 13 • 1h 30m

Episode 34

S53 E34 • Sunday, Nov 20, 2022 • Nov 20 • 1h 30m

Episode 35

S53 E35 • Sunday, Dec 18, 2022 • Dec 18 • 1h 30m

Episode 36

S53 E36 • Monday, Dec 26, 2022 • Dec 26 • 1h 30m