Retired cops / episode list
This episode list contains all episodes of the German crime series Rentnercops , sorted by the German first broadcast . The television series currently comprises 4 seasons with 56 episodes broadcast so far.
Overview
| Season | Number of episodes | First broadcast | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | ||
| 1 | 8th | March 31, 2015 | 19th May 2015 |
| 2 | 16 | November 16, 2016 | March 8, 2017 |
| 3 | 16 | 5th September 2018 | 2nd January 2019 |
| 4th | 16 | January 8, 2020 | April 22, 2020 |
season 1
The first season first aired from March 31, 2015 to May 19, 2015.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | Summary | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Long ago evaporated | The two retired detective chief inspectors Edwin Bremer and Günther Hoffmann are called back to active police service to solve an old case. At first they experience some shocks. First Commissioner candidate Hui Ko reveals to Edwin and Günther that they should work with computers and that their boss, Vicky Adam, is a lesbian . But she, too, is skeptical about the two of them and their old-fashioned investigation strategies, especially since they don't seem to be very strict about the rules. However, Günter and Edwin find out that the public prosecutor at the time had something to hide and that the manager of a brewery is not entirely innocent either. | March 31, 2015 | Lars Jessen | Sonja Schönemann |
| 2 | 2 | As long as you can still live dreams | A man is reported missing. Not from his wife Ellen, however, but first from his work colleague and then from his three friends. Edwin and Günther try to find the man - or his body. It seems strange to Edwin, Vicky Adam and Hui Ko that the wife wasn't the first to report her husband missing. Günther, on the other hand, is sure that she is innocent, which is mainly due to the fact that the woman is friends with his wife Heidrun. | April 7, 2015 | Lars Jessen | Sonja Schönemann |
| 3 | 3 | Miracles happen | The fiancée of the conservative politician Brunner is murdered. Among other things because he was drunk at the scene, all traces show that he is the murderer. Edwin and Günther cannot believe, however, that it was he who murdered the dead woman. In their investigation, they come across a paparazzo who knows more about the murdered woman than he initially admits, and Brunner's neighbor. | April 14, 2015 | Thorsten Näter | Sonja Schönemann |
| 4th | 4th | The Dice Game | After graduating from high school, the three high school graduates Thilo, Janneck and Gordon celebrate in a nightclub and also take all kinds of narcotics. The next morning, Thilo is found dead on a motorway slip road, Gordon is in intensive care after jumping off the Mühlheim bridge, and Janneck still seems to be on drugs. To find out what really happened that evening, Günther and Edwin have to go undercover to the nightclub where the three friends were partying. | April 21, 2015 | Lars Jessen | Sonja Schönemann |
| 5 | 5 | One is always the loser | A man is shot dead in the underground car park at the small theater. Police President Plocher and Chief Public Prosecutor Wagenknecht absolutely want to appear at the scene first and let the alleged perpetrator escape with all the evidence. Edwin and Günther are supposed to secretly clarify the case so that the press and all other employees do not notice anything. | April 28, 2015 | Thorsten Näter | Sonja Schönemann |
| 6th | 6th | Breathless through the night | Edwin and Günther are charged with guarding a witness. It seems strange to Vicky that you assign this task to the two and the safe house into which you take the witness is strange from the point of view of the situation. The three and Hui Ko suspect that something is wrong. | May 5, 2015 | Thorsten Näter | Peter Güde |
| 7th | 7th | Not a quiet minute | Erna Renner suffers a heart attack when she is broken into. Her husband believes she was murdered. However, the area where they live has been broken into several times recently. Strangely enough, nothing was ever stolen, rather the intruder always left half a blood sausage behind. Edwin and Günther suspect a connection. The other victims of the burglary, all of them either elderly married couples or single women, do not want the dead or each other to have known each other, but within a short period of time withdraw their reports against all unknowns at once. | May 12, 2015 | Thorsten Näter | Sonja Schönemann |
| 8th | 8th | The Country needs new men | Because his mother was kidnapped, a security company employee robbed his money truck in order to pay the ransom. Shortly afterwards he surrenders to the police and his mother also shows up again. The phantom images of the three perpetrators are strikingly similar. And what Edwin did with a friend of Heidrun's, the alternative practitioner Bärbel, who allegedly has a stalker, raises questions. Because the kidnapped woman is anything but happy that her son contacted the police. | 19th May 2015 | Thorsten Näter | Christoph Benkelmann |
season 2
The second season first aired from November 16, 2016 to March 8, 2017.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | Summary | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | June moon | A dead person is found shot dead in her home. Edwin and Günther wonder where the coroner Dr. Körfer stays, only to find out later, shocked, that he is also murdered in the woman's house. To solve the double murder they try to find out what the relationship between Körfer and the murdered woman was, with the result that he had an affair with her. Hui Ko therefore suspects the husband, but Vicky, Edwin and Günther do not believe that he was the culprit. | November 16, 2016 | Frauke Thielecke | Sonja Schönemann |
| 10 | 2 | Real friends | At a regular table one of seven regular table brothers is stabbed to death. When questioned, the other six are initially silent, but the next day they all admit to being the killer. During their investigation, Edwin and Günther find out that not only the regulars' table brothers have something to do with the murder, but also their wives. | 23rd November 2016 | Frauke Thielecke | Sonja Schönemann |
| 11 | 3 | Cloud 4 | Britta Zegers is found murdered on the banks of the Rhine. The dead woman met several men through the dating platform Meetpoint and arranged to have sex with them and always cheated on their steadfast friends with them. Her current friend doesn't want to have known about any of this and her Meetpoint acquaintances are not particularly helpful either, as they actually didn't even know the dead woman. | December 7, 2016 | Frauke Thielecke | Sonja Schönemann |
| 12 | 4th | The commissioner | While shopping with his wife on the weekend, Günther is kidnapped by the petty criminal Mirko Schulze and his brother. After being hit on the head, he forgot who he was. While Edwin, Vicky and Hui Ko and his worried wife Heidrun are looking for him at high pressure, he thinks he is a jewel thief who broke out of prison and the father of Mirkos and his brother. The two are also planning a robbery on a bank with their mother, Gerda Schulze. | December 14, 2016 | Frauke Thielecke | Christoph Benkelmann |
| 13 | 5 | As long as we're still alive | Edwin is actually not in the mood for his birthday. Instead of going to the party Heidrun has prepared, he and Günther celebrate in a billiards club. For his birthday he wishes to be at the crime scene sooner than Hui Ko. In fact, the owner of the club was stabbed to death while they were there. Now the question arises who the perpetrator is, because both the landlord, who would like to make better use of his property, the woman who inherits in abundance, and one of the pool players who was caught cheating by the victim at the World Cup, are suspect . | December 21, 2016 | Christoph Snow | Christoph Benkelmann |
| 14th | 6th | You never go so completely | Edwin and Günther have different opinions about the investigation into a dead couple that was found dead in a bed together. While Günther believes in a suicide, Edwin is sure that it was a murder that should only look like a suicide. The perpetrator is said to be one of the couple's two adult children. Hui also believes that the two were murdered, because the suicide note was written on the computer, not by hand. During their investigation, Edwin and Günther also find out that the man had dementia. According to the son, without his wife knowing about it. | December 28, 2016 | Frauke Thielecke | Christoph Benkelmann |
| 15th | 7th | Life separates us | A young hockey player dies of a heart attack in the hospital. His sister believes that he was murdered because he was actually very healthy and only there because of a broken arm. However, this injury is due to an accident that was commissioned. | 4th January 2017 | Christoph Snow | Sonja Schönemann |
| 16 | 8th | The sun rises again and again | The co-owner of an antique shop is killed. Edwin and Günther suspect his wife, who, however, can no longer remember anything. She herself does not rule out being the perpetrator either. The two detective chief inspectors circumvent several regulations, which annoyed Vicky, who is already annoyed by her wife, even more, so that they are even fired. | January 11, 2017 | Christoph Snow | Sonja Schönemann |
| 17th | 9 | In the car in front of me | Lately a man has tried to rape women in the forest several times. Vicky, Günther and Hui absolutely want to find and convict the man. But someone gets ahead of them, because the rapist is found stabbed to death by one of his victims and their husband in the forest. Probably one of his victims did this in self-defense. Meanwhile, Edwin, who is still not back on duty, is called by one of his old friends to a place where he allegedly hit a deer. There Edwin finds a knife that later turns out to be the murder weapon. | 18th January 2017 | Thomas Durchschlag , Michael Schneider | Sonja Schönemann |
| 18th | 10 | Goodnight friends | A dead man lies in the apartment of two students. According to them, he went home with them after a party the previous evening and ate there. The dead person is allegedly Connor, in his twenties and a medical student from the USA. Dr. Schmidt not only states that the man died of a heart attack, but also that he was at least ten years older than the students stated. In addition, there is no Connor in the exchange programs at the university. | January 25, 2017 | Thomas Durchschlag, Michael Schneider | Sonja Schönemann |
| 19th | 11 | freedom | On his 70th birthday, Achim Wagner and his son-in-law fall dead in their grilled meat. Vicky is convinced that this is a poison murder. The perpetrator is said to be one of the two women, they are vegetarians. Dr. Schmidt also finds out that Achim Wagner had cancer, so it could be a suicide. Furthermore, as Edwin and Günther found out, he had hired a private detective to watch his son-in-law. | 1st February 2017 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 20th | 12 | An honorable house | A representative is found dead in the park. Among other things, he had sold esoteric magnetic bracelets and food supplements. He traveled a lot to sell these and seldom visited his busy family. Edwin and Günther also find out that the dead man still had a second house and practically led a double life. | February 8, 2017 | Michael Schneider | Andreas Schmitz |
| 21st | 13 | Love player | In a bank robbery, the perpetrator is arrested relatively quickly, but he has no prey with him. While Edwin and Günther are interrogating the man, they are taken hostage by him. For some reason, the hostage taker is in a hurry. Meanwhile, Vicky and Hui try to find out things about him as quickly as possible and, above all, to find out who has the money. Both the bank branch manager and the perpetrator's ex-wife seem to have a secret and avoid Vicky's questions. | 15th February 2017 | Thomas punch | Peter Güde |
| 22nd | 14th | Kind of magic | A magic trick went wrong. Instead of disappearing from the box, the assistant of the magician Callisto was stabbed to death because someone manipulated the mechanism so that it could not get out. Callisto, who tries to suspect a competing sorcerer and archenemy, the "Great Maldini", to whom the murdered woman previously worked as an assistant. However, the statements of the two contradict each other. | 22nd February 2017 | Michael Schneider | Andreas Schmitz |
| 23 | 15th | From the concrete | Two probation officers are murdered. Teddy, a young man whom Edwin and Günther have known for a long time, is suspected, because he is the owner of the murder weapon, which also has his fingerprints on it. Also, one of the probation officers was his probation officer. Edwin and Günther cannot believe, however, that Teddy is a murderer, especially since his girlfriend Chantalle "Schanti" Neumann gives him an alibi and hire Hanno as his lawyer. | 1st March 2017 | Michael Schneider | Sonja Schönemann |
| 24 | 16 | Angel 07 | One woman claims that the young man who fell from a skyscraper behind her is her guardian angel. She also believes this is a murder. The investigation is made more difficult by the fact that Vicky's mind is constantly with her pregnant wife, Edwin is obviously not doing well and Hui is sure that it is suicide and that the witness is a madman. | March 8, 2017 | Michael Schneider | Sonja Schönemann |
season 3
The third season first aired from September 5, 2018 to January 2, 2019.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | Summary | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | 1 | Gone stupid | Edwin is still in the hospital after his heart attack and has apparently not yet woken up. So while Günther and Vicky interrogate the husband of a woman who was slain with a vase, Hui Ko has to take care of Edwin. There have also been several break-ins recently in the area where the victim and her husband live. After a while a second body is found of a homeless person - that of the man who committed the break-in. Edwin, who was just pretending to be still in a coma, and Dr. Schmidt and Hui Ko are secretly investigating parallel to Vicky and Günther. | 5th September 2018 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 26th | 2 | It's all right | Former drug addict Julius is stabbed to death. He is found in the courtyard of a drug counseling center where he volunteered. According to his brother, Julius had been clean for a few years, but drugs were found in his pocket, and his parents believe that a relapse cannot be ruled out. But also Dr. Schmidt can confirm the brother's statement. Vicky, Edwin, Günther and Hui are now asking themselves whether the dead man dealt with drugs that he might have gotten from his girlfriend, or whether he stole them from another teenager. | September 12, 2018 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 27 | 3 | On your marks | At the national youth games, the father who gave the starting shot is shot. Edwin, Günther, Vicky and Hui therefore interview his ex-wife, his daughter, their best friend and mother, as well as two other classmates of the two girls. Vicky finds out, however, that the shot was not aimed at the murdered person, but at someone who was right next to him. | 19th September 2018 | Michael Schneider | Sonja Schönemann |
| 28 | 4th | Good for justice | The women's rights activist Lisa is found murdered in a side street near Cologne Cathedral . Next to her is a sign saying “We are not fair game” and the logo of the group “FemResist” on it and the killer has written “DOCH” on her naked body. In any case, Plocher would like to keep the case as far away from the press as possible in order to avoid a feminism debate. From now on, the press conferences should be held by Hui Ko, because Günther, Edwin and Plocher themselves are not suitable because they are old men and Vicky is not because she is a lesbian. Under these difficult conditions, Edwin and Günther nevertheless find out that the murdered woman was already a member of various charity organizations - and always extremely extreme, and that she had a stalker. | 26th September 2018 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 29 | 5 | One shot, two hits | While having sex in a car, a couple is hit by a shot. The woman does not survive, the man goes to the hospital. Edwin and Günther learn from the woman's neighbor that the man who was shot is a callboy . Suspect are now his girlfriend, the man who was shot and another man who has threatened him several times. | October 10, 2018 | Michael Schneider | Andreas Schmitz |
| 30th | 6th | 1A mood | Because Edwin forgot to get the tickets for the upcoming police ball, Vicky, Günther, Hui and him are in a bad mood. That's why Plocher hires a mediator for the four who should fix this problem again. However, gradually several attacks are carried out on this mediator, which are supposed to kill him. Vicky, Edwin, Günther and Hui found out that he could not build a property in which two rival motorcycle clubs should have their headquarters and in which the members of both clubs have invested a lot of money. These biker clubs are the "Knightrider's" and the "Knight-Riders", whose dispute is actually only about the name. | 17th October 2018 | Michael Schneider | Andreas Schmitz |
| 31 | 7th | How to do it | When a doctor is murdered in a rehabilitation clinic, Edwin and Günther see the chance to investigate undercover there. They find out that he had an affair with the gardener's wife and was also in the same parachute club as the chief doctor. According to the results of Dr. Schmidt, the murdered man was poisoned. In addition, Edwin is actually entitled to a head physician treatment, but he is not treated by this. He only reacts evasively to Vickys and his questions. | October 24, 2018 | Thomas punch | Peter Güde |
| 32 | 8th | Banking secrecy | A bank clerk is found strangled in the trunk of an airport employee. He actually wanted to travel that day. The bank he was employed at does not want to give Vicky any information about what the dead man was working on and whether there are any problems in the bank. However, she learns that he did not take time off. Edwin, Günther and Hui get better information there. The brother of the bank clerk tells them that he has been to a dominatrix studio several times . There they smuggle Dr. Schmidt a. | October 31, 2018 | Michael Schneider | Peter Güde |
| 33 | 9 | Welcome to the chaos | There is absolute chaos at the new police station. Not only the furniture of Edwin's and Günther's former boss goes to the bulky waste, they also get cases for which they are actually not responsible. So they can have an accident with a break-in in a pet shop, because the woman who died in the car accident was bitten by one of the spiders. In addition, she was co-director of a bioengineering company. Attacks are or were also carried out on the other two owners. The co-leader of the dead reports that the three are threatened by a Bible group and therefore one of its members could be the perpetrator. Especially since they recently filed patents, including one that would allow DNA to be manipulated before conceiving a child so that there would be no hereditary diseases, for example. Edwin takes a critical view of this, since everything else could then be changed at will. | 7th November 2018 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 34 | 10 | It was not me | A goldsmith's shop is broken into. The perpetrators look suspiciously like Edwin and Günther and the owner also recognizes them again. However, the two assert that they have nothing to do with the matter. There are also other break-ins, in which the two are alleged to be the perpetrators. Edwin and Günther believe that someone is trying to take revenge on them and that I have faked the surveillance camera videos. However, neither Hui Ko nor the IT staff can determine this. | November 14, 2018 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 35 | 11 | Everything will be fine | A car is found in the forest with blood in it, but no body can be found anywhere. The owner of the car is Alexander Drack, who was reported missing by his girlfriend, who was fifteen years older than him. Edwin is certain that the man is dead or has run off abroad, because he and his partner want to get married soon. The missing man has also allegedly submitted a patent for a new app for his company. While a ransom note arrives at his parents, indicating a kidnapping, Vicky, Edwin, Günther and Hui find increasingly more strange things about the man's past. | November 21, 2018 | Thomas punch | Sonja Schönemann |
| 36 | 12 | Murder in the dark | Actually Vicky, Edwin, Günther and Hui were on their way to a training course that only Vicky really wanted to get away from her wife and child. Because of a breakdown in your car you have to stop at a forest hotel. During her stay there, the owner is stabbed to death. The only question is who the culprit is, because during the murder there was a power outage caused by a short circuit. Vicky and Hui question the guests, although Edwin and Günther should also help, but they leave with a borrowed company car. The murdered woman and her husband were briefly separated. During this time she was with the doctor from the next village. Furthermore, a former schoolmate, with whom the dead woman apparently had an argument twenty years ago, borrowed the weapon to untie a knot in her shoelace. Only the other two employees have no motive. | November 28, 2018 | Thomas punch | Peter Güde |
| 37 | 13 | A child disappears | Four-year-old Finn disappears in the zoo. However, nothing of him can be found in him and his immediate surroundings. Evaluating the videos on surveillance cameras also takes some time. To make matters worse, Günther is in the hospital in Bratislava because of a herniated disc and Vicky, Edwin and Hui have to investigate alone. Edwin suspects that the father kidnapped his son because he and the son's Swedish mother are separated and she wanted to move to Sweden with Finn in a few days, without her ex-husband knowing. Even the grandparents cannot explain where their grandson is, but suspect that his mother is behind his disappearance. However, she has an alibi. | 5th December 2018 | Patrick Winczewski | Julia Thürnagel |
| 38 | 14th | More pressure | The young football player Oskar is beaten on the way to training and comes to the hospital. This puts the prospect of a professional career in jeopardy. One of his team members, Leon, is also in the hospital. He was hit by a car the day before, even when he was on his way to training. The first thing Oskar's mother recommends is to ask the parents of the players who are moving up. | December 12, 2018 | Patrick Winczewski | Sonja Schönemann |
| 39 | 15th | All symbolism | Three members of Markus Messerschmitt's "Mackie Messers" gang are shot. During the autopsy, Dr. Schmidt on that all three have the same shark tooth tattoo, which was posthumously crossed with a knife. Shortly afterwards, almost all the other members of Meckie's gang volunteered to go into protective custody. During the investigation, Edwin and Vicky find out that Markus Messerschmitt allegedly drowned while swimming in his pool in his new apartment in Marienburg two years ago , which seems extremely strange to them. Messerschmitt's son, owner of numerous amusement arcades in Cologne, and his employees draw suspicion on Teddy. His friend Schanti Neumann cannot give him an alibi this time. Plocher, who helps with the investigation in Hoffmann's presence, and Edwin still don't believe that Teddy is a murderer. Edwin is also supposed to find out whether Hanno Günther's daughter is cheating on Tina. | 19th December 2018 | Patrick Winczewski | Sonja Schönemann |
| 40 | 16 | Who once lies | Andrea Torwart is found dead in her apartment with alcohol and numerous pills in her blood that triggered her death - and she also had botox in her stomach, which is deadly. So someone wanted to be absolutely sure. Her sister Melanie claims that Andrea was murdered by her husband. Although she was depressed, she wanted to part with him and fly to the Canary Islands with Melanie. Her husband cheated on her again and again. However, it could also be suicide. However, you cannot properly prove anything. In addition, the man immediately hired a lawyer, because Edwin was not quite there because he found out that Hanno is cheating on Tina with Chantalle "Schanti" Neumann. | 2nd January 2019 | Patrick Winczewski | Sonja Schönemann |
Season 4
The fourth season was broadcast on ARD from January 8th to April 22nd, 2020.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
Original title | Summary | First broadcast D | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 1 | Fossi | Christina Schneider, called "Fossi" is a former classmate of Vicky. She is found dead in a trailer, beaten to death and wrapped in foil. So it is certain that there will be one less for the upcoming 25 year graduation party. Miss Dr. Schmidt finds out that the dead woman also had HPV. At first they think that Fossi worked as a foreign language correspondent at the Sparkasse, but nobody there seems to know. Vicky, Edwin, Günther and Hui learn from Christina's neighbor that the dead woman worked as a prostitute. The caravan in which it was found is also extremely strange, because there is another caravan with exactly the same license number. It turns out that the sticker on the trailer Fossi was found in is a fake. Meanwhile, Vicky, also because of Christina's death, is torn as to whether she should go to the class reunion herself and therefore seeks advice from Hui, Edwin, her wife Greta and finally Dr. Schmidt. | January 8, 2020 | Dennis Satin | Peter Güde, Sonja Schönemann |
| 42 | 2 | The Agency | At the anniversary celebration of his doppelganger agency, the owner is murdered. Dr. Schmidt finds out that he was poisoned by a mushroom that is not inherently toxic unless it is mixed with alcohol. It was no secret in the agency that the murdered man had this mushroom growing in his allotment garden. The main suspects are "Marilyn", who absolutely wants to have a contract and does not constantly appear as Marilyn, "Dean Martin", who is also suspected to be connected to a series of burglaries, and the dead man's friend, with whom these two backers broke up previously. | January 15, 2020 | Dennis Satin | Andreas Schmitz |
| 43 | 3 | Old iron | Edwin and Günther are asked by Tina to look after the mother of an old school friend. This is because she lives in a retirement home, where a number of deaths have recently accumulated. Strangely enough, the dead always had a heart attack at around the same time, but apart from their age, no previous illnesses. In addition, Dr. Schmidt states that all three dead had a barbiturate in their blood, which is normally used for anesthesia, but mainly for euthanizing animals. In fact, some animals have also been found mutilated recently. In any case, not only the director of the nursing home would benefit from the death of the murdered, but also the relatives of those who are on the waiting list for the home. A nurse is also suspected because she would be able to access the barbiturate as a former anesthetist. | January 22, 2020 | Claudia Jüptner-Jonsdorf | Julia Thürnagel |
| 44 | 4th | Bad people don't have songs | In the morning, the choir director Ecki is found dead, sitting on a bench. The day before there was a choir rehearsal. Besides, he was just robbed. The thief can be arrested when he tries to pay with Ecki's debit card in a record shop. He is also suspected of robbery, but Edwin and Günther do not believe in it and thus do research in the private environment of the dead choir director, i.e. with his widow and also in the choir itself. They meet a private detective who was commissioned by Ecki to chase after his wife to spy because he believed she was not entirely true to him. The detective couldn't find anything, except for a strange purchase in an orthopedic store. However, Vicky got the idea that they are not looking for a man, but a woman. | January 29, 2020 | Patrick Winczewski | Peter Güde |
| 45 | 5 | Unsustainable in the long term | The body of a man who was severely electrocuted so severe that it couldn't be natural is found in a bike shed. Except for Dr. Schmidt, however, is not very fascinated by this cause of death. More and more clues point to the victim's current girlfriend, Nicole Braunsfeld. Also because Jens Katter was not known to his ex-girlfriends for loyalty in the past and none of them seems suspicious. However, Nicole also seems too stupid to kill, so it would have been too easy if she were the killer. But then Katter's purely platonic, long-time friend Mona appears, who gives the inspectors all kinds of possible evidence. | 5th February 2020 | Claudia Jüptner-Jonsdorf | Sonja Schönemann |
| 46 | 6th | Aliens | At first, it's not too strange that Laura Frebel is found suffocated in her bed, apart of course from the fact that she was murdered. However, Edwin and Vicky in particular become suspicious when the neighbors claim to have seen a UFO that night. Edwin and Günther find out that the victim was visiting a group of UFO observers for some time. When interviewing its members, they learn that there has apparently been contact with aliens in Cologne for several years - with aliens who do not shy away from murder. | February 12, 2020 | Dennis Satin | Sonja Schönemann |
| 47 | 7th | Be free at last | Günther, Edwin, Vicky and Hui have a new colleague. Hannah Gereg. Edwin in particular is not enthusiastic. But neither Vicky nor Plocher hired Ms. Gereg voluntarily. Only Hui doesn't seem to have anything against her at first. Ms. Gereg was also a pensioner and used to work for the police in the Sauerland. After a while, the five of them have a new case: A woman is found dead under a bridge and apparently did not jump voluntarily. Miss Dr. Schmidt finds drugs in the blood of the dead. In addition, some traces lead to a young man with whom the dead woman had a relationship. | 19th February 2020 | Patrick Winczewski | Sonja Schönemann |
| 48 | 8th | I'll kill you | Martin Turm is found slain in a garbage can in front of his garage. His former colleague Sascha Kesko, with whose wife the dead man had an affair, is suspect. Especially since Kesko Turm threatened to kill him before all other employees. However, he can no longer remember the night of the crime, although his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. | February 26, 2020 | Patrick Winczewski | Sonja Schönemann |
| 49 | 9 | Prepared for anything | In the forest a forester finds a dead man who under no circumstances can have died of natural causes. During their investigations, Günther and Edwin discover that the dead man was the head of a group of preppers . One of the participants in particular catches their eye because, strangely enough, he is also at the crime scene. | 4th March 2020 | Thomas punch | Peter Güde |
| 50 | 10 | No risk, no fun | The burglar, a young woman who, like Dr. Schmidt soon finds out she was pregnant. The death was triggered by the fact that she landed unfavorably on a trailer. There was also soap on the roof. Günther, Vicky, Hui and Plocher, who is working on the case because Edwin is sick in bed, the question arises as to whether the woman's death was just an accident, or whether someone was trying to kill her. In their investigation, the four also come across the three other members of the Parcours group of the dead, who do not get along with all members and there is also said to have been an argument with their boyfriend about the baby. | March 11, 2020 | Thomas punch | Julia Thürnagel |
| 51 | 11 | Wat fott it, it fott | In a stud, the head of the stud is found dead in a horse box, as well as the main suspect including the murder weapon. Vicky and Günther can not believe their eyes when they arrive at the crime scene, because the said main suspect is Plocher, who also has a motive, because his wife had an affair with the dead man. Vicky, Günther and Hui do not believe that Plocher would kill someone and try desperately to prove his innocence. | March 18, 2020 | Janis Rebecca Rattenni | Peter Güde |
| 52 | 12 | Rasputin | Vicky gets a promotion. Apart from the fact that she would then get a higher salary, she would also have more regular working hours and thus more time for her wife and son, but would then also have to give up the hunt for criminals. In fact, she has already made up her mind and is therefore doing everything in the investigation of her next case to track down the perpetrator. A man was shot who had repeatedly stolen valuable paintings and then sold them to art collectors. In the investigation, Vicky's focus is mainly on the chairman of a Cologne carnival club and the art collector “Rasputin”. They also receive information from the owner of a kiosk ( Hella von Sinnen ) across from the house of the head of the Carnival Association in Marienburg, information about what happened that night, the dead man was a taxi driver and drove a person to the house, came later but back again. Meanwhile, Vicky also consults with her wife Greta Adam and Günther about what to do about the chance of promotion. | March 25, 2020 | Janis Rebecca Rattenni | Lars Albaum, Peter Güde |
| 53 | 13 | Out of love | In revenge for robbing her of a lot of money, a woman runs full throttle over a man in his mid-sixties who was once a high school teacher. She says she met the man on a dating platform and wrote and phoned him and lent him money because he allegedly had money problems. After she lent him the money, he suddenly broke off contact. However, she never saw the man, she only met his son once. Vicky, Günther, Hui and Mrs. Gereg find out that the man who the woman took for "Gérard" was not who she thought he was and that someone with the picture of the deceased also has other profiles on him Dating platform and it was the women with whom he wrote and phoned, acted similarly as with the woman who ran over the dead high school teacher. In order to find out who is behind the scams, Heidrun logs on to the platform, even with a false identity. | April 1, 2020 | Janis Rebecca Rattenni | Julia Thürnagel |
| 54 | 14th | Messed up | While Heidrun and Günther are in a private concert by a famous violinist, a man is shot. He also found a suitcase with several million euros. The violinist's violin is also to be auctioned in a few days - in the auction house where the dead man worked. He also had an affair with his boss that was only wanted by her, which his girlfriend also knew about. | April 8, 2020 | Janis Rebecca Rattenni | Christoph Wortberg |
| 55 | 15th | Mr Ko vegan | Edwin is back on duty, if only in the office. A supplier for a vegan restaurant is deliberately run over. However, the question is by whom. To find out more, Hui Ko is supposed to wait undercover in the vegan restaurant. | April 15, 2020 | Thomas punch | Lars Albaum |
| 56 | 16 | The dear colleagues | The head of a pharmaceutical company is found strangled in her car. During their investigations, they discover that the deceased has not made many friends at work, because only her secretary seems to have liked her. One colleague in particular had something against her because he liked her job. She also drew the anger of a job applicant with whom she appears to have had an argument. This very applicant also claims to be transgender . The dead man's husband, from whom she was separated but not divorced, also wants to marry his girlfriend soon, although the death of his ex would come in handy. However, he does have an alibi. Hui Ko also has to rewrite all files in a gender-compliant manner, which only Plocher is enthusiastic about, who also thinks that Vicky should support this too, because she is a lesbian. | April 22, 2020 | Thomas punch | Julia Thürnagel |
Season 5
On April 1, 2020, ARD agreed to produce a fifth season with eight more new episodes.
Note: In response to a comment on the program's website, "Das Erste" announced that those responsible - after the unexpected death of Tilo Prückner , who plays Edwin Bremer - had to think about this first, and asked for another one little patience.
Web links
- Episode list in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- List of episodes at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ fernsehserien.de ARD extends numerous evening broadcasts
- ↑ Commentary on the broadcast by Andreas on July 16, 2020 at 9:18 a.m. July 16, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 .