Der letzte Bulle - Episode Guide

Mick's first case takes him back into the past. Bruno Semmert, who was convicted of the robbery and murder of Tobias Berschel, is released after 15 years in prison and is found dead in Lake Baldeney. Jürgen Berschel, the father of the dead boy, quickly comes under suspicion. But Mick's gut feeling tells him to doubt the evidence. It appears that Mick's old boxing trainer Hacki not only kept him in the dark about important details of the crime, but also Jürgen Berschel.

Mick is confronted with the corpse of a man dressed in a Santa Claus costume. It quickly becomes apparent that the deceased is the father of two children who left his family months ago. Mick and his young colleague gradually learn that the deceased led a double life between two women and their children. But which of the women discovered his secret and killed him with the deadly poison of a poison dart frog?

During a somewhat unconventional management training session on the upper floor of a renowned bank, where paintball guns are used to combat burnout, a dead body ends the game. Three bank managers, all of whom have a big black mark on their white record that could cost them their jobs, come under suspicion. Did the dead man know about it? But the dominant leader of the training session and her delicate assistant also put Mick's instincts to the test...

When nurse Lea Buchwald is found strangled, Mick and Andreas are faced with a mystery. Did the young woman's passion for helping victims of domestic violence lead to her demise? During their investigation, the two come across the Schmückler couple. Kerstin Schmückler's husband is suspected of beating his wife and therefore also of having come into conflict with Lea. But the married chief physician of the clinic also comes under suspicion in the investigation...

Feng shui master Linus Nader is killed with a targeted blow from a Shaolin sword. Because Mick has no interest in gay marriage or Chinese interior design, he initially suspects Linus' husband and heir. But when the gay marriage turns out to be a sham, Mick has to significantly expand the circle of suspects. In addition, due to his current insomnia, he gets involved in Feng Shui and thus comes up with the solution to the case...

A body is recovered from the water. It is 32-year-old Jonas Breitkamp, the son of a businessman, who had reconnected with his blind father after 15 years of silence. When locating his cell phone, Mick and Andreas are led to the entrepreneur's assistant. But the mystery surrounding the true murderer is compounded by the ominous housekeeper Sylvia Hosak—deep abysses open up when it emerges that Jonas was only playing a perfidious role...

Mick and Andreas find a strange symbol in the villa of murdered porn producer Jäcki Pfeiffer. It leads them to the magazine "Lilith" from the 1980s, in which Jäcki was denounced as a macho pig. The editors, Gundi and Christine, are both suspects. Gundi because she wanted to prevent her 18-year-old daughter from being exposed as Jäcki's child, and Christine because she was in urgent need of money. But the trail leads to someone else...

The striker Maren from the Fortuna Rüttenscheid women's soccer club was murdered in the locker room. After Mick has recovered from the fact that women now play soccer too, he and Andreas question the suspects: the manager of the rival club, the husband of the deceased, teammate Julia, and the club doctor. Between jealousy, greed, and false friendship, the two finally uncover the decisive motive...

Gesa Jansen, a customer service representative at an extramarital affairs agency, was pushed out of an office window. The police suspect that she had trouble with a dissatisfied client. Jochen Franke, who had met with Gesa shortly before her death, wanted to complain to her because he was being blackmailed and suspected the perpetrator was someone at the agency. But the investigation takes a new turn when an attack is carried out on the agency's boss, Christine. Abysses open up...

Mick and Andreas bring the body of masseur Ben Ulrich to the Sun Valley Spa wellness center. At first, everything seems to point to a robbery-murder, but when Ben's lover Claudia Rühle is also poisoned, a jealousy drama becomes increasingly likely. In addition to Mick's difficulties in bringing men and wellness together, Andreas is fighting on a completely different front: he is trying to hide from Mick that he is in a relationship with his daughter Isabelle...

Mick's former classmate Thomas Ambach has been murdered. Apparently, his low blood pressure pills were switched. In addition to Ambach's ex-wife Anne Nehmert, his old buddy Jochen Kranerts also comes under suspicion. The investigation is made increasingly difficult by Mick and Andreas' conflict over Isabelle, Mick's daughter and Andreas' new girlfriend. But despite all the adversity, the two finally manage to identify the real culprit...

When teacher Julia is murdered at a cuddle party by a powerful anesthetic that the killer put in her nasal spray, Mick and Andreas find themselves confronted with a whole new kind of intimacy. Initial clues lead them to arrogant student Fynn-Erik, who gave free rein to his hateful fantasies about Julia on the internet. In addition, her married colleague Meyer, with whom she had an affair, is suspected—or was Julia murdered by his jealous wife?

Star chef Florian Reuter lies dead in the dining room. Mick and Andreas must navigate a complex family feud and deal with individual fates, such as that of Sophie Palmer, who was fired to make way for Reuter and has been unemployed ever since. But then the investigation takes a surprising turn and restaurant critic Wolfgang Barsch plays an important role in the case...

In rural Essen-Schuir, Klaus Wollert is shot from a horse at close range while dressed in full Western attire. Mick and Andreas' investigations lead them to the "Ruhr River Ranch," a Wild West club in the middle of the Ruhr region. After Mick befriends the club's founder, Tobias Henf, ‘Chief' Jürgen Tamm soon comes under suspicion. His "squaw" had an affair with the murder victim. But Markus Wollert also benefits from the death of his brother Klaus...

This time, Mick and Andreas have to solve the murder of Frank Terhoven, a young stripper. Their first lead takes the investigators to Rene, an older colleague and friend of Frank's. Rene had an argument with Frank during a performance the night before. His motive could have been jealousy. The strip club's manager, Beate Kampmann, had taken away Rene's position as lead dancer and given it to Frank. Was he simply unwilling to accept this?

After the sausage-grilling competition at the "Südsee" campsite, there is no winner, but one dead person: groundskeeper Harry is found murdered in his office—with the competition's winner's trophy, of all things. Mick and Andreas investigate in one of the last refuges for dropouts. But even here, not everything is as it seems: Harry's grieving widow Rita has had a lover for some time, and he would do almost anything to make Rita free for him...

A murder case leads Mick into the world of modern treasure hunting. Moritz Weber, founder of a geocaching club in Essen, is found dead in the woods next to his "treasure," a small Tupperware container—mysterious coordinates on his arm, a tiny plastic toy figure in his esophagus. The trail obviously leads to the "Treasure Hunters" and their members. The investigators have no choice but to go treasure hunting themselves...

The body of Silke Hansen is found in a wooded area. She had been attending a weekend seminar run by couples coach Bernd Neumeister with her husband Erik and their 17-year-old son Rasmus. Mick is completely confused when he and Andreas suddenly encounter his therapist Tanja at Neumeister's villa: she is leading the seminar together with Neumeister and is blaming herself for perhaps having overlooked something crucial about the Hansen family...

The "Naked Tankers of Huttrop" are a group of motorists who are protesting against constantly rising gasoline prices by filling up their tanks naked. The protest is well received by the public, but less so by the oil companies.

Velina, a "fortune teller and spiritual healer," is dead. Mick and Andreas quickly identify a suspect. Heinz Schäfer's wife Bettina cannot have children and paid Velina 50,000 euros for aura healing—without her stingy husband's knowledge.

Herbert Kupp is found dead in the church of the parish of St. Betram. During the investigation, Mick meets his old friend Bodo Romanski again after almost 20 years and is astonished: Bodo, formerly a petty criminal, is now the parish priest. However, the joy of their reunion is quickly dampened when Herbert's widow, Anneliese Kupp, draws the investigators' attention to a dispute between her husband and Bodo...

Tabloid journalist Ramona Landau is found murdered in the editorial office of the "Essener Abendkurier." There are a number of suspects, but there is no trace of the murder weapon. During the investigation, it turns out that the location where the body was found was apparently not the scene of the crime. In addition to the complicated case, Mick also has to deal with Tanja: she is relying on acquaintances from the internet in her search for a partner – too dangerous, Mick thinks.

Organic farmer Jacob Hoffmann is found dead in the cutting mechanism of a combine harvester. The only witness is the victim's girlfriend, Silke Reiss. However, she claims not to remember anything. Andreas doesn't believe her. On the contrary, he considers her a prime suspect. Mick feels completely differently: he likes Silke and feels reminded of his own story. But the fact is, there is something wrong with Silke—Mick will have to realize that at some point...

When kindergarten teacher Felix suddenly falls dead from his bike on his way home from work, Mick and Andreas know that something is wrong. They are convinced that it is murder when a high dose of painkillers is found in Felix's thermos flask. During their investigation at the "Ronald Reagan" daycare center, which is run by a German-American couple, they discover that there are some irregularities there. Did Felix want to draw attention to this?

Lorenz Silber is seriously injured in a traffic accident. Investigators find a female corpse in the trunk of his car. Mick and Andreas are unable to learn her identity from the banker, who is in a coma. In the course of their investigation, Mick and Andreas come across the travel agency "Voyage de Luxe." The owner not only arranges luxury trips, but also finds partners for her clients. The dead woman was a good customer and turns out to be one of the richest women in Essen...

Günther Kowalski is shot dead in his armchair at home. Investigators discover that Kowalski was apparently involved in the kidnapping of his former boss, Alfred Wannstedt. Wannstedt ruthlessly laid off employees to boost his own bonus, including Günther Kowalski. When Wannstedt reveals that there was a second kidnapper, Mick and Andreas suspect that this person could also be Günther Kowalski's murderer.

Mathias Herz is found beaten to death. Small glass shards in his head wound are puzzling. The victim's wife, Lara Herz, is shocked by her husband's death. According to her statement, he had no enemies. However, he and his childhood friend Karsten Wollmer had apparently recently had an argument about the financial direction of their jointly operated climbing park. But is that really the motive for the murder? At the same time, a completely different lead emerges...

Fiona Mehring is found dead in a beach bar—she has been poisoned. The first clue leads Mick and Andreas to the Essen branch of a corporate group that helps companies throughout Germany get rid of unwanted employees. The unscrupulous manager Rasmus Schweizer runs this company, where Fiona not only made a career for herself in a short time, but also apparently made some enemies...

Bestselling author Anja Friedrich is found dead—cause of death: poison! The first suspects are revealed by her extraordinary private life, as Anja Friedrich lived with not one, but two men. The author had written about this threesome relationship in a book. In her bestseller "Monogamy – a thing of the past?", she shared her insights into the joys of love as a threesome. For Mick, it's clear: it was one of her partners. But there are other suspects...

Markus Rietz finds his wife Monika beaten to death in their home. For him, this is the second stroke of fate within a short period of time: just a few days earlier, his wife had been in a car accident in which their daughter Paula was seriously injured and is now in the hospital waiting for a new liver. At first, everything points to a robbery-murder, but then it turns out that the break-in was only staged. Markus Rietz increasingly becomes the focus of the investigation...

The unassuming librarian Karin Hentschel has been murdered. Mick and Andreas investigate and uncover her surprising secret: she was a sex addict! She had been trying to get her addiction under control in a support group. Mick has to learn a lot about "nymphomania" and "Don Juanism" and quickly realizes that everyone in the support group has something to hide. Mick's investigation focuses in particular on the attractive leader of the group.

Dietmar Kuhlmann, Andreas' fencing coach from his youth, has been murdered. Not only is the victim's widow, who also knew Andreas as a young boy, mourning his death, but so is Daniel Wesselburg. As the victim's favorite student, the 29-year-old is now on the verge of achieving every athlete's dream: qualifying for the Olympic Games. However, Dietmar Kuhlmann did not only have friends in the fencing club, as Mick and Andreas discover during their investigations...

Mick's childhood idol Rudi Moos, German soccer legend and popular advertising figure, disappears without a trace from one minute to the next. Instead, his dead gardener Dragan Pali turns up. The Serbian was shot in the back with a revolver. Is Rudi Moos a fugitive murderer? The circumstances seem to point to this: the murder weapon belongs to him, and Rudi's enchanting young wife Mimi was having an affair with the well-built gardener....

Carola Seehagen, a course instructor at the adult education center in Essen, is found stabbed to death. Carola was the instructor of a beginner's course for illiterate people, which single mother Susi Zinsmeister was also attending. Mick and Andreas discover that Carola was dissatisfied with Susi's performance and therefore did not want to issue her a course certificate. This would have had disastrous consequences for Susi...

Things are looking grim for Mick and Andreas: a colleague from the criminal investigation department is brutally murdered—and Mick and the entire department are suspected of being involved. The Internal Affairs Division, which assigns two tough officers, Caroline Hillebrecht and Falk Schröter, to the case, has evidence that Jonas was corrupt. And because he was about to spill the beans, the officers assume that someone wanted to silence him—someone from the department!

A nude cleaner performs at a wild bachelorette party. But during the show, he suddenly collapses and dies. A poison attack! Mick and Andreas take up the investigation. The soon-to-be married couple has hired a wedding planner who immediately becomes Mick's sworn enemy and regularly interferes with the police work. Mick and Andreas have to deal with the overwhelmed bride, the nervous groom, and the dead man's stripping colleague...

A dead butcher named Schill lies in the forest. Meisner faces a problem: the dead man has been completely drained of blood, and the wound on his neck does not match any weapon. Initial suspects include both the estranged widow and Schill's partner, a militant animal rights activist. When, on the morning after the body is found, several Essen residents end up in the city's hospitals with sausage poisoning, the investigation immediately takes a different turn.

Schoolgirl Anja Cordt is found murdered in the foyer of Heinrich Heine High School. Shortly before, she had argued with her best friend Romy, but Romy insists she is innocent. However, she does have a motive: an embarrassing nude photo of Romy is circulating on the internet—and only Anja could have leaked it. Mick and Andreas battle their way through the seething rumor mill at the high school—no easy task, especially for Mick...

Former prisoner Sven Lohmeyer is murdered shortly after his release from prison. Ten years ago, he and his girlfriend Jana Pacht committed a robbery and shot 16-year-old Juliane Rothstein while fleeing. Silke Wieland, his new girlfriend, allegedly knew nothing about Sven's criminal past. Jana Pacht, who is still in prison, on the other hand, knows very well about Silke and would therefore have every motive to kill her ex-boyfriend...

Mick has quit the police force and lives in a cabin in the woods. His colleagues miss him, especially Andreas, who has to deal with Mick's nerdy successor. But Mick has no intention of returning; he is too disappointed in his former friends and colleagues. That changes when Andreas has to solve the murder of a taxi driver and discovers that the murder weapon is the same gun that shot Mick into a coma!

Three fully loaded delivery vehicles are stolen. During his investigation, detective Jan Schreck is killed: an unknown perpetrator drives a nine-centimeter nail into the private investigator's heart—using a pneumatic nail gun. The murder weapon is found on board one of the stolen vehicles, and the parcel thief and the private investigator's killer could be one and the same person. But is the cruel deed really the work of the merciful Ulrich Huberty?

One night, bachelor and bon vivant Sascha König is shot dead in a car repair shop. The first clue leads Mick and Andreas to Dr. Matthias Schatz's fertility clinic. But the chief physician claims innocence and ignorance. Sascha had been in frequent contact with the pretty Ina Richter lately. This did not escape the attention of his girlfriend Leonie... What she did not know, however, was that Ina is happily married—to a woman.

When an explosive device planted by a suspected sleeper terrorist detonates at a bus stop in a suburb of Essen, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) immediately arrives on the scene and takes command of Mick's precinct. This doesn't sit well with the last cop—he doesn't like being told what to do and also sees the case very differently from the pompous officials in Wiesbaden. Mick and Andreas begin to ask questions, irritating not only the assassin's friends and widow, but also the BKA.

After a scuffle with a local resident, Benno, a homeless man, falls to the ground in a playground on a quiet, small street and is dead. Thanks to Meisner, Mick and Andreas quickly discover that Benno was killed with rat poison and did not die from the fall. But who poisoned the homeless man?

Of all places, a long-sought-after serial arsonist tampers with Mick's car. The perpetrator turns out to be a minor girl: Julia Brinkmann. Mick and Andreas aren't responsible for arson—until they find a dead body in a burned-out car wreck. It's Greta Gerlach, the ex-wife of a construction magnate, at whose wedding Greta had drunk plenty of champagne and then taken a nap in her parked car.

Spending your final hours in a temple of love—for some, a wonderful idea. For tax inspector Martin Trabert, it's a nightmare. He doesn't die in the arms of a beautiful woman, but is roasted in a sauna. For Mick and Andreas, it's a delicate and tricky case: while the suspects prove to be innocent, the investigation takes a spicy turn when it emerges that a colleague from the police headquarters was also enjoying himself in the brothel on the night of the murder.

Mick and Andreas investigate at the Essen Police Academy, where they both trained—at different times, of course. Young police officer Silke Dresbach, who was determined to become the first woman in Essen's special task force, was murdered there. Did "conservative forces" at the academy want to prevent Silke from taking this career step? According to academy commander Thea Kiesling, Mick's assumption is completely absurd.

During a bank robbery in Essen, a young employee is shot and Mick's daughter Isa is taken hostage. Mick and Andreas rush to the scene. In a daring solo effort that naturally gets him into trouble, Mick manages to free Isa from the getaway car before the bank robber speeds away unrecognized. It turns out that the perpetrator knew Isa and that the robbery may have been just a diversionary tactic to kidnap her...

In a coal mine, 1,000 meters below ground, miner Horst Lubczeck has been found dead, killed violently. He was beaten to death and leaves behind a wife and daughter. At least the circle of possible perpetrators can be narrowed down considerably. But then Mick and Andreas make a discovery that gives them pause and causes a stir among the mine's workforce. A gold nugget is found in the pocket of Horst Lubczeck's miner's uniform! Gold in a coal mine?

Uschi wakes up in a strange apartment with no memory of what happened. Next to her lies her landlord, Wilhelm Inck, beaten to death in a huge pool of blood. Mick and Andreas have no choice but to arrest their old friend Uschi. While their colleagues believe in Uschi's innocence, an ambitious young prosecutor sees things differently: she was at the scene of the crime, fled from there, and owed the deceased a large amount of rent. A potential motive for murder...

Mick notices a young woman, Annika, sitting huddled and distraught in front of the police headquarters. She looks at Mick with tears in her eyes and claims to have killed her mother. Shortly afterwards, Mick and Andreas are in Annika's apartment. There is no sign of a body!

Carsten Wiechert is found dead in his apartment. He was thrown into a glass display case and suffered a broken neck. Mick and Andreas quickly discover that Wiechert always came home in the middle of the night, even though the inn where he worked closed its doors much earlier. It soon becomes clear that the respectable inn turns into an illegal casino at night, and the murder victim worked here as a croupier. But who had a motive for the crime?

After a botched operation, Mick is demoted and sent out onto the streets as a patrol officer. But Andreas is also having problems in his new job at the State Criminal Police Office. His colleagues don't accept him, and his boss Koller believes Andreas is trying to blackmail him. But Andreas has no idea what with. Then Mick finds Koller's body—apparently a suicide. Andreas is convinced that this death is related to the alleged blackmail. What secret did the boss have?

After the attempt on his life, Andreas wants to quit his job at the State Criminal Police Office. But Mick convinces him that he can only protect himself and his family if they solve Koller's death. During his unofficial investigations, Mick comes across a blackmail email involving millions of dollars and a major incident that took place in 2002. But who sent the email? And a file documenting precisely this period is missing from the archives...

At Klaus Koller's funeral, Mick finds no answers. Everyone avoids him. However, he notices that he is being watched. When he tries to confront the fleeing person, the man escapes in a car. But he has seen the car before—in front of his daughter Isa's house! Could she be involved in the case? After further investigation, it becomes clear that the case involves a long-ago coup and immense sums of money.

Mick gains access to a restricted LKA file containing a list of people who were involved in the big heist on New Year's Eve 2001/2002. There is a blacked-out name with seven letters on the list! It is now clear to Mick that the perpetrator must be from the police, the State Criminal Police Office, or the security company. Investigations at the security company reveal that his father worked there at the time. And the name Brisgau has seven letters...

Everything points to Mick having been involved in a serious crime. Apparently, he was not in a coma on New Year's Eve 2001/2002, but was involved in a strange incident involving the transport of millions of Deutschmarks. He himself cannot remember anything, and the hospital staff from that time are virtually untraceable. Normally, Mick would confide in Andreas, but their friendship is pretty much broken...

Now that Mick is suspected of murdering Bundesbank official Höthker, he flees to Monaco. There he wants to track down his father Erwin and question him about the events of New Year's Eve 2001/2002. However, Erwin initially refuses to cooperate and shows Mick his luxurious lifestyle. But then the cop stumbles upon the next hot lead. Meanwhile, back in Germany, Andreas fears for his career because he is allegedly working with Mick.

Mick finally learns from Ferchert and Meisner what actually happened on that fateful New Year's Eve and to what extent he was involved in the crime. Meanwhile, the situation becomes increasingly difficult for Andreas, as his partner Anja is also involved in the case and must somehow divert suspicion away from herself. With Görnemann's death, another person involved in the case is gone. Who will be next?

Mick finally finds out who is responsible for the blackmail and murders and can hardly believe it. Ultimately, he must face his toughest test yet: his adversary has kidnapped Astrid, who is pregnant, and threatens to kill her if Mick doesn't let him go. But Mick doesn't give up so easily. Will he survive this life-and-death duel?