Jenseits der Spree - Episode Guide

A dead man in the Spree. The man was drugged, beaten to death and thrown into the water. He had worked in a trucking company and found his love. Did he also meet his murderer here?

The young mother Nihal Alev is found dead in the Spree tunnel in Köpenick. A brutal murder: the woman was choked after she was dead. Who had such hatred for the victim?

On a remote site in Köpenick, a judge is found dead hanging from a bridge. The pathologist quickly rules out a suicide. Investigations revealed that the site was not the scene of the crime and that the victim drowned. Freund and Heffler are not only looking for a murderer, but also for the reason why Thomas Eichler was pilloried after the murder.

Fabian Seifert lies dead in his Köpenick apartment. He had exploited a gray area in the law and legally distributed an LSD derivative. Was his business idea fatal to him?

Robert and his colleague Kay clash with his lawyer Rico Heilmann during the arrest of a young violent criminal. While Kay goes clubbing after work, Robert goes home to his daughters. He is woken up early in the morning: Kay was murdered that night. She was shot with her own service weapon in an abandoned backyard. Why did she have drugs with her? And why does the social worker Theresa think that Kay worked as a nurse? When Robert finds Kay a threatening message from the youth who was arrested the day before, he seems to lose control. His behavior means that department head Katharina has to temporarily suspend him from duty.

The truck driver Carsten Eggers is found shot to death in the driver's cab of his truck. Was he deliberately lured into the isolated forest by the perpetrator? Overshadowed by the death of his colleague Kay, Robert has to get involved with his new partner Mavi Neumann, who is assigned to him by his boss and secret affair Katharina to investigate the case. Together, Robert and Mavi find out that Eggers had been leading a complex double life with two families for over 18 years. On the one hand, Raja Eggers and their two daughters Dana and Melissa, on the other hand, Astrid Mankowitz and their son Finn. Did one of his two wives find out? During the course of the investigation, Carsten's best friend Hanno Richter is targeted by Robert and Mavi.

Nico Bajetzky, the operator of a scrap yard, is found shot to death in his car on the banks of the Spree. The act almost looks like an execution. The investigators are anything but welcome on the farm of the family business that specializes in electronics recycling. Is it just sadness, or does the widow Daniela Bajetzky have something to hide? Robert Heffler sneaks into the company undercover and learns a lot about the dynamics within the scrapyard family, about envy and resentment. Tom Bajetzky, Nico's brother, comes under suspicion; But Sandro Reichert, the boss of a competing company from Brandenburg, also seems to have questionable motives. Meanwhile, Stella is suspected of dealing weed at school. She remains stubbornly silent about the allegations.

Single mother Jasmin Leitner sits seemingly peacefully by a tree in a park. But appearances are deceptive: the 35-year-old is dead. She was strangled. Does the crime have anything to do with your integrative café? There, Jasmin hired young people who live on the streets. Your car being broken into near the crime scene speaks for this. Mavi and Robert have no idea that Jasmin's son Tommy is a friend of Robert's daughter Emmi, who is currently skipping school with him. The two teens are hanging out at Tommy's house when the two investigators show up. Robert has to inform Tommy about his mother's death.

Petra Berger is found dead at her dining room table - bound and gagged. In front of her are a pot of tea, a moldy sandwich and a withered apple. Inspectors Heffler and Neumann also discover that the house was pelted with paint bombs. The victim's hair is smeared with red paint. A ritual murder? Robert realizes that an example has been made here. But why?

Hannes Seidel lies dead in the shaft of a multi-storey car park. Camera images show a dispute between him and his 17-year-old niece Lilly – there has been no trace of her since then. The altercation between the two could be related to Lilly's previous shopping mall smoke attack, which she committed with two other people. Is her escape an admission of guilt? The investigators immediately issue a manhunt for the young environmental activist. When Heffler and Neumann visit Lilly's father in the thriving family business, the latter states that he has no idea of his daughter's whereabouts. The relationship between father and daughter seems to be very tense.
When it turns out that Lilly will inherit the small boat factory when she comes of age and wants to take over the management from her father, Jochen Seidel is targeted by the investigators. Did Lilly want to use her beloved Uncle Hannes, with whom she wanted to lead the company into a greener and more sustainable future? Jochen was strictly against it. Lilly could provide the answer, but she remains as if swallowed up by the face of the earth. In search of her, the tracks lead to an online platform - the "Nature Future Friends", where Lilly was active. Julia Bernhoff, who was present at the smoke attack, could provide information on this. She does not reveal who the third person was. The investigators should contact Mark Nowak, a lecturer at the university. But even he can't really help the investigators.
Meanwhile, Robert is struggling with his daughter Charlotta's new career aspirations, which is pushing him to his limits. The situation comes to a head when the results from forensic medicine are available. Hannes Seidel was still alive after the fall and was subsequently suffocated. Was Lilly really the perpetrator or did she witness the murder and is now in mortal danger herself? Heffler and Neumann suddenly recognize the game of power and manipulation and know who is pulling the strings.

After her shift, trainee Annabelle is pushed in front of a moving truck at a bus stop. She dies at the scene. Mavi breathes a sigh of relief because her mother does not have dementia after all. Meanwhile, Robert is worried about Emmi, who is admitted to the hospital where the murder victim worked with stomach pains. While Mavi asks around in the hospital, Robert speaks to Annabelle's flatmate Zoe and her boyfriend Tobias. In her room, Robert finds secretly taken photos of the victim and threatening letters addressed to her. Did someone want to scare her?

When 42-year-old Sina Priemke is beaten to death in a forest, the trail quickly leads to the university where she taught as a lecturer in computer science. Shortly before her death, Sina listened to secretly recorded, obscene audio recordings between her superior, Professor Brenneisen, and a certain Melanie. This is why the professor is immediately targeted by investigators. As it turns out, all the students and Professor Brenneisen received these audio recordings at the same time. From whom? And who is the unknown Melanie? Neither Brenneisen, nor any of the students, nor Sina's brother André know her.

A burning boat drifts on the Spree in the middle of the night. The police find a burned body that is difficult to identify.

Early in the morning, a man is run over by a car. The emergency doctor called by a passerby can only confirm death - hit and run or murder? When Robert and Mavi arrive at the scene, it quickly becomes clear that it was not an accident. They are able to identify the dead man as Thomas Bülow, who apparently led a solid, middle-class life in Köpenick. Bülow and his wife Anita are expecting a child. Together with his sister, he worked as an heir investigator. Whenever someone dies without a will and no relatives can be found, they come into play. Did someone want to prevent Bülow from finding a distant relative? When Robert and Mavi come across bartender Eckhard Jablonski, who believes that Bülow cheated him out of his inheritance, Jablonski becomes the focus of the investigation.

Margot Ahrens turns up at the police station and claims that her missing 38-year-old daughter Diana is dead. Mavi feels sorry for the desperate mother and investigates the matter. Robert suspects that Diana Ahrens went on a spontaneous vacation. But Mavi comes across a number of inconsistencies when searching Diana's apartment and finds a flyer for a Dutch abortion clinic that Diana was apparently in contact with. While Mavi questions the neighbors and finds out that medical student Sebastian Hartung actually organized an abortion appointment in Holland, Diana's car is found at the train station. Robert and Mavi suspect that someone has staged her disappearance as a spontaneous vacation.

The body of Stella's physics teacher Torben Fendrig is found in the Köpenick prison, which has been empty for years. He had been locked in a cell and died of thirst there. Fendrig had only recently inherited millions. Are Robert and Mavi dealing with a ransom demand that got out of hand? When they find out that Fendrig wanted a divorce, his wife Marina comes under suspicion. At the same time, Robert and Mavi take a closer look at Fendrig's students. The formerly popular teacher had suddenly become a schoolyard terror. And Fendrig had his sights set on one of Stella's classmates in particular: Jörn Hankwitz. Jörn is part of the "roofer scene" and climbs illegally onto office roofs and factory buildings at night for an adrenaline rush. The higher and more dangerous, the better.

Romy Bauer is cycling alone through Köpenick at night when she notices a person in the twilight. A short time later, she is dead.

At the end of their shift, employees at a recycling center discover a body in a container. Who dumped Stefanie Lehmann, the owner of a motorcycle repair shop, in the trash?

The former educator and environmentalist Helene Linden is found dead in a hole in the Berlin nature reserve Königsheide.

High school graduate Fee is kidnapped. But after two days, her cell door suddenly opens. Her kidnapper, Lichtenberg repeat offender Dettloff, is dead - he was murdered.

21-year-old Mike Schwarz is found dead in the Krüger family's pool on his birthday: he was drowned.

Patrol colleagues Carlotta Heffler and Tom Landwehr are called to a disturbance; loud music is coming from the Köpenick Rowing Club. The two of them are presented with a gruesome sight.

Taxi driver Yvonne Grabowski is shot. At the crime scene, the perpetrator pretends to be a passenger and witness. Robert realizes too late who he is dealing with. The perpetrator manages to escape.

Simon comes across a seriously injured young man on his morning jog. Lennard Gallwitz is barely conscious. Simon's help comes too late, Lennard dies in his arms.