Scene of the Crime
Season 55
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Where to Watch Season 55
32 Episodes
- Was Bleibt
E1Was BleibtA stranger asks Thorsten Falke to meet him. He hopes, he says, that the commissioner will keep a promise that is more than 20 years old and help him out of an emergency. Since the stranger demands a commitment without revealing the further circumstances, Falke refuses. Shortly afterwards the man is pulled dead from the Elbe. It turns out he had been living under a false identity. In order to find out who the man really was, Falke and his colleague Julia Grosz have to delve deep into their own past. And with the man the two ultimately suspect, nothing seems to be as initially assumed. - Avatar
E2AvatarAn unknown man is found dead on the banks of the Rhine. He suffered a heart attack. However, he was not alone at the time of his death; someone previously sprayed pepper spray into his face. The investigators Odenthal and Stern notice a mysterious witness: Julia, in her mid-40s. Everything indicates that she saw the man or even specifically met him. - Das Wunderkind
E6Das WunderkindAfter the murder of an inmate in the prison, Inspectors Leitmayr and Batic have to move their office to the prison with the help of Kalli Hammermann, who was recently promoted to senior inspector, in order to investigate between the fronts of two rival prison groups with the support of correctional officer Claussen. Their leaders are driven by power games, vigilantism and corrupt dealings, making it extremely difficult for the police to solve the murder. When the model prisoner Scholz, who was released at the same time and who finally wants to live with his musically gifted son Ferdinand again, comes into the sights of the investigators, events come to a head for Leitmayr and Batic. Is the boy in danger? - Geisterfahrt
E7GeisterfahrtDetective Director Liebig was celebrating his 60th birthday at Göttingen police headquarters when the party was suddenly disrupted: there was a serious accident in the neighboring old town. A van crashed into a crowd. Charlotte Lindholm and Liebig's wife Tereza, a doctor at the local hospital, are the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. Ilie, the driver of the car, is taken to the hospital's intensive care unit. The investigation begins at the same time: What if it was a shooting spree? But what was Ilie's motive for committing this terrible act? To clarify this, Charlotte Lindholm and Anaïs Schmitz delve into the world of low-wage workers. When Charlotte Lindholm doesn't feel sufficiently supported by the Liebig Criminal Directorate in her investigation, she asks her colleague's husband, forensic pathologist Nick Schmitz, for help. - Cash
E8CashChief Inspector Faber is back on duty, but his job as head of the homicide squad is gone for now. And prosecutor Matuschek wouldn't mind if nothing changed. Faber's colleague Rosa Herzog is now taking over the management on an acting basis. Chief Inspector Jan Pawlak, on the other hand, apparently has little interest in his job. Instead, he prefers to have fun in Alkim Celik's betting shop "Mutluluk" (Turkish for "luck"). When Celik's brother-in-law Lukas Becker is found dead, the "Mutluluk" suddenly becomes the focus of the investigation. An old acquaintance of Faber's is now back on the scene: Tarim Abakay . This time Faber doesn't want to let him get away with it. But his sleuthing doesn't remain without consequences for long: Faber is intercepted by Ira Klasnic and her two armed companions in the parking lot in front of his father's nursing home. Did Abakay send them? - Borowski und der Wiedergänger
E9Borowski und der WiedergängerThe notoriously unfaithful Tobias Exner has been cheating on his wife Greta, from whose money he lives, for a long time. With his anonymous acquaintance "Kitty13", whom he met on a dating portal, Tobias plans to murder his wife in order to be rich and free. He already has a plan to make her disappear. But before Tobias Exner can implement his plan, he himself disappears without a trace. All lines of investigation lead Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin to the mysterious dating contact. - Dein Verlust
E10Dein VerlustWhen the club owner Otto Hübner is found shot, Inspector Bibi Fellner has to drive to the crime scene without her partner. Moritz Eisner, who celebrated his 60th birthday the evening before, is sleeping off his intoxication. As soon as he gets back to work, Hübner's business partner shoots the inspector. The bullet only grazes Eisner, but he soon faces serious problems. Traces of the crime scene and other evidence make him a suspect! Although Eisner remembers little after his film tear, Bibi believes his protestations of innocence. At a manufacturer of lifelike 3D masks, the two come across social media photos of Eisner that Claudia's new friend Lukas posted. Although police chief “Ernstl” Rauter believes in Eisner’s innocence, “the internal affairs department” does not hesitate to arrest his colleague. In order to find out who wants to frame the inspector for murder, Bibi not only has to find a killer, but also has to turn to previous cases. - Unter Gärtnern
E11Unter GärtnernHauptkommissar Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) und Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers) entdecken diesmal Ungeheuerliches in des Deutschen liebster Oase: dem Schrebergarten. Ist die idyllische Kleingartenanlage mitten im malerischen Münster tatsächlich ein Tatort? Oder hat hier eine ältere Dame auf ganz natürlichem Weg das Zeitliche gesegnet? Hauptkommissar Thiel und Professor Boerne scheinen überqualifiziert: Die tote Sabine Schmidt (Sybille Canonica) ist äußerlich völlig unversehrt, sie war bei allen beliebt, die Anlage strahlt eine harmlose Gemütlichkeit aus. Doch wie kam es zu den beiden toten Eichhörnchen direkt neben ihr, die anscheinend zeitgleich verstorben sind? Thiel findet nicht nur das merkwürdig, auch die anderen Pächter der Anlage scheinen etwas zu verbergen. Und so nimmt er sich gemeinsam mit seinem Assistenten Mirko Schrader (Björn Meyer) unter anderem Sabines spröden Nachbarn Klaus Karger (Tobias van Dieken) zur Brust, der eine ganz besondere Beziehung zu seiner Parzelle hat. Dazu zeigt der Historiker Ulrich Winer (Hans-Uwe Bauer) auffälliges Interesse an Thiels Ermittlungen, während seine Frau Vera (Almut Zilcher) das alles für Zeitverschwendung hält. Als der Professor in der Rechtsmedizin noch an der genauen Todesursache knobelt, fällt seiner pflanzenkundigen Assistentin Silke Haller (ChrisTine Urspruch) eine weitere Unregelmäßigkeit in Sabines Parzelle auf, die das Team zu Ermittlungen von internationaler Tragweite führt. - Angst im Dunkeln
E12Angst im DunkelnA micro-adventure turns into horror: The friends Ayla Ömer, Viola Klemm and Marlene Seifert try to find their way back home from the deep forest without any technical aids. They want to test whether this "dropping" in unfamiliar terrain is safe for their sheltered teenage children. But when night falls, the three neighbors from middle-class Bremen-Schwachhausen are lost in the forest - and the next morning one of them is dead. The Bremen investigators Liv Moormann and Linda Selb encounter many inconsistencies and numerous suspects. On the one hand, there is the “cell phone man”, who years ago secretly photographed campers while they were sleeping and is suspected of murdering a woman. On the other hand, the seemingly intact facade of the well-off neighborhood with the husbands Klaus Seifert, Emre Ömer and Mirko Klemm gradually begins to crack. There are also arguments among the teenage children. Selb's aunt, Johanna Selb, has a lot of insider information about the suspects. - Schau mich an
E13Schau mich anWorkers find a female torso in a sewer beneath Munich Central Station. During their investigation, Batic, Leitmayr and Hammermann come across disturbing violent videos on the Internet. The cases seem to be connected and it quickly becomes clear that there could be another murder soon. In their desperate search for the perpetrator, the detectives encounter a frightening world of crimes displayed online - and end up in danger themselves. - Von Affen und Menschen
E14Von Affen und MenschenAt a crime scene in the zoo, detectives Tessa Ott and Isabelle Grandjean experience a surprise: the victim is a chimpanzee. Although public prosecutor Anita Wegenast classifies the terrible act as damage to property in a formally legally correct but morally questionable way, Tessa, indignant, continues to investigate on her own. But little by little, more and more bodies appear in Zurich, which at first glance have little in common. There could also be a crime behind the disappearance of a suspect. The investigator Ott and Grandjean are forced to act. Only when they recognize a pattern in the actions can they solve the murder mystery. However, the fact that her careerist superior Wegenast, who is well connected and working on her promotion, wants to take advantage of the results of the investigation turns out to be a risky move in a political game. - Diesmal ist es anders
E15Diesmal ist es andersA man was killed in a secret location under a bridge. The chief inspectors Ballauf and Schenk find out that the victim, the unemployed Peer Schwarz, was deliberately run over by a car. In his apartment they find large amounts of cash and documents that point to the systematic blackmail of well-known personalities. Schwarz obviously looked for incriminating material in their social media past. Did Peer Schwarz have to die at the hands of one of his own blackmail victims? A trail also leads Ballauf and Schenk to the popular former pop singer Mariella Rosanelli, who now runs a youth center. During the investigation, an argument breaks out between Ballauf and Schenk. Freddy accuses Max of not really paying attention. He isn't either, because Nicola Koch, editor of the city magazine "Cologne Alive", has recently won Max Ballauf's heart. Just another short affair, as Schenk suspects, or will Max Ballauf finally settle down? When Ballauf realizes that there could be a possible connection between his private happiness and the current case, his newfound work-love balance becomes a tightrope act for him. - Am Tag der wandernden Seelen
E16Am Tag der wandernden SeelenA dead man died in his house from multiple stab wounds, but there are no signs of break-in or evidence of robbery. Initial investigations also lead nowhere until Karow comes across a hidden door in the house. What the two inspectors find there takes their breath away. Bonard and Karow immerse themselves in the Vietnamese world of Berlin. You meet the veterinarian Dr. Lê Müller from Charlottenburg. Müller knows the dead man from before and knows more than she lets on, but she doesn't trust the police. The LKA officer Pham Thi Mai puts Bonard and Karow on the trail of a young Vietnamese woman - is she the woman they are looking for? The investigation leads Karow to a pagoda in Lichtenberg, where the souls of the ancestors have their place. However, the community's cultural center is under acute threat of demolition. This hits a sore spot for Karow. In order to solve the challenging case, Bonard and Karow also have to grow together emotionally as a team. - Letzter Ausflug Schauinsland
E17Letzter Ausflug SchauinslandHansi Pagel has been in prison for several years, convicted of violence against his wife Andrea and their children. He comes into the focus of inspectors Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg when the psychologist and psychiatric expert Lisa Schieblon is found strangled in the trunk of her car. - Your Mother
E18Your MotherThe Viennese rapper "Ted Candy" is on the way up: good-looking, talented - and business-minded! In order to switch to a bigger label, the newcomer breaks away from his mentor Akman Onur. When Ted dies after a concert - high on coke and full of adrenaline - Moritz Eisner and Bibi Fellner don't have to look long for a suspect. - To the records
E19To the recordsTobias Benzinger is shot dead, a young lawyer in a law firm with a considerable number of rather shady clients and a high success rate in criminal cases. Franziska Tobler and Friedemann Berg suspect that his death could have something to do with the law firm's cases. The head of the law firm, Rainer Benzinger, is extremely negative towards this theory. He retreats entirely into attorney-client confidentiality, refuses to allow any insight into his clients' affairs, and is not swayed by the fact that Tobias was his stepson. Friedemann Berg is outraged by this behavior, especially since he has learned that the two Benzingers had different opinions about the direction of the law firm. - It's so green when Frankfurt's mountains bloom
E20It's so green when Frankfurt's mountains bloomPsychologist Tristan can't cope with his dysfunctional family, cracks up and inadvertently kills a cop. Fate has it that the police ask him to treat the surviving family of the deceased. He is unable to confess and spirals out of control. - Your rights
E23Your rightsIn the law firm of lawyer Patricia Prinz, her husband is shot dead. Jasper Ünel was also a lawyer, but during the investigations by Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern, his ambitious wife turns out to be the one who has attracted aggression. Currently, it is Marie Polat, recently dismissed without notice as an employee of a call center, who is no match for Prinz's skill and unscrupulousness in court. For the young woman, not only her job but also custody of her son depends on her winning the case against the call center. Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern experience how massively Polat's credibility is undermined in Patricia Prinz's trial. But Marie Polat is not the only one suspected of having taken the law into her own hands; Lena Odenthal is also accused of not having followed the legally prescribed procedure. In an internal procedure, she is suddenly accused of unjustified use of firearms, with Johanna Stern as the main witness. - Under Fire
E24Under FireDuring a traffic check on a country road, shots are fired in broad daylight - one police officer dies, a second is critically injured. Instead of helping their colleagues, two policewomen flee from the exchange of fire. Dresden police officers Winkler, Gorniak and their boss Schnabel take over the investigation. Under pressure, they coordinate a large-scale search for the perpetrator, who is able to go into hiding. - Be silent
E28Be silentAfter the death of his colleague Grosz, Thorsten Falke is taking a break in the remote St. Joseph monastery when the parish pastor dies in a fire. Child pornography material is found in his estate, which confirms Falke and his colleague Eve Pötter's suspicion that the fire may have been set intentionally. - Silent Night
E29Silent NightCaptain Hendrik Wilkens lies shot dead in his room on Christmas Day. He and his husband had taken in a Filipino sailor for the holidays. Together with Hendrik's children and grandchildren, it was supposed to be a peaceful Christmas. For Liv Moormann and Linda Selb, it looks like a robbery and murder. But was life really as harmonious in the Wilkens family as it seems? - Ferryman
E31FerrymanAdventszeit in Zürich. Wer möchte jetzt allein sein? Kommissarin Isabelle Grandjean lernt auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt den gutaussehenden Marek aus Warschau kennen. Spontan lässt sie sich auf ein Abenteuer mit dem verführerischen Unbekannten ein. Stunden später erhält die Kripobeamtin eine kryptische Nachricht mitsamt GPS-Koordinaten. Ohne ihre Kollegin Tessa Ott zu informieren, fährt Grandjean zu dem Ort. Dort findet sie eine Leiche, die an einen früheren Fall erinnert: einen Doppelmord, dessen Aufklärung den Grundstein für ihre steile Polizeikarriere legte. Eine antike Münze im Mund des vergifteten Opfers lässt die Ermittlerin verschwinden. Während sich Tess und Staatsanwältin Anita Wegenast einarbeiten, versucht Grandjean auf eigene Faust einen fatalen Fehler gutzumachen. Sie glaubt, dass der damalige Täter, der sich im Gefängnis das Leben nahm, einen Komplizen hatte. Oder gibt es einen Nachahmer? Als sich Grandjean wieder mit Marek trifft, ahnt sie jedoch nicht, wer er wirklich ist. - Made in China
E32Made in ChinaA young woman is arrested in an Asian shop. She is completely beside herself. Her clothes, hands and face are covered in blood. She is holding a knife in one hand. Did she commit murder? And what about the "Chinese dog" that is said to have seen everything? The Dortmund homicide squad team is initially in the dark. But then the fine gold chain that the young woman is wearing around her neck provides a clue to her identity. A jeweler recognizes the piece of jewelry: he had made the valuable chain several years ago for the Dortmund steel dynasty Haiden family. The suspect is the 25-year-old daughter of the factory owner family. She claims to have killed someone, but can't remember anything. All in all, a murky case with traces from the Ruhr area to China.
