Tatort Berlin (Rubin und Karow) (2015-2021)

The detectives find two dead bodies on a construction site. One in a barrel full of acid and one buried in the ground. They find out that illegal immigrants have something to do with one of the dead bodies.

Karow and Rubin investigate the death of a woman run over in a parking near a shopping mall.

In their sixth joint case, the Berlin "Tatort" investigators Nina Rubin and Robert Karow are called to the outskirts. A body was found in a burned-out van. Rubin and Karow quickly determine that there were three other, older cases with a similar course of events. They were never enlightened. Is it a serial killer? Another link leads to Berlin-Wannsee: all victims were conceived with the help of in-vitro fertilization in a fertility clinic. Managing Director Dr. Irene Wohlleben and her laboratory manager and life partner Hanneke Tietzsche recently handed over the management of the clinic to Irene's son Dr. Handed over to Stefan Wohlleben. He was born in the 1980s as one of the first test tube babies in Germany. During their investigation, the commissioners also come across a loner named Harbinger. As a 16-year-old he attacked Irene Wohlleben, today he runs a key service in a Berlin subway station. Harbinger used to be called Werner Lothar and, according to his psychiatrist, suffers from borderline syndrome. Robert Karow uses unusual methods to try to gain the eccentric man's trust and lure him out of his reserve. In this case, Anna Feil, now a trainee inspector, makes an unbelievable discovery on her own behalf. And on the fringes of the investigation, Nina Rubin has a serious argument with her older son Tolya.

A package with a severed finger leads Rubin and Karow to an art film eerily paralleling their investigation.

The new Berlin "crime scene" with Rubin and Karow deals with two cases in parallel - everyday police work not only in the capital: the investigators are called to crime scenes in the city and on the outskirts in quick succession. In the middle of the Kurfürstendamm, Tom Menke, operator of the "Robista" coffee shop, lies dead in his kiosk. The robot, which is serving and selling coffee instead of a human, stands still. A young woman is out and about in Grunewald who wants to blog about the first green in the still wintry nature. To her horror, she discovers a lifeless jogger. Forensic doctor Nasrin Reza finds wild boar hair in the victim's large wound. Nina Rubin takes over the investigation into the case of the dead Carolina Gröning, while Karow is concentrating on the Tom Menke case. He must have died servicing his barista robot. Was that an accident? Kathrin Menke seems strangely untouched by the death of her husband, she is more interested in her cats. An old man also attracts Karow's attention: Albert can see exactly the crime scene from his window. But are the stories he tells true? Finally, in both cases, the victims' marriages come into focus. Because even with Reno Gröning and his wife Carolina there was tension, a great loss overshadowed the relationship.

A routine operation for disturbing the peace gets out of control and a young policewoman dies by a bullet. The son of Rubin was also involved in this mission and he was the only one unharmed. Questions arise.

When detective Karow notices a suspicious stench from the adjacent apartment, he discover the dead body of his neighbor.

A student is shot in the open in front of her university out of nowhere. Apparently there is no motive for the murder.

Eviction in Berlin: Otto Wagner and his family had to leave the apartment on a cold November morning. After Ceylan Immobilien took over the tenement house, it was demented bit by bit. Old appointments are no longer valid and so the moving company from Axel Schmiedtchen ensures a quick, swept-clean handover. Recently the house was still a symbol of the famous "Berlin mix". Now Gülay Ceylan, the boss of the small family business, wants to renovate the house in a luxurious way so that it can later be converted into condominiums. But there is resistance. Four tenants in the house cling to their affordable apartments and want to keep them. And everyone has their reasons for it. The young Malovcic family has offspring, the old Mrs. Kirschner has lived in the house for almost 60 years, Jenny Nowack is a single parent, her children have her friends in the neighborhood and Peter de Boer hardly earns anything as a freelance journalist. With his rent rebels he fights in social networks against the injustice on the Berlin housing market. When the junior boss of the real estate company, Cem Ceylan, lies dead in front of the house, the Berlin homicide squad has a new case. Rubin and Karow are investigating the time of Covid-19 in the apartment building in Wedding. The two inspectors are confronted with the Berlin rent madness and the existential concern of people for their "third skin", the four walls in which they live and which are more than their home.

Weekend in Berlin: in search of an unforgettable night, party-goers and party-goers roam the wintry streets. A young woman finds a suitable date in the couple Dennis Ziegler and Julia Hoff via a dating app. The next morning, a body is found near Dennis' apartment. Her face is disfigured so that identification seems impossible. A missing person report and a subsequent DNA comparison reveal to inspectors Nina Rubin and Robert Karow that the dead woman is the medical student Sophia Bader. When Rubin and Karow deliver the news of death to Marianne and Helmut Bader, the parents deny that the dead woman is their daughter and deny that she used dating portals. To the police's surprise, Dennis Ziegler and Julia Hoff appear at the police station. They explain that after consensual sex with Sophia, they broke up that same evening. But Dennis doesn't seem innocent. A thick police file testifies to allegations of arson, assault and rape. But he was never convicted. The suspicion quickly arises that his parents - the patrol officer Doris and the security expert Claus Ziegler succeeded time and again in pulling the son's neck out of the noose. And again the parents' fingers seem to be involved, the investigators run into a wall. Rubin and Karow have to employ drastic methods to break through the psychogram of the Ziegler family - and to understand why Sophia's parents so vehemently deny their daughter's death.

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. She knew the dead man from the Spree, he had revealed to her that her husband Yasha is a leading member of the Russian mafia in Berlin. Rubin decides to help the young woman and tells the detective director. Julie wants to be included in a witness protection program if she can produce incriminating material about her husband in return. 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?