For fans of Babylon Berlin, the wait is (almost) over. The show’s fifth and final season is set to finish shooting later this year, and co-creators Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries have begun to share some of the details of how they plan to bring the epic German neo-noir period drama to a conclusion.

The first image of season 5, provided exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter, show Volker Bruch as Inspector Gereon Rath, in silhouette, set against a murky and ominous background (see above). The plot of the final season, adapted from Volker Kutscher’s fifth Gereon Rath novel The March Fallen, reunites Gereon with Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), a flapper-turned-investigator for a final case.

After Gereon vanishes without a trace, Charlotte is on her own, investigating a series of murders of former frontline soldiers. She begins to uncover evidence that points to a link between...