The best episodes of Babylon Berlin
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
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Gereon is reunited with Helga, but his joy is short lived. With her mother dead, Lotte's situation at home worsens.
- 03
As Berlin becomes increasingly politically charged, those in charge look to change the discourse on the May Day violence.
- 04
Lotte's private investigation leads her to the depot where the hijacked train is held. Rath relives painful memories of the front.
- 05
Rath and Bruno finally get a lead to the location of the missing film reel, but after the truth come the consequences.
- 06
Lotte is kidnapped and held in an ominously familiar location, while Rath and Benda's case against the Black Reichswehr stalls.
- 07
In 1929, a freight train traveling from the Soviet Union is hijacked. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Gereon Rath from Cologne pursues a mission in Berlin.
- 08
Kardakov flees after the Soviet attack on The Red Fortress. Rath receives an uninvited guest in his apartment.
- 09
The May Day stand-off between communist protesters and police erupts in bloody violence.
- 10
Kardakov seeks help in retrieving the Sorokins' gold. Rath faces a moral dilemma, and Bruno makes a power play.
- 11
Rath and Lotte race to stop the train robbery in time, while Greta's conscience is torn when she falls into an assassination plot.
- 12
The gripping noir reaches a climax as Rath faces a stand-off for train carriage TY 23-05, and the truth behind the Sorokin's gold is finally revealed.
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Rath attempts to interrogate König further regarding the missing film reel, while the Russian revolutionaries' location is revealed by an informant.
- 17
Second season of the intoxicating German drama. Rath awakes after a long night to be faced with a new case - the massacre of the Red Fortress.
- 18
Benda's widow gives Wendt a piece of evidence. A crisis bonds Helga and Nyssen. Fingerprints are found on the knife, but Charlotte notices an oddity.
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Rath undertakes a dangerous mission to recover evidence of the secret German airfield based in Russia.
- 20
After discovering one of his most trusted colleagues has been murdered, Rath comes to suspect that the killer was someone on the inside
- 21
Crucial evidence literally falls into Rath's hands, while Lotte unearths a conspiracy to murder an international envoy.
- 22
The consequences of Betty Winter's death spell disaster for the film studio Babelsberg and the famous producer Bellmann but there may be more behind her suspicious death. Who was the man responsible for decoration and lightning on set? Why are the files of Greta Overbeck's interrogation suddenly sealed. President of police, Karl Zörgiebel misses his former ally Benda. Can Gereon make sense of it all in a politically unstable time?
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Wendt finds a way to change Greta's testimony. Nyssen's aide asks bank clients about their stock purchases. A casting call is held to replace Betty.
- 24
Litten remembers a legal loophole that could save Greta's life. Charlotte visits the inn mentioned in her mother's love letters. Wall Street crashes.
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