The essential episodes of Babylon Berlin
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Babylon Berlin — each pick states its reason.
- 01
In 1929, a freight train traveling from the Soviet Union is hijacked. Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Gereon Rath from Cologne pursues a mission in Berlin.
- 02
Kardakov flees after the Soviet attack on The Red Fortress. Rath receives an uninvited guest in his apartment.
- 03
The May Day stand-off between communist protesters and police erupts in bloody violence.
- 04
As Berlin becomes increasingly politically charged, those in charge look to change the discourse on the May Day violence.
- 05
Kardakov seeks help in retrieving the Sorokins' gold. Rath faces a moral dilemma, and Bruno makes a power play.
- 06
Lotte's private investigation leads her to the depot where the hijacked train is held. Rath relives painful memories of the front.
- 07
Rath and Bruno finally get a lead to the location of the missing film reel, but after the truth come the consequences.
- 08
Gereon is reunited with Helga, but his joy is short lived. With her mother dead, Lotte's situation at home worsens.
- 09
Lotte is kidnapped and held in an ominously familiar location, while Rath and Benda's case against the Black Reichswehr stalls.
- 10
Rath and Lotte race to stop the train robbery in time, while Greta's conscience is torn when she falls into an assassination plot.
- 11
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.
- 12
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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