Helen Dorn is an expert Police Commissioner, who’s years of experience have given her killer instinct when it comes to crime. On the department head’s orders, Helen Dorn become involuntary partners with Detective Chief Superintendent Gregor Georgi, with Helen in the role of Georgi’s superior. After initially ruffling some feathers, as Gregor thought he was about to take over a case as head investigator and not confronted with a new superior, the two prove to be a solid pairing: Helen’s famed intuition is matched by Gregor’s rational analysis and precision. But will he be able to unearth her mysterious past?
Helen Dorn (Season 1)
The Third Girl (Episode 1) 6.5
Writer: Magnus Vattrodt
Air date: 2014-03-08
Runtime: 89 min
Overview: Alarm in Düsseldorf: the body of a nurse has been found on the banks of the Rhine, and evidence at the crime scene recalls a series of murders that had terrified the area four years previously. Three women had been killed in exactly the same manner. The obvious connections to the old cases prompt the head inspector to appoint Helen Dorn as chief investigator. In order to solve the nurse's murder, the old cases must be reviewed, whereby Helen and her partner Georgi come upon suspects from among their own police colleagues.
Under Control (Episode 2) 7.0
Writer: Magnus Vattrodt
Air date: 2014-09-24
Runtime: 88 min
Overview: A missing child is at the center of Inspector Helen Dorn's investigations. Mia, the four-year-old daughter of the wealthy businessman Hans Thomsen, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The family members are under shock; a kidnapping seems likely. While Mia's mother Inga tries to keep the family together and prevent an escalation, her husband wants to find his daughter on his own. But why does he head so assuredly for Rotterdam? After a difficult start at police HQ with her new partner Gregor Georgi, Helen Dorn begins to discover some very surprising things about Gregor. He, meanwhile, sets out to understand Helen better by uncovering her past…
Episode 3 (Episode 3) 7.0
Writer: Nils-Morten Osburg
Air date: 2015-01-24
Runtime: 88 min
Episode 4 (Episode 4) 6.5
Writer: Jürgen Pomorin
Air date: 2015-11-07
Runtime: 88 min
Imminent Danger (Episode 5) 6.5
Writer: Mathias Schnelting
Air date: 2016-03-05
Runtime: 90 min
The Untruthful Witness (Episode 6) 7.0
Air date: 2016-11-26
Runtime: 90 min
Merciless (Episode 7) 6.5
Air date: 2017-01-28
Runtime: 90 min
Episode 8 (Episode 8) 7.0
Air date: 2017-04-08
Runtime: 89 min
Shadows of the Past (Episode 9) 7.5
Air date: 2018-03-17
Runtime: 90 min
Message from Prague (Episode 10) 7.0
Air date: 2018-12-01
Runtime: 90 min
After the Storm (Episode 11) 6.5
Air date: 2019-02-09
Runtime: 89 min
Overview: On her way home after a celebration in her small, rural hometown, a young woman – Karla Petersen – is murdered. Helen Dorn, whose father is still in a coma, takes on the case. In the countryside, she meets local officer Tom Petersen, Karla’s brother. In spite of Dorn’s warnings not to get mixed up in the case, he relentlessly searches for his sister’s killer, suspecting friends and acquaintances alike.
Breathless (Episode 12) 7.5
Air date: 2020-01-25
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Surveillance on an illegal arms trafficking case has spun out of control. Three Polish men are dead, two of them policemen. Mattheisen discloses his conspiracy theory to Helen Dorn: he is convinced that the weapons delivery was intended for an underground right-wing radical group, infiltrated by a mole from the State Office of Criminal Investigations. But before Mattheisen has a chance to tell Helen who is behind it, he is shot and killed with Helen’s service weapon. And Helen is found at the scene of the crime by her colleagues, gun in hand and no memory of what happened.
A Little Bit of Freedom (Episode 13) 6.5
Air date: 2020-10-24
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: Helen Dorn has never been able to forget the case of a boy who disappeared 14 years ago. She had been forced to release suspect Ron Faber at the time, and the missing child was never seen again. When Helen learns from an Intrapol report that Faber was picked up in Hamburg after an accident with the dead body of a Chinese boy in the back of his van, she immediately sets off for the city.
The Seeds of Violence (Episode 14) 7.0
Air date: 2021-03-06
Runtime: 89 min
The Last Resort (Episode 15) 6.5
Air date: 2021-09-04
Runtime: 90 min
The Red Cloth (Episode 16) 6.5
Air date: 2022-03-12
Runtime: 90 min
The Right to remain silent (Episode 17) 7.0
Air date: 2022-02-11
Runtime: 90 min
The little brother (Episode 18) 7.5
Air date: 2023-10-21
Runtime: 90 min
Episode 19 (Episode 19) 7.5
Air date: 2024-03-02
Runtime: 89 min
Episode 20 (Episode 20) 7.0
Air date: 2024-11-30
Runtime: 90 min
Episode 21 (Episode 21) 7.5
Air date: 2025-02-01
Runtime: 89 min
Episode 22 (Episode 22) 7.5
Air date: 2025-03-08
Runtime: 89 min
Episode 23 (Episode 23) 6.2
Air date: 2025-11-01
Runtime: 89 min
Episode 24 (Episode 24) 6.0
Air date: 2026-01-17
Runtime: 90 min
Episode 25 (Episode 25)
Air date: 2026-04-11
Episode 26 (Episode 26)
