Helen Dorn — Season 1

201426 episodes6.9/10 (27 votes)

About this season

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?

Episodes (26)

1. The Third Girl

6.5

Aired 8 March 2014 • 89 min

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.

2. Under Control

7.0

Aired 24 September 2014 • 88 min

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…

3. Episode 3

7.0

Aired 24 January 2015 • 88 min

4. Episode 4

6.5

Aired 7 November 2015 • 88 min

5. Imminent Danger

6.5

Aired 5 March 2016 • 90 min

6. The Untruthful Witness

7.0

Aired 26 November 2016 • 90 min

7. Merciless

6.5

Aired 28 January 2017 • 90 min

8. Episode 8

7.0

Aired 8 April 2017 • 89 min

9. Shadows of the Past

7.5

Aired 17 March 2018 • 90 min

E10

10. Message from Prague

7.0

Aired 1 December 2018 • 90 min

E11

11. After the Storm

6.5

Aired 9 February 2019 • 89 min

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.

E12

12. Breathless

7.5

Aired 25 January 2020 • 90 min

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.

E13

13. A Little Bit of Freedom

6.5

Aired 24 October 2020 • 90 min

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.