Helen Dorn

1h 30min

Crime

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

Cast

The Third Girl

1. The Third Girl

1h 30min

8th Mar 2014

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

2. Under Control

1h 30min

24th Sep 2014

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

3. Episode 3

1h 30min

24th Jan 2015

Episode 4

4. Episode 4

1h 30min

7th Nov 2015

Imminent Danger

5. Imminent Danger

1h 30min

5th Mar 2016

The Untruthful Witness

6. The Untruthful Witness

1h 30min

26th Nov 2016

Merciless

7. Merciless

1h 30min

28th Jan 2017

Episode 8

8. Episode 8

1h 30min

8th Apr 2017

Shadows of the Past

9. Shadows of the Past

1h 30min

17th Mar 2018

Message from Prague

10. Message from Prague

1h 30min

1st Dec 2018

After the Storm

11. After the Storm

1h 30min

9th Feb 2019

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

12. Breathless

1h 30min

25th Jan 2020

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

13. A Little Bit of Freedom

1h 30min

24th Oct 2020

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

14. The Seeds of Violence

1h 30min

6th Mar 2021

The Last Resort

15. The Last Resort

1h 30min

4th Sep 2021

The Red Cloth

16. The Red Cloth

1h 30min

12th Mar 2022

The Right to remain silent

17. The Right to remain silent

1h 30min

11th Feb 2022

The little brother

18. The little brother

1h 30min

21st Oct 2023

Episode 19

19. Episode 19

1h 29min

2nd Mar 2024

Episode 20

20. Episode 20

1h 30min

30th Nov 2024

Episode 21

21. Episode 21

1h 29min

1st Feb 2025

Episode 22

22. Episode 22

1h 29min

8th Mar 2025

First air date

8th Mar 2014

Last air date

1st Feb 2025

Status

Returning Series

Type

Scripted

Original language

de

Networks