Episodes List

Ep.1 Episode 1

Air Date: 2000-01-02

Ep.2 Episode 2

Air Date: 2000-01-09

Ep.3 Episode 3

Air Date: 2000-01-16

Ep.4 The Millenium Murderer

Air Date: 2000-01-30

In an open field on the edge of the Vienna Woods, a car burns out. The police discover the remains of a body inside the vehicle, around which a symbol has been carved into the earth. This unusual discovery presents Chief Inspector Eisner and his team of investigators with a baffling puzzle. The victim was the owner of a peep show. Is this ritualistic tableau the work of a psychopath, or is a killer from Vienna's pornographic underworld using this scenario to divert attention from their true motive?

Ep.5 Episode 5

Air Date: 2000-02-13

Ep.6 Köln - Bitter Almonds

Air Date: 2000-03-05

The body of wealthy real estate magnate Gerd Wesibach is found, his pores emanating a familiar odor: bitter almonds. At first his death is thought to be an assisted suicide, but it is soon discovered that he was poisoned. Ballauf and Schenk have a long list of suspects, and soon uncover a dubious euthanasia ring. Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach, 2000.

Ep.7 Episode 7

Air Date: 2000-03-12

Ep.8 Episode 8

Air Date: 2000-03-26

Ep.9 Episode 9

Air Date: 2000-04-02

Ep.10 Episode 10

Air Date: 2000-04-09

Ep.11 Episode 11

Air Date: 2000-04-24

Ep.12 Episode 12

Air Date: 2000-05-21

Ep.13 Episode 13

Air Date: 2000-05-28

Ep.14 Episode 14

Air Date: 2000-06-04

Ep.15 Episode 15

Air Date: 2000-07-09

Ep.16 Köln - Deadly Inheritance

Air Date: 2000-07-16

A blackmailer has been threatening the Kölsch brewery in Cologne. Concerned with his company's reputation, Belcher Sr. decides to pay the ransom in person, and is soon shot dead. But when the blackmailer demands a higher ransom and poisons the beer, Ballauf and Schenk suspect they're dealing with a copycat offender. Directed by Markus Fischer, 2000.

Ep.17 Passion

Air Date: 2000-07-30

Viennese Inspector Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) had envisioned his vacation in idyllic Tyrol quite differently. On the very day after his arrival, while out hiking, he stumbles upon a dead body. Hubert Egger (Gregor Seberg)—the son of Mayor Alois Egger (Dietmar Schönherr)—has been murdered in a manner as gruesome as it is symbolic. Someone has nailed the actor playing Jesus in the Passion Plays—traditionally performed by the small community every eight years—to the cross. The still-inexperienced Inspector Roxane Aschenwald (Sophie Rois) is assigned to solve the case.

Ep.18 Köln - Straight to the Heart

Air Date: 2000-08-06

A man is shot dead in broad daylight in Cologne city center. The bullet was fired from 700 meters away and went straight to the heart. Chief Inspector Freddy Schenk believes he knows the murder weapon that can hit the target with pinpoint accuracy from such a great distance. The victim, Charly Hecker, was a successful businessman who apparently had never done anything wrong in life. During the interrogations of Hecker's young wife Franka, something happens to Inspector Ballauf that should not happen: He falls in love with the murdered man's widow and begins to meet her secretly.

Ep.19 Episode 19

Air Date: 2000-08-13

Ep.20 Episode 20

Air Date: 2000-08-20

Ep.21 Episode 21

Air Date: 2000-08-27

Ep.22 Episode 22

Air Date: 2000-09-03

Ep.23 Episode 23

Air Date: 2000-09-10

Ep.24 Episode 24

Air Date: 2000-09-24

Ep.25 Episode 25

Air Date: 2000-10-15

Ep.26 Episode 26

Air Date: 2000-10-30

Ep.27 Quartet in Leipzig

Air Date: 2000-11-26

To mark the 30th anniversary of Tatort, there was to be a special anniversary crime thriller with this episode. The Cologne detectives Ballauf and Schenk investigate together with their East German colleagues Ehrlicher and Kain. The four have to solve two murders.

Ep.28 Episode 28

Air Date: 2000-12-10

Ep.29 Köln - The Lady on the Train

Air Date: 2000-12-17

On a family trip to Holland, Freddy finds himself suspected of drug smuggling and is forced to go on the run to clear his name. Directed by Martin Giesach, 2000.