Streets of Berlin: Urban Beasts

Streets of Berlin: Urban Beasts

In the new Berlin scene of crime with Rubin and Karow, two cases run in parallel – not unusual for any police force: in quick succession, the detectives are called to scenes of crime in the city and on the outskirts. In the middle of the Kurfürstendamm, Tom Menke, operator of the "Robista" coffee shop, is found dead in his kiosk. Here, robots, not people, dispense and sell coffee but today they are powered down.

In Grunewald, a young woman sets out to blog about the first green shoots of spring in a still very wintry landscape. To her horror, she discovers the lifeless body of a jogger. Medical examiner, Nasrin Reza finds wild boar hairs in the victim's wound. Nina Rubin takes over the case of the dead jogger, Carolina Gröning, while Karow concentrates on the Tom Menke case. He appears to have died while servicing his Barista robots. Was it an accident? Kathrin Menke seems peculiarly untouched by the death of her husband, she is more interested in her cats.

But an old man attracts Karow's attention: from his window, Albert has a perfect view of the scene of the crime. But are the stories that he's telling correct? Ultimately, in both cases, the spouses of the victims come into focus, because there were also tensions between Reno Gröning and his wife Carolina – a great loss overshadowed their marriage.

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Robert Karow (Mark Waschke), Chief Inspector

Robert has a photographic memory, which often provides results that astonish even his fellow cops. He's a brilliant logical thinker with frighteningly fast cognitive skills and powers of abstraction. Unlike Nina, he's more interested in the big picture, not individual fates. He has a fine sense of irony and absurd humor, as well as a melancholy streak and an inherent mistrust of others. Robert lives alone, and enjoys the advantages of being single.

Mark Steinke (Tim Kalkhof), Assistant

Mark is Karow and Rubin's techie with a sense of gallows humor.

Anna Feil (Carolyn Genzkow), Trainee

Their ambitious young rookie trainee urgently wants to be a homicide cop, too.