Streets of Berlin: Lonely way home

Streets of Berlin: Lonely way home

A man's headless body is pulled from the River Spree and he proves difficult to identify. A little later Nina Rubin (Meret Becker) is followed by a young woman. Julie Bolschakow (Bella Dayne) tells the detective that she has witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. She knows the dead man pulled from the river; he had told her that her husband Yasha (Oleg Tikhomirov) was a leading member of the Russian mafia in Berlin.

Rubin decides to help the young woman and takes the information to the head of the Criminal Division (Nadeshda Brennicke), who says she will put Julie into witness protection, if, in return, she can provide incriminating evidence on her husband. The situation with Julie poses a dilemma for Rubin, as she must keep her partner Karow (Mark Waschke) out of the further investigations to protect the young woman. Karow discovers the identity of the dead man, but increasingly feels that his colleague is keeping something from him. From the very start, trust has been a thorny issue between the two and Rubin's behavior hurts Karow – particularly as they have gotten closer in their personal lives. Increasingly, those old trust issues start to surface. Will Nina Rubin in her last case succeed in freeing Julie from the clutches of her criminal family?

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.