Season 28

Scene of the Crime (Tatort, 1970), Season 28 — 27 episodes from 1997, watch online on iFILM. This is where the Cologne chapter begins: Max Ballauf gets transferred from a botched Miami drug operation straight into the city's homicide unit. His new partner Freddy Schenk is not welcoming. Professional jealousy, tested authority, no common ground yet.

The two have no time to settle in. Their first case lands a dead former colleague at their feet. Later, a bomb goes off at a school where a teacher had just been cleared of molestation charges — and the question of who arranged that revenge is harder than it looks. Season 28 is rougher around the edges than the years that follow, and that's precisely what makes it worth watching: two detectives who don't yet know how to work together, forced to figure it out fast. Watch all episodes of Season 28 on iFILM.