In the crime series "Inspector Lucas", the heroine of the same name investigates in the Danube city of Regensburg. She will initially be supported by Stefan Deuter, who will later be replaced by Leander Blohm.Since her husband had fallen into a coma and can only be treated in a special clinic in Regensburg, Bavaria, the Cologne chief inspector Ellen Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) moves to the Danube. Here she is appointed head of a special commission. She is assisted by detective inspector Stefan Deuter (Thure Riefenstein), who is replaced after some time by detective inspector Leander Blohm (Florian Stetter). Ellen Lucas' predecessor, Boris Noethen (Michael Roll), who was promoted to department head, also has an influence on the team.
33 listed episodes across 1 season. Air dates are provided by TVmaze and can change.
Season 1 33 episodes
E01
Die blaue Blume
When her beloved husband Paul falls into a coma after a car accident, Commissioner Ellen Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) decides without further ado to leave her adopted home in Cologne and move to Regensburg. In the special clinic for coma patients there, she hopes for Paul's quick recovery.In her professional life, she has no time to breathe deeply: in Regensburg the body of five-year-old Maria is found, who fell victim to a crime. The inhabitants of the idyllic small town are upset. Uncompromisingly and with sensitivity, Ellen Lucas goes to work to reconstruct the crime, often against the resistance of her new colleagues. The only thing she can …
E02
Vergangene Sünden
The farmstead of the former police officer Willi Hantel ( Horst A. Reichel ) is on fire. It quickly becomes clear that the fire was only brought about to cover up the murder of Willi Hantel. Commissioner Lucas ( Ulrike Kriener ) and her team initially suspect the perpetrator among the family when Walter Gussmann ( Robert Giggenbach ), a second police officer, is found murdered, leads a hot trail to Rudolf Katz ( Nicolas Flocken ). Transferred by Hantel and Gussmann of the murder, Rudolf Katz was in prison for a long time, innocent, as he always claimed.A late vengeance campaign? cat is untraceable, but the research in the past case leads to …
E03
Vertrauen bis zuletzt
The residents of Regensburg are shocked. The body of 19-year-old Biljana Savic (Cordula Böck) is recovered from a branch of the Danube. The scars on the girl's body allow only one conclusion: murder. What particularly affects Commissioner Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) is the fact that the traces of abuse in the past as well as the present suggest. From Biljana's friend Milica (Miranda Leonhardt) she learns that both girls came to Regensburg two years ago through an au pair agency from Serbia. Young Milica looks frightened and refuses to comment further. Biljana's host parents, the Schwarz couple (Anneke Kim Sarnau and Felix Eitner), also remain sil…
E04
Das Verhör
At some point it hits almost every inspector: In the case of an armed bank robbery with the taking of hostages, inspector Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) sees no other way out than to shoot the culprit. Protection of victims from protection of perpetrators is the legal legitimacy of this official act, but the images of the dead will haunt the inspector's dreams for a long time to come, and this in a phase of life where she still has to come to terms with the death of her comatose husband. But even now there is no time to take a deep breath. Eleven-year-old Oskar Mayerhoff (Hayo Bertram) was kidnapped. When the ransom is handed over, the team led by I…
E05
Skizze einer Toten
The body of 25-year-old paralegal Karin Berling (Stefanie von Poser) is recovered on the banks of the Danube in Regensburg. The parents are stunned, especially since their daughter Karin was about to marry the Turk Cengiz Özgür (Baki Davrak). The husband-to-be reacted to the news of his death with horror, but initial research made it clear that his relationship with Karin was about to end. One cause was the contentious relationship with his future parents-in-law, another, the close relationship between Karin and Klaus Webert. Klaus Webert (Tobias Oertel), who has no alibi for the time of the crime, comes under suspicion, but Cengiz's brother…
E06
German Angst
Nigerian Chris Arano (Nick Monu) can't handle his 14-year-old daughter Lucy (Lorraine Yakubu). Since the death of his wife, she has been inciting fights, attacking classmates and committing one crime after another. Response from the authorities: Both should be expelled. The waves of public opinion are running high. Then suddenly Arano's German fiancé Nathalia Horn (Corinna Beilharz) disappears. Right-wing radicals have kidnapped her in order to secure the black girl's deportationblackmail. The controversial prosecutor Ronfeldt (Monica Bleibtreu) intervenes in the case. The Lucas team is working flat out. The hostage-takers seem to want to go…
E07
Das Totenschiff
A butter boat on the Danube: the entertainer Rolf Gembel (Max Tidof) straightens his hairdo, puts the obligatory flower in his buttonhole and hopefully heads towards the stage in order to sell as many blankets as possible today. And then the unbelievable: like a still life, peacefully wedged together, ten people in the auditorium. Unconscious? Dead? A sign of life can only be found in Greta Wache (Renate Becker). The elderly lady, unable to be questioned, was brought to the clinic by Dr. Sion (Hannes Jaenicke) admitted. Inspector Ellen Lucas must assume a murderous robbery as all valuables, jewelry and credit cards have been stolen.Toni Kehr…
E08
Wut im Bauch
Inspector Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) is very concerned: her colleague Stefan Deuter (Thure Riefenstein) has been stabbed by the father of a boy whom Stefan had shot in self-defense. Stefan is in the hospital with serious injuries, and his colleagues fear for his life. Ellen is surprised when she learns that Stefan had handed in his resignation and she knew nothing about it. She is terrified when she learns from her colleague Boris Noethen (Michael Roll) that her younger sister Rike (Anke Engelke) is having an affair with the lawfully convicted violent criminal Robert Jandt (Ronald Zehrfeld). She confronts Rike, who sees Robert being treated and …
E09
Der Schwarze Mann
Twelve-year-old Sven Reimer (Daniel Spies) is found dead in a forest at a children's holiday camp near Regensburg. Commissioner Ellen Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) and her team are called to the crime scene. At first it all looks like a tragic accident, but investigators quickly uncover forensic evidence pointing to murder. The Lucas team is investigating under high pressure. Lars Berger (Aljoscha Sena Zinflou), one of the supervisors, has no alibi for the time of the crime and quickly becomes a suspect. Berger is from Africa, and Stefanie (Mia Sophie Wellenbrink), daughter of investigator Martin Schiff (Alexander Lutz), who is also spending her ho…
E10
Vergessen und vergeben
The pensioner Ludwig Lehner (Hans-Maria Darnov) is found shot dead in his apartment: Ludwig Lehner, whose daughter Daniela (Maria Kwiatkowsky) had terrified the city of Regensburg a year ago. Together with her friend Tobias Hübner (Florian Panzer), she had a spectacular chase with the police, in which the two apparently killed four people indiscriminately. Daniela is deeply shocked by the death of her father and suspects an act of revenge for the crimes she has committed. She regretfully claims that she did not shoot at the time, but instead blames her friend Tobias, who has fled ever since. Inspector Lucas and her new colleague Leander Bloh…
E11
Aus der Bahn
Four teenagers riot in the old town of Regensburg and threaten a younger couple. Max (Tilo Prückner) and Rike (Anke Engelke) rush to the victims' aid, and Rike is badly injured. Max takes up the pursuit of the young people. A short time later, Commissioner Lucas is called to a crime scene where the body of the only sixteen-year-old student Sebastian Holzinger (Martin Stürhrk), one of the four young people, has been found. Sebastian died as a result of a brutal fight in which Max, who is suspected of having committed a crime, was apparently also involved. Inspector Lucas' investigations initially focus on the other three students: Michi Schmi…
E12
Spurlos
Rike and Max embark on a pilgrimage while Inspector Lucas is called to a scene. A man has holed himself up in a café and is threatening to shoot himself and the hostages present. With the courageous intervention of Commissioner Lucas, the catastrophe is averted and all the hostages are freed. Only Christel Huber cannot be reassured. Her daughter Anna was in the café but has not reappeared. The 20-year-old girl has disappeared and the inspectors start looking for clues.Inspector Lucas and her team find out that Anna is not the good, middle-class girl that many believe. All means seemed right to Anna to escape from the suburban fug of Regensbu…
E13
Wenn alles zerbricht
The teacher Eric Klausmann disappears into the forest. There is no trace of him or his car. When his dog is found shot dead, detective Lucas and her team must assume a violent crime. They begin their investigations in the teacher's private environment. The picture of the family idyll in the Klausmann house quickly crumbles. Last year Eric had a relationship with his colleague Lisa Hübner (Liane Forestieri), the best friend of his wife Nele (Karoline Eichhorn). Since then, the Klausmanns' married life has been troubled and Klaus Hübner (Johann von Bülow), Lisa's husband, jealously watches over his wife. His 16-year-old son Kevin (Sandro Lohma…
E14
Am Ende muss Glück sein
Inspector Lucas is appalled. The body of 60-year-old Maria Bolte is found in Regensburg, on the banks of the Danube. There are increasing indications that Maria Bolte pursued old-age prostitution out of social hardship. Ellen Lucas picks up the trail that leads her to Club Mitzi. According to club boss Hermann Liebl (45), a well-known figure in the city, there are problems in the milieu. Older women who prostitute themselves for little money are increasingly disrupting business. Suddenly Philip Schumann (32) is standing in the door, who flees at the sight of the investigative team. Philip becomes the prime suspect when it is revealed that he…
E15
Gierig
Karoline Roth, an employee of a well-known private bank in Regensburg, is found dead in the Danube. First investigations by Commissioner Lucas put the murder case in a new light: Shortly before her death, Roth had offered the Bavarian authorities a data collection with information about German customers of a Swiss bank for sale for 2 million euros. The control CD and your computer are initially untraceable.When another e-mail arrives at the tax investigation department, Christian Wittbach (Devid Striesow), a colleague of the murdered woman, is targeted by the investigation. Clear evidence weighs heavily on Wittbach and he is arrested on susp…
E16
Die sieben Gesichter der Furcht
Ellen Lucas comes across another missing person in Kastell: the father of the family, Oliver Haffner, has been missing for days. With the help of the resident Father Eurasius and the doctor Dr. Gohar Ardeshir Lucas succeeds in clarifying the identity of the unknown. Her name is Jeannette Wilson. She worked as a teacher in Kastell. What was her relationship to Oliver Haffner? Was she actually sexually abused by him, as the women from the nature center claim? Haffner's family is convinced of his innocence and suspects Anna Stern of having eliminated him. Supposedly, behind the nature center is a circle that practices unlawful, occult activitie…
E17
Bombenstimmung
Dr Michael Reidinger, the renowned chief physician of the Marien Hospital in Regensburg, has disappeared. His father Horst Reidinger accidentally bumps into Inspector Lucas, who takes on the case. When Reidinger's car is found openly under a railway bridge, the team works flat out to find the missing man, but initially without success. Shortly thereafter, Ellen Lucas finds Horst Reidinger critically injured in his homeson. Ellen Lucas senses that there must be more behind Reidinger's disappearance and quickly finds it, because against Dr. Reidinger and the clinic had filed a class action lawsuit from a patient initiative for non-compliance w…
E18
Lovergirl
In the eighteenth episode, chief inspector Boris Noethen receives a call from his old friend Claudia Benner. A young woman has turned up at her house who urgently needs help. She cannot and does not want to say more on the phone. Inspector Lucas is surprised when they stop with Boris in front of a mobile home on the outskirts of town, where Claudia Benner obviously works as a prostitute. They arrive too late: Claudia lies stabbed to death in her mobile home and they find no trace of the woman seeking help. Suddenly the BKA shows up at the crime scene and Boris has to clear the fronts. Kai Benner, Claudia's son, is surprisingly unemotional an…
E19
Bittere Pillen
He secretly watched them, filmed them, even when they were sleeping. Now he's asking for three million. For not killing them, the children of the successful pharmaceutical manager Eva Steiner (Nina Kunzendorf). Eva Steiner turns on the police and Inspector Lucas (Ulrike Kriener) takes over. There are still four hours until the money is handed over. Not enough time to prepare everything in detail, Lucas has to improvise. The transfer of money turns into a fiasco. Eva Steiner and the blackmailer, Dr. Robert Dohnen (Ben Braun) get into a shootout and collapse badly injured. Dohnen is Eva Steiner's brother-in-law, and until three months ago he w…
E20
Kettenreaktion
In Regensburg, a bank is robbed in quick succession, a garage containing a dead man is blown up, and the blood-smeared sports bag of twelve-year-old Moritz Kienle is found. Through targeted investigation by Ellen Lucas and her team, it quickly becomes clear that all three incidents are related. In the garage, which turns out to be a drug lab for crystal meth, not only a charred corpse is recovered. You can also find banknotes from the robbery. The investigation leads Commissioner Lucas to Robert Kienle, the tenant of the garage, who is initially untraceable. Is he the dead body that was found? Inspector Alex Eggert researches Sophie Kienle, …
E21
Der nette Herr Wong
A supposedly simple break-in turns out to be a murder: the body of the owner Jian Chien lies in the development company Al Drones. Jörg Albrecht, the German managing director, suspects that sensitive data has been stolen from the company, since AI Drones specializes in the development and production of autonomous drone swarms. Thien Wong, the dead man's uncle, a high-ranking diplomat, who clearly rejects the obvious suspicion of Chinese industrial espionage, turns up at the scene of the crime. However, Ellen Lucas is not intimidated and continues to investigate in this direction. Claudia Bittner, the leading software developer at AI Drones, …
E22
Der Wald
Murder or Suicide? A girl falls off a highway bridge at night, directly onto a couple's parked car. The team led by Ellen Lucas routinely takes on the investigation. Forensic medicine quickly delivers the first results. Everything indicates that the dead person must have been in the adjacent forest beforehand. The investigations lead Ellen Lucas and her team to an organic farm in the forest run by Heiko Wolf. Some time ago, Heiko Wolf took in Peter Schwertz and his family. Years ago he and his family had emigrated to remote Canada. Now they are back because his wife Monika could no longer stand the loneliness, but neither could her husband. …
E23
Kreuzweg
Regensburg is looking forward to the upcoming German Catholic Day. 100,000 visitors are expected. The anticipation is cut short when a monk's body is found. Finding place is the substructure of the stage, which is set up for the opening service. Inspector Lucas and her team immediately start investigating, because one thing is clear: the opening must not and should not be postponed. Her first lead leads her to the influential "Exercitus Sanctus Jesu" order, which is controversial among lay Catholics - mainly because of its opaque banking transactions. The monks of the order, under the leadership of the Superior General, are hiding something,…
E24
Schuldig
A young couple escapes from a mobile home in a forest not far from Regensburg. The couple is being pursued by the RV driver and his accomplices. The young man is caught, the woman is able to escape her pursuers, Alexander "Gypsy" Scherer and the Bulgarian Bojko Jankov. The next morning the young man is found dead with his stomach cut open. The dead man is Hassan Sabuni, a Syrian refugee who, in the current crisis, sold himself to a drug cartel smugglers: as a "body packer" he was supposed to transport swallowed heroin to Germany. Inspector Ellen Lucas, Tom, Boris and Nina Friedrich, who has just joined the team, are affected by the meanness …
E25
Familiengeheimnis
Andy Wolf, manic journalist and author of numerous bestsellers on conspiracy theories, visits Inspector Lucas again in her police station. He offers her a deal: she'll help him with his latest research and give him access to the police database, in exchange for him giving her tips on how neo-Nazis are getting weapons from underground weapons storage facilities. Together they would be unbeatable. Lucas brushes Andy off – a weirdo, harmless. Hours later, Andy Wolf's top floor apartment in Regensburg was ablaze. When a burning man falls out of the apartment onto the terrace of the "Camerota" restaurant, the fire becomes a case for Inspector Luc…
E26
Löwenherz
A woman burns to death in her car near the Regensburg service area. Inspector Lucas and Judith Marlow, who has returned to the team, quickly find out that it wasn't an accident. The car was set on fire while the victim was still alive. The first hot lead leads the investigators to the renowned plastic surgeon Dr. Alexander Krayenberg, with whom the dead woman regularly had aesthetic procedures carried out. Holger Franz, the husband of the dead man, sinks into deep sorrow and is not really of any help to the investigators. Or is he just faking his sadness? The images from a surveillance camera lead the inspector to the Proell family. Lucas se…
E27
Das Urteil
The psychology lecturer and family man Bernd Stach, convicted of murder, is able to escape from prison after attempting suicide. While the manhunt is already running for him, he already has Ellen Lucas in his sights. She led the investigations that convicted him as the perpetrator. He overpowers Inspector Lucas while jogging and kidnaps her. It quickly becomes clear that Stach isn't out for revenge, but rather to convince Lucas that he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. Despite the danger she is in, Ellen tries not to be intimidated by Stach and listens to his arguments. When Ellen's colleagues find her and free her, Stach escapes a…
E28
Polly
Young Monika is found lying in state in the branches of a tree, twelve meters above the ground. She's dead. Inspector Lucas sees it as a kind of funeral ceremony. But who does that? The investigations lead her and her team to the idyllically situated Aschenbachhof, to a home for girls who are difficult to train. The victim had disappeared from there months earlier. Lucas meets Polly at the home. She shared a room with Moni. The death of her friend affects the girl very deeply, and Lucas arrives just in time when Polly is about to slit her wrists. Lucas and her team find out that the girls have repeatedly escaped to the village. When Lucas co…
E29
Tote Erde
After a fire, the body of Josef Gerlach, who lived in constant conflict with environmental activists, is found. Ellen Lucas and her team take up the investigation. Gerlach farmed large areas of grain with his brother Reinhold. A mobile phone video shows an argument with the young activists David Buske and Marie Bacher. Angry, they demonstrated against the poisoning of the fields. Together with their classmate Paul Krenn, the three form the "New World" group, which advocates a radical change in agriculture. Lucas and Tom Brauer take on the three high school graduates, but they deny having anything to do with the arson. A look at the finances …
E30
Die Unsichtbaren
The discovery of the corpse of an Eastern European man leads inspector Ellen Lucas to the construction environment in Regensburg, where she encounters blatant abuses. She calls on her entire team to clarify the matter and puts the public prosecutor to the test. The unexpected "by-catch" by customs officials during a night-time traffic check is tough. At the border to the Czech Republic, the border officials noticed a car. The view through the thermal imaging camera shows only two occupants, although apparently three people are sitting in the car. When the officers stop the car, two men flee, the third is dead, presumably he was pierced by an…
E31
Nürnberg
Inspector Ellen Lucas is on her way to her new office in Nuremberg when another car crashes into her side. Lucas discovers a dead woman in the trunk of the accident car. The driver fled the scene of the accident with a boy. Lucas' new colleagues quickly found out: the driver's name is Franz Vegener, he is the dead man's grandson and has just been released from prison. Did he kill his own grandmother Grete Saller? Franz Vegener had a motive: Grete Saller testified against him in court when he was sentenced to imprisonment for serious bodily harm. Ironically, his grandmother has himreveal. The woman he lived with as a teenager because his moth…
E32
Goldrausch
A father shoots his adult daughter - or so he says. Detective Lucas investigates a family where nobody trusts anyone else. Kathrin Löhns had to die because her father mistook her for a burglar. Now she lies dead in the boiler room. However, Lucas finds out that Wolfgang Löhns' statements about the crime cannot be correct. Then why does he take the fatal shot? His two sons Johannes and Markus deny the crime and suspect each other. Johannes is sure that everything is justis the cursed gold. After the financial crash in 2008, his father invested his entire fortune in gold. He no longer trusts anyone, especially not a bank. And he would defend h…
E33
Du bist mein
Inspector Ellen Lucas finds a woman's body lovingly laid out in the attic of an empty courtyard – mummified by the heat of a summer. The woman had apparently been held captive in the attic and died trying to escape. Lucas quickly finds out that the victim, Sarah Rothbauer, lived nearby. But why didn't anyone miss her there? Inspector Lucas and her team suspect a relationship crime. Why else would Hinrich Rothbauer, Sarah's husband, simply have accepted her sudden disappearance? During the investigation, Commissioner Betty Sedlacek becomes the victim of a stalker. Instead of confiding in Ellen Lucas, she wants to solve the problem on her own.…
