'Babylon Berlin' Series 1 - Episode 1

In April 1929, a train bound for Berlin has to stop near Novorzhev due to a burning tree lying on the rails. The engine driver and a train worker are ambushed by several armed, Russian-speaking men. The men couple an additional car to the train, and two Russian men replace the Germans who are killed by shots to the head. Gereon Rath, a morphine addict and World War I veteran who worked as a police inspector in Cologne, is transferred to Berlin. He and his new partner, Bruno Wolter, visit a photographic studio, which is actually a pornographic film set and production studio. As they arrest Johann König, the owner, another man flees and shoots at Gereon but is subdued by Bruno. Bruno lets him go since the man is Franz Krajewski, one of his informants. He fought in World War I and was fired from his job as a policeman because he overreacted in a shoot-out, due to his PTSD. Franz goes to a therapist (Dr. Schmidt), revealing that the police arrested König and are looking for "the film". The therapist later meets with a mysterious man, referred to only as "The Armenian". The Armenian says he will take care of the film. At the police station, Gereon bumps into Charlotte Ritter after stepping out of a paternoster lift. She works as an archivist at the homicide division to provide for her family, who live under pitiable conditions. She and Gereon part ways after gathering up their respective files they had dropped. Two Trotskyists named Kardakov and Svetlana receive a telegram at a printing shop, alerting them that the train will arrive soon.