The WORST episodes of Babylon Berlin
Every episode of Babylon Berlin ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Babylon Berlin!
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gareon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
#1 - Episode 37
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/2022
While Malu Seegers and Dr Völcker pursue a deadly plan, Charlotte makes a terrible discovery and Helga tries to escape from her kidnappers.
#2 - Episode 26
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/21/2020
Desperate to find Weintraub, the police consult a psychic. Toni's job takes an unexpected turn. Moritz's association with Horst puts him in danger.
#3 - Episode 27
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/28/2020
Benda's widow gives Wendt a piece of evidence. A crisis bonds Helga and Nyssen. Fingerprints are found on the knife, but Charlotte notices an oddity.
#4 - Episode 28
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/28/2020
Litten remembers a legal loophole that could save Greta's life. Charlotte visits the inn mentioned in her mother's love letters. Wall Street crashes.
#5 - Episode 29
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2022
New Year's Eve 1930/31: While a marauding SA squad is marching through the city, Charlotte is called to a crime scene. Nyssen gives a big party with Helga and makes an announcement.
#7 - Episode 31
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2022
In urgent need of money, Charlotte enters a lucrative dance marathon. Councillor Wendt pitches his plans to Nyssen. Rath visits Stennes in prison.
#9 - Episode 33
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2022
Weintraub investigates the boxing match betting fraud. Rath makes a confession to Charlotte, who asks him to find out more about Benni's death.
#10 - Episode 34
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/2022
Rath brings Moritz to the castle. Charlotte tells a lawyer about the deaths among street children. Goldstein takes drastic measures.
#11 - Episode 35
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/2022
Rath takes part in a risky experiment, a brutal gang war breaks out in Berlin, Widow Behnke tries to help Katelbach and Toni finds herself in danger.
#12 - Episode 36
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/2022
As Widow Behnke kicks off her high stakes rescue plan, Stennes instigates a hall battle in the 'Moka Efti' and Charlotte makes a secret observation.
#13 - Episode 25
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/21/2020
Nyssen finds a way to get his mother's money. Rath learns who Helga's benefactor is. Marie-Luise Seegers approaches Katelbach's landlady with an offer.
#14 - Episode 38
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/2022
Despite Gennat's doubts, Rath organises a meeting with all of the wrestling club bosses. Malu rethinks her plan and Esther looks for work as a musician.
#15 - Episode 39
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/12/2022
Rath is celebrated as Charlotte meets a boxer. Stennes plots a coup against Hitler while Goldstein learns the truth about the diamond.
#16 - Episode 40
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/12/2022
The SA face the SS at 'Stennes Putsch' as Toni meets an ally and Goldstein boards a Zeppelin heading for America.
#17 - Episode 41
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2026
January 30, 1933: Hindenburg appoints Hitler as Reich Chancellor. Germany is on the brink of dictatorship. Members of the resistance arrive at the Berlin Press Ball that evening. While dancing with Gereon, Charlotte spots a murder suspect among the guests. Dr. Forster is suspected of having strangled his receptionist. Shortly before the arrest, Forster disappears—and Gereon with him.
#18 - Episode 42
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/2026
Dr. Forster is keeping explosive details about his hospital patient, Hitler, under wraps. Charlotte suspects that the Nazis want to eliminate the psychiatrist—just as they do all their opponents. More and more people are disappearing. “Nationalist forces” are taking over the castle. At home, Charlotte discovers Gereon’s explosive legacy. There is still no sign of him. On stage at the Mikado Bar, Charlotte dances to overcome her fears.
#19 - Episode 43
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/2026
Charlotte is searching for Hitler’s medical records from 1918. Goebbels stages the funeral of an SA member as a state ceremony against “red murderers.” Göring orders mass arrests. The SA infiltrates the police force. Chief Inspector Böhm makes a discovery that Charlotte absolutely must know about. While the political division is being infiltrated by the Nazis, Böhm and Charlotte continue their investigation in secret.
#20 - Episode 44
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/2026
Flashback: Dr. Forster, Gereon, and his brother have fled the press ball. Gereon accompanies Dr. Forster on his escape to Paris. During a stopover in Cologne, they experience a turbulent night during Carnival. In the morning, thanks to Gereon’s father’s intervention, the two fly to Paris as part of Adenauer’s entourage. At the airport, the German ambassador is waiting with an arrest warrant, and in the exiles’ café, a familiar melody plays.
#21 - Episode 45
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/2026
Gereon wakes up, severely beaten, in a Berlin SA prison next to the journalist Heymann. Anyone who opposes the movement at the castle has to deal with State Councilor Wendt. Resistance is now only possible if it’s well disguised. Ms. Behnke prepares for this role. Another former patient from Dr. Forster’s days at the military hospital is dead. Böhm suspects a series of murders, but Wendt sidelines him.
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#22 - Episode 46
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/2026
At Lieberberg Castle, Nyssen eagerly anticipates his meeting with Hitler. Gereon is released by Wendt, but must continue to fear for his life. Right before his eyes, the prisoners begin to be transported from the SA prison to the camp. Among them are Heymann and Katelbach, who are preparing to escape. Their plan fails. At home, Gereon is met by an SA assassination squad and a desperate, furious Charlotte.
#23 - Episode 47
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/25/2026
February 27, 1933. Rath, Wegener, and the Armenian are carrying out a risky plan for the dinner at Lieberberg Castle. At the same time, the young Dutchman van der Lubbe sets out for the Reichstag. Armed with an SA ID card, he will be able to get past the guards. Böhm intercepts Charlotte at the Wannsee to warn her: Under no circumstances should she and Gereon return to their apartment. Widow Behnke also closes a door behind her.
#24 - Episode 48
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/2026
Nyssen welcomes his guests from the business and political worlds. The first flames break out at the Reichstag. A bomb explodes at the palace. Anyone who gives a speech now is doomed. Rath realizes too late the grave mistake of the moment. Inside the Reichstag, he relives the trauma of his life for a second time. Anyone who escapes the flames must leave Germany tomorrow. The dark age begins. The dance is over.
#25 - Episode 24
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/14/2020
Litten faces a setback in appealing Greta's conviction. Wendt talks economics with Gen. Seegers's daughter. An unconscious Weintraub is forced to talk.