The BEST episodes of Close to Home: Murder in the Coalfield
Every episode of Close to Home: Murder in the Coalfield ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Close to Home: Murder in the Coalfield!
A mysterious murder of a girl brings Maik Briegand (Mišel Matičević), who, like his father and brother, became a police officer in GDR times, back to the place of his childhood: Lauchhammer. Together with the LKA investigator Annalena Gottknecht (Odine Johne), Briegand begins to remove the secrets of the past, layer by layer, which confront him with the trauma of his youth.
#1 - Their Eyes On Us
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/15/2022
Gottknecht is now convinced this is the work of a serial killer, and they've already selected their next victim: Briegand's daughter Jackie.
#2 - Rope Teams
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/2022
Another body surfaces with a strange wolf symbol on it. Briegand sees eerie similarities between these cases and a childhood sweetheart who disappeared.
#3 - New Lords
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/8/2022
Questioning Bartko yields another clue, but Gottknecht interferes. New evidence points Briegand toward another suspect: his ex-wife's new boyfriend.
#4 - Empty Hands, Empty Hearts
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/2022
A fellow police officer is deeply entangled with Ramona's family. Gottknecht zeroes in on him, especially when Ramona's kid brother arrives at his door.
#5 - Treacherous Soil
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2022
A teenager turns up dead, and Maik Briegand unhappily returns to his hometown to investigate, where his past demons begin to catch up with him.
#6 - Into the Dark
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/2022
Some of the DNA found at the crime scene belongs to an unhoused person... Who happens to be one of Briegand's close childhood friends.