The WORST episodes of Homicide Hills
Every episode of Homicide Hills ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Homicide Hills!
Sophie Haas had actually been looking forward to finally being promoted to head of Cologne's homicide squad. But instead, she is unexpectedly transferred to the fictitious provincial town of Hengasch, where murder and manslaughter are nowhere in sight. At least that's how it seems at first glance. However, behind the perfect façade of the sleepy Eifel village, abysses soon open up that provide the ambitious city detective with enough food for thought to prevent her from becoming bogged down behind a desk in her job. Together with her rather staid police colleagues Dietmar Schäffer and Bärbel Schmied, she goes on the hunt for criminals in the rural environment. The series lives from its lovingly drawn quirky characters and their very special humour.
#1 - Minigolf Mafia
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/24/2024
Before the annual mini-golf tournament, star player Jenny vanishes. Villagers think she left in frustration after Marie’s edits ruined her police application, blaming Marie for the potential loss. But Marie suspects foul play and, with Heike’s help, races to find Jenny in time.
#2 - Murder Game
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/2024
When organizer Irene Kübel is found murdered during a church mystery game, Marie investigates the participants. Everyone had reason to dislike Kübel, but Marie’s questioning reveals hidden past secrets linked to the former pastor.
#3 - File Raccoon
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/28/2024
A hit-and-run victim dressed in a fur suit draws Marie’s team into the secretive world of cuddle parties. Undercover, they uncover jealousy, rivalry, and a connection to suspect Paul Schönfelder, while Marie keeps her distance from Gisbert romantically.
#4 - Day of Reckoning
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/8/2024
Marie, crushed after her failed Cologne plans and breakup with Gisbert, regains purpose when ruthless gangster Rösler resurfaces. The terrified villagers plead for help, and Marie sees this case as her chance to return to Cologne—but she and her team may have to face the threat alone.
#5 - Renate
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/17/2024
A murdered real estate agent leads to suspicion of Heino’s ex-wife Renate, who owns the police station building and plans to evict him and their son. Heino, unwilling to believe she’s guilty, defies Marie’s orders and risks Renate’s safety until Marie cracks the case with undercover help.
#6 - Marie Runs
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2024
Marie hesitates to confess her love to Gisbert, who storms off and is soon caught in a tragic accident. Trapped in a time loop, Marie must relive events and find a way to break free to save him.
#7 - The last of their kind
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/5/2022
Marie’s meddling hippie parents visit unexpectedly, then mysteriously disappear. Tracking them, she finds a hidden forest commune where they plan to stay. When a dead body linked to the group turns up, Marie suspects the commune hides darker secrets.
#8 - Operation Holy Cow
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2024
When Ragulan is poisoned, Marie shuts down Mehmet’s grill and investigates, uncovering tensions involving Ragulan’s community. While juggling jealousy over Barisa and divorce issues with Rosi, Marie also helps Jenny improve her mounted police application.
#9 - Hengasch, Liebernich
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/2022
When Cologne's chief detective Marie Gabler arrives in Hengash, she looks into astonished faces. Nobody expected them! As the new service group leader, she is supposed to turn the sleepy precinct into an orderly and functioning criminal police station. What her transfer and the separation from her husband Klaus have to do with it, she prefers to keep to herself. Marie is astonished to discover that her village colleagues like it rather cozy: Police Chief Heino Fuss loves club life and, with the help of childminder Heike Schäffer, takes care of his son Otmar as a single father. And commissioner candidate Jennifer Dickel prefers to train with her service horse for the equestrian squadron.
#10 - Woman in Black
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/1/2024
As Marie struggles in Cologne to finalize her divorce, a bag of cash found near a corpse causes chaos in Hengasch. While villagers fight over it, Jenny discovers two criminals are closing in. Marie, overwhelmed, may be unable to help in time.
#11 - Hackestüpp
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/2022
Marie narrowly avoids being shot when Kappes mistakes her for a wolf. While she checks for rabies, Kappes and other villagers blame the mythical “Hackestüpp” werewolf, convinced it’s pig farmer Gisbert Cremer. On St. John’s Eve, they chase after him to stop the supposed curse.
#12 - Dingaling
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/2014
A local gigolo is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
#13 - Sun, murder and stars
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/13/2010
Sophie is preoccupied with her personal life when a body is found hanging from a radio telescope.
#14 - Hengasch incident
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/21/2024
After three friends claim to see a UFO, panic grips Hengasch. Marie doubts the story until she sees the strange object herself. When Marvin from Cologne intervenes, she suspects he’s hiding something while trying to make sense of the villagers’ bizarre behavior.
#15 - Potato king
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2022
As Marie settles into her new home, friends help her furnish it, while messages from her estranged husband provide minor distractions. When a body is found at Herkulfels, Marie suspects foul play, despite others’ doubts. Influential landowner Friedrich Vettweiß tries to block the investigation.
#16 - The Venus of Hengash
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/2012
Everything could have been so nice for Sophie: back to Cologne, back to her old job, back to her old life - and away from Hengasch! But since she reckoned without the innkeeper or her father Hannes. When he suffers a heart attack, Sophie not only learns that his health is not good, but also that the stubborn old man bought the old forester's lodge in Hengasch behind her back. So it's clear: Sophie stays!
#17 - The Process
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/2024
As Marie braces for a visit from her sister Rosi, now with her ex-husband Klaus, Heike handles a bizarre case of a frozen pet turtle. The seemingly small dispute escalates, unearthing past tensions, while Jenny seeks Marie’s advice, which Marie dismisses as trivial.
#18 - Burn, Hengasch!
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/15/2022
As the Cake Crown contest nears, Marie secretly enters Mehmet’s “Appeltaat,” unaware Heike fiercely defends her title. During the tasting, a mummified body is found in a grain silo. Marie suspects murder, and panic spreads when the flour for the cakes is revealed to come from that silo.
#19 - The Corruptibles
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/2024
Marie investigates the murder of referee and farmer Albert Appel, uncovering rival soccer clubs run by a feuding ex-couple. When Barisa, a scared Bulgarian woman, appears at Gisbert’s farm, both the case and Marie’s relationship with Gisbert grow more complicated.
#20 - Fear and Horror
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2024
Stuck in Hengasch, Marie faces tension at work, housing troubles, and a new case when a tenant is found dead. The situation escalates when an auditor from Cologne threatens to close the station, putting both Marie and the village in turmoil.
#21 - Clean Finish
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/12/2022
Before leaving for Cologne, Marie tackles one final case: the death of horse farm owner Alwin Lippes. Heino, eager for promotion, takes charge, chasing a lead on intern Jonas. Meanwhile, Marie looks into eccentric breeder Ortlinde Deinert and her elite, internationally sold foals.
#22 - Bleeding hearts
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/6/2010
When Barbel's surrogate grandmother dies, Sophie soon discovers the old woman was murdered.
#23 - Late vintage
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/20/2010
Sophie has now embarked on an affair with veterinarian Kauth, which not only has advantages. For example, she has to assist in the birth of twin calves before starting work, which hits her stomach more than the sight of a corpse. When winemaker Hubert Kreuzberg leads the officers to a small, dead body lying in the middle of his vineyard, the horrified officials initially believe it is a child. But it is the dwarf thief and fencer Arno Hümmel, who was released from custody only two days ago. What brought him to the Eifel and Kreuzberg's vineyard? And who maltreated his little skull with a big bottle of red wine?
#24 - Love Hotel Traube
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/2014
In order to get upset about the conceited Schulte with her best friend Doro, Sophie goes on a hiking excursion that ends at the hotel "Traube". There, Sophie is sure that she witnessed a murder, and although there is no body, she does not let up. Finally, she discovers that the hotel is a popular place to go for city dwellers who long for amorous adventures with the male Eifel population. Among them are masseur Würselen, shop owner and nude cleaner Assenmacher and the former baker Lindenhofen. But the suspicion is initially directed at none other than Heike Schäffer, who has also booked herself into the Hotel Traube under a false name. Sophie and Schulte get closer again – but this time it is Sophie who sets the pace. Dietmar and Heike get along again and Irmtraud moves in with Aunt Klärchen.
#25 - And forever the bluethroat sings
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/2012
Sophie is amazed when the quirky ornithologist Professor Franzen appears at the station and has Dietmar and Bärbel imitate bird calls - apparently a ritual with tradition, because Prof. Franzen comes by once a year together with a group of students to inspect the extraordinarily rare bluethroat in to watch his nesting refuge in Hengasch. Unfortunately, the fun of the ornithologists is short-lived, because one of the students is found dead in the woods. Initially, Prof. Franzen is targeted by Sophie because very compromising photos show him in a bird costume together with the dead woman.