Kardakow seeks help from the Armenian in retrieving the Sorokin's gold. Gereon confesses to a priest — and later to Wolter. Charlotte charms medical student Rudi into performing a secret autopsy, which uncovers a vital clue.
Tropes:
- Bedmate Reveal: Frau Behnke surprisingly shows up in Gereon's bed.
- Deadly Gas: At the train yard, Kardakov opens the wrong car labeled "AB 3221", revealing that it is full of poisonous gas. Kardakov gets a full blast of the gas, but is dragged off by the Armenian's men, the unfortunate guard who escaped notice, however, dies.
- Dramatic Dislocation: Kardakov's dislocated ankle.
- Exact Eavesdropping: At the morgue, Charlotte and Rudi are interrupted by coroners bringing in the corpse of the unfortunate guard killed by poison gas at the train yard, and hide in one of the morgue lockers. They learn that the guard was killed by highly-illegal and deadly phosgene gas at the train yard.
- Handshake Refusal: Bruno dodges Gereon's hand shake after the former hit him in the face.
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Gereon tries it on Krajewski when they find him at the drug den but the latter refuses to talk out of fear so they put him in jail instead.
- Romancing the Widow: Gereon confesses that he has coveted his brother’s wife, and that he has carried on this affair in secret for over ten years.
- Sherlock Scan: At the morgue, Charlotte deduces that Boris could not have been a coal miner due to the pre-torture state of his hands.
- Sickening "Crunch!": Can be heard when Dr. Schmidt corrects Kardakov's dislocated ankle.
