Der letzte Bulle

The Last Cop (German: Der letzte Bulle) is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a policeman from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen. Plot The show is set in Essen, in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region. Mick Brisgau, a homicide detective who was shot in the head on duty in the late 1980s and was then in a coma for 20 years. The show starts when he awakes suddenly from the coma and is allowed to return to his old job at the homicide department. As an old-school macho cop, he doesn't know about modern technology such as cellphones or computers, or modern investigation methods. He tries to deal with the modern world in general, and homicide cases in particular, as if it was still the 1980s. The rough style of the main character (played by Henning Baum) is complemented by the prudence of his new partner, Andreas Kringge (played by Maximilian Grill). Other characters include Brisgau's former partner, Martin Ferchert, who is now head of the homicide department; Brisgau's wife, who divorces him during the first season; the medical examiner Roland Meisner, who has been living with Brisgau's wife for years; Isabelle, Brisgau's adult daughter, whom he has known only as a baby, but who is now an adult; the police psychologist Tanja Haffner. The series uses songs from the 1980s, sometimes to comment on the plot, and features other items from the decade such as Brisgau's Opel Diplomat V8.