Nielsen breakfast chaos ends with Mikkel's magic trick
A missing hoodie, a hunger strike and a boy dressed as Houdini; Ulrich asks how the trick worked and Mikkel says the real question is when.
Katharina Nielsen
Every Dark moment featuring Katharina Nielsen, in story order. Played by Jördis Triebel.
31 moments · 50 min
Regina's jab at Katharina, then Helge crashes the meeting
The parents' meeting turns personal when Regina tells Katharina to mind her own problems; then a confused Helge appears warning it will happen again.
Martha asks about the uncle who was never found
Martha asks Katharina how old her father was when Mads vanished, recalls Mikkel's fear of never being found, and insists her brother is coming back.
Mikkel knocks on his own door and meets young Ulrich
Mikkel insists he lives here; a teenage Ulrich and Katharina mock him as the wrong-house fool, and a Chernobyl headline dates the year.
Mikkel asks teenage Hannah and Katharina for his mother
Two schoolgirls argue over a Falco song until a lost boy asks for the principal, his mom, and gets laughed at for dropping acid.
Hannah brings food to the Nielsens and Ulrich walks in
Hannah turns up at Katharina's door with a meal; Ulrich's arrival and Katharina's offer of a ride for Hannah make the room unbearably tense.
1986: teen Katharina makes Ulrich promise no kids
Young Hannah gushes about a film to an inattentive Ulrich, who slips off with Katharina; she agrees to sleep with him on one firm condition.
Martha fights Katharina and Magnus says it out loud
Martha wants to go to the school play, Katharina wants her home, and the shouting ends with Magnus saying what nobody dares to.
Katharina on the radio: this city is sick
Katharina calls a radio phone-in as a missing child's mother and tells Winden there is a murderer among them behind some neighbour's door.
Katharina and Hannah brawl after the play
After the curtain, a barbed exchange between Hannah and Katharina turns physical, and Hannah tells the kids who their mother really is.
Young Katharina tells Hannah love is stronger than hate
In 1986 Hannah fishes for news about Ulrich in jail; Katharina swears nothing will come between them and vows revenge on the informer.
Aleksander pulls a gun to stop Ulrich and Katharina bullying Regina
The newcomer forces Ulrich to apologize to Regina, then she bandages his wound at home and learns his name.
Ulrich's voicemail: not who kidnapped the children, but when
Charlotte hears Ulrich's message naming Helge in 1986, then Katharina discovers her husband is suspended and with another woman.
Katharina storms Hannah's house over the affair
Katharina tears through the rooms demanding where Ulrich is and how long it has been going on; Hannah says it is over.
Hannah twists the knife: he wanted to leave you
Calmly, Hannah tells Katharina that Ulrich said he no longer loved her and loves Hannah instead, before repeating that it is over.
Clausen takes over the Winden case with Freud and an elephant
In 2020 Clausen introduces his task force with a Freud quote; Katharina scorns it and his elephant parable as her son is still missing.
The older Jonas tells Katharina he is her grandson
Charlotte leads Katharina to the others and explains a tear in time; the stranger reveals who he really is to her.
Katharina refuses to believe Mikkel is alive in 1986
Told her husband is stuck in the 1950s and her son in the 1980s, Katharina calls it all nonsense and storms off.
Katharina confronts Hannah about Jonas and Ulrich
Katharina storms into Hannah's house wanting a way to Mikkel and calls her a parasite for sleeping with her husband and son.
Mikkel's rubella ruins the Nielsens' morning
In 2019 Katharina turns Ulrich down, then Mikkel shows up covered in red spots on the worst possible day.
Katharina and Ulrich's 25th anniversary party
In 2019 the Nielsens celebrate 25 years with friends, champagne, a driver's license gift for Magnus and dancing.
Katharina tells Jonas he shouldn't exist
Katharina demands to know how to bring Mikkel home; Jonas explains Mikkel cannot return because Jonas already exists.
November 4, 2019 in Martha's world: Mikkel's nightmare
A Nielsen family breakfast in the other world: Mikkel muses that none of us are real and pokes Martha to check, while Katharina rouses Magnus.
1987: Katharina searching for Mikkel runs into teenage Ulrich and herself
Stuck in 1987, Katharina canvasses the school with a photo of Mikkel and comes face to face with young Ulrich and her own teenage self.
1987: Katharina learns the asylum madman has been locked up 34 years
Police brush off nameless Katharina's claim to be Mikkel's mother, then let slip that the man in the closed ward has been there for 34 years.
1987: Katharina talks her way into the asylum to see Ulrich
A night guard notices Katharina's St. Christopher pendant and lets her see her imprisoned husband, to whom she makes a promise.
Katharina plans Ulrich's escape from the 1987 asylum
1987: Katharina tells Ulrich she will break him out at ten using her mother's keycard, and vows to bring Mikkel back.
Katharina confronts her mother for the keycard and pays for it
1987: Katharina corners her mother for the keycard, calls her Mom, and her horrified mother turns on her.
Teenage Katharina's mother turns cruel
1987: young Katharina finds her mother bloodied; spotting a gift from Ulrich, her mother lashes out with vile words.
Origin world dinner: Hannah's dream of the world ending
At a dinner toasting Regina, the power fails and Hannah describes a dream of infinite darkness that felt like freedom.
A world without Winden, and a name for the baby
The friends toast to a world without Winden, and Hannah considers a familiar name for her unborn child.