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.
Ulrich Nielsen
Every Dark moment featuring Ulrich Nielsen, in story order. Played by Oliver Masucci.
52 moments · 1h 21m
Erik's father storms the police station
Mr. Obendorf accuses the police of doing nothing after 13 days; Ulrich lists the search effort, raises the runaway theory and promises to find Erik.
Nothing ever happens in Winden, except it did once
Ulrich and Charlotte weigh tire tracks and a father's van; Charlotte's hint about his brother cuts deep, and Ulrich asks where his life went wrong.
Jana tells Ulrich everything is repeating after 33 years
At the rest home Ulrich's mother describes a dark figure in the forest and links Erik to his lost brother Mads; Helge chants that it will happen again.
A child's body is found, and it is not Mikkel
The radio call every parent dreads sends Ulrich to the forest edge; he looks at the dead boy and says, twice, that it is not his son.
The dead boy wears 1986: Charlotte briefs the station
Charlotte lays out the evidence: red soil, '80s clothes and Walkman, a 1986 pfennig on a red cord, and a cassette that plays an eerie song.
Ulrich demands a search warrant for the plant
Ulrich tells Charlotte about a door in the cave leading to the nuclear plant and argues the three cases are connected, just like back then.
Ulrich screams at Aleksander through the plant gate
Locked out of the plant, Ulrich begs then rages at Aleksander, calling him an asshole and vowing to return with a warrant to open the gate.
Hannah's visit: Ulrich can't do this now
Hannah turns up at the station wanting Ulrich; he pulls away, shuts down her advances and promises only that he will call.
Ulrich corners Jürgen at the junkyard
Gun drawn, Ulrich finds Erik's drug stash in the scrapyard; a broken father asks where his boy is and gets no answer.
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.
Egon accuses young Ulrich of killing the sheep
Egon barges in on teenage Ulrich, demands to know about the boy and the hoof, and Ulrich fires back that drinking cost him his brother.
Ulrich and Hannah wish for a world without Winden
Lying together after the storm, Ulrich and Hannah joke that the apocalypse was underwhelming and toast to a world where Winden no longer exists.
Calling for Mikkel in the dark of the caves
Someone pushes deep into the Winden caves shouting for help and then for Mikkel, and nothing answers back.
Ulrich caught at the power plant: 'It's my child'
Security hands Ulrich over after he climbs the plant fence; in the car he turns on Charlotte, raging that nobody is searching because it is not their kid.
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.
Ulrich tries to end the affair and Hannah refuses to let go
Ulrich tells Hannah to stop calling; she demands he admit it meant something, and warns she will not simply let him go.
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.
Ulrich's self-loathing and Charlotte's 33-year cycle theory
Ulrich admits he became the incompetent cop he swore never to be; Charlotte answers with the lunar-solar cycle and a feeling that Winden repeats.
Young Hannah accuses Ulrich of assault to her father
A young Hannah hesitantly tells her father she saw Ulrich force himself on a girl, a story that will carry heavy consequences.
Ulrich asks his father where he was the night Mads disappeared
Ulrich visits Tronte, floats that the dead boy from the forest links to 1986, then turns the question on his own father.
Jana reveals Tronte's affair with Claudia Tiedemann
Over a memory of two brothers brawling at Christmas, Jana admits she lied to the police in 1986 and names the woman Tronte was with.
Regina tells Ulrich why Mads walked through the forest
Ulrich demands to know about 1986; Regina answers with the bullying that sent Mads home through the forest and the rape accusation.
Ulrich calls Hannah poison
Ulrich confronts Hannah over her 1986 statement against him, asks what she wants, and gets a one-word answer before he tears into her.
1953: bullies corner young Helge and a stranger steps in
Two boys rob and taunt young Helge in the woods; a man chasing someone else scares them off and tells Helge to fight back.
1953: Agnes Nielsen and her boy Tronte arrive in Winden
A newcomer asks the way to the Tiedemann house and introduces her son Tronte; the man she asks is visibly shaken by the names.
1953: Ulrich begs Egon to say if a dead boy is Mikkel
A frantic Ulrich forces his way to the young policeman, describing his missing son and asking about an old man named Helge Doppler.
1953: Ulrich attacks young Helge to rewrite the future
Ulrich confronts the boy Helge, blames him for deaths still to come, and tries to undo them by striking him down.
Egon arrests Ulrich, who insists he changed the course of time
A chase through 1953 Winden ends with Ulrich on his knees claiming Helge is dead and the boys at the site cannot exist.
Egon tells Ulrich he knows that stare; Ulrich suggests cancer
The old policeman warns the released teen he can feel his guilt in his bones, and Ulrich fires back with a cruel one-liner.
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.
1953: Egon interrogates Ulrich, who taunts his future
In 1953 Egon photographs and grills Ulrich as a child killer; Ulrich begs to be freed and mocks Egon about the drinking and divorce still to come.
Ulrich tells Egon he comes from the future
In 1987 a dying Egon confronts the old prisoner about the song lyrics and his cancer, and Ulrich finally gives his name.
Egon shows Ulrich the photo and Ulrich attacks
In 1987 Egon reflects on losing children, then shows the prisoner a boy's photo; Ulrich lunges and orderlies restrain him.
Old Ulrich grabs Mikkel and is dragged off in 1987
In 1987 Ines finds her boy gone; police tear the escaped old Ulrich away from Mikkel as he swears to kill Egon.
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.
Ulrich teases Jonas about Martha's crush
In 2019 Ulrich mistakes the time-travelling Jonas for his younger self and ribs him about Martha.
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.
Hannah wakes up beside Ulrich in the other world
In Martha's world of 2019 Hannah and Ulrich share a tender morning; she asks him to stay and tells him she loves him before he leaves.
Charlotte tries to end things with Ulrich
At the station Charlotte tells Ulrich they must stop, contradicting what she said that morning, before Wöller walks in.
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 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.
2019, Martha's world: Ulrich breaks down after the bunker body briefing
The boy found by the teenagers wears Mads's clothes; Ulrich tells Charlotte how 33 years of searching left him with a ruined life.
2019, Martha's world: Ulrich grills Martha about the bunker
Ulrich asks if the kids took drugs before finding the body; Martha sticks to her story and snaps at his sudden fatherly concern.
2019, Martha's world: Helge confesses and turns on Ulrich
Old Helge claims he killed the boy and took Mads's things, then recognizes Ulrich and insists it was him.
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.
Hannah warns Charlotte off Ulrich
Charlotte comes looking for Ulrich and gets a possessive warning while he is in the shower; Ulrich is furious she came uninvited.
Charlotte proves the two pennies are one coin
Charlotte shows Ulrich the lab images: the bunker penny and Helge's penny share the same groove, as if it traveled through time.
Ulrich recognizes Mads and corners Helge
A chin scar on the bunker boy tells Ulrich it is his brother Mads; Helge admits he was told to send him to the future to fill the gaps.
Aleksander takes Charlotte to the plant as Ulrich calls about Mads
Aleksander leads Charlotte into the plant to show her something, while Ulrich leaves a voicemail saying the bunker boy is Mads.
Helge Doppler is attacked in 1986 in Eva's world
In the other world the attack on Helge happens in November 1986, while Claudia explains that the two worlds differ only in timing.