Chris Ritter

Senior inspector Christoph Chris Ritter, played by Gideon Burkhardt, was the fifth assistant of Semir Gerkhan. Formerly an undercover agent for the Landeskriminalamt agency under the alias Marcus Jäger, he later was transferred to the criminal highway police of the Köln/Bonn district after avenging the death of his boss. He made his first appearance in the same episode in which Tom had died. He was the witness of Tom' s death, that is, until Semir arrived on the scene and falsely believed that he was his killer but he proved his innocence later on. His history is very troubled, he was an undercover agent involved in many of the extremely dangerous cases. For this reason, his wife Bea, with whom he had two daughters, divorced him. One of his daughters while his wife appears in the episodes on several occasions. During his espionage career, he was tortured by some thugs who had discovered his identity as a cop, because of the tip from a fellow named Richard Lemercier. In fact, he still has four big and impressive scars on his back, it was later discovered by Semir in the episode '' Best of intentions". Chris, from his past, also has many enemies who promptly reappear in the cases that were solved by his colleagues. In the episode "Nemesis", most of the history of his life is revealed, after a case brought him back to the old days. The relationship is unstable, initially with Semir, Chris was accustomed to act alone in the investigation and that is why he stands out a little from the ordinary colleague. In addition to being annoyed by this, Semir sees him as a person not worthy of the job of Tom Kranich, his great friend, now dead. Chris has a sister named Janette, in the episode "Live and let live", he saved her from a group of an illegal organ trade. In the episode "Among enemies", Chris died in an attempt to save Tanya Kalvus, mafia leader Sander Kalvus' wife and his lover, whom he meets again in a sting operation. Sander Kalvus riddles him with a hail of rifle shots from the helicopter. Ironically, dying the same way as Tom did, Semir addresses his death with a lot of pain and suffering, he ensures the arrest or killing of all murderers of his partners. In particular, with his new colleague Ben Jäger, he catches Sander Kalvus, who had survived his helicopter crash and managed to escape after killing Chris. He used a S.I.G. P225 pistol during his time as a detective. Chris drove the Mercedes Benz C.L.K. W209, the same that Jan and Tom had used, then later, a Mercedes Benz C W204. He was briefly issued Semir 's B.M.W. 3 E90 while he was on a vacation in the episode Live and let live.
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