Episode
Monster: Downfall
Overview
The price for disobeying Dr. Heinemann's orders to operate on the mayor is costly for Dr. Tenma. His career begins to plummet. The boy whom he saved finally awakens, but a horrible incident occurs soon after.
Details
- Series
- Monster
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2004-04-14
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Downfall is Episode 2 in Season 1 of Monster. It aired on 2004-04-14. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 1: Herr Dr. Tenma
Dr. Kenzo Tenma, a leading neurosurgeon at the Dusseldorf Hospital has received massive acclaim for his successful surgery on a famous opera singer. However, he is burdened by guilt. Due to pressure from the director, he had operated on the opera singer on the night that he was supposed to operate on another man. As a result, when the director’s orders him to operate on the mayor, he decides to ignore the order and instead works on saving the life of a young boy, brought to the hospital from the scene of a serial homicide. However, the boy's twin sister, who was brought in with the boy, and who still suffers from shock, keeps repeating the words 'kill him'.
Episode 3: A Murder
Things look brighter for Dr. Tenma, now that Dr. Heinemann is dead. His career takes off, and even Eva tries to win him back. But unfortunately, all that success has drawn the attention of Detective Lunge.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Night of the Execution
Adolf Junkers has information about the serial murders that is vital to the police, but he is afraid to reveal them. Dr. Tenma's care for Adolf Junkers however wins him over. His close relationship with Junkers however leads him to a night of shocking horror.
Episode 5: The Girl of Heidelberg
Nina Fortner, a talented young student in Heidelberg has been having nightmares. She also cannot remember anything about her life before she was 10 years old. She soon suffers from fainting spells in university and starts receiving anonymous emails.
Episode 6: The Missing
Nina finally receives an email informing her to meet the anonymous sender at a specified time and place. Dr. Tenma in his search for the Liebert girl, asks Mauler, an editor for a local publisher, for assistance in his investigations.
Episode 7: House of Tragedy
Tenma and Nina return to the Fortners’ residence to find Mauler and Nina’s parents dead. Two detectives arrive to take them to the station for questioning, but certain things don't look right.
Episode 8: Pursued
Eva tries to threaten Dr. Tenma, unless he gets back with her, she would reveal to the police that the tie that was found at the scene of the crime is his!
Episode 9: The Girl and the Seasoned Soldier
An old mercenary soldier named Hugo is interrogated by Lunge about a student of his, a doctor named Tenma.
Episode 10: A Past Erased
Tenma encounters a burglar named Heckel who claims to have seen the killer. It soon results in Heckel leading Tenma to a couple of murderers.
Episode 11: 511 Kinderheim
Tenma learns that Johan used to be in an orphanage known as Kinderheim 511. And he meets a former East German official named Hartmann who used to work there and an injured boy named Dieter.
Episode 12: A Little Experiment
Dieter is picked up by Hartmann before Tenma could return. And Tenma learns more about the experiments in Kinderheim 511.
Episode 13: Petra and Schumann
In a small village, Dr. Schumann worries over the health of his sick but stubborn old friend, Petra.