Scene of the Crime (Season 51)

Episode 1 (Episode 1) 5.7

Writer: Jan Georg Schütte

Air date: 2020-01-01

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: State of emergency in North Rhine-Westphalia! Four inspectors from different departments have already been killed. There has never been a comparable series of murders in the history of the state. But a hot lead is missing, the investigators are groping in the dark - and the pressure is increasing ... Finally stopping those behind the insidious murders - this is the common goal that investigators from different cities are to swear to: All of them have been in contact with the previous victims. Peter Faber and Martina Bönisch from the Dortmund homicide squad and their colleague Nadeshda Krusenstern from Münster are there. The investigation team also includes Inspector Rettenbach from Oberhausen and Inspector Mitschowski from Aachen. Inspector Ziesing is joining them from the Paderborn criminal investigation department, and Inspector Möller is coming from Düsseldorf.

Episode 2 (Episode 2) 4.3

Writer: Eoin Moore

Air date: 2020-01-05

Runtime: 90 min

No Pity, No Mercy (Episode 3) 4.6

Writer: Johannes Rotter

Air date: 2020-01-12

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Ballauf and Schenk investigate the murder of a 17-year-old student. [Köln]

Episode 4 (Episode 4) 7.7

Writer: Holger Joos

Air date: 2020-01-26

Runtime: 90 min

Monster (Episode 5) 7.5

Writer: Jürgen Werner

Air date: 2020-02-02

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A murderer remains at the scene of the crime and demands to speak with Peter Faber.

Golden Times (Episode 6) 5.3

Writer: Georg Lippert

Air date: 2020-02-09

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Falke and Grosz investigate a murder in Hamburg's red light district.

Episode 7 (Episode 7) 6.0

Writer: Jan Eichberg

Air date: 2020-02-23

Runtime: 90 min

The Night belongs to you (Episode 8)

Writer: Max Färberböck

Air date: 2020-03-01

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Babs Sprenger, a successful businesswoman who lives alone in a spacious apartment in Fürth, was active on various dating sites under an assumed name until a few months ago. She celebrated her birthday alone with her colleague Theresa Hein. The next day, Babs Sprenger was dead. Stabbed with a sushi knife that the police found in the dishwasher, thoroughly cleaned. The knife was Theresa's gift to Babs. How did it become a deadly weapon? What happened that evening? Even after Theresa's confession, the question of why remains unanswered. Voss and Ringelhahn suspect that the truth lies much deeper. What could Theresa be hiding?

Episode 9 (Episode 9) 7.0

Writer: Wolfgang Stauch

Air date: 2020-03-08

Runtime: 90 min

Berlin - The Perfect Crime (Episode 10) 6.0

Writer: Michael Comtesse

Air date: 2020-03-15

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A secret society of law students exercise strange control over a new member.

Never Without Me (Episode 11) 6.0

Writer: Jürgen Werner

Air date: 2020-03-22

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Not far from her apartment, a youth welfare officer is found murdered. [Köln]

Lindholm - War in the Head (Episode 12) 6.7

Writer: Christian Jeltsch

Air date: 2020-03-29

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A split-second decision during a standoff sends Lindholm and Schmitz down an Orwellian rabbit hole of conspiracy and deceit.

Episode 13 (Episode 13) 6.0

Writer: Stefanie Veith

Air date: 2020-04-05

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 14 (Episode 14) 4.8

Writer: Hendrik Hölzemann

Air date: 2020-04-13

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 15 (Episode 15) 6.0

Writer: David Ungureit

Air date: 2020-04-19

Runtime: 90 min

Lindholm - National Feminist (Episode 16) 4.0

Writer: Florian Oeller

Air date: 2020-04-26

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Lindholm and Schmitz navigate dangerous politcal waters to find the killer of a far-right blogger.

Borowski and the Curse of the White Gull (Episode 17) 5.8

Air date: 2020-05-10

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: In the middle of an event at the police college, a young student freaks out and stabs her buddy. He still dies at the scene in the arms of the helpless main commissioner.

Trapped (Episode 18) 8.0

Writer: Christoph Wortberg

Air date: 2020-05-17

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Detectives Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk must solve the murder of the head physician of a psychiatric clinic. Ballauf himself is currently undergoing treatment: a trauma he thought he had overcome resurfaces with full force. After shooting his colleague Melanie Sommer during an operation, he is plagued by nightmares and guilt. Sometimes he believes he sees the dead woman before him. He can't talk about it, not even with his partner Freddy Schenk. The atmosphere within the team is correspondingly tense. During their investigation at the hospital, a patient catches Ballauf's attention. Julia Frey claims she is being held against her will in the clinic's closed ward. Deputy head physician Dr. Koch, however, points to Julia's emotional instability. But Max suspects that Julia's cry for help might be justified. [Köln]

Episode 19 (Episode 19) 6.7

Writer: Wolfgang Stauch

Air date: 2020-05-24

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 20 (Episode 20) 6.0

Writer: Andreas Pflüger

Air date: 2020-06-01

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 21 (Episode 21) 7.0

Writer: Stefan Hafner

Air date: 2020-06-07

Runtime: 90 min

Vienna - Workout (Episode 22) 2.7

Writer: Robert Buchschwenter

Air date: 2020-09-06

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Eisner and Fellner investigate the murder of a bodybuilder.

Funkstille (Episode 23) 4.0

Writer: Stephan Brüggenthies

Air date: 2020-09-13

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 24 (Episode 24) 4.5

Writer: Nicole Armbruster

Air date: 2020-09-27

Runtime: 90 min

Berlin - A Few Words After Midnight (Episode 25) 7.5

Writer: Christoph Darnstädt

Air date: 2020-10-04

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: The murder of a 90-year-old Berlin building tycoon appears to be politically motivated.

Episode 26 (Episode 26) 4.0

Writer: Lorenz Langenegger

Air date: 2020-10-18

Runtime: 90 min

Vienna - Sick (Episode 27) 5.5

Writer: Rupert Henning

Air date: 2020-10-25

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Eisner and Fellner find themselves caught in a war between conventional medicine and alternate healing methods.

Episode 28 (Episode 28) 6.5

Writer: Boris Dennulat

Air date: 2020-11-01

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 29 (Episode 29) 7.7

Writer: Magnus Vattrodt

Air date: 2020-11-08

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 30 (Episode 30) 6.2

Writer: Erol Yesikaya

Air date: 2020-11-15

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 31 (Episode 31) 7.2

Writer: Ben Braeunlich

Air date: 2020-11-22

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 32 (Episode 32) 5.5

Writer: Bernd Lange

Air date: 2020-11-29

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 33 (Episode 33) 5.8

Writer: Bernd Lange

Air date: 2020-12-06

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 34 (Episode 34) 5.2

Air date: 2020-12-13

Runtime: 90 min

Vienna - Homeless (Episode 35) 6.0

Writer: Thomas Christian Eichtinger

Air date: 2020-12-20

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Eisner and Fellner investigate the death of a homeless man.

Episode 36 (Episode 36) 5.3

Writer: Thomas Bohn

Air date: 2020-12-26

Runtime: 90 min