Scene of the Crime (Season 52)

Episode 1 (Episode 1) 5.2

Writer: Murmel Clausen

Air date: 2021-01-01

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 2 (Episode 2) 6.2

Writer: Wolfgang Stauch

Air date: 2021-01-10

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 3 (Episode 3) 6.5

Writer: Dietrich Brüggemann

Air date: 2021-01-17

Runtime: 90 min

Deadly Flood (Episode 4) 6.4

Writer: Arne Nolting

Air date: 2021-01-24

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A journalist asks Falke for help investigating an allegedly illegal real estate deal on the island of Norderney.

Episode 5 (Episode 5) 5.0

Writer: Christoph Busche

Air date: 2021-02-07

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 6 (Episode 6) 5.3

Air date: 2021-02-14

Runtime: 90 min

Idyllic World (Episode 7) 7.0

Writer: Jürgen Werner

Air date: 2021-02-21

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: During an investigation into a fire, the team is confronted with racism, police violence and fake news.

Episode 8 (Episode 8) 4.8

Writer: Lorenz Langenegger

Air date: 2021-02-28

Runtime: 90 min

Borowski and the Fear of White Men (Episode 9) 7.5

Writer: Daniel Nocke

Air date: 2021-03-07

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: The abused body of a young woman is found on a wasteland near a popular Kiel club. The video surveillance of the club will soon provide Klaus Borowski (Axel Milberg) and Mila Sahin (Almila Bagriacik) with a suspect: Mario Lohse (Joseph Bundschuh). The shy-looking outsider regularly watches women's contemptuous videos in the internet forum of the so-called „ Pick-Up Artist “ Hank Massmann (Arnd Klawitter). Since Lohse has no valid alibi, Borowski and Sahin decide to temporarily arrest him.

Episode 10 (Episode 10) 6.5

Air date: 2021-03-21

Runtime: 90 min

Vienna - The Wet Nurse (Episode 11) 5.3

Air date: 2021-03-28

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: An anonymous call leads Eisner and Fellner to investigate the murder of a woman and the disappearance of a child.

Episode 12 (Episode 12) 5.0

Writer: Hendrik Hölzemann

Air date: 2021-04-05

Runtime: 90 min

The evil king (Episode 13) 6.4

Writer: Martin Eigler

Air date: 2021-04-11

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A kiosk operator in Ludwigshafen is brutally slain. It looks like robbery - if it weren't for coins in the dead man's windpipe. A signal for Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern that there could be a private motive for the deed. Her investigations are focused on two customers of the kiosk. Anton Maler looks charming, takes care of his sick ex-girlfriend and is so overly accommodating to the inspectors that he looks suspicious again. Jannik Berg, on the other hand, was not only seen with the possible murder weapon, he tried to evade the police officers and sowed distrust of Anton Maler. Witnesses and suspects who lie and gloss over are nothing new to Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern. This time, however, they have the impression that they are supposed to be manipulated beyond the usual extent.

The Power of Family (Episode 14) 5.8

Writer: Niki Stein

Air date: 2021-04-18

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A botched investigation leads to desperate measures for Falke and Grosz.

Episode 15 (Episode 15) 4.0

Air date: 2021-04-25

Runtime: 90 min

Rythm and Love (Episode 16) 4.8

Writer: Elke Schuch

Air date: 2021-05-02

Runtime: 90 min

Vienna - Conspiracy (Episode 17) 5.0

Air date: 2021-05-09

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Eisner and Fellner investigate the death of a senior official from the Interior Ministry.

Were is Mike? (Episode 18) 4.7

Air date: 2021-05-16

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Five-year-old Mike has disappeared. For three days, his separated parents think their son is with each other, until their mistake is discovered. Now the mother angrily suspects the father, the father the mother. But where is Mike really?

Newborn (Episode 19) 7.3

Air date: 2021-05-24

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Bremen Harbor. A baby is kidnapped from a local clinic.

Berlin - No Place Like Home (The Third Skin) (Episode 20) 5.5

Air date: 2021-06-06

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A realtor is murdered during evictions of an apartment building slated for remodel.

Episode 21 (Episode 21) 6.0

Air date: 2021-08-29

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 22 (Episode 22) 6.6

Writer: Arne Nolting

Air date: 2021-09-19

Runtime: 90 min

Borowski and the Good Man (Episode 23) 5.2

Writer: Sascha Arango

Air date: 2021-10-03

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Alarm in Kiel: In an uprising in the forensic clinic, the woman killer Kai Korthals manages to escape from security custody. Korthals, who crept and killed numerous women in their homes, became Borowski's personal nightmare six years ago when he kidnapped his fiancée Frieda Jung.

Episode 24 (Episode 24) 6.5

Air date: 2021-10-17

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 25 (Episode 25) 6.0

Air date: 2021-10-24

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 26 (Episode 26)

Air date: 2021-10-31

Runtime: 90 min

Episode 27 (Episode 27) 6.0

Air date: 2021-11-07

Runtime: 90 min

Berlin - The Cold and the Dead (Episode 28)

Writer: Markus Busch

Air date: 2021-11-14

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Karow and Rubin investigate the brutal death of a woman active in Berlin's night life.

Episode 29 (Episode 29) 6.0

Writer: Martin Rauhaus

Air date: 2021-11-21

Runtime: 90 min

Masks (Episode 30) 6.5

Air date: 2021-11-28

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Peter Faber and his team investigate after the police chief is involved in an accident.

The Night Wins, Always (Episode 31) 7.0

Air date: 2021-12-12

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: Bremen Harbor. A man's body is found in the harbor.

Miracles are happening from time to time (Episode 32) 5.5

Writer: Matthias Pacht

Air date: 2021-12-19

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: The investigation into a murder case leads the Munich detectives Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr to Dannerberg in the foothills of the Alps. The deceased had most recently worked as an auditor in a nunnery there. However, the God-fearing life only seems tranquil at first glance. Evidence quickly mounts that the monastery's caretaker is involved in the crime. But what is the motive? Were there irregularities in the books that the auditor threatened to uncover? No less irritating are two envoys from Rome who are conducting their own investigations in parallel to Batic and Leitmayr. Are the nuns trying to cover up their own misdeeds? And are there other wondrous secrets lurking behind the monastery walls?

Lindholm - Everything Comes Back (Episode 33) 6.0

Writer: Uli Brée

Air date: 2021-12-26

Runtime: 90 min

Overview: A private rendevous in Hamburg turns into a nightmare after Lindholm is accused of murdering her date.