Scene of the Crime - Season 40

Episode 1

Vienna - Tree of Salvation

A young Turkish woman - Ayse Ozbay - is found hanging from a tree in the forest near the Tyrolean market town of Telfs. At first the police assumed it was a suicide, because within a year three other

Episode 2

Black Peter

A body is found in a Leipzig canal. The chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler manage to find out the identity of the man: it is Peter Schneider, a successful Leipzig entrepreneur and famil

Episode 3

Raven Heart

A murder without a motive? - Inconceivably. And yet the murder of the 48-year-old senior physician Hermann Johns seems completely unfounded. The renowned physician, who worked in the maternity ward of

Episode 4

Checkout

Boris Blaschke's body lies on the garbage amid leftovers and packaging that could have come from the shops he worked for, because Blaschke was area manager at the discount chain Billy and responsible

Episode 5

Bremen - Family Constellation

The suicide of medical student Rojin Lewald poses a number of puzzles for chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund. The young woman, who comes from a Turkish family, wanted to divorce

Episode 6

Uncharted Territory

In his 15th case, inspector Fritz Dellwo has to investigate on his own because his colleague Charlotte Sänger is undergoing further training. But Dellwo is ripe for a vacation and decides to take some

Episode 7

Heart of Ice

A dead body is found in the swimming pool of the "Schloss Hamberg" boarding school: Stephan appears to have committed suicide. Lovesickness may have driven the introverted son of a renowned banker and

Episode 8

Deadly Camouflage

Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are investigating the case of a man who was found shot dead in the Filder near Stuttgart Airport. The murdered man appeared to have lived beyond his means, but app

Episode 9

Wallflower

Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are confronted with the excesses of the modern job market. Temporary work and illegal employment seem to encourage abuse of people. A young manager Armin Lohmann is fo

Episode 10

Lindholm - The Ghost

A police officer is shot dead during an identity check at Hanover-Langenhagen Airport. What looks like a criminal's panicked reaction becomes increasingly mysterious. All surveillance cameras were out

Episode 11

Descent into Hell

It's a picture-perfect summer's day when Prof. Boerne's golf tournament in Grothenburg is suddenly interrupted by a dead man in a tuxedo. With the tournament victory firmly in mind, Boerne is briefly

Episode 12

The Song of Dead Things

This case takes the Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic to their limits: the television astrologer Doro Pirol is found shot to death in her Nymphenburg villa. Not only Doro's husband

Episode 13

Urban Warfare

Cenk Batu is investigating undercover in the Hamburg Special Operations Command (SEK) on behalf of his superior Uwe Kohnau. Some officials there are suspected of working illegally as trainers abroad a

Episode 14

Above and Below

A dead man on the subway calls inspectors Ritter and Stark into action. It is the building contractor Horst Baumann, who had already come to the fore in the past due to a spectacular company bankruptc

Episode 15

Bitter Grapes

Gerhard Nieser, a wine inspector at the Saarland Institute for Food Research, is found murdered in a house on the outskirts of Saarbrücken. A man like that has a lot of responsibility - and power. Vin

Episode 16

Borowski and the Ideal World

It's a tough case for Borowski: The body of the eight-year-old girl has hematomas and a broken rib - both older injuries. The inspector takes a closer look at the family: Michelle's parents, Nadine an

Episode 17

Deadly Use

Florian robs a gas station to get money for drugs: he needs the money to meet a dealer. The deal is supposed to take place in an abandoned warehouse - but a SEK unit is already waiting there, having r

Episode 18

Sinking Ships

A dead body is caught in the net of a German fishing boat off the Norwegian coast. But the dead man seems to be the second officer of the container ship MS Karina, Radek Jankowski, and he is apparentl

Episode 19

Desire to Have Children

When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch is found in the Danube on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, the alarm goes off in the Vienna Ministry of the Interior and Moritz Eis

Episode 20

In the Wake of Evil

Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann have been a well-rehearsed team for years, working well together and also getting along privately. It is all the more dreadful when Klara finds out that Perlmann unexpected

Episode 21

Bremen - Dead Men

A male body is found in the Weser. For chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund, it quickly becomes clear that the dead man is a student who met men for money. Are Lürsen and Stedefre

Episode 22

The Girl Galina

The two inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz receive an order over the police radio: a woman with a Slavic accent has called for help. When the two inspectors arrive at the specified addres

Episode 23

With a Steady Hand

The puncture wound is deep: Prof. Julius Gann has lost a lot of blood. When he and his wife returned home from a charity gala, an unknown attacker stabbed them in the villa. While help came too late

Episode 24

Architecture of a Death

Sofia Martens, star architect and owner of a large architecture office, asks her old friend, public prosecutor Scheer, for help: her assistant Anett Berger has disappeared. Scheer draws Charlotte Säng

Episode 25

Borowski and the Stars

Margret Saloschnik, in her mid-fifties, is found dead in front of a hotel in Kiel. Everything indicates that she threw herself off the roof of the hotel. Klaus Borowski and police psychologist Frieda

Episode 26

Flattened

Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk have to solve the murder of a young homeless man. Apparently the young drug addict Andi Lechner was poisoned. The bottle of wine he last drank was laced with antifreeze.

Episode 27

Missing

Lena Odenthal gets a call: a witness wants to testify something important about a murder, but when Lena Odenthal arrives at the meeting point, the witness is dead. The case she wanted to testify about

Episode 28

At Any Cost

The spectacular suicide of the Munich journalist Rainer Truss makes waves. Truss was known for solid front-line research when it came to exposing grievances or corruption. And Ivo's childhood friend c

Episode 29

Temple Robber

Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne is on his way home when he witnesses an old man being ruthlessly run over by a car. When Boerne rushes to the dying victim's aid, he is almost run over himself. The "accide

Episode 30

The Berlin meat king Hans Merklinger is found dead in the cold store of his factory. The dead man had been missing for several days, but was only reported missing by his lover Kathi. When Ritter and S

Episode 31

Lindholm - There Will Be Grief and Pain

For Chief Inspector Charlotte Lindholm, her vacation comes to an abrupt end when a man is shot dead in front of his wife. He is the third victim of a serial killer, a sniper who kills seemingly at ran

Episode 32

Fake Life

A youth center burns down. The body of 40-year-old Ulf Meinert is found in the building. At first everything indicates that he started the fire, but then chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Kep

Episode 33

We're the Good Guys

Ivo has amnesia and is suspected of murdering a colleague.

Episode 34

Contaminated Sites

The death of Willy Schubert, over 80 years old, came as no surprise as he had been seriously ill for a long time. But an attentive medical officer discovers that Schubert's death was caused by drug po