Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. Episode 1

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.

2. Episode 2

3. No Pity, No Mercy

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

4. Episode 4

5. Monster

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

6. Golden Times

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

7. Episode 7

8. The Night belongs to you

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?

9. Episode 9

10. Berlin - The Perfect Crime

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

11. Never Without Me

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

12. Lindholm - War in the Head

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

13. Episode 13

14. Episode 14

15. Episode 15

16. Lindholm - National Feminist

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

17. Borowski and the Curse of the White Gull

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.

18. Trapped

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]

19. Episode 19

20. Episode 20

21. Episode 21

22. Vienna - Workout

Eisner and Fellner investigate the murder of a bodybuilder.

23. Funkstille

24. Episode 24

25. Berlin - A Few Words After Midnight

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

26. Episode 26

27. Vienna - Sick

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

28. Episode 28

29. Episode 29

30. Episode 30

31. Episode 31

32. Episode 32

Pizzeria owner Luca Modica in Dortmund becomes increasingly entangled with the ’Ndrangheta when fugitive mobster Pippo Mauro seeks refuge with him. While Dortmund detectives Faber, Bönisch and Dalay monitor the pizzeria, Munich investigators Batic and Leitmayr arrive to arrest Mauro. When Luca’s wife Juliane agrees to cooperate with the police, the family is placed in deadly danger.

33. Episode 33

Six months after the murder of Juliane Modica, Pippo Mauro, Luca Modica and Luca’s daughter Sofia are hiding out in Munich. Acting on orders from ’Ndrangheta boss Domenico Palladio, Luca and Mauro become involved in a kidnapping that ends in death. While Batic and Leitmayr investigate the case in Munich, Dortmund detective Peter Faber travels there on his own after tracing a call Sofia made to her deceased mother. The two Tatort teams once again cross paths as Sofia tries to discover what happened to her mother.

34. Episode 34

35. Vienna - Homeless

Eisner and Fellner investigate the death of a homeless man.

36. Episode 36 Finale