Scene of the Crime — Season 20

01 Episode 1

Jan 22, 19891h 30m★ 7.0

02 Episode 2

Feb 19, 19891h 30m★ 8.0

03 The Pott

Apr 9, 19891h 30m★ 8.0

A pot of half a million marks - donations for workers who want to prevent the closure of their factory by occupying the factory - disappears after a brutal robbery; and shortly afterwards one of them, the union official Broegger, is murdered. The atmosphere in Duisburg is heated, speculation is spreading. Schimanski knows that the case must be solved as quickly as possible. But now, of all times, his friend and colleague Thanner has left him; he has gone to Bonn, to a branch of the BKA.

04 Episode 4

May 14, 19891h 34m★ 7.0

05 Episode 5

May 28, 19891h 30m★ 8.0

06 Episode 6

Jul 9, 19891h 30m★ 7.5

07 Episode 7

Jul 30, 19891h 30m★ 3.0

08 Blood trail

Aug 20, 19891h 26m★ 7.0

Two Polish truck drivers are brutally murdered by an Arab hit squad at a scrap yard in Duisburg. At the same time, the exiled Pole Leczek, scrapyard owner and pimp, is apparently to be executed. But the attack fails. Schimanski and Thanner, who both witness the attack, can't believe their eyes.

09 Episode 9

Oct 1, 19891h 30m★ 7.0

10 The New One

Oct 29, 19891h 30m★ 7.0

A brutal serial rapist has plunged Ludwigshafen into a state of terror. Young Detective Lena Odenthal of the Vice Squad faces her first major case, focusing her investigation on three men with prior convictions. When one of the attacks ends fatally - and Lena unexpectedly takes charge of the Homicide Division - she decides to set a trap for the perpetrator, unaware that in doing so, she is putting her own life at risk…

11 Schimanski - Katja's Silence

Dec 3, 19891h 30m★ 8.0

When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.

12 Episode 12

Dec 27, 19891h 30m★ 8.0