Scene of the Crime Episode Rating Graph
Nov 1970 - present
Nov 1970 - present
7.3
Browse episode ratings trends for Scene of the Crime. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Scene of the Crime's 1270 episodes.
S40 Ep33
8.8
13th Dec 2009
Ivo has amnesia and is suspected of murdering a colleague.
S43 Ep21
8.6
9th Sep 2012
A desperate call alerted the Kiel police emergency number: "He's in my apartment. He just comes through the wall." But for Carmen Kessler, any help comes too late. The young woman is found brutally murdered in her apartment.
S36 Ep25
8.5
2nd Oct 2005
A new case confronts Commissioner Borowski with grisly finds. In Kiel, the remains of human bodies appear in the sewers - teeth, hair, hip joints. They come from several bodies, and show clear traces of acid. Inspector Borowski and his colleagues are puzzled: where did the remains come from, how did they end up in the sewers, and how many people did they belong to?
S41 Ep34
8.3
19th Dec 2010
This episode begins with the trial of Markus Rapp for rape and murder. Munich Chief Inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic are in the dock as a defense attorney on her first case tears holes in the prosecution. The public becomes more interested in the trial with every passing day as Franz and Ivo's case begins to fall apart.
S38 Ep23
8.3
16th Sep 2007
The city of Kiel goes on lockdown after a sniper shoots a man on the Hörn Bridge.
S42 Ep31
8.3
6th Nov 2011
Two seemingly unrelated cases bring Germany and Sweden together to catch a serial killer. In Kiel, a man jumps into a bathing lake - and is impaled by bamboo sticks. For Borowski and Sarah Brandt, it is initially not clear whether it is the act of a madman who accidentally finds his victims. Or did someone want to punish the dead?
S8 Ep4
8.3
27th Mar 1977
Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Sina Wolf has an affair with her married schoolteacher. When one of her friends attempts to blackmail her, she lures him to the forest and kills him. Kommissar Finke does not believe her story she fabricates and continues to investigate.
S46 Ep36
8.1
29th Nov 2015
A confused woman is found on the Kiel Fjord. Her statements give reason to fear that the notorious murderer of women, Kai Korthals, has reappeared. Inspector Brandt informs her colleague Borowski about the serial killer, with whom she once had traumatic experiences. Borowski finds the new case highly inconvenient. He's in love and wants to get married. But when his bride disappears without a trace, he has to ask himself whether the murderer has returned because of him.
S46 Ep5
8.0
25th Jan 2015
The severed head of a young man is found in Mundsforde, a small village near Kiel. Before his violent death, 20-year-old Mike was apparently addicted to the drug crystal meth. Inspectors Klaus Borowski and Sarah Brandt investigate the drug scene in Kiel. After a manhunt call, Rita, the girlfriend of the deceased, gets in touch. She tells the inspectors about her love for Mike, a story full of hope for a new life, intoxication and ecstasy. Although recently clean, Rita refuses to cooperate with the police. Rita reminds Borowski of his daughter Carla. He puts pressure on Rita and promises to protect her. In her distress, Rita accuses two dealers - and thereby puts herself in danger.
S42 Ep27
8.0
2nd Oct 2011
A young woman has disappeared without a trace and her boyfriend, a beat cop, is convinced she was murdered.
S42 Ep18
8.0
5th Jun 2011
A normal weekday. The chief inspectors Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr are called to the outskirts of Munich. Max Lasinger is waiting excitedly in a glass shop behind the front building, where he confesses he had seen light and wanted to catch a "burglar". When he attacked, he lashed out, but was it self-defense? And will his dementia make his confession untrustworthy?
S41 Ep11
8.0
4th Apr 2010
Borowski finds himself in the backwoods of Finland searching for a young man who escaped custody during extradition.
S34 Ep4
8.0
9th Feb 2003
The celebrated actress Araine Claasen is at the height of her career: she is beautiful and successful and will soon be awarded a television prize. But then the beautiful glow begins to crumble. First Ariane discovers that her husband and manager Roman cheats on her with the young pretty actress Pia Marshall, then her husband is suddenly shot in his villa under mysterious circumstances. Ariane himself is suspected of having killed her husband out of jealousy. How good that she has her sister Franziska at her side, who assists her, but probably knows more than she admits. Till Ritter and Felix Stark find it difficult to determine in the dazzling film world, especially since Ariane is at the center of a media mud battle.But soon her investigation will focus on the mysterious stalker Ricky, a psychopath who seems obsessed with Ariane.
S47 Ep29
7.9
23rd Oct 2016
Ben Schröder is stabbed by a stranger while walking with his family in broad daylight, before the eyes of his wife Ayumi (Luka Omoto), his six-year-old son Taro, and numerous witnesses. During the interrogations, Batic and Leitmayr found a confusing multitude of truths, when the observations of the eyewitnesses contradict each other. The highly complex investigations drag on for several months without any results until the investigation is closed. Then a second victim is stabbed.
S46 Ep28
7.8
20th Sep 2015
Franz Leitmayr leaves town for Oktoberfest because he can't stand it, but is called back because his fingerprints are on a dead man's wallet. The victim appeared drunk but has almost no blood alcohol level. His GHB level is another story, and shutting down the beer tent where he obtained his tainted alcohol is a problem during Oktoberfest. And the victims continue to pile up.
S46 Ep40
7.7
27th Dec 2015
Felix Murot and Magda Wächter are called to the parking garage of a casino in Wiesbaden in the morning where a dead man was found in a stairwell. While securing evidence, Murot discovers another body in the trunk of a car. He finds out that one of the dead had just won a large amount of money, but the money has disappeared. Was it really all about money or is there more to the murders? Then it happens: Ulrich Tukur himself is suspected of murder. A film within a film. Tukur, who plays Tukur, quickly realizes that there are no loyalties in the film industry. But he also poses other questions related to the nature of cinematic illusion and his own role in the hilarious game of genre contradictions, a self-reflective game in which the main character spins around himself in interesting turns. What is it actually like when you play a commissioner, while you are actually Ulrich Tukur, although you are only playing him here? "Who am I?"
S46 Ep13
7.7
29th Mar 2015
The 60-year-old alcoholic Onno Steinhaus is found dead in a working-class district of Kiel. Steinhaus had a criminal record for pedophilia and, as Borowski and Brandt quickly find out, lived in complete isolation. Ironically, however, a group of children seemed to have gone in and out of the dead man. Apparently they exploited the dead man's desires, but - as they claim at least - never complied with his wishes. The police officer responsible for the district, Thorsten Rausch, seems to have capitulated in view of the social neglect in his area. Sarah Brandt's investigations bring to light a video that shows a boy - Timo Scholz - in a catchy situation with Onno Steinhaus. Timo denies having been abused. Borowski has to observe that Sarah Brandt is conspicuously often trying to get close to her police colleague Rausch.
S52 Ep9
7.7
7th Mar 2021
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.
S40 Ep29
7.7
25th Oct 2009
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 "accident" appears to have been a targeted murder attempt with an unusual murder weapon: Father Thiel's taxi.
S44 Ep17
7.6
12th May 2013
Jingle bells on the Kiel Fjord: while Commissioner Borowski and his colleague Sarah Brandt are celebrating Julklapp in the Presidium, a murderer is preparing a dark crime in neighboring Schleswig. At the Lucia Festival parade at a Danish school, a man suddenly caught fire. Kriminalrat Schladitz, who spent his childhood in this place, becomes an involuntary witness to the brutal attack. The dead man, Michael Eckart, was the headmaster here and is a member of the Danish minority. At first everything indicates that the murderer can be found in the immediate vicinity of the dead man.
S48 Ep20
5.1
18th Jun 2017
There is a state of emergency shortly before the Kiel Week. Three million guests from all over the world are expected to celebrate the largest summer festival in Northern Europe. Now, of all times, a treacherously murdered woman is found in an empty apartment in the middle of the city center. There is no trace of the perpetrator, who had evidently set himself up in hiding for months. When inspector Borowski looks around the victim's apartment, he suddenly finds himself in front of a wall of fire. Roman Eggers and the inspector face each other for a moment. Eggers tries desperately to annihilate the consequences of his crime - and saves Borowski at the last moment. Then he disappears into the anonymity of the city, which is slowly filling up with people. When another body is found, Borowski and Brandt are alarmed: Are they dealing with a serial killer?
S36 Ep9
5.5
20th Mar 2005
On the day that Ulrich Wahl is called at home by his young Cuban lover Teresa, his fears are confirmed. Covered in blood and completely distraught, she begs him for help. There is a dead person in her secret love nest must go. Wahl feels compelled to act, else the fragile construction of his double life would shatter into pieces. The corpse that Chief Inspector Klaus Borowski confronts Ulrich Wahl with is not the dead man from his lover's apartment. It is a security guard who was found run over on a construction site by the entrepreneur Wahl. Borowski registers Wahl's cool response to the news. The security guard Bernd Ruda was run over with the car of Thorsten Brück, Teresa's husband. Brück also works for Wahl, but has now disappeared. When Wahl is then blackmailed, he confides in the inspector: someone blames him for the death of the security guard and is blackmailing him with it. But why is Wahl telling the commissioner about it?
S54 Ep17
5.9
7th May 2023
A passerby is pushed in front of a moving truck at the Kiel Fjord: an outbreak of violence from nowhere. Commissioner Borowski is listening to a nearby vocational school. A little later, the main commissioner lands in the intensive care unit with a serious head injury. Mila Sahin is of the greatest concern. Why wasn't she with him when her colleague needed her? She suspects a connection between the senseless act and the attack on Borowski. And then there are these strange calls that reach the main commissioner on the bedside: a girl named Finja claims to have been kidnapped by his sister Celina. Celina Lübbert is one of the girls Borowski interrogated at the vocational school.
S40 Ep1
6.0
4th Jan 2009
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 Turkish girls and a young man hanged themselves from the same tree in order to avoid being forced into marriage by the family.
S40 Ep25
6.0
20th Sep 2009
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 Jung soon find suspects who all had a relationship with Margret.
S53 Ep16
6.3
1st May 2022
The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.
S50 Ep35
6.3
15th Dec 2019
In a coastal forest near Kiel, Commissioners Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin run eight-year-old Simon out of nowhere. Confused, the boy reports that his grandfather was dead in the forest, that he had been attacked by a dog and protected by an Indian. Borowski hurriedly searches the forest, but finds nothing. Instead, he notices a sailing ship anchored in the bay. When Commissioners bring Simon back to his parents Johann and Nadja Flemming, it is confirmed that Grandfather Heinrich has disappeared. He suffered from Alzheimer's and often just started disoriented.
S46 Ep37
6.6
6th Dec 2015
Two shots are fired in a family home in Munich. Batic and Leitmayr find Michaela Danzer dead and her partner Daniel Ruppert unconscious. Quirin, the dead man's six-year-old son, has disappeared along with the murder weapon. During the emergency operation, the doctor discovers a scar from an old gunshot wound on Daniel Ruppert's abdomen, leading Batic and Leitmayr to the trail of an attempted family suicide in Augsburg fifteen years ago. Back then, in an act of sheer desperation, Daniel Ruppert shot his wife and young son. He himself survived, as did his then seven-year-old daughter Ella, whom he couldn't bring himself to shoot. He dismissed her before turning the gun on himself. The fact that the perpetrator from back then is the victim of today is a major headache for Batic and Leitmayr, as is the search for Ella, who is now a young woman and whose trail is lost after numerous therapies. Who shot Ruppert and his new wife that night? And where is Quirin?
S49 Ep9
6.6
25th Feb 2018
Borowski's last case led to the transfer of his colleague Sarah Brandt. In order to escape the anger in the commissariat, Borowski plunges into a case that leads him into the vast landscape of the North Frisian Wadden Sea. On Suunholt, a small, sleepy North Sea island near Denmark, a man was found dead who is no stranger in Kiel. Years ago Oliver Teuber was the key figure in a corruption scandal. The dead man had apparently found a new life and a new love far from Kiel. On Suunholt, the commissioner faces the completely disbanded Famke Oejen, who found her lover lifeless in her shared bathroom. Borowski is captivated by the mysterious atmosphere of the strange islanders.
S40 Ep10
6.6
15th Mar 2009
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 at the time of the crime. For Charlotte Lindholm, however, the case seems clear after just a few hours.
S48 Ep10
6.6
19th Mar 2017
Jürgen Sternow, head of the cyber crime department at the Kiel State Criminal Police Office, was the victim of a murder attack. It is reasonable to assume that the perpetrator is to be found in the area of rapidly growing cybercrime. Commissioners Borowski and Brandt are entrusted with the investigation by the responsible public prosecutor. While Borowski first has to acquire special technical knowledge, Sarah Brandt is in her element as a former hacker. But how do you hunt a perpetrator who has no relation to the victim and who knows all the tricks to hide in the Darknet?
S54 Ep32
6.6
26th Nov 2023
A killed infant is found in a parking lot near Kiels. Where's the mother? Did she kill her child? A found entrance volume leads Klaus Borowski and Mila Sahin to the sleepy town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, which wakes up once a year when the world's largest heavy metal festival attracts 80,000 fans. The first trace leads the commissioners to Caterer Michi, who apparently took the young mother with him.
S40 Ep16
6.7
3rd May 2009
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 and Thies Nowak, have financial problems and are struggling with enormous marital problems. To make matters worse, Nadine is pregnant, and then Thies' ex-girlfriend reappears on the scene.
S39 Ep22
6.8
12th Oct 2008
Borowski goes undercover, placing a personal ad to bait a killer who seems to find victims through a lonely hearts site.
S41 Ep35
6.8
26th Dec 2010
Parts of a man's body are found in an animal trap at the scene of the crime at a country estate near Kiel. This man was a member of a hunting party and everything indicates that militant animal rights activists are behind the murder. But Borowski soon finds out that even the hunting party there seems to have something to hide. This estate was deliberately chosen by the hunting party. Bears have been bought and now the aim is to illegally hunt bears here undisturbed.
S49 Ep25
6.9
2nd Sep 2018
A letter from his godchild Grete conjures up the spirits of the past with Commissioner Borowski. Heike Voigt disappeared four years ago. She was a friend's wife. Her husband Frank Voigt was suspected at the time and acquitted for lack of evidence. In the letter, Grete asks her uncle Klaus for help.
S34 Ep29
7.0
30th Nov 2003
When a driver for a ship chandler gets in trouble with traffic police, a policeman ends up dead. Against the rest of the police force, Borowski is determined that the driver is not the killer. Meanwhile, in order to avoid suspension for chaining up a reluctant murder witness on a brothel roof naked, Borowski has meet with psychologist Frieda Jung.
S35 Ep21
7.0
10th Oct 2004
The carefully draped corpse of 16-year-old student and talented pianist Rita Koehler is found on a grand piano in a concert hall, her body apparently embalmed. Could it have been assisted suicide? The body of an old man, also prepared, is then found - Karl Hahnemann, born in 1923. What did Rita and Hahnemann have in common? Both had a talent: Rita in music, Hahnemann a gifted chess player. A third victim makes it inevitably clear to the investigators that they are dealing with a serial offender: when the seven-year-old, highly talented Björn disappears, Borowski, his colleague Alim Zainalow, and police psychologist Frieda Jung urgently need to decode a pattern in order to track down the perpetrator.
S41 Ep27
7.0
24th Oct 2010
When a 15-year-old boy dies after imbibing an energy drink, Borowski suspects a worker from the manufacturing plant.
S41 Ep30
7.0
21st Nov 2010
A case for Ivo Batic and Franz Leitmayr: Konstanze Schiller, the successful and desirable owner of a Munich spa, is found dead in a chocolate bath - an almost perfect murder that does not skimp on symbolism. A beauty dies during a beauty bath in her own beauty temple... a victim of her pride?
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The first episode of Scene of the Crime aired on November 29, 1970.
The last episode of Scene of the Crime aired on April 07, 2024.
There are 1270 episodes of Scene of the Crime.
There are 55 seasons of Scene of the Crime.
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