Scene of the Crime

1Episode 1

90 minJan 2, 2005

2Episode 2

90 minJan 9, 2005

3Episode 3

90 minJan 16, 2005

4Episode 4

90 minJan 30, 2005

5Episode 5

90 minFeb 6, 2005

6Köln - Ghost Town

90 minFeb 13, 2005

The severed thumb of a fugitive cop killer comes to Max and Freddy in the mail, leading them to a deserted town. Directed by Niki Stein, 2005.

7Episode 7

90 minMar 6, 2005

8Episode 8

90 minMar 13, 2005

9Shadow Wedding

90 minMar 20, 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?

10Episode 10

90 minMar 28, 2005

11Episode 11

90 minApr 3, 2005

12Episode 12

90 minApr 17, 2005

13Episode 13

90 minApr 24, 2005

14Köln - Mine Games

90 minMay 8, 2005

One of the owners of a mine-removal nonprofit gets blown up during a jog, and his wife seems curiously unmoved. Directed by Torsetn C. Fischer, 2005.

15Episode 15

90 minMay 22, 2005

16The Sleeping Beauty

90 minMay 29, 2005

Following a celebration held in honor of the winner of a violin competition, music professor Karin Landauer embarks on an erotic liaison with the winner's brother. When she returns to the bedroom from the bathroom, she discovers the young man murdered. Now, her infidelity can no longer be concealed from her husband—an internationally renowned violin virtuoso. However, the husband is far more devastated by the fact that a 300-year-old Stradivarius—"The Sleeping Beauty," which belongs to his wife—has vanished from their apartment, than he is by his wife's adultery. [Eisner]

17Bremen - Scheherazade

90 minJun 5, 2005

A notorious liar wants to convince the Bremen detectives of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.

18Episode 18

90 minJun 12, 2005

19Episode 19

90 minJul 10, 2005

20Episode 20

90 minJul 24, 2005

21The Devil from the Mountain

90 minAug 7, 2005

At the Ministry of the Interior, a German industrialist issues a threat: he will close his company's headquarters in Austria unless the murder of his wife—who was killed a year ago near their farmhouse in the Tyrolean mountains—is finally solved. Consequently, Moritz Eisner is dispatched to crack the case.

22Köln - Frozen

90 minAug 21, 2005

A beloved figure skating celebrity and competition judge is found dead on the ice. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2005.

23Episode 23

90 minAug 28, 2005

24Episode 24

90 minSep 25, 2005

25Borowski in the Underworld

90 minOct 2, 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?

26Episode 26

90 minOct 9, 2005

27Episode 27

90 minOct 16, 2005

28Episode 28

90 minOct 23, 2005

29Episode 29

90 minOct 30, 2005

30Episode 30

90 minNov 6, 2005

31Episode 31

90 minNov 13, 2005

32Episode 32

90 minNov 20, 2005

33Episode 33

90 minNov 27, 2005

34Blowing Snow

90 minDec 18, 2005

After a snowstorm, a forester finds the very young Stefanie Thaller on the edge of an industrial park in the north of Munich: half naked and explored. Rarely have detective inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic faced a murder case with such poor information, and the father of the murdered man, Ludwig Thaller, a traveling salesman, is constantly breathing down the investigators' necks.

35Episode 35

90 minDec 25, 2005