Scene of the Crime

Season 20

January 22, 1989 12 episodes

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E1. Episode 1

90m Jan 22, 1989

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E2. Episode 2

90m Feb 19, 1989

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E3. The Pott

90m Apr 9, 1989

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.

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E4. Episode 4

94m May 14, 1989

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E5. Episode 5

90m May 28, 1989

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E6. Episode 6

90m Jul 9, 1989

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E7. Episode 7

90m Jul 30, 1989

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E8. Blood trail

86m Aug 20, 1989

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.

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E9. Episode 9

90m Oct 1, 1989

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E10. The New One

90m Oct 29, 1989

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…