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The Best Episodes of Scene of the Crime Season 51

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 18 - Trapped
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S51:E18

    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]

    Director:Isa Prahl
    Writer:Christoph Wortberg

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  2. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    7.7/10(3 votes)

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    Director:Pia Strietmann
    Writer:Holger Joos

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  3. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 29 - Episode 29
    7.6/10(8 votes)

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    Director:Max Zähle
    Writer:Magnus Vattrodt

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  4. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 5 - Monster
    7.5/10(4 votes)

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

    Director:Torsten C. Fischer
    Writer:Jürgen Werner

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  5. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 25 - Berlin - A Few Words After Midnight
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S51:E25

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

    Director:Lena Knauss
    Writer:Christoph Darnstädt

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  6. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 31 - Episode 31
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    S51:E31

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    Director:Grzegorz Muskala
    Writers:Ben Braeunlich, Grzegorz Muskala

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  7. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 9 - Episode 9
    7.0/10(2 votes)

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    Director:Connie Walther
    Writer:Wolfgang Stauch

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  8. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 21 - Episode 21
    7.0/10(3 votes)

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    Director:Christopher Schier
    Writers:Stefan Hafner, Thomas Weingartner

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  9. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 12 - Lindholm - War in the Head
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    S51:E12

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

    Director:Jobst Oetzmann
    Writer:Christian Jeltsch

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  10. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 19 - Episode 19
    6.7/10(3 votes)

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    Director:Friederike Jehn
    Writer:Wolfgang Stauch

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  11. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 28 - Episode 28
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S51:E28

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    Director:Gerd Schneider
    Writer:Boris Dennulat

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  12. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 30 - Episode 30
    6.2/10(4 votes)

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    Director:Sebastian Marka
    Writer:Erol Yesikaya

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  13. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 8 - The Night belongs to you
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S51:E8

    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?

    Director:Max Färberböck
    Writers:Max Färberböck, Catharina Schuchmann

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  14. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 10 - Berlin - The Perfect Crime
    6.0/10(2 votes)

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

    Director:Brigitte Bertele
    Writer:Michael Comtesse

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  15. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 11 - Never Without Me
    6.0/10(2 votes)

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

    Director:Nina Wolfrum
    Writer:Jürgen Werner

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  16. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 13 - Episode 13
    6.0/10(3 votes)

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    Director:Stephan Lacant
    Writers:Stefanie Veith, Michael Comtesse

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  17. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 15 - Episode 15
    6.0/10(1 votes)

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    Director:Petra Katharina Wagner
    Writer:David Ungureit

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  18. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 20 - Episode 20
    6.0/10(2 votes)

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    Director:Mira Thiel
    Writers:Andreas Pflüger, Murmel Clausen

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  19. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 35 - Vienna - Homeless
    6.0/10(4 votes)

    S51:E35

    Eisner and Fellner investigate the death of a homeless man.

    Director:Daniel Prochaska
    Writers:Thomas Christian Eichtinger, Samuel R. Schultschik

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  20. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    5.9/10(8 votes)

    S51:E1

    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.

    Director:Jan Georg Schütte
    Writer:Jan Georg Schütte

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  21. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 17 - Borowski and the Curse of the White Gull
    5.8/10(5 votes)

    S51:E17

    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.

    Director:Hüseyin Tabak
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 33 - Episode 33
    5.8/10(5 votes)

    S51:E33

    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.

    Director:Pia Strietmann
    Writer:Bernd Lange

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  23. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 27 - Vienna - Sick
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    S51:E27

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

    Director:Rupert Henning
    Writer:Rupert Henning

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  24. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 32 - Episode 32
    5.5/10(8 votes)

    S51:E32

    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.

    Director:Dominik Graf
    Writer:Bernd Lange

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  25. Scene of the Crime Season 51 Episode 6 - Golden Times
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    S51:E6

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

    Director:Mia Spengler
    Writer:Georg Lippert

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Season 51 Ratings Summary

"Trapped" is the best rated episode of "Scene of the Crime" season 51. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Isa Prahl and written by Christoph Wortberg, it aired on 5/17/2020. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 4".