6.0/101 votes#1 - Vienna - Tree of Salvation
Season 40 Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2009
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.
Director: Harald Sicheritz
Writer: Felix Mitterer
NaN/100 votes#2 - Black Peter
Season 40 Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2009
A body is found in a Leipzig canal. The chief inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler manage to find out the identity of the man: it is Peter Schneider, a successful Leipzig entrepreneur and family man.
Director: Christine Hartmann
Writer: Katrin Bühlig
6.0/101 votes#3 - Raven Heart
Season 40 Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2009
A murder without a motive? - Inconceivably. And yet the murder of the 48-year-old senior physician Hermann Johns seems completely unfounded. The renowned physician, who worked in the maternity ward of a Cologne clinic, seems to have been popular with patients and hospital staff alike.
Director: Torsten C. Fischer
Writer: Markus Busch
NaN/100 votes#4 - Checkout
Season 40 Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/2009
Boris Blaschke's body lies on the garbage amid leftovers and packaging that could have come from the shops he worked for, because Blaschke was area manager at the discount chain Billy and responsible for three Ludwigshafen branches. When Lena Odenthal and Kopper inspect his apartment, they realize that there was practically nothing else for Blaschke besides work.
Director: Lars Montag
Writer: Stephan Falk
NaN/100 votes#5 - Bremen - Family Constellation
Season 40 Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2009
The suicide of medical student Rojin Lewald poses a number of puzzles for chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund. The young woman, who comes from a Turkish family, wanted to divorce her German husband. She leaves behind a two-year-old daughter. Her wealthy parents are successful and respected citizens of Bremen, open-minded but devout.
Director: Mark Schlichter
Writer: Thea Dorn
NaN/100 votes#6 - Uncharted Territory
Season 40 Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2009
In his 15th case, inspector Fritz Dellwo has to investigate on his own because his colleague Charlotte Sänger is undergoing further training. But Dellwo is ripe for a vacation and decides to take some time off - a forty-year-old detective in midlife crisis. He visits his old love Katrin and subjects his life to a thorough examination. But even in the supposed idyll, crime catches up with him.
Director: Manuel Flurin Hendry
Writer: Bernd Lange
NaN/100 votes#7 - Heart of Ice
Season 40 Episode 7 - Aired 2/22/2009
A dead body is found in the swimming pool of the "Schloss Hamberg" boarding school: Stephan appears to have committed suicide. Lovesickness may have driven the introverted son of a renowned banker and a celebrated actress to his death. However, an inconspicuous laundry button changes the entire scenario.
Director: Ed Herzog
Writer: Dorothee Schön
NaN/100 votes#8 - Deadly Camouflage
Season 40 Episode 8 - Aired 3/1/2009
Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are investigating the case of a man who was found shot dead in the Filder near Stuttgart Airport. The murdered man appeared to have lived beyond his means, but apparently had no apparent enemies. However, Lannert and Bootz come across unforeseen connections in the professional environment of the dead man, who worked as a customs officer at the airport.
Director: Rainer Matsutani
Writer: Holger Karsten Schmidt
NaN/100 votes#9 - Wallflower
Season 40 Episode 9 - Aired 3/8/2009
Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler are confronted with the excesses of the modern job market. Temporary work and illegal employment seem to encourage abuse of people. A young manager Armin Lohmann is found dead in his apartment. The first suspicion falls on his wife Katrin, but chief inspectors Saalfeld and Keppler find bloody footprints at the scene of the crime, which indicate the presence of a strange woman on the night of the crime.
Director: Johannes Fabrick
Writer: Simone Schneider
NaN/100 votes#10 - Lindholm - The Ghost
Season 40 Episode 10 - Aired 3/15/2009
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.
Director: Dror Zahavi
Writer: Stefan Dähnert
6.3/103 votes#11 - Descent into Hell
Season 40 Episode 11 - Aired 3/22/2009
It's a picture-perfect summer's day when Prof. Boerne's golf tournament in Grothenburg is suddenly interrupted by a dead man in a tuxedo. With the tournament victory firmly in mind, Boerne is briefly tempted to deny his profession and to assume that Dr. Raimund Strothoff, the Münster banker, killed himself. But bondage marks on one of the ankles cause Boerne to call Inspector Thiel.
Director: Tim Trageser
Writer: Matthias Seelig, Claudia Falk
NaN/100 votes#12 - The Song of Dead Things
Season 40 Episode 12 - Aired 3/29/2009
This case takes the Munich chief inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic to their limits: the television astrologer Doro Pirol is found shot to death in her Nymphenburg villa. Not only Doro's husband Remy and her stepfather Prof. K.D. Mosberg are shocked. Even the longtime housekeeper Annemarie Weigand can hardly believe the sudden death of the ethereal beauty. Doro and Remy acted as popular esoteric stars in their TV show "Astraltime" in front of the camera. Selina works as a fortune teller behind the scenes.
Director: Thomas Roth
Writer: Markus Fennert
NaN/100 votes#13 - Urban Warfare
Season 40 Episode 13 - Aired 4/13/2009
Cenk Batu is investigating undercover in the Hamburg Special Operations Command (SEK) on behalf of his superior Uwe Kohnau. Some officials there are suspected of working illegally as trainers abroad and selling their specialist knowledge. Batu manages to gain the trust of SEK man Lars Jansen, who is also said to be involved in the deal. The case seems almost solved when the SEK is suddenly called because of an alleged hostage situation.
Director: Florian Baxmeyer
Writer: Peter Braun, Johannes W. Betz
NaN/100 votes#14 - Above and Below
Season 40 Episode 14 - Aired 4/19/2009
A dead man on the subway calls inspectors Ritter and Stark into action. It is the building contractor Horst Baumann, who had already come to the fore in the past due to a spectacular company bankruptcy. After a long stay abroad, he returned to Berlin to renovate real estate with the help of his attractive wife Alissa and his opaque partner Alsfeld. The investigations quickly bring the inspectors on the trail of the craftsman Rothe, who was ruined by the bankruptcy at the time. Had he wanted revenge on Baumann?
Director: Nils Willbrandt
Writer: Natja Brunckhorst
NaN/100 votes#15 - Bitter Grapes
Season 40 Episode 15 - Aired 4/26/2009
Gerhard Nieser, a wine inspector at the Saarland Institute for Food Research, is found murdered in a house on the outskirts of Saarbrücken. A man like that has a lot of responsibility - and power. Vintners tremble before him, wine shops fear his visit.
Director: Hannu Salonen
Writer: Andreas Pflüger
NaN/100 votes#16 - Borowski and the Ideal World
Season 40 Episode 16 - Aired 5/3/2009
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.
Director: Florian Froschmayer
Writer: Marc Blöbaum, Elke Schuch
6.0/101 votes#17 - Deadly Use
Season 40 Episode 17 - Aired 5/10/2009
Florian robs a gas station to get money for drugs: he needs the money to meet a dealer. The deal is supposed to take place in an abandoned warehouse - but a SEK unit is already waiting there, having received a tip. Everything goes wrong here: Florian escapes, a SEK officer is shot. During their investigations, Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper encounter a wall of silence.
Director: Bodo Fürneisen
Writer: Kai-Uwe Hasenheit
NaN/100 votes#18 - Sinking Ships
Season 40 Episode 18 - Aired 5/24/2009
A dead body is caught in the net of a German fishing boat off the Norwegian coast. But the dead man seems to be the second officer of the container ship MS Karina, Radek Jankowski, and he is apparently not missing. To Inga Lürsen and Stedefreund's astonishment, neither the water police nor the shipping company in Bremerhaven are willing to help.
Director: Florian Baxmeyer
Writer: Wilfried Huismann, Philip LaZebnik
6.0/101 votes#19 - Desire to Have Children
Season 40 Episode 19 - Aired 6/1/2009
When the body of the well-known investigative journalist Sandra Walch is found in the Danube on a foggy autumn morning in Linz, the alarm goes off in the Vienna Ministry of the Interior and Moritz Eisner is immediately dispatched as a special investigator. On the spot, Eisner learns that the reporter had been researching a red-hot story, which she surprisingly no longer wanted to publish.
Director: Walter Bannert
Writer: Thomas Braun, Walter Bannert
NaN/100 votes#20 - In the Wake of Evil
Season 40 Episode 20 - Aired 6/7/2009
Klara Blum and Kai Perlmann have been a well-rehearsed team for years, working well together and also getting along privately. It is all the more dreadful when Klara finds out that Perlmann unexpectedly finds himself in the crosshairs of the investigations involved in the murder of a young woman because he had met Constanza on the evening of her death.
Director: Didi Danquart
Writer: Susanne Schneider
NaN/100 votes#21 - Bremen - Dead Men
Season 40 Episode 21 - Aired 6/14/2009
A male body is found in the Weser. For chief inspector Inga Lürsen and her colleague Stedefreund, it quickly becomes clear that the dead man is a student who met men for money. Are Lürsen and Stedefreund dealing with a serial offender? The inspectors try to reconstruct the last few days before the murder and keep coming across the name of Leon Hartwig, a young electrician who was always exactly where the victim was. Coincidence?
Director: Thomas Jauch
Writer: Jochen Greve
NaN/100 votes#22 - The Girl Galina
Season 40 Episode 22 - Aired 6/22/2009
The two inspectors Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz receive an order over the police radio: a woman with a Slavic accent has called for help. When the two inspectors arrive at the specified address - a luxurious apartment - a young woman lies dead in bed. Before Lannert and Bootz can react, they come under fire themselves.
Director: Thomas Freudner
Writer: Stephan Brüggenthies
NaN/100 votes#23 - With a Steady Hand
Season 40 Episode 23 - Aired 8/23/2009
The puncture wound is deep: Prof. Julius Gann has lost a lot of blood. When he and his wife returned home from a charity gala, an unknown attacker stabbed them in the villa. While help came too late for Carmen Gann, Prof. Gann is now being treated in his own private clinic - and even in this situation he remains the boss.
Director: Maris Pfeiffer
Writer: Jürgen Werner
NaN/100 votes#24 - Architecture of a Death
Season 40 Episode 24 - Aired 9/6/2009
Sofia Martens, star architect and owner of a large architecture office, asks her old friend, public prosecutor Scheer, for help: her assistant Anett Berger has disappeared. Scheer draws Charlotte Sänger and Fritz Dellwo's attention to the case, but they are not exactly enthusiastic about it as the search for missing persons is not one of their duties. At first, they are reluctant to investigate the disappearance of Anett, but they are increasingly fascinated by this completely different world of Sofia Martens.
Director: Titus Selge
Writer: Judith Angerbauer
NaN/100 votes#25 - Borowski and the Stars
Season 40 Episode 25 - Aired 9/20/2009
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.
Director: Angelina Maccarone
Writer: Angelina Maccarone
The Best Episodes of Scene of the Crime Season 40
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Season 40 Ratings Summary
"Vienna - Tree of Salvation" is the best rated episode of "Scene of the Crime" season 40. It scored 6/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Harald Sicheritz and written by Felix Mitterer, it aired on 1/4/2009. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Black Peter".