Episode
Scene of the Crime: Silent Night
Overview
Captain Hendrik Wilkens lies shot dead in his room on Christmas Day. He and his husband had taken in a Filipino sailor for the holidays. Together with Hendrik's children and grandchildren, it was supposed to be a peaceful Christmas. For Liv Moormann and Linda Selb, it looks like a robbery and murder. But was life really as harmonious in the Wilkens family as it seems?
Details
- Series
- Scene of the Crime
- Season
- Season 55
- Episode
- Episode 29
- Air date
- 2024-12-08
- Runtime
- 90 min
Episode context
Silent Night is Episode 29 in Season 55 of Scene of the Crime. It aired on 2024-12-08. The runtime is 90 min.
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Episode 28
After the death of his colleague Grosz, Thorsten Falke is taking a break in the remote St. Joseph monastery when the parish pastor dies in a fire. Child pornography material is found in his estate, which confirms Falke and his colleague Eve Pötter's suspicion that the fire may have been set intentionally.
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