Season 1
🎬 8 Episodes 📅 2026 ⏱ 57 min Ongoing 🔄
Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her former role as Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner knowing that a lab can hold more than evidence; sometimes it holds the things people tried to bury. Scarpetta begins with a new murder that echoes one of Kay’s earliest defining cases, pulling her between a present-day investigation and a professional memory that never fully closed. The series is not driven only by forensic detail, but by the pressure that this work places on family, trust, and the ability to face the past without letting it consume the present.
📊 Season Stats
8
Episodes
2026
Year
57
min / ep
7.6
Watch Hours
1/1
Season No.
⭐ 6.5
Best Episode
Ep. 5 · Hello from space, my D…
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🎬 Episodes 8 episodes
1
⭐ 5.6
Bridge of Time (1)
After returning to her former position as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a sinister and mysterious murder that eerily resembles her first big case from 28 years prior.
🎬 David Gordon Green ✍️ Elizabeth Sarnoff
2
⭐ 6.4
Kay
In present day, Scarpetta and Marino enlist Lucy to track down their former prime suspect from 28 years ago, Matt Petersen, due to a possible link between the cases; while in the past, the two investigate Petersen's potential involvement in his wife's murder.
🎬 David Gordon Green ✍️ Elizabeth Sarnoff
3
⭐ 6.2
Dot
Present Scarpetta and Marino visit Matt Petersen at his Compound while Lucy and Officer Blaise Fruge team up to search for the murder victim's boyfriend. The past investigation takes a turn when Scarpetta is called into the Health Commissioner's office regarding leaks to the press.
🎬 Charlotte Brändström ✍️ Iturri Sosa
4
⭐ 6.0
Pete
Present Scarpetta and Marino uncover troubling similarities between their murder victim and the 'accidental' death of a jogger six months earlier; while in the past, Scarpetta suspects that someone from within her own office is attempting to sabotage her, and she makes a huge discovery in the case.
🎬 Charlotte Brändström ✍️ Ahmadu Garba
5
⭐ 6.5
Hello from space, my Dear
In the present, Scarpetta and Benton's marriage is put to the test when Kay is called in by the FBI to perform autopsies on two dead astronauts found at a crash site that might connect to the murder victim. In the past, it's Friday night and the killer could strike at any moment.
🎬 David Gordon Green ✍️ Matthew Zucker
6
⭐ 5.8
Benton
Past Scarpetta and Benton devise a risky plan to bait the serial killer out of hiding. In the present, Scarpetta orders the exhumation of the dead jogger's body, convinced that there's a connection between the jogger's death and the murder victim. At home, Kay and Benton's mounting secrets and lies …
🎬 David Gordon Green ✍️ Maisha Closson
7
⭐ 5.2
L + J
After confirming a connection between the two deaths in the present, Scarpetta faces mounting professional and personal crises. In the past, she makes a breakthrough in the case.
🎬 Ellen Kuras ✍️ Alison Balian
8
⭐ 5.0
Bridge of Time (2)
In the past, Scarpetta and Marino wrestle with the lie that bonds them forever. In the present, with her family, career, and marriage now fractured, Scarpetta finds herself all alone while a killer is still on the loose...
🎬 David Gordon Green ✍️ Elizabeth Sarnoff