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The Peppercorns: Season 21

13 episodes Premiered Mar 15, 2025 Updated Oct 1, 2026
Previously on The Peppercorns

Season 21 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Peppercorns Season 20.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 21 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 21: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (9): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S21·E1 Mytharc

Shutdown

Mar 15, 2025 · 27 min

Moritz and Hakim observe fifteen-year-old Azra selling suspicious bags at school. Homemade organic gummy bears, she explains, but Moritz doesn't believe a word of it. Azra threaten

S21·E2 Core

The Stolen Eagle

Mar 15, 2025 · 28 min

Jasina finds herself in the middle of a dramatic chase, during which she is secretly given a mini USB stick. The data stored on it leads the Peppercorns to the trail of an illegal

S21·E3 Core

The bouncy animal

Mar 22, 2025 · 28 min

From the HQ window, Taara observes something in the building across the street that she considers suspicious. Jules is skeptical—the items the man over there has stashed away in th

S21·E4 Mytharc

A new home

Mar 22, 2025 · 28 min

There's a lot going on in Kofi's group home: Roommate Freddy is preparing to move out, a new roommate, Piet, is moving in, and then someone vandalizes the office, causing valuable

S21·E5 Core

A little fun

Mar 29, 2025 · 28 min

In HafenCity, a homeless man is hit at night – with Alva's car. And the victim, whom Malin knows and likes as E.T., provides a description of the perpetrator that fits Alva perfect

S21·E6 Core

Flammable

Mar 29, 2025 · 28 min

During a firefighting operation, Pascal suffers from dangerous smoke poisoning. Jules, who is already constantly worried about his father, wants to get to the bottom of the cause.

S21·E7 Core

Online

Apr 5, 2025 · 28 min

Kofi films his friend Till doing parkour, who immediately posts the video online and immediately garners likes and hearts from his fangirl Lea, who has been following him for a whi

S21·E8 Core

Thicker than water

Apr 5, 2025 · 28 min

Kofi and Piet's group home has a new roommate, Milo Kaya. The sixteen-year-old is trying to escape from his criminal family clan with Arne's help. But he is suddenly suspected of s

S21·E9 Core

The confession

Apr 12, 2025 · 28 min

Noah and Pfefferkorn Taara are the English losers in their class. Both suffer from the pressure to perform at school. When their teacher, Amsel, refuses to grant Noah time off for

S21·E10 Core

Animal rights activists

Apr 19, 2025 · 28 min

The radical animal rights organization TBF uncovers a doping scandal and suspects veterinarian Nina Berger of being partly responsible. The veterinarian is the mother of Piet's cla

S21·E11 Core

Copper theft

Apr 19, 2025 · 28 min

Early one morning while jogging, Pfefferkorn Malin hears a scream and spots an injured man who appears to have fallen off a building facade. But before she can make out his face, t

S21·E12 Mytharc

Kiss

Apr 26, 2025 · 28 min

During a choir rehearsal at school, a fight breaks out between student Ana and her former best friend Janine – and Ana leaves the room crying. While trying to comfort her, Malin no

S21·E13 Mytharc

The bank robbery

Apr 26, 2025 · 28 min

On Girls&Boys Day at a bank, Malin, Kofi, Taara, and Jules become embroiled in a robbery and extortion case: Amelie, the bank director's daughter, is kidnapped and her mother is be

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