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The Best Episodes of Scene of the Crime Season 53

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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Episode 1

    S53:E1

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    Director:Rudi Gaul
    Writer:Katharina Adler

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  2. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 2 - Greed and Fear
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Greed and Fear

    S53:E2

    The team investigate when the body of a man is found in the Dortmund harbor area.

    Director:Martin Eigler
    Writer:Sönke Lars Neuwöhner

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  3. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 3 - Episode 3
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Episode 3

    S53:E3

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    Director:Franziska Meletzky
    Writer:Thorsten Wettcke

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  4. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Episode 4

    S53:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 5 - Four years
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Four years

    S53:E5

    Carolin and Moritz Seitz were once known as a successful couple of actors. But today she is considered the wife of a murderer: four years ago, Moritz Seitz was convicted of killing the former theater star Thore Bärwald after an excessive New Year's Eve party. Now Ole Stark turns himself in to the police. He is also an actor and claims to be the real killer. The public prosecutor's office cannot initiate new investigations, but they give Ballauf and Schenk a week to find out what is true about the story that is being served to them.

    Director:Torsten C. Fischer
    Writer:Wolfgang Stauch

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  6. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 6 - Sara's confession
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Sara's confession

    S53:E6

    After four years in prison for the manslaughter of her father, Sara Manzer wants to look ahead. She has support for her new life - primarily from her friend Marlene, who takes her into her apartment. Sara, who has turned from a party girl into a reserved woman as a result of her imprisonment, wants to shake off memories and reorient herself. But then the police show up at her door. A former colleague was stabbed and old files of her case were found on him. She reluctantly admits that she spoke to Benno Rose before his death. He had new insights into her old case that should relieve her. Sara insists she had nothing to do with Rose's death. Which doesn't stop the inspectors from investigating.

    Director:Kai Wessel
    Writer:Astrid Ströher

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  7. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 7 - Love me!
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #7 - Love me!

    S53:E7

    Feline Wagner disappeared a year ago and a friend reported her missing. Now her body is found by chance in a burial forest during preparations for an urn burial. An argument at the site distracts Faber: It's hard to miss the fact that Commissioner Bönisch and the KTU member Sebastian Haller are already having their private dispute on duty again. Observing that Martina Bönisch's emotional life is putting a strain on herself and her work doesn't leave Faber unmoved. Rosa Herzog and Jan Pawlak contact the Ihle funeral home: The gravesite was reserved here, a few days after Feline Wagner disappeared. It was paid for in cash by a man who gave a false name. Another murder victim is rescued, just a few steps away from the first. There was a year between the two murders - and soon twelve months have passed again...

    Director:Torsten C. Fischer
    Writer:Jürgen Werner

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  8. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Episode 8

    S53:E8

    No description available

    Director:Christine Hartmann
    Writers:Stefan Holtz, Stefan Betz

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  9. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 9 - Prophet
    5.0/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Prophet

    S53:E9

    What begins as a completely "normal" murder investigation takes on ever wider ramifications: The shopaholic Magnus Rosponi is found beaten to death in his apartment. But neither his cheerful bowling friends nor Silke Haller, who recognizes the dead man as a teenage crush, can explain why the popular man had to die. Instead, Professor Boerne finds a strange, small object in the corpse. Thiel discovers parallel amorous entanglements. And when the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution turns up in the shady characters Muster and Mann, things get absurd. Apparently Thiel and Boerne have stirred up a hornet's nest and even attracted the attention of an assassin. But how is it all connected? And what's the story with the little dog that loves eating bananas?

    Director:Sven Halfar
    Writer:Astrid Ströher

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  10. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Episode 10

    S53:E10

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 11 - Tyrannicide
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Tyrannicide

    S53:E11

    Falke and Grosz are entrusted with a delicate task under strict discretion: 17-year-old Juan Mendez has disappeared from a fine boarding school where celebrities and elites from business and politics have their children educated. Juan's father is the ambassador of an authoritarian country. The questionable despot is known for having members of the opposition and journalists arrested and tortured. While Juan's girlfriend Hanna has the worst fears, his best friend August suspects that the boy just wants to avoid the official celebrations of the state visit. Whatever the reason, Juan's disappearance puts the Bergsons, the teachers who run the school, in distress. The good reputation of the school is its most important asset. In the course of the investigations by Falke and Grosz, the boy's bodyguard comes under suspicion, especially when a blackmail letter appears: Juan's kidnappers are trying to free imprisoned opponents of the regime and journalists.

    Director:Christoph Stark
    Writer:Jochen Bitzer

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  12. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 12 - Episode 12
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Episode 12

    S53:E12

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 13 - Episode 13
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Episode 13

    S53:E13

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 14 - Borowski and the Shadow of the Moon
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Borowski and the Shadow of the Moon

    S53:E14

    After an autumn storm, a skeletonized body is found under an uprooted oak tree. As Borowski suspects very quickly, it is the remains of his first friend Susanne. When Borowski was 16, he wanted to hitchhike Fehmarn with her for the legendary Jimi Hendrix appearance. After an argument, however, Susanne disappeared without a trace. Borowski had tried restlessly to clear up the disappearance. What was a grim assumption at the time is now suddenly bitter certainty when the forensic medicine Kroll unambiguously identifies the body. More resolutely than ever and without consultation with his colleagues, Borowski is pursuing the unexpected opportunity to face the perpetrator at the time after all these years. When Mila Sahin sees through this,she is shaken by the tragic fate of her colleague and initially covers him. But Borowski's constant going it alone finally forces her to involve her superior Schladitz.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 15 - Darkness
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Darkness

    S53:E15

    A young couple alerts the police in the middle of the night. The two discovered a woman's body in a forest on the outskirts of Frankfurt. But when the chief inspectors Anna Janneke and Paul Brix arrive there, the body has disappeared.

    Director:Petra Lüschow
    Writer:Petra Lüschow

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  16. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 16 - Why
    6.7/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Why

    S53:E16

    The young IT specialist Lukas Keller is brutally murdered near his sports club for no apparent motive.

    Director:Max Färberböck
    Writers:Max Färberböck, Catharina Schuchmann

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  17. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 17 - Episode 17
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Episode 17

    S53:E17

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 18 - The Girl Who Goes Home Alone
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Girl Who Goes Home Alone

    S53:E18

    A headless male body is recovered from the Spree, whose identity is difficult to establish. A little later, Nina Rubin is being followed by a young woman. Julie Bolshakov tells the detective that she witnessed a murder and asks Rubin for police protection. However, contact with Julie puts Rubin in a dilemma, because from now on she has to keep Karow out of the investigation so as not to endanger the young woman. Karow investigates the identity of the dead man, but senses more and more that his colleague is hiding things from him. Trust has been a thorny issue between the two from the start, and Rubin's behavior hurts Karow - especially since they've also become closer privately. All the more the old problem breaks out again. In her latest case, will Nina Rubin be able to free Julie from the clutches of her crime family?

    Director:The Chau Ngo
    Writer:Günter Schütter

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  19. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 19 - Love Frenzy
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Love Frenzy

    S53:E19

    At first glance, the Bremen inspectors Moormann and Selb are dealing with the suicide of a mentally ill person. After a house fire, the tenant's body is found in her hermetically sealed bedroom. [Harbor Crimes.]

    Director:Anne Zohra Berrached
    Writer:Martina Mouchot

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  20. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 20 - Cold house
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Cold house

    S53:E20

    A wife initially disappears without a trace from her house, which was obviously broken into. Traces of blood suggest the worst. Her husband Simon Fischer called the police, but then left the house. Gorniak, Winkler and Schnabel initiate a large-scale search for Kathrin Fischer. The desperate Fischer himself quickly becomes the focus of the investigation: the traces in the house were manipulated, the break-in was apparently faked - forensics finds older traces of blood... Neighbors and colleagues give different accounts, but there are indications that Fischer beat and terrorized his wife. Did he want to prevent her from leaving him, did he kill her and fake a kidnapping? Or did Kathrin Fischer secretly prepare the escape and stage the bloody act to incriminate her husband, because she can only be safe from him if he is in prison?

    Director:Anne Zohra Berrached
    Writers:Christoph Busche, Anne Zohra Berrached

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  21. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 21 - Living in the Shadows
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Living in the Shadows

    S53:E21

    When Julia Grosz's friend Ela, who infiltrated Hamburg's left-wing autonomous scene as an undercover investigator for the LKA, disappears without a trace, Grosz sets out to look for her. Under a false identity, she goes into the hedonistic, liberal milieu in which her friend seemed to have lost herself.

    Director:Mia Spengler
    Writer:Lena Fakler

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  22. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 22 - Episode 22
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Episode 22

    S53:E22

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 23 - Episode 23
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Episode 23

    S53:E23

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 24 - Episode 24
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Episode 24

    S53:E24

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 25 - Episode 25
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Episode 25

    S53:E25

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    Director:Christine Repond
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 53 Ratings Summary

"Episode 1" is the best rated episode of "Scene of the Crime" season 53. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Rudi Gaul and written by Katharina Adler, it aired on 1/1/2022. This episode is rated 2.0 points higher than the second-best, "Greed and Fear".