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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)

    S53:E1

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    Director:Rudi Gaul
    Writer:Katharina Adler

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

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

    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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  4. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 31 - Episode 31
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    S53:E31

    The chief inspectors Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk are called to a canal on the outskirts of the city. A 19-year-old drug addict has been murdered. It quickly turns out that the victim, Lara Krohn, became a street prostitute because of her addiction. Her best friend, Kim, who is the same age, suspects that Lara was killed by a customer.

    Director:Tini Tüllmann
    Writers:Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf

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

    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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  6. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 3 - The Devil's Long Breath
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    S53:E3

    Total Blackout: Upon waking up, Commissioner Thiel cannot for the life of him explain how he ended up in this hotel room. And what are Professor Boerne and that giant plush koala doing sitting on the edge of his bed? But things are about to get even worse: A body has been found in the woods nearby. The victim turns out to be Thiel’s former boss from his days with the Hamburg Homicide Squad—a man he hasn't seen in years. Or has he? Professor Boerne is fascinated by Thiel’s amnesia and joins him in the search for clues. (Text: ARD)

    Director:Franziska Meletzky
    Writer:Thorsten Wettcke

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

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

    S53:E13

    Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) are called to a crystal-clear case: two bodies and a perpetrator who actually alerted the police himself and is waiting for the investigators at the crime scene—complete with the murder weapon, a motive, and a full confession. It appears to be a crime of passion—a cuckolded husband who simply snapped. Everything could have gone so "smoothly," were it not for the fact that the country's most cunning defense attorney had taken on the accused's case—and secured an acquittal. Shortly thereafter, the attorney himself ends up on the autopsy table—and the acquitted man vanishes without a trace. To top it all off, "Inkasso" Heinzi (Simon Schwarz)—an old acquaintance of Moritz and Bibi—shows up once again to put the pair's friendship to a grueling test.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

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

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

    S53:E24

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

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

    S53:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    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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  16. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 34 - Episode 34
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    S53:E34

    Boulevard reporter Brigitte Burkhard is kidnapped in Dresden. Her masked captor gives the police a 24-hour ultimatum: 150 allegedly abducted children must be released, or Burkhard will die. When it becomes clear that the children do not actually exist, the investigation leads to a father who has been convinced that his daughter was kidnapped and has increasingly become consumed by conspiracy theories.

    Director:Gregory Kirchhoff
    Writer:Unknown

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

    S53:E22

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 27 - Episode 27
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S53:E27

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    Director:Matthias X. Oberg
    Writers:Lars Hubrich, Matthias X. Oberg

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  19. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 28 - The Gates of Hell
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S53:E28

    The death of a priest sends Moritz and Bibi into the world of exorcisms and the occult. [Vienna]

    Director:Thomas Roth
    Writer:Unknown

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

    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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  21. Scene of the Crime Season 53 Episode 35 - Episode 35
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    S53:E35

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    Director:Stefan Schaller
    Writer:Erol Yesilkaya

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

    S53:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    S53:E8

    No description available

    Director:Christine Hartmann
    Writers:Stefan Holtz, Stefan Betz

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

    S53:E17

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    S53:E23

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    Director:Unknown
    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 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Love me!".