20x1 - Episode 1

January 22, 1989

20x2 - Episode 2

February 19, 1989

20x3 - The Pott

April 9, 1989

A pot of half a million marks - donations for workers who want to prevent the closure of their factory by occupying the factory - disappears after a brutal robbery; and shortly afterwards one of them, the union official Broegger, is murdered. The atmosphere in Duisburg is heated, speculation is spreading. Schimanski knows that the case must be solved as quickly as possible. But now, of all times, his friend and colleague Thanner has left him; he has gone to Bonn, to a branch of the BKA.

20x4 - Episode 4

May 14, 1989

20x5 - Episode 5

May 28, 1989

20x7 - Episode 7

July 30, 1989

20x8 - Blood trail

August 20, 1989

Two Polish truck drivers are brutally murdered by an Arab hit squad at a scrap yard in Duisburg. At the same time, the exiled Pole Leczek, scrapyard owner and pimp, is apparently to be executed. But the attack fails. Schimanski and Thanner, who both witness the attack, can't believe their eyes.

20x9 - Episode 9

October 1, 1989

20x10 - Episode 10

October 29, 1989

20x11 - Episode 11

December 3, 1989

20x12 - Episode 12

December 27, 1989