21x1 - Episode 1

January 21, 1990

21x2 - Episode 2

February 18, 1990

21x3 - Episode 3

April 16, 1990

21x4 - Medicine men

May 13, 1990

Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat early on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski, who needs the boy's statement, tries to break his encapsulation. He has initial success - then Thomas is kidnapped under the eyes of the inspector.

21x5 - Episode 5

June 4, 1990

21x6 - Zabou

July 28, 1990

Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. The trail leads to a luxurious club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. But suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou. He knows her from before, when she was still a child, his girlfriend's daughter. Back then he was like a father to her. But what is she doing here now?

21x7 - Episode 7

August 4, 1990

21x9 - Among brothers

October 28, 1990

A murder in connection with illegal art trading leads - shortly after the fall of the Wall - to the first East-West contacts in the field of crime. Schimanski and Thanner investigate together with their popular colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin: paintings owned by the GDR, which were extorted from museums and private individuals in the course of obtaining foreign currency, were put aside by former Stasi employees after the fall of the Wall and are now to be sold to the West via the old channels. The police suspect the Düsseldorf-based art dealer Schrader to be the key figure.

21x10 - Episode 10

November 11, 1990

21x11 - Episode 11

December 9, 1990