Episode 1

S21 E01 • Sunday, Jan 21, 1990 • Jan 21 • 1h 30m

Episode 2

S21 E02 • Sunday, Feb 18, 1990 • Feb 18 • 1h 30m

Episode 3

S21 E03 • Monday, Apr 16, 1990 • Apr 16 • 1h 30m

Episode 4

S21 E04 • Sunday, May 13, 1990 • May 13 • 1h 30m

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.

Episode 5

S21 E05 • Monday, Jun 4, 1990 • Jun 4 • 1h 30m

Zabou

S21 E06 • Saturday, Jul 28, 1990 • Jul 28 • 1h 30m

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?

Episode 7

S21 E07 • Saturday, Aug 4, 1990 • Aug 4 • 1h 30m

Episode 8

S21 E08 • Sunday, Sep 2, 1990 • Sep 2 • 1h 30m

This time the crime scene is an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. Schimanski happens to witness an armed robbery of the landlord Giovanni Salvatore. He intervenes and experiences a fiasco: his girlfriend Renate is pushed into the line of fire by one of the gangsters and dies. Knowing that he has killed an innocent person, he puts down his weapon. Thanner joins the manhunt for the two perpetrators and pays dearly for it: Schimanski finds him unconscious, with serious injuries, after a car accident.

Episode 9

S21 E09 • Sunday, Oct 28, 1990 • Oct 28 • 1h 30m

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.

Episode 10

S21 E10 • Sunday, Nov 11, 1990 • Nov 11 • 1h 30m

Episode 11

S21 E11 • Sunday, Dec 9, 1990 • Dec 9 • 1h 30m