E1 - Episode 1

Aired: January 22, 1989

E2 - Episode 2

Aired: February 19, 1989

E3 - The Pott

Aired: April 09, 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.

E4 - Episode 4

Aired: May 14, 1989

E5 - Episode 5

Aired: May 28, 1989

E6 - Episode 6

Aired: July 09, 1989

E7 - Episode 7

Aired: July 30, 1989

E8 - Blood trail

Aired: 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.

E9 - Episode 9

Aired: October 01, 1989

E10 - Episode 10

Aired: October 29, 1989

E11 - Schimanski - Katja's Silence

Aired: December 03, 1989

When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.

E12 - Episode 12

Aired: December 27, 1989