Scene of the Crime - Season 20
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: January 22, 1989
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: February 19, 1989
3 - The Pott
Air Date: 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.
4 - Episode 4
Air Date: May 14, 1989
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: May 28, 1989
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: July 9, 1989
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: July 30, 1989
8 - Blood trail
Air Date: 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.
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: October 1, 1989
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: October 29, 1989
11 - Schimanski - Katja's Silence
Air Date: December 3, 1989
When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.
12 - Episode 12
Air Date: December 27, 1989