ZERV - Zeit der Abrechnung - Season 1 (2022)

Berlin 1991: The newly founded Central Investigation Agency for Government and Association Crime, "ZERV", begins its work. There is already a first death: Matthias Trockland, jointly responsible for the dissolution of the NVA in the reunified Federal Republic, is found dead in his allotment garden. Peter Simon, commissioner from West Germany in the ZERV, has to investigate together with his colleague from the East Berlin murder squad, Karo Schubert. At first, both find it difficult to accept this because their working methods and their ideas of competence are very ...

Did Trockland have to die because he found out about illegal arms deals? The ZERV seized large quantities of NVA weapons on the military premises that were officially considered scrapped. Peter Simon and his employees guard the military equipment, which is equipped with tracking transmitters, because they want to track down the arms dealers. Simon and Karo Schubert learn that Gärster knew Karo's father from the KoKo days and that Karo's mother had a romantic relationship with Trockland. Simon is overwhelmed by his colleague's personal involvement and doesn't want to ...

The ZERV commissioner Frauke Beckmann was seriously injured. It is unclear if she will ever be able to walk again. Her boss Peter Simon is devastated. In search of the perpetrators, Karo Schubert and Simon end up back at Gärster. His foster son Reiko Böttcher is suspected of having been involved in the theft of the weapons. He is arrested. In the meantime, the ZERV investigator Patrizia Schäfer has located the adoption files in the case of forced adoption: They have found Merker's daughter. Karo's mother Elisabeth discovers Trockland's missing camera with the film ...