Code of Silence 2. The Trail of the Black Fish (Season 1)

Code of Silence 2: The Trail of the Black Fish (1994) is a crime detective series you can watch online on iFILM. It's 1986, perestroika has just begun, and Lieutenant Colonel Tura Samatov walks free after his case is dropped for lack of evidence.

Samatov is posted as head of the water police in a town on the eastern shore of the Caspian, where a caviar mafia runs the show. Poachers net sturgeon right through spawning season and share the haul with local officials; before he even arrived, the fishery station had been torched and an inspector killed in the blaze. One poacher has confessed to the fire, yet the real predator turns out to be someone else. With his deputy Silov, Samatov goes after the ring no matter what they threaten.

A sequel to Code of Silence starring Murad Radjabov, this is solid Soviet-Uzbek crime set at the turn of an era. Stream every episode online on iFILM.