Martin convinces Julia to move out together, but after he talks over the home assignment clerk to give them a shot against the rules, their application is squashed from the top, which only makes the conflict between Martin and father Hans, who calls his infatuation foolish and immature, deepen into a worrisome family rift. Falk fears for his position after tormented Robert Schnyder's diabetic hospitalization, compromising the party's detente policy, but general Gaucke chooses another scapegoat and even proposes a promotion, against Hans's advice, enabling him to bug Dunja's home, which Hans blames him for bitterly but implicitly. Falk, who disapproves of Martin's affair with Julia even worse then Hans, fearing political/career consequences, gets Martin's Politburo-connected ex Marion to blackmail him with access to their pre-teen daughter Lisa to 'win him back'. Martin and Julia now both consider splitting up for each-other's and their families' sakes. The child-lurer Martin and his cop partner Peter Gorlitz are officially looking out for seems to have got hold of Lisa.
—KGF Vissers