Finding Martin at the burning dacha, blaming state, family and himself for Julia and daughter Anna's fate, Hans offers help to find out the kid's. Martin can't find Dr. Maiwald and general Gaucke seals all documents on the case, but Hans is reinstated at the ministry and manages to track down Dr. Schmolke, who signed the death certificate, and bugs Dunja's telephone to spy o them and their StaSi supervisor. Hans's Gorbachov-moderation is abhorred by pitiless Gaucke, who presses Falk to crack down on the environmental library, now the nerve center of preacher Robert's circle, do. Falk must lean on Vera, who became Robert's lover and follower, with torn loyalty given the family, unable to leave Falk, and agrees adopting Sonja and passes only seemingly meaningless information, which however suffices for Falk to press Nicole's cripple teen son to betray the illegal printing location, in the vicarage, where he accidentally witnesses Vera's adultery.
—KGF Vissers