Joe exonerates Till and takes all the blame. Irene lets Wolfgang in on the story. He realizes that he was busy with trivial disputes, while his son desperately needed him. Irene notices that Antonia is not feeling well. She makes sure that she can go to her mother in Munich for a few weeks ... Armin excitedly prepares the first tête-à-tête with the singer Lona Dee. But his joy is clouded by a series of misunderstandings ... When Alexander returns from the hospital, Bröcking reveals his plan to the Albrechts. Regina and Joachim are adamantly opposed to letting their son act as bait for the stranger, but Alexander sees no other way out. For Corinna's sake, he wants to finally put an end to the horror. He meets Weissenburg at the agreed place on the Rhine bridge. But then events take a turn for the worse.