Plot

[PART 1] On Frank and Leni Brandstetter's family hike with foster son Felix (8), Frank is badly hurt and falls down a ravine when the boy finds and accidentally fires a flair gun. He tells Leni to take Felix home and fetch him later, so nobody learns about the accident. Felix however twists his foot, Leni must call for help but first smashes a rock to her head and pretends amnesia. * Felix also keeps quiet, shocked, yet witnesses confirm Frank was with them. Markus Kofler starts a risky rescue search while the hospital tries to reassure Leni she mustn't hide the truth from the social worker who comes check up on the foster family and indeed finds Felix attached to his foster parents. Tobias and Katharina knowing their father Peter Herbrechter needs cancer treatment, Katharina moves with him to Munich implying she won't stay with Markus, who quickly lands into another bed.—KGF Vissers

[PART 2] Leni slips out of the clinic, Markus finds her but she nor Felix talk. The search for Frank Brandstetter continues, in vain until Markus gets Leni to come clean and take him to the cliff, where they find him in septic shock but arrange a helicopter flight in time. Sympathetic Markus flirts with illegality, keeping the clumsy police side-tracked, having been an orphan boy like Felix, whom social services may soon put in the system. *Markus Kofler is back with ex Lisa Meixner, Katharina having left for Münich for med school. In hospital for cancer therapy, Peter gets a surprise visit and totem heirloom crucifix on loan from frenemy Franz, 'on the way to his sister'.—KGF Vissers