Richard refuses to accept that Victoria is selling the tech campus just to prevent the corporation from being formed. Ironically, Bella gives him an unwitting idea: he backdates old contracts with the construction company and fabricates legal obligations. Will his risky plan work? Simon wants distance after sleeping with Valerie, while she longs for casual intimacy. When Valerie has to prepare a hotel suite for Julius and runs out of time, he reluctantly helps her. But while working together, sparks fly again... Lou doesn’t know how to handle the situation that Jess wants to carry her child to term. When Jess runs into legal trouble with the author Wanneik, Lou offers her help and asks Victoria for a lawyer. In doing so, she confesses the truth to her mother about the mix-up regarding the insemination. Victoria reacts immediately. Carla seeks distraction from menopause in the story of the mysterious Katharina, which Britta strongly disapproves of.