This episode presents a drama about contemporary East Berlin. A colonel of the East German People's Police is assassinated by Richard Thaelman, a young underground hero, and son of Professor Gretchen Anna Thaelman, a Nobel Prize winner. Richard flees to the apartment of Carl Richter, a non-political student of the professor. Under threats from Richard, he helps to plan his escape when he is taken into custody. When he tells the inspector about Richard, he does not believe Carl. Richard is caught and the inspector tells his mother that Carl turned him in. But Carl wins his release and he insists they flee the country and he pledges to carry on their work.