Shortly after hiring Wilsberg to prove his wife Andrea's adultery, actually with Ekki's tax office boss Grabowski, 'alternative' quack Christopher Seekatz is fatally skull-smashed at home and his corpse staged 'ritually. Ekki reports a ticking backpack, leading to z SWAT intervention and the sacking of illegally-immigrated cleaner Hasim Hemidi, whose family Ekki wants to liberate from an abusive privately-run asylum camp. Seekatz's ambition to launch his own 'cures' caused trouble. Alex's client Dr. Oliver Stegner's pharmaceutical firm expects her to 'motivate' an MP to simplify the expensive medical test procedure. It all ties together in Dr. Vermellen's subcontracting test firm, with another murder and a multiple attempt.