Abruptly fired rather then retired at the Huber-Alm ski cable lift, which he devoted his lief to, grandpa to be Anton Zeller sabotaged it and demands 100,000 Euros from new manager Sönke Jung, or a bomb will destroy its gondola. He ignored his wife and daughter Anna are on board with her husband Tilo Fink. Rescue nurse Katharina is painstakingly brought aboard by Markus’s rescue team, which finds out the truth. Emilie’s joy over recovering Franz’s return is overshadowed by the arrival of Lorenz König, unsuspecting Mia’s biological father, which Markus never told her the four months he knows, and she reproaches both. Even Anton Zeller’s wife Karin ignores his troubles and desperate move, Anna realizes she shares in blame for his dismissal as business consultant.