A few years ago Luis Münchau was a successful police officer at the LKA Rheinland-Pfalz, but then he was dismissed for violence against the accused and witnesses. Now working as a private investigator, he is arrested in a shootout. But he manages to escape. Ironically, Lena Odenthal crosses his path at the wrong moment. Münchau takes her hostage at gunpoint. A dramatic escape through nocturnal Ludwigshafen begins. Lena Odenthal tries by all means to trick Luis Münchau. She manages to throw away his fake papers and keep Kopper and the LKA colleagues on her trail. Meanwhile, they carefully set up a trap. While her colleagues lie in wait in the morning, Lena tries to negotiate with Luis Münchau...