Lisa arrives at home to find Nico and Emma eating dinner. In a flashback, Emma reviews her plans for the week.

Brigitta finds out that her friends are having some trouble getting along as roommates and communicating about their expectations.

Lisa reviews Emma's schedule with Nico so that he will be prepared for his duties as a babysitter.

The dinner at Herr Ohrmann's home gets off to a rough start when his employee, Herr Schöller, starts behaving strangely, and Marga reacts in a way that is quite out of character.

To her great disappointment, Lilly only gets a visitor's pass rather than a visa. She remains optimistic about life in the GDR even as she learns more about the reality of living there.

Lisa's colleague is ill and can't teach her class. Lisa would like to help out, but needs to find someone to babysit for Emma first.

After a good night's sleep and a delicious breakfast, Brigitta's friends want to take her out to see their neighborhood. They hope that they can even convince her to move there.

Kathrin continues to reject Lilly's presence in their home, while Lilly learns that her Uncle Rolf has taken trips to the West without ever contacting her.

The next potential roommate is obviously too fussy for Lisa's apartment.

Marga uses Herr Ohrmann's new BMW to get groceries and meets a nice stranger who—suspiciously—seems to know that the car is in trouble before the tailpipe explodes!

After picking her up from the train station, the two roommates are very excited to show Brigitta their apartment. She is impressed, but also very tired from traveling.

The next candidate to take over Nawin's room also fails to make a good impression on the group.

Marga meets Herr Ohrmann's daughter, who is studying law, and asks if she could get some legal help in exchange for teaching her how to cook.

A first potential new housemate comes to look at the room and takes a tour of the group's Wohngemeinschaft (shared apartment).

Lilly learns that it is because of her mother's escape to West Germany that Lena had to stop teaching school. Katrin, certain that Lilly will be send back to the West, continues to be mean to her.