The bank robbers steal the wrong bag from Paschke's house. All Paschke wants now is to give the money back.

Patrizia finds out about Superintendant Hagenbach's suspicions, as does the whole town. Paschke tries to decide what to do with the money.

Großstadtrevier is a German television show about a police department in Hamburg's 14th precinct. In this episode, officers Ben Kessler and Katja Metz have been driving a boy to school every day because he's been truant. However, a more urgent matter takes priority. Meanwhile, their colleagues get a call about an unusual break-in.

Paschke, still disguised as Santa Claus, says he is making a delivery to Berlin to avoid the police and his wife. Unfortunately, his photo is in the paper and everyone has seen it.

Wolfgang is kidnapped by the actual thieves, but manages to cleverly escape. However, the chief superintendent is waiting at his house.

Paschke realizes that the bag of money is missing and has been mistaken for a bag of toys! He hurries to the church and finds himself getting into a Santa suit...

Christmas preparations are underway, but the police and the bank robbers are still looking for Wolfgang.

Wolfgang brings the bag of money home and learns more about the bank robbery from a television report. Suddenly, the chief of police is standing at the door...

Paschke is fired the morning after his accident, and finds the bag of money as he is removing his things from the company's vehicle.

Paschke is questioned at the police station and then lies to his wife about how his night ended.

After liquor is secretly added to his beer at the bar, Paschke runs off the road on the icy drive home and is caught by the police. Meanwhile, there are no leads as to who the bank robbers may have been.

In the final part of the film, Bettina and Jan learn the hard way that many people don't understand or believe in their relationship. However, Andreas still retains positive feelings about Bettina, which gives her some confidence.

After Paschke leaves the bank, it is robbed by two men who then proceed to leave what they stole in Paschke's car.

Bettina takes Jan to the place where she served her prison sentence. Jan begins to re-consider how he's lived his life both during the GDR and afterwards.

Jan abandons his marriage and moves in with Bettina, but it is not easy to start a new life together.