Marek realizes that the lab ship Linus was talking about is their only hope. On land, Hendrik, Beatrice's outcast son, teams up with the gang boss "the Count".

Islander Ewelike's wife, who lives on the mainland, is applying for the island, but she has a competitor, medical student Daniela. Linus' condition worsens.

Ewelike is seriously accused by Beatrice, Marek does not contradict her. He then tells his terminally ill son how it all began and also how Beatrice came to power.