Dan and Marianne Sommerdahl's 25th wedding anniversary celebration is interrupted when a Slavic woman is found dead on the beach next to the Kronborg Castle.

With the odds of the baby's survival running out, the detectives trace a packet of Valium with Liliya's fingerprints on it; Marianne has weighty matters to discuss with Dan.

After lottery winner Ursula Jorgensen falls to her death, the probe puts Dan and Flemming on the path of a serial swindler.

Dan and Flemming create a false identity for Marianne so she can pretend to be another lottery winner to lure the con man out of hiding with the promise of a new mark.

Playboy entrepreneur Peter Mynster-Schmidt is found dead in his hot tub on the same day his company's accountant goes missing; Dan and Flemming try to track him down.

Svend's analysis of Peter's accounts uncovers evidence of financial fraud; Dan gets a curious tip from one of Peter's lovers.