While the situation in Denmark unfolds, Polish woman Julita (20) finds out she is pregnant with her boyfriend, Aron. She is unsure whether she wants to keep the child or not, but Aron convinces her to keep it, and they decide to get married. Julita’s mother-in-law-to-be discovers the premarital pregnancy, which is completely unacceptable in their Catholic family. Without telling Aron, she forces Julita to get an abortion, for the sake of the young couple's future. 
Just before the abortion is about to take place, Aron finds out and hurries off to the hospital. On his motorcycle, he feels relieved, when he sees Julita is calling, but when he answers he's inattentive for a brief second, and a car crashes into him. At the close of this episode, Julita’s life has crumbled – but she hasn’t gone through with the abortion, and is now more determined than ever to keep Aron’s baby.  
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In parallel, we reconnect with Rolf, five years after losing his daughter. Rolf has divorced Maria and is now living in the isolated region of Jutland working at a small-town police station, with absolutely no contact to his former life. 
When what appears to be a simple car-theft takes place in Rolf’s area, his commissioner asks him to go back to the CID in Copenhagen to check the DNA results of the thief from a breathalyzer. A young, ambitious but very headstrong local officer, Neel (28), is surprised to learn about Rolf’s pas connections to the CID, her dream workplace. She asks about Rolf and learns of the loss of his daughter during his investigation of the five-year-old Minna case. Rolf believed that his daughter’s disappearance was connected to Minna’s kidnapping, she is told, and broke down when he realized that Minna’s father was responsible for the crime. 
In Copenhagen, Rolf’s old friend Thybo, who is now head of the Danish Police forensics center, agrees to help him compare the car thief’s DNA to other cases in the DNA register. While waiting for the results, Rolf meets up with Maria at Andrea’s pro forma grave. They are still very emotionally connected to each other, but Maria can’t deal with Rolf not accepting the death of their daughter. 
Concurrently, Neel follows the trail of the perpetrator in Jutland, as she is convinced that he is not just a simple thief. It turns out she is right: he is a convicted serial rapist who just got out of prison, and is currently keeping a new victim prisoner. Neel rescues the girl and captures the rapist. 
At the same time, Rolf gets a result from the DNA register, but the answer disappoints: there is no match or connection to any other cases. When he calls Neel to tell her the bad news, she is uncomprehending. They have just captured the serial rapist who had been convicted in three similar cases – his DNA must be in the system. If not, there must be a flaw in the DNA register… 
Encouraged, Rolf asks Neel to pick up a box from his house, containing DNA evidence from both the Minna case and from his own daughter’s, and bring it to Copenhagen. At the forensics center, they compare the DNA from the Minna case and Andrea’s disappearance. But it seems that all results have been deleted from the Danish system, and there is no match between the evidence Neel has brought from Jutland. Rolf is furious and takes his anger out on officer Hviid, who took over and closed the Minna case after Andrea’s disappearance. The fight leads to Rolf’s arrest. 
While Rolf sits in a cell, Neel receives a message: the new DNA from the Minna case matches a murder case in France, that of an unknown young woman found dead three weeks prior. Rolf is right on one thing at least: the Minna case was not a family affair... Her perpetrator is still at large, and is reoffending.