Bea and the new star of the editorial, Karim, try to find evidence that Sweden's largest telecommunications company is bribing the Taliban to build a 5G network; a surprise attack on Dagbladet leads to catastrophic consequences.

Bea and Karim find out what happened to engineer Malin; Vasacom presents a different motive for the events, due to which the investigations reach a dead end; the threat against Karim keeps creeping ever closer.

A system failure at Sweden's largest hospital puts Karim's life at risk; Bea begins investigating the consulting firm that runs the hospital; when Vasacom buy Dagbladet, the editorial staff get filled with Bea's old enemies with evil intentions.

Bea and Karim uncover a cover-up in the cancer ward, but when a whistleblower disappears, she is left without evidence and accused of defamation; Bea risks everything in a debate and finds a family secret that changes her life.

Bea discovers her roots; Karim begins uncovering increasingly troubling aspects of the school company LOGOS, including suspected tax evasion and suspicious ties to the construction company building their new schools.

Bea is forced to choose between her role as a journalist and as a daughter; Bea tries to prevent the newspaper from getting a radical editor-in-chief who wants to change Dagbladet's political direction.