Storyline #1: The love quadrilateral
left to right: Bea, Ben, Julia, Ingo
Bea is trying to get her almost-ex-husband Ben and her sister Julia (I know, ick!) back together in the most embarassing fashion imaginable. Bea's boyfriend, Ben's former best friend Ingo (guess what happened there!), is trying to stop her from getting in the way and making things worse. Ben has agreed to host Julia's modelling after-show party in his club so that she doesn't miss her dance exam. Ingo manages to foil Bea's drunken match-making by pulling an acoustic guitar out of his ass and ad-libbing a serenade for Bea. Vomits all round! Bea finds it all rather sweet though (she is drunk) and Ben follows Ingo's lead and tells Julia that he loves her. We'll have to wait until next week for her answer!
Key Vocabulary:
der Schicksal - fate
die Liebeserklärung - declaration of love
zusammen sein - to be together
die Liebe - love
eine Beziehung - a relationship
ich liebe dich - I love you
du fehlst mir - I miss you
retten - to save
Storyine #2: The love triangle
left to right: Melanie, Deniz, Letizia
Melanie is in trouble with Deniz for failing to inform a model about a change of location for a shoot. Because she is totally in love with Deniz, Letizia takes the blame and suggests that Melanie fulfil her modelling dream by doing the shoot herself. Incidentally these three are only recently reconciled. Letizia having been cast out for having a one-night-stand with Deniz (reason: both were just...angry...with Mel). But when Letizia became voluntarily homeless (her family is stinking rich) they decided to let bygones be bygones somehow and are now inseperable. Melanies shoot is a resounding success and Letizia tries to take her mind of Deniz' pecs with a spot of weight-lifting.
Key Vocabulary:
eine Probeshooting - test shoot
eine Wiedergutmachung - compensation/amends
die Freundschaft - friendship
Storyline #3: A Dead Body in the Leisure Center
left to right: Jenny, Simone, Isabelle, Richard, Erik
Jenny, her mother Simone and Isabelle (a particularly vicious breed of blonde married to Richard, Simone's ex-husband and Jenny's father) come to work in the leisure center they own to find that the foundations of the center have been dug up following damages. The reveal: a dead body - Blackmailer extraordinaire Mr Rainer Velten. All three are implicit in his murder. Erik, Jenny's boyfriend, is the presiding police officer on the case and he is not happy. Richard is also not happy as he is certain the three women in his life have been lying to him. Isabelle is trying to convince Jenny to testify that it was all Simone so that the two of them can get off scott free.
Key Vocabulary
die Lösung - solution
das Alibi - alibi
der Imageschaden - damage to one's image
tragisch - tragic
die Presse - The Press
der Tod - death
jemanden Opfern - to sacrifice someone
etwas aufs Spiel setzen - to gamble something
verschweigen - to keep quiet
der Mord - murder
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