Economics reporter Bea struggles to separate her professional and private lives when she falls in love with a charming bank director.
Bea tries to find evidence of one of Swedens largest telecom companies bribing the Taliban in order to expand its 5G network; after a failed trip to Afghanistan, she returns to Stockholm and is paired with the new star reporter on the team.
Bea and Karim get a confession about what happened to the engineer; VasaCom presents a different motive for the incident, which stalls their investigation; threats against Karim grow; does he leave London of his own free will?
A system collapse at a hospital puts Karim's life at risk; Bea investigates the consulting company running the hospital and suspects that embezzlement has led to the deaths.
Bea searches for her roots and finds that her biological father is making money from the school corporation Logos; Karim starts uncovering troubling aspects of Logos, including suspected tax evasion and ties to the company building their new schools.
Bea is forced to choose between her role as a journalist and as a daughter; she tries to prevent the newspaper from getting a radical editor-in-chief who wants to drastically change Dagbladet's political direction.
Bea meets Peder in Malta while working on a story about a hyped lending company, Easy, that exploits gambling addicts.
Bea is unhappy with her first article about Easy, but when she digs deeper, she meets resistance from her own paper.
Bea infiltrates Together Casino's VIP department to see how gambling addicts are exploited by Easy; an Easy co-owner decides to blow the whistle.
A romantic dinner between Peder and Bea ends in tears; Bea is arrested for searching the Together Casino offices.
Bea is jailed, putting the Daily Post in a predicament; Peder is conflicted by this news; the kidnapping plot unravels.
Bea's mentor Rapp collapses from a heart attack; Bea confronts Peder, and Peder confronts Eckervik.
Thulin and Susanne are dying and Bea races to rescue them; a misunderstanding keeps Bea and Peder apart, and Bea's sexy video falls into the wrong hands.