Overview
- Coverage published Aug. 6–7 shows Gabriella installing Maximilian as new Steinkamp staff with full server access, which creates a new alliance between him and Ben.
- Ben and Maximilian move from corporate tactics to plans that one outlet frames as potentially violent, and Ben grows increasingly alarmed by the direction of those ideas.
- Joana pushes through a tense tennis final despite a foot injury and then takes the significant step of filing a police report about her attacker.
- Isabelle supplies Dragan with a false alibi, leaving him burdened by guilt as his choices threaten legal and personal consequences.
- Simone struggles over where to place Richard’s ashes and considers memorial options, a quieter storyline that contrasts with and intensifies the show’s rising legal stakes.