The West German government takes note of the Stasi coup d'etat and is prepared to recognize them as the new government, only so that the East will hold the line against the BETA. Circe heads to the east to rendezvous with the rebels, hoping to bring back some proof they can win. Lise, now embedded with Borkewald squadron, attacks the leaked location of a rebel leadership meeting in Neuruppin. They are met by the remnants of the 666th, and Theodor leads his sister into a trap, mortally wounding her. He tears open her cockpit and she pleads with him that the rebels are fools and are just using him and can't beat the Stasi, and that she can't understand why he's doing what he's doing and that all she wanted was to be with him. Apologizing for failing to protect her and letting her down, and thanking her for protecting him from the Stasi for all those years at the cost of her own suffering despite the fact that it should have been he who protected her instead as was his job to do as her older brother and as he had promised her he would, he then shoots the mortally wounded Lise in the head to make her death quick.