Carla eventually realizes that she was about to go too far and makes up with Stella. Together, they celebrate Sophia’s second birthday.

Carla (Claudia Hiersche) and Stella (Anne Wis) make up

Monday, September 28th, 2009 (3473)

Carla and Stella are fighting over Carla’s plan to blackmail Ansgar. Carla thinks that Stella is overreacting. She tries to explain that she will not look on when Ansgar ruins the family, and that she has no choice but to use Hannes against him. She tries to persuade Stella that Ansgar loves Hannes and will not risk losing him, but Stella is not convinced. Even when Carla reminds her that she went to jail because she was framed by Ansgar, Stella replies that this is not an excuse to become like him. Then she leaves the library.

Back in her office, Stella tries to work, but she is still too angry. When the cook comes to complain about the oven, Stella tells her to come back later in a very impatient tone. When Christian sneaks up from behind and teases her with a feather duster, she takes her anger out on him and tells him to do his job instead of playing around.

Meanwhile, Carla is still in the library. With a pencil, she is sketching a picture of Stella’s face on a piece of paper. Next to her on the desk is a brochure of an escort service which she intends to use to frame Ansgar and then blackmail him with notifying Child Protective Services that his marriage to Tanja is just a sham marriage. She finally grabs the brochure and calls them to arrange a meeting.

Carla is on her way to the meeting when she meets Stella in the entrance hall. Stella just looks at her disapprovingly, then leaves the hall without saying a word.

Hannes comes running into the hall, wearing an Indian costume, and hides behind Carla. Ansgar follows him. When he sees Hannes with Carla, he tells his son that he will save him from this nasty snake. He takes Hannes by the hand, but before they leave, Hannes looks up to his father and tells him that Carla is not a snake. Ansgar replies that Carla is in fact a very dangerous snake, then tells Hannes to run and hide again. They leave the hall. Stella, who overheard what Hannes said through the open door of the dining room, looks at Carla with an intense, persuasive look, but Carla moves on and leaves the castle.

When Stella brings the mail to the library later, she accidentally pushes a stack of files off the desk. Picking up the papers, she finds the sketch of her face that Carla did earlier. While she is still looking at it, Elisabeth enters the library. When she sees the sketch in Stella’s hands, she says that Carla is indeed very talented, and that it is too bad that she barely finds time to sketch anymore. Stella sadly replies that it is not only the sketching that Carla hardly has time for anymore. Elisabeth explains to Stella how important the Holding is to Carla, that her late father wanted her to manage the family business and that Carla took on this responsibility with all consequences, which is something that she, Elisabeth, admires Carla for.

Meanwhile, Carla arrives at Schneider’s for her meeting. Charlie brings up the night before, when Carla stood Stella up, but Carla is too nervous to talk about that now. When the woman from the escort service arrives, Carla gives her a picture of Ansgar and an envelope with money and explains that she needs someone to seduce Ansgar.  The woman looks at the picture and recognizes Ansgar. She tells Carla that Ansgar has made use of her service many times, but that he never was as generous as Carla. Finally, Carla realizes what she is about to do. She takes the picture and the money and says that she changed her mind. Then she leaves the table.

Later, Stella comes to Schneider’s where Carla is waiting for her at a table with a nice bouquet of flowers. Carla gets up and thanks Stella for coming, but when she tries to kiss her, Stella backs off and tells her that her coming to Schneider’s does not mean that they can get back to business as usual. Carla replies that that was not what she wanted, but that she instead wanted to apologize to Stella. She admits that Stella was right when she said that it was not okay to use Hannes as a bait to blackmail Ansgar, and that she, Carla, was just out of it.

Stella finally sits down and even takes Carla’s hand. She says that she finally understands why the Holding is so important to Carla. Carla explains that she would feel like deceiving her father if she lets Ansgar have his way. Stella is worried that Carla becomes hard and unscrupulous from fighting Ansgar, but Carla is convinced that this will not happen as long she has Stella by her side. She says that she is happy that Stella stopped her from going through with her plan. They smile at each other and kiss.

Carla eventually realizes that she was about to go too far and makes up with Stella. Together, they celebrate Sophia’s second birthday. Carla (Claudia Hiersche) and Stella (Anne Wis) make...

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