Thursday, October 1st, 2009 (3476)

Carla and Stella are in the entrance hall, looking at a huge teddy bear that Charlie got Sophia for her birthday, when Maria comes down the stairs. Stella wishes her a good morning, but Maria looks at Carla and passes them without saying anything. It is Carla who calls her back and apologizes for her behaviour the day before. Maria says that Carla will obviously always blame her for appointing Ansgar as CEO of the Holding, and that she will have to live with that, but that she would like to have a normal relationship with her daughter. Carla says that she would like that, too, and that Sophia would probably want her grandmother to celebrate her second birthday with her. Maria is surprised and then delighted. Stella, who witnessed the scene, seems skeptical of Carla’s apparent change of heart.

In the living room, Stella, Carla and some members of the staff sing Happy Birthday for Sophia. The cook gives Sophia a cake, and Carla and Stella help Sophia to blow out the candles. Maria enters the room and asks whether she can wish her granddaughter a happy birthday. Carla smiles and invites Maria over. Maria gives Sophia one of the presents she brought back from Boston. Carla suggests that “Grandma” might help Sophia unwrap the present, which Maria does.

Maria and Sophia play with the huge teddy bear that Sophia got from her aunt Charlie while Stella and Carla look on and laugh. Stella says that she has to get back to work, to which Carla replies that it looks like she is unwelcome as well, but Stella suggests that maybe Maria and Sophia will let Carla join the game. Carla and Stella kiss goodbye, then Stella leaves the living room.

Carla joins Maria and Sophia on the sofa. Maria and Carla talk, and Carla keeps pretending that she wants to get along with Maria better. She asks Maria why she signed the Holding over to Ansgar. Maria tries to dodge that question, but Carla keeps at it, until Maria finally gets up and leaves.

Later, Carla apologizes to Maria and says that she of course will accept Maria’s reason for signing over the Holding to Ansgar. Very dramatically, she explains to Maria why the Holding is so important to her, as she had promised her father Johannes to lead the Holding like he would have just before he died. Maria is moved by Carla’s performance, and finally promises to talk to Ansgar.

Carla and Maria meet Ansgar in the entrance hall. When she sees how well they get along, he gets suspicious. Carla tells him that they have to talk to him, thus forcing Maria to act. Maria eventually suggests to Ansgar that he and Carla should manage the Holding together, as a team. Ansgar of course declines that suggestion, and tells Carla that it does not matter what Maria, their supposed mother, wants. Carla tries to get Maria to react and put Ansgar in his place, but she of course does not.

When Maria tries to talk to Ansgar in private, he threatens to have Carla arrested again if Maria does not stop trying to help her.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 (3477)

Carla and Elisabeth discuss the progress of Carla’s plan to regain control of the Holding when Maria joins them. Carla asks her whether she had the chance to talk to Ansgar again. Maria tells her that everything is just a matter of time and formalities. When Carla and Elisabeth later talk about Maria again, Carla expresses concern that Ansgar has something on Maria, but says that she will not leave their mother to Ansgar without a fight.

The next morning, Carla and Stella meet in the hall. Stella asks whether Carla had a good night, but she obviously had not. She tells Stella that she went over her financial statements, trying to come up with a way to help Natalie and the Brandners, who were tricked by Ansgar into taking out a loan with one of his banks and now might lose their construction company. That’s when Natalie arrives at Königsbrunn. Stella says that she has to run some errands and leaves Natalie and Carla alone.

Carla tells Natalie that she cannot help her at the moment, but promises to ask Maria for help. But when she tries to talk to her “mother”, Maria comes up with excuses.

Stella is at Schneider’s and talks to Charlie about how difficult it is for her and Carla to reconcile work and private life. She tells Charlie that sometimes, she dreams of going away with Carla and running a small hotel with her somewhere. Maria, who is also at Schneider’s, overhears their conversation.

After hearing what Stella said, Maria leaves Schneider’s right away and returns to Königsbrunn, where she tells Ansgar about Stella’s dream. She tries to get him to help Stella fulfill her dream, telling him that it might be a way to get Carla to leave Königsbrunn and Düsseldorf altogether, but he refuses.

Full episodes of Verbotene Liebe are available through the show’s official website. Also, there’s a YouTube channel where you can find montages of the various storylines of this week’s episodes.

Pictures: Das Erste

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

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