Die RAF-Geiselnahme des Arbeitgeberpräsidenten Hanns-Martin Schleyer am 5. September 1977 in Köln und die Entführung der Lufthansamaschine ‚Landshut‘ am 13. Oktober durch ein palästinensisches Terrorkommando hielten die Republik sechs Wochen lang in Atem.

The second part tells of the inferno in the hijacked plane, of the negotiations between the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Stammheim prisoners for their alleged release into a foreign country. It ends with the collective suicide in the high-security wing of Stammheim and the shooting of Schleyer, who had hoped that the hijacking of the plane might give his fate another turn.