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Two months later, eager to appease the impatiently haunting press, PM Berg blurts out that he'll have a date for the Russian withdrawal on the next day. In fact, Sidorova refuses to continue any negotiations unless the legal Chechen immigrant Elbek Musajev, who is believed to have run over a Russian official leaving the restaurant across from the embassy at night, is extradited as a 'wanted terrorist'. That's impossible under Norwgein law, even if he's found guilty. Shortly after, his student son Iljas Musajev voluntarily confesses to the nocturnal fatal accident. Djupvik is assigned to investigate and gets a credible case that the knave falsely confessed to save his father's neck, and after a politically-expedited trial, Elbek is jailed for two years, yet treats everyone to a gruesome surprise.

Another month later, Djupvik agrees to leave the PM lifeguard job for a newly created one: forming his own team to prevent and handle crimes by Norwegeians against the Russians. A knave is threatened with criminal consequences, unless he immediately takes down a blog inciting resistance against the Russian occupation - even by violence. When Djupvik offers to take the kid home, a bomb in his police car explodes, landing the kid in long-term hospital care. Incidents abound, also among decent Norwegeian citizens, and Russian paranoia again blocks all withdrawal prospects.

The minister of Norway, Jesper Berg, is kidnapped. Berg and the Norwegian government are pressed by Russia and the EU to again start oil production in Norway.

PM Jesper Berg desperately tries to stage a 'normal' Norwegian national day on May 17 to convince the people he didn't accept a Russian occupation, just a temporary transition, but many party members don't attend and the royal guard commander refuses to be decorated for the cowardly surrender that the PM calls astute diplomacy. The reporter he speaks to happens to help out as waiter in his wife's restaurant, just across the Russian HQ. A royal guardsman, Stefan Christensen - who shot at Russian ambassador Sidorova - is being held there. Her life was saved by the PM's alert bodyguard, Hans Martin Djupvik, who now becomes a diplomat by interrogating Stefan while the Russians refuse entry to any other Norwegian, proving he only pretends to be part of a major military rebellion plot.

Djupvik is on the trail of Iljas, who refused to leave the country with uncle Aslan and joined Christensen in a rural hide-out, risking calling kin Jasmine. PM Berg finally reaches the EU-Russian-production-level-demand and expects the occupation to be ended. He hopes to save his party by opening the first of three thorium plants, which should replace fossil fuel in all of Europe. Thomas has already turned the press against him, but then an explosion in a major plant kills Russians, so Sidorova claims Moscow won't allow an evacuation.

Prime Minister Jesper Berg offers the EU a referendum that goes entirely against his ideology, while Hans Martin attempts to find out who was behind the Viksund attack.

Djupvik's traitor boss has him blamed and dismissed, albeit honorably, for the Russians shooting the resistance leader. He feels that a Russian job offer, to keep protecting their nationals, is unpatriotic, but he accepts at the PM's and army commander's confidential request. It becomes clear that the too-inquisitive reporter Thomas Eriksen, whose wife Bente still flirts with a Russian regular guest while her stepson Petter moves in with his mother, was murdered by the Russians, who infiltrate the country routinely trough Lapland. The EU agrees to hold dissuasive field exercises, but takes the teeth of them. Berg orders all illegal intruders expelled, but he completely loses control of his party and government.

PM Berg agrees to a Russian proposal to introduce thorium in their many nuclear power plants and convinces his party rebels that there's no realistic alternative. Their leader Anders would seem a worse pushover to Moscow, so Berg remains head of the government. Djupvik has just accepted the Russian job offer when Berg and his assistant-mistress are taken hostage by a ruthless masked commando, demanding an end to the deportation of Russians and the closure of detention centers that were announced by Berg. While Djupvik mediates, Berg accepts, yet a sharpshooter kills an assailant. Berg is evacuated to the U.S. ambassador's residence and announces a sort of national government in interior exile. Daughter Maja convinces Bente that her father Thomas must have been murdered by the Russians, so she breaks with her admirer and fires Russians from her staff.

Djupvik is evicted from the Russian HQ by Sidorova's harsher successor. PM Berg attempts to relocate the illegal Russians, which Moscow won't take back, to Arctic Spitzbergen, but Russian fighters scare the evacuation planes back. Berg now calls on the Nores to resist the Russian invaders by non-violent, tenacious civil disobedience, but Free Norway unleashes a wave of violence. The U.S. embassy asks Berg to flee to Geneva, yet agrees when he refuses to 'facilitate' negotiations with Moscow, which blatantly waves all accusations.

PM Berg has been hiding out in a foreign national's residence from the Russians. Things don't go according to plan, and Berg ends up in a helicopter being taken to a place that might lead to his downfall.