半年间，SNK剧变，总监余英飞离职、门外汉古肇华空降。张家妍虽掌权却难服众。刘艳的公开平台崛起，动摇传统媒体地位，连已入官场的许诗晴亦被卷入新旧媒体的角力。文慧心于此时复出，昭告世人：新闻女王的地位永远不可撼动！
As Leo's replacement Thomas Chamberlain arrives Nikki investigates the murders of Rachel Freedman, shot in the head, and her little autistic son Nathan, who was poisoned. Nikki rejects policewoman Anne Burchett's theory that Rachel killed them both but is perturbed when an impostor, claiming to be Rachel's sister, visits the morgue. At the same time the disfigured corpse of Eva Liron is discovered, killed with the same poison as Nathan. She had been the nanny to French hot shot footballer Isaac Dreyfus and was planning to blackmail him over a sex tape of them both. Jewish Isaac is a controversial figure due to his anti-Muslim sentiments but he denies ant part in the murders. Then another victim, Isaac's agent Mousa, is discovered dead.
余二两为救妻治病偷了好友老疤积蓄，老疤追债致使对方妻子意外死亡。过失杀人的老疤受到了法律的惩罚，其女儿阳馨误以为余二两全家伤害了父亲老疤。至此，阳馨心里暗藏仇恨并开启了一场复仇与赎罪的真心话杀机游戏。
素直でおっとりした性格の仁菜子は、まだ恋という感情を知らず、日々を過ごしていた。そんなある日、帰りの電車で同級生の蓮と遭遇し、次第に彼の秘めた優しさに惹かれていく。胸に何か刺さったように苦しくなる仁菜子。やがて、その思いが“恋”であることを自覚した彼女は、意を決して蓮に思いを伝えるのだった。
