[acoustic waltz music playing]
A NETFLIX SERIES
[acoustic waltz music continues]
[scissors snipping]
[upbeat percussion playing]
[gun cocks, firing]
[engine revving in the background]
[drumroll playing]
[car horn honking]
[music stops]
[trainers squeaking]
[upbeat waltz music playing]
[banging on door continues]
[music stops]
What's this?
Popp.
Local housing authority.
We have reason to believe that the water is contaminated. Um…
Could I?
Come on in.
Just through here.
So the bathroom's here.
Everything's fine with the water, actually.
-Not a bit cloudy? -No.
-[Kleo] Taste of lead? -[woman] Mm-mm.
But the gas boiler is making strange noises.
Like, doosh, doosh, doosh, doosh.
[tense music playing]
[Kleo] Housing authority, water.
Good day.
-Um… everything's fine, actually. -Would you like a drink?
Yeah, yeah.
[tense music continues]
Kleo.
[emotional music playing]
You are…
I… I… I've, uh…
I can explain everything. Um, uh…
Yes. Um, may… maybe there is
something wrong with the boiler. It makes a knocking sound.
-[woman] Hmm. -[Kleo knocking]
Yes, they're unreliable things, these boilers.
[woman] Hmm.
Sometimes switching it off helps.
[tense music playing]
[woman] Hmm…
[Kleo breathes heavily]
I'll come back another time and take care of it.
Till next time.
[ominous synth music playing]
-[Andi groans] -[tense music playing]
[inhales sharply] Kleo, wait!
-[grunts] -Where were you?
-I can explain everything. -Yeah? Explain away then.
Hmm?
[Andi] Kleo, please think about it.
I have thought about it, for three years now.
[Andi] I looked everywhere for you, but you just disappeared.
-[Kleo] Hmm. -[music fades]
[Andi breathing heavily]
And you didn't wonder where I was?
What? Of course.
But you know how things worked.
-Questions weren't allowed. -[gun rattles]
And because questions weren't allowed, you just had me replaced?
[Andi] No, Kleo.
-I wrote you so many letters. -[sinister music playing]
A hundred, a thousand.
They were all returned. I can show you if you want.
[Andi breathing heavily]
They gave me hell for it in the Firm.
I was transferred, demoted.
They'd have strung me up by the balls if I'd carried on.
That would have been the best thing for you to do.
-[Andi groans, breathing heavily] -[music fades]
Yeah?
-[gun rattling] -Who's responsible for this?
[Andi] Comrade Colonel.
It was Wieczorek.
[Kleo] Where is he?
Where is he?!
[indistinct chatter]
-[officer] Oh. Stop there, please. -["Sure Shot" by Frank Shelley playing]
ID papers.
But of course.
[officer] All clear.
-[doorbell ringing] -[song ends]
["Ph Level 1" by Alessandro Rizzo and Elliot Greenway Ireland playing]
[doorbell ringing]
["Ph Level 1" continues]
[banging on door continues]
[Thilo] Yeah?
Good afternoon. Sven Petzold from the Crime Squad.
From the West?
Yeah. [sighs]
-Are you allowed here in the East? -Yeah, yeah.
Erm… I'm looking for a Ms. Kleo Straub. Does she live here?
No, she's not here anymore.
[Sven] Okay.
Is it okay to come in?
-May I? -[Thilo] Can I say no?
No.
Okay.
Wow.
["Ph Level 1" continues]
[Thilo] Sorry, I have to take a shit.
But I'll come right back in a second.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!
Do you know Ms. Straub?
No, I'm just the new tenant.
[toilet flushing]
[Thilo gaps]
-[Sven] Whose clothes are these? -♪ Say, oh yeah, oh yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, oh yeah ♪
[Thilo breathes heavily]
[Sven sniffing]
You're from the West, right?
[Thilo] Lengerich, around there? But it's kind of cool here.
And the apartments cost nothing. Everyone's run off to the West.
All right, listen up, this here, I'm confiscating it, yeah?
Here is my card,
for you if
Kleo Straub shows up again.
-Yeah, sure. -[Sven] Yeah?
["Ph Level 1" continues]
[Thilo] Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!
[song ends]
[Andi] He drove into a bridge on the autobahn to Prenzlau.
But it wasn't an accident.
He killed himself and his wife.
Don't be like him, Kleo.
Just leave it all behind you. Please.
No.
You know, Kleo, I… I didn't think I'd ever see you again.
It messed me up.
Really messed me up.
But… somehow, I had to…
[Kleo breathes heavily]
[Andi] And me and Anja, that…
-[Kleo's trainers squeaking] -[Andi inhales] Kleo?
What happened to our child?
♪ Then came the enemy bullet ♪
♪ During such a beautiful game ♪
♪ With a courageous smile ♪
♪ Our little trumpeter fell ♪
♪ With a courageous smile ♪
♪ And our little trumpeter fell ♪
♪ We grabbed our picks and our spades ♪
♪ And dug his grave in the morning ♪
♪ And those who liked him the most ♪
-♪ Laid him down quietly to rest… ♪ -[engine revving loudly]
[indistinct chatter]
-I went to the cinema. -Yeah?
[Freddy] Driving Miss Daisy. It was really good.
-[Sven] Who was in it? -[Freddy] Uh… Some Black guy.
Never seen him before. But it made me cry.
[Sven softly] Now.
Svenny, don't. You know Böttger. Leave it. It's not good.
Just you wait.
Svenny.
[action music playing]
What is this?
Back in '87. The murder at Eden.
-I've got the perp. -Oh no, you can't be serious.
She comes from the East. That's why we didn't find her.
And this is her.
Petzold, I don't know what's up with you, but I've explained it a thousand times.
There was no murder, there is no perpetrator.
Right, because this woman is not just an ordinary woman.
-[intriguing music playing] -This woman's name is Kleo Straub.
Kleo was very…
[whistles]
She sold the blueprints
for our entertainment electronics to the West
and then claimed that she worked all along for the "Eyes and Ears" on the quiet.
-[Sven] What? -The Stasi. HVA.
-The Directorate of Reconnaissance. -What the…?
The Foreign Intelligence of the Stasi. Division 18.
-The minister's task force. -"Task force."
Responsible for "special problems."
"Responsible for special problems."
I mean, "special problems"?
That's all I'm saying.
Special problems? What kind of special problems?
This woman was a Stasi assassin
who had the job of bumping people off in West Berlin.
Uh-huh. I see.
This here is, uh… another one of your special cases, hmm?
[tense music playing]
[Sven] What?
Uh, no.
[Böttger] Yes, like the story about the animal welfare group
smuggling cocaine to Berlin in parrots.
[laughing]
Okay, I was wrong about that,
but this is true, Mr. Böttger. This is true.
-[tense music continues] -Have you got any proof?
At the moment I'm in… in "feeling" phase. But if I had a bit more time--
Petzold, listen up, hmm? Listen up.
I'll explain it to you again really slowly so you can write it down.
The case has been lying in the files for three years now.
That's where it's staying.
Do as I say. You'll stop all this shit and kindly get on with your job.
End of conversation.
-[intriguing music playing] -[Sven sighing]
[footsteps receding]
I'm not one of those people who always says, "I told you so."
-Freddy, shut up, will you. -Relax. Here, have a piece of cake.
-Hmm? -[spoon clattering]
[sighs] You know what I'll do?
[Freddy] Hmm?
I'm going to Stasi HQ to solve this fucking case.
Oh yeah? Because the GDR secret service--
I don't give a shit about them. I've gotta do something, okay?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Kleo] Hello.
What… [chuckles] What are you doing?
We're going on a little trip.
Let's go.
[suspenseful music continues]
-[music stops] -[birds chirping]
[woodpecker drumming]
Who would have thought that was possible?
And the minister?
They arrested him. He's in Hohenschönhausen prison now.
In his very own prison. Absurd.
Finished.
Good.
-Those are? -Uh… size five.
Ah, too small.
Your money?
[breathes heavily] It's there.
[calm music playing]
[Kleo] Your son?
[sniffles] Grandson.
Cutie.
"Now I'm baking, tomorrow I'm brewing,
the morning after I'll take the queen's child."
I'll keep it just in case.
Good.
-[keys jangling] -[engine starting]
-[birds chirping] -[woodpecker drumming]
-Comrade? Katharina Litt, Division 18. -Yep, sure.
[dark dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
Sven Petzold, Criminal Investigation.
I'm investigating a murder,
and I need to speak to your superior urgently, please.
-From the West, yeah? -Yeah.
Turn off the engine, get out of the car.
-What? But I just need to-- -Get out.
[techno music playing]
[tense music playing]
[trainers squeaking]
Hi there, Comrade Colonel.
[music fades]
[soft music playing]
[Kleo sighs] Ah.
Always nodding. Nodding away.
"Yes. Yes, sir."
"Yes, Comrade Colonel."
"Yes, sir."
Mmm…
-[groans loudly] -[crockery shattering]
[suspenseful music playing]
[trainers squeaking]
Mm-hmm.
"For Ludger on his 50th birthday. Walter Blum."
WALTER BLUM 1ST SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
Well, well.
Hmm.
Happy birthday.
[music fades]
It's really ugly.
You've got "shush-pay."
Huh. Don't you mean "chutzpah"?
That's right.
[both laughing]
[man breathing deeply]
I have served for 29 years
as my proletarian honour demands.
The Ministry of State Security.
I've given everything.
My life. [chuckles] My marriage.
And now? [breathes heavily]
Look around you.
They're disbanding us.
We're being dumped like shit.
[slurps tea]
[trainers squeaking]
[Kleo clears throat]
[suspenseful music playing]
-[suspenseful music intensifies] -[trainers squeaking]
[music fades]
[ethereal music playing]
[inhales deeply]
Hmm.
["Habanera" by Orchestral Ensemble playing]
[inhales sharply]
[shouting] Boo!
-[woman grunts and screams] -[Kleo groans]
[both screaming]
[woman groaning]
-[Kleo panting] -[woman gasping]
[Kleo groaning]
[Kleo grunting and breathing heavily]
You dumb cow!
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[man] I'm sick of it.
[inhales sharply]
That's why I would actually give you what you are asking for.
I'd tell you whether this woman worked for us or not, but…
But what?
I can't do it, because I have no idea.
The files are not here. [sniffling]
And soon we'll be gone.
[munching]
[clears throat] Yeah.
Mmm… so this… this woman was in Reconnaissance, Division 18.
Is there anything that anyone can tell me about this?
[man grumbles]
Well, um… thanks for the cake, yeah?
You're welcome. Pleasure.
Colonel Ludger Wieczorek.
What was that?
-Wow, um… Ludger Wieczorek. -Yeah.
Where would he be?
You won't find him.
He's dead.
Uh-huh.
[man inhales sharply]
[Sven] Thanks.
[man chuckles]
[dramatic synth music playing]
[dramatic synth music intensifies]
[music quietens]
[dramatic synth music continues]
[music fades]
[birds chirping]
[Kleo groaning] Ow, ah…
[gloomy music playing]
[groaning quietly]
[continues groaning]
[laboured breathing]
[spits]
-[breathing heavily] -[music stops]
[birds chirping]
[sighs]
Ooh. Blum. Walter Blum.
[bicycle rattling]
[waltz music playing]
[doorbell ringing]
-[Kleo] Hello. -Hello.
-[Kleo] Thanks very much. -[postman] Have a nice day.
[Kleo sighs]
[Kleo] You've got something on your nose.
"Thank you."
That's okay.
[waltz music continues]
[grunts]
Hmm.
[waltz music continues]
-[Kleo] Right. -[food sizzling]
[news anchor] The former General Secretary Erich Honecker and his wife Margot
are reported to have left their apartment in Wandlitz.
[Kleo gasping]
[reporter 1] Mrs. Honecker? Mr. Honecker, I have a question.
Please.
[reporter 2] A question for TV. A moment, please. Mrs. Honecker…
[reporter 1] Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance to speak to them.
[reporter 2] Mr. Honecker? Yes, over here. I… I've got a question.
[news anchor 2] Moscow. The first McDonald's fast-food restaurant
in the Soviet Union
opened on Wednesday in Moscow's Pushkin Square.
This branch is the biggest of more than 11,000 sales outlets…
[tense music playing]
[cats yowling]
[suspenseful music playing]
[suspenseful music continues]
[music fades]
[Sven breathing heavily]
[intriguing music playing]
-[buckle rattling] -[zip closing]
-[car door closing] -[engine starting]
[Sven sighs]
[grunts and groans]
[breathes heavily]
Okay. [grunts]
[groans and chuckles]
[door clatters loudly]
[music stops]
[breathes heavily]
Yeah.
["Gevaert" by Modulhater and Ghostmaker playing]
[cheers]
Destruction isn't negative.
You have to destroy things to build something new.
A wrecking ball, I always say.
We need space to grow.
The GDR no longer exists.
Just think what's possible today!
A new society,
without capitalism or socialism.
Money has to go first.
We'll change to a barter economy.
If everyone gives, they can take something too.
[cheers]
[Thilo] Oh hi!
I, uh…
["Gevaert" continues]
This is DJ Dr. Pill Peddler.
-Dopi's fine, doll. -Come with me to mine.
-What? -Come with me to mine.
I, uh…
[cheers continue]
[ominous techno music playing]
[Sven whispering] "Felix Dzerzhinsky."
[matches rattling]
"Takifugu poecilonotus."
Sixty-eight Gagarin Street, Walter Blum.
Sixty-eight Yuri Gagarin Street, Walter Blum.
Sixty-eight Gagarin Street.
[blows]
[ominous techno music continues]
[door unlocking]
[gasps]
[music stops]
Oh, wicked.
-[crickets chirping] -You live here now?
It's my grandpa's.
Hang on a sec.
[footsteps approaching]
What are you doing?
We're not gonna fuck?
No.
Oh, okay. I thought you Easterners were…
Oh, doesn't matter.
-What we gonna do instead of fucking? -[Kleo] Nothing.
You'll sleep by me.
Don't like being alone.
Here.
If you mess with me or tell anyone anything about what happens here,
then your life will be over.
Do you get that?
Of course.
Good. Put these on and come.
-Hmm. -[dramatic music playing]
Real old-school, huh?
[Sven breathing heavily]
[music becomes melodic and classical]
[Thilo clears throat]
[motorcycle revving in the background]
[tense music playing]
[doorbell ringing]
[clears throat]
[Blum] Yes?
I'm sorry to disturb you.
Comrade Blum?
I work for the Ministry, sir.
I must tell you something.
It's about a mutual friend.
Uh… this is Party Secretary Blum?
[Blum] Yes.
[door buzzing]
[Kleo] Yeah.
-[television playing in the apartment] -Thank you. Thank you, Comrade Blum.
-And you are? -[Kleo breathes heavily]
I was in Reconnaissance, Division 18.
And now I've heard about Comrade Colonel Wieczorek.
Yes, awful. Awful, awful.
It… It's awful and quite incomprehensible to me.
-I… I just can't understand it. He-- -[Blum] Come in. Come in.
[Kleo] Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yes. Thank you.
[Blum] Yes, come on in.
[Kleo] You know, I'm… I'm really lost for words because Comrade Wieczorek
was always so full of energy.
[reporter speaking in German over TV]
Our Comrade General Secretary is being treated like a criminal.
So awful.
Mmm… You have a seat.
Oh. Thank you. Thank you, Comrade Blum.
-[sighs] -[Blum] Can I maybe offer you something?
No, no, no, no, no. Please don't go to any trouble.
[Blum chuckles]
Well, this business with Wieczorek is bad.
-Bad. Really bad. -It's bad.
[Blum inhales] Well, I'd have put all these counter-revolutionaries
-up against the wall. All of them. -Yep.
-Yeah. -[ominous music playing]
The Comrade Colonel would still be alive.
-[sighs] Tell me about it. -[Blum] Anyway…
[car door closes]
-Uh, you wouldn't like something? -Oh, well… one of those bread rolls?
Oh, they're good Eastern rolls.
-[Kleo] Yes. -[Blum] Mm-hmm.
[Kleo] Then, uh… I can have one?
Thanks. Thanks so much.
Could I… Could I maybe have the egg?
Yeah?
[sighs] Thank you.
My mum used to say eggs are
-so gratifying to eat, yeah? -[ominous music intensifies]
Well, she's right.
Tell me, what did you actually do in Division 18?
I was on the… the minister's "special issues" task force. May I?
[inhales sharply] What was your name again?
Kleo Straub. [chuckles]
[ominous music continues]
-[button clicks] -[dial tone]
[officer] Marzahn police station, who am I talking to?
Hello, police here.
-Um… My name is Sven Petzold. -[ominous action music playing]
And, um… this is an emergency.
[officer] Yes, hang on a moment.
No, wait, listen…
Would you like maybe a cup of real coffee?
[Kleo] Hmm.
Mmm… Yes, maybe, now that you mention it.
[ominous action music continues]
And you and the colonel, you were good friends, right?
[Blum] Not at all.
We just met through business, from shaking hands.
[Kleo] Hmm. I see.
Oh! Oh!
Lovely gift.
-[metal rings] -So personal.
You knew the Comrade Colonel loved his Laika so much
just from shaking hands? Amazing.
[officer] It's me again. What's going on?
Uh… Nothing's happened yet, but something's just about to happen,
most likely a murder.
-[officer] Give me your exact location. -[Sven] Uh…
Gagarin Street.
-Gagarin Street. Number 68-- -[officer] That's not my area.
-I'll put you through to my colleagues. -[Sven] Ah.
What do you want?
Hmm. The Comrade Colonel had me put away in prison,
and I'd like to know the reason.
-What's that got to do with me? -[Kleo] Uh…
You tell me. [chuckles]
No, this isn't a joke. Do I sound like I'm fucking joking?
Gagarin Street. Number 68. Now come on.
[ominous action music continues]
We need sugar.
"Ten tame goats pulled ten hundredweight of sugar to the Zittau train."
[Blum] I'll get some sugar.
[suspenseful music playing]
-[gun firing] -[Blum exhales sharply]
[Blum groaning]
[Blum breathing heavily]
-[gong rings] -[kung fu music playing]
[action music playing]
-[Kleo and Blum scream] -[music stops]
-[crashing] -Fuck!
-[dramatic synth music playing] -Holy shit!
[Sven screams]
Shit. [breathing heavily]
[Sven] Fuck.
[Kleo continues breathing heavily]
-[siren wailing] -[Sven] Hello! Here!
[Kleo gasps]
Over there! There! There!
Someone fell out of the window.
[dramatic synth music continues]
-Fuck! What took you so long? -[officer 2] Calm down.
[door opening and closing]
Hey. Your grandpa's old clothes are super cool, huh?
What are you doing?
[Thilo] I'm thinking.
[Kleo] About what?
[Thilo] Freak Brothers.
Hey, Dopi said Freewheelin' Franklin's star sign is Cancer.
That's total bullshit, right?
Well, Phineas is Leo. There's a victory sign written here.
Fat Freddy, obviously Taurus Ascendant, I don't know, Pisces or Aquarius.
But Freewheelin' Franklin Cancer?
He has zero sensitivity.
[Kleo] Ow.
Sagittarius, Leo Ascendant. Look, right here.
Look at it, he's giving the world the stinky finger.
A Cancer would never do that.
[phone dialling]
[phone ringing]
-Pralina reception. This is Wolf. -Andi? Wieczorek lives.
What?
He's alive?
Kleo, Wieczorek is dead.
You saw his grave.
That's weird.
I found a photo of him. He's in Mallorca looking very much alive.
Perhaps… Perhaps it's an old picture.
[Kleo] How could it be?
Before the border was opened.
And if someone's feeling suicidal about the demise of their country,
-do they go to Mallorca to drink coffee? -[eerie music playing]
No.
Wieczorek lives.
-And he's doing pretty damn good. -[Andi] What are you going to do now?
I'm going there.
Kleo, if his death was staged,
then he didn't plan it on his own.
That means the KGB are in on this.
And you know our colleagues,
they don't think twice.
They'll get rid of you without batting an eyelid.
KGB? Hmm… What is that?
Köstritzer Great Beer?
[Thilo chuckles]
[eerie music continues]
It's not funny. You don't stand a chance against them.
You don't want to pick a fight with Moscow, you hear me?
[in Russian] Not yet.
[Andi] This is what we'll do,
I'll ask around among our comrades and find out what happened. I promise.
So, does that mean we're a team?
[emotional music playing]
Yeah. Yeah.
Yes, it does. Just on one condition.
You don't go to Mallorca, and you're careful, yeah?
Roger that.
I won't go to Mallorca.
Good.
[Kleo in Russian] Goodbye, comrade.
[Andi] Good.
Look after yourself.
[emotional music continues]
[Thilo] Look.
If I practice a bit more, I'll be able to give myself a blowjob.
-[Kleo] Hmm. -Another ten centimetres.
[birds chirping]
[Kleo] What's that?
-Thilo? -[Thilo] Oh, I forgot.
This guy turned up at my apartment and asked about you.
-[sombre music playing] -I didn't say anything.
-[Kleo sighs] Goddamn it. -I didn't tell him anything.
-[birds chirping] -[Sven] Blum… party secretary.
[sombre music continues]
Sven?
-[Sven] Huh? -[Jenny] Where were you all night?
I slept in the car. I couldn't get away. She makes poison from puffer fish.
She just threw a guy out the window.
She's completely crazy.
Who?
-The Stasi assassin. -[Jenny] Which Stasi assassin?
What do you mean, which one? My Stasi assassin. The one from Big Eden.
-What are we having to eat? -Hmm? Oh, right. Shit. Uh…
Is it my turn to cook, yeah?
It was already your turn to cook yesterday.
Can you maybe, uh… um… Okay.
Come on, we'll make pasta or something. That's quick.
[Sven] There's no evidence at all of who the guy was back then.
The guy today was party secretary. How the two are connected, no idea.
What I do know is that it was the same woman.
I was in her apartment and took some clothes away with me.
She had that dress on in Big Eden.
[Jenny] Pretty.
Morning.
Evening.
Hmm!
[kisses] So nice of you to get up.
Yes, my sleeping pattern is a bit off.
And why don't you just arrest her?
Someone in the GDR? I just can't arrest them.
[Jenny] Hmm.
Anyone want garlic bread?
[Sven] Oh, really? We're just cooking.
-Ah. One's fine. -Put it back right now.
-Just do it. -[doorbell rings]
Oh, just one, Dad. I'll get it.
[mysterious music playing]
-[Sven in background] You see, the thing… -Um…
Give me your hand, my little brother.
I'm Rosa Luxemburg.
And you are?
Mark Petzold.
-[Sven continues speaking indistinctly] -Is a Felix Dzerzhinsky here?
No.
Shame.
Goodbye, Mark.
[Sven] Yeah, really. Uh… It's all still there.
[mysterious music continues]
[Jenny] What do your colleagues say of your investigations?
Well, Böttger doesn't really believe me, but, bah…
[inhales] Who was it?
Someone called Rosa Luxemburg.
[dramatic synth music playing]
Looking for a Felix Dzerzhinsky.
[Sven panting]
[Kleo] Fold it, punch it,
file it, go home again.
[dramatic synth music continues]
Come out.
I know who you are, and I know what you do.
[Mark] Dad, what's going on?
Nothing.
Go back inside.
[music fades]
-[bullet whizzes] -[Sven gasps]
[Sven breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music playing]
[birds chirping]
[music stops]
-[crickets chirping] -[footsteps approaching]
[gun rattles]
[Thilo exhales heavily]
[Thilo inhales and chuckles]
What's up with you?
Just had a crazy trip, you know.
Here, take one.
They melt in your head, not in your hand.
[owl hooting]
Head, not mouth.
[chuckles] Funny, huh?
Tell me, Thilo, what's the quickest way to Mallorca?
You don't want to go to Mallorca.
[tuts] Did I say that? I lied then.
Air Berlin.
Air Berlin are Yankees.
I won't fly with Yanks.
I'll find another way.
["Die Wundersame Geschichte Von Gabi" by Pankow playing]
PARLIAMENT OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
[song quietens]
["Die Wundersame Geschichte Von Gabi" continues]
[phone ringing in the background]
[phone ringing]
[Uwe] What?
Hello, sir.
One moment.
What about her?
Yes, sir.
-[suspenseful synth music playing] -Goodbye.
Cunt.
[spits]
[suspenseful synth music continues]
[music stops]