THE SIGNAL
Hello?
This is impossible…
Hello?
Where's it coming from?
Hello?
We need the intercom.
You have to listen to me very carefully…
Get out!
-You need… -Mayday! Mayday!
Help me here.
What was your wife doing in the cockpit?
-What was she talking about? -I have no idea.
-You sure? -Sven?
You have to listen to me very carefully…
-Mayday! Mayday! -You can't do it alone.
-I'm sorry! I love you. -Turn it off.
-I can make it louder. -I'm sorry. I love you!
-Turn it off! -Mommy?
-Charlie… -Mommy? Where is she?
Charlie! She's not here, Charlie.
I heard her!
Charlie! She…
She isn't here, Charlie!
-Mom! Mom! -Charlie! Charlie, that wasn't Mom!
-Where is she? I heard her! -No, no. That was a recording.
-A recording of what? -They said it's from the cockpit.
-What cockpit? -From the flight.
-But why was she there? -I don't know, Charlie. I just don't know.
Oh God, Sven.
Hey, Kathrin, it's…
It's so awful. I mean, I don't even know what to say right now.
-Uh… thanks, it's just… Things are a… -Oh, Charlie…
If you need any help, you'll let me know, yeah?
-Yeah, that's… -Here. At least… You have to eat.
That's very nice of you. Thanks.
I don't know what to do with all this pasta salad. I…
-Start downstairs. Work your way up. -10-01 for 12-3, over.
Come in, 12-3. Federal police requesting assistance.
Hadi.
Hadi, wake up.
Hello?
-When was this? -Just now.
And now it's…
I can't find it anymore. Maybe I made a mistake.
Maybe it did come from Earth.
Look, we're in the middle of the dead zone. Right over the Atlantic.
A boat?
-A boat? -Yeah.
No. It couldn't be. There. Take a look at the antenna.
It's pointing away from Earth!
So it came from the deepest reaches of space.
Yes.
A child.
I seriously doubt it was a child.
It's trying to mimic the sounds we make.
We have to wake up the others.
Paula!
Wait a sec.
If that signal really did come from outer space, then it's a big deal.
They won't let two little scientists from a private foundation anywhere near it!
-The politicians will take over, huh? -And then we're out.
Look, our world is in crisis.
Paula, I know what I'm talking about.
I didn't grow up in Germany. I've seen how bad things can get.
You don't want that.
Shit. Yeah, maybe.
Let's try to find the signal again.
Okay, maybe you're right.
-Maybe first we have to be sure. -Right.
-Yeah. -Let's start looking.
-As if I could sleep. -I don't think I'll ever sleep again.
-But what are they looking for? -I don't know, Charlie.
And they can just search through whatever?
Whatever they want.
Um… you have visitors.
-Excuse me. -This can't be… this can't be happening.
-Grandma! -Oh, Charlie!
What the hell is going on here?
Maybe you can help us figure that out.
Let me through!
We need the intercom.
Sven? You have…
Mayday! Mayday!
I'm sorry. I love you.
Until they find the black box, this is all we have.
If… it's ever found.
Someone check the greenhouse.
Who's checking the greenhouse?
Okay. Move, move.
Is there anything else you can tell us about this?
Any detail helps.
-We're just trying to figure out what-- -No!
Nothing.
The choice is yours.
It's no use.
We're too far away now, and we're picking up all the shit from Earth too.
Yeah.
We have to do it digitally.
Systematically. One grid square at a time.
We can't do this by hand.
I'm coming over to you.
Paula?
Yeah?
If there was anything…
If there were, I'd tell you.
That's what we agreed on.
-Okay. -I'm just exhausted.
God, I'm tired as hell.
But you're right. This won't work.
It's no use.
-Let's tell the others tomorrow. -Paula.
We'll just have to convince everyone to keep it to themselves.
I can't do this alone.
Is that nonsense?
No.
All right, then.
You're probably right.
Okay.
Come on, let's try to get a couple hours of sleep.
Okay.
Don't!
Charlie.
For tomorrow.
May I be excused to my room?
Yeah, okay.
I'll be right up.
Brush your teeth!
If that's what happened…
then we have all those people on our conscience.
And you know exactly what I mean.
Sistine Chapel.
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart.
Putin, Trump, Bolsonaro.
-Joan of Arc. Mother Teresa. -Rosa Luxemburg.
Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler, Stalin.
Hagia Sophia, Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu.
North Korea, 9/11, Uyghurs, Islamic State, Boko Haram.
-Guantanamo. Mullahs in Iran. -Abu Ghraib, Srebrenica.
Massacres and genocide, slave trade, the Crusades.
Uh, the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials!
Like I said, you can't debate the history teacher
because his knowledge of man's malevolence and cruelty
knows no bounds.
Yeah.
-So what's the upshot? -The upshot? Um…
To live well, love your family, and leave the Earth no dirtier than you found it.
Grand visions have always somehow made the world worse off.
Every good idea we had, we ruined eventually.
-It's true. It's true. -It's true.
The Enlightenment.
-What? -The 17th century, the Enlightenment.
Kant. Reason.
"Man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity."
Now she's got us.
Mm! The 21st century.
Digitalization. Echo chambers. Trump.
The… the return of man to his self-imposed immaturity.
Oh boy. See this guy? He can always bring it down.
It's… it's my superpower.
Hey, guys, we're here to celebrate, right?
-Yeah. We'll have a toast. -Yes.
-Come on. -Okay.
-To the astronauts. Because… -To the astronauts.
-You're gonna fly! -You're gonna fly!
-Yeah, we're gonna fly! -We're gonna fly!
-Speaking of… flying. -Hmm?
-Mm? -Ah.
What are you doing?
I'm waiting till she calls.
Know what?
She did call.
She left, um… a message before her flight.
Really?
Yeah. And you know what she said?
That we shouldn't fight.
-I really don't get it. -Me neither.
-How could she know if we were fighting? -Right.
And we don't fight, we're Team Earth.
All right. Time for bed.
-You should take your sweater off. -No.
You'll be too hot.
I want to keep it on.
Okay.
Come here.
I'm here for you, Charlie. Okay?
Okay.
-I'm watching out for you. -I know you are.
Good.
Good night.
No, wait!
Please leave it on.
You have your aids in, you can't sleep with all this noise.
I like the sound.
Mom says it's what's left over from the Big Bang.
It's the stars.
TICKETS
Sven!
-♪ The darkest dreams… ♪ -Wait, wait, hold on a sec.
♪ Are my reality ♪
♪ My mind a haze… ♪
-Come. -♪ My waking is a thief ♪
♪ You don't want to… ♪
-Where? -Here.
-Here I am. Here. -♪ Stay ♪
♪ Here with me… ♪
Paula?
♪ I am moving ♪
♪ Through a silver stream ♪
Paula!
Get off! Get it off!
-Hey! Hey! -Get it off me! Get it off me!
Paula! Paula, Paula!
…wake up thinkin',
"If somebody would just deliver me some poached eggs, scrambled eggs, whatever."
"Hot stack of cakes, maple syrup."
And no, I gotta come and eat this shit packed in plastic.
Hey, there she is! Good mornin', sunshine!
Any good dreams last night?
Um, actually… Um…
Ah, it doesn't matter. Our dreams in space are pretty much the same as on Earth.
Come get some breakfast.
-Okay. -Dropout in five…
Four, three, two.
And we are all alone.
Okay, then I have four minutes now, and I'll try to be quick.
We have something to tell you guys.
And, um, we have to decide, I think, all together,
what we do before the public gets to know.
Whoa, drumroll please!
Yeah, Paula, what is it?
I found a signal in the big dropout last night.
-And it isn't coming from Earth. -You did what?
I… I lost it right after.
But Hadi and I were spending a good part of the night looking for it and…
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, uh… Maybe it's best, um… if you hear it for yourself.
I… I managed to tape it when I first heard it.
I have to…
-Wait a second. -I…
Okay, again.
I… I, uh…
Get up. Over there…
There's the door.
Uh… Okay, hold on.
-Gotcha! -Uh…
What?
I would say, clearly a case of space sickness.
-Uh… -You little shit.
-That got him! -Are you fucking kidding me?
Oh, man. You guys nearly gave me a heart attack.
Sorry, man.
I didn't think Germans had a sense of humor.
Oh, yes, we Germans, we like to make, um…
We like to make pranks, don't we, Paula? Right?
Um…
Prank.
-Right, exactly. We like to make pranks. -You got us good.
You guys are evil. That's the spirit.
Yeah.
But you picked up pretty quickly.
Well, you're definitely part of the team now.
-Jake. -We're out.
Let me show you a trick. Come on.
Uh…
-Tell me about it. Those guys… -They didn't want to listen.
I don't even know what kind of breakfast they eat.
I don't understand.
Hey.
What's wrong?
God damn it! Don't touch me! Don't fucking touch me!
No, no… please, please, please!
No!
-But we both heard it. -Heard what?
You were sitting right next to me. We looked for it all night long. You…
-What are you talking about? -It's not just in my head!
-It can't just be in my head! -Paula, sh…
-Hadi, please! -Everything will be fine, all right?
Okay?
Hey. You are not alone.
-I'm right here. -What do I do now?
What you need to do is find a way to calm down.
-Sh… -Okay.
-Okay? -Okay.
We'll get through this.
-But how? -Hmm?
But how?
I'm seeing things again. Things that aren't really there.
Okay, Paula…
You go lie down and use the emergency kit, okay?
And… I can cover.
I'll tell them… you're sick or something. Okay?
Hey. We'll think of something.
I'm outside.
-Hold on, I'll come down. -Okay.
Sven, what do they want from us?
What do we tell them?
What were they doing in the cockpit?
Mira…
What if it happened again?
No, that's crazy.
She was just unlucky, man. She had a bad trip.
-That could have happened to any of us. -It didn't happen to any of us.
Yeah, because everybody has unique predisposition. Sure.
It wasn't a bad trip, though.
It was psychosis, full blown.
What's the point of rehashing this over and over?
The doctor told her she'd be fine as long as she didn't do it again.
-It was a warning shot. -Says who?
Paula.
She said that?
Yeah.
-Why? -It's bullshit.
Wanna know what the doctor said?
Worst case scenario, she could have flashbacks.
-Flashbacks? -Yeah.
When she's excited, or stressed out.
Or for no reason at all. That's what she took the inhibitor for.
-As a precaution. -What inhibitor?
Ugh. The doctor prescribed her psychotropics.
-What? -So it couldn't have been that after all.
She was safe. She was safe!
Wait a minute.
Hadi stopped smoking his weekend joint four months before the launch
because he was worried about the blood test.
How could Paula have psychotropics in her blood and pass the test?
It's not real! It's not real! It's not real!
The choice is yours.
After an analysis of the transmission, the German astronauts,
Paula Groth and Hadi Hiraj are suspected
of deliberately causing the crash of Air Eleven flight 7606.
-Let me through! -We need the intercom!
-It's gotten out. -Sven, I have to--
-Mayday! Mayday! -I'm sorry.
Hey.
Well, well, there she is.
Welcome back to the land of the living.
Oh, God! How long did I sleep for?
More than 20 hours.
What?
Yeah.
You know, we thought we'd lost you for a moment there.
I guess this space sickness is slowly becoming a real thing.
Sorry for ever bringing it up.
Oh, no, it's fine. I'm…
I'm just a little shaky, that's all.
Oh, you poor thing. We need to get some food into you, huh?
Out of bed, sleepyhead. Let's go.
Okay. Coming soon.
You're already up?
-How long have you been sitting here? -I don't know.
-It was dark. -Charlie.
There are people outside.
Charlie…
You can't do this. Come here.
I just don't want…
I don't want you to have false hope.
Have they found anyone?
-Where? -In the sea.
No, I don't think so yet.
See, there? You don't know if she's dead or not. No one does.
Charlie…
What do all those people want?
Come on. We'll have some breakfast, hmm?
Hey, how do you feel?
So, wait…
-Do they… -Don't worry.
They think you had a fever. That you were already sick when you left Earth.
-Okay. -Yeah.
VOICE MESSAGE RECORDING…
Benisha, this is Paula trying to get in touch. I messed up.
Big time. I'm sorry.
Please call me back.
VOICE MESSAGE SEND
VOICE MESSAGE SENT
Whey are they here?
Remember I told you that…
I… I told you that Mom was… She was in the cockpit.
They've moved up to the lawn.
Please, just take it off the hook.
-You asked me what she was doing there. -Yeah.
And just like you, they also want to know what she was doing there.
-Don't stand in the window. -Do they think Mom…
No, Charlie… It doesn't matter what they think.
Okay?
-Sven! -I've had enough.
You're just going to make things worse.
-Mr. Groth… -I want all of you off my property.
Turn the camera off. Turn the camera off! Leave!
This is private property. Move along. Back to the road. All right? Thank you.
COMMOTION OUTSIDE SUSPECTED ASTRONAUT'S HOME
Thank you very much. Just leave.
Turn that damn thing off!
-Turn it off, damn it! Turn it off! -Charlie.
I told you, move back to the road!
-You… No, you can't be serious. -Come outside!
-We want justice! -What does "for now" mean?
Does someone have to break a window or something?
-Show yourself! Coward! -Uh, my nine-year-old daughter is here.
She just lost her mother.
You have my daughter on your conscience!
You asshole! You scum!
We have a right to know!
What did they say?
-They can't do anything. -Murderer!
-They won't, you mean. -Murderer!
-Get out here! -Tell us the truth!
You know the worst part? Not just that my daughter was taken from me.
Murderer!
-I'm not allowed to mourn. -Show your face!
Murderer!
This is unacceptable. She shouldn't be hearing all this.
-Come outside! -Put her in the car.
-Get her out of here. Charlie! -Come outside!
-No! -Get dressed now!
I want to wait here.
You can't. You… you just can't, okay?
-What if she calls and I miss it? -Charlie!
We want the truth!
She's not gonna call.
Come on!
-Think you can hide? -Stop hiding!
Come out! Come out! Come out!
-Come out! Come out! -Just for a couple of days.
-Come on already! -Okay?
We're not going anywhere until we have answers!
-We've lost people! -What are you doing?
Murderer!
Come on!
Murderer!
-Get out here! -You trust me?
Come out! Come out! Come out! Come out!
-Come out! Come out! -Come out, you coward!
-Come out! Come out! -Why are you hiding?
Come out! Come out!
We want answers!
Your response to this… If you just answer…
I'm coming for you.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
Hold on, stop! Turn the car around!
-We want answers. -Answers.
The 12th orbit!
Wait, what's going on? What are you doing?
The 12th orbit! The 12th orbit is ours!
I didn't wait long enough.
I can't go! I can't go! Please don't make me leave!
Please, please, please, please!
I can't go!
It was a child.
At first I thought it was Charlie, but that would be ridiculous.
The voice? What did it sound like?
It sounded so real, Benisha. So real.
I'm sorry.
No, no. Just don't cry. Don't cry.
-I'm sorry. -You don't have to say sorry.
See, this is what we do. We just cry, we apologize…
Okay, just… Sit up. Sit up.
Just… tell me.
I lied. I mean, I did everything I could to get up here.
To finish the program, to find what we're looking for.
I was reckless.
Good girl.
You and I are alike in more ways than you'll ever know.
No, I'm dangerous.
To myself. To everybody up here.
That's the thing about people with visions.
Some end up in prison, some with the Nobel Prize.
Sometimes it's just hard to tell the difference.
How are you feeling now?
I'm fine.
-You still seeing things? -I took Imap.
-Is there enough? -Yes.
Good. Problem contained.
Benisha, I lied. Big time.
Apart from the fact, dear girl,
that you can't exactly take the next elevator down,
you have a job to do.
What if I keep hallucinating? I'm scared.
Let's just, um… stop calling them hallucinations, shall we?
-Call them visions. -Huh.
See? It feels better, doesn't it?
Yes.
Yes. So, good. Enough, then.
Off you go. Get back in the saddle.
What?
I mean, how… how do I know what's real?
You still don't get it, dear girl, do you?
It doesn't matter.
Everything is real.
-She gave me a pep talk. -We're not out?
-She said we should get back to work. -So we're back in the game?
Yeah, we're back in the game.
Back in the game. Yeah!
-Murderer! -Murderer!
Come on!
Charlie!
Fuck!
I'm safe.
No more drugs. I'm taking my pills.
Seeing my doctor. I'm… safe.
Okay, listen. Here.
My medical report.
Divulge it, and I'm out.
I'll sit with you on the terrace.
I'll take the trash out.
I'll wave to the neighbors and sit back down.
I'll do it, if that's what you want.
Know what I don't want?
For you to just disappear from my life.
But if you keep me here like a potted plant, Sven, I will!
I may not get lost in outer space. I won't burn up in a rocket launch.
But I will slowly start fading away until there's nothing left of me.
The choice is yours.
Silence won't save you!
Come out!
Hello?
No! No!
It's out of the question! Leave us alone, God damn it!
MURDERER
I've come here before you all today
to convey our deepest sympathy for your plight.
What you're going through is one of the worst things to happen
in anyone's life.
-Losing our loved ones like this. -We need answers!
And what's worse, not knowing what really happened to them.
This situation, understandably, pushes us all to our limits.
-Why shut us out? Talk to us! -But I want to make one thing clear.
-Give us answers. -We're all still waiting for answers.
Even as some claim we're trying to hide them.
We live in a nation of laws.
And until the investigations are closed, everyone's presumed innocent.
Go back to your billionaire!
Benisha Mudhi has said she stands fully behind our astronauts.
Shut up, you hypocrite!
Excuse me, I'd like to--
You and Miss Moneybags! You're responsible too!
-Bitch! -Get out of here! Piss off!
-You all have blood on your hands! -Give us some answers!
-Do not shut us down! -Hypocrite!
Yeah, run away! Talk to us!
Better?
Piss off, bitch!
It's true, you know.
-What? -He's right.
I have… blood on my hands.
Want some tea?
-How's Carlotta? -She simply refuses to believe it.
She sits by the radio, waiting. Even now, as we're sitting here.
-Show yourself! -Oh God.
Show yourself!
Huh! I thought for a moment I was jealous of her earlier.
Paula is still alive in her world.
-So what do I do? -Where the hell are they?
Do I take that away from her as well?
Paula never should have gone up there.
And it's partly my fault.
I still think she was the perfect person to go up there.
Come out, already!
Mudhi wants you to have a direct channel to her.
When you press this, you'll be put right through to us.
-What, no cell phone? -I'm her cell phone.
She's a little paranoid.
She thinks every cell phone can be hacked.
Kindred spirit.
Again, if there's anything we can do for you…
If Mudhi can snap her fingers
and make all the people outside my house magically disappear,
then I'll take you up on it.
We can do that.
What?
When it comes to loss, or pain, or… grief, we all experience those differently.
But there is one thing that's the same for everybody.
That all of us have our price tag.
Hey! Leave her alone!
Don't touch her! Leave her alone!
Whoa! Hey!
-Get the hell out of here! -You okay?
Get back here!
I hope you lose everything you ever cared about.
Papa! Papa, come!
Charlie!
Charlie…
Charlie!
I talked to Mom.
-What? -I talked to Mom just now.
Okay.
-What are you doing? -I've had enough, Charlie.
I'm putting a stop to this.
-Are you listening to me? Mom just called. -Charlie, Mom is… Mom is dead.
-Okay? She's dead. -That's not true!
-What are you doing? -You have to stop this.
This piece of crap is driving you crazy too.
-Give it back! Give it back! -Stop!
That's enough!
I wish you were gone instead of Mom.
Charlie, do you hear the people outside? Do you hear what they're saying?
They're saying Mom caused the plane crash and killed everyone. That she went crazy.
And you know the worst thing, Charlie?
They're right.
Fuck off! Just leave us alone! God!
Sven, it's Rainer.
Can you give me my kid back?
I can't watch the news anymore. I can't take it.
Yeah, I… I know, it's terrible. I have no idea how to explain it since…
Everything they're saying, it's slander.
Something totally different's going on here, Sven.
You knew it all along. Something's not right. It's a cover-up.
I'm sorry?
I, well… can't tell you anything… I…
I'll get myself in…
What are you saying?
Wait a second, Sven. Someone's at the door.
Rai… No, Rainer, wait! Rainer!
Uh…
The person you've called is temporarily not available.
Charlie. Charlie!
The person you have called is temporarily not available.
Shit!
Charlie?
I'm sorry.
Let's not fight. That's what Mom said.
Fuck!
What's that?
"Atheist whore" was probably too complicated.
They probably don't know how to spell it.
-Did you hear more from Rainer? -No. I can't reach him.
ISLAMIST WHORE!
Something's not right.
I'll be right back, okay?
She doesn't want to hear. Be right back.
I knew it!
Oh, fuck!
Yes!
Rainer!
♪ Fly me to the moon ♪
♪ And let me play among the stars ♪
♪ Let me see what spring is like ♪
♪ On Jupiter and Mars ♪
♪ In other words, hold my hand ♪
♪ In other words, darling, kiss me ♪
-♪ Fill my heart with song… ♪ -Rainer.
♪ And let me sing for evermore… ♪
Rainer?
♪ You are all I long for ♪
♪ All I worship and adore ♪
♪ In other words, please be true ♪
♪ In other words, I love you… ♪
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-Hello? -She discovered something!
She wasn't crazy!
Hello?
She wasn't crazy.
Paula and Hadi discovered something.
It's something incredible.
Charlie! Charlie! Wake up.
-Where'd she go? -Charlie.
-Charlie! -She was just here…
Fuck. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Hello?
Charlie?
Charlie!
Stop the damn car!
♪ The darkest dreams ♪
♪ Are my reality ♪
♪ My mind a haze ♪
♪ My waking is a thief ♪
♪ You don't want to stay ♪
♪ Here with me ♪
♪ I am moving ♪
♪ Through a silver stream ♪ ing.