01x05 - At the Shores of the Darkest River

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Against the wall!
Now! Against the wall!

- Hurry up!
- Calm down, dude.

Get back! Come on! Untie her. Go!
Hands behind your heads.

One sound and I'll sh**t you all!
Spread your legs! Do it!

Hands behind your heads!
Right now, hurry!

You piece of sh*t. I'll f*ck you up!

I'm walking to the street.
I can see them!

TWO SIDES OF THE ABYSS

AT THE SHORES
OF THE DARKEST RIVER

Last night never happened, okay?
Promise me.

I don't remember anything anyway...

Hey, everything's gonna be okay.

So, nothing happened?
Or did they do something to me?

We found you before they could.
I swear.

- I'll never forget this. Thank you.
- It's okay.

Everyone thinks I'm just a b*tch.
But you know who I really am.

Mats, everyone thinks something.
Who gives a sh*t?

We gotta stick together.

You can always
tell me everything too, right?

Sure.

Mathilda?

Yeah?

1 MESSAGE FROM MATS:

TWO DEAD AFTER A sh**ting

- Hey! Sweetheart!
- Hey, dad.

- So, how was it?
- What?

Luca's farewell party.
It was yesterday, right?

- Yeah.
- Are you sad?

Hey...

Come here.

Rock, paper, scissors.

You like him quite a bit, huh?

My darling...

You can visit him if you want.
On weekends, or holidays...

I'll even buy you the ticket.

Thank you, dad.

Daddy, let's go!

Yeah, strap yourselves in, you two!
Come on.

- Morning.
- Morning.

- There's the pig.
- We'll k*ll him.

- Let's get the g*ns first.
- Wait until the dagos are gone.

- He's spotted us.
- Who cares?

- Who is that?
- Wait and see.

Here. For you!

This one sure lasted a while.

Sorry, this is just sh*t from China,
all glued up.

You like screws better, right?

- Just the ones from Stornbeck, Luise.
- I know that very well.

And so will my Belgian colleagues soon.

You just lost your job over this!

Is it really worth it, Luise?

f*ck you!

f*ck.

You're gonna have to come with us.
You're a flight risk.

And why?

Unlawful possession of a firearm
and bodily harm resulting in death.

A bit much for parole, I'm afraid.

Yes!

We checked his provider data.
Harmless.

Not only did he slim down considerably,
he also learned to cover his tracks.

- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

What are you going to do?

Drill a hole in the man's skull.

You don't like to owe
your good friend Erik anything. Do you?

- It's out of battery.
- Go ahead, Dennis. I'm all ears.

Saturday night. The man you shot
in the femoral artery with your handgun.

He bled out.

I didn't do it.

You locked up two witnesses
in the room with the injured man.

Those jerks are trying to frame me!
It was Erik!

It's his g*n. He shot it!

Then Vadim's men pulled him
onto the roof, and off he went.

- Did you actually see that?
- I saw them dragging him up to the roof.

And shortly afterwards
I saw Erik lying on the street.

Then I ran away.
Just before you guys showed up.

There's another thing.

What?

If what you said really happened,
then you have to cooperate.

Otherwise you'll go back
to prison today.

You will serve
your remaining sentence,

and at least two to three
more years on top of that.

They hid weapons and booby traps
at the recycling center.

In the back.
Inside the first white container.

- Who did?
- Well, Erik!

And Vadim and his f*cking skinheads.
They are all fascists!

They're going to Saint Petersburg,

to some training camps
for the "final battle"!

Nothing.

Boss?

Dennis wasn't lying.

- Who is this?
- Taio Achebe.

He works here.
He was hiding.

Well, why were you hiding?

Jackpot.

1 MESSAGE FROM MAMA

DENNIS IS IN CUSTODY.

HIS PROBATION SENTENCE
HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.

COME AND VISIT ME AGAIN
SOMETIME. MOM.

- Hello?
- This is Ardan.

- Who... Who is this?
- Ardan.

I was supposed to call you.

Is he gone already?

He's taking a nap. Room 47.

There you are.

Ardan, I...

I'm sorry, I just had to...

There's something you should know.

Let's sleep.

Are you sure?

What's this? Are you crazy?
Go back!

Careful, Achmed.

Get away from there.

Everybody listen.

Hey! Turn your
f*cking machine off, Jamaal!

Show us how milling works.
Jewish pig.

Come on, do it!

You can stab a German girl,
but you're too dumb to mill?

What do we do
to our nation's traitors?

What do we do
to our nation's traitors?

Lick it up.

Lick it up, you Jewish pig!

You look like a beetle.
Like a big fat beetle!

Take the hammer.

- Too exhausted.
- Get up.

Thanks, Bernd.

Get well soon.

Come on!
Get back to work!

Get your paws off my stuff!

Dude, you're so annoying.

You actually Jewish?
Or did the fascist just say that?

What?

- No.
- I don't give a f*ck what you are.

But if you plan
on making it in here,

you'd better get your head
out of your plump butt.

Good night.
And you'd better not fart.

Hey.

Morning.
I didn't wanna wake you.

That's exactly what someone
who was trying to flee would say.

Hey.

What are you doing today?

I'm going home,
and then I'll clean up, and then...

- I'll wait for you there.
- No way.

Give the two of us a chance.

Take care of yourself, Luise.

You're the only one who can.

Lucky they didn't catch him
filming them.

We have to let Dennis go. It's no use.
But first I'll have another go at him.

What does the secret service say
about meetings

between German neo-Nazis
and the Russian Reich movement?

- It's been known for a while. It was...
- Known for a while? What do you mean?

This is an international right-wing
extremist t*rror1st organization

that wants to enforce the "supremacy
of the white race". Worldwide!

We're the Criminal Investigation
Department

and investigate capital crimes.

If you intend on fighting fascist
t*rror1st organizations in the future,

which is absolutely honorable,

you must change departments.

Your colleague, Erik Ludwig,

just happened to be the instructor
at the correctional facility

where you were incarcerated.

Only until 2017, however,
when he was fired.

Do you have any idea why?

After your release, you applied
for a job at the recycling yard.

Was that the deal?

Ludwig gets you a job and you continue
to cover up his dirty deeds?

Nonsense.

What do you mean, deal?

Your cellmate Jamaal happened to die
under mysterious circumstances.

Yeah. A tragic accident.

Just like Erik Ludwig.

Strange, isn't it?

Why?

Vadim's people are denying they helped,
and we've got nothing to disprove it.

So Ludwig must have fallen off the roof.

He did have a lot to drink, right?

You may leave.

Cool piece.

What?

Your ring.

It's my lucky charm.

It's gotta be way thinner than this.

Come on! Hurry up!

It's broken!

- Everything okay?
- I'm scared that Vadim will show up.

He won't.
They're all in prison now.

We're safe, okay?

- How are you holding up?
- I'm okay.

- You still in touch with Luca?
- He disappeared.

- I'm sorry.
- It's totally fine.

Luca was a mistake.
Like most guys.

Come with me to the Black Forest!

My grandparents would love to have you.
We could go skiing or snowboarding.

Sweet of you, but I have
to take care of my brothers.

Well, then...
Enjoy the holidays, okay?

Hey, I'll send you some pics
from the slopes!

Cool.

Hey!

- I haven't heard from you.
- Dennis.

- Wanna sit down for a minute?
- No.

I just wanna show you something.
And you wanna see this. I'm sure of it.

Did you sh**t those two guys?

What? What guys?

- f*ck you, Dennis!
- Hey!

I didn't do anything to you.

- Did you sh**t them?
- No! I didn't.

We just locked them up.

Vadim's people did the rest.

What is that?

Remember your eye doctor?
Jack Sparrow? Dr. Aschhausen?

Gotta hand it to her,
she did a great job.

Your eye doctor
used to be my foster mother.

A long time ago. I was renting
that place from her, for my "new start".

And she filmed us.
Secretly. When you were with me.

You said you were living with your aunt.

You told me something weird as well.
About your older sister having leukemia.

Hey! Josi!

Josi!

Josi! The problem isn't the video.
I can delete that right now!

No one will ever know that we f*cked.

The problem is the cops will find out
you were also down there that night.

And then they'll be on your a*s
until the truth comes out!

Hey.

Hey.
It's okay.

Josi...

It's okay.

Let's just get out of here.
That's what you always wanted.

- What will we gain from that?
- Time.

We gain time to figure out
how to get out of this mess.

Where did you get the g*n anyway?

- Trade secret.
- Bullshit!

My colleague, Erik,
kept having this bad feeling all night.

He wanted me to look after him.
To be his bodyguard.

- Then you ran into me.
- I thought you wanted to...

We were standing there,
and I thought...

I would never hurt you, Josi.

Never.

I saw Merle back then.

Standing in the bushes,

tearing and muddying up her clothes,
then going to Mom and crying.

You knew?

I was 10!

Josi.

Hi, daughter!
When will you be home?

- I'm going to Mom's tonight.
- Okay. Where are you? Need a ride?

Already ordered a cab.

- And you're spending the night there?
- Not sure yet.

Well then... Tell her I said hi.

- Ciao.
- Ciao.

Josi's visiting her mother.

Voluntarily.

- She's growing up, honey.
- Still working?

After eight p.m. the office is closed.

Could you please
put that on the record, Counselor?

- Hey!
- Hi.

I'm glad you're here! Come in.

- Nice hair!
- Just washed it.

So...

- Alcohol-free beer?
- Do you have anything better?

Then you'll have
to spend the night here.

- Deal.
- Okay.

So... Let's hear it.

- Who's your partner now?
- I'm in the office.

- Wait... Paperwork? Voluntary?
- Yeah!

I already have a partner.
She's on vacation.

You know
that could take a while, right?

Langhans, she...
She really is stubborn.

- You spoke to her?
- She doesn't wanna help.

- So... Cheers.
- Cheers.

Why did you decide to become a cop?

I wanted to rebel against
my anti-authoritarian childhood.

- Yeah, right.
- It's not a joke!

My mother was the first to study
in her family,

yet we lived in a shared flat
with unhinged doors

and a pot of spaghetti on the stove,

from which people would
help themselves all day.

Like my folks. On Sundays, the whole
family comes together for dinner.

Oh, my...
I hated it so much. I really did.

I dreamed of having my own room
so I could keep it locked.

I vowed to myself
that I wouldn't be like them.

That I'd switch to the model of
the suburban nuclear family. You know?

Well... Now I'm sitting here...

I'm divorced, unemployed
and don't even have sole custody.

What's going on between you and Josi?

She just prefers
living with her dad and...

now she has a new family.

Yeah, but how are you taking it?

Everything worked out fine this way.

I can no longer be a mother?
Okay, then...

Then I'll never lose a child again.

- You know that's just an excuse, right?
- But it helps.

It helps, you know?

- What?
- Why did you become a cop?

- Let's hear it.
- It was relatively simple.

My parents' German wasn't so good.

One day, a police officer
showed up at our door,

asked me a couple of questions,
and I fell in love with the guy.

That sounds like a porn movie!

- Wanna see a picture of him?
- Yeah!

Okay.

Well, he's relatively tall,

and he has long brown hair,
but he doesn't like to brush his teeth.

- What?
- Yeah. Here.

- Well, he looks... cuddly, you know?
- Yeah!

Help!

It's okay.

VIDEO RECORDINGS

Hello, Yvonne.

If you so much as think about telling the
cops that I've moved out, I'll k*ll you.

And it will hurt.

- Yvonne? Are you still there?
- Yes.

Enjoy the day.
It's almost spring.

Let's get out of here.

Hi, Ms. Döring. Tesche here.
How are the sessions with Dennis going?

Why? Did something happen?

I met with the prison therapist,
Dr. Stegner.

She worked with Dennis for years.

She said his drive to change, to become
a new person, was unprecedented.

I am convinced of that.

He just never spoke about
what happened to him as a child.

Not a single word.

UNDER MAINTENANCE

And now you're wondering
if Dennis mentioned anything

that isn't on his record?

It's possible. He likes you.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but he's
nowhere near as stable as he seems.

- What do you mean?
- The arrest the other day?

He almost lost his parole eligibility
because of it.

Whether it was a coincidence or not,
he was at a party where two people died.

Wrong place, wrong time,
just like the other guests.

- You don't have to keep defending him.
- I'm worried about Dennis.

The pressure on him is huge.
It's too much.

Even the dead girl's mother
confronts him with absurd accusations.

- For example?
- The case in Belgium?

Is he affected by that?

Not directly, but he thinks a lot
about cause and effect.

In the past,
the victim had assaulted children.

- And Dennis knew that?
- Actually, Luise Berg did.

She's trying
to tie that m*rder to him.

She insinuates
some unresolved childhood trauma

for which he supposedly
now wants to take revenge.

- My next client is here. I have to go.
- Yeah. Talk later.

And the victim wore a ring.

- Where are we going?
- A little detour. You'll like it.

Who are those guys?

- Let's get out of here.
- There's no need to panic.

- I'm looking for Candyman.
- What do you want from him?

- I heard he's not doing so good.
- He's getting eaten by worms.

- You get what you deserve.
- Get outta here. You and your b*tch. Bye.

Want some beer?