Truth & Treason (2025) s01e02 Episode Script

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[ominous music]
[ominous music]
[people chattering]
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[chattering]
Six B.
Third floor.
Is this the third floor?
That's six B?
[knocking on door]
Frau Kola?
Yes.
Is Wolfgang here?
No, he's at work.
At work already?
Yes, he went in early this morning.
I see.
Do you know this gentleman?
No, Albert Hulz?
Maybe this one might jog your memory.
No.
Frau, I think you're lying to me.
Don't move, Sit down.
Sit down now!
Where is he going?
(people chattering)
You're lying.
I'm not lying.
Tell me the truth.
Don't, wait
Just tell me the truth.
[Werner] There you are.
Been looking for you.
Yeah, I borrowed your keys, sorry.
Where do these go?
Former client's over there.
Not now, you're late.
For Heinrich Mohns inspirational lecture
on loyalty and patriotism
in the workplace.
It's what makes this job so rewarding.
You're keeping the minutes,
Mr. I-Taught-Myself-Shorthand.
Helmuth, Berna.
Ellie
Thanks for covering for me.
Mohns has me presenting with him today.
He tends to speak quickly
and kind of run on sentences,
so you'll have to keep up.
Don't worry about punctuation,
I'll correct all that later.
Just make sure to get all the words.
Can you do that?
I think so.
Alright.
Here we go.
Good luck.
The slightest whisper of defeatism
against the Reich will
drag down this entire department.
Even a disorganized desk,
a poorly kept filing system,
is detrimental to
this office and to the Reich.
I've asked Elli to address this.
Miss Kluge.
[paper rustling]
Thank you, Herr Mohns.
As mentioned, I will be
discussing the topic of orderliness
within the workplace.
[clears throat]
Do you
Is that today's newspaper?
The Führer, in a speech given
this past January,
proclaimed, "The year
1941 will be, I am convinced,
the historical year of
a great European new order."
I understand he is
speaking of a political new order.
However, I would encourage
each and every one of us
to implement this new
order within to our workspace.
The word order comes
from the Latin word ordenum,
from the accusative ordo.
[dramatic music]
[phone ringing]
Thanks for bailing me out.
I forgot to bring the article.
Yeah, no, that was nothing.
Glad to help.
Good.
[phone ringing]
These just came in this morning.
[dramatic music]
Look at these.
These were turned
in a week and a half ago.
Why are we just getting them now?
I, uh, I think
[Edwin] All right, take him downstairs.
I'll be there shortly.
So instead of gun runners,
we're worried about leaflets now?
It's words on paper.
So is Karl Marx's manifesto.
[keyboard clicking]
[dramatic music]
[Helmuth] Do you know the
country without freedom?
The country of terror and tyranny?
Yes, you know it well,
but are afraid to talk about it.
It is Germany. Hitler Germany.
Those first leaflets three weeks ago,
the 14th was on Lonsdraza.
On a weekend.
That is correct, and on Monday, 842.
So what, they knock off work
on Friday and Saturday?
Put our leaflets together?
Red ones, maybe communist?
Yeah.
[air raid alarm]
Oh, maybe.
This one, Thursday, April 17th,
taken into evidence 9-16.
No, wait, wait,
that first one on the 14th.
Yeah.
There was a bombing, that night.
They're going out during the air raids.
Through their
unscrupulous terror tactics,
they are making you
into spineless puppets
to do their bidding.
Do not let your free will,
the most valuable thing
you posess be taken away.
Germans, arise!
Make your decision before it's too late!
Well, who's running your office
down there?
I drove all over Hammerbrook last night.
Yes, during an air raid.
Didn't see a single one of your
men, which I've requested twice.
And now I'm looking at
a little red leaflet
which calls the Führer
"the great deceiver of the people."
Tonight then, good. Heil Hitler.
Julius!
Now, see how this S, the sharp S,
it's an uppercase B that's
been typed over with a P.
It's an American typewriter, or British.
And here, look.
The lowercase T skips every time.
[Erwin] See how in "Hitler"
it double hits.
It has the same thing down here and here.
It's a fingerprint.
[dramatic music builds]
[BBC radio] deceived by the platitudes
of your authoritarian leader.
A lie is a lie, no matter how many times
he says it's the truth.
Will you stand up against a dictator
who brutally invades
his democratic neighbors?
And this concludes
our broadcast for this evening.
Tune in for more of the truth
tomorrow night at 10 p.m.
And until then, V for victory.
Can you keep a secret?
Where'd you get this?
Found it.
Presentation isn't much, but
I thought the writing was
quite brilliant.
Found it where?
In my typewriter.
[Helmuth] Well, come on!
[gentle music plays]
You coming?
[Karl] Where are we going?
[Rudi] It is past curfew.
[Helmuth] Did you know Mendelssohn was 15
when he wrote his first symphony?
[Karl] Well that explains everything.
[Rudi] What are you doing with
those leaflets?
[Helmuth] Getting rid of them.
In mailboxes, phone booths,
party announcement boards.
- Why?
- Because I can't write music.
[Karl] Again with the music.
[Helmuth] I went up there.
To his empty bedroom.
What was left of it.
Salomon wanted to be a teacher.
And those leaflets
you found in your typewriter
will change all that?
A man finds one in his mailbox.
Reads it. Can't get it out of his head.
[Helmuth] Passes it to a friend at work
who passes it to another,
- and another.
- And?
And enough people find out
what's really going on
and stand up.
Put an end to it.
I'm in.
We can change things.
Not with guns, but with these.
You know what happens if they catch you.
[Helmuth] Do what is right,
let the consequence follow.
Right. I love that song.
[scoffs]
For Salomon.
How many do you want?
I don't know, 20.
We won't get caught.
Give me 25.
Go.
[Karl] Wait, here. Right now?
Yeah, right now.
You thought punching Rolfi was fun.
Wait till you try this.
[intense music]
[Gestapo Secretary]
Yes, I'm calling to see
if you still own the Remington
we serviced for you
[intense music]
April 14th, on the corner of Monstrasse
and the Alvesterre.
These are still in
Hambleville, they're from 17th.
[Gestapo Secretary] Our records say last
November the 15th
[intense music]
[speaking in foreign language]
[phone buzzing]
Hello.
Hello.
[dramatic music continues]
Found eight more
typewriter shops outside Altena.
138 British and
American models from those,
we're still testing.
Only another 120 to go, give or take.
Elli!
Good morning!
Morning.
Careful.
You never know who's watching.
Thanks, I
Now, it's official.
[scoffs]
Official
So, what are you thinking?
[Helmuth] I think it's quicker
to get along there,
to get these streets.
Do you want to hit Süder Street?
It's on your way home.
Sure.
[quick, Mendelssohn tune]
Hello, Karl.
You're home late.
You're out past curfew.
Am I? Must have lost track of time.
Where were you?
What do you want, Rolfi?
[Rolf] I want you to tell me
where you were.
[grunting and yelling]
Heil Hitler.
[determined music]
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
[Erwin] You go that way!
[determined, upbeat music continues]
[Julius] Erwin!
[Julius] Erwin! This way!
[indistinct chatter]
[Emma] It's not me.
[Hugo] It absolutely is you.
Well, look who's home.
Oh, come here, sit down.
How's my boy?
Good.
Any Hoodlums out past curfew?
Besides you two?
Not too many.
Mostly just a lot of running around.
And your mother tells me you're giving
a sermon tomorrow, at church?
Yeah, the bishop
asked me to say a few words.
Do not love public speaking.
You and me both.
Maybe I'll take along this time.
All right, then maybe I'd better
figure out what I'm going to say.
Night.
[Emma] Good night.
Good luck.
"Brothers and sisters.
I've been asked to say a
few words about finding peace
through Jesus Christ.
So um
Jesus was a revolutionary.
[Helmuth] We like to think
of Him as always being kind
and loving and filled with grace.
And He was.
But the scriptures say He was
full of grace and truth.
He said what needed to be said.
He stood up, but He did it peacefully.
Where Barabbas fought with
swords, He fought with words.
Then said Jesus unto him,
put up again thy sword into it's place,
for all they that take the sword
shall perish with the sword.
He was rejected by
the Romans and the Rabbis,
the Pharisees and Sadducees,
even by most of those who knew Him.
But He did what was right
and let the consequence follow.
May we be filled with grace and truth.
And when the moment comes for us
to stand up, may we stand.
In Jesus' name, amen."
Amen!
Thank you, Helmuth, for your remarks.
We will now hear
from Sister Marie Zommerfeld,
who will speak to us
Can I borrow your keys again?
Woah!
[Werner] Let me help you.
Thank you!
[Elli] Helmuth.
Here, you missed one.
Thank you.
Better watch where you're going.
Absolutely. Yes.
Woah, nice!
How was your day at the office?
Interesting.
So, where to tonight?
Ah, change of plan.
I've got some more typing to do.
Goodbye, Helmuth.
See you tomorrow.
Right. I'll see you.
Who was that?
Just a girl uh colleague.
Just a girl?
What girl?
[Rudi] She's your colleague?
[Karl] What's a colleague?
[Rudi] Seriously?
[indistinct chatter]
You don't know her, okay?
Nice.
[laughing] So, tomorrow night.
We're ready.
(speaking in French Au revoir mes amis
[attempting French]
Your French is great, Karl.
Better than yours.
Bye.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[in background radio plays]
only one small ray of light suffices
to prove their deceitfulness.
To prove that, though Nazi propaganda
is often crafted right down
to the last detail,
it seldom coincides even
in one point with the facts.
In conclusion,
the former deputy Führer
Where'd it come from?
I asked, where did the
wireless come from!
Are you trying to get us
all killed? Is that it?
[Hugo] Put your mother in a
prison camp? Get up.
I said stand up!
I don't know what you're trying
to do, you stupid boy!
I want you out of the house.
You can go to your grandmother's.
I really don't care.
And not a word to your mother.
Is that clear?
[BBC radio continues]
he will not rest in turning his plans
for imperialistic world
conquest into actions.
This is the BBC, with our
V for victory programming.
For our German listeners, the truth.
Not the propaganda fed to you
by Hitler and his..
He's upstairs.
Thank you, Mama.
I brought some of your things.
[Emma] What happened? He won't tell me.
Look at me.
It'll sting for a bit.
Looks a lot worse than it is.
I brought you the typewriter.
So you could keep
up with your church work.
If you want to.
Just until things calm down.
He means well.
This is all just new to him.
[Elli] Helmuth.
You alright?
Yes.
I saw what was on that paper.
The red one.
Do you have more?
No.
Good.
Hey, Helmuth.
Let's go.
We should just go up.
We should go.
[upbeat music]
Are you going to talk to me?
What happened?
We're not going to talk about this.
No.
Between husband and wife,
we talk about things.
No secrets.
All right, then.
Why don't you tell me why
he looks nothing like his brother?
Why they so completely different?
They're nothing alike.
That got me thinking.
Among other things.
So, I did some digging.
Who was Karl Oswald Vater?
Because he's listed as the
father on Helmuth's birth certificate.
And you were still married
to your first husband at the time.
We were estranged.
So?
So we do have secrets.
Is that why you beat my son?
That has nothing to do with it.
Now, I'm not going to
ask you any more questions.
And you're aren't either.
And I don't want you going to see him.
Not at church.
And not at your mother's.
All right?
[shouts and intense stinger]
[Helmuth] Hitler knows we're
beginning to see through him.
The suppressor of free nations,
the murderer of millions.
The Europe suppressed by Gestapo terror
must not remain unatoned.
A determined deed can still rescue you
and your country from
the abyss to which Hitler
has led you with his lies.
Do you want to tolerate having
the happiness of your lives
taken from you, and your children
cheated out of the most
beautiful years of their lives?
Do you want to tolerate this?
You know what I like about you?
I like that you ate all your
dinner tonight.
Even your green beans.
That makes mama happy.
You know what else I like about you?
I like that you're the kind of girl
who loves all kinds of animals.
Dogs, wolves, and bats.
All kinds.
Another one.
Another one?
Alright.
You know what else I like
about you? I like that
[airplane engines]
[air raid alarms]
Let's go.
[explosion]
[explosion]
[explosion]
[explosion]
[explosion]
[high-pitched ringing]
[Erwin muffled] Anne?
[Anne muffled] Max!
[rumble]
Lisl!
[crying]
[Erwin] Lisl? Breathe!
Lisl
[triumphant tones]
[explosion]
[explosion]
[Edwin yells]