Oderbruch (2024) s01e03 Episode Script

(Metal door opens)
(Buzzing of flies)
(SEK 1, radio) Connection established.
Audio and video okay.
(SEK 2)
Keep your distance from the trapdoor.
(SEK 3) There are even more bones here. Everywhere.
(SEC 1) Vault with multiple rooms.
Split up!
(SEC 2)
Two and Four, to the left.
(SEC 4) Room secure.
(SEC 1) Three and Five, move on.
Another room here.
(SEC 3) Two and Four, with me.
(SEC 2) Two, on point A.
(SEC 1) Bones here too.
Strong smell of decomposition.
(SEK 2) Attention.
Conspicuous object on the floor.
A glass container.
Filled with liquid.
There's something in it.
Looks like
Leeches.
(Murmuring)
(Officers talking over each other)
(Phone rings)
(Hangs up)
(Phone rings)
(Presses button, rewinding sound)
(Phone vibrates)
(Roland) Maggie, I saw you.
You have five minutes to explain
what you just slipped to them. I have to report this.
Five minutes. Not a second more.
[Groans]
[Breathes heavily]
Yeah?
(Phone vibrates)
Sorry. Wrong container.
So, what is it?
A DNA sample from Kai's grave.
(Ominous music swells)
(Intro music)
I'm listening to what you have to say,
and then I'll do what I
should have done a long time ago.
Paul said he saw the "little hunter."
That he'll never be found.
When we stole the steel helmet
from his property back then,
he called Kai "little hunter."
Kai was never buried.
The autopsy was forged
by Seeger, by your father.
That's why it's missing.
Paul is completely out of it. Maybe
he called everyone that.
Who collected leeches in jars?
Kai.
But I saw his body.
You saw a two-week-old
waterlogged corpse!
If Kai really is
in that grave,
he'll show up tomorrow
in the DNA results.
Wait until tomorrow.
Please.
(Car door slams)
(TV) It has now been confirmed that
the man who was rescued alive
died during the night.
And local resident Paul M. is
in police custody.
M. is under strong suspicion of the crime
and is currently being interrogated.
Known in Krewlow
as "Powder Paul",
Everything okay?
My father lives here, I was just about to go in.
I need to grab something to eat.
There's supposed to be a bar over the bridge, we can get something there.
Bar is a bit of an exaggeration. Powódz. They have pierogi there.
Pull up. My treat.
(Edith) Where are you going?
I don't want to hog the beds.
I can sleep at Adrian's.
Adrian Demko? You're still in touch?
Yeah, I visited him yesterday. -Aha.
What's up with Adrian?
Oh, everything's fine. It's none of my business anyway.
That's the reason why something
like what's happening out there could happen here.
Nobody minds their own business.
Adrian isn't
the poor guy in a wheelchair
that he likes to pretend to be.
You know how old Jessen
financed his villa.
He sold his land.
After reunification, Jessen bought up
all the land here from everyone.
[Laughs]
It wasn't worth anything anymore anyway.
Everyone just wanted Western products,
and we were stuck
with our stuff. [Laughs]
And then Jessen came along
as a savior in our time of need,
wanting to buy our land from us
for next to nothing.
But we didn't trust an old LPG member
like Jessen.
And then Adrian's father, Stojan, came
and persuaded everyone.
Me too.
Stojan was one of us
and had also sold.
I know, I was there back then.
But Jessen later
sold the whole country
to Sativum AG for many times the price.
And Stojan pocketed a hefty commission
for his services.
But Stojan is dead.
Adrian isn't responsible
for his father.
But he was happy to inherit everything.
(Doorbell rings)
And acts like nothing happened.
Let everything here
go to the dogs,
Didn't loosen a single penny.
No one here speaks to him anymore.
You're not exactly making yourself popular
hanging around with Adrian.
(Marek) Adrian is already asleep.
I’ve got the room upstairs ready for you.
Do you need anything else?
Otherwise I’m going to leave now.
No, thanks.
Good night.
- Night.
(Slot machines drown out piano music)
[Polish conversation]
Have you ever thought about
getting your parents out of Krewlow?
My mother took off long before I did.
My father
no chance.
Do you have contact with your mother?
Nope.
What was going on back then
between Magdalena Kring and you?
Are you trying to interrogate me?
[Laughs]
No, no.
You're just part of the story.
We're just talking.
I'm sorry. It's none of my business.
She was pregnant when that
thing with her brother happened.
Up until then, we were
actually getting along quite well.
Yeah, and then she
became paranoid.
And I didn't believe her.
No one believed her.
She was taking medication.
Too much.
And then she was gone.
Left a letter behind,
saying she didn't want the child anymore.
Our child.
Had it terminated.
-I'm sorry to hear that.
No. I have two now.
That's enough for me.
And you? You're not just here because
you speak good German.
Unlucky in love.
- I did my homework too.
You really wanted to be here.
No family means I have a lot of time.
And I like puzzles.
Nastrovje.
(Engine noises approaching)
Good morning.
This way, please.
Please. Feel free to look around.
Everything included, as is.
(TV) Police and forensic teams are still
sorting and examining the numerous remains
of bodies and carcasses.
It is assumed that the victims are not
from Krewlow
and were likely specifically homeless
and lonely people
from other regions who were killed.
The pile of bodies
has now been removed,
and underneath it,
a trapdoor was found,
leading to an old cellar.
Good morning.
-Morning.
What the police found there
is currently unclear, but is said to be
Hey.
-Hi.
Come in. Want some coffee?
Mhm.
-Coming right up.
Marek? Could you make Maggie some coffee?
You look just like your father.
Only on the outside.
Inside, I'm all my mother.
(Marek) [Laughs]
(Adrian) What?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, make coffee.
Did Jessen pay your father the same for his land
as he paid the others?
Marek,
could you step outside for a moment, please?
And did you and your brother divide your father's inheritance?
Is that why you've come here?
To make accusations?
What was I supposed to do?
Run around playing the Good Samaritan?
You think any of those assholes out there would have helped me?
You all bailed and left me sitting here in the shit.
I knew I'd be stuck here until my feet rotted off.
Do you know how much all this disability crap costs?!
The car, Marek, the house?!
You think anyone's paying for that for me?
My father first drowned his conscience in booze and then himself.
And honestly, yeah
Then I said:
Screw everyone and everything.
Just like everyone
screwed me over.
And now you come here
and judge me?
Everyone looks at me
as if I'm a criminal.
Finally, someone
who says what they think.
Adrian
(Rock music playing from headphones)
(Doorbell rings)
Hello, Mr. Demko. Is Adrian there?
Adrian!
You'll be home again
for dinner.
(Roland) Show us your amazing
secret.
You'll see soon enough.
Otherwise, it's not a surprise anymore.
Probably
a stack of porno mags.
How much further is it?
-Far enough that we won't need provisions.
Stop talking shit now.
We're almost there.
(Whispering voices)
So?
Did I overpromise?
Pulver Paul dug him up,
with his metal detector.
Could be your grandpa.
Pff. Nonsense. He's a Russian.
How do you know that?
-You can tell. By the square head.
We're walking on land
made of Russian bones.
I've seen better.
And what's this?
A real Nazi.
The best is yet to come.
Have you ever seen anything like this?
Catch!
[Laughs] Don't shit your pants.
BAM!
Cut the crap, now.
-We have to report this to Seeger.
We need to report your mother to Seeger.
Sorry, it just slipped out.
Voit!
Voit, come on
Come on, let's go.
What's that supposed to mean?
It was a joke.
[Adrian gasps]
We have to get him out of here.
(Roland groans)
(Ominous music swells)
(Slow, pulsating rhythm)
Where's Kai?
Get Kai!
Kai?
(Slurping sound)
What are you doing?
What's wrong with you?
No, leave Kai alone!
Please, Dad.
(Gunshot)
(Justus) The file has definitely passed through
a few hands in the last 20 years.
I also don't know what happened to the
autopsy report, but
I saw Kai's body.
I had no reason
to doubt anything.
(Police Officer) This incident here
What can you tell us about it?
Ah, yes.
Accident with a firearm.
The daughter
accidentally injured her father
injured him.
(Police Officer) What can you tell us
about Arthur Kring?
(Justus) Farmer.
Like everyone else around here.
We know each other,
as you know everyone around here.
The bodies were stored in this vault
under your land.
There used to be another farm here.
All that's left of it is this
old potato cellar.
Anyone can go in and out of there.
- Was there any connection between
Arthur Kring and Paul Möbius?
Other than being neighbors,
not that I'm aware of.
They found a jar of leeches
in the basement.
Any idea what that could mean?
(Arthur's breathing rattles)
No.
-Does Paul Möbius know this cellar?
Paul and his metal detector
know every inch
in the whole area.
(Paul mutters unintelligibly
to himself)
(Justus) You'd be better off
asking me about Powder Paul.
Do you know
why they all call him that?
Because he was always
fiddling around with gunpowder.
Things were always
exploding with him.
We had to come out there a lot
(Roland) When can we expect
the new DNA results?
(Goldhofer)
In two hours. At the meeting.
For me, it was
a ticking time bomb.
Anything new on Paul Möbius?
Mm-mm.
(Polish) Why are you going that way?
-Come on, let's take a shortcut.
(Muffled dance music)
(Man, Polish) I'll be right with you, then we can get started.
(Zipper sound)
(Loud dance music)
(Polish conversations)
(Luba) Danja, Miron, Roman
This is Ilona.
Hello!
- Hey. - Hey.
Has Klozniak already preached
her "new future" speech to you?
This is our room.
Here we can do anything
we want.
Almost anything.
On a scale of one to ten:
How strange is this for you?
-Negative fifteen.
[Laughter]
It'll get to 20, trust me.
One thing
Klozniak says is true:
everyone here
has been through the same shit.
We're all siblings.
-Welcome to Trailer-Park Hogwarts.
[Laughter]
(Zajak asks in Polish, muffled)
(Loud breathing)
(Polish conversation continues, muffled)
I have to go.
Carry on here alone.
(Goldhofer)
We'll see each other again tomorrow.
Everyone knows what they have to do?
Let's go.
Demirel, any new DNA results from Gab?
Yes.
-Yes? Any matches?
Only one.
A young girl from Slovakia.
Missing for eight years.
-Nothing else? Are you sure?
-Yes.
-Okay. Nothing from '97?
(Ominous music)
[Echo] If Kai is in this grave,
he'll show up in the DNA results.
(Phone vibrates)
Maggie, not on the phone.
Let's meet and talk.
Answer my question,
and I'll tell you where.
Has Kai
been identified in the samples?
No.
At your father's.
I'll talk to him alone.
You stay here.
(TV) We don't yet know
what was seen in the cellar
below the bodies,
but another piece of information
was released,
which gives the case
a new dimension.
Complete blood drainage
was performed on several victims.
The press is already talking
about the "Oderbruch Vampire."
(Another hit)
(Roland speaks muffled,
incomprehensible)
(Roland, muffled)
Why don't I know about this?
Why?
No matter what happened,
it's all coming out now.
[Breathes heavily]
The sooner I know
what you have to do with it,
the better I might
still be able to help you.
Does this have something to do with Mom?
Tell me what happened.
I can't tell you
-Tell me what happened!
[Screaming]
If anyone finds out
that I gave this to you
we're both dead.
The only question now is:
Can you live with the lie?
Or do you want to die
with the truth?
(Laughs) Marek, hey.
Slowly I'm getting the feeling I have to distribute a few corpses here every weekend
so you guys come visit me.
[Drunken Laughter]
What?
We're toasting the Nazi right now,
who fucked up my legs 50 years after his death.
[Adrian and Marek laugh]
We named him Hans.
(Laughter from below)
It's a little creepy here, isn't it?
So isolated in the middle of nowhere.
Tell her the Katia story.
I don't think she's ready to hear
that shit.
Too late. Now I want to know.
Supposedly, someone once
found this letter in the attic.
From a Katia Czernik.
A ghost story.
It's a tradition here.
You read the letter if you're into that sort of thing,
and then put it back.
For me, it's not a ghost story.
I think Katia was real.
Bullshit.
Someone just put that there to scare the new guy.
I'll tell you where the letter is. Make up your own mind.
Don't read that crap. I couldn't sleep after.
Do you all do this regularly?
I mean, donate blood.
Have to.
But it's for a good cause.
Hospitals and stuff.
Nothing's free here.
We pay with blood. Seriously fucked up.
(Danja laughs)
(Roland) Everything and nothing.
Lies,
twisted facts and statements
But nothing that explains why someone
wants a fake funeral for Kai.
Or why my
father would have gone along with it.
What's going on here? Are we having
a movie night or something?
What are we watching?
We're not watching anything.
Please go outside.
Did you find an old sex tape?
-Yeah, right
You two?
Real filth. Please, Marek.
Okay, I'm going. [Laughs]
Thanks.
Tell me, what did you see?
Saw a lot.
Too much.
To know it, you have to believe me.
And belief isn't knowledge.
Alright, Paul, we're all ears.
(Paul) Arthur's old buddy.
He's the one doing all this. The big hunter.
(Justus) And who is that,
this "big hunter"?
(Paul) [Laughs] No idea.
It's your damn job!
(Justus) What does he do?
(Paul) Kills someone you love.
Then you do what he says.
But I don't love anyone.
That's why they can't get to me.
[Laughs shrilly]
[Scratching and sniffing]
He doesn't do anything himself. He has it done.
Funerals for people who aren't even dead, for example.
I saw the boy. -Which boy?
The little hunter. The Kring boy.
He's not dead.
You should take a look at who you buried.
The little hunter, at least, isn't.
Ask where
Ask where I saw him.
You're one of them.
They've already got you!
You're one of them!
They've already got you!
He's alive! I saw him!
On the other side,
that's where I saw him!
He's alive, he's not dead!
Over in Poland!
That's where I saw him!
The little hunter lives!
(Clicking)
(Dramatic music swells)
Ask where I saw him.
You're one of them.
They've already got you.
He's alive! I saw him!
On the other side,
that's where I saw him!
He's in Poland!
The little hunter lives!
(Luba) Go on. I told you where the letter is.
Above the director's office. On the right-hand side.
(Car approaching)
[Muffled conversation]
(Voices over radio)
(Sheep bleating)
Sit down.
Kai needs help.
I won't allow it anymore,
the way you treat him.
We're taking him to the doctor.
If you ever touch him again,
I'll shoot you in your sleep at night.
And you too.
If we don't take Kai to a doctor,
I'll shoot you both in your sleep.
Back then, you kept running off to Poland with Kai.
To protect him from Father.
He told friends, he said.
Show me where.
I'm not leaving until I know
where you hid him.
It was too long ago,
I can't remember anymore.
At least the area. Approximately.
And the friends' name?
-Buczek.
I'm sorry.
(Doorbell rings)
Can I borrow Marek for a minute?
-What?
I need someone who speaks Polish.
(Ominous music)
Kring?
Room eight.
The kid should stay outside for now.
We ran several tests on him,
without any particular abnormalities.
He's introverted.
The strange behavior
your daughter describes could have many causes.
For example, he might be
getting bullied at school.
[Coughs] Kai is perfectly healthy and
just going through
a difficult phase.
He keeps telling me
that he's being watched. He has anxiety. What about that?
I think he just wants attention.
Is there anything we can do for him?
Um. At his age, there have been
good experiences with dogs.
It helps build empathy and
promotes social development.
Thank you.
-You're welcome.
(Distant dog barking)
(Sounds near the car)
You want something?
I'm asking around about a man named Buczek.
[Speaking Polish]
(Silent dialogue)
(Inaudible)
Friends of yours?
Nope.
Three kilometers down the road,
there's an old farm that belongs to
the Buczek family.
Okay.
[Laughter, Polish whispering]
Ilona!
You're late for your appointment.
Come on.
First time?
Mhm.
-Don't be scared.
It's just a little prick.
(Bird crows)
Uh This is the part where you tell me,
what we're doing here.
- Wait here, please.
- Hello?
Hello?
Kai?
Kai?
(Gunshots)
Roland Voit's voicemail
Stop right there!
[Heavy breathing echoes]