Banksters (2026) s01e05 Episode Script

1
[intriguing music playing]
[Hanna] The question now is
whether you testify or not, right?
What did your lawyer say?
Follow Mama's advice for once, okay?
You're better off telling the truth.
Listen.
[Muhammed] You're talking
over each other. Let him talk.
[Hanna] He has to testify.
[Muhammed]
You need to talk one at a time.
-Hello?
-Hello?
-Yusuf?
-Can you hear me?
I've got a plan.
He doesn't need a plan.
-What do you need a plan for now?
-What are you doing?
I want to talk to him alone.
Put Yusuf on speaker, Papa.
We need to do this
as a family. All together.
He planned all of this for me.
Come on.
Yusuf.
-Papa.
-We're alone now.
Okay. I'm telling you, I have a plan.
What fucking plan is that?
Where my son, my son, goes to prison.
As a criminal!
A bank robber!
How many times
did I tell you not to help me?
You lied to me.
Day trading was a load of bullshit.
What other crap you may have done,
I don't even want to try to imagine.
I'm sorry.
[pensive music playing]
I should have shown you more respect.
[speaks Turkish]
Respect is something that's earned.
I let you all down. That's--
I'm sorry.
[sighs]
What did your lawyer say?
How long will you serve?
Depends on what they can prove.
Just the first one.
As far as the rest go,
there's no evidence.
That's it. So no one can testify.
And then we stand a chance.
-How many years?
-Two instead of ten.
And we'd have to give back the money
from the first robbery.
-How much is that?
-A hundred twenty thousand.
If everyone chips in,
then we'd have enough.
And you're confident?
You think you can plan anything,
right?
-You can predict it?
-Everything's predictable, Papa.
Your friends have empty pockets.
No money. Nothing.
Yeah. How good is your plan now?
What's next?
Oğul, every detail in life can't
be planned. And that's a good thing.
Maybe you were wrong about me too.
Ask yourself:
Do you think I spent
any of the money you gave me
when I didn't know
where you got it from?
[inaudible dialogue]
You told me, "Make a plan."
And I did.
Everyone contributed.
I never spent any of your money,
oğul.
I kept it so I could give it back
to you whenever you wanted.
How did you know something was off?
Papa,
did you sign the contract already?
Stupid agent keeps taking forever
with the contract.
You haven't signed it yet,
but you've already started the work?
We shook on it. Trust me.
Yeah?
Okay.
Dariusz, you used to have
your own business, right?
[Muhammed] I mean, look, you wanted
to disguise where the money came from
and run the business through Dariusz.
Oğul, I'm not a fool.
I wasn't born yesterday.
When Dariusz asked me
what my business plan looked like
and when I expected to break even,
that's when I knew it was coming
from you and you talked him into it.
That you were trying to protect me,
but something was wrong
with the money.
Thank you, Papa.
Thank you.
I'll get the money
to your lawyer tomorrow.
I'll get you out, Yusuf.
[suspenseful music playing]
I've had enough. I'm done.
[sighs]
[Katrin] Holy shit. Wait a minute.
I know I've seen her
somewhere before.
-I'm a genius.
-Hmm?
I know how the robberies happened.
I know who the others are.
Ten years!
According to his sister
and the prosecutor.
You don't care at all.
I don't believe for one second
that you didn't do it.
Stabbing your friend in the back
is just like your style.
Because you know
that someone like Yusuf
would not let you hang like that.
Why do you keep dragging
other people into this
when all you want
is Papa's attention?
Why do you always need
to make yourself the victim?
Will you tell me the truth?
-It was you, wasn't it?
-No, I told you before!
[somber music playing]
I think you're full of it.
-You know what?
-Hmm.
Maybe you need to get real problems.
Not some spoiled rich kid,
father-son mindfuck.
Hello.
Do you accept tips
on active investigations,
or can you tell me who does?
In Berlin.
You better come clean with it.
-Did you rat him out to the police?
-You're in love with him, right?
That's why you're acting this way.
Or else you wouldn't give a shit.
I don't know who I am.
Do you understand?
That's my problem.
I don't feel anything.
Zero.
Except sometimes.
Sometimes a little. When we win.
[alarm wailing]
Chasing all of my dreams
Leaving doubts behind ♪
Rewriting the rule
Make my own design ♪
Grab the prize
It's my time to shine ♪
[howling]
On the floor!
Thank you.
Yes, I-- I have, yes.
No, I don't read the regional
newspapers. I really don't.
All right, but please calm down.
Okay?
Listen,
I don't care if the board thinks
that we need to hold
a special meeting.
That's-- It's unnecessary. Seriously.
POLICE CLUELESS, BANKS HELPLESS.
MONEY'S GONE.
Every board member
can call me personally,
and I'm happy to explain that we're
doing everything humanly possible
to protect our customers' deposits.
[muffled applause]
-Where are you going? When?
-I was gonna tell you.
-The chairman is your dad?
-[Steven] Your father!
Do you know what they'll do to us
when they find out?
Malte, why are you doing this?
[Jakob] Malte!
-Are these your friends?
-It was a great speech.
You're Yusuf Arslan, right?
Right.
Class valedictorian.
Borchert told me.
-[Yusuf] I qualified because I--
-I know. I know. I was too.
Let's talk alone for a minute.
If you don't mind.
Please excuse us.
Borchert had
interesting things to say.
The finances in your community
aren't very good.
And most of the money is sent back
as undeclared income.
And you've been helping him
get his foot in the door
with your community.
-[Steven] Fuck.
-[Melanie] We're screwed.
[Steven] First the dye pack
in the stash, then the shit with Cem.
Now your father.
Can you at least explain
why you're doing all this?
Don't we need to wipe it all
to get rid of the fingerprints?
The cops are on to us anyway!
What's the point of all this, huh?
-Fucking asshole! Come on!
-Steven.
[Yusuf] Hey, guys.
I can hear you from the street.
Where have you been?
Until five minutes ago,
with Malte's father.
-He wouldn't stop talking.
-What did he want?
To talk about the future and banking.
-Jackass.
-[Steven] Then it's all over, right?
Now he's got his eye on you.
Malte. Is that it?
-We have to steal so much that he--
-Gets fired?
And then what?
And that's as far as you got?
I want to tell my dad
what we've been doing.
-What do you think?
-This isn't just about you!
Get off him.
Steven's right.
We're in this together.
We've been able to come this far
because we've relied on each other.
There's no way
that I'm trusting him again.
-He's out.
-He's not out.
This is bullshit.
[Melanie] Okay. That's it.
[Yusuf] Melanie.
You're not going after them?
They'll come back.
I'm not sure you really get it.
Your father's different and he's cool
and lets you be who you are.
That's pretty rare.
Your father invited me over
for dinner tomorrow night.
Can you handle it?
[Malte] Yusuf's my ride-or-die.
Dad's trying to steal him from me.
What?
-Yusuf?
-Yeah, Yusuf.
I would never betray him.
He's my friend.
I can't believe
you would accuse me of that.
[pensive music playing]
[Charlotte sighs]
Why can't you see Papa loves you?
You know, one time
I went with him to your mom's grave.
He told me, "We've got
to take good care of Malte.
He's our little chick." [chuckles]
I'm grilled chicken to him.
Nothing else.
He doesn't know how to show it.
[engine stops, car door opens]
[Jakob] Hello, Yusuf.
[car door closes]
-I brought this.
-You shouldn't have.
But that's kind. Thank you. Come on.
I'm in the last generation who
learned the job from the ground up.
After me, it was just graduate nerds,
and [chuckles] even worse are
the algorithms and computers.
It's madness. Where will it end?
Eat. It's delicious.
It's warm out today.
Gotta stay hydrated.
Mm. [chuckles]
I admire that about you, Yusuf.
You took the rocky path
from the bottom up.
-Same as Malte.
-Well, it wasn't his idea.
How would you know that?
-You talk and talk and talk!
-Your steak's getting cold.
[chuckles]
It's amazing, isn't it?
When he's drunk, he doesn't stutter.
It's really incredible. His therapist
can't explain it either.
Of course, being a drunk isn't
the best solution.
I never asked you for steak.
I never asked you to come to
the dinner table in a drunken state.
I wanted Yusuf over
for a quiet chat. You can go.
We can do this another time.
I'm fine to come back. Malte,
I'm sure you want to head out too.
There's no need.
Dad,
that smell is all over the house.
The vegan. My daughter, Charlotte.
[chair drags]
Hi.
Yusuf.
[Charlotte] Malte!
[Yusuf]
Malte! Malte, wait, I'll help you.
-Hey, what's wrong? You okay?
-Come on.
Nothing's okay. Never.
-How drunk are you?
-[Yusuf] Get up.
-Let's go inside so you can rest.
-[Malte] You always do that.
You act like I'm clueless
about banking.
-[Yusuf] Hey. Stop it.
-[tense music playing]
Go ahead. So, what do you know about?
I know everything and so much more!
Stuff you have no clue about.
What's in safety deposit boxes.
-What are you saying?
-Dye packs in all the money bags.
-Credit card numbers of rich clients.
-Yeah, you wish you knew.
Tell me this.
Do you know the bank's office hours?
We'll keep stealing
until they push you out.
[Malte retching]
Can you please take him upstairs?
I'm sorry, Yusuf.
We'll do this again.
Just the two of us. Another time.
Charlotte, please see him out, okay?
-I can show myself out.
-Stop right there.
Is it true about
what Malte was just saying?
-He's just hammered.
-Please stop. Stay here.
[footsteps leaving]
[strums guitar]
[rock music playing on record player]
Are you still sick?
Did you see how he looked?
His face.
Malte, is it really true what you
just said? Are you robbing banks?
You can't leave me hanging, okay?
[pensive music playing]
[Steven] So Melanie
and I thought this through.
It's like the loan-granting process,
but it's an assessment.
What's the risk-to-reward ratio?
[Melanie] The risk has been too big
for the small rewards.
Think about it. Cem, dye packs,
deposit boxes, violence.
[Malte] Anyone know how much cash
Germans keep
in their safety-deposit boxes?
-[Steven] Fifty billion.
-[Melanie] 216 billion.
Calculating for anyone over 18,
that equals around 1500 euros.
[Melanie]
It sounds like a lot at first,
but if we open 50 deposit boxes
and they only have the average,
-it's not worth it.
-Nope.
We need to know who owns which box
and how much is inside them.
-If it's worth it.
-[Steven] Exactly.
Knowing who the boxes belong to
changes the probability.
That doesn't change
the probability at all.
You can still have an empty box
if you're rich.
[Charlotte]
It depends on the owner, doesn't it?
But the question is,
whose deposit box is actually full?
-Guess where I'll be in two weeks.
-I'm going there too.
It's wild, but right here
is where all the Berlin jewelers have
their deposit boxes.
And all those boxes are always full.
[Steven] Right on the outskirts,
near the highway in Grunewald Forest.
How would all of you smart-asses know
which box belongs to a jeweler?
There's a list, a directory,
in every bank.
Yeah, that's normal at most banks.
But the Berlin jewelers directory
is in--
The hands of the branch manager.
And it'll be hard to get.
-I don't know.
-[Malte] What do you mean, you don't?
I think it sounds genius.
They'll figure it out.
-Let's go.
-Are you hearing this?
Do you guys think
you're really geniuses?
I mean, your plan is totally weak.
It's a crapshoot.
Has anyone thought
about what would happen
if the manager were to catch you
with this directory?
What would you say to them?
"Oops. How did this end up
in my arms?" Or what?
So how would you do it?
[footsteps approaching]
[knocking on door]
[Dobberstein] Yes. What is it?
Sir, excuse me,
can you help me open an account?
Don't bother me
with things like that, Ms. Hübner.
It's actually a different kind
of an account.
From abroad.
Okay, then watch
and learn how it's done.
Enchanté.
[intriguing music playing]
-How can I help?
-Must I repeat it again?
My father sent me to Berlin to study.
He's opening an account here
'cause he loves Berlin.
Okay, we'll open an account
and his money can be transferred.
Not a problem.
He's bringing the cash here.
-Himself?
-Is that a problem?
How much is it?
[chuckles]
I'm sure that we can make it work
within the German legal system.
We'll find a solution.
You'll be needing
a large safety-deposit box.
Or several.
Let's take a look.
Ms. Hübner, go get the directory.
Follow me.
[music intensifies]
I've been to Moscow a few times.
It was wonderful.
Business was great there.
[Charlotte] Oh, yeah? Interesting.
Four fifteen, Prema Jewelers.
[suspenseful music playing]
Weimann Jewelers.
Four sixteen.
-Four fourteen, König Jewelers.
-König?
-König Jewelers?
-Yeah, yeah.
-Malte.
-Shut up.
Get down. Get down!
Hurry!
[Malte] Shit, it's my father! Fuck!
[Malte shouts]
Would you mind letting
Mr. Dobberstein know
-I'm here to see him?
-Of course.
-Thank you.
-[tense music playing]
[Charlotte] It looks perfect.
My father will like it.
Wonderful.
Where have you been?
Yeah. Now it's too late.
All your magazines were in the way.
Uh, um, yeah. How about we discuss
this over a glass of champagne?
What do you say?
Dr. Kaiser has arrived.
[Dobberstein] I completely forgot.
Show him to my desk.
Go on! Don't make him wait!
Dr. Kaiser. If you'd like
to follow me to his office.
That's fine, thanks.
How much longer will he be?
Can I get you a coffee or a tea?
Thanks.
I don't drink that kind of thing.
[car horn honking]
-Hello, Dr. Kaiser. How are you?
-Mr. Dobberstein.
-[Dobberstein] Is that your car?
-[Jakob] I hope not.
-That's my father.
-Yeah.
Um, I'll distract him. You hurry up.
Can I get you anything?
-Tea? Coffee? Water?
-A chair would be good.
Stop it. Stop!
We need to go.
We have to get out of here right now!
-Steven, get off him.
-Not yet!
-We have to wait for Charlotte.
-Malte's right.
Charlotte can do it.
[Melanie] What a pleasant surprise
to see you again.
[Jakob] You as well.
[suspenseful music playing]
-Thank you, Ms. Hübner.
-My pleasure.
We need to leave, Yusuf.
[yells] Yusuf!
Open the door. Open the door.
Did he see you? Did he recognize you?
Come on. Go, go, go!
-[Yusuf] Tell us what happened.
-[Charlotte shouting]
[Charlotte] Stop the fucking car
right now! Stop the car now!
[sobbing]
-Hey, come on.
-[Charlotte] Fuck off, you asshole!
-Charlotte.
-[Charlotte] Just fuck off!
[Charlotte continues sobbing]
[intriguing music playing]
[Malte] We can't leave without her.
Yeah ♪
Come on ♪
Oh, you thought
That we was playing around? ♪
I got the money and the power
Trying to get out of town ♪
We put the middle finger up
We changed the rules ♪
They wanna throw us into prison
But we gotta refuse ♪
So let's go, let's go ♪
After that, we just kept going.
Yusuf wanted to know exactly
what was inside and where.
Come on, I'm really
Living the life right now ♪
Come take a ride
Into my lifestyle ♪
It gets crazy, it gets wild ♪
Too fast, I can't slow down ♪
[scanner beeps, then door unlocks]
Come take a ride
Into my lifestyle ♪
-[Melanie] Hello.
-Hello.
So let's go
Ain't no looking back ♪
Fill up on the gas, hundred miles
And we going fast ♪
Get up out the way
You know it's all or nothing ♪
If you ain't know it by now
A storm is coming, yeah ♪
[indistinct shouting]
[whistle blowing]
[pensive music playing]
[Charlotte] I'm sorry.
It wasn't your fault.
I went into the bank.
No one could have predicted
my father showing up.
Forgive me?
Forgiven.
-You can open them yourself, yeah?
-[chuckles]
This is the first time
I've used any of the money.
-You're a real wild guy.
-Come with me.
No one can cook
as well as my dad. No joke.
-[Charlotte] Father complex.
-Yeah. So what?
His generation never had
the chances I've had.
Why didn't he get a loan
from the bank like everyone else?
He had no chance.
My dad was in debt.
The banks screwed him over
and bled him dry.
They saw that I was Turkish,
which is why I got the job.
Using me to generate new customers.
Selling mortgage savings contracts,
opening accounts.
The bank's profits doubled.
The customers have just enough left
to keep from drowning.
You get it?
Yeah.
[tender music playing]
I couldn't see a way out.
Now it's like
I'm being taken for granted,
and it just keeps going and going.
-Is it time for bed?
-No, I'm not tired.
You thinking of him?
He's really special.
If that's true,
then why run away again?
[car door closes]
Romantic.
You think?
Yeah.
Wow.
Teach me how to do that.
-Cheers.
-Cheers.
What do you want to do
with your life?
What does Yusuf Arslan really want?
For yourself. Hmm?
I have no idea.
I've never really had the time
to think about it.
[pensive music playing]
We'll drink our beers here
and get something to eat.
On the weekend, we can go to the
movies or the theater or whatever.
I would like that very much.
Except I won't get a meal with you
or go see a movie or whatever
if you don't stop all this.
Call everyone now and cancel it.
Everyone listens to what you say,
Yusuf.
And if you don't stop, I can't
promise you that I won't turn you in.
If only to make you stop.
Out with the sun
Rise and grind ♪
Chasing all of my dreams
Leave my doubts behind ♪
Rewriting the rule
Make my own design ♪
[Katrin] Who was in the bank
and when?
During the theft.
Which of the trainees?
The criminals worked within the bank.
Yusuf Arslan is an insider.
And it's only logical
that the others are too, right?
Everyone was inside their banks
when they were committing
each one of the robberies.
Yeah. Hübner, Melanie.
Wedemeyer, Steven. And
Kaiser, Malte. Here.
You'd have figured it out too.
It's a coincidence.
Congratulations.
Really good work.
-Well done.
-Thank you.
-What are you doing here?
-I was arrested.
You?
Did your brother rob some banks?
Out with the sun
Rise and grind ♪
Chasing all of my dreams
Leaving doubts behind ♪
Rewriting the rule
Make my own design ♪
Hustle hard, grab the prize
It's my time to shine ♪
Out with the sun
Rise and grind ♪
Chasing all of my dreams
Leaving doubts behind ♪
I still don't understand.
Okay.
I think I owe you an explanation.
Look, Peter, you and I
If you want to be with me
if we go to Greifswald together
-Mm-hm?
-it won't be easy to get away.
My parents. My brothers.
How all of you get along.
Would you like that?
Lately, there hasn't been much time
to think about it.
So crazy about your brother.
And you knew about it the whole time?
Yep.
And someone betrayed him?
You know what I thought
when they kept asking me
the same thing over and over?
That there's one person
who has the balls
to turn your brother into the police,
get him to quit
and do the moral thing.
The only person
I could think of was
Me?
Why don't we watch them first?
Collect evidence.
Not get caught off guard.
And let them keep playing
their games with us?
Today is payday.
Idiot.
[sighs]
[doorbell rings]
[Charlotte] Malte! Malte!
Wait a minute.
Hey, listen to me.
I didn't turn Yusuf in
to the police, all right?
He said that
he couldn't let you down.
We both had a good cry
and then I came back home and packed.
And I went straight to London 'cause
I didn't want to see any of you guys.
Of course, everything has turned out
exactly like I thought it would.
I'm lucky
that my brother's still here.
But what is next?
Will Yusuf stay in prison?
-Hmm?
-[sighs]
-What are you offering?
-[Rieger] Let's cut to the chase.
You can't prove anything
other than the first robbery.
My client is offering to take
full responsibility for that robbery.
A confession of guilt, remorse,
and repayment of funds.
Two years on probation.
Saves us the headache of the trial.
It makes sense,
given his lack of priors.
I would like to make you both
an offer as well.
-Wedemeyer, Steven.
-[hip-hop music playing]
No looking back now ♪
It's all or nothing ♪
We know what we gotta do ♪
Yeah ♪
[Ryang] Hübner, Melanie.
F the law, F the man
They just want to hold me down ♪
Get the cheese, get the cash
Then we ducking out of town ♪
Break the rules we don't need ♪
[Katrin]
Good afternoon. Berlin police.
-Are you trying to run?
-What do you want?
Olaf, leave it.
Ms. Hübner, you are under arrest.
Cuff her.
[handcuffs clicking]
Olaf, I don't think
things will work out with us.
F the law, F the man
They just wanna hold me down ♪
[Ryang] Kaiser, Malte.
Then we ducking out of town ♪
Break the rules we don't need
Governmental policies ♪
Doing what we gotta do
Being who we gotta be ♪
Outlaws on the run ♪
Hide out if they come
And this work is never done ♪
Outlaws on the run
Hide out if they come ♪
And this work is never done
Never done ♪
Outlaw, outlaw
Living like an outlaw ♪
Outlaw, outlaw
Feeling like an outlaw ♪
Outlaw, outlaw
Moving like an outlaw ♪
Outlaw, outlaw
Yes, I am an outlaw ♪
Look at my life ♪
How I survive ♪
Put in the work
Then I leave it behind ♪
It won't be forever
I know in my mind ♪
But I am an outlaw
Ride or die ♪
Ride or die ♪
Outlaw, me and the team ♪
Hey ♪
We ride together, we die together ♪
That's for life ♪
[song ends]
[intriguing music playing]
Out with the sun
Rise and grind ♪
Chasing all of my dreams
Leaving doubts behind ♪
Rewriting the rule
Make my own design ♪
Stack it up, stack it up
Get your money right ♪
Getting paid every day
It's the money life ♪
Live it up, live it up
Better do it right ♪
Stack it up, stack it up
Get your money right ♪
I get the cash
Money in the bag ♪
Stacking up paper
Run up a tab ♪
I get the cash
Money in the bag ♪
Stacking up paper
Run up a tab ♪
I get the cash
Money in the bag ♪
Stacking up paper
Run up a tab ♪