Oderbruch (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

(Vogel crows)
(Footsteps on wood)
(Kai)
I pulled the bodies out of there,
because I want it to stop.
I want to show the world
that we exist.
Then Marcin and Svetlana,
and all the others,
didn't die for nothing.
Say something. Please.
Why didn't you go
to the police?
Because they would never believe me.
Marcin didn't believe me either.
Even you don't believe me.
You have to find the truth yourselves.
I can only show you the way.
You have to forget everything
you thought you knew
about these myths and legends
you've heard.
Most of it
has been made up over time.
[Breathing shakily]
[Sighs desperately]
I know you don't want to believe it
But you have to believe me, I never
wanted to kill anyone.
That I've always
fought against it.
(Through tears)
What you're talking about doesn't exist.
I've often dreamed that you would find me.
I've gone through this conversation over and over in my head.
And every time, you've said that I'm just imagining it all.
That I'm mentally ill.
And you're about to say exactly that.
I don't know what else to say.
Back then, you said I was a monster.
You were right.
But I didn't kill anyone because I'm mentally ill,
but because the hunger was stronger in that moment.
I am a monster.
But not in the way you think.
Not here
but here.
Look at me!
Why haven't I aged?
There's a rational, natural explanation for it.
What I just told you,
IS the rational, natural explanation.
Nobody just knows it.
[Groans]
[Moaning]
(Piercing sound)
Show me.
[Kai breathes heavily]
Show me!
If I drink this, I'll need more right away.
And what if you can't get more?
Will you kill me then too?
I need an animal
Please put the glass away.
I can help you
not do it again,
if you trust me.
And you can accept
that there
might be
another explanation.
I trust you.
If you can accept
that there might not be one.
You couldn't have done this alone.
Many of these bodies are so old,
you weren't even born
There are others.
This carpenter?
His father?
You have nothing to do with them.
You don't know who they are.
Why do you believe all this?
Because we have the same disease!
Did you see the carpenter's face?
Would you recognize him again?
-No, not really.
Where are you going?
Voit's father and Seeger faked your autopsy.
And your funeral.
I want to know why.
Will you betray me?
If I come back
and you're not here anymore,
I can't help you.
Because I broke the rules,
they want me dead.
And now you too.
And they'll try again.
(Intro Music)
(Loud Electronic Music)
I'm feeling dizzy.
I need to get some air. -Sure.
"Dear Gabriela, I'm writing to you
because I fear for my life."
"Something's not right
with this school."
"My best friend Patrycja
has been missing for weeks."
"They say she got a scholarship
to a university in Argentina.
But it doesn't make sense."
"She wouldn't just leave
without saying goodbye to me."
"When I started
asking too many questions"
(Ominous music)
(Footsteps from below)
(Door closes)
(Muffled male voices, English)
I've got it under control.
-How exactly do you have it under control?
The whole world is watching right now.
Who caused this?
-The boy.
-He's your responsibility.
-Listen to me, please.
-You had your chance
and you failed!
The time for excuses is over.
You have to end all of this,
make it all disappear.
Okay? You know how this works.
We'll take care of your exit.
-Was my exit? What are you talking about?
No! I've invested decades
in all of this.
-We have
a new place for you.
In India. I'll go with you
-Wait a second!
I don't need a new position!
-This is your circle. You're responsible
for everything here
(Screaming) Do you know who I am?!
(Laughter)
-We know who you once were.
-But you're not that man anymore.
-I have a plan.
I've been handling problems like this since
-No, no.
This isn't a negotiation.
You'll do what we tell you!
Or I'll make a call.
-Stay stay put!
-Either you end it
or we'll do it for you.
[Shouting incoherently]
(Chair smashes)
[Groans in frustration]
(Creaking wood)
(Dirt trickling)
[Breathing heavily]
(Suspenseful music)
(Door slowly opens)
(Bird crows)
Marek?
(Ominous music)
(Phone vibrating)
Yeah?
Did you show the box to anyone?
No.
Can we meet?
We need to talk.
I'll be in front of the church in 30 minutes.
At the memorial service.
Let's meet there.
Hello!
-Yes, hello!
Hellooo!
-Hello.
Sorry, just a quick one. Pia wants to show Grandpa something. -Hello, sweetie!
Wait, I'll go to Grandpa, one second.
Everything alright with you guys?
(Pia) Yes! When are you coming home?
Me? Yeah, soon. Very soon.
Yesterday, Pia wanted to see you.
Hello Grandpa!
-Hello Grandpa!
Hello you two.
(Little Child) Graaandpa!
(Pia) Grandpa, watch this!
Oh, beautiful!
(Linda) Do it like you did before.
(Pia) Are you watching, Grandpa?
(Linda) Nice and careful! Careful!
Yes.
So, what do you say, Grandpa?
[Justus laughs]
Look how high I can climb.
Yes, very good.
Alright. Papa has to go.
[Sighs]
You can call Grandpa
on the landline.
With video! -No, video won't
work again until tonight.
You can call Grandpa and then
you can say goodnight to him, okay?
Just a moment, please (Hangs up)
(Piercing sound)
(Edith) What has happened here
defies description.
And I don't even want
to try to describe it yet.
Together, we've already survived
a few catastrophes.
We are facing
another breaking point,
that could ultimately
destroy our village.
Every one of us
needs to pitch in again now!
We need to support the police
in their work.
And I keep hearing everywhere,
that nobody heard anything
or noticed anything.
Whoever knows anything,
should be assured that we all
stand behind him or her.
It is our duty to do everything
in our power,
to find answers.
For us, for Krewlow,
but above all
for the victims.
The only thing that's probably worse
than the crimes themselves,
is the fact
that all of this is still
unsolved.
And that the perpetrator or perpetrators
could still be among us.
It's the tormenting questions
in your faces that I see.
I want to ask all of you
one of these questions:
How could this
happen among us all these years,
without any of us noticing?
We are all partly responsible,
perhaps even complicit
Krewlow, the police
and seemingly the whole world
are still facing a great mystery.
I want to alleviate your fears and appeal to our
Could you give us
a moment alone, please?
Whoever knows something
should be assured
that we all stand
behind him or her together.
We shouldn't judge anyone
And we especially shouldn't
prejudge anyone
who seems suspicious to us.
Either way
Back then, I needed your help.
But you, like everyone else,
made me feel like I was crazy.
Do you still think I'm crazy?
Mm-hmm.
I need your help again, and I can't tell you what it's for.
You just have to trust me.
Can you do that for me?
Mhm.
What happened?
Someone tried to kill me.
I couldn't identify anyone.
Where were you?
-I can't tell you that.
Not yet.
both as an individual,
as well as a village community.
Someone wants to prevent
us from finding out the truth.
-Who?
-I don't know.
I appeal to our solidarity in this difficult time.
We won't do anything until we know
who or what we're dealing with.
What's your status?
No traces on the bodies.
The pit was constantly flooded.
That destroyed all
foreign DNA.
The victims are mostly people
no one misses.
Homeless, junkies
We don't know
who the survivor was,
or what he has to do with it.
The theory is,
that your father and Pulver Paul
are responsible. -Okay.
Maggie?
How can I help you if you don't tell me what you're planning?
Mmm?
Krewlow will now forever be
associated with these terrible events.
It's better for you if you don't know.
What that will be is up to us.
Thank you all for coming in such numbers,
and I truly hope for our village that all of this will be cleared up.
We will now pause for a moment
and observe a minute of silence
to remember the many victims!
What did she want?
Nothing.
Just reopening old wounds.
(Ominous music)
(Car approaching rapidly)
Do you know where Marek is?
I thought you were going to tell me.
I'm screwed without Marek.
He's not answering his phone. What happened?
Give me his address.
I'll go there.
(Funeral song playing)
Is everything okay?
Maggie?
Voit's going to come and ask what I wanted. Don't tell him anything, okay?
[Stutters]
What did Maggie want from you?
Nothing. Just saying hi.
-Do you know where she's going?
Why don't you just ask her yourself?
What's going on with you two?
Can you give me a ride home?
Marek was supposed to be here
and take me, but he didn't show up.
-Yeah?
I have to drive my friend home.
I'll see you later.
(Handy-Ton)
(Ominous music)
(Bird crowing)
(Crowing)
(Rustling on the ground)
(Piercing sound)
(Bird calls and flapping)
(Rustling)
(Cawing)
(Flapping)
(Bird crowing)
(Loud noises and heartbeat intensify)
(Footsteps in the undergrowth)
(Knocking on the door)
(Polish) Is anyone out there?
Come in?
What are you doing here?
Excuse me.
I've never seen you here before.
Are you German?
Um
I'm Filip.
Um
I stay here now and then.
I don't mind if we're here together.
(Roaring intensifies)
(Key turns in the lock)
"You have to donate blood here
every few weeks."
"A man does it every time,
but he's not a doctor."
"I'm always scared
when I have to go to him."
"The food is weird.
We also have to take
these pills."
"Vitamins, the headmistress says."
"Sugar and alcohol are forbidden."
"Yesterday, I refused
the pill,
and was locked up."
"And they threatened me."
"The other students believe everything
they're told."
"I believe
Patrycja was murdered."
"I know, it sounds crazy."
"Nobody here says or asks anything."
"Everyone is terribly afraid.
You get totally intimidated here."
So?
Did the letter
spoil your appetite? Are you scared?
The letter is just
a Halloween prank. Nothing more.
I didn't read the letter
Someone was there,
and I had to hide.
Don't tell me they caught you. -No.
But those strange men were there again.
In Klozniak's office.
I could hear them
from the attic.
They were saying really weird things.
One of them
completely flipped out.
Who are these people?
I don't know.
Sounds like school investors.
Someone's paying for all this.
Those weren't investors.
How do you know that?
You sound paranoid.
You'd better not read that letter.
Did you put it back?
What did Maggie talk to you about?
-Nothing. Why?
Uh, this way to my place.
-If you don't tell me,
you're obstructing my work.
I don't know anything!
She didn't tell me anything.
Asked about the land sales. Did she get that from you? - No.
Where are you going?
(Metallic sounds)
(Metallic sounds in the room)
(Slicing sounds)
(Seeger) German soldier.
Come here. I'll show you
how sometimes, even with
such an old corpse
you can determine the cause of death.
(Cutting sounds)
I know what you did.
You're on a ghost hunt.
You're sick! You should talk to a psychologist!
I'm sorry.
I have a DNA sample
from the body in Kai's grave.
Whoever you buried there,
that's not Kai.
I don't believe a word you're saying!
To be honest
I feel threatened by you.
(Phone dialing tone)
I'm not threatening you. -If you don't
leave now, I'm calling the police.
Now you can feel threatened.
You're not leaving me here now.
Wait here.
Roland!
(Maggie) And now the truth.
You wouldn't do that.
I'm desperate, Frank.
Maybe you're right:
I need a shrink.
Too bad there isn't one around right now.
Only you.
[Wimmert]
And me!
That's gonna land you in jail.
-An anonymous call
pointing to Kai's grave,
and that's gonna land you in jail.
[Scream]
I was paid.
By whom?
I don't know.
Just a voice on the phone.
They said if I didn't take the money,
I'd be dead!
-Where did the money come from?
Ask Justus Voit.
Maggie! Wait
(Heartbeat)
(Polish) Help yourself.
[Filip sighs]
Ren & Stimpy.
You know it?
Best show ever.
I've seen every episode a hundred times.
What's the show about?
Ren Höek is a neurotic,
asthmatic Chihuahua,
and
Stimpson "Stimpy" J. Cat uh, Katzwinkel
is a fat, stupid cat.
(Distorted) Well, they both experience
abstract adventures
in a cartoon world
stylized as a caricature of the mid-20th century
United States.
[Laughs] I'm telling you
[Heartbeat]
[Laughter echoes]
Whatever
You have to see it to believe it.
-I ran away from home too.
[Filip laughs]
But that was a very long time ago.
Buddy
I have to show you something.
You've never seen anything like it.
All vampire books.
Whoever hid this must have been a real freak.
First I came here to get a fix,
then to read.
I've already read a few.
And while reading, something struck me:
Vampires are junkies, man.
Nothing but junkies.
Just like us.
I'm guessing we're not going to my place, are we?
Just forget it. Can you get the wheelchair out of the back?
I'll get home on my own.
(Knocking, doorbell ringing)
Justus?
Justus!
Open the damn door!
Justus?
Justus
[Footsteps on stairs]
Papa?
No!
[Screaming]
(Maggie) I just wanted to visit him.
It's been a long time.
(Adrian) I can't make it up the stairs
here alone. - Wanted to
I used to come and go
here as I pleased.
(Zajak)
You climbed through the window.
No one answered the door.
I had a strange feeling.
Voit has a key.
Yeah, I don't have one.
Didn't want to waste any time.
[Adrian arguing in the background]
At the meeting today,
what did you talk about with Voit? -Okay, that's enough for today.
Listen, Justus was like an uncle to us.
[Zajak sighs]
Three old sandbox buddies.
You stick together, huh?
-We didn't have sandboxes.
Good.
(Adrian) Take your time.
I'll wait outside.
When my father said
she had left us,
I just accepted it.
I don't know why,
I just believed it.
Until I saw the pile of corpses,
there
I briefly thought
What if she's lying there?
My mother and I always had to go to the basement.
At night.
When our fathers met here.
No idea what they talked about
But there was another man with them too. Never saw his face.
They put my father under pressure. Blackmailed him, Maggie.
(Justus)
I can't do that.
(Roland) Until he fought back.
(Man)
You just have to give Seeger the money.
(Roland) Then my mother was gone.
From one day to the next.
No goodbye.
She wouldn't do that!
It broke my father.
But the meetings stopped.
Except for one time.
Once, July '97.
That's when he came back, that man.
And they were talking about Kai.
And they gave my father
money. -For Seeger.
No. My father always said
It's because of Jessen, the state.
-Why didn't you ever tell me?
Because I was afraid of losing my father
as well
and you.
I thought the two of us and our baby
would just get out of here.
Somewhere. Far away.
Just start over.
The three of us.
I'm sorry.
I'll give you as much time
as I can.
Crime scene investigation is done.
Are you finished here?
(Filip) Did you hear about the pile of corpses
on the other side in Germany?
We're living on a rock hurtling through the cosmos.
Good and evil? It doesn't matter.
The universe doesn't give a damn about us.
I don't mean that negatively, it's just the way it is.
In a few hundred years, our species will be extinct,
and nobody will ask if there are some corpses lying over there.
You know what I mean?
That's why it doesn't matter if I shoot up again.
(Heartbeat) (Stabbing sound)
Hey! What are you doing?
Aah, Fuck.
[Groans in pain]
Are you insane? -You don't even
know what you're talking about!
[Chokes]
[Filip gasps for air]
If you had seen death,
you'd know
life is precious.
Fuck you, man.
What the hell is wrong with you?
(Piercing sound)
[Relieved sigh]
Tell me something:
Do you not value your life
at all in this moment?
[Filip gasps]
Get out of here now.
And don't you ever show your face around here again.
Go home.
Go to rehab. Get your life
back on track.
If I ever see you again,
I'll kill you.
(Heart racing, sound lingers)
(Sheep bleating)
(Two voices faintly audible)
(Sounds of tableware)
I found Kai.
You don't need to pretend anymore.
I want to know what you did to him.
Where you dragged him into this I want the whole truth.
Someone tried
to kill me.
Where I found Kai,
at Buczek's house.
Two people knew where I was going.
You're one of them.
We have nothing to do with it,
but you're in danger!
You have to stop!
You have to get out of here!
Justus Voit hanged himself.
You used him to cover your tracks. But why Kai?
Why Kai's fake funeral?
So you could disappear from here.
You would never have left otherwise. -And why?
So you could continue in peace?
How many of those people out there have you killed? How many, Kai? Huh?
He told me things I can't believe.
You and he, you both have a disease.
You need blood to live.
To survive.
Why would he say something like that?
There are others
who have the same thing.
Another family.
They tried
to take Kai.
A man in carpenter's clothes
and his father. Who are they?
[Wimmert]
I know the carpenter, he worked for us.
You chased him away. Who is that?
And who's the father?
Did you meet at Justus' place, back then?
Roland saw you. Is that the second one from '47?
The second suspect? Your old friend - is that him?
Spit it out!
Did you two kill
Roland's mother together?
[Gasping]
It wasn't me!
(Minna) Arthur, stop it!
[Gasping and coughing]
(Arthur) Stop with your questions.
Please stop with your questions.
The answers
will cost you your life.
[Sheep bleating]
"There are two men here,
about whom no one knows
who they really are."
"One is missing two fingers,
the other
is known to everyone only as 'Boss'."
"Everyone's afraid of him.
Even the headmistress."
"Yesterday, I stole
the boss's wallet
and found out
that his name is Marek Gorski."
"Tonight, I'm running away
and mailing this letter."
"I hope I can get out of here."
"I'm so scared!"
(Door opens)
Show it to me.
(Tabletop creaks)