The Trap (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

[Robert] The worst thing is the doubt.
A shred of doubt always remains.
[Dr. Anger] Don't you miss your parents?
[Robert] So terrible when something
like that destroys a family.
[Lisa] My parents are kind of
stricken with their grief.
[Robert] Normally,
tragedy can bring people closer together.
[loud clattering]
[Yuma] You're pretty heavy.
How long do you want me to keep Bukowski?
I… Uh… For the rest of the week?
Also, I wanted to ask
if you can take me into town.
I need to see my parents.
Okay.
[chuckles softly]
[tense music playing]
[shudders]
[disorienting music swells]
[Lisa] Calm.
Stay calm.
[disorienting music trails off]
Go.
[gentle music playing]
Okay, sit right there.
Wow.
Yeah.
[both chuckling]
[barks]
We're going, sweetie.
THE TRAP
THE TRUTH
[Yuma] Are you feeling okay?
Yeah.
[Bukowski whines]
[Yuma] So, did everything go okay
with the interview?
GPS TRACKER
DISTANCE: 21.9 KM - SIGNAL: ACTIVE
-[Elli] Rudow?
-Hmm?
They asked me about the undeclared income
before they took off.
Undeclared?
And from where?
You would tell me
if we were in trouble, am I right?
Of course I would.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[intriguing music playing]
-[tires screech]
-Hey!
-I didn't see you there, I'm…
-It's all right. I'm okay, really.
[line ringing]
[phone buzzing, ringing]
[Yuma] How long has it been
since you saw them?
Ten years.
I'm… gonna need a minute.
-[Katrin] Yes?
-Katrin, it's Robert.
Listen, I just wanted to give you
an update concerning the interview…
Do you know how many times
I've tried to call you?
Well, I might have some good news for you.
Unfortunately,
we had to call off the interview
because I'm leaving
tomorrow morning for Syria,
and I also have to meet with
some potential buyers
for the house my parents lived in.
That means that you could
do the interview yourself.
[intriguing music playing]
Karl!
Karl!
[Karl] Come on. Come on inside.
Everything's exactly the same.
LIGHT AND SOUNDS
THE BIG CHILD, NO LONGER YOU…
We've read them all.
But you never said anything
when we've spoken on the phone.
Having you here…
It makes me so happy.
I just want you to know that I understand.
Somehow.
I mean… it was initially a bit of a shock.
But we've both tried to understand
why you did what you did.
What? What did I do?
-You think that--
-[Lisa's mom] I'm sorry I hung up on you.
When you called us last night.
I was just…
Your mother and I have discussed it, and…
we think that you can do
whatever you want.
That goes without saying.
I mean, it's your story too.
But did you think about us at all?
It would have been nice
if you had at least warned us.
About the…
About the chapter where she's murdered.
How do you know about the book?
A journalist came by.
He was a nice man from a reputable paper.
He also knew your real name.
He was right there,
right where you're standing, and…
and he asked us what we thought
about our famous daughter
exploiting her own sister's murder
for her latest novel.
Those were his exact words.
We didn't believe him at first.
But then he showed us
an excerpt from your novel,
and we saw it for ourselves.
And then he read from the chapter
about the night that Anna…
And…
what else did he say?
That was quite enough.
Your father asked him to leave.
Far too politely for what he had told us.
So that's why you hung up?
You were upset? About my book?
And I wanted to call you today
to tell you.
But what do you expect? You never call us.
You just remember our birthdays that's it.
But, Mom, I…
The book's not going to be published.
-But…
-Um…
I didn't write it to be published.
I would never do
something like that to you.
Then why'd you write it?
I'm… I'm sorry,
but I… I have to go to the…
[knocking at door]
[Lisa's mom]
Darling, there's a call for you.
Who is it?
I don't know. A woman.
Oh. Thank you.
-Hello?
-[Katrin] Hello, Ms. Konrad.
This is Dr. Katrin Solms from Reflekt.
I'm glad I caught you.
I got your number from my colleague,
Robert Lenzen. How are you?
It's a shame
his interview with you didn't work out.
Sorry about that.
Are you feeling better now?
Yes.
Great. I'm glad to hear that.
I was wondering if we could reschedule
the interview in the coming days?
Our feature story
is still set aside for you.
Unfortunately, Robert won't be available.
He's leaving tomorrow,
for a long research trip for us.
To Syria, actually.
I know he was your dream interviewer,
but if you wouldn't mind settling for me,
we could do the interview over the phone.
If that works for you?
How does tomorrow sound?
Uh, he left an expensive lighter here.
Is he still around?
He said he was going to his parents' house
and he has some errands to run.
-It would be great if you and I--
-Yes, yes, that's fine.
[Pia] Don't you think
she'll find it kind of weird
if we suddenly show up here together?
Her agent and publisher
who are worried about her.
Why would she?
You never go anywhere with me.
But of all places, we have to go--
[doorbell rings]
[doorbell rings]
Lisa?
Lisa!
[mysterious music playing]
[Pia groans]
Is that blood?
You look down here, I'll go upstairs.
Please excuse me, but I have to go now.
I'm sorry.
Ah, but… do you have to go so soon?
I'll be back, Mother.
I'll come again, Mom.
I'll come back.
Yeah?
And Dad…
Can I borrow your phone until tomorrow?
And 50 euros?
[suspenseful music playing]
INSPIRING SPEECH AT THE JOURNALIST AWARDS
DALANTSTRASSE 24, MUNICH
BUNGALOW WITH LARGE GARDEN FOR SALE
[taxi driver] We're here.
Thank you.
Here's your change.
-Keep it.
-Thanks.
[suspenseful music playing]
So did Katrin reach out to you?
I had to check whether you'd keep
your promise to leave me alone.
But then, you haven't.
So please, have a seat here.
You didn't throw it away, did you?
There are people who know that I am here.
When I don't call them,
they'll come here and look for me.
Yeah?
Who will? Your parents?
Not Yuma,
or she would have brought you here.
Bag.
Now please stand up, empty your pockets,
and show me your waistband.
You know the drill.
So no friendly hello this time?
Why did you come here?
I want the truth.
Would you like a drink?
Um…
I don't smoke.
I know.
But the main character in your novel,
she smokes.
Where were you on July 5th, 2015?
We're really going to continue this?
This dumb interrogation technique?
Why did you even agree
to the interview at all?
I guess I was curious.
When I heard that Lisa Konrad
was just a pseudonym…
I turned it down at first.
But when I realized who you are…
I assumed that you didn't have
any evidence on me,
but… I wasn't certain of it.
It could just as easily been
that the police were waiting outside
for a signal to move in.
I haven't been thinking that I've killed
someone for the last 10 years of my life,
just obsessing over
that thought in my head.
You're the one who said it.
Yes.
What about…
What about the music?
At the house yesterday?
The first time was from a little portable
player in my colleague's equipment case.
The second time was from the other phone
hidden in my jacket.
How did you know
that music would affect me like that?
Research.
Your medical files
told me everything I needed to know.
-This is it here…
-Can you print that?
[Robert] Your therapist is very precise.
[therapist] Here's the medications list
and instructions by the therapist.
DEPRESSIVE EPISODES
She prescribed you a lot.
I thought you might have built up
quite a tolerance,
so I overdid your dosage.
What did you put in my water?
GHB.
And bufotenine in your coffee.
It's a psychoactive hallucinogen, and it…
it makes the throat very dry.
And the photographer?
I led him to believe
that it's an efficient strategy,
though not a totally fair one.
Usually this interview method is used
when you're dealing with an author
who's a bit crazy.
We'd have a great story,
and his photos would be exclusive,
and I told him he could
come with me to Syria as well.
Any other questions?
Yes.
You lead me to believe that…
that I was the one who murdered my sister.
I had to make sure
that you didn't go to the police station.
Although they find your statements…
How did she put it?
I have to say that Ms. Wilking's
statements aren't reliable.
How did you know
that I would fall for any of it?
That can't have been in my case files…
[ominous music playing]
What did Anna tell you?
Everything that's not in your book.
Your book is only about
a wonderful, close, sisterly love.
Your therapist doesn't even know
more than that.
Although, she does believe
your traumatic memories are distorted,
and your suffering is so severe
that it's pathological how your feelings
of guilt are ingrained.
Everything was just… gone.
-Here, choke, choke on your loneliness.
-Stop that! Stop it!
-[young Lisa] Stop it. Stop it!
-[young Anna laughing]
[young Lisa] You're so mean.
All the arguing…
The shouting and the… the meanness.
All these years.
From the moment I saw Anna lying there…
there was…
only my love.
Until yesterday.
Anna found you unbearable.
That your artistic act
was totally over the top.
And then your success.
How do you think that made her feel?
[audience cheering, clapping]
Okay.
[uneasy, distressing music playing]
I know.
If I wasn't so insanely jealous of your…
of your talent and your success,
then I'd tell you
how proud of my big sister I am.
What happened that night?
The newspaper headline would have been,
"Family man and father
stabs younger mistress."
A few words.
Years ago, I did a feature about…
uh, convicts on death row.
One was executed after 40 years in prison.
He'd become a Buddhist during his time,
and wrote children's books.
The question was whether the 65-year-old
was the same man
as the 25-year-old murderer?
Not a good analogy.
Also, you haven't spent any time
in a jail cell for what you did.
[Robert sighs]
Even so…
I'd give anything for it
never to have happened.
Tell me about her.
Please.
Anna and I…
We'd know each other… for almost a year.
Not long before we met,
I'd recently become
a father and editor-in-chief.
Some people said I only got the job
because of my wife,
because her family owned the publisher,
but that's untrue.
I was good at my job.
I loved my wife.
And I'd found my place in life,
so to speak.
And Anna?
Yeah.
Then I fell in love with Anna.
I was…
I was enchanted.
It was intoxicating.
She made everything brighter,
and me as well.
We kept our relationship
a secret, of course.
We even used burner phones.
She thought it was kind of fun
in the beginning, and pretty exciting.
But it scared me.
I tried to break things off with her
several times, but…
I couldn't.
-That's such a cliché.
-Yeah.
Totally.
Then we started coming up
with silly plans, and…
and wanting to go to an island
for a few weeks, where no one knew us.
And then my wife got pregnant again, and…
I told Anna that we couldn't
see each other anymore.
[Anna] And what if
I were to go see your wife?
-Anna…
-Maybe we'd even get along.
Listen here.
She didn't get pregnant by God
or some miracle!
You didn't tell me
you were still fucking her!
You have no idea what my life is like.
I can very well imagine your life
with her and your fat baby
in that stupid, fancy house!
With those huge, pink hydrangea bushes.
You went there?
Yes, I wanted to know
what your life was like.
And I want you to know
what my life is like.
I want you to meet my sister.
I want her to meet the man
I want to live with,
so that she can see how happy I've been!
-No…
-I'll have enough money for us both soon.
-We could spend months on our island…
-Are you really out of your crazy mind?
["Somebody That I Used to Know" playing]
My wife is pregnant. I'm leaving.
Do you think you can
just walk out of here?
That you can just piss off like that?
Your father-in-law will kick your ass
out the door so fast
when he finds out you've been
cheating on his beloved daughter.
-Stop it.
-[Anna laughing]
Look at your face!
[Robert] I really tried. I did.
[phone ringing]
I thought she couldn't possibly
want me anymore.
[Lisa] And then you stabbed her.
Then she couldn't tell anyone.
I wasn't myself.
I saw red.
I was angry, but only for a few seconds.
And suddenly, there you were.
[doorbell buzzing]
[knocking at door]
[Lisa] Anna?
["Somebody That I Used to Know" playing]
Anna? I'm coming in.
Well, you said that
We would still be friends ♪
[Lisa] Anna?
But I'll admit
That I was glad it was over ♪
[Lisa] Anna!
But you didn't have to cut me off ♪
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing ♪
[menacing music playing]
[Robert] I left the same way
I always went to Anna's,
so that no one would see me
entering her building.
And then I got a hotel room nearby.
It's okay. No harm done.
The next day…
I picked up my car first.
And then I went home.
With a birthday present for my wife.
Of course I was scared that the police
would be waiting for me there.
And then?
Then I realized…
Anna had kept her word.
She hadn't told anyone about us.
Not even you.
No one ever saw us together.
It was like I didn't exist in her life.
I understand.
What happened back then…
was just one moment.
A terrible moment.
Should I be defined by one awful moment
for the rest of my life?
To my colleagues? To my daughter?
So then, am I nothing more
than a murderer?
Was your wife really pregnant again?
Or was that the perfect excuse
to break up with Anna?
Huh?
[foreboding music playing]
I have a question for you now.
Why did you say in your book
that she was stabbed eight times?
That's how many, eight.
No, Lisa.
It was six.
It was six times.
You're saying that you counted
how many times you stabbed her?
You wanted the truth.
And I've told you the truth.
You've more than earned that.
The whole truth,
which you buried so well
for all these years.
I stabbed her six times.
But you…
You killed her.
[chuckles mirthlessly]
You want to provoke me.
So that you can shift the blame.
[ominous music playing]
Tell me, why didn't you just stay there
in your house, Lisa?
I never would have hurt you.
Close your eyes.
[Norbert] Lisa?
Lisa?
[Leon on phone] Can you hear me?
Mr. Rudow, where are you?
[Norbert] 24 Dalant Street.
The Lenzens' house.
I only stabbed her six times.
You know that.
No!
Oh, oh, wha…?
[groaning]
-[heart beating rapidly]
-[sirens wailing in distance]
[Leon] Ms. Wilking?
Ms. Wilking.
Ms. Wilking.
[phone ringing]
[heartbeat trails off]
[gasps]
Yeah?
On the gun,
only your fingerprints were found.
I didn't shoot him though.
They can both attest to that.
You were brought here with Ms. Wilking.
Is that what happened?
Wilking?
Yes, and I… have a statement to make.
-It's a bit late, Mister…
-[Norbert] Rudow.
I'm the publisher for Lisa Konrad. I mean…
Lisa Wilking.
Aha.
That should be enough, for the record.
And just so you know, I never believed
that you killed your sister,
not for a second.
Never.
[door opens]
Ms. Wilking and I, we're done for now.
Uh-huh.
I'm sure that we'll have more questions.
He did shoot himself with your gun.
With your unregistered firearm.
Where did you get it from?
I found it at the house a few years ago.
Just after I moved in there.
Hidden behind some books.
Was probably stashed by a previous guest
of the publisher that was afraid.
[door opens]
Can I have my phone back?
I want to call my parents.
-[Narges] Mr. Rudow.
-[Norbert] Yes?
Thank you.
[Leon] Mr. Rudow?
-[Norbert] Yes.
-[Pia] My dear.
-Mmm. [Lisa winces]
-Oh, there… I'm sorry.
I'll be in touch.
[mysterious music playing]
AUDIO RECORDING
[Robert] You wanted the truth.
And I've told you the truth.
-You've more than earned that.
-[audio scrolling]
I have a question for you now.
Why did you say in your book
that she was stabbed eight times?
-[Lisa] That's how many, eight.
-[Robert] No, Lisa.
It was six.
-It was six times…
-[Lisa] You're saying…
ARE YOU SURE YOU WAN
TO DELETE THE VOICE RECORDING?
[tense music playing]
[Lisa] I had a sister
who was three years younger than me.
Her name was Anna.
And I loved her.
More than anything.
[emotional music playing]
[suspenseful outro music playing]