Women's Hell (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

1
Oh, my dear Varsovians
to fear death
only implies foolishness,
and that you think yourself full of wisdom
when, in actual fact, you're not.
For it means
believing that you yourself
know something that cannot be known.
[sighs]
[straining]
But the thing is actually,
nobody can know.
If this death of the body is,
in fact, the greatest blessing
that there is for us,
mere and simple beings.
Ooh! As humans.
And yet the fear is so profound.
A fear of death that penetrates our souls
as though we could know for certain
death is the final passage to hell!
I don't know.
[coughing]
[somber music playing]
[Lew] Ah!
Mr. Heckmann.
So, to what do I owe the pleasure
or misfortune?
You think you're above the law
because cops buy from you?
Ah, so you're here to buy.
[scoffs]
[Lew groans]
I know it was you!
[Lew groans]
And Róża.
[Lew groans]
You son of a bitch.
[groaning]
You tried to kill her.
[moans softly]
Róża.
Róża.
-Róża.
-[Maks] Oh, my God.
Helena, darling, you're awake.
-I Where
-It's me, Maks.
-Recognize me?
-Where am I?
-At the clinic.
-I didn't
The photo. Róża.
-Róża. She--
-Róża's gonna come tomorrow.
-I can't.
-Shh, shh.
Please, darling.
-No, no, no.
-Calm down.
-He was there.
-Who?
Pure-Hearted Jan.
Calm down, darling, I'm here.
I've got you.
-They tried to murder me.
-I'm here. Calm down.
-They tried to
-You're okay, darling.
-Łabęda! Where's Dr. Łabęda?
-[crying]
Leave us alone, please.
You let that Russian scumbag go?
Well, he says he acted in self-defense.
And I believe him. The whole city knows
he's a pimp, a drug dealer
and probably a killer.
Emil.
Just 'cause everyone buys drugs from him
doesn't make him Pure-Hearted Jan.
Oh, yeah? He photographed my sister
in the same room
where that bastard would see women.
Now you're in charge,
and you're acting just like Janeczek.
[cell lock clicks]
You're free to go, Heckmann.
[Emil] You've done nothing.
Helena Wróblewska is in the hospital.
[door closes]
[tense music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[Lew] Róża?
You were supposed to handle it,
for the love of God.
You don't get to tell me what to do.
-Róża.
-[bangs loudly]
Shh!
I am not gonna go down with you.
That isn't the deal that we made.
You're already in too deep.
We're in this together.
We need to get rid of her.
So what do you want to do?
Just leave it to me.
Maks.
She, uh, was unconscious for so long,
she may be hallucinating.
I administered a sedative.
Isn't that gonna hurt the baby, though?
No. But her addiction will.
We're transferring her
to a closed facility.
I'm sorry.
You know it's the best for her.
She'll never go.
[Dr. Łabęda] We can force her
if we need to.
Maks, Helena is dangerous.
[Dr. Łabęda] We don't know how badly
the opium has impaired her judgment.
Dr. Łabęda, she's totally out of control.
I mean, her and Heckmann?
[sighs] I'm sorry, Maks.
And these hallucinations, Doctor?
She needs protection from herself.
For your family's sake.
She'll thank you for it one day.
Appreciate it.
[Dr. Łabęda] Morning.
[telephone ringing]
[monkey screeching]
[telephone continues ringing]
Hello?
Yes?
Understandable.
[sighs] If that happens,
then it's God's will.
Was Ludwik on the phone?
You don't have to hide it.
You think it's funny?
I'm not grieving for Ludwik.
He's already been to the church.
It'll be easy for him to get
the marriage annulled
after what you've done.
[scoffs]
You committed a crime.
Mother, whose side are you on?
[officer] Hello?
We're looking for Mrs. Apostolowicz.
We have a warrant.
Hello, I'm Officer Dawidziuk.
We're State Police.
Are you Ewa Apostolowicz?
Mom? What
You are under arrest for the intentional
termination of a pregnancy.
Your hand, please.
[breathing shakily]
You're coming to the police station.
Mom.
Let God's will be done.
[dramatic music playing]
-Helena!
-Get the fuck out of here!
Helena's getting locked up
because of you, scumbag.
-Me?
-Yes.
You really messed with her head.
It's destroyed her.
[dramatic music continues]
[engine starts]
Oh, my God
[breathing shakily]
God, have mercy on a sinner.
I can't do that.
[woman] Over here.
Hey!
No
[panting]
No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Someone help me!
Help!
Somebody help me!
Please! You gotta
I want to see Mr. Emil Heckmann.
I'm begging you.
You gotta you gotta help me, please.
Your husband doesn't want visitors.
Sweetheart, don't get so worked up, okay?
Hey, you know, I do have
a surprise for you.
-Get off me!
-[chuckling]
-Get off me!
-Shh!
-Get off me!
-Shh, shh!
No, no!
Shush, you.
No!
[orderly straining]
[chuckling]
We're ready for you.
Maria, where are you?
-Oh
-[crying]
It's okay.
You're not alone. I'm here, okay?
You're okay.
-Is Lew here?
-No idea.
-I said, is he here?
-I told you I don't know.
[dancer] Yeah, but then where would we go?
-No way I'm risking that.
-[Emil] Where is he?
Oh, my God, it's him.
If Lew finds out--
Then what?
He'll kill me like he killed Fela?
-Think so?
-Yeah, sure.
Baby.
Want to have fun?
[grunts]
He prefers Sleeping Beauty. [laughs]
Who killed my sister?
I have no idea.
Are you protecting him?
You're all just fish in a barrel.
He'll sell you one by one,
like a piece of meat
to a random pervert
who will fuck you, then kill you.
And Lew will be taking photos of it.
-You need to back the fuck off.
-Why?
Lew isn't gonna protect you, girl.
Lew didn't murder Fela.
-Then who?
-Exactly. Who?
Stop talking right now.
Zizi first, and then Fela.
I'm not waiting to be next.
Well, if you don't shut up, you will be!
[all clamoring]
Ladies, what the fuck
is happening in here?
Heckmann?
Fuck this, I'm calling the cops.
I don't think so.
You piece of shit!
[groans softly]
-We'll talk about this later.
-[groans]
Now get your asses to rehearsal.
I've had enough.
Fuck you!
Fuck him!
Fuck him!
But I'm like a father and mother
to you girls.
-Fuck you.
-Yeah, right.
-Fuck you!
-You scum.
You're a fucking sadist!
Get him! Fuck you!
-Fuck you!
-Sadist piece of shit!
[dancers] Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
[monkey chittering]
Róża.
Don't bother.
All the girls already know.
They don't know shit.
They've got no proof.
Heckmann's lost it over Helena,
but he'll have to get over it.
And if he doesn't?
Should something
happen to me, take this to the police.
Róża, nothing's gonna happen.
Take it to the police,
or you'll end up in jail.
[somber music playing]
Now, leave.
[sighs heavily]
[woman] Can I help you?
Róża Milwicz, to see Wiktor Denar.
Okay, go ahead.
Who let you in here?
-You have to leave, Róża.
-It's important.
I'm about to go on the air, okay?
Would you please come back later?
No. I'm leaving,
I've got a taxi waiting.
Well, then, have a safe journey.
You could come with me.
We could leave all this behind.
[Denar scoffs]
You'll be finished if Helena reveals--
If she reveals what?
I'll protect you like I always do.
-[gasps]
-Helena is an addict.
No one is going to believe her.
Wiktor, please, just come with me.
I don't want to live without you.
I have never loved you.
The only reason I gave you attention
is because your brother
took Helena away from me.
So I'm only fucking his sister
to make him suffer.
[sighs heavily]
[grunts]
Thanks for the affection.
Now get the fuck out.
I have a broadcast to record. Piss off!
[melancholy song playing]
[Róża] "I leave this letter
as testament to my goodwill
and as evidence regarding
the recent murders and rapes,
the perpetrators of which
are living among us, unpunished.
I am one of them.
When my brother Maksymilian
founded the magazine Fortuna Amandi,
I was Wiktor Denar's lover.
For years, Denar and I used the paper's
matchmaking column
in order to create pornography, which was
consumed by many men of high society.
Zuzanna Heckmann and Hanka Stalówna
were not our only victims.
With my help, Wiktor Denar
engaged in brutal perversion,
and thanks to me, went unpunished.
I killed Felicja Turczykówna
because she uncovered our crimes.
I did it out of love and because
I thought I was loved in return.
I was wrong.
Róża née Wróblewska, widowed Milwicz."
[melancholy song continues]
[monkey screeching loudly]
[auctioneer] Up for auction today,
the magazine Fortuna Amandi.
The opening bid is one million zloty.
One million going once,
do I hear 1.1 million?
-1.1 million.
-[agent] 1.1.
[auctioneer] Yes. Okay.
1.1 million going once.
Going twice.
-1.2.
-1.2 million.
1.2 going once.
Does anybody have 1.3?
Who will give 1.3?
I'm not seeing any hands
raised on either side.
-1.3, sir.
-[auctioneer] 1.3. Bravo!
We have 1.3 going once.
1.3 going twice. May I get 1.4?
1.5 million.
[auctioneer] That's 1.5 million.
1.5 going once.
Congratulations to the gentleman
in the middle.
-1.5 going twice.
-That's him.
-1.5 million zloty sold to Mr. Makowiecki.
-You're coming with us.
[auctioneer] Congratulations.
-What?
-[officer] Denar,
-you're charged with sex perversion.
-[Denar] What are you doing?
-As well as soliciting the murder
-Call my lawyer!
of Felicja Turczykówna.
Extra. Extra. Big news today!
Fortuna Amandi!
Wiktor Denar charged
with gross sexual perversions.
Read it here.
New Courier. Come and get it!
Closer together, please,
like a happily married couple.
Let's see a little love.
-Okay?
-[model] Mmm-hmm.
Like that?
[photographer] Once again.
Hold still for five seconds.
I'm very happy to see you.
You approve of the new profile?
[Maks sighs]
[photographer] How about a kiss?
Why did you ask me here?
-[Bogumił] Hmm.
-[photographer] Now, like this.
I know about politics, but female virtues?
Not so much.
And then it won't reflect so much,
Denar told me it's a quote from the Bible.
[photographer] Further back.
He's no longer
much of an authority, is he?
Hmm.
Yes. That's why I wanted you to come.
-I need an Editor-in-Chief.
-[photographer] Hand on her waist.
I've been told that you can hold a grudge.
It's all just business,
though, you know that.
Somebody else said that as well.
-Al Capone did.
-[chuckling]
You're funny.
Mr. Wróblewski, I knew we'd have a deal.
[photographer] Try it like this.
Do we have a deal?
[photographer] No.
[Bogumił] Denar was meant
to be Editor-in-Chief,
but after all this mess,
even if he survives it,
he'll likely end up in politics.
You never know, he might become president.
[Bogumił] One must always stick
with the strong players
when it comes to business.
[photographer] Lift it higher.
[Bogumił] So, Mr. Wróblewski
-[photographer] Thank you.
-are you strong?
[sniffs]
[sighs]
[patients wailing and groaning]
[door creaks]
[electricity crackling]
[woman wailing in distance]
How are you, darling?
I heard about Róża.
Yes.
It's been really difficult
-[orderly] Stop that.
-to swallow.
And it also makes you see
that I'm not crazy too.
[woman] Please stop!
-I spoke to the doctors.
-Maks.
I'm not a mad woman.
You need to get me out.
You know, I thought that if I became
the editor of the magazine,
then things could go back
to how they were.
[woman] No, stop!
Between you and me.
With our magazine.
Only it isn't ours, is it?
Helena, come back to work.
Maks.
I don't want to come back to the office.
I cheated on you.
[woman] Do you see him?
Maks. Maks.
Maks, you've got to get me out of here.
I'm begging you!
You're addicted to opium,
and it could hurt the child.
Maks. Maks, for God's sake!
Where are you going?
Maks! Maks!
This is a draft of the new cover.
Mr. Zieliński, could you please
hand out the main article?
Here you are.
And this.
Saint Elizabeth?
Hmm. Not bad looking.
[Cajmer] She had her child at 14.
-What moral is that?
-[scoffs]
You researched that, Cajmer?
It's enemy intel.
Would you both just shut the hell up?
"Ten Commandments for Women"?
You see this is bullshit,
I mean, don't you?
Well, it's this bullshit,
or Fortuna Amandi is over.
It's a matter of survival.
[man] Move the desks over here.
[Cajmer] I wish you luck.
Nowhere else will hire you, Bruno.
How about where Hanka went?
Anyone else?
[woman] Those boxes too.
You're poisoning me.
I know you want to kill me.
I'm not crazy!
-Let me go.
-[orderly] Okay, come on.
-She's been here for a year now.
-[woman] Unhand me!
Her children had her locked up
so they could live off her inheritance.
[orderly] Let's go.
He likes to sedate the younger residents.
That's what Big Magda told me.
The nurse is a sex maniac.
[chuckles] And who's
gonna believe a lunatic?
Will you join us?
[playing piano]
[hits wrong note]
[pounds keys] Fuck!
[line ringing]
Hello?
Łabęda, it's Maks.
[mysterious music playing]
What are you doing here?
-Anything that you like, but not for free.
-[chuckles]
How about I lick you for a fix?
-[whispers] I've got another idea.
-[chuckles]
My God, you're a real woman.
I'll need more than a lick.
[mysterious music continues]
[panting]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[moans loudly]
[laughs]
[sighs]
If you get caught, I know nothing.
[crying]
[panting]
[panting]
[soft music playing]
Emil.
[laughs happily]
[both laughing]
[Helena] What happens now?
[Emil] We'll live happily ever after.
Like a fairy tale?
Like a fairy tale.
[Helena chuckles softly]
[knocking at door]
[Maks banging on door] Heckmann?
-Stay here!
-[Maks] Open up!
I know you're in there!
Open the fucking door. Heckmann!
Helena!
Helena!
Helena!
Open the door!
-Where the fuck is she?
-Easy.
Helena?
-[Emil] Hey.
-Helena.
She'll be safe here.
-You can't protect her, Emil.
-You can?
-Where is she?
-I'm not letting you put her away.
Helena.
[Maks sighs]
I'll be next door.
[Maks crying]
[continues crying]
I'm sorry.
Look, I'll sign the papers.
You don't have to go back there.
Shh.
[kisses]
[door opens]
[door closes]
Do you trust him?
Emil, I'm pregnant.
[poignant music playing]
The baby is yours.
[woman] He's innocent!
Shame on you!
[woman] Free Mr. Denar.
He's innocent!
Let him go!
-It's a setup.
-He's a good man!
We know it.
It's a setup. A set up.
-He's innocent! It's a set up.
-[man 2] He's innocent.
[man 1] You're innocent!
-We know it.
-[woman] Let him go.
[lawyer 1] So you're not able to recall
the face of the defendant,
Wiktor Denar.
I remember the mask that he had on.
[judge] Speak up so the court
can hear, please.
I remember
[sighs] the mask he was wearing
on his face.
Your Honor,
the witness's memory
is obviously not reliable,
given that she initially said
the rapist was Maksymilian Wróblewski.
[witness] Because Zuzanna Heckmann
got pregnant by him.
I mean, by the rapist and
[judge] Speak up, please.
Zuzanna Heckmann got
she got pregnant by the rapist.
And I was afraid that
that Mr. Wróblewski
Your Honor, please, given the
latest evidence, that is impossible.
[judge] And what evidence is that?
The results from the medical exam.
The test results show
that Mr. Wróblewski is infertile.
[people gasping]
[people murmuring]
[judge] Evidence item number 19.
Please enter it into the record.
[usher] Witness, Helena Wróblewska.
Excuse me, could you?
My sister-in-law, Róża,
a short while ago, for some reason
decided to show me photographs
of women being brutally raped.
Hanka Stalówna and Zuzanna Heckmann.
[lawyer 1] And did you recognize
Wiktor Denar in these photographs?
Yes, I believe I saw
the defendant in the photos.
All right, please tell me hmm
what exactly was the opium for?
[people murmuring]
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, how is that relevant?
[lawyer 1] I see.
But, Your Honor, if I may,
I'd like to present
as evidence, an expert psychiatric report.
Opium has caused clear and permanent
damage to the witness's mental health.
She has also administered
the drug intravenously.
Your Honor, this is medical proof
that the witness has a tendency towards
visual and auditory hallucinations.
[all clamoring]
[gavel banging]
[lawyer 2] Please enter evidence
item 24 in the record.
A fragment of a burned picture.
Would you be able to identify the people?
Zuzanna Heckmann and, uh, Wiktor Denar.
[lawyer 2] No further questions.
Thank you.
They have evidence. He's going to jail.
So you claim that Mr. Wiktor Denar
raped poor girls
in order to profit from pornography?
Sure. That's what Róża's letter said.
She could have easily
have written it about you,
if you'd made Róża fall madly in love
and then abandoned her too.
Quite the melodrama.
[people chuckling]
She and I shared clients.
Ah! So you mean to tell me
you were profiting?
[people clamoring]
Your Honor,
all of this is in my testimony.
I just Róża paid me to deliver drugs
to her clients as well as her.
Just like you have, if you remember.
[judge bangs gavel] Order in the court!
Your Honor, may I?
The man's face
in the photograph is blurred.
I mean, first of all, his body type
is nothing like my client.
And second of all, can a pimp and a
drug dealer be considered a key witness?
I believe this is a setup.
[Cajmer] Not true.
-That is not true.
-[man] That is not true.
-Order in the court!
-This is a setup.
-[judge] Order!
-[lawyer 1] It's a setup.
[judge] Order!
Let's go.
Hello?
-Let's go.
-Mmm-hmm.
I'll be right there.
You're beautiful as ever.
Thank you.
Helena, remember you
You can always come back.
-[somber music playing]
-Hmm.
This court is in session.
All rise.
The court will now deliver the verdict
for the case of Wiktor Denar,
who is charged with the crime
of sexual perversion
against Zuzanna Heckmann
and Hanka Stalówna,
as well as the crime
of ordering the murder
of Miss Felicja Turczykówna.
The city of Warsaw's district court
has found the defendant,
Mr. Wiktor Denar, is
innocent, and not guilty
of any charges brought against him.
That's not fair!
This entire trial was a farce!
A scandal!
[people applauding]
[grunts happily]
[people cheering]
Emil.
I've gotta go.
[judge] This trial is now concluded.
[chuckles] Well done. Well done.
[reporters clamoring]
Yes, thank you.
It was totally ridiculous.
-Gun! Gun!
-[all screaming]
Oh, my God! Emil! Emil!
Emil!
-Emil!
-I'm alive!
[gasping]
[slow music playing]
Fifteen minutes.
[both laugh and sniffle]
Well, I've brought
some of that honey,
coffee and tobacco.
Were you able to talk to the lawyers?
They said you might be able to get out
sooner with good behavior in here.
How soon?
In 1939.
The child will be seven by then.
We'll get through this.
Hey
When you get out, we'll go on a holiday.
We'll go swimming in the sea.
And then we'll make love
on the sand dunes.
It'll be glorious.
[Helena chuckles]