[waltz music playing]
A NETFLIX SERIES
[shower running]
[waltz music continues]
♪ Wake up, wake up, the cock crowed ♪
♪ The sun is starting out On its golden road ♪
-Comrade Wolf! -[gasps]
[chuckling]
Damn it, Kleo. What are you doing here?
Where's Anja?
The gynaecology clinic called. Her urine sample was spilled accidentally.
-She had to go there right away. -[Andi sighs]
It was a really careless lab assistant.
Look, Andi, I brought you something from Mallorca. These are--
[Andi] Tell me, what did you do?
You mean Wieczorek?
Yeah.
[in Spanish] Wieczorek is dead. [blows raspberry]
Of course. Of course.
Listen, Kleo, don't you understand the GDR is no longer there to protect you?
-They'll be after you now for murder-- -Just chill out now.
I found something out.
All orders came from the very top, from Minister Erich Mielke himself.
-What? -[Kleo] Mm-hmm.
-Then… Then Mielke sent Uwe. -[Kleo] Yes.
And that's why I have to pay Mielke a visit now too. In Hohenschönhausen.
-In prison. -[Andi sighs]
I need to know why it happened.
[inhales sharply] Okay, then.
I'm coming with you.
[tense music playing]
[in Russian] Bullshit.
Andi,
you have pregnant wife.
You're going to have a child. You must stay here.
Kleo, I'm coming with you.
No, "Andrea."
I'm going alone.
[chuckling] "Andreas" was sold out.
[Spanish guitar playing]
[dark percussion music playing]
[gun cocks, firing]
Oh! Hello, Mrs. Plumber.
Is the boiler fixed now?
No, it's still missing a spare part, I'm afraid.
Hmm, it would be good if everything was working once the baby was here.
-[chuckling] Oh! -[dramatic music playing]
[chuckles] It kicked. Oh. Feel it.
[continues chuckling]
Have you got children?
-Yeah, twins. -[Anja] Mmm.
Rosa and Karl.
Goodbye.
[in Russian] Goodbye.
[police siren wailing]
Crazy. She's completely crazy.
Freddy, she's slaughtering them one after the other.
I have never come across a woman like her.
Oh, Svenny. She could've killed you in Mallorca too.
No. If she'd wanted me dead, I would've been dead a long time ago.
But she doesn't.
[Freddy] Hmm.
You know what? [sniffs] It's best if you apologise to Böttger.
Yeah. "It was a crazy idea. It won't happen again."
-Don't you start now too. "Crazy ideas--" -What is it then?
-It's a huge case of gigantic proportions. -[Freddy sighs]
Okay, look, Party Secretary Walter Blum, dead.
-Ludger Wieczorek, Stasi colonel, dead. -[Freddy] Mmm.
Her own grandfather, colonel-general in the Stasi, disappeared without trace.
She's working her way systematically through the really big fish.
Hmm. Yeah, well, she can't get the biggest fish.
-[sirens wailing] -What do you mean?
-[intriguing music playing] -Erich Mielke's in prison.
-Freddy, you're an absolute genius. -[Freddy] Hmm.
Erich Mielke. Stasi Chief Erich Mielke.
That's the next victim! We have to tell Böttger.
["Nur Ein Lächeln" by Die Aloetts playing]
POLICE
-How do I look? -Like shit.
[shouting] Mallorca, yeah? On your own!
Mr. Böttger, I'm very sorry, but--
Let me tell you one thing, Petzold. There'll be a disciplinary investigation.
Okay, you have every right. Can I at least say what I found out?
No, you cannot. I'm not interested.
And you'll be doing office work only for quite some time!
That would seriously undermine our work because we've found out who--
No! You!
You sabotaged your work here!
You work for the Fraud Squad, because that's your job!
It'd be nice if you took it seriously.
When will you get it into your head?
What is it you don't understand, Petzold?
Okay, I quit then.
What? Are you crazy, Sven?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And you'll come straight into my office
and dramatically slam your badge on the table, yeah,
like in some shitty movie, right?
Yeah!
Mmm. Shit, no, I've left it at home today.
We… Um, I… Um… I'll do it. Okay, I'll bring it in tomorrow.
-And… and… -[Böttger grunting]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
[Sven chuckles]
-I just quit. -What was all that about?
And now?
What now then?
And now…
[funky music playing]
Now I'll save Erich Mielke's ass.
That's now.
[Freddy] What are you doing? Svenny!
[siren wailing in the distance]
[song ends]
-[ominous music playing] -[news anchor] Berlin.
Today, the East German police hospital declared
the former minister of State Security, retired General Erich Mielke,
-fit enough to be kept in jail… -[door unlocking]
…and thus he will remain in Hohenschönhausen Prison in Berlin.
Comrade Minister?
[news anchor] …prosecutor is accusing him of causing damage
to the national economy and high treason due to anti-constitutional activities.
-And now, time for some music. Er, oh… Or rather, this way round.
["Bed Sitting Bird" by The Sydney Dale Orchestra playing]
This is, er… a curry.
-Enjoy your lunch, Comrade Minister. -You can take it away again.
Are you sure, Comrade Minister?
["Bed Sitting Bird" continues]
[song fades]
[suspenseful music playing]
[door locking]
FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
[woman] Well then, guys?
[employee 1] Okay, 20 marks that she'll do it.
-[employee 2] Count me in. -[dramatic electronic music playing]
There's no way she'll do it.
[employee 1] Make them look stupid.
[music stops]
-[chuckling] -[bells ringing]
[employee 2 sighs]
-[phone ringing] -[woman] Thanks very much, guys.
[tense music playing]
Ms. Geike?
-[employee 3] That was easily five feet. -Mmm… okay.
Well, she also practices every evening.
[woman] Ms. Geike?
[Geike] Yes?
[tense music continues]
Can I help you at all?
[Geike] Ah, there it is.
I just need you to tell me who you are.
I'm as blind as a bat without my lenses. [sucking]
-Min Sun. -[Geike] Min.
[in Chinese] Hello.
[in English] And we agreed on Anne, right?
[in Chinese] Hello, Anne.
[in English] So, what's up? I don't have much time.
[in Chinese] I have horse shit on my face!
-[Min] Mm-hmm. -[Geike] Hmm?
[in English] Um, I see.
[in Chinese] "Work."
[Geike in English] Exactly.
[in Chinese] Horse shit.
[in English] Um, well?
The government instructed us to find the Stasi assassins,
Mielke's secret elite troop.
Yeah?
[Min] I got a phone call yesterday which might interest you.
A contact at the KGB.
[Geike] Reliable?
[Min] I think so, yeah. Kleo Straub.
She spent the last three years in prison, and now she's free again.
Took care of a lot of dirty work for the Stasi.
Last job was in 1987, a murder at the Big Eden.
Victim's official cause of death was an overdose,
but my contact is sure that it was her.
-Big Eden. -It's a disco in West Berlin.
I know what the Big Eden is.
Of course.
Yeah, go look into it, will you?
-Me? -Yeah, you.
On my own?
Min, you want to be promoted?
Yeah. Of course.
Well then…
[Min chuckles lightly]
[tense music playing]
-Thanks, Anne. -[Geike chuckling lightly] Mm-hmm.
[door closing]
[ominous music playing]
[buzzer blaring]
[waltz music playing]
[Kleo whistling]
[buzzer blaring]
[guard] They're making a fuss about this one, Minister.
You wouldn't believe it. Yes.
You're right about that too, but I mean, they're not going to nab him overnight.
Right? Yes.
And I still think what the Comrade Minister
is accused of is just… It's ridiculous.
He's a sick man.
He should be at home.
Well, I just find it embarrassing, right?
Wait, hang on a second.
Hello. Gabi Gormen. I'm the new prison guard.
The transfer from Saxony.
Just a second, miss. I'll be right out, okay?
-[Kleo] Mm-hmm. [guard] Someone's just arrived. Hang on.
No. No, no, no. I'm on the afternoon shift all week.
-[suspenseful music playing] -Yeah, yeah. I'll call you back. Yeah.
Miss?
Hello?
Where is she then?
[indistinct conversation]
[Kleo groans]
[funky music playing]
[moans] Finally.
[groans] My legs have gone to sleep back here.
[sighs] You lot are smaller than us, huh?
Mielke was meant to be next,
but it didn't quite work out like that.
[moans] Hmm?
Yeah.
You know, someone had to protect him.
You're now thinking,
"When is this scarily good-looking guy finally gonna stop bugging me?"
And I've already told you, when you're back in there behind bars.
[funky music continues]
[inhales deeply] Look…
-I drew up this hit list here. -[music stops]
Your grandfather, Walter Blum, Ludger Wieczorek, and now Erich Mielke.
[sighs] Well, you've really fucked up here.
[chuckling] You're really pissed.
Do you know that I'm not scared of you, not anymore?
I mean, you could have killed me in front of my own house,
you could have killed me in Mallorca, you could kill me now…
[Kleo exhales]
But you won't.
You like me.
Yeah.
[action music playing quietly]
Hmm.
[action music grows louder]
Hmm.
That's my cue to get out now, hmm?
[chuckles]
Till next time, Kleo.
Ah.
[engine starting]
[Sven sighs]
"Sven Petzold."
Ah.
[shutter clicking]
[state official] Mission report, Operation Cowboy.
To Comrade Minister Erich Mielke.
Copied to Major-General Otto Straub.
On March 30th at 14:27, Comrade Ramona fired a total of six shots…
SCOUTS FOR PEACE
…at the American President Ronald Reagan, and the target was seriously injured.
On March 30th, 1981…
[Thilo] "…trained and qualified to be agents, carrying out
diversionary action in the area of operations."
-Ronald Reagan. -[official continues in background]
"Target was taken out."
"…by people."
"Reconnaissance. Destruction. Taking possession."
Reconnaissance. Destruction. Name? Name?
[dramatic electronic music playing]
Possession. Name? Ra-mo-na.
-[official] …striking him under the left… -[Thilo] Ramona!
-[official] Reagan's wounds weren't… [Thilo] Who are you?
What do you look like, Ramona?
[door opening]
[music stops]
[door closing]
-[Kleo] Uh… -I know I shouldn't be sniffing around--
Thilo, what are you doing?
[Thilo] I found a bunch of files in the basement. Do you know a Ramona?
[tense music playing]
[Kleo] Uh… yeah.
They say she was the best Scout for Peace in the GDR.
[mysterious music playing]
Hey, Reagan assassination attempt.
And maybe she was involved in the Barschel case too.
And when I think laterally,
Barschel dies in a hotel called "Beau-Rivage," yeah?
"Beautiful Shore."
And who had his capital deliberately built on the most beautiful river shore?
-Exactly, Genghis Khan! -[mysterious music continues]
The cause of his death is also unexplained.
Some say it was the plague.
Others say a princess cut off his dick and, like, he bled to death.
In any case, he didn't fall off his horse.
It's not a coincidence. Where is Ramona now?
-What's she do? What's she look like? -Nobody knows what Scouts look like.
[music stops]
She joined the KGB.
-KGB. KGB. KGB. -[ominous music playing]
KGB. KGB.
-She created AIDS. -[music stops]
[Kleo sighs]
You're a secret agent too.
Me?
-Nah. -I thought that--
[Kleo] I'm a full-time unofficial employee of the Ministry of State Security,
Main Directorate of Reconnaissance, Division 18, minister's task force.
Well, I was.
Basically, a Stasi contract killer.
Oh. Oh yeah, th… Yeah. Good.
[Kleo] Mmm?
You mustn't tell anyone…
[suspenseful music playing]
…but I was brought by a UFO down to Earth.
1969.
I am bringing techno here. That's my mission.
When I'm finished, I can go back.
They'll pick me up and take me home to Sirius B, to my princess.
I'm just like you,
a contract killer for bad music.
Good.
Put that back. I'll make breakfast.
You want hard or soft-boiled eggs?
-[whispering] Breakfast. What time is it? -["Tschaka" by Feeling B playing]
Soft.
["Tschaka" continues]
-[song ends] -[tank engine revving and stopping]
[birds chirping]
[shouting] Piotr!
[Piotr] I'm right here.
Ah! There they are, the heroes of the Great Patriotic Struggle,
pride of the Red Army.
What pride? [groans]
Thanks to the Soviet Army, soldiers die of hunger.
Now everyone survives as best they can.
Amen.
-[intriguing music playing] -Have you got what I want?
[Piotr in Russian] Yes.
[birds continue chirping]
-[whimsical music playing] -[Kleo] Ooh la la!
[in Russian] Thank you.
[Piotr groans]
[in English] That's really nice too.
[Piotr chuckles]
[whimsical music continues]
-[Piotr grunts] -[Kleo] Oh. Hmm.
[Piotr chuckles]
How about the boots?
[music stops]
[Piotr] Uh… [chuckles]
-[door closing] -[phone beeps]
[keys jangling]
-Hello. -[phone beeps]
Hey, all right?
-[phone beeping] -[Sven sighs and clears throat]
-[Jenny clears throat] -[Sven sighs]
Hey.
[kissing]
Are you angry because I left you a mess behind?
Sorry, I just came home quickly to get changed
then went straight to the precinct.
-They were really excited to hear what I-- -I saw the bank statements.
I know it wasn't an official police mission.
Are you spying on me now or what?
I had a look at our joint account
because I wanted to see if there was enough money in it to buy our son
the very expensive shoes he wants for his birthday.
But, Jenny, may I…
What? I've recorded something. I'd like to watch it.
We're going out, yeah?
Hi, Dad.
Okay, Marky. Don't be too late.
Hmm?
[Mark] Come on.
[ominous music playing]
[Mark's friend] Let's go to the Fischlabor. Tonight…
-[Mark] Basement or upstairs? -[Mark's friend] Upstairs. As usual.
-[Mark] Forget it. I'm not in the mood. -[door closing]
-[Mark's friend] Where then? -[Mark] What about Far Out?
[Mark's friend] Far Out? No, tonight is Barefoot Night.
[indistinct conversation]
[Sven] Is he not going out with Jerome anymore?
You know, the guy with the…
Jenny.
-Jenny. -[sombre music playing]
Jenny, please. Let's talk about it.
[Jenny] No, I don't want to talk about it when you lie to me all the time.
I don't lie to you all the time.
Okay,
listen.
[sighs]
It wasn't a police mission, no.
I wasn't on an official assignment in Mallorca,
-but it was still work. -[flame whooshes loudly]
That's not a lie. I protect people. That's my job.
What should I have done? Just let a Stasi assassin carry on?
The more I find out about this case, the more I realise
-how enormous this whole thing is. -[waltz music playing]
It's huge, Jenny.
It's the biggest case of my life, do you understand?
[chuckles] I spoke to Frederick on the phone.
Okay, fine, so you're spying on me.
Why are we speaking about it at all if you're not interested--
[shouting] Hey, you quit, right? Without discussing it with me first?
-Just like that? -No, not "just like that."
-I'm just trying to explain it to you. -[Jenny] It's a complete ego trip.
And you're dragging all of us, me, your son,
and your colleagues into it, yeah? Sven, relationships don't work like that.
-[Sven sighs] -It's totally… Okay, just forget it then.
[Sven] What? What did I do? I didn't say anything at all.
[Jenny] No, but you sighed.
I sighed. I sigh all the time. Sometimes the whole shitting day.
But it was an irritated sigh!
For once in your life, why can't you just be proud of me?
Proud of the fact that I'm involved in a huge case
that only I spotted and none of those other assholes did.
That I'm so convinced about that I even quit my fucking job.
What I did with the money was stupid.
I'm sorry.
But I have to be allowed to decide things for myself too.
I was alone in Mallorca, yes. You can't understand that. I get that.
But you don't have to understand everything the other person does.
I don't understand a lot of things that you do either.
Yes, for example?
[high-pitched] For example…
Um…
[music stops]
Your jazz dance course, for example.
Why?
[chuckles lightly]
You're a right fucking dickhead!
Oh, I see, for some reason that's better than sighing in irritation, right?
-[drumroll playing] -[action music playing]
[gas hissing]
[music stops]
[kettle whistling]
[whirring]
[whimsical music playing]
[Kleo laughing menacingly]
[mimicking a witch] For little knows my royal dame
that Kleo Straub's my name.
[whimsical music continues]
Greetings from the Gugelhupf cake princess,
Comrade Minister.
[pipe organ music playing]
[chuckles lightly]
[music stops]
[suspenseful music playing]
-[music stops] -[Jenny] Sven?
-[Sven] Yeah? -Give me the car key.
Uh… But I need the car.
Yes, but it's mine.
But you ride your bike all the time.
Maybe today I've spontaneously decided to do something different.
That's how it works here.
I might even drive to my jazz dance class.
Seriously?
It's just four blocks.
So what? I didn't start this shit, Sven.
Jenny, that's so childish what you're doing right now. Please.
[splutters]
[keys jangling]
Shit. House key. [chuckles]
[keys jangling]
-[Jenny sighs] -[Sven] Shit.
Hey, wait. Hey, Jenny!
[key jangling]
[intriguing music playing]
I can't believe you told Jenny I'd quit.
[Freddy sighs] She's just worried.
Yeah, you snitching doesn't make things any better.
-I helped you too. -I'm not helping you, is that it?
I've been sitting in my car for three hours like a stupid chimp.
Yeah, but no, we… Forget… Yeah.
[chewing] It's more boring here than in the archives.
What?
[sighs] How long has that guy been here?
[Freddy] What guy?
The guy in the Lada, how long's he been here?
-[Freddy] How would I know? -[Sven] Shit, he's got binoculars.
-Well, so have you. -Yeah, but I… I'm investigating.
He's tailing her too.
He's leaving now. He's leaving, Freddy.
Yes, but we're here because of her. What… so…
Yeah, but he was… he's… Oh shit.
Okay, follow him. Follow him. Go, go, go, go, go.
-He's already around the corner. Go! -[engine revving loudly]
[ominous synth music playing]
-[cat yowls] -[door closing]
[whimsical music playing]
[Kleo whistling]
[car engine starting]
[children chatter in the background]
[whimsical music continues]
[Kleo] Ah!
[belches and exhales]
Do you want one?
[sniffs]
[child yelling in the background]
[Kleo] Won't the others let you play with them?
-[girl] Mmm. -Fricking kids.
-[children yelling] -Can I drive it?
No.
[remote-controlled car whirring]
[sighs] I'll let you have it.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
[both gasp]
[Kleo chuckles]
[suspenseful music playing]
[girl] ♪ Rise up and fight and fight ♪
♪ To fight is what we're born for ♪
♪ Rise up and fight and fight ♪
♪ We're ready for the fight ♪
♪ To Karl Liebknecht ♪
♪ We swore it all before him… ♪
-For the Comrade Minister. -Obviously.
[girl] ♪ … Rosa Luxemburg ♪
♪ We take you by the hand ♪
I'm heartbroken because I won't be able to grow up
in our German Democratic Republic,
but our Comrade Minister shouldn't feel sad.
That's why, with my mother, I baked a cake for him.
Be ready.
Always ready.
["Auf, Auf Zum Kampf" by Zentrales Orchester Des MDI playing]
[guard] Comrade Minister?
From a Young Pioneer.
The girl knows about everything we've done
for our workers' and peasants' state, Comrade Minister.
I've already cut it up for you. I'm not allowed to bring you a knife.
I always have to check as well that there's nothing in it.
Those are the rules. You know that.
["Auf, Auf Zum Kampf" continues]
Enjoy. Enjoy it, Comrade Minister.
[door locking]
[sniffing]
[song stops]
[choking]
[groaning and breathing heavily]
["Auf, Auf Zum Kampf" by Chor Und Orchester Der Arbeiterfestspiele Der DDR]
[gasping]
[song ends]
["Auf, Auf Zum Kampf" continues]
[song ends]
[siren wailing]
[doctor] Mr. Mielke, can you hear me?
He's got a weak pulse. We'll probably have to ventilate him.
-Suddenly he lay motionless in his cell. -[doctor] Hello? Hello?
Here, Doctor, the lab results.
Tests were already done in prison.
-Quickly. -[upbeat music playing]
[doctor] Dopamine. Carbo activatus, 100 mg. He was poisoned.
Get everything ready for a feeding tube and for an intubation.
He needs to go to intensive care right away.
[music fades]
[Sven] Oh boy, oh boy, it looks shabby here.
[dramatic music playing quietly]
[sighs]
[clears throat]
Is that him?
Yeah, that's him.
[Freddy] What's he doing?
[Sven] I think he's feeding a cat.
[Freddy] Why?
Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty.
[music fades]
Miaow, miaow, miaow, miaow, miaow, miaow, miaow.
[Sven sighs]
[Freddy] What's he doing? Is he leaving or what?
-[Sven] Yeah. -Shit.
-He's coming this way. -Shit!
[Sven] Hide, hide, hide.
[action music playing]
[music stops]
-[Freddy] Has he gone? -I don't think he saw us.
Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.
All right, this is my chance. I'm going in.
Where are you going now? Svenny!
[funky music playing]
[exhales deeply]
Don't go in, don't go in, don't go in.
[groans]
[doors clattering]
Shit.
[music stops]
NEW GERMANY
[ominous music playing]
[breathing deeply]
[Sven] What the…
Freak.
[door opening]
-[ominous music continues] -Shit, shit, shit! [gasps] Shit!
[gasping]
Shit, shit.
[yelping quietly]
[ominous music intensifies]
[breathing heavily]
[music fades]
-[screams] -[action music playing]
[groaning]
Mr. Petzold?
[wailing] I haven't done anything. I haven't done anything. Ow, ow!
-[Min] I'd like to talk to you. -[groaning] Okay.
[continues groaning]
[groans loudly]
[exhaling sharply] Who are you?
Min Sun.
Pleased to meet you.
Intelligence?
We know you're following her.
Wh… Wh… Who?
[Min] Kleo Straub.
And you're really good.
Shit, I'm… I'm right, yeah?
She really is a Stasi assassin.
Kleo Straub was with the AGMS.
[both] Minister's Task Force for Special Issues.
Uh-huh.
A hit squad for the Stasi.
So far, we know little about who was part of it.
I'm right, I knew it! I knew she's part of it! [laughing]
-[continues laughing] -She did her last assassination in 1987.
[shouting] In the Big fucking Eden! It wasn't an overdose. I know that!
Don't shout.
I'm sorry.
[Min] You were a witness.
Yeah. I found the guy. And I know she's killed other people.
I just know it.
We want you to help.
Keep tabs on Kleo Straub.
Find out more.
Er… Er… You're recruiting me now for Intelligence?
You can contact me here.
Yeah, yeah.
[clears throat] Yeah.
I'll call as s… I…
I… I… [exhales sharply]
[funky music playing]
[sighs]
Mmm.
The name's Petzold. Sven Petzold.
-[gun rattling] -[objects clattering on table]
-[music stops] -Shit.
Ah. Fuck it.
[waltz music playing]
-[monitor beeping] -[Mielke breathing heavily]
Hooray!
Hooray.
Wake up.
[Mielke chuckles]
[breathing anxiously]
[inhales sharply]
-[Kleo] Good day, Minister. -[Mielke exhales]
Well, it's not good, is it?
Being so powerless.
What's going on?
So small and frail. Hmm.
What am I doing here?
You were poisoned
then saved.
Well… By me, hmm? [chuckles lightly]
[Mielke groaning]
Oh no! Oh no, Minister, not the alarm!
Not the alarm!
Minister.
[Mielke groaning]
I had the best training in our country with the comrades at Special Issues,
so I'm not gonna forget to switch off the alarm, hmm?
[monitor continues beeping]
-Do we know each other? -Yeah, I think so.
I'm Kleo Straub.
Kleo?
Otto's granddaughter.
What are you doing here?
I spent my whole life serving our country, and in 1987,
I successfully eliminated the CIA chief in West Berlin at the Big Eden.
Then I was put in prison.
I want to know why.
The CIA chief in West Berlin wasn't eliminated.
He's still alive.
And I don't know why you were in prison. No idea.
So who did I kill then?
[Mielke] I really don't know, Kleo.
Someone else was in charge of the whole thing, not me.
[groans]
And who was that?
[Mielke chuckles lightly]
I ought not to tell you that, Kleo.
[sighs]
-[gun cocks] -[intriguing music playing]
-Let me tell you something, Minister. -[Mielke groaning]
The thing is, if you shoot someone, there is a way to do it properly.
And I know just how to do it!
[monitor beeping faster]
-Right then. -[Mielke groans]
It was my deputy,
your grandpa.
-[Kleo inhales sharply] -[tense music playing]
-[Mielke] He was a first-class agent. -Stop lying to me!
Why should I lie? I have nothing to lose.
I'm old and sick.
My life's work was dragged through the mud.
There's nothing else left!
[groans]
[tense music intensifies]
I'm an old man.
-I've got family. -[mocking] "I've got family."
-I want to see my wife again. My children. -[Kleo groans loudly]
[sobbing] My dog.
[Kleo laughing]
[Mielke] Everything I'm telling you is the truth.
Your grandfather pulled all the strings.
[laboured breathing]
I never wanted to hurt anybody.
-I love all human beings. -[Kleo chuckles]
Kleo,
I can see you've got a good heart, Kleo.
Please, Kleo.
Please.
-[Kleo grunts] Stop crying. -[Mielke sobbing]
Okay.
But if I find out that you've been lying,
then you'll never see your family again.
Hmm?
[music fades]
-[suspenseful music playing] -Help me!
[Kleo groaning]
Help me! I'm being attacked!
An antisocial element!
-[Kleo groaning] -[Mielke groaning]
-[struggling] -[Kleo screams]
[muffled gun firing]
[monitor flatlining]
[suspenseful music continues]
[Mielke echoing] Your grandfather pulled all the strings.
[Straub echoing] Hello, Kleo.
I'm your grandfather.
You have to be strong now.
-[suspenseful music crescendos] -[laughter echoing]
I was following orders.
I had no choice.
[gun fires]
[suspenseful music continues]
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
[thunder cracking]
[Straub echoing] I'd like you to read this.
[thunder continues cracking]
My dear Kleo,
I've had many decisions to make in my life.
Letting you go to prison was the hardest.
[sombre music playing]
Some people called for your elimination.
I was able to prevent that…
but not prison.
You eliminated an enemy in the West who had information
that could have caused our GDR and the whole world to collapse.
[Kleo breathing heavily]
[Straub] Thanks to you, it didn't happen.
[thunder continues cracking]
You didn't do anything wrong.
[sombre music continues]
If you should ever read these lines…
let it lie.
Otherwise, you'll never find any peace for yourself.
[heartbeat pounding]
[news anchor] The former minister for State Security
in the German Democratic Republic is dead.
He was shot by an unknown person in the Oskar Ziethen Hospital,
where he had been taken after suffering acute heart failure
while in custody at Hohenschönhausen Prison.
[tense music playing]
Erich Mielke died from his injuries.
A search is underway for his attacker.
[phone ringing]
-[dramatic music playing] -[phone continues ringing]
[dramatic music intensifies]
[Andi] The minister, Kleo? Really?
Do you realise what that means? Huh?
Everyone's looking for you now. The whole Firm. All of them.
They've put Uwe onto you.
Andi?
I killed Grandpa.
[dramatic whoosh]
-[Andi] What? -[Kleo sobbing]
I know, I…
[anxious music playing]
-[Andi] Calm down. Come on. -[crying] I didn't mean to.
-[Andi] Calm down. -[breathing heavily] He… he fired at me.
-[Andi] What? -[clears throat] He wrote me a letter.
-What… What kind of letter? Hmm? -[Kleo] He wrote me a letter.
-What kind of letter? -I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
-[Andi] Calm down. -[Kleo] I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
Look at me!
-[anxious music crescendos and stops] -[Kleo screaming and breathing heavily]
Come here. Come on.
Come on. Come here. Come on.
-[Kleo sobbing] -[Andi] Everything'll be fine.
Remember what you learnt. Okay? Remember what you learnt.
[music fades]
[Kleo sobbing]
What was in the letter, hmm?
Look at me.
What is in the letter?
[ominous music playing]
[Andi] It was self-defence, Kleo.
You had no other choice, and he knew that.
Did I have no choice?
My grandpa, he had a choice. Right?
Did we have a choice then, Andi?
You can't compare them, the past and the present.
You know better than anyone what happened to the people
who made the wrong choices, people we called traitors.
[emotional music playing]
Why did we meet here?
Um… I thought…
I thought we hadn't been here for a long time.
-I was pregnant the last time. -[Andi] I know.
-[emotional music continues] -I really wanted to have the child.
I failed her.
[Andi] That wasn't your fault either.
And we still have each other, Kleo.
I love you.
And I'm extremely worried about you,
because there are still enough people out there
who want to defend the past at all costs.
But I can get you a passport.
The safe house in Kazakhstan still exists. You'll be safe there.
I don't want anything to happen to you. Please.
Please leave in the morning.
[sobs]
I'm sorry, I…
Doesn't matter.
You know that.
[Andi sniffling]
-Shall I make you eggs in mustard sauce? -[Kleo chuckles]
Come on. How many?
Three?
Four?
-Five? -[Kleo chuckles]
[emotional music continues]
Are you a bit of a softie?
[Andi sniffles]
Maybe.
[calm music playing]
Maybe a little bit.
-[sniffs] I'll get us some eggs, yeah? -[Kleo] Mm-hmm.
[echoing] The CIA chief in West Berlin wasn't eliminated.
He's still alive.
[Straub] You eliminated an enemy in the West who had information
that could have caused our GDR and the whole world to collapse.
-[ominous music playing] -[Kleo gasps]
What are you doing?
[Kleo] I need to know who I killed in the Big Eden.
We need someone from the West Berlin police.
-We don't have anyone. -I do.
-And what about Kazakhstan? -Will have to wait.
-Don't worry. -["Leben-Tod" by Laibach playing]
[gas hissing]
["Leben-Tod" continues through speaker]
[blowing]
Comrade.
All right, Uwe?
Something nice?
Yeah, really nice.
["Leben-Tod" continues]
Mielke's dead.
I thought I could convince her to leave things be, but, um…
Kleo just keeps on sniffing around.
So what's gonna happen now? She could do anything.
I know, genius.
Shall I step in?
Yeah.
Make sure she stops looking.
[ominous music playing]
Hey, Andi?
What's this actually all about?
You little cunt.
["Leben-Tod" continues]
[song ends]
[ominous music playing]
[ominous music continues]
[music fades]