Do you get used to that, too?Taking orders from a camera?
Not yet.
Management trustsyou will come to them
the moment you have something.
Of course.
You have the case?
Yes.
There's someone else at Echo?
Someone important?
These were my friends once.
We had come of agebehind the Wall,
only to discoverthe existence of two worlds.
May I tell you a secret?
Something just for you.
I am the reasonour two worlds exist.
It's a Minox C.
Most popular camerain the city these days.
You have five rolls,36 exposures each.
Keep it somewhere safeand out of sight.
Needless to say,if you get caught with it,
you're on your own.
Will we cross in the city?
No. We're getting you outthrough Heiligensee.
It's a Trabiwith a false floor in back.
Your son and daughter inside,you and your wife up front.
I never thoughtit would be this way.
Think about your son's safety.
You're doing the right thing.
My father died in the campsfor a democratic republic.
You didn't fail him, Yanek.
Honecker failed him.
The whole institutionfailed him.
Yes.
The experiment was perfect.
It was corruptedby our pettiness.
24 hours.
Bring us detailsof the synchotron,
heat output, collated anglesand trajectories.
This time next month,
you and your family'll bewatching American baseball.
♪ There's no reason to hurry
♪ Just start the brand-newstory, set it alight
Aren't you ever sickof that song?
Alphaville's the best.
Turn it down.
You turn it down.
Mira,
turn your music down.
♪To once-forbidden place...
They've given me a camera.
When does it happen?
Soon.
Take your medication.
Makes me dizzy before I eat.
Well, eat some Filinchen.
No, I'm sick of Filinchen.
Mmm. I love crispy bread.
You would.
None of this crap herehas any flavor.
Herr Hauser says only fascistscomplain about flavor.
Hauser's a Stasi stooge.
What? It isn't true?
Don't speakagainst our comrades.
It's unpatriotic.
He made a reportabout Frau Stein.
- Did you know that?- And what business
is that of yours?
Do you even know how to shitwithout the party telling you?
- What did you say?- It's all right.
You have no idea the sacrificesyour father makes
to keep you out of trouble.
Those antisocial friendsyou run around with.
At least they believein something.
Please hurry up.We're gonna be late.
- Is that right?- Yeah.
...so I had to goto the store after work.
I finally get inside,and I look around.
There's nothing left.
Nothing but pickles.
So I ask the store managerand he says,
"Why do we need happinesswhen we have so many pickles?"
I've madesome changes
to the X-ray splitter.
Should get ridof that nasty bug.
- Please recalibrate it.- That'll take me all day.
And?
Okay, time to go.
- See you tomorrow.- Bye!
Tomorrow.
Hello?
Is someone there?
Who is it?
I used to bring you here.
Wasn't me you brought.
Wasn't here you brought her.
This is where you live now?
I move around a lot.
Why?
Because I'm being hunted.
This is who my daughterhas become?
I'm not your daughter.
I made you into this.
Don't talk about me likeI'm your fucking experiment.
- You were never any such thing to me.- Yes, I was.
I've read all about it.
Right here.
Where did you find this?
Your world.
Wasn't hard to acquire.
I have people there...
An army...
Inspired by your words,
your feelings,
your deepest confessions.
What do you want from me?
Rest.
We have a lot to discuss.
Maybe we should have run.
That would have beenthe smarter thing.
But we were scientists
and experimentalists.
We were, above all things...
curious.
Who are you?
Speak.
Did I create you?
Because I left my post.
Ran the programso I could be upstairs.
I created you.
Nonsense.
- I left my post.- No, you didn't.
Why are you imitatingthe words I say?
Would you liketo come over and talk?
Something must have happened
when the particles dividedand went into superposition.
A quantum mechanicalentanglement.
I'll have to see if anything'sleft back there to analyze.
Tell me what I'm thinking.
My eyes are too close together.
My nose?
Too large. My father's nose.
We're the same.
Identical.
A world for you...
and a world for me?
And what do we do now?
That was when we knew
leaving the Eastwas no longer an option.
Tell me you're fuckingwith me. Seriously?
I-I just need a few more weeks.
Yanek...
do you realize for one moment
how hard it isto secure an exfil
with eyes on youand your family?
Your son was photographedthe other day at Zionskirche
handing out subversive leaflets.
Treason against the state.This is not the time
- for cold feet.- It's not cold feet.
Then what the hell has changed?
I just need more time.
In 72 hours, that car is gone.
If you and your familyaren't there...
there will not be another.
Just thinkabout what you're doing.
Do you really want to beat the mercy of your comrades?
With the synchrotron down,
everyone understood the labwould be closed for repairs.
Those lifeless drones were gladfor the time off.
They would take long lunches,go home to their families,
and inside those walls,
our study would begin.
Look at that.
I'm still gettinga lot of radiation.
We resolved to keep journals.
Like humble socialistswho had found themselves
the subjects of their ownexhaustive study.
Even the smallest imperfectionswere shared between us.
- I have this chip, too.- Yes, right here.
- It's on this one, right?- Right. That's right.
Whatever process had created us,
it was meticulous.
We were identical.
And likewise,
so were our worlds.
...in the Battle of Berlin...
They've doubledin number lately.
They're exploringeach other's territory.
Yes, I think so.
I've been thinkingabout something.
If it's all right,I'd like to see your world.
I'd like to see yours, too.
It was like walking through
a perfect reproduction.
It was a miracle.
His world was impossibleto differentiate,
down to the most minute detail.
And that was the problem.
It was exactly the same.
If this experiment wereto have any impact,
something drastichad to be done.
For Mira.She loves this music.
I wanted to see if you wouldmake the same choice.
What are you doing?
You give your daughteryour gift.
I'll give nothing to mine.
Make our worlds different.
Manufacture a control and chaos.
I think you're right.
And so it was decided.
From that point on,there was no going back.
Mommy, come on,I want to go home.
With one simple adjustment,
we would set our worlds on twoirreversibly different paths.
- Hello, Mira.- Hello.
I have something for you.
Hello.
I think you're going to like it.
Hi.
- Did you have a good day?- Mm-hmm.
- You like this band, right?- I love it.
- Thank you.- Oh.
Yeah. I love you.
If only we'd known
the impact we were aboutto make.
How long have I been asleep?
A few hours.
Thought I'd let you rest.
What is that?
Belongs to your friendsin Management.
They use it to communicatein each world.
They never meet in person.
Not since what you did.
It's war, now.
- And you are part of it?- No.
But you and I,we are going to end it.
I've been planting soldiersin their world for years.
A few weeks ago,we got their attention,
and now, I needfor your friends to meet.
Why?
So they can do whatthey should have done
many years ago.
End this experiment forever.
Ah, you're so annoying.
Yanek.
Did something happento the arrangement?
Let's not talk about this now.
Last week you said next week.
Every day, another excuse.
Our departure has been delayed.
- For how long?- I don't know yet.
What happened?
What will we do?
I can't be bothered by this now.
What is this?
I don't like howyou've been acting.
How have I been acting, Isabell?
I don't know, not yourself.
And how is myself?
Unhappy?
Because for yearsI've had no purpose.
Just a loyalistto a dying system.
Now that I have purpose again,you don't like me.
What purpose?
What are you talking about?
I have to go.
I couldn't be botheredby such things.
Not when our endeavorwas beginning to grow.
This building housedan experimental synchrotron,
used various light sourcesto divide particles.
Until recently, that is.
Now the whole experiment'schanged.
What happenedto all your assistants?
Yanek has probablyscared them off.
They've been given furlough.
My work has grown more...
sensitive lately.
That's what I wanted you to see.
Such a pleasure to meet you.
All of you we've chosen
because of your discipline.
Martin, economics.Juma, immunology.
Ilse, environmental science.
And Volker, human behavior.
What we are presented with
is an opportunity
unique in the historyof our species.
There will, of course, be terms.
First, the secretcomes before our lives.
We must protect it from gettingin the wrong hands.
Second, none of us may meddlein the lives of our echo.
We are not our other.
Our other is not us.
We must remain discreetto ourselves.
It's a living petri dish.
We can study the baselineof human psychology.
Yanek... are you surethis is a good idea?
We're talking about
a parallel universe that,for all we know,
was never meant to be detected.
I think the opportunitiesoutweigh the risks.
If we do this,it must be unanimous.
There can't bea single one of us left out.
I know you want this.
And do you know how?
Because I want this, too.
We all want this, don't we?
On behalf of our world,
it'll be an honor
to work with you.
Okay,we're ready. Just press it.
Okay, come on.Okay, quick, quick.
Ready?
We had come together
in the benevolent spiritof human science.
Using Martin's connectionsat the university,
we were ableto persuade the state
to close off the buildingto all prying eyes.
Our experimentgrew exponentially
over those months.
The adventof microscopic adjustments
in our biology,history, environment.
Impacted by an adaptive deltawe could only begin to grasp.
It was thrilling.
- Good morning.- How are you?
- Here you go.- Thank you.
Your plant is right here.
There were no longerlimits to our discipline.
We could study anything.
We could pluckbotanical specimens
from the same gardenin two worlds,
and then we could buildentirely new ecosystems
from the best surviving samples.
Not to mention psychology,branches of human behavior,
the study of world eventson a granular level.
It was a time of discovery
unlike anything since the dawnof the New World.
You always touch it like that.
You might contaminatethe sample.
Stop being so self-critical.
We were friends.
Brothers and sistersfor a common good.
And then...
What time is it?
Open the door.
Dr. Tomes?
Yes?
Is your son home?
Please, please,there's a misunderstanding.
I've done nothing wrong.
It's better if you don't speak.
Our son is innocent,listen to him.
- He's-he's done nothing.- Really?
Maybe this is nothis literature?
Maybe it's yours.
Or your daughter's.
But I doubt that,
because none of youwere photographed
at Zionskirche as recently
as two days ago.
Isabell!
You've brought such shameto this family.
Isabell, please...
I'll be just a step away
Now far away
Who do you think you are?
Coming to my home?
Do you even know who I am?
- Take him out of here.- Get off of me!
- Please, you're hurting him!- I have j...
I have just been givena university grant.
Important work is being done
on behalf of the partyand the people.
Not by your son.
There's an ally you can trust
Ooh
I'd think you'd be appalled
to learn of his transgression.
I know Herr Ruben in the party.
I'm going to call himimmediately.
I'm sure your son will cooperate
and he'll be returnedin no time.
We are good socialists!This is not right!
All this dependson whether he names
any of his cohorts.
I have never been so insultedin all my life!
♪ He sendshis universal angels
And given your party loyalty
over the years,I think you'd be...
- Isabell, please...- Don't you dare speak to me.
Not you. Not anymore.
Mama?
Mira, go back to bed.
- Mama, look at Rainer!- What? What happened?
No! He's epileptic!
He can't breathe!
Move out of the way!
Call an ambulance!
Where's his medication?
- It's okay, it's okay...- Where is it?
I can't find it!
Just come and help, okay?It's bad.
It's okay...Come help. Just come.
- It's all going to be okay.- Okay...
It's okay...
- Come on. It's okay...- We need an ambulance.
A young man.He's having a seizure.
Please, breathe.
Breathe. Come on, breathe.
- Rainer...- Breathe.
- Rainer...- Rainer.
Rainer!
He should have been in the West.
I'm sorry.
It was too late.
You murdered our son.
Yanek? Is everything all right?
What's wrong?
They came to you also.
I'm calling Comrade Rubin.
They won't be ableto hold him for long.
Your son is still alive.
Mira w-was the only onewho noticed, but...
...she heard us too late.
There were now two worlds.
In mine, there wasnothing but grief.
In his, the son I'd lost.
I don't know.
So why we can't buy something...
You can eat apples.
- I got apples. From Mrs. Kusner.- Really?
- Apples?- Hey. Mm-hmm.
Can we buy some apple juice?
Maybe. Yeah.
How was your day?
- Good. How was yours?- Mmm.
Let's go to sleep.
Mira.
Did you speak to Comrade Rubin?
Rainer was released.
Terrified.
Said he would stopassociating with those friends.
Isabell must be pleased.
Yanek, I've been thinking.
You haven't really lost him.
There are things we could share.
My son is dead.
A great defense!
Following the historic decision
made by the GDR just
a few hours ago,the borders of East Germany
have been opened.
Citizens from both sides
have gathered along the Wall
that has divided Berlinfor 28 years.
Thousands of East Berlinershave already
crossed the border tonight.
According to the records,
the Fourth Floor was abandonedyears ago.
Come.
I want to show you something.
Martin wants to meet uson the Fourth Floor.
Are you coming?
I'm just going to finish up.
Used to be a dining room.
Earliest days of the DDR.
A power center.
Martin, what are we doing here?
I've been thinking...
with the Wall down,maybe it's time we expanded.
Carefully, of course.
What for, exactly?
Research. Staff. Security.
A new institute for the studyof this interchange.
There's too many people.
The secret would get out.
He's right.
But what if we separatedthe floors?
Each a different levelof clearance.
They could study the secret
without knowingwhat they're studying.
And this floor would beours alone.
We could fill the hallswith our research.
Yanek?
Hey. You're home early.
Yeah.
Hello, Papa. A surprise.
What's wrong?
I'm just... happy to see you.
Hey.
Why are you home so early?
My son.
Yeah? So?
Okay, Dad.
No hug for me?
On that day I betrayed myself.
And I knew I would do it again.
Yes, sir.
Where is Yanek?
I haven't seen him.
Hey, guys, guys, guys, guys.Please, please. Stop. Stop.
If this disconnects,we're set back six months.
We must be gentle with it.
Now let's do this slowly.
What has come over youthese days?
It was a compulsionimpossible to resist.
To awake every dayin the cold prison of my world,
and to flee itfor the warm embrace of his.
How could I have beenso foolish...
to assume it was just me?
That was fast.
Hmm?
Did you forget what you weregoing back for?
Going back?
You said you forgot somethingat the office.
...and my other mewhen I told that joke.
Yes, there wassome irregularity.
At the cellular level.
One system collideswith the other,
the environment changes, yes?
Which means our immune systemsmust be growing apart.
Eh, it's too early to say that.
It could be herd immunity.
Some small variationon a microcellular level.
But our immunities do vary now.
What are you asking me?
Do you think it's possible...
Two worlds.
Twice the resources.
If one world were to find itselfat a disadvantage,
it would be inevitable that thisworld would look to the other
to better itselfat the other's expense.
- No...- It's instinctive.
Marx. The species-being.
Our needs and driveswere emancipated
by the collective good.
Who cares aboutthe collective good?
The East is fucking dead now.
What I'm saying is,
the animalistic instinctshave won out.
One side will always be tempted
to eradicate the other.
Yanek...
If our immunologieshave grown different,
there could be a strainto affect them and not us.
You're talking about a weapon.
An insurance.
For peace.
Listen to yourself.
A biological weapon of...
It would never be used.
Could never be used.
Just a precaution.
Then why would we needsuch a thing?
Because if we're havingthis conversation...
who's to saythey aren't having it, too?
I'm going home. You coming?
Might as well.
- Good night.- Good night.
I should be going also.
- Oh. Guten Abend.- Guten Abend.
Guten Abend.
Hello?
Anyone home?
Mira said she'd be with friends.
Rainer, too.
Isabell has a classat the university.
I thought it might bea good opportunity to speak.
It's nice.
Your home.
Thank you.
Mine's so empty.
You should spendmore time there.
I don't think they've missed me.
Should I not have beenconcerned?
About your neglect?
For Mira? For Isabell?
How could I not want to lookafter our family?
Our family?
They're my blood, too.
And you've abandoned them.
Do you thinkyou're better than me?
You're not well, comrade.
Don't call me that.
There are no comrades anymore.
It was your idea.
That first tape.
I wonder if you knew, not givingit to her, what it would mean.
Don't be ridiculous.
You wanted to bedifferent from me, hmm?
- You didn't like what you saw.- Of course not.
That's the whole point.
The only difference between us
is such a stupid,arbitrary thing.
You experimented on me, and nowyou're meddling with my life.
Hmm.
I found this lying around.
Do you think I couldn'tsmell you between my sheets?
I offered her to you.
You didn't have to be secretive.
Out of pity?
We don't possess this matter.
We share it.
Stop itwith the fucking platitudes!
Do you think I don't knowwhat you are doing?
Your moral superiority,
how it feels to offer me scrapswhile you move into my life?
Rainer's deathwas a tragedy, but
you're letting it destroy you.
Can you see that?
We were friends before.
And now you're being defeatedby these base,
animal instincts, and I don'tknow how to help you anymore.
Don't look at mewith this superiority.
I know your innermost thoughts.
Did it arouse you
to give her away?
Like it aroused me to have her?
That's enough.
Stop denying what you are.
I know what you are,you son of a bitch.
You were empty,you had nothing to cling to,
and you found purpose.
You found it in me!
- I want you out of my home.- It's my home, too.
Isn't that what you said?
I want you out! Out!
Oh!
I am sorry.
Yanek, don't.
No! Wait!
Papa?
What's going on?
What is this?
- Mira...- Get away from me.
Mira, wait. Mira?
Get away! Help!
Somebody help!
Hello?
Is someone there?
Yanek?
What's happened?
The police are at his house.
His daughter...
She saw everything.
He was wrong.
We've both fallen.
He gave into it, same as me.
Stop it, Yanek!
Goddamn you, shut up!
You've ruined everything.
The experiment has failed.
Don't you see?
What happened to mewill happen to all of us.
We can't remainlike this anymore.
One will destroy the other.
It's inevitable.
You're wrong, Yanek.
We just needto restore the trust,
which is whythis has to be done.
What is this?
You're being givento their world as a prisoner.
It's the only wayto keep the Crossing open.
Take him, fast.
Volker, please.
- Please, Ilse.- Please don't speak, Yanek.
I did what any of uswould have done.
No, we have to close the doors
before it's too late!
This won't solve anything!
You fucking idiots,this won't change a thing!
All the loose ends
they had to tie upbecause of what you did.
I think he's run awayto Stockholm.
I'm aware he had some businessover there.
There might have beenanother woman.
If I hear anything,I'll be in touch.
I'm so sorry.
It was hard for my other.
It was harder for me.
It was him.
He ran past mewith blood on his hands.
Rainer, do you believe me?
Why won't you listen to me?
Why won't anyone listen?
It was him!
She's not well.
And they went abouttheir business,
thinking they had restoredsome kind of peace.
But there was no peace anymore.
Now, they feared each other.
It's just a precaution.
It should never be used.
Why do we need such a thing?
Because if we're havingthis conversation,
then so are they.
The precaution you proposed
was released into our world.
Accident or on purpose,no one knows.
It doesn't matter.
By the time the flu spread,the trust was gone.
They developed new ways to talk.
No one can know
where we reside.
From this day forward,
for our own protection.
Now they live like hermits,
talking to themselvesthrough this.
Hiding their identitiesfor fear of reprisal.
This is what you've left behind.
Two broken worlds for me to fix.
It-it didn't have tobe this way.
I have ruined you.
Ruined.
That's what you seewhen you look at me?
What I witnessed that night,
when you left my father deadon that floor.
I see the truth moreclearly than anyone.
You will never get themto close the doors forever.
It would mean accepting failure.
They will cling to this Crossinguntil their dying breath.
It took the socialists 40 yearsto accept their experiment
had failed, but they learned.
I spent decades in Echo.
Harvesting human mindsfor those bastards,
and arguing, with every study,
that what happened to mewas universal.
They never listened.
I listened, and I believe you.
You and I, we are the only oneswho know the truth.
I may not beyour real daughter, but...
I've grown up in your image.
And together we canbring this war to an end.
Will you gather them with me?
I know you are out there,
and you're listening to me now.
You are so blind.
The blood of millionsis on your hands,
and I won't stand by any longer.
My terms are simple.
Shut down the Crossing forever.
I want you to invite ourneighbors for a meeting.
Tomorrow, I will surrendermyself and my father
to your custody.
I want to meet all of you.Together.
The choice is yours.