Blackout (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Chaos - full transcript
Stop or I'll shoot!
Fuck!
Mr. Kjaer?
Please come with us.
I found the wood.
I need it for heating.
-Just follow us.
-Why?
Hey, I don't...
You bloody pigs!
Hey, let me go!
Manzano!
Get in.
Stop!
Shit.
What happened?
I was promised 150 generators
but I only got 100.
Yes, that's all we have.
You already got more than you should've.
-What?
-Yes.
Do you know what's going on?
Looting everywhere.
People beating each other
over a piece of bread.
How are the police
supposed to keep order
if we can't get a bloody generator
for a 100,000 people?
We have nothing. Nothing!
Not even radio communication.
We're setting up a network
with the army in all larger cities.
We will get you more generators.
We'll find a solution.
-Where are we taking them from?
-Not from me.
-Forget it.
-Retirement homes, emergency shelters...
No way. Nothing on my end.
-Eva.
-Don't "Eva" me.
The parliament decided in the fall of 2019
to get 600 additional generators.
Where are they?
Well, the budget went to masks
and ventilators instead.
Unbelievable.
We have to speed up the food delivery.
Urgent request
from Mr. Severin and the Chancellor.
Everything is taking way too long.
Ms. Michelsen.
You wanted the emergency declaration
and got your 250 million tonnes of fuel.
Now we have to deliver results.
Very funny.
Right now we have 368 trucks
and 462 generators
to take care of 83 million Germans.
BREDDIN, BRANDENBURG
ALMOST 3 DAYS WITHOUT POWER
Anybody home?
-Yeah.
-Hi, Grandpa.
-What's wrong?
-What's wrong? The internet is dead.
I can't do anything. My life is over.
Stop it.
Grandpa is here.
-Hey.
-Hi there.
-I brought you something.
-So sweet. Thank you.
Of course.
Can I talk to your parents for a minute?
Go outside for a bit.
I don't want to worry them. In Kyritz,
in Neuruppin, Berlin, everywhere...
No electricity.
And it's not coming back.
How do you know?
Krassnitzer's neighbour
has a battery-powered radio.
And he says terrorists are behind it.
It was an attack.
Maybe Chinese secret service,
-or the KGB.
-The KGB doesn't exist anymore.
After three days without power,
the situation is getting worse.
Due to the continued rioting and looting,
the government has imposed
a nationwide curfew.
Starting today at 5 pm,
everyone has to stay home.
Violations may result
in fines and imprisonment.
Yes?
No money. If you need something,
pay with food. Bread, eggs, potatoes.
-Like in the stone age. What do you need?
-Hey, Chrissy.
You haven't changed a bit.
Are you still in touch with the others?
Don't you recognise me?
It's me. Manzano.
Fuck.
Man, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about
what happened back then.
-Get out!
-I need your help!
Get the hell out!
Fuck.
What did he want?
Why did he shoot at you?
Can you explain?
He's an old buddy.
Trying to scare me with a bobby pistol.
-Otherwise I'd have a whole in my back.
-Sure, an old buddy. Shooting at you.
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
Fucking shit!
This is fucking shit!
Manzano is probably
one of the people behind this disaster.
We have millions of lines of program code
that nobody understands.
We need Manzano.
The blackout is perfect for him.
He just disappears in the dark.
He got shot. He can't be far.
I've been doing this for 36 years.
No one ever jumped out of a car.
He has a bullet wound,
so he lost a lot of blood.
We will have patrol cars check
the hospitals in an 80 km radius.
-Yes. We put out an APW.
-He won't get far.
All the gas stations have shut down.
We will catch him.
Hello Axel. Thank you.
Are you insane? That's false imprisonment.
You can't just have me kidnapped.
-Lisa and Marie have disappeared.
-What?
You have to find them.
Didn't you pick them up
at the train station?
We had arranged that, right?
The train never arrived.
Because of the blackout.
Axel. You always complained you weren't
getting enough time with Lisa and Marie.
Now you have them for one week.
And what do you do?
You take them to your parents
and you leave them there.
-I explained that to you.
-You didn't explain anything.
-You told me after the fact.
-I had an interview for my exhibit.
All right? I have work too.
I worked on this for months.
It was impossible to postpone.
But it doesn't matter.
What's going on with the children?
The kids are gone.
You put them on the train by themselves.
You've sent them to your parents
in the past.
Yes, but with an escort.
But you don't care! You only care
about yourself and your stupid pictures!
-I had no way of knowing...
-You said they had an escort.
But there aren't any on Mondays.
You're just lying to me.
Fuck you.
Fuck you!
Frauke. You have to come with me.
Do you know where the girls
were when they disappeared?
Kyritz.
Are you coming?
Anybody speak Russian?
-What is he saying?
-"The Russian people support the Germans."
"During these difficult times
we want to lend a hand.
Let us be brothers and sisters
across our borders.
We can set up an airlift
with our cargo planes
in order to help where help is needed.
Druzhba."
-Druzhba?
-Friendship.
So we are just going
to let the Russians in?
-That's just a great idea.
-I actually think it is a great idea.
You're not serious.
The supermarket is empty.
The kids need food.
They'll send something soon.
Sure, something will fall from the sky.
You didn't want to go shopping.
"We don't have it," he said.
You think someone's going to come
and bring us something? To Breddin?
Everything will be all right.
We will go get some food.
We'll find something.
Are you coming?
Come on!
-Got it.
-He broke his legs.
New message from Europol.
They found Horst Dragenau.
Our chief software developer
shot dead, washed up on a beach in Bali.
The local police thinks it was a robbery,
but he checked in under a fake name.
We're looking for an insider with access
to the SCADA code for all power plants.
This man leaves Europe a day
before the blackout, goes undercover
and is then killed because someone
wants to steal his wallet?
Not a very nice holiday.
Dragenau is our guy. Let's go.
RATINGEN,
NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA
Drinking from rain barrels, shitting
in the yard, when is the power back?
Do you know this man?
Horst Dragenau.
-He lives here.
-Did he talk about a trip to Bali?
He doesn't say much. He keeps to himself,
Does this thing.
What is this thing?
-Computer stuff I think.
-Thank you.
It's like in the times
of the stagecoach.
The Swedes actually
managed to evaluate
all the data the smart meters sent
to Solsken just before the blackout.
This Manzano guy was right?
Yeah.
Using the timestamp of the logs
they identified the original meter.
The virus spread from there across
the country, to Denmark and Finland.
-The exact location?
-Goteborg.
Here. That's a camera from
a jewellery store by the train station.
Two Solsken technicians checked
the smart meters just before the blackout.
Let me guess. They didn't actually
work for this power company.
Exactly.
Unfortunately
we haven't identified them yet. But...
-We are on it.
-Great.
You just leave the hotel.
I find out where you are,
and save your sorry ass.
Without me you'd be in jail.
I want to know what's going on.
It was an old friend.
And you had to meet him
in the middle of the blackout.
Of course.
And why is everyone shooting at you?
You either talk to me or this is it.
What's going on?
Well?
Shit.
It's all empty.
-Now what?
-Come with me.
"And they all lived happily ever after."
And now it's time for bed.
Do you live here all by yourself?
Yes.
Don't you have parents?
-They passed away.
-Both of them?
Yes. They were very old.
But you miss them anyways.
Yes, very much.
We miss our mom.
She always tucks us into bed.
And then she cuddles with us.
What does your dad do?
He takes pictures of people
and doesn't have much time for us.
Mom doesn't talk to him anymore.
Why?
How far is Berlin?
Too far to walk.
Shine the light.
Let's go down there.
Look at the ham there.
And they're not selling?
Have you heard of wave riders?
Do you mean surfers?
We've seen those with Mom in Lisbon.
No, amateur radio operators who broadcast
all over the world using radio waves.
Tomorrow we will go see my sister
who lives a few towns away.
Her husband is a radio operator
and he can send a message.
And then we will talk to your mom.
All right?
One sec.
Hey!
-What are you doing? Don't touch it.
-I'm sorry.
-Or I'll bash your head in!
-I'm sorry.
So sorry.
Apologies.
Shit.
Oh shit.
I think he's dead.
What?
You killed him.
But I...
I wanted to help you.
Shit.
What about the little girls?
They saw everything.
Shit.
What's going on? Where's everyone?
Where's the light?
The generator broke down.
It's been dark for two hours.
I sent everyone home to get some sleep.
Here. We have to check
Dragenau's personal hard drives.
That's not on us, we can't get
a second generator. Impossible.
I'll take care of it.
Manzano's accomplice works
in The Hague for CBM and...
-The Dutch license plate.
-Exactly.
Dutch citizen. Parents are professors
in Leiden. Dad was born in the Ukraine.
And one more thing.
Manzano worked in 1999
as a programmer for Eutel.
He helped write the software for
the beta version of these smart meters.
-He went by his mother's family name.
-That's insider information.
Get your people back immediately.
We will have light again soon.
We need an emergency generator
in Ratingen.
-Who needs a generator?
-Jürgen Hartlandt from the Feds.
And what do we have to do with him?
He's trying to find out
who is responsible for the blackout.
Okay.
What is going on now?
Oh shit.
Another issue with the emergency power.
-Neuhaus, go take a look.
-Will do.
Maybe...
Maybe we should all sleep for a bit.
We can't work like this.
Locked.
Hello?
Hey!
Stop!
Stop!
You have to stop!
You have to stop!
You bastard!
We drove to Genoa.
That was in 2001.
With eight or nine friends.
I don't know what became of them.
But that summer really changed our lives.
-How old were you then?
-21.
And you were in love.
We went to generate to protest.
Against the G8 Summit.
Hey guys, seriously.
The harbour is a red zone. Absolute no-go.
You need a special pass.
Then there's the yellow zone
with access control.
Why don't we just stay
on the beach and party?
What are you doing?
Do you want to get us all killed?
No Molotov cocktails.
We're not terrorists.
Seriously, Clemens.
We didn't come here for trouble.
Put that shit away now. Put it away!
We're fighting for a better future.
Against those boneheads in power
with their bloody globalisation.
The destruction of the environment.
You think that will be peaceful?
And we need a girlfriend for Chrissy.
Here's to a better world
and a girlfriend for Chrissy.
No pasarán!
-Since when do you speak Spanish?
-Manu Chao?
That's from Dolores Ibarruri.
One of the leaders of the resistance
during the Spanish Civil War.
Pipo and I visited her grave in Paris.
Pipo... Pipolino.
No pasarán!
It was beautiful.
Carefree.
Maybe the best time in my life.
But then everything changed.
Come on, run! Run!
Stop it!
We could stay here forever, right?
And? Did you find him? Shit.
-Robert is gone.
-They arrested him?
He hit a cop with a chair.
If they get him, he's done for.
Somebody died.
Somebody was killed.
Shit, do you know who? Any name?
A cop shot a protester.
-These pigs.
-They can't shut us up.
-We have the right to protest.
-We try to be peaceful and they shoot?
-Yes! We have the right to fight back.
-We should've brought Molotov cocktails.
-Sure. Great.
-What's the point of fighting the police?
-So we do nothing?
-We can't do anything. They beat us up.
When we protest and riot,
they just laugh at us.
We shut the lights off in Europe.
Sure, and then we smoke some pot.
-We have to find Robert.
-I'm serious.
All of Europe
is introducing digital power meters.
And there's one code
that will turn them all off.
If we turn them all off
and then on at the same time,
there will be a chain reaction
and then... lights off!
Seriously?
All of Europe will be in the dark?
A Europe-wide blackout.
Once people sit in the dark, they may
start thinking about what's important.
If the rich should get any richer.
The fact that we're destroying our planet.
We need some kind of restart.
And you have a plan for that?
We let the whole fucking system
plunge into darkness.
That's just absurd science-fiction.
-D-I-0-9-1-2-1-8-9-5.
-And what is that?
That's the code to
turn the lights off in Europe.
And the birthday of Dolores Ibarruri.
And you wrote it?
Yes.
That's great. I am in.
Stand up! The damned of the earth!
Robert!
We have many enemies,
but we also have many friends.
Here's to Robert!
To Manzano's restart and blackout.
No pasarán!
You really think it was all your idea?
The blackout, the gas, the collapse?
You're crazy!
Someone else just had the same idea.
It's possible that someone
had the same idea, but...
The code...
The one that I read
from my smart meter...
D-I-0-9-1-2-1-8-9-5. That's my code.
What do you mean by "my code"?
I wrote it.
My dad got me my first job back then.
I was able to make money programming.
That was amazing.
I was working on the beta version
of the smart meters.
And being all revolutionary, you
programmed a backdoor into the software?
And the numbers, that's your birthday?
It's the birthday of Dolores Ibarruri.
Freedom fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
She was our role model.
You really wanted to trigger
this kind of blackout?
No.
We thought we'd turn the light off
for a few hours, that's all.
We were young, wanted to take a stand.
We didn't want to kill anybody.
And apart from you, only your friends
from back then know the code?
And that's why you think one
of your old G8 friends is behind it.
Yes. What are their names?
Chrissy, Helena, Till...
Clemens or Robert.
But it could also be Florian,
Katrin, or Ulrike?
-And why didn't you tell the police?
-They don't believe me.
Because you left out
the most crucial detail.
That you wrote the code.
I'm out on parole.
If they don't believe me and lock me up,
hundreds of thousands will die.
Do you know what's going to happen
in three days?
-That's absurd. Why would they do that?
-I don't know.
But something...
Someone is playing dirty.
Europol hacked my computer.
They placed some emails on it.
They will do anything to get you.
You wanted a story. Now you have one.
I hate you, Manzano.
You and the rest of the world.
I have to find my old friends.
One of them is involved.
Excuse me.
I'm looking for two little girls.
Twins.
No one is here.
Everyone left on the bus.
Yes, but... two girls. About that tall.
The ones that the police
were looking for yesterday.
No. Nobody has seen them. I'm sorry.
-Now what's going on?
-Another fire.
Not again.
Is the heater working?
What's going on outside?
Another fire.
Not looking good
getting help from Russia.
Kantor, Severin, the Secretary of State,
all are against it.
We have been without power for 92 hours.
If the power is not coming back,
what will we do without help?
The justice department asked
what we're doing with the prisons.
If we can help with the evacuation.
We cannot even evacuate the hospitals.
The civil emergency food supplies
may run out the day after tomorrow.
Then we will have to seize food supplies.
There is nothing left to seize.
Everything has gone bad.
The cooling chains have been interrupted
for four days. Four days!
The supermarkets have been looted.
We have no transportation.
We would have to seize
thousands of trucks.
But they won't get very far without fuel.
What will we do
if we don't get help?
What?
Half of them.
Let's get it over with.
Have you had any news
about your children?
-No.
-Sorry, that's none of my business.
Lisa and Marie have disappeared.
Somewhere between Hamburg and Berlin.
Their dad is looking for them.
And I'm trying to avoid thinking about it.
But you can't.
I'm thinking about them every second.
If there's any way I can help you
find your children...
I don't care about any regulations.
We need help from Russia.
We need it.
I will do my best.
Who is it?
They wouldn't have let me go.
I got help.
Can they milk the cows?
I'm sure they can do it as well as I can.
And you don't need that anymore.
Welcome!
Come on in. I'm sure you're hungry.
Hello! Anybody home?
MISSING
Hello?
Hello. A train broke down
not too far from here.
My children were on it. Lisa and Marie.
Have you maybe seen them?
They brought all the passengers
to the gym.
-As far as I know.
-I stopped by. The girls aren't there.
I'm sorry.
I have been traveling for a while.
Could you share some water?
-I will wait here.
-I don't have any water either.
Are you the twins' father?
Yes.
I heard something. Come with me.
POLICE
What did you hear?
You two...
You were such a beautiful couple.
Do you know where I can find her?
You made her very happy back then.
That was a long time ago.
She never wants to see you again.
Did she say that?
You hurt her very much.
I know.
I..
Renate, I...
I have to talk to her about something.
I have to talk to her about something
that we never spoke about.
Why did the nursing service stop coming?
Do you know why?
I am going to have to put
Quatschie out of his misery.
He's only three years old.
You don't have any food left?
No neighbours who can help?
Renate, I have to find Helena.
Her address is written on the back.
You can take it.
She sent me that picture for my birthday.
KLARENBACH STREET 12
10339 BERLIN
Tell her that I love her very much.
And she doesn't have to worry about us.
We have to go to Berlin.
-Fuck. I know him.
-One of your Tinder dates?
No, not this time.
But there is a match.
We reconstructed the data from
Dragenau's hard drive. Take a look.
The photo is from 2014,
an IT security conference in Shanghai.
And the person next to him...
That's someone we know. Bingo!
Goteborg.
He rigged the smart meters in Sweden.
It's been a few years, of course.
The hair is longer but otherwise...
That's not bingo.
That's a bulls-eye.
What do we know?
Nothing specific.
Communication is difficult.
There has been an incident at a French
nuclear power plant, Saint Laurant-Nouan.
Due to the power failure, we suspect
a problem with the reactor cooling.
According to the French government,
the reactor is intact.
The nuclear safety commission
assumes no increased radiation exposure.
Why evacuate
if there's no radiation exposure?
The French are not providing any
specific information about the reactor.
And the emergency power in our plants?
How many are still active?
Six. I'm assuming
this will not happen here.
-What are the experts saying?
-Same as always.
What they always say:
an incident is impossible until it occurs.
I asked the state authorities
and the nuclear regulatory authorities...
A colleague told me that Herbert Vogt
asked if someone had power for his radio.
-He wanted to send a transmission.
-Transmission?
To the Department of the Interior.
Your wife works there, right?
-My ex-wife.
-Our system is down,
and there were only two of us
at the station, otherwise I would've...
What's going on here?
Hello?
Mr. Vogt?
VOGT'S BUTCHER SHOP
The fuel gauge. Are we close to any town?
Can you look?
Hey?
What's going on? Where are we?
There's a bullet in your leg.
I'm taking you to a doctor.
No. We have to go to Berlin.
Got it, John Wayne. But I don't
want to drive next to a corpse.
Plus I need someone who can testify
that I had nothing to do with all this.
Nobody's looking for you in Merseburg.
Mr. Vogt?
Hello?
Hello?
Shit.
Vogt!
Lisa!
Marie!
Marie?
This is Lisa's.
Can you hear me?
-Lisa?
-Can you hear me?
-Lisa!
-Lisa?
Marie!
What's happening?
All that chaos may not be so bad.
I'll see if I can find a doctor.
Okay. Thank you.
Give me your car keys.
Give them to me!
Let go.
Give me your keys.
The fucking Dutch won't take our food.
Hey!
Hey!
Leave her alone.
What's going on? Hey!
What happened?
-It's all right.
-What happened?
Oh no. Shit.
I need a doctor. A doctor! Help!
Help! I need a doctor!
Please call a doctor.
-Help! Help!
-Come over here.
Help! I need a doctor. Help!
Fuck!
Mr. Kjaer?
Please come with us.
I found the wood.
I need it for heating.
-Just follow us.
-Why?
Hey, I don't...
You bloody pigs!
Hey, let me go!
Manzano!
Get in.
Stop!
Shit.
What happened?
I was promised 150 generators
but I only got 100.
Yes, that's all we have.
You already got more than you should've.
-What?
-Yes.
Do you know what's going on?
Looting everywhere.
People beating each other
over a piece of bread.
How are the police
supposed to keep order
if we can't get a bloody generator
for a 100,000 people?
We have nothing. Nothing!
Not even radio communication.
We're setting up a network
with the army in all larger cities.
We will get you more generators.
We'll find a solution.
-Where are we taking them from?
-Not from me.
-Forget it.
-Retirement homes, emergency shelters...
No way. Nothing on my end.
-Eva.
-Don't "Eva" me.
The parliament decided in the fall of 2019
to get 600 additional generators.
Where are they?
Well, the budget went to masks
and ventilators instead.
Unbelievable.
We have to speed up the food delivery.
Urgent request
from Mr. Severin and the Chancellor.
Everything is taking way too long.
Ms. Michelsen.
You wanted the emergency declaration
and got your 250 million tonnes of fuel.
Now we have to deliver results.
Very funny.
Right now we have 368 trucks
and 462 generators
to take care of 83 million Germans.
BREDDIN, BRANDENBURG
ALMOST 3 DAYS WITHOUT POWER
Anybody home?
-Yeah.
-Hi, Grandpa.
-What's wrong?
-What's wrong? The internet is dead.
I can't do anything. My life is over.
Stop it.
Grandpa is here.
-Hey.
-Hi there.
-I brought you something.
-So sweet. Thank you.
Of course.
Can I talk to your parents for a minute?
Go outside for a bit.
I don't want to worry them. In Kyritz,
in Neuruppin, Berlin, everywhere...
No electricity.
And it's not coming back.
How do you know?
Krassnitzer's neighbour
has a battery-powered radio.
And he says terrorists are behind it.
It was an attack.
Maybe Chinese secret service,
-or the KGB.
-The KGB doesn't exist anymore.
After three days without power,
the situation is getting worse.
Due to the continued rioting and looting,
the government has imposed
a nationwide curfew.
Starting today at 5 pm,
everyone has to stay home.
Violations may result
in fines and imprisonment.
Yes?
No money. If you need something,
pay with food. Bread, eggs, potatoes.
-Like in the stone age. What do you need?
-Hey, Chrissy.
You haven't changed a bit.
Are you still in touch with the others?
Don't you recognise me?
It's me. Manzano.
Fuck.
Man, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about
what happened back then.
-Get out!
-I need your help!
Get the hell out!
Fuck.
What did he want?
Why did he shoot at you?
Can you explain?
He's an old buddy.
Trying to scare me with a bobby pistol.
-Otherwise I'd have a whole in my back.
-Sure, an old buddy. Shooting at you.
What are you doing?
Where are you going?
Fucking shit!
This is fucking shit!
Manzano is probably
one of the people behind this disaster.
We have millions of lines of program code
that nobody understands.
We need Manzano.
The blackout is perfect for him.
He just disappears in the dark.
He got shot. He can't be far.
I've been doing this for 36 years.
No one ever jumped out of a car.
He has a bullet wound,
so he lost a lot of blood.
We will have patrol cars check
the hospitals in an 80 km radius.
-Yes. We put out an APW.
-He won't get far.
All the gas stations have shut down.
We will catch him.
Hello Axel. Thank you.
Are you insane? That's false imprisonment.
You can't just have me kidnapped.
-Lisa and Marie have disappeared.
-What?
You have to find them.
Didn't you pick them up
at the train station?
We had arranged that, right?
The train never arrived.
Because of the blackout.
Axel. You always complained you weren't
getting enough time with Lisa and Marie.
Now you have them for one week.
And what do you do?
You take them to your parents
and you leave them there.
-I explained that to you.
-You didn't explain anything.
-You told me after the fact.
-I had an interview for my exhibit.
All right? I have work too.
I worked on this for months.
It was impossible to postpone.
But it doesn't matter.
What's going on with the children?
The kids are gone.
You put them on the train by themselves.
You've sent them to your parents
in the past.
Yes, but with an escort.
But you don't care! You only care
about yourself and your stupid pictures!
-I had no way of knowing...
-You said they had an escort.
But there aren't any on Mondays.
You're just lying to me.
Fuck you.
Fuck you!
Frauke. You have to come with me.
Do you know where the girls
were when they disappeared?
Kyritz.
Are you coming?
Anybody speak Russian?
-What is he saying?
-"The Russian people support the Germans."
"During these difficult times
we want to lend a hand.
Let us be brothers and sisters
across our borders.
We can set up an airlift
with our cargo planes
in order to help where help is needed.
Druzhba."
-Druzhba?
-Friendship.
So we are just going
to let the Russians in?
-That's just a great idea.
-I actually think it is a great idea.
You're not serious.
The supermarket is empty.
The kids need food.
They'll send something soon.
Sure, something will fall from the sky.
You didn't want to go shopping.
"We don't have it," he said.
You think someone's going to come
and bring us something? To Breddin?
Everything will be all right.
We will go get some food.
We'll find something.
Are you coming?
Come on!
-Got it.
-He broke his legs.
New message from Europol.
They found Horst Dragenau.
Our chief software developer
shot dead, washed up on a beach in Bali.
The local police thinks it was a robbery,
but he checked in under a fake name.
We're looking for an insider with access
to the SCADA code for all power plants.
This man leaves Europe a day
before the blackout, goes undercover
and is then killed because someone
wants to steal his wallet?
Not a very nice holiday.
Dragenau is our guy. Let's go.
RATINGEN,
NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA
Drinking from rain barrels, shitting
in the yard, when is the power back?
Do you know this man?
Horst Dragenau.
-He lives here.
-Did he talk about a trip to Bali?
He doesn't say much. He keeps to himself,
Does this thing.
What is this thing?
-Computer stuff I think.
-Thank you.
It's like in the times
of the stagecoach.
The Swedes actually
managed to evaluate
all the data the smart meters sent
to Solsken just before the blackout.
This Manzano guy was right?
Yeah.
Using the timestamp of the logs
they identified the original meter.
The virus spread from there across
the country, to Denmark and Finland.
-The exact location?
-Goteborg.
Here. That's a camera from
a jewellery store by the train station.
Two Solsken technicians checked
the smart meters just before the blackout.
Let me guess. They didn't actually
work for this power company.
Exactly.
Unfortunately
we haven't identified them yet. But...
-We are on it.
-Great.
You just leave the hotel.
I find out where you are,
and save your sorry ass.
Without me you'd be in jail.
I want to know what's going on.
It was an old friend.
And you had to meet him
in the middle of the blackout.
Of course.
And why is everyone shooting at you?
You either talk to me or this is it.
What's going on?
Well?
Shit.
It's all empty.
-Now what?
-Come with me.
"And they all lived happily ever after."
And now it's time for bed.
Do you live here all by yourself?
Yes.
Don't you have parents?
-They passed away.
-Both of them?
Yes. They were very old.
But you miss them anyways.
Yes, very much.
We miss our mom.
She always tucks us into bed.
And then she cuddles with us.
What does your dad do?
He takes pictures of people
and doesn't have much time for us.
Mom doesn't talk to him anymore.
Why?
How far is Berlin?
Too far to walk.
Shine the light.
Let's go down there.
Look at the ham there.
And they're not selling?
Have you heard of wave riders?
Do you mean surfers?
We've seen those with Mom in Lisbon.
No, amateur radio operators who broadcast
all over the world using radio waves.
Tomorrow we will go see my sister
who lives a few towns away.
Her husband is a radio operator
and he can send a message.
And then we will talk to your mom.
All right?
One sec.
Hey!
-What are you doing? Don't touch it.
-I'm sorry.
-Or I'll bash your head in!
-I'm sorry.
So sorry.
Apologies.
Shit.
Oh shit.
I think he's dead.
What?
You killed him.
But I...
I wanted to help you.
Shit.
What about the little girls?
They saw everything.
Shit.
What's going on? Where's everyone?
Where's the light?
The generator broke down.
It's been dark for two hours.
I sent everyone home to get some sleep.
Here. We have to check
Dragenau's personal hard drives.
That's not on us, we can't get
a second generator. Impossible.
I'll take care of it.
Manzano's accomplice works
in The Hague for CBM and...
-The Dutch license plate.
-Exactly.
Dutch citizen. Parents are professors
in Leiden. Dad was born in the Ukraine.
And one more thing.
Manzano worked in 1999
as a programmer for Eutel.
He helped write the software for
the beta version of these smart meters.
-He went by his mother's family name.
-That's insider information.
Get your people back immediately.
We will have light again soon.
We need an emergency generator
in Ratingen.
-Who needs a generator?
-Jürgen Hartlandt from the Feds.
And what do we have to do with him?
He's trying to find out
who is responsible for the blackout.
Okay.
What is going on now?
Oh shit.
Another issue with the emergency power.
-Neuhaus, go take a look.
-Will do.
Maybe...
Maybe we should all sleep for a bit.
We can't work like this.
Locked.
Hello?
Hey!
Stop!
Stop!
You have to stop!
You have to stop!
You bastard!
We drove to Genoa.
That was in 2001.
With eight or nine friends.
I don't know what became of them.
But that summer really changed our lives.
-How old were you then?
-21.
And you were in love.
We went to generate to protest.
Against the G8 Summit.
Hey guys, seriously.
The harbour is a red zone. Absolute no-go.
You need a special pass.
Then there's the yellow zone
with access control.
Why don't we just stay
on the beach and party?
What are you doing?
Do you want to get us all killed?
No Molotov cocktails.
We're not terrorists.
Seriously, Clemens.
We didn't come here for trouble.
Put that shit away now. Put it away!
We're fighting for a better future.
Against those boneheads in power
with their bloody globalisation.
The destruction of the environment.
You think that will be peaceful?
And we need a girlfriend for Chrissy.
Here's to a better world
and a girlfriend for Chrissy.
No pasarán!
-Since when do you speak Spanish?
-Manu Chao?
That's from Dolores Ibarruri.
One of the leaders of the resistance
during the Spanish Civil War.
Pipo and I visited her grave in Paris.
Pipo... Pipolino.
No pasarán!
It was beautiful.
Carefree.
Maybe the best time in my life.
But then everything changed.
Come on, run! Run!
Stop it!
We could stay here forever, right?
And? Did you find him? Shit.
-Robert is gone.
-They arrested him?
He hit a cop with a chair.
If they get him, he's done for.
Somebody died.
Somebody was killed.
Shit, do you know who? Any name?
A cop shot a protester.
-These pigs.
-They can't shut us up.
-We have the right to protest.
-We try to be peaceful and they shoot?
-Yes! We have the right to fight back.
-We should've brought Molotov cocktails.
-Sure. Great.
-What's the point of fighting the police?
-So we do nothing?
-We can't do anything. They beat us up.
When we protest and riot,
they just laugh at us.
We shut the lights off in Europe.
Sure, and then we smoke some pot.
-We have to find Robert.
-I'm serious.
All of Europe
is introducing digital power meters.
And there's one code
that will turn them all off.
If we turn them all off
and then on at the same time,
there will be a chain reaction
and then... lights off!
Seriously?
All of Europe will be in the dark?
A Europe-wide blackout.
Once people sit in the dark, they may
start thinking about what's important.
If the rich should get any richer.
The fact that we're destroying our planet.
We need some kind of restart.
And you have a plan for that?
We let the whole fucking system
plunge into darkness.
That's just absurd science-fiction.
-D-I-0-9-1-2-1-8-9-5.
-And what is that?
That's the code to
turn the lights off in Europe.
And the birthday of Dolores Ibarruri.
And you wrote it?
Yes.
That's great. I am in.
Stand up! The damned of the earth!
Robert!
We have many enemies,
but we also have many friends.
Here's to Robert!
To Manzano's restart and blackout.
No pasarán!
You really think it was all your idea?
The blackout, the gas, the collapse?
You're crazy!
Someone else just had the same idea.
It's possible that someone
had the same idea, but...
The code...
The one that I read
from my smart meter...
D-I-0-9-1-2-1-8-9-5. That's my code.
What do you mean by "my code"?
I wrote it.
My dad got me my first job back then.
I was able to make money programming.
That was amazing.
I was working on the beta version
of the smart meters.
And being all revolutionary, you
programmed a backdoor into the software?
And the numbers, that's your birthday?
It's the birthday of Dolores Ibarruri.
Freedom fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
She was our role model.
You really wanted to trigger
this kind of blackout?
No.
We thought we'd turn the light off
for a few hours, that's all.
We were young, wanted to take a stand.
We didn't want to kill anybody.
And apart from you, only your friends
from back then know the code?
And that's why you think one
of your old G8 friends is behind it.
Yes. What are their names?
Chrissy, Helena, Till...
Clemens or Robert.
But it could also be Florian,
Katrin, or Ulrike?
-And why didn't you tell the police?
-They don't believe me.
Because you left out
the most crucial detail.
That you wrote the code.
I'm out on parole.
If they don't believe me and lock me up,
hundreds of thousands will die.
Do you know what's going to happen
in three days?
-That's absurd. Why would they do that?
-I don't know.
But something...
Someone is playing dirty.
Europol hacked my computer.
They placed some emails on it.
They will do anything to get you.
You wanted a story. Now you have one.
I hate you, Manzano.
You and the rest of the world.
I have to find my old friends.
One of them is involved.
Excuse me.
I'm looking for two little girls.
Twins.
No one is here.
Everyone left on the bus.
Yes, but... two girls. About that tall.
The ones that the police
were looking for yesterday.
No. Nobody has seen them. I'm sorry.
-Now what's going on?
-Another fire.
Not again.
Is the heater working?
What's going on outside?
Another fire.
Not looking good
getting help from Russia.
Kantor, Severin, the Secretary of State,
all are against it.
We have been without power for 92 hours.
If the power is not coming back,
what will we do without help?
The justice department asked
what we're doing with the prisons.
If we can help with the evacuation.
We cannot even evacuate the hospitals.
The civil emergency food supplies
may run out the day after tomorrow.
Then we will have to seize food supplies.
There is nothing left to seize.
Everything has gone bad.
The cooling chains have been interrupted
for four days. Four days!
The supermarkets have been looted.
We have no transportation.
We would have to seize
thousands of trucks.
But they won't get very far without fuel.
What will we do
if we don't get help?
What?
Half of them.
Let's get it over with.
Have you had any news
about your children?
-No.
-Sorry, that's none of my business.
Lisa and Marie have disappeared.
Somewhere between Hamburg and Berlin.
Their dad is looking for them.
And I'm trying to avoid thinking about it.
But you can't.
I'm thinking about them every second.
If there's any way I can help you
find your children...
I don't care about any regulations.
We need help from Russia.
We need it.
I will do my best.
Who is it?
They wouldn't have let me go.
I got help.
Can they milk the cows?
I'm sure they can do it as well as I can.
And you don't need that anymore.
Welcome!
Come on in. I'm sure you're hungry.
Hello! Anybody home?
MISSING
Hello?
Hello. A train broke down
not too far from here.
My children were on it. Lisa and Marie.
Have you maybe seen them?
They brought all the passengers
to the gym.
-As far as I know.
-I stopped by. The girls aren't there.
I'm sorry.
I have been traveling for a while.
Could you share some water?
-I will wait here.
-I don't have any water either.
Are you the twins' father?
Yes.
I heard something. Come with me.
POLICE
What did you hear?
You two...
You were such a beautiful couple.
Do you know where I can find her?
You made her very happy back then.
That was a long time ago.
She never wants to see you again.
Did she say that?
You hurt her very much.
I know.
I..
Renate, I...
I have to talk to her about something.
I have to talk to her about something
that we never spoke about.
Why did the nursing service stop coming?
Do you know why?
I am going to have to put
Quatschie out of his misery.
He's only three years old.
You don't have any food left?
No neighbours who can help?
Renate, I have to find Helena.
Her address is written on the back.
You can take it.
She sent me that picture for my birthday.
KLARENBACH STREET 12
10339 BERLIN
Tell her that I love her very much.
And she doesn't have to worry about us.
We have to go to Berlin.
-Fuck. I know him.
-One of your Tinder dates?
No, not this time.
But there is a match.
We reconstructed the data from
Dragenau's hard drive. Take a look.
The photo is from 2014,
an IT security conference in Shanghai.
And the person next to him...
That's someone we know. Bingo!
Goteborg.
He rigged the smart meters in Sweden.
It's been a few years, of course.
The hair is longer but otherwise...
That's not bingo.
That's a bulls-eye.
What do we know?
Nothing specific.
Communication is difficult.
There has been an incident at a French
nuclear power plant, Saint Laurant-Nouan.
Due to the power failure, we suspect
a problem with the reactor cooling.
According to the French government,
the reactor is intact.
The nuclear safety commission
assumes no increased radiation exposure.
Why evacuate
if there's no radiation exposure?
The French are not providing any
specific information about the reactor.
And the emergency power in our plants?
How many are still active?
Six. I'm assuming
this will not happen here.
-What are the experts saying?
-Same as always.
What they always say:
an incident is impossible until it occurs.
I asked the state authorities
and the nuclear regulatory authorities...
A colleague told me that Herbert Vogt
asked if someone had power for his radio.
-He wanted to send a transmission.
-Transmission?
To the Department of the Interior.
Your wife works there, right?
-My ex-wife.
-Our system is down,
and there were only two of us
at the station, otherwise I would've...
What's going on here?
Hello?
Mr. Vogt?
VOGT'S BUTCHER SHOP
The fuel gauge. Are we close to any town?
Can you look?
Hey?
What's going on? Where are we?
There's a bullet in your leg.
I'm taking you to a doctor.
No. We have to go to Berlin.
Got it, John Wayne. But I don't
want to drive next to a corpse.
Plus I need someone who can testify
that I had nothing to do with all this.
Nobody's looking for you in Merseburg.
Mr. Vogt?
Hello?
Hello?
Shit.
Vogt!
Lisa!
Marie!
Marie?
This is Lisa's.
Can you hear me?
-Lisa?
-Can you hear me?
-Lisa!
-Lisa?
Marie!
What's happening?
All that chaos may not be so bad.
I'll see if I can find a doctor.
Okay. Thank you.
Give me your car keys.
Give them to me!
Let go.
Give me your keys.
The fucking Dutch won't take our food.
Hey!
Hey!
Leave her alone.
What's going on? Hey!
What happened?
-It's all right.
-What happened?
Oh no. Shit.
I need a doctor. A doctor! Help!
Help! I need a doctor!
Please call a doctor.
-Help! Help!
-Come over here.
Help! I need a doctor. Help!