Blackout (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript

We got a visual.

-Everybody get ready.
-Copy. They're cutting the pole.

You can move in.

-We got to go!
-Let's get out of here!

-Let's go!
-You pigs!

Watch out for the pole!

Go! Let's get out of here!

Everything all right?

Deniz, are you all right?

Why did you bring an axe?

Listen.



When we found you...
what happened there...

That was an accident.

We didn't want to hurt that man, he fell
and hit his head on the stone floor.

Then we took the two of you with us
and helped you, right?

-Yes, and you gave us food.
-Right.

I can only let you go if you promise me

that you won't tell anybody, absolutely
no one, about us. Do you understand?

Yes, sure. We can't tell anybody.

Good. Because I really really
have to rely on you.

All right then.

You just have to go straight, then you'll
see a road and you'll be in town.

Okay?

Take care.

-What's going on?
-It's creepy.



Can't you come with us?

Listen, you cannot get lost.
You just have to go straight.

Then you will see a bridge
and there's the police station.

-Okay.
-Thank you.

Oh gosh.

All right, sweeties.
You can do it. Now go.

Do you have any food for me? Please.
I haven't eaten for days.

Sorry, I don't have anything.

What's this bullshit?

NUCLEAR PLANT WERTHE
5 DAYS 6 HOURS WITHOUT POWER

I didn't want to wake you up.
We can only wait.

-I'm going to see Isabell.
-If you leave, will you take Sonja?

I'm not leaving!

You'll soon have two kids. I get it.
But you could've told me.

Good luck.

Damn it.

I'm not saying anything without a lawyer.

-And with a lawyer?
-Fuck you, you bloody wog.

Your friend Falk is badly injured.

I don't have any friends.

It's not looking good.

He lost a lot of blood.

The court of the Reich will condemn you!

We're waiting for the ambulance.
That can take hours.

The phone lines are down and we can
only leave after you make a statement.

It would be against protocol to
transport him in the police helicopter.

-I would do it anyways.
-You guys are fucked!

Who is this man?

Have you seen him before?

I don't know him.

Let her.

-What's that smell?
-For once you notice it's not clean.

Stop making such a racket.
I'm running out of cash.

Who is it?

Pierre. Pierre Manzano.

Hey.

What do you want?

Do you have anything to do
with the blackout?

Back then I talked about my blackout plan
and the code. You remember?

Of course.

I love the blackout.

I was hanging upside down
in a roller coaster with my stepson

because all of a sudden
the power was gone.

Trying to save the world again?

You should know since Genoa
that you weren't born to be a hero.

Fuck it. Come on in.

Let's have a drink.
To the good times.

Close the door.

-That's Manzano.
-Hi.

We used to be wild and inseparable.
When we were your age.

We even went to jail together.

You're amazed, huh?

I teach environmental law
and have my own law firm.

Wow.

The revolution is dead.
Long live the rule of law.

And sometimes I even sue
the automobile industry.

Wow. And what about Genoa?

You were the one
who screamed the loudest.

Easy to set a fire
when you don't have to put it out.

Do you think someone in our group
is responsible for the blackout?

You really think someone used your code?

Yeah.

How about you?

A wife, children, cats?

You shouldn't have left Helena.

Which one of us could have done this?

Nobody should be that stupid.

If we want to save the world
from climate change,

we need innovation and technology.

We don't need to go back
to the Stone Age.

But if you're asking me
who'd be most likely to do it...

Katrin.

But we're no longer in touch.

-What about Robert?
-Robert? Robert Flamming?

-Yeah.
-He went completely nuts.

Bankrupt. Hangs out with the left.

A year ago I defended him
in an assault case. Pro bono.

For old times' sake.

But that he'd be involved
in the blackout? He's not that sharp.

Do you have his address?

What will you do if you find out
that it was one of us?

No idea.

I just know
that someone has to stop this.

Isabel. We have to get out of here.

-Right away.
-Keep sleeping.

What's going on?

Take the highway, not the freeway.

What's your plan?

You'll get at least to Enden,
then you have to walk.

-Where?
-To my sister.

You'll stay with her
on the farm until I come.

The neighbours ate a cat. They're robbing
people at the petrol station.

You can't just leave us.

Here. Take the iodine tablets.
Just in case.

The reactor. Is that
why you're sending us away?

They are sending help.
We're going to manage.

We will stay with you. Please.
Let's not split up. Okay?

Whether I am here or at your sisters,
once it happens it doesn't matter, right?

I have to go. I love you.

The chancellor is giving a speech.

I hope he decided to accept Russia's aid.

It is difficult for me
to express how I feel,

as I am addressing you today.
There's a food shortage and it's freezing.

Only few of you
will be able to see my speech live,

but some will hear it on the radio
and I ask you to pass on my message.

This blackout is not simply
a power failure.

It is a cowardly attack against us.

In this extraordinary situation

the government has decided to proclaim
a national state of emergency.

Our army can now
also be deployed domestically

to help us reestablish public order.

We will all have to make
great sacrifices.

But as a community we will
be stronger after this difficult time.

As long as we help one another.

Just us we are receiving help
from our friends, the United States.

What help from the US?

-...for the United States...
-They sent five Hercules machines.

Yesterday. To Munich.
Just to drop in the bucket.

We will overcome the blackout together.

Together, we will move past the darkness.

Is this the right place?

I don't know. I'm so cold.

Me too. We can sit down over there

We will find Mummy.

-Martin Blitzer?
-Yes, with 26,000 L diesel.

-Where do you want it?
-We are seizing the truck. DOI's orders.

-DO what?
-Department of the Interior.

We are rerouting you, I'll go with you.

Can I a least get some coffee?

Let me find out.

Let's booze all night!

-Hey, pisshead!
-All cool.

-What do you want?
-Everything's cool.

Holy shit, it's you?

-Where is the fuel truck?
-We just seized it in Bremen.

It's being rerouted to Werthe. Should be
at the plant in about 90 minutes.

-And the reactor?
-We lost contact.

A nuclear power plant is breaking down
and we don't know what's going on?

All electricity-based
communication is gone.

It's end of the world
and we don't know what's going on?

We need communication now. Now!

-No worries. We are on it.
-Fuck!

Exactly. Fuck.

It takes a blackout
for us to meet again.

How did you even find me?
This is all top secret.

-Are you squatting at the factory?
-Clemens that pig told you, right?

-Apparently he saved you from jail.
-Didn't we all do time at some point?

The blackout was your idea, Manzano.
Your plan.

-My plan?
-Come on. Let's go!

Wait here.

Do you think he's scared of us?

Okay, come in.

Pipo. What a surprise.

Weirdly you crossed my mind
a few times these last days.

Hi Katrin. Till.

-Good to see you.
-Maybe we should have a drink first.

Not a bad idea.

-You have electricity?
-Solar panels on the roof.

This is a commune?

We stick together. I'm sure that's a topic
you have something to say about.

Yes, I'd like to talk to you.

-Can I use your bathroom?
-Yeah.

But don't piss off again.

At the end of the hall on the left.
But be quiet, our daughter is sleeping.

-You bloody pig, what are you doing here?
-Hey, hey, calm down.

Dahlia is sleeping.
Till, just calm down.

You used to be my best friend, you turd.

And?

Not our guys.

They're all kinds of things
but not globally connected hackers.

Deniz arrested ten more of them
at a club house. That was it.

Shit. Just jumped on the bandwagon.
But we found something.

Somebody snuck in a cop car
and ask dispatch about two people.

Clemens Dieckmann and Robert Flamming.

An attorney and a leftist with a record.

Both names from the Genoa file.

They were there
together with Manzano in 2001.

-Manzano hijacked a cop car?
-The description matches.

We have support from K12.

You take care of the lawyer.
We go visit the activists.

I spent two weeks
in that filthy basement.

Every single day harassed, beaten
and tortured by fascist cops.

-We didn't get to see a lawyer.
-Unlike Pipolino here.

First he betrayed us, then he went home
to daddy like a good boy.

What could I have done?
The cops did the same...

Shut the fuck up.

We don't grant you absolution.

So... why are you here?

Are you involved in the blackout?

Did you give anyone my code?

You guys are the only ones
I mentioned it to.

Someone rigged
the smart meters with my code.

Are you crazy?
No one remembers your code.

Of course,
he comes here and suspects us.

We should have continued the fight.
Nothing has changed. Nothing!

No pasarán.

Is it still my birthday?
Who is that man, daddy?

He's an old friend.
Let me take you to bed.

-Come on.
-Great, now you woke up Dahlia.

No wonder
with all the screaming here.

What about Manzano's friends?
Are there others in Berlin?

-Have we checked them all out?
-No. Still no files from Italy.

-And why don't we have them?
-Blackout, Hartlandt. Blackout.

She's asleep.

How are you paying for all this?

Karen's inheritance.

-Okay.
-We want to build, Pipo, not destroy.

Create an alternative
to the neo-liberal madness out there.

We support art projects,
grow permaculture on the roof.

We shelter the homeless. Why would we
want something like this blackout?

In the long run, it maybe something like
a cleansing shower for our sick planet.

Till, stop romanticizing the blackout.

Nobody can pull this off alone.
Mossad is behind it.

Or the Chinese. Or you.

The Feds think so too.
They seized my computer.

And? Did you do it?

They found fake emails on my hard drive
and now I am a suspect.

If you got hacked, there'll be a trace.
And you can trace it back.

How can he do that without his computer?

Who in our group could have done this?

Does Clemens have something to do with it?

No way. He plays golf on the weekend.

Helena?

Helena! She lives for
beautiful literary quotes.

Chrissy?

Chrissy sells bongs in Göttingen.

I'm sorry.

You fucking broke my heart.

I'm sorry.

That only leaves Florian.

Not a good topic around here.

Florian...

He made Till managing director
of his company, promised him riches.

"The best online surf shop worldwide."

Then he botched it
and left us a mountain of debt.

-Now he surfs in Casablanca.
-Devil may care. Lalla Beach.

He has a surf shop right on the beach.

This little prick
who could never do anything right.

-The cops are after you?
-Yes.

Take him outside.
We stay. We have nothing to hide.

Come on.

Well, well.

I can't believe it. You came back.

Isabel says hi.
She'll take Sonja to my sister's.

We are running the emergency
cooling system at 60% to save fuel.

Okay.

-How much time does that get us?
-Hard to say. It's a lottery.

Another 200 degrees
and the reactor it's going to blow.

They were bullshitting.
They're not sending any help.

They're letting us die here.

We're going to open the valves.

That will lower the temperature.

That will release radioactive vapor
into the atmosphere.

We have to release pressure,
otherwise the lines are going to blow.

Let's open the valves.

These are the owners.

They've seen Manzano,
but they say that was 20 years ago.

What about the leftist with a record?

-Hello.
-Hello.

I'd like to talk to Robert Flamming.

-Who?
-We know he lives here.

-He's walking the dog.
-Yeah, he's walking the dog.

I'm going to sue you pigs!

The nuclear energy authority
reports heightened radiation levels.

-They are releasing a radioactive vapor.
-What?

-We have to immediately evacuate.
-How are we supposed to do that?

-We don't even have fuel for a bus.
-What did they say? What's the scenario?

According to regulations,
the evacuation zone should be 25 km.

Yes, that's Osnabrück, Meppen and Rheine.

That's half a million people.

Half a million.

What is the level of radiation?

Go find out, Ms. Göran,
before they evacuate an entire state.

We need a line to the power plant.
We need to know what's going on.

Bloody hell, that's all I'm doing!

Don't you get it? The lines are dead.

What about the satellite phone?

I already sent someone,
He should be there about 30 minutes.

And that's as fast as it goes.

-Weren't we here already?
-I don't know.

There's someone.

-Where?
-There!

Daddy!

Lisa! My gosh.

Marie!

-Where were you?
-On the train, but it stopped.

We got lost.

There you are, my darlings.

-We were looking for you everywhere.
-Me too.

We're going to stay together, okay?
We will stay together now.

Just us. All right?

-All good?
-Yes.

All good.

I spoke with Bollard.
He spoke to the Americans.

We compared flight data. Jorge Pucao was
not just at protests in Shanghai or Genoa,

he is constantly all over the place.

Anti-globalisation, but he's collecting
airline miles everywhere. I like that.

We checked if he was at the same place
with the same people in the last months.

Voilà. Pucao's fan club.

Lekuke Birabi.

He could have been
in Goteborg with Pucao.

Vitali Timoschenko, Siti Jusuf,
Janette Bordieux, Maria Carvalles.

And Balduin von Ansen.

-Was Manzano there too?
-No, we haven't found anything.

But three of the six where arrested
at the G8 protest like Manzano.

Hey.

I didn't think you'd come back again.

I know that I let you down.

I betrayed you.

I just wanted to look
into your eyes and...

Twenty years.

What did you do this whole time?

I have a record. And a lot of debt.

I live in a shitty apartment in Bolzano.

I deliver pizzas.

Because of the probation.

Oh yes, and I am wanted by the police.

Impressive career.

Every once in a while I think back.

How happy I was.

What happened back in Genoa...

Helena.

I was just afraid.

I was scared shitless.
I was a coward in that jail.

I...

I don't know. I always thought
I could be a hero or something.

But I'm not.

And after that
I couldn't come back to you.

But I also couldn't forget you.

When you try to forget someone
you're thinking of that person.

I have to go now.

I have to turn myself in. I've run away
long enough from the cops and my past.

The police won't believe you.
You'll go to jail.

But I have to try.
I don't know where else to look.

Stay here.

With me.

-I would love to turn back time.
-Stay.

I'll come back when this shit is over.

We cannot notify the population,
otherwise there will be a mass panic.

People have to protect themselves
from radiation.

And exactly how?

Police loudspeaker vans or something.

-We need reliable numbers.
-A poisonous cloud is rising in the air.

We can't hide that.

Yes, but it's no use if everybody
runs outside and blocks the streets.

-There's a lockdown anyways.
-Where is the wind coming from?

Southeast. The cloud is moving
towards the North Sea.

Until the wind shifts.

ATTENTION
CRITICAL

That was it. No more diesel.

-Emergency category five?
-We are now running on battery.

Good evening.

You are a role models for us all.

Karl Sommer, County Council Mappen.
That's for you.

A satellite phone.

With best wishes
from the crisis team in Berlin.

I think there are instructions somewhere.

We need diesel
for the emergency generators.

Where is the fuel truck we were promised?

I don't know anything about that.
I'm just bringing the phone.

-Bloody hell, we need the fucking diesel!
-Fuck. They promised diesel!

No, that's the wrong way!

-We have to go back and then turn left.
-Shit! Get in.

-We are hungry, you have power!
-We are hungry, you have power!

-We are hungry, you have power!
-We are hungry, you have power!

Hello. Hello?
I don't hear anything.

-Hello?
-Now.

Mr. Jung. Yes.

Not there yet? That's impossible.

We rerouted a truck from Bremen.
It should be there already.

What is going on
with the radioactive vapor?

And the radiation levels?

Mr. Jung, the diesel is coming I promise!
It's on its way.

Yes, shortly. Yes.

The security service notified us.
There are two kids outside.

They want to see their mum.

-Lisa? Marie?
-Mum!

-...because you're stealing our lives.
-...because you're stealing our lives.

-Fuck the police, protecting the fascists!
-Fuck the police, protecting the fascists!

We are here, we are loud,
because you're stealing our lives!

Hello? I need to speak with someone
from the Department.

-Please! Listen to me!
-Stop.

Come with me.

-I know what happened.
-Down!

-I can help!
-Shut up.

Turn right up there.
We will be there in 10 minutes.

-Okay.
-Do you want another coffee?

Oh, hold on tight!

Watch out!

-We are hungry! You have power!
-We are hungry! You have power!

Who was that?

Some nutcase,
we already had a few of those today.

I was so worried about you.

We were always thinking about you.
On the train...

And then daddy came.
He said that you sent him.

Yes. I was looking for you,
but he found you.

Frauke.

It's so great to have you back.

-Frauke.
-What is it?

-It's important.
-Not now.

Yes, please. We need you now.

-Can I just have one minute?
-No, I'm sorry. We need you. Now.

-Axel, can you stay with the kids?
-Of course.

I'll be right back, it won't take long.
Okay? Promise.

You can go to my office,
you can rest there.

Yeah?

What's that?

Satellite images from Europol.

That's our fuel truck
on the way to the power plant.

It was your decision
to only send one truck. Yours alone!

-Damnit.
-We mobilised everything.

-Special forces, the army...
-Roman.

How long will it take?

It takes as long as it takes.

Hello!

-Let me out!
-5 days 18 hours without electricity

One truck was not enough.

Kantor was right. That...

That was a disastrous decision.

You should take over
the crisis team with Kantor.

Nobody knew what was going to happen.
Keep going. You're doing a good job.

He knew what happened.

The interview on CBN.

-Who?
-The IT specialist.

I saw him.

-We have other problems now.
-We have to talk to him.

He stabbed a woman.
This man stops at nothing.

We are facing another Chernobyl.

If there's the slightest chance this man
can help us, then we have to support him.

No matter what he did
or who he associates with.

That's an order.

Come with me.

You wanted to talk to me?

-Why did you run from the police?
-They needed a culprit.

-Did you stab a woman?
-No.

Lauren saved my life.

They were trying to steal her car.
That's why she's dead.

We're chasing you everywhere
and then you show up here.

-What do you want?
-Exactly what I said. Help you.

All right.

Who is this man?

I don't know him.

We are just wasting our time.

What do you need it in order to help us?

My computer.

Shit.

CRITICAL

-Shit.
-What's going on?

How much time do we have?

-An hour or two.
-Shit.

God only knows.