Screen Two (1985–2002): Season 11, Episode 7 - No Man's Land - full transcript
MAN ON RADIO: ...The desperate
war situation
across the former
Soviet empire,
tension along
Germany's eastern border
continues to escalate.
Earlier today at a rally
on the UN-designated
border zone,
extremist Muslim groups
stepped up their demands
for a right
to emergency sanctuary
inside the European Union.
MAN 2: You cannot
ignore our suffering
and make a fortress
out of Europe!
We will no longer
wait quietly in the shadows.
Here is our warning.
We are crossing!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
Can't you turn them off?
Yes, but we keep losing power
when they do.
Something to do
with the circuit.
What are you
doing here anyway?
You're on suspension.
I don't know.
I got the call.
And where's Mann?
He's usually
on this side tonight.
She's Danish.
A nurse called Karen Nielsen.
20.
Slashed seven times
from head to foot.
Sonny says it looks
like a ritual killing.
Oh, Christ.
And it gets worse.
They could've come over
the border.
Look at the writing.
Well, come on, Walter,
you speak this shit.
What does it say?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
"We are crossing."
Oh, God, is this it, then?
It's yours, Fischer.
What do you mean?
I mean you're running this.
This case?
He's on suspension.
Not any more.
Heiger decided that's it.
We all think it stinks,
I have to tell you.
And then I suppose
he sees it as rehabilitation.
Okay!
I want a list of
all the security guards
on the grounds.
And Mann,
get this bloody water off
as fast as you can.
She's only been
in Germany a few weeks.
She was staying at a hostel
near the station.
Schuster, find out
about the writing.
Have Jansen
get on the computer
and start taking statements.
All right.
Do you know the way
out of here?
The victim is
a Caucasian female.
Hey, Detective.
When are we gonna get
a proper statement?
We've heard these rumours
that this is a racial killing.
Is that why you're not letting
us down there?
It has to do
with the border situation.
What you
looking around for now?
He gave us a shot, Walter.
Yeah, but why?
'Cause he knows
I'll go after it.
Ah, that's why I'm worried.
WOMAN ON RADIO: A state
of emergency was declared
in the Czech Republic
this morning
as refugees demanding
permission to enter Germany
attempted a mass breakout
from the holding camps.
A spokesman for EUPOL,
the European Border Police,
warned that the Russian
Mafia might again seek...
Alex. Good.
Well, you look about okay.
I am okay.
Because I'm
letting you have it.
I don't need to tell you
we need a result fast.
The minister called me
over here. I've never
seen him so worried.
Right now, he's probably
behind that door on his knees.
You haven't
talked to the press?
Of course not.
Well, sit on the writing.
I mean, Christ.
We were rattled enough before
about the Muslims
without all this.
And these
rumours flying around,
Mafia tunnels heading
right for us,
massed crossing.
Border police are itchy
as hell.
Mann's not too happy.
Yeah, well, if he gives you
any trouble, you let me know.
But you have got to stay
in line on this one, Alex.
I mean it.
Dix can tuck you up sober
at night.
He gets shy.
Good, well, you deserve
each other.
Now, you go out
and bring someone in.
Thanks, Paul.
This is her room.
Thank you.
Like one of my kids' rooms.
(CLICKING ON LIGHT)
Hope not.
Alex, give me a hand.
Okay.
(GRUNTING)
Okay.
Couldn't be the rent.
Whoever heard of a rich nurse?
Something in the lining.
Foreigners writing home
to their families.
So why hide them?
I don't know.
Why weren't they posted?
I'll check
the video disc.
(CROWD CHANTING)
REPORTER: Hey, Detective!
Hey, Detective!
We're hearing this girl was
killed by Muslim extremists.
Will you be calling in
the European border police?
EUPOL, what for?
We're 40 kilometres
inside Germany.
That's not a safe distance
for these people.
Of course, we know the German
police have always resented
the European border police
and their popularity.
Listen, we have only
the warmest regard
for the European police
on the border.
We'll talk to them
when we need to.
Thank you.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
Assault record, third offence.
Anything else?
Nothing.
Suspended sentence
six months ago.
So what?
The pathologist report
just came through.
Sexual assault with no DNA.
He wore a condom.
He looks the part.
He had a weapon.
What weapon?
Club.
Come on.
Manslaughter charge.
It was a domestic.
This one has
a car-theft record.
That's it?
Nothing else?
Who's she?
She's a refugee
from the strip.
Picked her up on the train
trying to sell these.
Worth a lot this side
of the border.
(COMPUTER BEEPING)
(WOMAN MOANING)
(BEEPING)
She's got a tag,
but she wanted to
scratch Jansen's eyes out.
Won't say anything about
why they allowed her
to visit Germany,
just said
she's on legal business.
I am on legal business.
What, an informer,
yeah?
Who for?
It starts beeping up
on the border
when your time runs out,
yeah?
I'm on legal business.
What are you here to sell?
What do you think?
All right, Mann, give her
back the toy and let her go.
Then take statements.
Let them all go!
Briefing at 8:00.
Okay, everyone's screaming
these people
came across the border
out of the darkness
and killed her.
That gets your vote, Mann?
Yeah, well, that's what
the writing says, isn't it?
Well, they border police are
naturally concerned.
I may have
to go up there and...
Get laid.
(ALL CHUCKLING)
What about the girl?
The other girls in the hostel
say she was a bit weird.
Kept herself to herself.
It seems that she never ate
and then she'd binge.
Boyfriends?
I don't think so.
There was somebody she was
waiting for,
but never showed up.
And she did tell one girl
about somebody called Don.
Don? Is that it?
Don who?
Just Don.
She may have seen him
in a hotel somewhere,
but it's all pretty vague.
Trying to get more.
Okay, it is only
an outside possibility
the killer came across.
Not so many
are getting over now.
We all know how much money
the border police have spent
on satellites and sensors
and all that junk,
but there are
15,000 Muslims in this city,
nearly 1 million in Germany,
so the first task is to get
into what community there is
and find out
everything we can.
Thank you.
And be nice to Walter today.
It's his Becks
committee hearing.
(MEN GROANING AND LAUGHING)
WALTER: Video disc
from the girl's room.
This explains the money
in the drawer.
Looks like
she was smuggling porn.
It's an adult interactive.
I checked with vice,
they know the series.
Copies have been pirated up
on the strip for a while now.
Used couriers to run masters
like this over there.
FISCHER: I better drive across
and check it out.
WOMAN ON VIDEO:
Are you ready?
Have they got any leads?
No, not really, but they said
try the sex arcades.
They might know something.
(MAN AND WOMAN
MOANING ON VIDEO)
What are you looking
at me like that for?
Come on, we have
to get to the committee.
(MOANING CONTINUES ON VIDEO)
WOMAN: Detective Dix, there is
just one other small thing.
We have your birth certificate
in West Berlin, March 1950,
but computer
cross-referencing threw up
that your Turkish mother was
out of the country
between January 1950
and May 1951,
so the question did arise,
if you were born here
as claimed.
I think I can answer that.
Yes, I was.
But it's true, my mother
was having difficulty
getting into the country
at that time.
It's possible,
for that one trip,
she came in another way.
WOMAN: I see, so
the immigration records
are the unreliable ones.
Well, this may require further
examination,
but for the moment,
that is the last item.
Thank you very much.
Detective Fisher,
you're here as Dix's nominated
superior officer,
but as it happens,
we have something to ask you
on your own account.
Before that, I'm granting
a few minutes' adjournment.
What the hell is
this now?
Because of the importance
of questions of police
and nationality,
we're currently
compiling our own study
of all major recent incidents
involving the German police
and foreign nationals.
Now, I know this is painful,
but you were involved in such
an instance six months ago
when you accepted
a sexual bribe from
a foreign illegal.
Do we have to go
through this again?
The matter is closed,
as you know.
We understand your feelings,
Detective Fisher.
We are aware of
the personal consequences
and that your wife
later left the country
with your daughter.
But it won't stop you
raking it over again, will it?
I was only going
to say that in itself,
a clear account need not
necessarily prejudice
your attempts to obtain access
to your daughter.
Now, we reinterviewed
the woman
and we relied
on a refugee informant
to help us gather information.
We will have a written account
for you to corroborate
tomorrow morning.
That's all.
Now...
Anna Mamadoff, please approach
the committee
with her deposition.
Why didn't you tell me?
That you were informing
for Becks?
Why the hell
didn't you tell me?
You didn't ask.
I didn't know who you were.
I didn't turn up
anything new anyway.
You can look in the report.
Can I go now?
No.
I have something for you.
These are printouts
from a video game.
Recognise it?
ANNA: Don't you?
It's meant to be sex.
You were trying
to sell interactives
while you were here,
weren't you?
Japanese, I think.
They're all over the place.
I've got until midnight,
then I'm back in rags again.
We think the murdered girl
was running the discs
to the strip.
There'd be a drop-off.
If you or your contacts can
come up with anything useful,
I'll pay you.
We're not interested
in this stuff.
We only want who killed her.
How much?
I'll be up there tomorrow.
Call me.
So you met her?
Is she still claiming
I coerced her?
Very pretty, isn't she?
Yes.
Do you believe that?
Do you think they care
what I believe?
They just use me
for the information
because I've been in the camp
for a while.
Sure.
It could have been some
dumb racist cop.
I keep an open mind.
I'll bet you do.
(TAPPING TABLE)
How many do you have
in your camp now?
A quarter of a million people.
All scrambling
for a piece of the pie.
Great pie.
You think anybody likes it
up there?
You should come
and try it sometime.
No, thanks.
But I have
the perfect solution.
Spend some of the resettlement
money you soaked out of us
on commercials to show
Germany as it really is.
Shit in the streets,
syringes in the garbage.
Bingo. (LAUGHING)
None of your crowd would
want to come.
Killer slogan, too.
"Keep the shit out."
Not very funny.
No, I think it has a certain
ring to it.
But then you're right.
I'm just a dumb racist cop.
I think it's bedtime.
I'll be back tomorrow night.
Stop looking
at me like that.
Just keep out of trouble,
all I ask.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
WOMAN ON PA: You're
approaching border post 16,
linking Germany
with the Czech Republic
across the 12-kilometre-wide
exclusion zone,
to secure and protect
the eastern borders of
the European Union.
Under the 1996 Geneva
leasing agreement,
this zone is in
the jurisdiction of EUPOL,
the Union's Transnational
Immigration and
Border police.
Border post 16 is accessible
only to commercial
and official traffic.
Others should use
an alternative route.
(ALARM SOUNDING)
COMPUTER VOICE: You are now
clear to proceed.
WOMAN 1: Hi.
WOMAN 2: Hi, hello.
(WOMEN SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
Mwah.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
Welcome to paradise.
Michael Byrd,
EUPOL's deputy sector chief,
we'll help you all we can.
How did you find me
so quickly?
You heard our slogan?
Minimum force...
Maximum knowledge, bullshit.
Maximum divorce
and minimum college.
This will make you one of us
for a week.
So you can skip
the border scanner.
Just make sure nothing comes
out with you.
We operate
a ruthless quarantine.
There are serious penalties.
So, this porno disc you found,
you think it's anything?
I don't know.
It seems worth checking.
You've been up here lately?
Not since you guys
took over.
Oh, come on.
It's not the best time
to... Get around,
but in one hour,
the food trucks
will be in the camps
and the crowd gets easier.
You like music?
Depends.
There is so much
piracy up here,
you can get whatever you want.
That's one
of the consolations.
Apart from that,
it can get so depressing.
But let me tell you,
if you think this is bad,
you should've seen
this place four years ago.
We didn't even dare to patrol,
except from a chopper.
They were thousands
deep by the border posts.
And the Russian Mafia were
people-smuggling like crazy.
The worry is, with this new
thing going on in the east,
we could be back
to that any day now.
(VIDEO GAME SOUNDS)
The guys who run these places,
they hate the pirates.
(MOBILE RINGING)
They might have something.
Hi, Fischer.
It's Anna Mamadoff.
I have the address where
she dropped the video discs.
They're expecting you.
You're an optimist, Fischer.
She said they'd talk to us.
Sure.
Start paying,
they'll give you anything.
Dior.
Johnnie Walker.
Rolex, whatever.
I'm telling you,
you're never gonna get
what's on that label.
Hello?
(STEAM HISSING)
(DISTANT DOG BARKING)
(METAL CLANGING)
(SIREN WAILING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
(DISTANT DOG BARKING)
I'm sorry, Fischer, but she's
probably part of a scam.
I've seen this thing
a hundred times.
Your source gives you
a useless address,
tells the people there
to get out,
then comes
cap in hand for the money.
I don't know where they go.
I don't know.
(MOBILE RINGING)
Excuse me.
Yeah?
Uh, nothing much.
Okay, I'll get over there.
Gotta go.
Okay, let's go!
So if we get anything,
it'll go straight to you,
all right?
Just a word of advice.
If you come across any Mafia,
you leave them to us.
The Russians are
the speciality of the house
and we have a pretty sensitive
network of informants.
All right?
And I'll play you some blues
the next time.
Okay, I may have started out
as a sucker,
but I'm not a complete fool.
Where are they?
Have you scared them off
or something?
This is a setup, isn't it?
No.
I swear they were here.
Sure, someone was.
And then what happens?
They share out the money
down the street?
I tell you,
this is the place.
Your girl
dropped off some discs
and then someone else
picked them up.
Shit.
Who lives here?
Some women and a child.
They wouldn't know
anything much anyway.
What scared them, then?
Nothing did.
(BOTTLES CLANGING)
(COCKING GUN)
Aah!
No!
Don't!
Come.
If it was a setup, why would
they leave in such a hurry?
(FIRE CRACKLING)
FISCHER: Is he all right now?
What was he doing there?
Why?
Do you want to arrest him?
I have to take him back
to the camp
and hope his mother turns up.
I thought you said the people
here don't know anything.
No, not much
from what they told me.
What do you think?
Could the killer have
come from here?
Are the Mafia routes
still open?
There a lot of rumours.
The Yellow Route,
the March Route,
all those funny names, but
it's just wishful thinking.
You push up and down.
You been in the camp long?
About four years.
Come on.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Came here with a friend,
might have got across.
As you know,
people come and then they go
and then you never hear
from them again.
Thanks to
your people's generosity,
most of us stay here
in this toilet.
Well, if you can find out
anything that's
actually useful,
I'll pay you double.
You sure you can spare
a few more crumbs
from your pie?
Yeah, I might even forgive you
for being in my toilet.
(CAR HORN HONKING)
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
(PHONE BEEPING)
Hi.
What you want?
Martell and ice.
Hello?
Cal?
Hello, darling.
It's Daddy.
I've been wanting
to talk to you so much.
I don't know yet.
How are you?
Me...
But I want to speak to her.
Please, please,
you have to let...
I know what I did, but you...
(HANGING UP TELEPHONE)
Czech, Russian,
Indian, Balinese.
What girl do you want?
Young?
Give me the bottle.
(CAR STARTING)
Not Martell.
WOMAN ON PA: ...reminded
of the quarantine laws
and that strict penalties
are enforced.
You are responsible for
what you bring into Germany,
so please check before
entering the scanner.
(THUMPING)
(THUMPING)
(THUNDER)
(THUMPING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
But you've broken quarantine.
I've got to get you back.
(SHOUTING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SCREAMING)
No, no, I didn't, I didn't!
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Okay.
Come out for a moment.
But you can't stay here.
(DISTANT DOG BARKING)
She doesn't understand a word
I'm saying.
(CAR BOOT CLOSING)
Yeah.
Welcome to Germany.
(PHONE RINGING)
Yeah?
What?
Yeah?
You did what?
Oh, God.
I promise you, Walter,
that's all.
Except her blouse
got a bit torn.
I'll have to take her in.
Yeah.
Oh, God, I'm sorry.
Yes, we chased her and she
must have hid in the boot.
Okay.
Well, I believe you.
Just.
But I'm sorry,
nobody else will,
and Heiger certainly won't.
We're off the case.
But...
But it's worse than that.
There are strict penalties,
even if people believed you.
Why didn't you check?
Why the hell didn't you check?
Okay, I know.
It's my fault.
Bye.
(PHONE BEEPING)
(DIALLING)
(TOILET FLUSHING)
Better?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(THUNDER CONTINUING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Yeah.
(SHOUTING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
Yeah, all right?
Here, take this.
It'll be all right.
Okay?
Here.
Sorry.
(CAR PASSING)
(SIGHING)
MAN: You're illegal.
You shouldn't be here.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
What is this?
A welfare cheque?
What am I gonna do with this?
It's all right.
What do you mean
it's all right?
What's happened?
I let her go.
Come on, Walter.
She got over,
she can't complain.
I'm sorry I called you up.
You look pretty rough.
What's happening?
Not much.
The newspapers got
hold of the writing
and that she was raped,
so it's the Crusades
all over again,
only this time
they're coming to get us.
One of the girls from
the hostel came back in.
There's nothing there
and I feel rough.
Someone's playing
computer games again.
They should just reform the
Stasi and get it over with.
Any ideas?
Sure, but I can never prove
any of them.
What about the files?
I can replace them from main.
It's just hours
of donkey work.
Well, you're not doing it.
I'll arrange some donkeys.
My name is Sienna Novakova,
and I stayed in a room
next door
to the girl who was killed.
MAN: Yeah.
I didn't know her well,
but sometimes she would
come in and we would talk.
When she was down, she used
to talk sort of crazy
and upset about this boy
she met in Poland.
She waited for,
he never came,
and I just sort of listened,
but there was one thing.
I didn't make
anything of it until
I saw the papers today,
but they were talking about
Muslims, and I remembered,
this person who never came...
Well, she kept
saying something
when she was drunk once
about how it was a secret,
but he'd gone to star.
MAN: To a star.
Yeah.
Wasn't worth repeating.
But then I thought, maybe
it was some Muslim thing.
I mean, the star.
Isn't that
an Islamic symbol?
FISCHER: What do you think?
WALTER: There's nothing there.
Except today's papers coming
back to haunt us.
Yes, there are stars
in the Quran,
but stars are far more
of a Christian symbol
than anything else.
On its own,
it gets you nowhere.
"Gone to a star."
Got three hours
and then the guy comes.
It cost me a lot of favours.
You better make it
worth my while.
If it's good enough, I will.
Tell me.
Double was the deal.
Yeah, yeah.
The women in the house
up there haven't been back.
Have the police heard
anything more?
No, why?
Your boy told me
why they were fighting.
Sure, the police sirens
or something.
It has to be better than that.
It is better than that.
I have a name. Someone
they were frightened of.
You told me the women didn't
know anything.
Was he to do with the discs?
Maybe.
Nazarov.
There's more.
Of course, I've seen him.
When?
When Youssef
got back to the camp,
a search went out
for his mother,
and that guy came around
searching for her.
Did you talk to him?
No.
But I saw him.
He wouldn't be my first choice
for a walk in the woods.
Now, that has to be
worth some more.
Let's go.
What do you mean?
I mean I'm taking you to look
at some pictures.
This guy could be the killer.
No, that was never the deal.
Are you kidding?
You're the first solid witness
I've come across
in this thing.
You think I'm just gonna
kiss you good-bye?
No, Fischer.
I gave you a name,
that's enough.
I've got
three hours to get back.
Fine, we'll call the border
police and run you back fast.
No, that's not fine.
You know the rules.
If you want to
show me some pictures,
then apply for a visa.
I can't wait.
Well, then bring them to me!
If this bracelet goes off,
they'll never let me in again.
I said we'll call them.
ANNA: No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Wait.
No.
No.
Because of what happened this
morning, it might take days.
Even then, we might well
not come up with anything.
ANNA: No.
No.
Concentrate.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Here.
ANNA: Have you called them?
Yes.
No extension, I told you,
Fischer, please.
Two more discs,
then we'll run you back.
I'm sorry, but you're all
we've got.
-Alex, she's only got
till 6:00.
-No.
I called them.
It won't make any difference.
You know the rules.
No.
If that bracelet
isn't back in time,
they'll never let her into
Germany again.
Maybe.
It could be.
Don't you have anything
better?
No, I haven't even
got our main file.
We're still restoring them.
Korasoff.
WALTER: And any other names
he uses might be here.
Nazarin...
Nazarov.
Donskoi.
-They're Russian.
-Donskoi...
Don, Don, just Don.
She met somebody called Don
in a hotel room.
Let's start
ringing the hotels.
You should tell Heiger.
Get everyone on to it.
You're such a shit!
I'm not gonna make it.
Of course you will.
Schuster's a demon driver,
and we're very grateful.
Here.
Go to hell.
A genius.
MAN: Donskoi.
D-O-N-S-K-O-I...
You shouldn't be doing
this, Alex.
If he's Russian,
we have to take it higher.
(OFFICE CHATTERING)
Fischer!
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(HORN BLARING)
WALTER:
Yeah?
Yeah, that's it, yeah.
Right.
Thank you.
My God, he's in his room.
(CHEERING)
(ALARM SOUNDING)
(ALARM CONTINUING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(ALARM CONTINUING)
(SOBBING)
(CAR HORN BLARING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
FISCHER: Once exits
are covered,
I only want
three teams inside.
The other two
watch stairs and elevator.
(CAR HORN BLARING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Donskoi.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGING)
Move, move!
(WOMEN SCREAMING)
(SQUEAKING)
Look out!
Congratulations.
Aah!
You probably killed
our electrician.
Who the hell are you?
Special services division,
EUPOL.
Where's Donskoi?
He's not
in the country.
And we don't think
he'll be back.
What a load of crap.
We were told he was here.
Probably because the telephone
was busy.
Our electrician was wiring it.
There's no point in talking
to Donskoi anyway.
He's nothing to do
with your investigation.
What do you mean?
Who is he?
It doesn't matter who he is.
-What may matter is that
you've interfered...
-(MOBILE RINGING)
-...with our
intelligence-gathering network
and shot at one of
our operatives.
(MOBILE BEEPING)
Excuse me.
I think your superior
wants to talk to you.
PAUL: Fortunately,
the guy's okay.
If you'd have killed him,
all of us would probably have
been hanged.
It was the first
positive lead we had.
Lead? You call this a lead?
I mean, some Russian
who might, just might
have met your victim?
This is a lead?
Come on.
I mean, what motive
could the Russian Mafia
possibly have
for doing this, Alex?
I mean, please.
Even if they wanted the girl
dead, why do it this way, huh?
Why create all this hysteria
when it's their smugglers
who take the heat?
This case has already
created so much stink,
the money spent on stopping
illegal border crossing
will probably be doubled.
What could possibly be
in it for them?
I want to find out.
There's nothing
to find out.
EUPOL have an informer network
and they made it
painfully clear to me
that you're in danger
of compromising it.
Now get back.
Find me something real.
How long to get that file?
WALTER: Fortunately,
I can still log onto main,
even with half a wing.
Christ, Alex,
what happens when
they check the computer log?
Everyone in the building
will know.
So I called from the hotel.
I just haven't got around
to cancelling it.
Yeah, good, well,
I'll give your best
to the Becks committee.
Right.
Donskoi, age 32, born Riga.
Sounds about right.
Shootings.
Strangulations.
Jesus, this man's done a lot
of harm in his life,
and in Germany.
This is a Mafia hit man.
This goes way beyond
porno smuggling.
What's "dogman"?
WALTER: I don't know.
But this guy
apparently was one.
Some kind of criminal slang,
should be in the...
Yeah, a dogman.
"Term of abuse, originally
derived from the use of rape
"as an ethnic strategy by
Serbian guerillas
"during the Civil War
in former Yugoslavia,
"subsequently
adopted as Russian Mafia slang
"for a man prepared to rape
as part of his cover."
Here is a man who rapes
as part of his cover,
who took her to his hotel room
and is a class-one killer.
He has to be our man.
Why?
I don't know, but even I
can see a race murder
has definitely pluses for lots
of people.
And why are you, Paul,
on top of us so hard?
Come on, Alex, they got
their network to protect.
I know nobody liked the border
police coming in, Alex.
They're more popular
than we are.
They don't use force.
They saved our skins
back in '97.
They stopped them coming.
Paul, I want to go
and find him.
He's not the killer.
No? You explain it then.
Coincidence.
What?
I'm sorry.
Paul, give me a chance here.
I'm giving you a chance, Alex.
There's a new piece
of information,
came in about an hour ago.
Minister's releasing it
to the press this evening.
The murder has been claimed.
It's an extremist
Muslim group.
Who are they?
We haven't heard of them.
Just find them, Alex.
Now, please,
no questions.
Stay away from Russians.
And find them.
No, no.
You don't know
where she's gone?
But it was early?
And my daughter was with her?
All right.
Thank you.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
No, it's all right, I'm not
gonna hurt you, just relax.
(DOOR CLOSING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She's asking if I'm going
to take her back across.
I'm not, am I?
Ask her about the Russian.
(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
-She won't talk about it.
-She has to.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Her name is Nadia, came from
Azerbaijan to see her sister,
who works in a camp
on the strip.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
The boy's father
has gone ahead.
She doesn't know where he is.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Now she's not going
to answer any more questions
until she gets back
to see her son.
That must have been the boy
you found.
The dead girl,
Karen.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She met her a few times.
She dropped off the disc.
Someone came for her.
She doesn't know who.
FISCHER: Ask her if she knows
why Karen had these postcards.
(WALTER SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
What's the matter?
I don't know.
She says you mustn't touch
these things.
She said Karen died
because she touched them.
Why?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She doesn't know why.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Wait a minute, oh, God,
this is what was smuggled out.
What?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Karen smuggled the discs out
and these in.
They were paid
money by the Russians
to smuggle them out
of the strip.
He said it was a code,
something to do
with car smuggling.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
But they didn't believe him.
So what are they?
Who wrote them?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She's not going to talk
about it any more.
She wants to
see her son first.
I'm sorry, the guy must have
scared the shit out of them.
Tell her she has to answer
our questions.
(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She has to.
(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
WALTER: It's no good.
She won't unless you take
her back.
Then I'll have to
take her back.
Explain about the boot.
Last time,
she wouldn't go back in.
(WALTER SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
(NADIA SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
What is it, Walter?
She won't go
without me.
(CHUCKLING)
This shouldn't give the
satellites much of a picture.
Okay?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(GATE OPENING)
You're official, yes?
Yes, we're police.
Mmm.
Well, just make sure to
help us catch some criminals.
There's a lot of them
out there.
So we hear.
Well, just go through
the small scaling tunnel.
These guys
could be here all night.
But we're in a hurry.
Sure.
You can go
as fast as you like.
It's switched off.
Look, there's no power
in here, stop worrying.
(DOOR WHIRRING)
Okay, okay, nearly there.
Oh, God.
Hey, if you keep on
working these hours,
I think I'll hire you
myself.
You could teach
my people a lesson.
We just wanted to take
another look around.
Yeah, that's good.
Well, I wish I could join you,
but I can't.
Pity.
Yeah, they just
called me in.
Wait until you see why.
Come on.
I have to talk to you
anyway.
On the way back.
We have a schedule to keep.
Well, I won't keep you.
Leave the key in.
Come on,
won't take a moment.
So what do you think?
Nearly had 30 corpses
on our hands.
Why?
Why? Because some Czech
had this brilliant idea
of bringing them through
in a refrigeration truck...
(CHUCKLING)
With the freezer turned on.
Yeah, it said
the scanner would
think they were dead meat.
They would have been
if we hadn't found them.
Sometimes, I hate this job.
And it's going to get worse
if the Poles don't
do something
about the borders, quick.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
You know this one?
I found it in one
of the reaper shops.
Good quality for a change.
♪ I'm right
to trust my baby ♪
MALE SINGER:
♪ She always look out for me ♪
(MAN SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
So any sign of the women
from the house, anything?
(SIGHING)
Oh, I... (CHUCKLING)
I hear you had to look
for a Russian.
Huh?
Yes, we...
We didn't get to him.
Those guys
are slippery as eels.
You should leave them to us.
Remember?
Yeah.
It's about now,
we got all this heavy traffic
from the port.
It's a funny thing,
isn't it?
We sell these people
any product under the sun
except the one
they really want.
Travel.
(PHONE RINGING)
I'm sorry,
you have your schedule.
You better get back
to the car.
Yeah, hello?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Is this your car?
We just have to check it.
We've been through already.
It's just a formality.
We check if they're
unattended, you don't mind.
Like I say,
we're in a hurry.
Look, we've been cleared.
That's enough,
for God's sake.
They have clearance.
Next time we'll have
a beer, okay?
Yeah, great.
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOGS BARKING)
What's going on?
Oh, Christ.
WALTER: Look, maybe she
got out on the street.
Slipped the catch.
It's crowded enough.
FISCHER: Come on, Walter.
We've been through it,
and we both know you can't
unlock a boot from the inside.
WALTER: Okay, she got out
at the start
and she slipped
behind the lorry.
Alex, there has to be
an ordinary explanation,
because if they had found her,
they'd never let it go.
No, they wouldn't.
(ALL CLAMOURING)
Morning.
Walter in yet?
No, had to go to some meeting.
Um, I don't know.
Did you speak
to the border people?
No.
Something's happened.
They want you up there
at once.
(PHONE RINGING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Hey, Fischer!
Hi, how you doing?
Hi.
Diconal.
What?
Diconal, one of
the most popular drugs
we have out here.
(SNIFFLING)
Overdose.
She's been dead eight,
nine hours.
You recognise her.
It's that woman we chased
outside that house.
You remember?
We don't know how the hell
she ended up here,
but you know,
she's within a mile
of the fence,
which makes it my problem.
Maybe she was dumped
on the road somewhere
and she made it here.
We're running
the satellite pictures now.
Think you might have
something?
Not if a car backed up
to the house,
you know, took her
from the trunk into the house.
Wouldn't have
picked that up.
What do you think?
You think she was
in a trunk?
How should I know?
What do you know,
Fischer?
What?
Well, that's why I called you.
You saw anything last night?
Your people would see
far more than I could.
Yeah.
Yeah, I doubt there's any
connection to your case.
But we're never going to hear
her story, are we?
All right,
get her out of here!
Do you want to stretch your
legs before you go back?
Sure.
There's quite a view
up here.
Gingerbread houses,
we used to call them.
Some mad Frenchman's
idea years ago.
Stuff 'em full of food
and drinks
and illegals would be
there like flies.
That was the theory,
at least.
Never worked.
No one ever went near them.
The first time I got here,
I just couldn't believe it.
You know, as soon
as we intercepted one route,
the Mafia came up
with another.
So what did you do?
Made some deals.
I don't know half of them,
I don't want to
know them, either.
But we managed to infiltrate,
made some arrests.
(SIGHING)
You can almost think Europe
goes on forever from here.
Then you turn around,
what do you see?
You know my favourite
European cities?
The backwaters.
I hear your daughter
was in, um, Belfort?
So where have they gone now?
How'd you know that?
Maximum knowledge.
I just know you've been
trying to keep in touch,
get her back.
I don't blame you, Fischer.
It's got to be real tough
losing her like that.
Anyone can trip up.
How the hell do you know
she was in Belfort?
Well, I think you'd have
a case, at least for access.
I don't see
how she can deny you that
just because
of what happened.
What's it got
to do with you?
As long as you didn't get into
anything similar again.
As far as I know,
I haven't.
That's fine.
Fine.
Well, I just hope you get
this Muslim group.
As for the future,
remember to stay on
your side of the fence.
Keep away from
the Russians and
the rest of the crap up here.
I don't think
there is a group.
What?
I think
it's something else.
I don't get it.
Is it guilt talking?
Did you have her this time,
Fischer?
What did you say?
The Muslim girl.
I think you had her,
and now you're spreading
-all this stupid guilt
around here.
-(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
You know, we haven't
done the forensics yet.
What happened to her?
I can't keep helping you
all the time, Fischer!
You know, I don't
even have to do this!
I don't even know
why I'm doing it!
I think we don't
see each other again!
Trust your baby!
What happened
to the Muslim girl?
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Alex, what are you doing?
I did not dump her.
Well, it doesn't matter
if I believe you.
'Cause of where she was found,
the murder charge
is up to them, not to me.
And they are definitely
gonna charge you.
Her prints have turned up
all over your house.
Yes, but she disappeared.
Something is going on, Paul.
Disappeared?
You know no one's
going to buy that.
You said the murder would
double the border budget.
You said it.
And what if some of the money
is going straight
to the Russian Mafia?
Maybe that's
all the network is.
What if all they've been
doing all these years
is buying the bad guys off?
Is that how they
stop them coming?
Look... Not that stuff.
I tried to warn you, Alex.
I kept warning you.
I felt my chain jerking.
(SIGHING)
That's the only reason
I was on this thing,
wasn't it?
Everyone was so frantic,
you needed someone
from the graveyard
you could manage.
Look.
Once you've given this
any thought,
you're gonna want
to come in on your own.
Now, I'm gonna give you
two hours.
Talk to a decent lawyer
and then come in,
and as for this...
I never saw you,
all right?
Look at me.
I'm closing my eyes.
(DOG BARKING)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
It's probably
gonna rain now.
Have they talked to you?
No, they're pretty much
leaving me alone.
Yeah, I thought they might.
Now, Walter, we've got to get
this thing together.
We both knew this woman and
heard what she said, right?
What's this?
Becks?
Let me see.
"Your national status
is not founded."
What does this mean?
It means they're probably
gonna throw me out.
My citizenship's been revoked.
What?
Yeah.
Turns out my father
cheated a little
on the dates of the marriage
papers all those years ago.
Now it's a big issue
in this country.
Yeah, I know it is,
but you, I...
No. Come on.
It's been on
my horizon so long,
we never even saw it coming.
All those hours of committees
we used to sit through.
They even used to ask me if
I suffered racial harassment.
In the end, it all came down
to a fishing expedition.
They don't know yet.
I can fight it.
But if I went to jail, they'd
fling them out on their own.
I can't help you.
I'm just praying
the border people
won't start
asking questions.
I don't think
they'll bother.
Who'd want to hear
your story?
You have to find the child.
The murderer came looking
for his mother.
He's the link.
I'm sorry, Alex.
But you got a good record.
I mean, you can fight.
Hey, just make sure you're
here when I get back,
all right?
FEMALE VOICE: You are now
clear to proceed.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
FISCHER: Anna! Anna!
I have to see the boy.
You said you had news
about his mother.
How long does the dye last?
A few months.
Which is nothing
compared to how long
it will stay in my file.
Now, tell me...
First you tell me
where the boy is.
I can take you to him,
but he doesn't know anything.
Where is his mother?
She's dead.
Diconal overdose.
(WHIMPERING)
What's the matter?
Was she your friend?
Listen, I'll tell you
everything.
But you've got to help me.
I think we've got about
two minutes.
By a hut just the other side
of the border.
They said it was an overdose,
but that's where
they found her.
I hadn't seen her since
the previous night.
What are you holding back?
Why are you scared
of the police?
They set me up.
They're saying I killed her.
Did you?
What do you think?
Of course I didn't.
Where are we?
Where you deserve.
Welcome to hell.
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(MAN SHOUTING)
You want to eat?
You're gonna have to run.
(WHISTLING)
(GRUNTING)
(ISLAMIC CALL TO PRAYER
ON P.A. SYSTEM)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
Hey!
Hey!
Wait, come here!
(TRUCK HORN BLARING)
Leave him alone.
You have to let me
speak to him.
I don't have to do
anything for you!
Anna!
Anna!
Hey!
I don't want anything
from you.
But a woman has been killed,
probably just because
she talked to me.
Now, don't you think
we ought to find out why?
Yes, I do, but he
doesn't know anything.
She was my sister.
My sister,
do you understand?
Your sister?
I hadn't seen her
for so long.
I ran away when I was 15 with
a stupid man that dumped me.
Now she turned up again.
She was living
in that house.
Great, isn't it?
I set it all up.
And then you came and took
really good care of her.
Was she fun?
(SCOFFS)
I didn't touch her.
No?
You dumped her on the road.
Yes, but I never
touched her.
Your name was on the computer
this morning.
It said you abducted her
on the strip.
You know that I couldn't
have abducted her.
You saw me go that night.
You could have
picked her up anywhere.
Why shouldn't you?
You have the history.
No, I didn't.
I didn't, I swear.
Don't you think
I've been over it and over it?
I know something
is going on.
I saw the Russian.
I know they force overdoses,
but why her?
Back there,
they called us Turks.
I may be a Muslim,
but I don't go
to the mosque and I...
I drink vodka.
But they say
we are plotting
and we had to
sign over our house.
My brother-in-law
at the wedding says,
"Sign it to me, you are
going to get it anyway."
Who are they?
The night gang.
They run the place
because nobody else wants to.
Drugs and weapons
and all that.
You have family?
Yes.
Don't see them.
Hmm.
I'm the same.
I think my brother got over
long ago while we rot here.
But in those times,
with 1,000 Deutschmarks,
you were a king.
1,000?
Sure.
People go to Germany for that.
Not now.
Mmm.
Now, you need
three or four.
Yes, if you have the cash.
They are not all closed.
Some of the routes out
are still open,
we are sure, but people
don't like to talk about it.
Which ones?
Mm. Not sure.
Yellow.
Star or Christmas.
EUPOL don't bother
up north like they do here.
There are only a few sensors
on that border, and no fence.
Not any satellites, even.
But there are
enough here, routes,
start further in the east,
Lublin, let's say,
or the Ukrainian border,
and then you go right
through Poland to Germany.
Star.
Yeah.
I heard there's
a way across from the east,
if you got money.
Part of Poland,
there's not so much fences.
Details change.
Nobody talks about it.
Especially not to policemen.
But the Danish girl said it.
"Gone to a star."
And no one knew what
she was talking about.
Yeah.
I think this is it.
I think it's what they've
been trying to cover up.
It's out there in the east.
-Why would they bother?
-Well, perhaps
the border police
have been turning a blind eye,
sharing the profit.
It might be
the safety valve...
Why this place worked.
If I could prove that...
Look, Anna, tell me,
no one gives a shit
who heads east from here,
do they?
No, they don't.
Why do you think
I tried to save money?
I heard that Youssef's father
was in Germany.
If we had got in,
we would have done it.
You don't have to save.
I cleared my bank account.
I can't do this alone.
And Wojkiech...
After all he told you.
And if we get caught?
If we get caught,
you get sent back,
and I go to jail.
So she won't let you
speak to your daughter?
No.
If we make it,
I'm gonna find her
and go through it
again face to face.
She has to let me see her.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
How much longer
can they hold on here?
It gets even worse
further east.
He's found someone.
(BABY CRYING)
Are you sure sure this
is a smuggler's hotel?
This is the main one.
The trash
of Eastern Europe.
Stinks, doesn't it?
At least the camp
was in the open air.
(SIGHING)
Well, it does.
Bet a part of you still think
of us like that, don't you?
Just as more shit
that has to be shovelled.
Come on, Anna, I can't
face the remedial lecture
on racism right now,
thank you.
Oh, no?
You still haven't got it?
No wonder Youssef isn't really
getting used to you.
(BELL DINGING)
Come on.
(BABY CRYING, DOG BARKING)
(SNIFFLING)
You miss your mother?
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHUCKLING)
Good.
(BELL TOLLING)
Hello.
You want a service?
Yes, I look for
a travel service.
Germany?
I route sometimes.
I am not one
of the main couriers.
For how many?
There are four.
One child.
You don't look right to me.
(SLAMS SHOT GLASS DOWN)
That's much better.
How do you feel?
Like shit,
if you really want to know.
Good.
We have luck.
Upstairs, second floor.
MAN: This place...
Oh, it's temporary,
like everything
in this shithole,
but we use it
for the moment.
Some party boss
kept his women here.
He used to like saying
he was on top of history.
Now, where are we?
You don't want some makeup
while you are here
or adult games?
Or... Here.
This is the main German route
through Poland.
Star route.
Yes.
The precise route
can change, of course,
but it's operated
by the same people.
First used Christmas 1996,
when they shut down
the general route, I think.
Many, many people,
very safe.
From here, two days,
two nights.
Of course,
we charge accordingly.
4,000 Deutschmark
or equivalent per head.
Is it the tunnels
we hear so much of?
(CHUCKLING) Or the planes
or the bribed guards?
Rumours are everywhere,
aren't they?
I tell you,
I have no idea.
Everything
is separate here.
That's the way we do it.
But these are some
of the main couriers,
and it works perfectly because
we always have verification
from our people in Germany.
Here, it's more difficult.
Sunflower or Warrior
aren't so good.
Sometimes problems I hear.
But a little cheaper.
We don't charge you so much.
(PHONE RINGING)
Sunrise is closed now,
but there are others,
also cheaper.
Look.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
You will be in a group
of at least 10,
and we have one small
but civilised rule,
though I don't generally
have to underline it.
We don't allow guns.
You will be searched.
We don't want
any troubles.
So which one you like?
I think we go
first class.
Again.
(LAUGHING)
Not under my shirt.
Let's try it like this.
You really do smell
like shit.
(HORN BLARING)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
MAN: No, he's dead now.
But he was the best
of all of them.
Better than Pet Shop Boys
or any others.
When I was small,
my brother had this cassette
and I would hear it,
go and sleep.
Do you remember him?
Joe Tex.
No.
So you think we can do it?
Get into Germany?
If others do it, why not us?
Yes, I say that, too.
We'll do it.
(MAN SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE ON P.A.)
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
This is for tonight
and for tomorrow morning.
Nearly there, love.
Yeah.
(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(LAUGHING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
He says tomorrow, Germany.
Oh, that's great.
(WHISPERING)
Happy Easter.
(WHISPERING)
Is it Sunday?
They say we are
very near now.
Once they are ready,
we set out for Germany.
What was this place?
Who built it?
Communists.
Recreation centres
for families of workers.
Now, no workers.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(CLAPPING)
Attention, please.
Here.
Give the pens, uh,
around the table, hmm?
It's okay.
Well...
(SIGHING)
It's just only
a short walk from here
and we always
provide postcards,
so you can let your loved ones
know you have arrived.
We'll be soon collecting them.
But don't say
where you are, of course,
or it would give us away.
How many people
come through a day?
Oh, this is not the only
reception centre
and there are several routes,
so dozens.
We are very successful,
you know?
I'm sorry for
all this searching,
but as you know,
the Germans can pick up guns
on their scanners, so...
Okay.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Those were the cards you saw.
Mm-hmm.
Because, some days ago,
one came from
Youssef's father.
It's okay.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Okay.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
He says,
there's the famous tunnel.
It's not very long and...
They are waiting with
the cars on the other side.
I don't go in cave.
I hate dark.
If you prefer, you can
go along the other side,
but it is harder work.
This is short,
about 10 minutes only
and there are lights, but
some people don't like caves.
I can take you either way.
It is up to you.
It's all right.
Short it's better, right?
I also hate to lose the sun.
I'm a gardener.
But if it's quicker.
Okay, come on.
It won't take long.
Just follow the light.
ANNA: Youssef.
Stay close.
Oh, that stinks!
Oh.
There is a sewer.
I'm sorry, but we are
out soon, come on.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(COUGHING)
It's very slippery here, you
know, and the light is poor.
Here is the rope.
Hold the rope.
Please, hold the rope,
everybody.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
He says the rope
is biting his fingers.
Let go of the cable!
(BUZZER BLARING)
(SCREAMING)
Stay down! Youssef!
(AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE)
ANNA: Youssef!
(BUZZER STOPS)
(WHIMPERING)
(SCREAMING)
Stop.
Take everyone back.
There may be more of them.
Let's see if there's a way
through.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(ANNA GASPING)
(SOBBING)
People could be coming
to clean up here any moment.
Tell them we're still
miles from Germany
on a killing ground.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
FISCHER: I'm sure we must have
crossed the border.
Should be a road.
Where is it?
(HELICOPTER APPROACHING)
Helicopter!
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
FISCHER: Okay.
We triggered an alarm!
We are over!
ANNA: If EUPOL
know about the killing,
why don't they stop it?
Because by the time
they found out,
they'd paid the Mafia
huge sums to close the routes
and stop smuggling people
across, and it worked!
The refugees stopped coming.
Then someone found out
about the genocide.
And just looked the other way.
All right.
(HORN HONKING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(HORN HONKING)
We've done it!
(CHEERING)
Anna!
We are here!
Hey!
Stop!
Why don't they stop?
They're scared.
They think we'll murder them.
(HORN HONKING)
Hey!
Stop!
But they can see
that we have children!
(HORNS HONKING,
TYRES SQUEALING)
Jesus, Anna,
what are you doing?
They're not gonna stop!
Yes, they will.
They can see us.
They're not blind.
They can see us,
so they will stop.
war situation
across the former
Soviet empire,
tension along
Germany's eastern border
continues to escalate.
Earlier today at a rally
on the UN-designated
border zone,
extremist Muslim groups
stepped up their demands
for a right
to emergency sanctuary
inside the European Union.
MAN 2: You cannot
ignore our suffering
and make a fortress
out of Europe!
We will no longer
wait quietly in the shadows.
Here is our warning.
We are crossing!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
Can't you turn them off?
Yes, but we keep losing power
when they do.
Something to do
with the circuit.
What are you
doing here anyway?
You're on suspension.
I don't know.
I got the call.
And where's Mann?
He's usually
on this side tonight.
She's Danish.
A nurse called Karen Nielsen.
20.
Slashed seven times
from head to foot.
Sonny says it looks
like a ritual killing.
Oh, Christ.
And it gets worse.
They could've come over
the border.
Look at the writing.
Well, come on, Walter,
you speak this shit.
What does it say?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
"We are crossing."
Oh, God, is this it, then?
It's yours, Fischer.
What do you mean?
I mean you're running this.
This case?
He's on suspension.
Not any more.
Heiger decided that's it.
We all think it stinks,
I have to tell you.
And then I suppose
he sees it as rehabilitation.
Okay!
I want a list of
all the security guards
on the grounds.
And Mann,
get this bloody water off
as fast as you can.
She's only been
in Germany a few weeks.
She was staying at a hostel
near the station.
Schuster, find out
about the writing.
Have Jansen
get on the computer
and start taking statements.
All right.
Do you know the way
out of here?
The victim is
a Caucasian female.
Hey, Detective.
When are we gonna get
a proper statement?
We've heard these rumours
that this is a racial killing.
Is that why you're not letting
us down there?
It has to do
with the border situation.
What you
looking around for now?
He gave us a shot, Walter.
Yeah, but why?
'Cause he knows
I'll go after it.
Ah, that's why I'm worried.
WOMAN ON RADIO: A state
of emergency was declared
in the Czech Republic
this morning
as refugees demanding
permission to enter Germany
attempted a mass breakout
from the holding camps.
A spokesman for EUPOL,
the European Border Police,
warned that the Russian
Mafia might again seek...
Alex. Good.
Well, you look about okay.
I am okay.
Because I'm
letting you have it.
I don't need to tell you
we need a result fast.
The minister called me
over here. I've never
seen him so worried.
Right now, he's probably
behind that door on his knees.
You haven't
talked to the press?
Of course not.
Well, sit on the writing.
I mean, Christ.
We were rattled enough before
about the Muslims
without all this.
And these
rumours flying around,
Mafia tunnels heading
right for us,
massed crossing.
Border police are itchy
as hell.
Mann's not too happy.
Yeah, well, if he gives you
any trouble, you let me know.
But you have got to stay
in line on this one, Alex.
I mean it.
Dix can tuck you up sober
at night.
He gets shy.
Good, well, you deserve
each other.
Now, you go out
and bring someone in.
Thanks, Paul.
This is her room.
Thank you.
Like one of my kids' rooms.
(CLICKING ON LIGHT)
Hope not.
Alex, give me a hand.
Okay.
(GRUNTING)
Okay.
Couldn't be the rent.
Whoever heard of a rich nurse?
Something in the lining.
Foreigners writing home
to their families.
So why hide them?
I don't know.
Why weren't they posted?
I'll check
the video disc.
(CROWD CHANTING)
REPORTER: Hey, Detective!
Hey, Detective!
We're hearing this girl was
killed by Muslim extremists.
Will you be calling in
the European border police?
EUPOL, what for?
We're 40 kilometres
inside Germany.
That's not a safe distance
for these people.
Of course, we know the German
police have always resented
the European border police
and their popularity.
Listen, we have only
the warmest regard
for the European police
on the border.
We'll talk to them
when we need to.
Thank you.
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
Assault record, third offence.
Anything else?
Nothing.
Suspended sentence
six months ago.
So what?
The pathologist report
just came through.
Sexual assault with no DNA.
He wore a condom.
He looks the part.
He had a weapon.
What weapon?
Club.
Come on.
Manslaughter charge.
It was a domestic.
This one has
a car-theft record.
That's it?
Nothing else?
Who's she?
She's a refugee
from the strip.
Picked her up on the train
trying to sell these.
Worth a lot this side
of the border.
(COMPUTER BEEPING)
(WOMAN MOANING)
(BEEPING)
She's got a tag,
but she wanted to
scratch Jansen's eyes out.
Won't say anything about
why they allowed her
to visit Germany,
just said
she's on legal business.
I am on legal business.
What, an informer,
yeah?
Who for?
It starts beeping up
on the border
when your time runs out,
yeah?
I'm on legal business.
What are you here to sell?
What do you think?
All right, Mann, give her
back the toy and let her go.
Then take statements.
Let them all go!
Briefing at 8:00.
Okay, everyone's screaming
these people
came across the border
out of the darkness
and killed her.
That gets your vote, Mann?
Yeah, well, that's what
the writing says, isn't it?
Well, they border police are
naturally concerned.
I may have
to go up there and...
Get laid.
(ALL CHUCKLING)
What about the girl?
The other girls in the hostel
say she was a bit weird.
Kept herself to herself.
It seems that she never ate
and then she'd binge.
Boyfriends?
I don't think so.
There was somebody she was
waiting for,
but never showed up.
And she did tell one girl
about somebody called Don.
Don? Is that it?
Don who?
Just Don.
She may have seen him
in a hotel somewhere,
but it's all pretty vague.
Trying to get more.
Okay, it is only
an outside possibility
the killer came across.
Not so many
are getting over now.
We all know how much money
the border police have spent
on satellites and sensors
and all that junk,
but there are
15,000 Muslims in this city,
nearly 1 million in Germany,
so the first task is to get
into what community there is
and find out
everything we can.
Thank you.
And be nice to Walter today.
It's his Becks
committee hearing.
(MEN GROANING AND LAUGHING)
WALTER: Video disc
from the girl's room.
This explains the money
in the drawer.
Looks like
she was smuggling porn.
It's an adult interactive.
I checked with vice,
they know the series.
Copies have been pirated up
on the strip for a while now.
Used couriers to run masters
like this over there.
FISCHER: I better drive across
and check it out.
WOMAN ON VIDEO:
Are you ready?
Have they got any leads?
No, not really, but they said
try the sex arcades.
They might know something.
(MAN AND WOMAN
MOANING ON VIDEO)
What are you looking
at me like that for?
Come on, we have
to get to the committee.
(MOANING CONTINUES ON VIDEO)
WOMAN: Detective Dix, there is
just one other small thing.
We have your birth certificate
in West Berlin, March 1950,
but computer
cross-referencing threw up
that your Turkish mother was
out of the country
between January 1950
and May 1951,
so the question did arise,
if you were born here
as claimed.
I think I can answer that.
Yes, I was.
But it's true, my mother
was having difficulty
getting into the country
at that time.
It's possible,
for that one trip,
she came in another way.
WOMAN: I see, so
the immigration records
are the unreliable ones.
Well, this may require further
examination,
but for the moment,
that is the last item.
Thank you very much.
Detective Fisher,
you're here as Dix's nominated
superior officer,
but as it happens,
we have something to ask you
on your own account.
Before that, I'm granting
a few minutes' adjournment.
What the hell is
this now?
Because of the importance
of questions of police
and nationality,
we're currently
compiling our own study
of all major recent incidents
involving the German police
and foreign nationals.
Now, I know this is painful,
but you were involved in such
an instance six months ago
when you accepted
a sexual bribe from
a foreign illegal.
Do we have to go
through this again?
The matter is closed,
as you know.
We understand your feelings,
Detective Fisher.
We are aware of
the personal consequences
and that your wife
later left the country
with your daughter.
But it won't stop you
raking it over again, will it?
I was only going
to say that in itself,
a clear account need not
necessarily prejudice
your attempts to obtain access
to your daughter.
Now, we reinterviewed
the woman
and we relied
on a refugee informant
to help us gather information.
We will have a written account
for you to corroborate
tomorrow morning.
That's all.
Now...
Anna Mamadoff, please approach
the committee
with her deposition.
Why didn't you tell me?
That you were informing
for Becks?
Why the hell
didn't you tell me?
You didn't ask.
I didn't know who you were.
I didn't turn up
anything new anyway.
You can look in the report.
Can I go now?
No.
I have something for you.
These are printouts
from a video game.
Recognise it?
ANNA: Don't you?
It's meant to be sex.
You were trying
to sell interactives
while you were here,
weren't you?
Japanese, I think.
They're all over the place.
I've got until midnight,
then I'm back in rags again.
We think the murdered girl
was running the discs
to the strip.
There'd be a drop-off.
If you or your contacts can
come up with anything useful,
I'll pay you.
We're not interested
in this stuff.
We only want who killed her.
How much?
I'll be up there tomorrow.
Call me.
So you met her?
Is she still claiming
I coerced her?
Very pretty, isn't she?
Yes.
Do you believe that?
Do you think they care
what I believe?
They just use me
for the information
because I've been in the camp
for a while.
Sure.
It could have been some
dumb racist cop.
I keep an open mind.
I'll bet you do.
(TAPPING TABLE)
How many do you have
in your camp now?
A quarter of a million people.
All scrambling
for a piece of the pie.
Great pie.
You think anybody likes it
up there?
You should come
and try it sometime.
No, thanks.
But I have
the perfect solution.
Spend some of the resettlement
money you soaked out of us
on commercials to show
Germany as it really is.
Shit in the streets,
syringes in the garbage.
Bingo. (LAUGHING)
None of your crowd would
want to come.
Killer slogan, too.
"Keep the shit out."
Not very funny.
No, I think it has a certain
ring to it.
But then you're right.
I'm just a dumb racist cop.
I think it's bedtime.
I'll be back tomorrow night.
Stop looking
at me like that.
Just keep out of trouble,
all I ask.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
WOMAN ON PA: You're
approaching border post 16,
linking Germany
with the Czech Republic
across the 12-kilometre-wide
exclusion zone,
to secure and protect
the eastern borders of
the European Union.
Under the 1996 Geneva
leasing agreement,
this zone is in
the jurisdiction of EUPOL,
the Union's Transnational
Immigration and
Border police.
Border post 16 is accessible
only to commercial
and official traffic.
Others should use
an alternative route.
(ALARM SOUNDING)
COMPUTER VOICE: You are now
clear to proceed.
WOMAN 1: Hi.
WOMAN 2: Hi, hello.
(WOMEN SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
Mwah.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
Welcome to paradise.
Michael Byrd,
EUPOL's deputy sector chief,
we'll help you all we can.
How did you find me
so quickly?
You heard our slogan?
Minimum force...
Maximum knowledge, bullshit.
Maximum divorce
and minimum college.
This will make you one of us
for a week.
So you can skip
the border scanner.
Just make sure nothing comes
out with you.
We operate
a ruthless quarantine.
There are serious penalties.
So, this porno disc you found,
you think it's anything?
I don't know.
It seems worth checking.
You've been up here lately?
Not since you guys
took over.
Oh, come on.
It's not the best time
to... Get around,
but in one hour,
the food trucks
will be in the camps
and the crowd gets easier.
You like music?
Depends.
There is so much
piracy up here,
you can get whatever you want.
That's one
of the consolations.
Apart from that,
it can get so depressing.
But let me tell you,
if you think this is bad,
you should've seen
this place four years ago.
We didn't even dare to patrol,
except from a chopper.
They were thousands
deep by the border posts.
And the Russian Mafia were
people-smuggling like crazy.
The worry is, with this new
thing going on in the east,
we could be back
to that any day now.
(VIDEO GAME SOUNDS)
The guys who run these places,
they hate the pirates.
(MOBILE RINGING)
They might have something.
Hi, Fischer.
It's Anna Mamadoff.
I have the address where
she dropped the video discs.
They're expecting you.
You're an optimist, Fischer.
She said they'd talk to us.
Sure.
Start paying,
they'll give you anything.
Dior.
Johnnie Walker.
Rolex, whatever.
I'm telling you,
you're never gonna get
what's on that label.
Hello?
(STEAM HISSING)
(DISTANT DOG BARKING)
(METAL CLANGING)
(SIREN WAILING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
(DISTANT DOG BARKING)
I'm sorry, Fischer, but she's
probably part of a scam.
I've seen this thing
a hundred times.
Your source gives you
a useless address,
tells the people there
to get out,
then comes
cap in hand for the money.
I don't know where they go.
I don't know.
(MOBILE RINGING)
Excuse me.
Yeah?
Uh, nothing much.
Okay, I'll get over there.
Gotta go.
Okay, let's go!
So if we get anything,
it'll go straight to you,
all right?
Just a word of advice.
If you come across any Mafia,
you leave them to us.
The Russians are
the speciality of the house
and we have a pretty sensitive
network of informants.
All right?
And I'll play you some blues
the next time.
Okay, I may have started out
as a sucker,
but I'm not a complete fool.
Where are they?
Have you scared them off
or something?
This is a setup, isn't it?
No.
I swear they were here.
Sure, someone was.
And then what happens?
They share out the money
down the street?
I tell you,
this is the place.
Your girl
dropped off some discs
and then someone else
picked them up.
Shit.
Who lives here?
Some women and a child.
They wouldn't know
anything much anyway.
What scared them, then?
Nothing did.
(BOTTLES CLANGING)
(COCKING GUN)
Aah!
No!
Don't!
Come.
If it was a setup, why would
they leave in such a hurry?
(FIRE CRACKLING)
FISCHER: Is he all right now?
What was he doing there?
Why?
Do you want to arrest him?
I have to take him back
to the camp
and hope his mother turns up.
I thought you said the people
here don't know anything.
No, not much
from what they told me.
What do you think?
Could the killer have
come from here?
Are the Mafia routes
still open?
There a lot of rumours.
The Yellow Route,
the March Route,
all those funny names, but
it's just wishful thinking.
You push up and down.
You been in the camp long?
About four years.
Come on.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Came here with a friend,
might have got across.
As you know,
people come and then they go
and then you never hear
from them again.
Thanks to
your people's generosity,
most of us stay here
in this toilet.
Well, if you can find out
anything that's
actually useful,
I'll pay you double.
You sure you can spare
a few more crumbs
from your pie?
Yeah, I might even forgive you
for being in my toilet.
(CAR HORN HONKING)
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
(PHONE BEEPING)
Hi.
What you want?
Martell and ice.
Hello?
Cal?
Hello, darling.
It's Daddy.
I've been wanting
to talk to you so much.
I don't know yet.
How are you?
Me...
But I want to speak to her.
Please, please,
you have to let...
I know what I did, but you...
(HANGING UP TELEPHONE)
Czech, Russian,
Indian, Balinese.
What girl do you want?
Young?
Give me the bottle.
(CAR STARTING)
Not Martell.
WOMAN ON PA: ...reminded
of the quarantine laws
and that strict penalties
are enforced.
You are responsible for
what you bring into Germany,
so please check before
entering the scanner.
(THUMPING)
(THUMPING)
(THUNDER)
(THUMPING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
But you've broken quarantine.
I've got to get you back.
(SHOUTING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SCREAMING)
No, no, I didn't, I didn't!
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Okay.
Come out for a moment.
But you can't stay here.
(DISTANT DOG BARKING)
She doesn't understand a word
I'm saying.
(CAR BOOT CLOSING)
Yeah.
Welcome to Germany.
(PHONE RINGING)
Yeah?
What?
Yeah?
You did what?
Oh, God.
I promise you, Walter,
that's all.
Except her blouse
got a bit torn.
I'll have to take her in.
Yeah.
Oh, God, I'm sorry.
Yes, we chased her and she
must have hid in the boot.
Okay.
Well, I believe you.
Just.
But I'm sorry,
nobody else will,
and Heiger certainly won't.
We're off the case.
But...
But it's worse than that.
There are strict penalties,
even if people believed you.
Why didn't you check?
Why the hell didn't you check?
Okay, I know.
It's my fault.
Bye.
(PHONE BEEPING)
(DIALLING)
(TOILET FLUSHING)
Better?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(THUNDER CONTINUING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Yeah.
(SHOUTING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
Yeah, all right?
Here, take this.
It'll be all right.
Okay?
Here.
Sorry.
(CAR PASSING)
(SIGHING)
MAN: You're illegal.
You shouldn't be here.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
What is this?
A welfare cheque?
What am I gonna do with this?
It's all right.
What do you mean
it's all right?
What's happened?
I let her go.
Come on, Walter.
She got over,
she can't complain.
I'm sorry I called you up.
You look pretty rough.
What's happening?
Not much.
The newspapers got
hold of the writing
and that she was raped,
so it's the Crusades
all over again,
only this time
they're coming to get us.
One of the girls from
the hostel came back in.
There's nothing there
and I feel rough.
Someone's playing
computer games again.
They should just reform the
Stasi and get it over with.
Any ideas?
Sure, but I can never prove
any of them.
What about the files?
I can replace them from main.
It's just hours
of donkey work.
Well, you're not doing it.
I'll arrange some donkeys.
My name is Sienna Novakova,
and I stayed in a room
next door
to the girl who was killed.
MAN: Yeah.
I didn't know her well,
but sometimes she would
come in and we would talk.
When she was down, she used
to talk sort of crazy
and upset about this boy
she met in Poland.
She waited for,
he never came,
and I just sort of listened,
but there was one thing.
I didn't make
anything of it until
I saw the papers today,
but they were talking about
Muslims, and I remembered,
this person who never came...
Well, she kept
saying something
when she was drunk once
about how it was a secret,
but he'd gone to star.
MAN: To a star.
Yeah.
Wasn't worth repeating.
But then I thought, maybe
it was some Muslim thing.
I mean, the star.
Isn't that
an Islamic symbol?
FISCHER: What do you think?
WALTER: There's nothing there.
Except today's papers coming
back to haunt us.
Yes, there are stars
in the Quran,
but stars are far more
of a Christian symbol
than anything else.
On its own,
it gets you nowhere.
"Gone to a star."
Got three hours
and then the guy comes.
It cost me a lot of favours.
You better make it
worth my while.
If it's good enough, I will.
Tell me.
Double was the deal.
Yeah, yeah.
The women in the house
up there haven't been back.
Have the police heard
anything more?
No, why?
Your boy told me
why they were fighting.
Sure, the police sirens
or something.
It has to be better than that.
It is better than that.
I have a name. Someone
they were frightened of.
You told me the women didn't
know anything.
Was he to do with the discs?
Maybe.
Nazarov.
There's more.
Of course, I've seen him.
When?
When Youssef
got back to the camp,
a search went out
for his mother,
and that guy came around
searching for her.
Did you talk to him?
No.
But I saw him.
He wouldn't be my first choice
for a walk in the woods.
Now, that has to be
worth some more.
Let's go.
What do you mean?
I mean I'm taking you to look
at some pictures.
This guy could be the killer.
No, that was never the deal.
Are you kidding?
You're the first solid witness
I've come across
in this thing.
You think I'm just gonna
kiss you good-bye?
No, Fischer.
I gave you a name,
that's enough.
I've got
three hours to get back.
Fine, we'll call the border
police and run you back fast.
No, that's not fine.
You know the rules.
If you want to
show me some pictures,
then apply for a visa.
I can't wait.
Well, then bring them to me!
If this bracelet goes off,
they'll never let me in again.
I said we'll call them.
ANNA: No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Wait.
No.
No.
Because of what happened this
morning, it might take days.
Even then, we might well
not come up with anything.
ANNA: No.
No.
Concentrate.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Here.
ANNA: Have you called them?
Yes.
No extension, I told you,
Fischer, please.
Two more discs,
then we'll run you back.
I'm sorry, but you're all
we've got.
-Alex, she's only got
till 6:00.
-No.
I called them.
It won't make any difference.
You know the rules.
No.
If that bracelet
isn't back in time,
they'll never let her into
Germany again.
Maybe.
It could be.
Don't you have anything
better?
No, I haven't even
got our main file.
We're still restoring them.
Korasoff.
WALTER: And any other names
he uses might be here.
Nazarin...
Nazarov.
Donskoi.
-They're Russian.
-Donskoi...
Don, Don, just Don.
She met somebody called Don
in a hotel room.
Let's start
ringing the hotels.
You should tell Heiger.
Get everyone on to it.
You're such a shit!
I'm not gonna make it.
Of course you will.
Schuster's a demon driver,
and we're very grateful.
Here.
Go to hell.
A genius.
MAN: Donskoi.
D-O-N-S-K-O-I...
You shouldn't be doing
this, Alex.
If he's Russian,
we have to take it higher.
(OFFICE CHATTERING)
Fischer!
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(HORN BLARING)
WALTER:
Yeah?
Yeah, that's it, yeah.
Right.
Thank you.
My God, he's in his room.
(CHEERING)
(ALARM SOUNDING)
(ALARM CONTINUING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(ALARM CONTINUING)
(SOBBING)
(CAR HORN BLARING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
FISCHER: Once exits
are covered,
I only want
three teams inside.
The other two
watch stairs and elevator.
(CAR HORN BLARING)
(TYRES SCREECHING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Donskoi.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGING)
Move, move!
(WOMEN SCREAMING)
(SQUEAKING)
Look out!
Congratulations.
Aah!
You probably killed
our electrician.
Who the hell are you?
Special services division,
EUPOL.
Where's Donskoi?
He's not
in the country.
And we don't think
he'll be back.
What a load of crap.
We were told he was here.
Probably because the telephone
was busy.
Our electrician was wiring it.
There's no point in talking
to Donskoi anyway.
He's nothing to do
with your investigation.
What do you mean?
Who is he?
It doesn't matter who he is.
-What may matter is that
you've interfered...
-(MOBILE RINGING)
-...with our
intelligence-gathering network
and shot at one of
our operatives.
(MOBILE BEEPING)
Excuse me.
I think your superior
wants to talk to you.
PAUL: Fortunately,
the guy's okay.
If you'd have killed him,
all of us would probably have
been hanged.
It was the first
positive lead we had.
Lead? You call this a lead?
I mean, some Russian
who might, just might
have met your victim?
This is a lead?
Come on.
I mean, what motive
could the Russian Mafia
possibly have
for doing this, Alex?
I mean, please.
Even if they wanted the girl
dead, why do it this way, huh?
Why create all this hysteria
when it's their smugglers
who take the heat?
This case has already
created so much stink,
the money spent on stopping
illegal border crossing
will probably be doubled.
What could possibly be
in it for them?
I want to find out.
There's nothing
to find out.
EUPOL have an informer network
and they made it
painfully clear to me
that you're in danger
of compromising it.
Now get back.
Find me something real.
How long to get that file?
WALTER: Fortunately,
I can still log onto main,
even with half a wing.
Christ, Alex,
what happens when
they check the computer log?
Everyone in the building
will know.
So I called from the hotel.
I just haven't got around
to cancelling it.
Yeah, good, well,
I'll give your best
to the Becks committee.
Right.
Donskoi, age 32, born Riga.
Sounds about right.
Shootings.
Strangulations.
Jesus, this man's done a lot
of harm in his life,
and in Germany.
This is a Mafia hit man.
This goes way beyond
porno smuggling.
What's "dogman"?
WALTER: I don't know.
But this guy
apparently was one.
Some kind of criminal slang,
should be in the...
Yeah, a dogman.
"Term of abuse, originally
derived from the use of rape
"as an ethnic strategy by
Serbian guerillas
"during the Civil War
in former Yugoslavia,
"subsequently
adopted as Russian Mafia slang
"for a man prepared to rape
as part of his cover."
Here is a man who rapes
as part of his cover,
who took her to his hotel room
and is a class-one killer.
He has to be our man.
Why?
I don't know, but even I
can see a race murder
has definitely pluses for lots
of people.
And why are you, Paul,
on top of us so hard?
Come on, Alex, they got
their network to protect.
I know nobody liked the border
police coming in, Alex.
They're more popular
than we are.
They don't use force.
They saved our skins
back in '97.
They stopped them coming.
Paul, I want to go
and find him.
He's not the killer.
No? You explain it then.
Coincidence.
What?
I'm sorry.
Paul, give me a chance here.
I'm giving you a chance, Alex.
There's a new piece
of information,
came in about an hour ago.
Minister's releasing it
to the press this evening.
The murder has been claimed.
It's an extremist
Muslim group.
Who are they?
We haven't heard of them.
Just find them, Alex.
Now, please,
no questions.
Stay away from Russians.
And find them.
No, no.
You don't know
where she's gone?
But it was early?
And my daughter was with her?
All right.
Thank you.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
No, it's all right, I'm not
gonna hurt you, just relax.
(DOOR CLOSING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She's asking if I'm going
to take her back across.
I'm not, am I?
Ask her about the Russian.
(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
-She won't talk about it.
-She has to.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Her name is Nadia, came from
Azerbaijan to see her sister,
who works in a camp
on the strip.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
The boy's father
has gone ahead.
She doesn't know where he is.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Now she's not going
to answer any more questions
until she gets back
to see her son.
That must have been the boy
you found.
The dead girl,
Karen.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She met her a few times.
She dropped off the disc.
Someone came for her.
She doesn't know who.
FISCHER: Ask her if she knows
why Karen had these postcards.
(WALTER SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
What's the matter?
I don't know.
She says you mustn't touch
these things.
She said Karen died
because she touched them.
Why?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She doesn't know why.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Wait a minute, oh, God,
this is what was smuggled out.
What?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Karen smuggled the discs out
and these in.
They were paid
money by the Russians
to smuggle them out
of the strip.
He said it was a code,
something to do
with car smuggling.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
But they didn't believe him.
So what are they?
Who wrote them?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She's not going to talk
about it any more.
She wants to
see her son first.
I'm sorry, the guy must have
scared the shit out of them.
Tell her she has to answer
our questions.
(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
She has to.
(BOTH SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
WALTER: It's no good.
She won't unless you take
her back.
Then I'll have to
take her back.
Explain about the boot.
Last time,
she wouldn't go back in.
(WALTER SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
(NADIA SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE)
What is it, Walter?
She won't go
without me.
(CHUCKLING)
This shouldn't give the
satellites much of a picture.
Okay?
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(GATE OPENING)
You're official, yes?
Yes, we're police.
Mmm.
Well, just make sure to
help us catch some criminals.
There's a lot of them
out there.
So we hear.
Well, just go through
the small scaling tunnel.
These guys
could be here all night.
But we're in a hurry.
Sure.
You can go
as fast as you like.
It's switched off.
Look, there's no power
in here, stop worrying.
(DOOR WHIRRING)
Okay, okay, nearly there.
Oh, God.
Hey, if you keep on
working these hours,
I think I'll hire you
myself.
You could teach
my people a lesson.
We just wanted to take
another look around.
Yeah, that's good.
Well, I wish I could join you,
but I can't.
Pity.
Yeah, they just
called me in.
Wait until you see why.
Come on.
I have to talk to you
anyway.
On the way back.
We have a schedule to keep.
Well, I won't keep you.
Leave the key in.
Come on,
won't take a moment.
So what do you think?
Nearly had 30 corpses
on our hands.
Why?
Why? Because some Czech
had this brilliant idea
of bringing them through
in a refrigeration truck...
(CHUCKLING)
With the freezer turned on.
Yeah, it said
the scanner would
think they were dead meat.
They would have been
if we hadn't found them.
Sometimes, I hate this job.
And it's going to get worse
if the Poles don't
do something
about the borders, quick.
(MUSIC PLAYING)
You know this one?
I found it in one
of the reaper shops.
Good quality for a change.
♪ I'm right
to trust my baby ♪
MALE SINGER:
♪ She always look out for me ♪
(MAN SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
So any sign of the women
from the house, anything?
(SIGHING)
Oh, I... (CHUCKLING)
I hear you had to look
for a Russian.
Huh?
Yes, we...
We didn't get to him.
Those guys
are slippery as eels.
You should leave them to us.
Remember?
Yeah.
It's about now,
we got all this heavy traffic
from the port.
It's a funny thing,
isn't it?
We sell these people
any product under the sun
except the one
they really want.
Travel.
(PHONE RINGING)
I'm sorry,
you have your schedule.
You better get back
to the car.
Yeah, hello?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Is this your car?
We just have to check it.
We've been through already.
It's just a formality.
We check if they're
unattended, you don't mind.
Like I say,
we're in a hurry.
Look, we've been cleared.
That's enough,
for God's sake.
They have clearance.
Next time we'll have
a beer, okay?
Yeah, great.
(CLUB MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOGS BARKING)
What's going on?
Oh, Christ.
WALTER: Look, maybe she
got out on the street.
Slipped the catch.
It's crowded enough.
FISCHER: Come on, Walter.
We've been through it,
and we both know you can't
unlock a boot from the inside.
WALTER: Okay, she got out
at the start
and she slipped
behind the lorry.
Alex, there has to be
an ordinary explanation,
because if they had found her,
they'd never let it go.
No, they wouldn't.
(ALL CLAMOURING)
Morning.
Walter in yet?
No, had to go to some meeting.
Um, I don't know.
Did you speak
to the border people?
No.
Something's happened.
They want you up there
at once.
(PHONE RINGING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Hey, Fischer!
Hi, how you doing?
Hi.
Diconal.
What?
Diconal, one of
the most popular drugs
we have out here.
(SNIFFLING)
Overdose.
She's been dead eight,
nine hours.
You recognise her.
It's that woman we chased
outside that house.
You remember?
We don't know how the hell
she ended up here,
but you know,
she's within a mile
of the fence,
which makes it my problem.
Maybe she was dumped
on the road somewhere
and she made it here.
We're running
the satellite pictures now.
Think you might have
something?
Not if a car backed up
to the house,
you know, took her
from the trunk into the house.
Wouldn't have
picked that up.
What do you think?
You think she was
in a trunk?
How should I know?
What do you know,
Fischer?
What?
Well, that's why I called you.
You saw anything last night?
Your people would see
far more than I could.
Yeah.
Yeah, I doubt there's any
connection to your case.
But we're never going to hear
her story, are we?
All right,
get her out of here!
Do you want to stretch your
legs before you go back?
Sure.
There's quite a view
up here.
Gingerbread houses,
we used to call them.
Some mad Frenchman's
idea years ago.
Stuff 'em full of food
and drinks
and illegals would be
there like flies.
That was the theory,
at least.
Never worked.
No one ever went near them.
The first time I got here,
I just couldn't believe it.
You know, as soon
as we intercepted one route,
the Mafia came up
with another.
So what did you do?
Made some deals.
I don't know half of them,
I don't want to
know them, either.
But we managed to infiltrate,
made some arrests.
(SIGHING)
You can almost think Europe
goes on forever from here.
Then you turn around,
what do you see?
You know my favourite
European cities?
The backwaters.
I hear your daughter
was in, um, Belfort?
So where have they gone now?
How'd you know that?
Maximum knowledge.
I just know you've been
trying to keep in touch,
get her back.
I don't blame you, Fischer.
It's got to be real tough
losing her like that.
Anyone can trip up.
How the hell do you know
she was in Belfort?
Well, I think you'd have
a case, at least for access.
I don't see
how she can deny you that
just because
of what happened.
What's it got
to do with you?
As long as you didn't get into
anything similar again.
As far as I know,
I haven't.
That's fine.
Fine.
Well, I just hope you get
this Muslim group.
As for the future,
remember to stay on
your side of the fence.
Keep away from
the Russians and
the rest of the crap up here.
I don't think
there is a group.
What?
I think
it's something else.
I don't get it.
Is it guilt talking?
Did you have her this time,
Fischer?
What did you say?
The Muslim girl.
I think you had her,
and now you're spreading
-all this stupid guilt
around here.
-(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
You know, we haven't
done the forensics yet.
What happened to her?
I can't keep helping you
all the time, Fischer!
You know, I don't
even have to do this!
I don't even know
why I'm doing it!
I think we don't
see each other again!
Trust your baby!
What happened
to the Muslim girl?
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Alex, what are you doing?
I did not dump her.
Well, it doesn't matter
if I believe you.
'Cause of where she was found,
the murder charge
is up to them, not to me.
And they are definitely
gonna charge you.
Her prints have turned up
all over your house.
Yes, but she disappeared.
Something is going on, Paul.
Disappeared?
You know no one's
going to buy that.
You said the murder would
double the border budget.
You said it.
And what if some of the money
is going straight
to the Russian Mafia?
Maybe that's
all the network is.
What if all they've been
doing all these years
is buying the bad guys off?
Is that how they
stop them coming?
Look... Not that stuff.
I tried to warn you, Alex.
I kept warning you.
I felt my chain jerking.
(SIGHING)
That's the only reason
I was on this thing,
wasn't it?
Everyone was so frantic,
you needed someone
from the graveyard
you could manage.
Look.
Once you've given this
any thought,
you're gonna want
to come in on your own.
Now, I'm gonna give you
two hours.
Talk to a decent lawyer
and then come in,
and as for this...
I never saw you,
all right?
Look at me.
I'm closing my eyes.
(DOG BARKING)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
It's probably
gonna rain now.
Have they talked to you?
No, they're pretty much
leaving me alone.
Yeah, I thought they might.
Now, Walter, we've got to get
this thing together.
We both knew this woman and
heard what she said, right?
What's this?
Becks?
Let me see.
"Your national status
is not founded."
What does this mean?
It means they're probably
gonna throw me out.
My citizenship's been revoked.
What?
Yeah.
Turns out my father
cheated a little
on the dates of the marriage
papers all those years ago.
Now it's a big issue
in this country.
Yeah, I know it is,
but you, I...
No. Come on.
It's been on
my horizon so long,
we never even saw it coming.
All those hours of committees
we used to sit through.
They even used to ask me if
I suffered racial harassment.
In the end, it all came down
to a fishing expedition.
They don't know yet.
I can fight it.
But if I went to jail, they'd
fling them out on their own.
I can't help you.
I'm just praying
the border people
won't start
asking questions.
I don't think
they'll bother.
Who'd want to hear
your story?
You have to find the child.
The murderer came looking
for his mother.
He's the link.
I'm sorry, Alex.
But you got a good record.
I mean, you can fight.
Hey, just make sure you're
here when I get back,
all right?
FEMALE VOICE: You are now
clear to proceed.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
FISCHER: Anna! Anna!
I have to see the boy.
You said you had news
about his mother.
How long does the dye last?
A few months.
Which is nothing
compared to how long
it will stay in my file.
Now, tell me...
First you tell me
where the boy is.
I can take you to him,
but he doesn't know anything.
Where is his mother?
She's dead.
Diconal overdose.
(WHIMPERING)
What's the matter?
Was she your friend?
Listen, I'll tell you
everything.
But you've got to help me.
I think we've got about
two minutes.
By a hut just the other side
of the border.
They said it was an overdose,
but that's where
they found her.
I hadn't seen her since
the previous night.
What are you holding back?
Why are you scared
of the police?
They set me up.
They're saying I killed her.
Did you?
What do you think?
Of course I didn't.
Where are we?
Where you deserve.
Welcome to hell.
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
(MAN SHOUTING)
You want to eat?
You're gonna have to run.
(WHISTLING)
(GRUNTING)
(ISLAMIC CALL TO PRAYER
ON P.A. SYSTEM)
(CHILDREN SHOUTING)
Hey!
Hey!
Wait, come here!
(TRUCK HORN BLARING)
Leave him alone.
You have to let me
speak to him.
I don't have to do
anything for you!
Anna!
Anna!
Hey!
I don't want anything
from you.
But a woman has been killed,
probably just because
she talked to me.
Now, don't you think
we ought to find out why?
Yes, I do, but he
doesn't know anything.
She was my sister.
My sister,
do you understand?
Your sister?
I hadn't seen her
for so long.
I ran away when I was 15 with
a stupid man that dumped me.
Now she turned up again.
She was living
in that house.
Great, isn't it?
I set it all up.
And then you came and took
really good care of her.
Was she fun?
(SCOFFS)
I didn't touch her.
No?
You dumped her on the road.
Yes, but I never
touched her.
Your name was on the computer
this morning.
It said you abducted her
on the strip.
You know that I couldn't
have abducted her.
You saw me go that night.
You could have
picked her up anywhere.
Why shouldn't you?
You have the history.
No, I didn't.
I didn't, I swear.
Don't you think
I've been over it and over it?
I know something
is going on.
I saw the Russian.
I know they force overdoses,
but why her?
Back there,
they called us Turks.
I may be a Muslim,
but I don't go
to the mosque and I...
I drink vodka.
But they say
we are plotting
and we had to
sign over our house.
My brother-in-law
at the wedding says,
"Sign it to me, you are
going to get it anyway."
Who are they?
The night gang.
They run the place
because nobody else wants to.
Drugs and weapons
and all that.
You have family?
Yes.
Don't see them.
Hmm.
I'm the same.
I think my brother got over
long ago while we rot here.
But in those times,
with 1,000 Deutschmarks,
you were a king.
1,000?
Sure.
People go to Germany for that.
Not now.
Mmm.
Now, you need
three or four.
Yes, if you have the cash.
They are not all closed.
Some of the routes out
are still open,
we are sure, but people
don't like to talk about it.
Which ones?
Mm. Not sure.
Yellow.
Star or Christmas.
EUPOL don't bother
up north like they do here.
There are only a few sensors
on that border, and no fence.
Not any satellites, even.
But there are
enough here, routes,
start further in the east,
Lublin, let's say,
or the Ukrainian border,
and then you go right
through Poland to Germany.
Star.
Yeah.
I heard there's
a way across from the east,
if you got money.
Part of Poland,
there's not so much fences.
Details change.
Nobody talks about it.
Especially not to policemen.
But the Danish girl said it.
"Gone to a star."
And no one knew what
she was talking about.
Yeah.
I think this is it.
I think it's what they've
been trying to cover up.
It's out there in the east.
-Why would they bother?
-Well, perhaps
the border police
have been turning a blind eye,
sharing the profit.
It might be
the safety valve...
Why this place worked.
If I could prove that...
Look, Anna, tell me,
no one gives a shit
who heads east from here,
do they?
No, they don't.
Why do you think
I tried to save money?
I heard that Youssef's father
was in Germany.
If we had got in,
we would have done it.
You don't have to save.
I cleared my bank account.
I can't do this alone.
And Wojkiech...
After all he told you.
And if we get caught?
If we get caught,
you get sent back,
and I go to jail.
So she won't let you
speak to your daughter?
No.
If we make it,
I'm gonna find her
and go through it
again face to face.
She has to let me see her.
(CROWD CHATTERING)
How much longer
can they hold on here?
It gets even worse
further east.
He's found someone.
(BABY CRYING)
Are you sure sure this
is a smuggler's hotel?
This is the main one.
The trash
of Eastern Europe.
Stinks, doesn't it?
At least the camp
was in the open air.
(SIGHING)
Well, it does.
Bet a part of you still think
of us like that, don't you?
Just as more shit
that has to be shovelled.
Come on, Anna, I can't
face the remedial lecture
on racism right now,
thank you.
Oh, no?
You still haven't got it?
No wonder Youssef isn't really
getting used to you.
(BELL DINGING)
Come on.
(BABY CRYING, DOG BARKING)
(SNIFFLING)
You miss your mother?
(MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHUCKLING)
Good.
(BELL TOLLING)
Hello.
You want a service?
Yes, I look for
a travel service.
Germany?
I route sometimes.
I am not one
of the main couriers.
For how many?
There are four.
One child.
You don't look right to me.
(SLAMS SHOT GLASS DOWN)
That's much better.
How do you feel?
Like shit,
if you really want to know.
Good.
We have luck.
Upstairs, second floor.
MAN: This place...
Oh, it's temporary,
like everything
in this shithole,
but we use it
for the moment.
Some party boss
kept his women here.
He used to like saying
he was on top of history.
Now, where are we?
You don't want some makeup
while you are here
or adult games?
Or... Here.
This is the main German route
through Poland.
Star route.
Yes.
The precise route
can change, of course,
but it's operated
by the same people.
First used Christmas 1996,
when they shut down
the general route, I think.
Many, many people,
very safe.
From here, two days,
two nights.
Of course,
we charge accordingly.
4,000 Deutschmark
or equivalent per head.
Is it the tunnels
we hear so much of?
(CHUCKLING) Or the planes
or the bribed guards?
Rumours are everywhere,
aren't they?
I tell you,
I have no idea.
Everything
is separate here.
That's the way we do it.
But these are some
of the main couriers,
and it works perfectly because
we always have verification
from our people in Germany.
Here, it's more difficult.
Sunflower or Warrior
aren't so good.
Sometimes problems I hear.
But a little cheaper.
We don't charge you so much.
(PHONE RINGING)
Sunrise is closed now,
but there are others,
also cheaper.
Look.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
You will be in a group
of at least 10,
and we have one small
but civilised rule,
though I don't generally
have to underline it.
We don't allow guns.
You will be searched.
We don't want
any troubles.
So which one you like?
I think we go
first class.
Again.
(LAUGHING)
Not under my shirt.
Let's try it like this.
You really do smell
like shit.
(HORN BLARING)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
MAN: No, he's dead now.
But he was the best
of all of them.
Better than Pet Shop Boys
or any others.
When I was small,
my brother had this cassette
and I would hear it,
go and sleep.
Do you remember him?
Joe Tex.
No.
So you think we can do it?
Get into Germany?
If others do it, why not us?
Yes, I say that, too.
We'll do it.
(MAN SPEAKING
OTHER LANGUAGE ON P.A.)
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
This is for tonight
and for tomorrow morning.
Nearly there, love.
Yeah.
(SINGING IN OTHER LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(LAUGHING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
He says tomorrow, Germany.
Oh, that's great.
(WHISPERING)
Happy Easter.
(WHISPERING)
Is it Sunday?
They say we are
very near now.
Once they are ready,
we set out for Germany.
What was this place?
Who built it?
Communists.
Recreation centres
for families of workers.
Now, no workers.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(CLAPPING)
Attention, please.
Here.
Give the pens, uh,
around the table, hmm?
It's okay.
Well...
(SIGHING)
It's just only
a short walk from here
and we always
provide postcards,
so you can let your loved ones
know you have arrived.
We'll be soon collecting them.
But don't say
where you are, of course,
or it would give us away.
How many people
come through a day?
Oh, this is not the only
reception centre
and there are several routes,
so dozens.
We are very successful,
you know?
I'm sorry for
all this searching,
but as you know,
the Germans can pick up guns
on their scanners, so...
Okay.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
Those were the cards you saw.
Mm-hmm.
Because, some days ago,
one came from
Youssef's father.
It's okay.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Okay.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
He says,
there's the famous tunnel.
It's not very long and...
They are waiting with
the cars on the other side.
I don't go in cave.
I hate dark.
If you prefer, you can
go along the other side,
but it is harder work.
This is short,
about 10 minutes only
and there are lights, but
some people don't like caves.
I can take you either way.
It is up to you.
It's all right.
Short it's better, right?
I also hate to lose the sun.
I'm a gardener.
But if it's quicker.
Okay, come on.
It won't take long.
Just follow the light.
ANNA: Youssef.
Stay close.
Oh, that stinks!
Oh.
There is a sewer.
I'm sorry, but we are
out soon, come on.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(COUGHING)
It's very slippery here, you
know, and the light is poor.
Here is the rope.
Hold the rope.
Please, hold the rope,
everybody.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
He says the rope
is biting his fingers.
Let go of the cable!
(BUZZER BLARING)
(SCREAMING)
Stay down! Youssef!
(AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE)
ANNA: Youssef!
(BUZZER STOPS)
(WHIMPERING)
(SCREAMING)
Stop.
Take everyone back.
There may be more of them.
Let's see if there's a way
through.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(ANNA GASPING)
(SOBBING)
People could be coming
to clean up here any moment.
Tell them we're still
miles from Germany
on a killing ground.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
FISCHER: I'm sure we must have
crossed the border.
Should be a road.
Where is it?
(HELICOPTER APPROACHING)
Helicopter!
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
FISCHER: Okay.
We triggered an alarm!
We are over!
ANNA: If EUPOL
know about the killing,
why don't they stop it?
Because by the time
they found out,
they'd paid the Mafia
huge sums to close the routes
and stop smuggling people
across, and it worked!
The refugees stopped coming.
Then someone found out
about the genocide.
And just looked the other way.
All right.
(HORN HONKING)
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)
(HORN HONKING)
We've done it!
(CHEERING)
Anna!
We are here!
Hey!
Stop!
Why don't they stop?
They're scared.
They think we'll murder them.
(HORN HONKING)
Hey!
Stop!
But they can see
that we have children!
(HORNS HONKING,
TYRES SQUEALING)
Jesus, Anna,
what are you doing?
They're not gonna stop!
Yes, they will.
They can see us.
They're not blind.
They can see us,
so they will stop.