All language subtitles for Counterpart S02E06

Do you get used to that, too?
Taking orders from a camera?

Not yet.

Management trusts
you will come to them

the moment you have something.

Of course.

You have the case?

Yes.

There's someone else at Echo?

Someone important?

These were my friends once.

We had come of age
behind the Wall,

only to discover
the existence of two worlds.

May I tell you a secret?

Something just for you.

I am the reason
our two worlds exist.

It's a Minox C.

Most popular camera
in the city these days.

You have five rolls,
36 exposures each.

Keep it somewhere safe
and out of sight.

Needless to say,
if you get caught with it,

you're on your own.

Will we cross in the city?

No. We're getting you out
through Heiligensee.

It's a Trabi
with a false floor in back.

Your son and daughter inside,
you and your wife up front.

I never thought
it would be this way.

Think about your son's safety.

You're doing the right thing.

My father died in the camps
for a democratic republic.

You didn't fail him, Yanek.

Honecker failed him.

The whole institution
failed him.

Yes.

The experiment was perfect.

It was corrupted
by our pettiness.

24 hours.

Bring us details
of the synchotron,

heat output, collated angles
and trajectories.

This time next month,

you and your family'll be
watching American baseball.

♪ There's no reason to hurry

♪ Just start the brand-new
story, set it alight ♪

Aren't you ever sick
of that song?

Alphaville's the best.

Turn it down.

You turn it down.

Mira,

turn your music down.

♪ To once-forbidden place... ♪

They've given me a camera.

When does it happen?

Soon.

Take your medication.

Makes me dizzy before I eat.

Well, eat some Filinchen.

No, I'm sick of Filinchen.

Mmm. I love crispy bread.

You would.

None of this crap here
has any flavor.

Herr Hauser says only fascists
complain about flavor.

Hauser's a Stasi stooge.

What? It isn't true?

Don't speak
against our comrades.

It's unpatriotic.

He made a report
about Frau Stein.

- Did you know that?
- And what business

is that of yours?

Do you even know how to shit
without the party telling you?

- What did you say?
- It's all right.

You have no idea the sacrifices
your father makes

to keep you out of trouble.

Those antisocial friends
you run around with.

At least they believe
in something.

Please hurry up.
We're gonna be late.

- Is that right?
- Yeah.

...so I had to go
to the store after work.

I finally get inside,
and I look around.

There's nothing left.

Nothing but pickles.

So I ask the store manager
and he says,

"Why do we need happiness
when we have so many pickles?"

I've madesome changes

to the X-ray splitter.

Should get rid
of that nasty bug.

- Please recalibrate it.
- That'll take me all day.

And?

Okay, time to go.

- See you tomorrow.
- Bye!

Tomorrow.

Hello?

Is someone there?

Who is it?

I used to bring you here.

Wasn't me you brought.

Wasn't here you brought her.

This is where you live now?

I move around a lot.

Why?

Because I'm being hunted.

This is who my daughter
has become?

I'm not your daughter.

I made you into this.

Don't talk about me like
I'm your fucking experiment.

- You were never any such thing to me.
- Yes, I was.

I've read all about it.

Right here.

Where did you find this?

Your world.

Wasn't hard to acquire.

I have people there--

An army--

Inspired by your words,

your feelings,

your deepest confessions.

What do you want from me?

Rest.

We have a lot to discuss.

Maybe we should have run.

That would have been
the smarter thing.

But we were scientists

and experimentalists.

We were, above all things...

curious.

Who are you?

Speak.

Did I create you?

Because I left my post.

Ran the program
so I could be upstairs.

I created you.

Nonsense.

- I left my post.
- No, you didn't.

Why are you imitating
the words I say?

Would you like
to come over and talk?

Something must have happened

when the particles divided
and went into superposition.

A quantum mechanical
entanglement.

I'll have to see if anything's
left back there to analyze.

Tell me what I'm thinking.

My eyes are too close together.

My nose?

Too large. My father's nose.

We're the same.

Identical.

A world for you...

and a world for me?

And what do we do now?

That was when we knew

leaving the East
was no longer an option.

Tell me you're fucking
with me. Seriously?

I-I just need a few more weeks.

Yanek...

do you realize for one moment

how hard it is
to secure an exfil

with eyes on you
and your family?

Your son was photographed
the other day at Zionskirche

handing out subversive leaflets.

Treason against the state.
This is not the time

- for cold feet.
- It's not cold feet.

Then what the hell has changed?

I just need more time.

In 72 hours, that car is gone.

If you and your family
aren't there...

there will not be another.

Just think
about what you're doing.

Do you really want to be
at the mercy of your comrades?

With the synchrotron down,

everyone understood the lab
would be closed for repairs.

Those lifeless drones were glad
for the time off.

They would take long lunches,
go home to their families,

and inside those walls,

our study would begin.

Look at that.

I'm still getting
a lot of radiation.

We resolved to keep journals.

Like humble socialists
who had found themselves

the subjects of their own
exhaustive study.

Even the smallest imperfections
were shared between us.

- I have this chip, too.
- Yes, right here.

- It's on this one, right?
- Right. That's right.

Whatever process had created us,

it was meticulous.

We were identical.

And likewise,

so were our worlds.

...in the Battle of Berlin...

They've doubled
in number lately.

They're exploring
each other's territory.

Yes, I think so.

I've been thinking
about something.

If it's all right,
I'd like to see your world.

I'd like to see yours, too.

It was like walking through

a perfect reproduction.

It was a miracle.

His world was impossible
to differentiate,

down to the most minute detail.

And that was the problem.

It was exactly the same.

If this experiment were
to have any impact,

something drastic
had to be done.

For Mira. She loves this music.

I wanted to see if you would
make the same choice.

What are you doing?

You give your daughter
your gift.

I'll give nothing to mine.

Make our worlds different.

Manufacture a control and chaos.

I think you're right.

And so it was decided.

From that point on,
there was no going back.

Mommy, come on,
I want to go home.

With one simple adjustment,

we would set our worlds on two
irreversibly different paths.

- Hello, Mira.
- Hello.

I have something for you.

Hello.

I think you're going to like it.

Hi.

- Did you have a good day?
- Mm-hmm.

- You like this band, right?
- I love it.

- Thank you.
- Oh.

Yeah. I love you.

If only we'd known

the impact we were about
to make.

How long have I been asleep?

A few hours.

Thought I'd let you rest.

What is that?

Belongs to your friends
in Management.

They use it to communicate
in each world.

They never meet in person.

Not since what you did.

It's war, now.

- And you are part of it?
- No.

But you and I,
we are going to end it.

I've been planting soldiers
in their world for years.

A few weeks ago,
we got their attention,

and now, I need
for your friends to meet.

Why?

So they can do what
they should have done

many years ago.

End this experiment forever.

Ah, you're so annoying.

Yanek.

Did something happen
to the arrangement?

Let's not talk about this now.

Last week you said next week.

Every day, another excuse.

Our departure has been delayed.

- For how long?
- I don't know yet.

What happened?

What will we do?

I can't be bothered by this now.

What is this?

I don't like how
you've been acting.

How have I been acting, Isabell?

I don't know, not yourself.

And how is myself?

Unhappy?

Because for years
I've had no purpose.

Just a loyalist
to a dying system.

Now that I have purpose again,
you don't like me.

What purpose?

What are you talking about?

I have to go.

I couldn't be bothered
by such things.

Not when our endeavor
was beginning to grow.

This building housed
an experimental synchrotron,

used various light sources
to divide particles.

Until recently, that is.

Now the whole experiment's
changed.

What happened
to all your assistants?

Yanek has probably
scared them off.

They've been given furlough.

My work has grown more...

sensitive lately.

That's what I wanted you to see.

Such a pleasure to meet you.

All of you we've chosen

because of your discipline.

Martin, economics.
Juma, immunology.

Ilse, environmental science.

And Volker, human behavior.

What we are presented with

is an opportunity

unique in the history
of our species.

There will, of course, be terms.

First, the secret
comes before our lives.

We must protect it from getting
in the wrong hands.

Second, none of us may meddle
in the lives of our echo.

We are not our other.

Our other is not us.

We must remain discreet
to ourselves.

It's a living petri dish.

We can study the baseline
of human psychology.

Yanek... are you sure
this is a good idea?

We're talking about

a parallel universe that,
for all we know,

was never meant to be detected.

I think the opportunities
outweigh the risks.

If we do this,
it must be unanimous.

There can't be
a single one of us left out.

I know you want this.

And do you know how?

Because I want this, too.

We all want this, don't we?

On behalf of our world,

it'll be an honor

to work with you.

Okay,
we're ready. Just press it.

Okay, come on.
Okay, quick, quick.

Ready?

We had come together

in the benevolent spirit
of human science.

Using Martin's connections
at the university,

we were able
to persuade the state

to close off the building
to all prying eyes.

Our experiment
grew exponentially

over those months.

The advent
of microscopic adjustments

in our biology,
history, environment.

Impacted by an adaptive delta
we could only begin to grasp.

It was thrilling.

- Good morning.
- How are you?

- Here you go.
- Thank you.

Your plant is right here.

There were no longer
limits to our discipline.

We could study anything.

We could pluck
botanical specimens

from the same garden
in two worlds,

and then we could build
entirely new ecosystems

from the best surviving samples.

Not to mention psychology,
branches of human behavior,

the study of world events
on a granular level.

It was a time of discovery

unlike anything since the dawn
of the New World.

You always touch it like that.

You might contaminate
the sample.

Stop being so self-critical.

We were friends.

Brothers and sisters
for a common good.

And then...

What time is it?

Open the door.

Dr. Tomes?

Yes?

Is your son home?

Please, please,
there's a misunderstanding.

I've done nothing wrong.

It's better if you don't speak.

Our son is innocent,
listen to him.

- He's-he's done nothing.
- Really?

Maybe this is not
his literature?

Maybe it's yours.

Or your daughter's.

But I doubt that,

because none of you
were photographed

at Zionskirche as recently

as two days ago.

Isabell!

You've brought such shame
to this family.

Isabell, please...

♪ I'll be just a step away

♪ Now far away ♪

Who do you think you are?

Coming to my home?

Do you even know who I am?

- Take him out of here.
- Get off of me!

- Please, you're hurting him!
- I have j...

I have just been given
a university grant.

Important work is being done

on behalf of the party
and the people.

Not by your son.

♪ There's an ally
you can trust ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

I'd think you'd be appalled

to learn of his transgression.

I know Herr Ruben in the party.

I'm going to call him
immediately.

I'm sure your son will cooperate

and he'll be returned
in no time.

We are good socialists!
This is not right!

All this depends
on whether he names

any of his cohorts.

I have never been so insulted
in all my life!

♪ He sends
his universal angels ♪

And given your party loyalty

over the years,
I think you'd be...

- Isabell, please...
- Don't you dare speak to me.

Not you. Not anymore.

Mama?

Mira, go back to bed.

- Mama, look at Rainer!
- What? What happened?

No! He's epileptic!

He can't breathe!

Move out of the way!

Call an ambulance!

Where's his medication?

- It's okay, it's okay...
- Where is it?

I can't find it!

Just come and help, okay?
It's bad.

It's okay...
Come help. Just come.

- It's all going to be okay.
- Okay...

It's okay...

- Come on. It's okay...
- We need an ambulance.

A young man.
He's having a seizure.

Please, breathe.

Breathe. Come on, breathe.

- Rainer...
- Breathe.

- Rainer...
- Rainer.

Rainer!

Rainer!

He should have been in the West.

I'm sorry.

It was too late.

You murdered our son.

Yanek? Is everything all right?

What's wrong?

They came to you also.

I'm calling Comrade Rubin.

They won't be able
to hold him for long.

Your son is still alive.

Mira w-was the only one
who noticed, but...

...she heard us too late.

There were now two worlds.

In mine, there was
nothing but grief.

In his, the son I'd lost.

I don't know.

So why we can't buy something...

You can eat apples.

- I got apples. From Mrs. Kusner.
- Really?

- Apples?
- Hey. Mm-hmm.

Can we buy some apple juice?

Maybe. Yeah.

How was your day?

- Good. How was yours?
- Mmm.

Let's go to sleep.

Mira.

Did you speak to Comrade Rubin?

Rainer was released.

Terrified.

Said he would stop
associating with those friends.

Isabell must be pleased.

Yanek, I've been thinking.

You haven't really lost him.

There are things we could share.

My son is dead.

A great defense!

Following the historic decision

made by the GDR just

a few hours ago,
the borders of East Germany

have been opened.

Citizens from both sides

have gathered along the Wall

that has divided Berlin
for 28 years.

Thousands of East Berliners
have already

crossed the border tonight.

According to the records,

the Fourth Floor was abandoned
years ago.

Come.

I want to show you something.

Martin wants to meet us
on the Fourth Floor.

Are you coming?

I'm just going to finish up.

Used to be a dining room.

Earliest days of the DDR.

A power center.

Martin, what are we doing here?

I've been thinking...

with the Wall down,
maybe it's time we expanded.

Carefully, of course.

What for, exactly?

Research. Staff. Security.

A new institute for the study
of this interchange.

There's too many people.

The secret would get out.

He's right.

But what if we separated
the floors?

Each a different level
of clearance.

They could study the secret

without knowing
what they're studying.

And this floor would be
ours alone.

We could fill the halls
with our research.

Yanek?

Hey. You're home early.

Yeah.

Hello, Papa. A surprise.

What's wrong?

I'm just... happy to see you.

Hey.

Why are you home so early?

My son.

Yeah? So?

Okay, Dad.

No hug for me?

On that day I betrayed myself.

And I knew I would do it again.

Yes, sir.

Where is Yanek?

I haven't seen him.

Hey, guys, guys, guys, guys.
Please, please. Stop. Stop.

If this disconnects,
we're set back six months.

We must be gentle with it.

Now let's do this slowly.

What has come over you
these days?

It was a compulsion
impossible to resist.

To awake every day
in the cold prison of my world,

and to flee it
for the warm embrace of his.

How could I have been
so foolish...

to assume it was just me?

That was fast.

Hmm?

Did you forget what you were
going back for?

Going back?

You said you forgot something
at the office.

...and my other me
when I told that joke.

Yes, there was
some irregularity.

At the cellular level.

One system collides
with the other,

the environment changes, yes?

Which means our immune systems
must be growing apart.

Eh, it's too early to say that.

It could be herd immunity.

Some small variation
on a microcellular level.

But our immunities do vary now.

What are you asking me?

Do you think it's possible...

Two worlds.

Twice the resources.

If one world were to find itself
at a disadvantage,

it would be inevitable that this
world would look to the other

to better itself
at the other's expense.

- No...
- It's instinctive.

Marx. The species-being.

Our needs and drives
were emancipated

by the collective good.

Who cares about
the collective good?

The East is fucking dead now.

What I'm saying is,

the animalistic instincts
have won out.

One side will always be tempted

to eradicate the other.

Yanek...

If our immunologies
have grown different,

there could be a strain
to affect them and not us.

You're talking about a weapon.

An insurance.

For peace.

Listen to yourself.

A biological weapon of...

It would never be used.

Could never be used.

Just a precaution.

Then why would we need
such a thing?

Because if we're having
this conversation...

who's to say
they aren't having it, too?

I'm going home. You coming?

Might as well.

- Good night.
- Good night.

I should be going also.

- Oh. Guten Abend.
- Guten Abend.

Guten Abend.

Hello?

Anyone home?

Mira said she'd be with friends.

Rainer, too.

Isabell has a class
at the university.

I thought it might be
a good opportunity to speak.

It's nice.

Your home.

Thank you.

Mine's so empty.

You should spend
more time there.

I don't think they've missed me.

Should I not have been
concerned?

About your neglect?

For Mira? For Isabell?

How could I not want to look
after our family?

Our family?

They're my blood, too.

And you've abandoned them.

Do you think
you're better than me?

You're not well, comrade.

Don't call me that.

There are no comrades anymore.

It was your idea.

That first tape.

I wonder if you knew, not giving
it to her, what it would mean.

Don't be ridiculous.

You wanted to be
different from me, hmm?

- You didn't like what you saw.
- Of course not.

That's the whole point.

The only difference between us

is such a stupid,
arbitrary thing.

You experimented on me, and now
you're meddling with my life.

Hmm.

I found this lying around.

Do you think I couldn't
smell you between my sheets?

I offered her to you.

You didn't have to be secretive.

Out of pity?

We don't possess this matter.

We share it.

Stop it
with the fucking platitudes!

Do you think I don't know
what you are doing?

Your moral superiority,

how it feels to offer me scraps
while you move into my life?

Rainer's death
was a tragedy, but

you're letting it destroy you.

Can you see that?

We were friends before.

And now you're being defeated
by these base,

animal instincts, and I don't
know how to help you anymore.

Don't look at me
with this superiority.

I know your innermost thoughts.

Did it arouse you

to give her away?

Like it aroused me to have her?

That's enough.

Stop denying what you are.

I know what you are,
you son of a bitch.

You were empty,
you had nothing to cling to,

and you found purpose.

You found it in me!

- I want you out of my home.
- It's my home, too.

Isn't that what you said?

I want you out! Out!

Oh!

I am sorry.

Yanek, don't.

No! Wait!

Papa?

What's going on?

What is this?

- Mira...
- Get away from me.

Mira, wait. Mira?

Get away! Help!

Somebody help!

Hello?

Is someone there?

Yanek?

What's happened?

The police are at his house.

His daughter--

She saw everything.

He was wrong.

We've both fallen.

He gave into it, same as me.

Stop it, Yanek!

Goddamn you, shut up!

You've ruined everything.

The experiment has failed.

Don't you see?

What happened to me
will happen to all of us.

We can't remain
like this anymore.

One will destroy the other.

It's inevitable.

You're wrong, Yanek.

We just need
to restore the trust,

which is why
this has to be done.

What is this?

You're being given
to their world as a prisoner.

It's the only way
to keep the Crossing open.

Take him, fast.

Volker, please.

- Please, Ilse.
- Please don't speak, Yanek.

I did what any of us
would have done.

No, we have to close the doors

before it's too late!

This won't solve anything!

You fucking idiots,
this won't change a thing!

All the loose ends

they had to tie up
because of what you did.

I think he's run away
to Stockholm.

I'm aware he had some business
over there.

There might have been
another woman.

If I hear anything,
I'll be in touch.

I'm so sorry.

It was hard for my other.

It was harder for me.

It was him.

He ran past me
with blood on his hands.

Rainer, do you believe me?

Why won't you listen to me?

Why won't anyone listen?

It was him!

She's not well.

And they went about
their business,

thinking they had restored
some kind of peace.

But there was no peace anymore.

Now, they feared each other.

It's just a precaution.

It should never be used.

Why do we need such a thing?

Because if we're having
this conversation,

then so are they.

The precaution you proposed

was released into our world.

Accident or on purpose,
no one knows.

It doesn't matter.

By the time the flu spread,
the trust was gone.

They developed new ways to talk.

No one can know

where we reside.

From this day forward,

for our own protection.

Now they live like hermits,

talking to themselves
through this.

Hiding their identities
for fear of reprisal.

This is what you've left behind.

Two broken worlds for me to fix.

It-it didn't have to
be this way.

I have ruined you.

Ruined.

That's what you see
when you look at me?

What I witnessed that night,

when you left my father dead
on that floor.

I see the truth more
clearly than anyone.

You will never get them
to close the doors forever.

It would mean accepting failure.

They will cling to this Crossing
until their dying breath.

It took the socialists 40 years
to accept their experiment

had failed, but they learned.

I spent decades in Echo.

Harvesting human minds
for those bastards,

and arguing, with every study,

that what happened to me
was universal.

They never listened.

I listened, and I believe you.

You and I, we are the only ones
who know the truth.

I may not be
your real daughter, but...

I've grown up in your image.

And together we can
bring this war to an end.

Will you gather them with me?

I know you are out there,

and you're listening to me now.

You are so blind.

The blood of millions
is on your hands,

and I won't stand by any longer.

My terms are simple.

Shut down the Crossing forever.

I want you to invite our
neighbors for a meeting.

Tomorrow, I will surrender
myself and my father

to your custody.

I want to meet all of you.
Together.

The choice is yours.