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Your cardio fitness is terrible.

I just want to defend myself, not win a marathon.

- If you're attacked, you need stamina. - Okay.

- And speed. - Okay.

Reflexes. Catch!

Catch!

Can I ask you something?

Go ahead.

Are you on strong medication?

Why?

I've only seen reaction times this slow in ex-junkies and alcoholics.

THE TRAP

THE TRAINING

Sophie now left her apartment only for her nightly searches.

It was like a compulsion.

She ran to find him

and to forget.

She ran to escape Anna's pain-distorted face.

And her own guilt.

More than once, she thought she…

There was something there.

This time, the deportation flight is heading to the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

The Federal Ministry of the Interior confirmed

that 34 people without legal status are on board.

In the fall of last year…

Why "not suitable"?

He's won a bunch of journalism awards. You told me, Katrin.

Who cares who does the interview? Main thing is, you guys get one.

In your position, I'd be kicking myself too.

But she wants him.

She won't be talked out of it.

What if I go to Munich and talk to her in person?

Katrin, forget it.

Plus, we'll only give out the address on the day of the interview.

And between you and me… We might still call the whole thing off.

You can't do that.

I've just spoken with the editorial team.

They are holding the cover for it.

Okay, sorry. I have to go.

Yeah. Why not?

Yep.

Evening.

Indeed.

Right.

- Mr. Rudow? - I'll call you back later.

Sorry, I wasn't completely sure if it was you.

Yes?

Lenzen. Robert Lenzen.

I happen to be in town and thought I'd drop by.

I've been asked to interview your star.

I thought we could have a preliminary…

Let's see if it'll even happen.

What do you mean?

Lisa Konrad… How do I put this?

It'll depend on whether she…

Have we met before?

I get that a lot. You're not the first.

Well, the interview is only in four weeks.

And I'll get the manuscript…

- One week before. - Okay.

I'm…

I'm still undecided. I told Katrin.

She called me earlier, by the way. Just so you know.

Yeah, the whole situation is not easy for Katrin.

That's life.

It was a pleasure.

WE LOVE SOUR FRIES

Good!

Good, very good! More! Go!

Keep going! Push!

Push! You can do more! Push!

Good!

- Oh boy. - Very good!

Want to have a go?

I have to go. I'm working concessions at the movie theater.

Need anything else?

Same brand?

A carton.

Is that helpful?

No.

But a gun would be.

Do you also know people who know about that?

Look where you're shooting.

Steady the weapon.

The only thing that moves is your finger on the trigger.

What's going on with you?

You're suddenly into literature

and you've come to see your daughter for the third time in four weeks.

I'm trying to sell my parents' house. I'll be in town more often.

Can I borrow these?

Or what would you recommend?

It's not your genre.

It's about the complex inner life of sensitive human beings.

So this is her first one, and this is the latest, right?

Do you have a new girlfriend? Here in Munich?

Someone who's cultured?

I still live in Berlin with the very cultured Katja,

and I'm still faithful to her.

Can we drop it, Alex?

I'm meeting this author and need to read up.

I know nothing about her.

Read as much as you like, but…

Dad!

Hey, you!

So? What should we do, sweetie?

Movies?

- Yes. - Yeah?

ORIGINAL WITH SUBTITLES

In English? Seriously?

Hey, it has subtitles.

I thought a little practice won't hurt before we go to London for Pentecost.

Really?

Silly me. I just gave away your birthday present.

- Hey. - Hey.

What can I get you?

Two of the sour fries.

No one ever buys these.

I love those things.

Make it three then.

Seven fifty.

You can hear pretty well from here.

Yeah, just like in my apartment. But the rent is unbeatable.

Here, keep the change.

Thanks.

Which movie did you most enjoy listening to?

Mom?

Mom!

Mom!

Where are you?

I'll hold the fort here.

- No, you should go back inside. - It's no problem.

Mom!

- I'll be back in three minutes. - Okay.

- Thank you. - Mom!

- Where are you? - Three minutes.

Mom!

Hi, my darling.

What's up? I'm here. Everything's fine.

You just had a bad dream.

Come here.

Come here. Yes, everything's fine.

FIND TRANSMITTER

Yeah, it's okay, honey.

Hey…

Could you spare a cigarette?

- But I was… - …too late!

Did she or didn't she see him?

Sorry!

Sorry!

I'm sorry!

Wake up.

You have to wake up now.

Pull yourself together.

Ready?

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

Sorry.

It smells like cigarettes.

It does.

We haven't talked about your parents in a while, Ms. Konrad.

Because there's nothing to talk about.

We had discussed whether you might want to invite them.

They wouldn't come.

Why not?

Because they…

My parents have somehow become stuck in their grief.

And you haven't?

Well, yes. But with my parents, everything centers on their dead child.

The one who's alive is doing fine. You know?

Don't you miss your parents?

More than anything, I miss my sister.

Had I been on time, she wouldn't have been savagely stabbed eight times!

Is your new book about that too?

In all these years, you never wrote about your sister.

Literature usually draws on…

the darker characters.

Not the brighter ones.

Anna was lovable, funny, kind-hearted.

Speak nothing but good of the dead.

No, not because she's dead.

Anna really was like that. I told you that many times.

Yet you're writing a crime novel.

I didn't say it was a crime novel.

I thought, because you…

Well, because your sister was murdered.

I mean, I'm no expert.

But that's what crime novels are about. Aren't they?

Would you be so kind, Ms. Konrad? Please sit back down.

Okay?

You work out regularly?

Yes. It's good for me. It balances out the writing.

Do you miss having sex?

You're pulling out all the stops today. Sex?

I barely remember what that is.

Okay, Ms. Konrad.

I won't ask whether you're taking your usual medication. You are an adult.

But prolonged isolation can result in sleep disorders,

eating disorders, impaired cognitive ability.

- As well as hallucina-- - So what?

Needing medication, Ms. Konrad, isn't a flaw.

It's what keeps you alive.

Do you understand me?

Ms. Konrad?

- Yes. - Yes.

Good.

That's good.

Here's my suggestion.

I'll leave a new prescription with Yuma.

I'll prescribe something

that'll help you focus and calm you down a little.

Does that work for you?

- Yes? - Yes.

Good.

Dr. Anger?

I'm in the final stage of writing.

I'd like to pause our sessions for the next two weeks.

ATOMOXETINE 40 MG

"You don't have to…

answer me."

"But…

I still have to…

ask you this question."

Has your daughter Sophie ever been violent before?

What?

My colleague means,

was Sophie prone to angry outbursts as a child or teenager?

No.

What does Sophie say?

Don't you talk to each other?

Sophie and you two?

We do.

Of course.

But you don't know about the report filed against her for the nighttime attack?

We assume it was a crime of passion.

Even though people in Anna's circle say she had been single for nearly a year.

What about the man Sophie saw?

Do you know anyone whose name starts with "L-I" or "L-E"?

Mom.

Dad. You have to ask questions.

What questions?

"If Anna knew him,

why did

no one ever see

this man with her?"

"But if Anna didn't know him,

why would she have

let him in at all?"

So?

What do you think?

Should I be worried?

She still exercises excessively. She's compensating.

But that's perfectly normal.

Normal? In what way?

It's a stage of her psychogenesis.

Trauma, regressive repression, memory distortion…

And then compensatory behavior to maintain that state.

If she's compensating, why is she writing about the past?

Something must have triggered her.

So it's a good thing that she exercises to compensate.

What if she remembers?

I think that's unlikely.

If she does, I'll explain to her

that these are false memories consistent with her condition.

Did she say anything about the details of the novel?

No, nothing.

I could barely get it out of her that it's about her sister.

So I didn't push any further.

- One rosé. - Thank you.

You're welcome. Extra ice?

Two, please. Thank you.

The deadline is in two weeks. She doesn't want any sessions until then.

What? But how are you going to…

- Enjoy. - Thank you.

What if her writing brings it all back up?

No. You're overestimating the power of literature, Norbert.

And you underestimate the power of drugs.

I prescribed her a new one that will keep her calm.

Well, provided she takes it. To Lisa.

Everything is fine the way it is.

I'm doing this for her too.

Selflessness doesn't suit you, Rudow.

If she remembers, you're screwed.

Hey, buddy.

You're really hungry, huh?

THE INTERROGATOR AN EDUCATION

SYSTEMIC QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES

What color is your car?

It's enough.

What color is your car?

I can't take this anymore.

What color is your car?

I don't have a car.

What is your cat's name?

It's a dog.

What color is your car?

- Red. - You just said you don't have a car.

Which is it?

It's about withstanding pressure.

Suppressing your needs.

Functioning.

No matter the circumstances.

That’s why I have to subject you to pressure and deprivation.

MILITARY ID CARD

Understood?

This isn't research for a novel.

What's your goal, Ms. Konrad?

What are you really preparing for?

What are you hoping to find out?

Why my sister was murdered.

Only after 30 hours without sleep and 14 hours under extreme pressure

did you reveal your true objective to me.

Not bad for a beginner.

How did you know that I--

Clients never tell me the real reason at first.

So…

So up to now, all this was just…

Now I know what I'm dealing with. We can begin.

So…

You're about to have a long conversation.

An interview, as far as I understand.

And you don't want to lose control.

You want to find something out.

And while you're at it, get a DNA sample.

Correct?

Ferdi! What are you doing?

I just wanted…

- Why are you using the dog flap? - 'Cause you don't close it.

Gotta pee.

- Have you seen Ms. Konrad? - No.

You are now in the same physical and mental state

you'll likely be in during the interview.

You are well trained, but you'll be upset.

Tense.

And you're in withdrawal, right?

That's your decision, of course.

But maybe you should put off your detox.

Okay.

We will first go over the general framework.

Posture.

Facial expression.

Gestures.

Lisa?

I know you have a visitor.

I don't want to interrupt, but I have to go.

Just call me, okay?

RESERVE MAJOR NILS CHRISTENSEN

HEAD INSTRUCTOR INTERROGATION TECHNIQUE

In this strange li…

limbo between…

In this strange limbo between

shock and breakdown…

in which Sophie hasn't been okay for a while now

but is somehow still functioning…

she retreats more and more into her own world.

She can no longer eat.

Can't sleep, can't love, can't paint the way she used to.

Anna is everywhere.

The dying Anna.

The tormented, grimacing Anna.

Not the laughing, pretty, lovable one.

Any news?

No.

Can I come in anyway?

Are you moving?

Marc, my boyfriend, is moving out. My ex-boyfriend.

He still has to sign his statement.

You have my sympathy.

With everything you've been through.

But you must stop searching for him in the streets and randomly--

I can't just sit around.

There's another report against you.

I only grabbed the man by the arm. That's all I did.

- Sophie, I only mean well. - Then find him!

The case will be closed at the end of the month.

I wanted to tell you in person.

So much for your promise.

I also wanted to ask you to stop calling me every day.

I'm a nuisance to you.

No.

But I have to record each call in the case file.

I’m causing you extra work.

If it helped us find the killer,

I wouldn't care if you called me every hour.

He is out there somewhere.

He knows that I saw him.

Take care, Sophie.

Only he and I know who it was.

Only he and I know that this is not a crime novel.

But an invitation.

I'm waiting for you.

The end.

DEAR MR. LENZEN,

ATTACHED IS THE MANUSCRIPT FOR "MY SISTER" AHEAD OF OUR INTERVIEW ON JUNE 23

MY SISTER

"That morning, strangely enough, Sophie didn't scream when she woke up."

"Her own horrified scream."

"Since her sister's murder, that was the sound

that would jolt her awake."

Only he and I know who it was.

"Only he and I know that this is not a crime novel."

"But an invitation."

"I'm waiting for you."

You develop a special connection to a place when you never leave it.

All your senses become attuned to it.

You can tell when something's not right.

Something here is not right at all.

It's too quiet.

Bukowski.

Come.

Come!

Lisa?

There you are.

I thought you were writing a crime novel.

But you've broken every genre convention.

No resolution, no redemption.

I've just read it. I absolutely love it.

But you must never, never ever reveal who it was. To no one.

- Lisa. - Blood.

There.

Lisa!

A bag!

Breathe in… and out.

Lisa?

We need a doctor.

Go. I'll stay here. I'm sure the doctor will be here soon.

Shelley, finally. Do something.

My God, yes. Lisa?

Lisa, can you hear me?

Lisa.

Norbert, get my emergency bag from the trunk. Quickly.

How long have you been off your medication, Ms. Konrad?

No, don't close your… Norbert!

I've just read it. She hasn't remembered.

Shut up. Disinfectant.

Here, hold it higher.

Can she hear us?

No.

What did you give her?

You don't want to know.

She'll sleep for many hours now.

And when she wakes up, she will feel like a new person.

Right.

Now close your eyes.

Subtitle translation by: Susanne Creak, Diana Renker