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[indistinct chatter]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[sighs]

[classical music playing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[floors creaking]

Who's there?

You've got a nice family.

Do they know who you really are?

The things you did?

Who are you?

What do you want? [click]

Now, maybe you don't remember everything.

It was a long time ago.

What is this about?

Indigo.

You're just the first name on my list.

Please don't do this.

Tell you what.

If you get in the noose, you do it yourself,

no one will ever know who you really are.

Or we can do it like this,

and everyone will know the truth,

including your precious family.

[sobbing]

♪ ♪

[choking]

♪ ♪

Did we catch a case already?

I haven't even had my coffee yet.

Murder victim. Tobias Ganz. 75-year-old German national.

What's that have to do with us?

I was just getting to that.

Katrin, how are you?

It's been a while. - Too long.

But I'm sure you've been keeping busy, though.

Scott, I heard about Legat Dandridge.

Looks like I'm not the only one who's dealt with,

how do you Americans call it?

Friendly fire?

[chuckles] Yeah. We're both still standing.

Yes. How is my replacement doing?

Hanging in there. Big shoes to fill.

When are we gonna get that pint?

As soon as you all get over to Berlin.

This case is interesting.

The main suspect appears to be an American male.

Appears to be?

I'm still liaising with Berlin Police,

but so far, we don't have a name or a face

or much forensic evidence.

However, we do have his voice.

There's an audio recording.

A recording of a murder?

Like I said, interesting.

[indistinct chatter]

Hey, Katrin.

So good to see you all.

This is Detective Kai Draxler.

He's leading the investigation for the Polizei Berlin.

Agent Forrester, nice to finally meet you in person.

Likewise, Detective. This is Agent Raines,

our Europol liaison, Megan Garretson.

Rest of our team is getting set up at the station in Berlin.

Thank you for coming.

Happy to help, but we are still catching up here.

How is there a recording of a murder?

You should just see it for yourselves.

[police radio chatter]

[camera shutter clicking]

- [speaking German] - [speaking German]

Tobias Ganz, retired math teacher and widower.

The maid found the body early this morning,

but Ganz had been dead for several hours.

- Forced entry? - A window in the back.

But no signs of a struggle.

75-year-old man wouldn't have put up

much of a fight anyway.

Security cams? - None.

But when our officers got here, they heard a hissing sound

coming from inside this console.

And that's when they found this.

Vintage model.

Manufactured in West Berlin.

1970s. Still functional.

It recorded a man with an American accent

forcing Ganz into the noose.

Our theory is Ganz encountered the American inside.

He realized he was in danger.

Pressed this buttoned and triggered the recording.

This is tradecraft. Old school.

I'm guessing Tobias Ganz wasn't just a retired math teacher.

He was Stasi.

Just got a file from Intelligence Analysis

at Europol.

Tobias Ganz was an asset of the Stasi Secret Police

in East Germany during the Cold War.

Now, before the Berlin Wall came down,

the Stasi had a huge network of informants and collaborators.

East Germans spying on their family, friends, and neighbors.

A total surveillance state.

The Stasi also had thousands of spies in West Germany.

Sleeper agents, most of whom

were never identified after the Wall came down.

So we think Tobias Ganz was one of these agents?

It's worse than that.

What is this about?

Indigo.

Indigo was an elite Stasi spy unit

that went after its opponents in the West.

Assassinations, torture, active measures, psy ops.

The stories are disturbing.

We always thought Indigo was a myth,

a rumor spread by nostalgic, old men, but now...

Is there any information on the recording

that could help us identify the killer?

A total of 23 minutes on the tape,

but only the first six are usable.

The rest is too fuzzy to make heads or tails.

But the audio does confirm

that the American forced Ganz to hang himself.

And...

You're just the first name on my list.

Whoever this guy is, he's not done killing yet.

How did he find Ganz in the first place?

And why would an American be targeting old Stasi spies

from the Cold War?

That is the operative question.

All right, first things first, we need to identify

our American suspect solely based off of his voice.

Raines, got any ideas?

[scoffs] Not really, but I'll give it a crack.

Vo, can you give me a hand?

Jaeger, I need you to get me everything you can on Indigo.

Reports, cases, files, no matter how cold.

I know someone who might be able to help us there.

- Thank you. - Need some backup?

Always.

Thank you for meeting with us, Mr. Ballack.

Please call me Simon.

I hear you worked intelligence for West Germany

before reunification.

Simon was head of counterintelligence,

a spy hunter.

He's also the reason I became a cop.

Gave me this when I graduated from the academy.

Much as I love to reminisce about the old days,

I don't think this is a social visit.

It's the old days we wanted to ask you about.

What can you tell us regarding Indigo?

Haven't heard that name in over 30 years.

Oh.

Indigo was a Stasi sleeper unit operating in West Berlin.

Five-man team. Compartmentalized.

Each member reported up to his immediate superior,

which meant only one person ever knew

the identity of the unit's director,

for Indigo meant psychological warfare,

the destabilization of a person's life.

Mind games.

As a start.

Sneak into a target's home, turn on the stove,

tilt paintings on the wall,

plant evidence of crimes, break up families.

Rumors circulated Indigo even went after children.

The Stasi were ruthless.

Efficient.

They never made mistakes.

And Indigo was the worst of the worst.

Now we spent years looking for them

but only found glimmers and ghosts.

What if I told you

we found a member of the unit?

You're joking.

No.

Has--has he admitted to it?

He never had the chance.

He was murdered by an American.

An American? Why?

We need everything you have on Indigo.

Files, records, witness reports.

Anything that can help us find the American's identity

or that of his next target.

Forgive me, but no.

People are still in danger.

I know.

But the past is a dangerous place.

You know that as well as anyone, Katrin.

Simon, please.

Fine.

I'll send you what I have.

Thank you.

You're just the first name on my list.

We've input the recording in an AI program

developed in Quantico.

It's called Voice2Face. Still experimental.

It draws correlations between the voice and facial features--

- Raines. - I'll skip that part.

Basically, we use the audio to generate

a CGI reconstruction of the suspect's face.

- Bollocks. - I'm serious.

Now we can do a digital image analysis

running this face against passports

and visa records of Americans staying or living in Berlin.

Flippin' FBI! Amazing!

All right, I run it against anyone with priors.

Five matches now.

Got something.

Paul Kennard. 39-year-old American from Illinois.

About a dozen minor offenses, mostly drug-related.

But here's the interesting part:

Paul Kennard was born in West Berlin.

- Really? - He lost

his German citizenship because he was adopted

by an American Family.

He applied to regain it two months ago.

Is there a forwarding address on that application?

It's Kreuzberg District.

An apartment belonging to a German named Anna Dahns, 35.

She's on probation. - All right.

Raines, take this one.

You feel like stretching your legs?

♪ ♪

She hasn't paid rent.

Three months.

All this trouble.

- Have you ever seen this man? - Mm-mm.

I'll talk to the neighbors.

[door clicks]

[indistinct muffled chatter]

Reminds me of my flat back in Manchester.

This thing has clearly never been used.

[chuckles]

Hey, we got something.

"Anna, I'm sorry."

Might be from Kennard.

[front door creaking]

Anna?

Anna Dahns?

Hello?

I'm Megan Garrison with Europol.

I have a few questions for you.

We're looking for an American named Paul Kennard.

We have reason to believe that you and he are--

[both grunting]

♪ ♪

Stop!

[car horn honking] - [yelps]

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey, move!

[speaking German]

That's what a five-minute mile looks like, by the way.

Get up!

Anna Dahns, you want to tell us where Paul Kennard is?

[speaking German]

You speak English?

Yes. Piss off!

Oh.

Still not talking?

Mm, she's a tough one.

We're gonna need to find some leverage.

Anything off her phone? - Pulled a video of Kennard

and ran it against the crime scene audio.

The voiceprint is a full biometric match.

Good work.

There's something else, though.

Paul Kennard and Anna Dahns are brother and sister.

Paul Kennard and Anna Dahns are brother and sister.

Now, we don't know who their birthparents are yet,

but we know that in 1989, Paul and Anna were orphaned.

Now, the only family they had left

was a maternal uncle living in America,

but he refused to accept both children.

Paul got shipped off to Illinois,

six years old at the time.

But after his uncle died,

he had a pretty rough shuttle through the system.

Abuse, addiction, homelessness.

Anna was three when she got placed

with a family in Hamburg.

She's been in and out of jail since she was 14.

All right, so brother and sister got separated as kids.

How'd they find each other?

Anna's phone shows that they found each other

on an ancestry app about a year ago.

We're still missing something.

Kennard reconnects with his sister

and then comes to Germany to hunt down ex-Stasi spies? Why?

We still don't know how he got the names.

West German intelligence couldn't even find Indigo.

Is Anna helping him somehow?

Might have an answer to that.

Just chased down CCTV

from inside the S-Bahn nearest the Ganz house.

We were trying to find footage of Kennard when, lo and behold,

she was within walking distance of the crime scene

shortly before the murder.

I think we just found our leverage.

Tobias Ganz, a retired math teacher.

This was the old man who was forced into a noose.

By Paul Kennard.

Your brother.

Were you in on it?

Is that why you were at Ganz's house last night?

I don't know what you're talking about.

You assaulted a Europol officer,

and the Berlin Police have enough

to charge you with accessory to murder.

So how about we skip the rage against the machine theatrics

and get to the part where you tell us the truth?

Why is Kennard targeting Stasi spies?

If that old man was Stasi, then he got what he deserved.

And what does Paul deserve for killing someone

and for you helping him?

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Enlighten me.

I was trying to stop Paul.

That's why I followed him.

But I got there too late.

Where is he going next?

Your brother left this for you.

He's angry.

I don't know why, but I do know

that anger destroys everything in its path.

You need to save Paul from himself.

If you really care about him, tell us what's going on.

Why is he doing this?

Because of what they did to us.

What they did to our father.

Ewald Havertz was an economics professor

at the University of Berlin.

A critic of communism.

He had a young family...

When it happened. - When what happened?

Right before the Wall came down,

Havertz was accused of harassing a female student.

His wife, Elsa, died in a drunk driving accident.

I couldn't prove it at the time,

but it was a covert op.

- Indigo. - They broke Havertz.

Mentally, emotionally.

And then, he took his own life.

How did he do it?

He hanged himself in his own home.

That's right.

Havertz's son, Paul, found the body.

He was six years old.

I think they had a little girl as well.

Just three.

All right. Thank you, Simon.

We'll let you know if we need anything else.

So here's what I think.

Paul Kennard somehow identified

the five members of the Indigo unit

and is now hunting them down,

taking revenge for what they did to him and his family.

Kennard killed Tobias Ganz

in the exact same way his father took his own life.

If the harassment complaint was manufactured

as part of a covert op, then the woman who made it

may have had direct contact with Indigo.

- On it. - OK. In the meantime,

let's keep checking the shelters,

hospitals, and clinics.

Kennard spent half of his life on the streets.

He knows how to stay off the grid.

All right, the woman who accused him of harassment

in 1989 is a professor now.

Dr. Alina Volland.

I can go talk to her. - Yeah, take Kellett.

Katrin, is everything OK?

Yes, it's just this--

it's just this case bringing things back.

[sighs]

I grew up in East Berlin, the wrong side of the wall.

You never told me that.

I remember skipping meals,

stuffing newspapers in my pajamas

to stay warm during the winters.

But... we were happy.

Our family was happy...

Until that day my--

my father found a listening device in our living room.

What happened?

Let's just say I know exactly how Paul Kennard feels.

[phone buzzing]

Sorry.

Ja?

[conversations in German]

Dr. Alina Volland?

Oh. How can I help you?

Agents Raines and Kellett, FBI.

What do you want?

To ask you about someone from your past.

Ewald Havertz.

Um...

Not here, hmm?

Ewald Havertz was my professor.

He was a good man.

Outspoken, passionate.

A fierce critic of the Soviet system.

And yet, you accused him of harassment

and stalking in 1989.

Why? - [sighs]

That fall, before classes started,

a man approached.

I'd never seen him before, but he knew my name

and he knew I had a half-sister in East Berlin.

He said that if I didn't do what he wanted,

they would send her to the Hohenschonhausen.

Do you know what that is? - An East German prison.

The things they did to the inmates there,

I couldn't let them take her.

So you followed orders?

I ruined a good man's life.

I destroyed his family.

And I've had to live with that every day since.

So make it right.

Help us find the people who did this.

The man who approached you, did you get his name?

Mm, he was too careful for that.

But I remembered his face.

And ten years ago, I saw it again.

[lock clicks]

I was reading an article about a charity fundraiser

when I saw it.

On the far left.

That's him.

The man you're looking for.

Got it.

The charity's records show our suspect's name

is Michael Berkhoff, an Austrian financier.

[tense music]

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[sobbing]

FBI! We're coming in!

[shouts in German]

My wife! He shot her!

[sobbing]

Was this the man who attacked you?

Mr. Berkhoff?

He was here when we arrived.

Tried to come up from behind.

That's when he revealed a gun.

We fought.

I don't know how it happened.

The gun went off.

The second bullet was the one...

After that, he got scared and ran.

Who is he?

The man who killed your wife

is the son of Ewald Havertz.

Oh, mein Gott.

[sighs]

You were Indigo.

[scoffs] That was a long time ago.

Did you run an operation on Ewald Havertz?

The one that drove him to suicide?

I was not in charge.

And Havertz didn't kill himself.

We did and staged the scene.

It was the same with his--

with his wife before that.

Yeah.

The director ordered them both removed.

I have no reason to hide my secrets anymore.

- Who was the director? - I never knew.

I reported to Tobias Ganz, second in command.

Tobias Ganz is dead.

Killed by the same man who shot your wife.

Ganz was the first name on his list.

[sighs shakily]

I thought I had left it all behind!

[speaking German]

The Stasi had us document all operations.

Everything you need.

Target, assets, the name of the director.

It's all in the file.

[sobbing]

[door creaks]

The Indigo file. Where is it?

Paul has been using it to hunt down members of the unit.

That is how he found Ganz. Does he still have it?

How do you know about that?

Because he just tried to cross another name

off his list.

Is Paul OK?

You're worried about the wrong person.

Paul went after Michael Berkhoff,

but he killed his wife instead.

[scoffs] That can't be right.

Paul would never do-- - Except he did.

Your brother murdered an innocent woman.

You have no idea what he's been through!

He has killed twice now,

one, a woman who had nothing to do with this.

So if you want a third murder on your conscience,

you need to help us.

After we found each other,

Paul cleaned up his life.

He got a job, started saving money.

And six month ago, he came to Berlin.

We started researching our history,

and we found out that our father left us something.

A safety deposit box.

So your father had the file. That's where he stashed it.

We don't know why he had it, but that's how we learned

the truth of what happened to him.

And to us.

And that's where Paul found all those names.

Before he disappeared,

he gave the file to me for safekeeping.

Where is it now?

He's the only family I have left.

Where?

Now, I knew she wasn't using this thing.

Scanning and digitizing the pages is gonna take some time,

so we're gonna keep doing this the old-fashioned way for now.

Vo, what do you got so far? - The list of Indigo members.

Five Stasi registration numbers but only four names.

Two died of natural causes.

What about Ganz and Berkhoff?

The file does confirm that Ganz and Berkhoff

are part of the unit, which means

there's only one member left: the director.

That's the only name we don't have.

Berkhoff said all the information

we need is in the file.

The director's name must be somewhere.

The sooner we find it, the sooner we find Kennard.

- I'm all over it. - Anna just got a text.

Unknown number. Message says, "Three minutes."

Raines, get a trace going.

You lied to me.

You're still talking to your brother.

He's using burner phones, right?

Call him. Convince him to come in.

I can't just hand him over to you.

Anna, we're gonna get your brother eventually.

Delaying the inevitable is not gonna get you anywhere.

Call him right now.

Keep him on the phone long enough

so that we can get a trace.

Two minutes should be enough.

[phone ringing]

If you want to help your brother, now is your chance.

Take it,

or else I'm the last friendly face

that you are ever gonna see.

Paul.

Are you OK? - I'm OK.

Where are you?

You know I can't tell you that.

Maybe we can meet somewhere.

I found him.

The director.

Ganz told me his name.

Paul, please, you need to stop this.

This is the guy who was in charge of everything, Anna.

What you're doing, it's not worth it.

Anna--

You need to walk away while you still can.

I got your message.

The Riesen chocolate bar. You love them.

Anna, I am sorry.

Just go to the police.

Tell them the truth, OK?

You really think that's gonna do anything?

Nobody cares.

This is the only way.

Just do what I tell you! This needs to stop!

You killed a man's wife!

No, she wasn't supposed to be there!

And that's...

H-How do you know that?

The FBI are listening. You need to get out of Berlin.

Run!

- Did you get a trace? - No.

I can't just lose him.

Not again.

You already have, Anna. Your brother's gone.

I was trying to stop you from going down with him.

Stay with her.

[door clicks]

Kennard now has his final target.

We have to assume that he is on his way there,

but we don't know where he's going.

The answer is in this file.

We have about half the pages scanned

along with auto-translation.

Does anybody have anything? - Not much.

I've got notes, operations reports,

interrogation transcripts, expenses.

I mean, just pages and pages

of "Big Brother"-style doublespeak.

Nothing identifying the director.

Nothing.

All right. Everybody, stay on it.

Clock's ticking.

Hey.

I know this is hard,

but I can't do this without you.

I just needed a moment.

Yeah.

When I was seven,

my father took me to the Volkspark.

He sat me down on a bench and told me to wait

while he brought us hot chocolate,

so that's what I did.

I waited.

By the time my mother found me, it was already night

and I couldn't feel my hands.

They were so cold.

He abandoned us. He escaped over the Wall.

I never saw him again.

And my mother was arrested on suspicion of complicity.

And that was the end of my family.

Katrin.

I was so angry for so long,

but not at my father.

They broke him. That's what they did to people.

How did you get out?

My aunt lived in West Berlin

and happened to be Simon Ballack's maid.

If it weren't for him, then...

[sighs]

Maybe he was right.

The past is a dangerous place.

Maybe that's why I've spent my whole life running from it.

We are going to get Kennard, and then I'm going

to make sure everything Indigo did comes to light.

No more secrets.

Vo's found something.

I think we've been going at this all wrong.

So the Stasi documented everything,

but we're looking for information

they clearly didn't want anyone to have.

I found two periods at the end of a sentence.

At first, I thought it was a typo, a random mistake.

The Stasi never made mistakes.

Exactly. If you look at the second period

on the page itself...

A microdot.

There is a whole other file embedded within the file.

Cold War Stasi spies smuggled messages

by miniaturizing reams of text to microscopic size.

Whoa.

Is there anything on the director?

Here it is.

All five names, including the direct...

What is it?

Vo, you got a name?

This doesn't make any sense.

The director was...

Is Simon Ballack.

What?

It says it all right here.

The former head of counterintelligence

for West Germany was a sleeper agent?

♪ ♪

FBI! Open the door!

[gunfire]

Break it down. - [speaks German]

[grunts]

FBI!

Simon, put the gun down!

I said, put it down! - Katrin!

Now, Ballack!

Put the gun down, Simon!

[stammering] He just tried to kill me!

This is the man you are looking for!

Don't you know who he is?

He's Stasi! He was a spy!

He clearly needs help. Please, just take him in.

Liar!

Tell them what you did! You killed my parents!

Say it! Say it! - Shut up! Shut up!

Simon, we know.

You are not going to shoot anyone.

You need to put the gun down and give yourself up.

This is ridiculous.

You can't possibly-- - Stop with the lies.

We found the Indigo file.

I always thought this day might come.

In some ways, I'm glad it's you.

You are a traitor and a monster.

[gun clicking]

[grunts]

[speaking German]

You knew the gun wasn't loaded?

No, I hoped he'd do it.

I did this on my own.

My sister had nothing to do with it.

She tried to stop me.

You should have listened to her.

[speaking German]

[somber music]

♪ ♪

It's over.

- And Paul? - In custody.

- Did he-- - He's going away.

For a long time.

What about the guy who did this to us?

What's gonna happen to him, huh?

A different justice.

Of course.

The next few years are gonna be difficult.

But don't let go.

Hold on to the family you got.

[knocks at door]

I got you five minutes.

Anna.

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I'm so sorry.

[sobs]

Paul Kennard will be charged

with the murders of Tobias Ganz and Michael Berkhoff's wife.

Germany will not go easy on him.

Not sure how I feel about that.

I'm not saying he shouldn't go to prison,

but Kennard is a victim here too.

That has to count for something.

What about the sister?

Obstruction of Justice.

Aiding and abetting murder is on the table.

There are no winners here.

There's something else.

I looked further into the file embedded in the microdot.

There's a lot more about Paul and Anna's parents.

Go on.

Ewald and Elsa Havertz were Stasi spies.

They spied for East Germany for years

before deciding to switch sides.

Looks like they stole the Indigo file

to use as leverage.

That's why Simon Ballack had them killed.

Should we tell them the truth?

After everything that Paul and Anna have been through,

do they really need to know this?

Do they need to know the truth? - [sighs]

Many of us asked ourselves that question

after the Wall came down.

What is more important:

confronting the truth or preserving our memories?

Katrin, I--

You don't need to say anything, Simon.

I'm not here for an explanation.

Then will you accept an apology?

I'm sorry.

For lying.

For hurting you.

The world will pass judgment on me soon enough,

but the only person's opinion I care about...

is yours.

Do you remember how, after the war,

they took the rubble of destroyed buildings

and used it to make hills all over Berlin?

The Schuttberge.

They built two in the Volkspark.

But by the time I was a girl

and my father pointed them out to me,

the rubble had already been covered with natural growth.

They just looked like another part of the landscape.

My point is,

eventually when I look back,

it's going to be like you were never there.

Just another piece of buried history.

♪ ♪

I don't need this anymore.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

Katrin.

Thought you might want one of these.

Thank you.

It's not a beer, but...

It'll do.

[duo conversing in German]

So it's just like you remember it?

[duo laughing]

♪ ♪

[wolf howls]