Dear Child (Liebes Kind)

One, two, three, four, five.

D!

- D for dog! - Correct.

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

H!

H for horse!

Very good!

One, two, three, four.

V!

V for wasp!

- Wrong. Point deducted. - Why?

W-A-S-P.

Not V-A-S-P.

- A small flying insect with a stinger-- - You run much faster than us anyway.

You'll make that up in no--

Dad!

Very good, you two.

Thanks, Dad.

You know you shouldn't cry in front of the children, Lena.

Remember the rules.

DEAR CHILD

Stop!

Systolic blood pressure 70. Pulse 105.

She's probably bleeding internally.

Mom has the blood type AB negative.

This is the rarest blood type.

It's characterized by possessing no antibodies against blood types A and B.

How do you know that?

Mom told me.

You don't need to worry.

Look here. That's your mom's heart.

What's your mom's name?

- Lena. - Lena? Lena what?

Heart rate rising.

To 120.

128...

Lena?

...135.

Lena? Can you hear me?

Lena?

Esketamine, 30 milligrams intravenously.

I'm here with you, Mom.

Yes.

Hit-and-run, yes.

But the woman was in a nightgown, and the child was only wearing pajamas.

No idea where they came from.

No. It's just forest in all directions and--

No.

Yes.

Straight to the university hospital.

Yes.

Yes.

Got it, okay.

Ines?

Did you manage to reach someone?

Yes.

Ambulance 3-2 arriving. Shock room notified.

Female accident victim with her child.

Child has been checked, uninjured.

EMERGENCY ROOM

AMBULANCE FIRE SERVICE

You good?

Yes. Okay.

TRAUMA SURGERY

"Central emergency department."

"X-ray, surgery,

functional diagnostics, intensive care,

chapel, accessible toilet."

Would you like to sit?

Someone will be here for you soon.

91, 92, 93, 94,

95, 96, 97...

Hello.

I'm Nurse Ruth. And who are you?

My name is Hannah. That's a palindrome.

A what?

A word that reads the same forwards or backwards.

H-A-N-N-A-H.

Would you like to come with me, Hannah?

I have to wait for Mom.

I thought maybe we could do that together.

My first name is Ruth, and my last name is Küppers.

And your first name...

is Hannah.

And your last name is?

Goliath.

Goliath?

I picked it just now.

Nice, isn't it?

Serial rib fracture left, left upper quadrant: ruptured spleen.

Abdominal pad.

The rest of the organs are looking good. We have to stop the abdominal bleeding.

Hemostat.

- The allogenic blood is being rejected. - How?

The admission form said AB negative.

- What's the hemoglobin value? - Hemoglobin value six.

I don't want to wake up. Let me sleep.

- Please let me... - The spleen has to be removed.

- The artery in the hilum is damaged. - I don't want to.

Patient is convulsing. Anesthesia...

Please don't.

Lena? Can you hear me?

- Lena? - Stop!

Lena?

I'm here with you, Mom.

Hannah?

Is Hannah here?

Well?

On the big side, but nice and warm. What do you say?

Nice match, huh?

Hannah?

Do you know what the phrase "hit-and-run" means?

The phrase "hit-and-run" describes the unlawful departure of a road user

from the scene of an accident after a road accident caused by them.

But the man was nice and took care of Mom.

And he only disappeared right before the ambulance arrived.

I see.

And anyway, it wasn't his fault that the accident happened.

Why wasn't it his fault?

Sometimes Mom can be really clumsy. She does silly things by accident.

Silly things?

I always help Mom if her hands are shaky.

Or if she doesn't manage to do things yet again.

For example, going to the toilet at the right time.

Then I'll go with her, so she doesn't fall off the seat.

She already bumps her head on the edge of the table all the time.

Tell me, does your mom sometimes drink alcohol?

Mom gets water.

1.5 liters per day.

Because milk is only good for children.

Could it be that you need help at home?

Usually, we know how everything works.

We have our rules, after all.

Rules are important.

Just sometimes Mom forgets them, so I remind her.

And yet she still does silly things sometimes?

She wanted to kill Dad by accident.

Would you maybe like to draw something?

Yes?

I'll see if I can find some drawing supplies, yeah?

I remembered everything exactly.

I did everything right.

I'm a big girl.

- The accident site is secured? - Of course.

- Surroundings were checked? - Yes.

Missing person inquiry is in progress?

What would I put as a description?

Blonde, mid-thirties, in a nightgown, first name Lena?

Yes, exactly.

You can do that even before calling CID.

Yeah, with me in the break room.

Hang on.

Yeah, I got a search request with INPOL-neu.

Are you here about the accident?

Aida Kurt, Aachen CID.

Someone's already here, thank you.

- The girl who came with her mother... - Okay, put me through.

She said that her mother tried to kill her father.

Circulation machine.

Bench.

Ambulance.

Moon.

- What's the girl's name? - Hannah.

And her last name?

Goliath.

But she just picked it herself.

And her address?

I couldn't get it out of her.

I think I'll talk to her myself.

As soon as someone from Psychological Emergency Services is here.

I'll contact them now.

Maybe in the meantime, you could try to get more info out of her, yeah?

Has a team been requested to reconstruct the escape route?

On it.

Shit!

STATE CID

POLICE - INTERNAL COMMUNICATION, NRW

SERIOUS HIT-AND-RUN ROAD ACCIDENT 09/05/2023, AACHEN, FEMALE VICTIM

SERIOUS HIT-AND-RUN ON COUNTRY ROAD NEAR DUTCH BORDER

What do you want?

You weren't to call anymore.

Is it Gerd?

There's a new report in the system just now.

An accident victim at Aachen University Hospital.

A blonde woman called Lena.

What?

How old?

What is it?

The age more or less fits. They estimate her to be somewhere in her mid-thirties.

What is it?

It was probably a pretty serious hit-and-run accident,

almost an hour from here in the direction of the Dutch border.

Right now, the woman is probably in surgery.

But I'm sure I'll know more by tomorrow morning. I...

For now, I just wanted to...

Hello?

Shit.

Shit.

What did he say?

Matthias?