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This isn't funny anymore.

Katharina?

Ulrich?

This isn't funny anymore.

Help!

Help!

Help!

It was just a nightmare.

Tell me everything's all right.

Everything is all right.

One dead boy...

MISSING

... three missing children.

We're widening the search. I want you to knock on every door.

Start with the residential areas

close to where the children were last seen.

I want you to question everyone. Everyone.

Someone must have seen something.

Coordinate with other departments in the district.

I also want you to search the archives

for similar cases in and around Winden over the last 50 years.

Even if a child went missing for just 24 hours, I want to know.

I want you all working double shifts.

Leave no stone left unturned in this town.

Search every single basement.

Everyone leaves some kind of trace somewhere.

We just have to find it.

How did you and Dad meet?

In the hospital.

I was 14.

Your father had a broken leg.

And I was in a bad mood.

What was he like?

Earlier.

Before he got sick.

He was...

different.

You never knew if he meant something seriously or not.

Mom...

Yes?

Nothing.

INVESTIGATION

WINDEN BOY (12) VANISHES

MADS NIELSEN MISSING

When does he normally come home?

He goes to fencing classes on Thursdays.

And he gets home just after six.

When he wasn't home by seven, I knew something was wrong.

And your husband?

Where was he?

He was home. With us, he...

The three of us were waiting for Mads. Tronte, Ulrich and I.

Where are you going?

School.

No, you aren't going anywhere.

Is this supposed to go on forever?

Keeping us locked up here?

Locked up?

Your brother has only been missing four days.

He's not going to come back just because we're sitting around.

Come back here and talk to me!

I can't let the others down. They need me.

Who needs you?

The play...

I thought it was cancelled.

No! Mr. Meinel said it'd be better to give people a break,

so they can think about something else.

Great.

So everyone is just thinking of themselves.

You're no different!

Did you once think about us these last few days?

That's enough!

And how many more of these damned things will you put up?

- She didn't mean it like that. - Yes, I did! I meant it like that.

This is so fucked up!

Everyone's waiting for Mikkel to come back through that door,

as if nothing happened.

Dad doesn't even dare come home anymore!

- And no one gives a shit about us. - That's not true.

But for once, this isn't about you, Martha.

You're so blind.

Everyone's thinking it, but no one dares say it.

Mikkel is dead!

Oh, shit.

MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING CENTER

FOLLOW THE SIGNAL!

Ulrich.

How are you all holding up?

Katharina, the children?

Where's Mom?

Sleeping.

She's taking pills.

When Mads disappeared back then,

was there ever a suspect?

Did Egon have anything?

Egon?

Egon was an idiot.

He just wanted to retire, that was all he wanted.

That dead boy we found in the forest...

He was dressed like in the '80s.

Maybe all this has something to do with what happened back then.

Maybe it's all happening again.

Maybe it's the same perpetrator.

Where were you the night Mads disappeared?

Mom said you were home. But I remember, you weren't.

You weren't there for dinner.

You didn't come home until late that night.

Mom was staring at the clock the whole time.

Then at some point...

she started to pray.

Very softly.

And you weren't there.

Where were you?

Do you suspect me now?

I've made a lot of mistakes,

but that you could even think such a thing...

Where were you five days ago, when Mikkel disappeared?

He was here.

Where else would he have been?

How you two fought over these figures!

It was Christmas.

1985.

You ended up going at each other like two boxers.

Mads smashed into the glass table in the living room.

There was so much blood, like in a horror movie.

But in the end...

it turned out to be just a small cut.

On his chin.

You both laughed yourselves silly.

That's how you were.

One minute you hated each other's guts,

the next minute you were best friends.

Mom, why did you lie?

Dad wasn't home that evening.

You told Egon back then that Dad was with us.

I listened to the recording. So why did you lie?

Did you know that I wanted to leave your father?

Before it all happened.

He was having an affair.

It wasn't the first one.

And the night Mads disappeared...

he was with her.

While your brother disappeared, he was sleeping with another woman.

Do you know who she was?

Claudia.

Claudia Tiedemann.

Who was the last person to see Mads that evening?

It was Regina.

Regina Tiedemann.

Claudia's daughter.

You've reached Aleksander Tiedemann.

Please leave a message after the signal.

Hey.

Hey.

How are you?

Good.

You didn't call me back.

I was getting worried.

I...

I'm so sorry about everything.

It's all my fault.

I shouldn't have had that stupid idea with the caves.

Hey.

Say something.

Are you angry with me?

No.

Why should I be angry?

I can't do this right now.

Do you want to leave?

I'll run away with you.

Honestly.

The play is about to start.

Have you seen Jonas?

Why?

No reason. The jerk stood me up yesterday.

But... whatever.

I'm sure he'll come later.

NO ENTRY!

MISSING

ITEMIZED TELEPHONE BILL RECIPIENT MR. ULRICH NIELSEN

Hello?

Ulrich?

What are you doing here?

1986.

The night my brother went missing.

What really happened?

That was over 30 years ago.

You were the last one to see him that night.

Did you notice anything unusual that day?

Did he say something? Something strange? Anything at all?

Did you know they were having an affair?

Your mother and my father.

Mads was the only person I knew who never said a bad word about anyone.

I've always asked myself, why him, of all people?

I always thought it should have happened to you instead of him.

But there's no justice in this world.

And the absurd thing is...

had it not been for you and Katharina,

maybe Mads wouldn't have disappeared.

Mads knew I was afraid to walk home alone because of you two.