Counterpart

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.

Aren't you ever sick of that song?

Alphaville's the best.

Turn it down.

You turn it down.

Mira,

turn your music down.

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?