Blackout

Stop or I'll shoot!

Fuck!

Mr. Kjaer?

Please come with us.

I found the wood. I need it for heating.

-Just follow us. -Why?

Hey, I don't...

You bloody pigs!

Hey, let me go!

Manzano!

Get in.

Stop!

Shit.

What happened?

I was promised 150 generators but I only got 100.

Yes, that's all we have. You already got more than you should've.

-What? -Yes.

Do you know what's going on? Looting everywhere.

People beating each other over a piece of bread.

How are the police supposed to keep order

if we can't get a bloody generator for a 100,000 people?

We have nothing. Nothing!

Not even radio communication.

We're setting up a network with the army in all larger cities.

We will get you more generators. We'll find a solution.

-Where are we taking them from? -Not from me.

-Forget it. -Retirement homes, emergency shelters...

No way. Nothing on my end.

-Eva. -Don't "Eva" me.

The parliament decided in the fall of 2019 to get 600 additional generators.

Where are they?

Well, the budget went to masks and ventilators instead.

Unbelievable.

We have to speed up the food delivery.

Urgent request from Mr. Severin and the Chancellor.

Everything is taking way too long.

Ms. Michelsen.

You wanted the emergency declaration and got your 250 million tonnes of fuel.

Now we have to deliver results.

Very funny.

Right now we have 368 trucks and 462 generators

to take care of 83 million Germans.

BREDDIN, BRANDENBURG ALMOST 3 DAYS WITHOUT POWER

Anybody home?

-Yeah. -Hi, Grandpa.

-What's wrong? -What's wrong? The internet is dead.

I can't do anything. My life is over.

Stop it.

Grandpa is here.

-Hey. -Hi there.

-I brought you something. -So sweet. Thank you.

Of course.

Can I talk to your parents for a minute?

Go outside for a bit.

I don't want to worry them. In Kyritz, in Neuruppin, Berlin, everywhere...

No electricity. And it's not coming back.

How do you know?

Krassnitzer's neighbour has a battery-powered radio.

And he says terrorists are behind it.

It was an attack. Maybe Chinese secret service,

-or the KGB. -The KGB doesn't exist anymore.

After three days without power, the situation is getting worse.

Due to the continued rioting and looting,

the government has imposed a nationwide curfew.

Starting today at 5 pm, everyone has to stay home.

Violations may result in fines and imprisonment.

Yes?

No money. If you need something, pay with food. Bread, eggs, potatoes.

-Like in the stone age. What do you need? -Hey, Chrissy.

You haven't changed a bit.

Are you still in touch with the others?

Don't you recognise me? It's me. Manzano.

Fuck.

Man, I'm sorry. I'm sorry about what happened back then.

-Get out! -I need your help!

Get the hell out!

Fuck.

What did he want?

Why did he shoot at you? Can you explain?

He's an old buddy. Trying to scare me with a bobby pistol.

-Otherwise I'd have a whole in my back. -Sure, an old buddy. Shooting at you.

What are you doing? Where are you going?

Fucking shit!

This is fucking shit!

Manzano is probably one of the people behind this disaster.

We have millions of lines of program code that nobody understands.

We need Manzano.

The blackout is perfect for him. He just disappears in the dark.

He got shot. He can't be far.

I've been doing this for 36 years. No one ever jumped out of a car.

He has a bullet wound, so he lost a lot of blood.

We will have patrol cars check the hospitals in an 80 km radius.

-Yes. We put out an APW. -He won't get far.

All the gas stations have shut down. We will catch him.

Hello Axel. Thank you.

Are you insane? That's false imprisonment. You can't just have me kidnapped.

-Lisa and Marie have disappeared. -What?

You have to find them.

Didn't you pick them up at the train station?

We had arranged that, right?

The train never arrived. Because of the blackout.

Axel. You always complained you weren't getting enough time with Lisa and Marie.

Now you have them for one week. And what do you do?

You take them to your parents and you leave them there.

-I explained that to you. -You didn't explain anything.

-You told me after the fact. -I had an interview for my exhibit.

All right? I have work too.

I worked on this for months. It was impossible to postpone.

But it doesn't matter. What's going on with the children?

The kids are gone.

You put them on the train by themselves.

You've sent them to your parents in the past.

Yes, but with an escort.

But you don't care! You only care about yourself and your stupid pictures!

-I had no way of knowing... -You said they had an escort.

But there aren't any on Mondays.

You're just lying to me.

Fuck you.

Fuck you!

Frauke. You have to come with me.

Do you know where the girls were when they disappeared?

Kyritz.

Are you coming?

Anybody speak Russian?

-What is he saying? -"The Russian people support the Germans."

"During these difficult times we want to lend a hand.

Let us be brothers and sisters across our borders.

We can set up an airlift with our cargo planes

in order to help where help is needed.

Druzhba."

-Druzhba? -Friendship.

So we are just going to let the Russians in?

-That's just a great idea. -I actually think it is a great idea.

You're not serious.

The supermarket is empty. The kids need food.

They'll send something soon.

Sure, something will fall from the sky. You didn't want to go shopping.

"We don't have it," he said.

You think someone's going to come and bring us something? To Breddin?

Everything will be all right.

We will go get some food. We'll find something.

Are you coming?

Come on!

-Got it. -He broke his legs.

New message from Europol.

They found Horst Dragenau.

Our chief software developer shot dead, washed up on a beach in Bali.

The local police thinks it was a robbery, but he checked in under a fake name.

We're looking for an insider with access to the SCADA code for all power plants.

This man leaves Europe a day before the blackout, goes undercover

and is then killed because someone wants to steal his wallet?

Not a very nice holiday.

Dragenau is our guy. Let's go.

RATINGEN, NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA

Drinking from rain barrels, shitting in the yard, when is the power back?

Do you know this man? Horst Dragenau.

-He lives here. -Did he talk about a trip to Bali?

He doesn't say much. He keeps to himself, Does this thing.

What is this thing?

-Computer stuff I think. -Thank you.

It's like in the times of the stagecoach.

The Swedes actually managed to evaluate

all the data the smart meters sent to Solsken just before the blackout.

This Manzano guy was right?

Yeah.

Using the timestamp of the logs they identified the original meter.

The virus spread from there across the country, to Denmark and Finland.

-The exact location? -Goteborg.

Here. That's a camera from a jewellery store by the train station.

Two Solsken technicians checked the smart meters just before the blackout.

Let me guess. They didn't actually work for this power company.

Exactly.

Unfortunately we haven't identified them yet. But...

-We are on it. -Great.

You just leave the hotel.

I find out where you are, and save your sorry ass.

Without me you'd be in jail.

I want to know what's going on.

It was an old friend.

And you had to meet him in the middle of the blackout.

Of course.

And why is everyone shooting at you?

You either talk to me or this is it.

What's going on?

Well?

Shit.

It's all empty.

-Now what? -Come with me.

"And they all lived happily ever after."

And now it's time for bed.

Do you live here all by yourself?

Yes.

Don't you have parents?

-They passed away. -Both of them?

Yes. They were very old.

But you miss them anyways.

Yes, very much.

We miss our mom.

She always tucks us into bed.

And then she cuddles with us.