Krank: Berlin (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

1
[high-pitched ringing, distorted]
[cleaner] Morning.
[Ben] Shit
Shit
[groans]
You, hey, hey.
Uh. Wait a sec. Take those off.
I put something in a bag.
Cake boy! Dom.
Is this what you're looking for?
Nope. Just give it to me.
I'll look myself.
[Emina] Hey!
- Huh?
- Dom, the cake doctor.
At least you shut up when you're hungover.
Yeah, yeah
You look like shit again today,
by the way.
[bicycle bell rings]
Here?
Perfect. Thanks.
[sighs] Okay, then. Have a good night.
Don't send photos. It gets me down.
I can't promise that.
Okay.
One last swig.
[Dom] Hmm.
[rustling]
[Dom] Ben?
Yeah.
Need help?
No. I'll be right there.
[Dom] Okay.
[sighs]
BERLIN ER
Hopefully not another druggy.
[Olivia] Why do you suspect drugs again?
[Olaf] I suspect drugs behind
every door in this part of town.
Thank you.
- [club music]
- Okay. Watch it. Watch it, please.
Watch it! Clear the way, please.
Careful. Careful!
- Hi.
- Hi.
[clubber] Hi, this way.
We have to go in the back.
Okay, think you can make it
through here without a stupid remark?
Hello. Paramedics.
Could you please tell him
he needs to go to the hospital?
- I've worn corsages that hurt more.
- Not true.
Honey, you want
to go on stage in this state?
Is this how you want to be remembered?
Forget it.
You have stomach pain?
[groans]
Can you just give me
something that works fast, please?
I need to get back on stage.
I'm not canceling the show.
Olaf?
- Christian. Hi.
- Jeez, Christian.
- What What a surprise!
- Isn't it?
[laughs] You work here?
Yeah, hence "Jacky",
with the dress and all.
Hello? Why don't you two
get a room already? [groans]
[Olivia] Green pipe, right?
Yeah. We have to go.
Probably the gallbladder. No fun.
I am so not going to the hospital.
I hate hospitals. I don't want to go.
- [Olivia] Arm, please.
- You have to.
[Olivia] Careful. Painkiller.
Keep inhaling and you'll feel better.
Take deep breaths.
- You made it. You'll be alright.
- [grunts]
[Olaf] Gurney.
[drag queen] Go get the fucking gurney!
Hey, a bit nicer, please.
She's my colleague.
- Is she coming?
- You're standing on my foot.
Two, three.
Happy birthday to you ♪
Happy birthday, dear Zanna ♪
Happy birthday to you ♪
[cheering]
Where is everyone?
Reception.
Computers are down. Nothing's working.
[Ben] Uh, Nezire.
I need something from the drug cabinet.
[Zanna] No, no, no.
Would you accompany
Dr. Weber and co-sign, please?
Thanks.
[woman]
My boyfriend just wants to register
Can you give us a minute?
What's that?
It's so the patients stop
bothering us every three seconds.
Okay, but Wait, watch out.
If we stick it here,
they don't have to pass by
the open window every time, right?
- And no one's triaging up front.
- We're understaffed, as always.
- Can't play chess with three pieces.
- I know we need more money.
I'll talk to Beck tomorrow.
[Nezire] Aha!
[grunts]
I'll talk to him now.
[Beck] Open up, you piece of shit!
- Problem with your car?
- [Beck] No.
With my mother.
What is it?
Two weeks ago,
I requested new computers for the ER.
The last one just crashed
and we're on the verge
of using pen and paper.
And now?
Now, I'd like us
to take a look at the finances,
so that together,
we can figure out how
You go and do that then.
It's your ER now.
May I?
Battery's probably dead.
Have a nice evening.
Alright.
Thank you.
Okay, so, from the looks of it [laughs]
It looks like all our computers are down
and we're back to analog.
But we're not gonna let that stop us.
I say nurses take front
- Won't give up without a fight, cake boy?
- Yes.
So back here, how do you suggest
we organize ourselves?
Okay
I guess, just wing it. [sighs]
My name is Dominik Kohn,
I'll be doing a quick initial assessment.
What brings you here today?
Are you blind, or what?
Look at his face.
Okay, so I assume
you're here about your rash?
Um. How long have you had it?
A few hours.
- A few hours?
- Mm-hmm.
It's probably an allergic reaction.
- Do you have any allergies?
- No.
- Did you use a new cream?
- No.
- Or did you eat something
- No.
- It's not an allergy.
- It certainly looks like one.
He doesn't have any allergies, man.
We should take care of the swelling
- Want me to get you a snack?
- I'll be right back.
Dr. Ertan, did I cross a line
or do you just enjoy making fun of me?
Not at all. That's not what I mean.
We just don't have time
to be our patients' buddies.
Okay, but can we quiz the patients
to find out what's wrong, or not?
Hmm. A little faster maybe.
- [Freddie] Emina?
- Yes, what?
I got a Muslim patient
that wants a Muslim doctor.
Then please find her
a Muslim doctor, Freddie.
Come on, will you?
Unreal
Let's go.
[in Turkish] Hey, sis.
[in English]
Have a great shift.
[Emina] Go home.
[Olivia] How come you know a drag queen?
- Oh, now you want to know.
- Of course.
I'm her background dancer.
Yeah, right.
No, her father and I were
squatters together 40 years ago.
Now boomers are raking it in
from those apartments.
And we still have a housing shortage.
- [Olivia] Can I do the handover?
- Yeah.
Hey. What do we have here?
Upper abdomen.
I have this terrible pain in my stomach.
It won't go away.
It keeps coming back.
- Then it's gone again
- Pain comes in intervals.
- Maybe it's the gallbladder.
- One second.
I'll be back with you soon.
All our computers are down. It's chaos.
- I have an important gig in four days
- Honey, please be quiet.
What she needs is medical help.
Medical help is one thing
we can definitely do.
Thanks for your patience.
Take care of her.
She's one of Berlin's cultural treasures.
We can't lose her.
[Dom] In that case,
I'd better keep a close eye on her.
[groaning]
You're going to be okay.
[knocks on door]
[Ben] So, Ms. Parker.
Today is a special day.
We remove the staples.
[Zanna] Hmm Okay.
Would you be interested
in taking a salary cut, by any chance?
- Uh, no.
- [Zanna] Shame. I thought as much.
[Ben] There we go.
Mind holding this, please?
Lean your head this way.
Oh, come here, you
Happy birthday.
How do you know it's my birthday?
May I?
So, you gonna celebrate?
Nope.
Ah.
[knocks on door]
Ben, we need you in room three.
Yeah.
- [Nezire] Now.
- Yeah.
- Well. Thanks.
- [Ben] Right, so
- Yep.
- [Ben] So You're welcome.
- [Nezire] Now.
- [Ben] Yeah.
[drag queen]
Darling, I really need to pee.
No way I'll make it to the bathroom.
It hurts so bad.
I think it's a bladder infection.
[groans]
Excuse me. Hello? We need help. Excuse me!
Hello! You've got to be kidding me.
Huh?
[Adrian] Come.
- Come.
- Where?
- Come.
- Where to?
- Where are we going?
- Come.
Look.
This is my cousin. Luis.
He's illegal. He's sick. Please.
Ben, Ben.
- Come.
- No. No!
Come. Please.
Come. Look. Very sick.
Please. Look, look, look, look.
Look his hands. Please.
Please, Ben. Please.
Sick? Hello? Hey!
It's a hospital. Everyone's sick.
Look.
Look, his face. Look.
Look, look.
What What is that?
Show him your hand.
Look. Look his hand, please.
Look, look, look. His face.
He's my friend. He's a doctor.
[Ben] Hand.
[Adrian] Look. Please, Ben. He no papers.
Kid cousin. 17 years
I beg you. Help me,
in the name of all that's sacred to you
Please, help my little
He's 17 years.
Please.
So he works in the park too?
[Adrian] Yes, he in park too,
but helping family
He make music,
picking crop, help moving
Everything. He great.
- Jack-of-all-trades, huh?
- [Adrian] Yes. Exactly.
So how long's he had this?
How long have you had it?
[in Romanian] A few weeks.
He says it's a few weeks.
[Ben] Okay, got it.
Can you get rid? Look.
Can't work no more.
The blood test results come in tomorrow.
You have to stay the night.
Could be syphilis.
No can stay, boss make stress
No, forget the boss, okay.
This is dangerous.
You need to stay. "Dangerous". Okay?
We have to stay overnight, okay?
[in Romanian] No. Lilia will kill me.
- He can't. Boss, she make stress.
- [Ben] No. You need to stay.
Understand?
Blanket. For sleeping.
Listen, if Lilia has a problem,
I'll talk to her.
We'll figure it out.
Look at me.
- See you tomorrow.
- See you.
Noapte bun! "Good night" in Romanian.
Good night, good night.
[Ben] Hey.
Hey. Uh. Blood tests for Eric Bronkowski.
Don't worry about them.
I'll check the results tomorrow myself.
Do we know how many patients
the specialists treat in this hospital?
[Nezire] No idea.
You still here?
Not officially.
You're still here too.
Not officially.
[staff clamoring]
[Nezire] Anywhere between
a half hour and an hour.
Just down to your left
- [Freddie] Dr. Parker.
- Yeah?
Viktoria's smoking in the toilet again.
As long as she doesn't set
the smoke alarm off, it's fine.
She's smoking crack in the toilet.
Just let security take care of it, please.
[Freddie] She'll be back anyway.
[Zanna] Wait, wait, wait
Hold the line, okay?
I need to find better reception.
I'll leave this here.
I'll finish it later.
[muffled phone speaker]
Wait.
Otis.
- Come on
- [Otis] Hello? Hello?
Aunt Zanna,
why didn't we do a birthday picnic today?
Today's my birthday.
[Tilda] No, it's not.
- No, it's not!
- [Otis] Today's my birthday.
- [Ruben] Tilda, Otis, off to bed.
- Hi.
- It's bedtime.
- Why aren't you in bed yet?
- [Tilda] When are you coming to visit us?
- What?
[Tilda] When will you come visit?
Hello.
[Ruben] Guys, this is not okay,
and you know it.
Look at you, Mr. Strict.
[Ruben] Alright? Just wait.
[sighs] Spoiled kids, those two
Hey, you're a spoiled brat.
[Ruben] Who on earth taught them manners?
Some loser.
[Ruben] Some people shouldn't procreate.
Good thing they take after their mother.
We received Dr. Ertan's application
Yeah Ruben, behind you. Right
- On your right.
- [Otis] Hello.
Oh, jeez Hey.
Come on. Off you go, it's bedtime.
Seriously, now, or I'll get mad.
Sorry, have to get them to bed
or they'll never go to sleep.
Yeah.
- Good night.
- And happy birthday.
Thanks.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[sighs]
[Ben] I wasn't listening.
Wanna go for a drink?
[chuckles] What?
Let's have a drink.
Nah.
I have to look into the finances,
and the computers are all busted.
But it's your birthday.
Otherwise, it's bad luck.
Yeah?
Yep.
I got a tip about a nice bar.
One drink.
Okay.
[trendy club-disco music starts]
Honestly, what's your problem with me?
I have no problem, I mean
Uh. Two more, please.
Uh
Some of your changes
aren't so bad, actually.
Like, what do you want to hear?
How about if you just answer my question?
You know, you're taking it
just a bit too personally, okay?
So you're being an asshole to me
out of principle? Is that it?
No. It's not directly about you.
It's about you trying to bulldoze
a system that worked.
Your "system" basically consisted
of scaring away every new supervisor.
"We run the show from the sidelines",
these were your exact words, right?
But what about taking responsibility?
Applying for head of ER?
That's asking too much?
I mean, why make my life miserable?
At least I'm doing the job.
With a little bit more money,
the changes could make a difference,
but when I look at the finances,
it seems like
no one gives a shit in that place.
We send emergency patients home.
We could be earning so much money
if we just kept them overnight.
How come we don't do that?
Routine operations,
we should be doing tons of those!
Every other hospital does it.
Uh
Yeah, I know,
it's not cool, but got a better idea?
- No.
- Yeah, that's what I thought.
Besides all the partying,
all you have is work.
I don't think you have anything else.
And now you feel like
I'm destroying your world.
Who's Ruben?
I thought you weren't listening.
I was. A little bit.
My brother-in-law.
And former boss in Munich.
Oh, boy
Oh, boy, what?
Well, no one volunteers for the KRANK.
Do I hear a question?
What happened?
We slept together.
It was the biggest mistake of my life.
Happy birthday, Zanna.
Thank you, Ben.
Ben?
That whole thing with Vincent
and the tilidine, tell me
Do I know everything?
Yeah.
Happy birthday to you ♪
Happy birthday, dear ♪
Zanna!
Happy birthday to you ♪
[all cheering]
Okay, lovebirds.
First let's toast to you,
and then drink up.
I'm incredibly thirsty!
Happy birthday, darling.
- Thank you.
- Cheers!
To you.
Thank you.
You gotta pee?
Yeah.
That'll be 25 cents.
[woman] 25 cents. Seriously?
Can't you see he's not doing well?
[Viktoria] Then give me the bottle back.
So just give her what she wants!
Please! [groans]
[man] Here. Keep the change.
[grunts]
Come on, Viktoria
This is madness!
Thank you!
Wait, wait
I'm so sorry, I feel awful.
No worries.
- Sorry.
- It's all good.
- Oh, yeah
- Okay?
[groans] Sorry
So we're too late
You're peeing in a Coke bottle?
Seriously?
Honey, better the pee's in the bottle
than on my outfit.
What kind of a useless dump is this?
I'm sorry about that, I thought
a nurse was already helping him.
Um And you? Everything okay?
Shit
[phone ringing]
[phone ringing]
Yes?
Good evening.
Uh
That's better now
You got lucky.
Could have been worse.
Mm-hmm.
[sighs]
Here.
Don't get used to it.
Thank you.
Morning!
Younger female. Injury to the occipital.
Bleeding's stopped.
No nausea.
No sign of concussion. Pupils equal.
- Where do you want her?
- I'll take her to room two.
- Oh, okay. Coffee?
- Hey.
Hi.
[Olaf] You good?
Daniel Neumann is still here?
Yes.
[wheezing]
Olaf!
Anaphylactic shock.
- When was his last medication?
- 9:30 last night.
- 400 micrograms adrenaline, I.M.
- [Olaf] Okay.
I'll go get help.
Breathe, come on.
Keep breathing, okay? Breathe.
[phone ringing]
Yes, I'll be right there.
[Olaf] Someone's coming, Mr. Bronkowski.
All good. We're here, okay?
You'll feel better in a minute.
[wheezing]
- [Olivia] Sedative.
- Thank you.
- All good, we're here.
- I'll bring him up a bit.
- Mr. Bronkowski.
- [Zanna] Thank you.
Please take a deep breath.
Very good.
Very good.
You're doing great.
Respiration normalizing.
Very good.
- [wheezing slows]
- Thanks.
Did I do something wrong?
Was the last dose not given?
Shit, of course,
I should have reminded Nezire
I was alone almost all night.
I, uh I don't know if she did it.
I'll speak to her.
[sighs] Never mind, I'll do it.
Hey, how are you?
Okay, it's empty. All good. Sleep well?
Yeah? Let's see.
[Afrim] Wow, what a horror show!
Shit. Uh
Listen, you really have syphilis.
- [Luis] Work?
- [Ben] No. No work.
Take three a day for ten days.
Morning, noon, evening.
- Got it? Here
- [Afrim] Syphilis is so Dark Ages.
I'll show you Dark Ages Afrim!
- Hey, man. You see the skeleton?
- Yeah, careful. Come along.
- Promise not to tell anyone, clear?
- Sure, assistant's word of honor!
- Why are you pulling?
- Okay, then be my assistant, now!
Easy!
Okay, watch. I'm taking off the IV.
Then you can go home, okay?
Tell him.
[in Romanian]
He's taking it off so you can go home.
No, not you!
We're all constantly making mistakes
because we have to pull
these shitty double shifts!
[Olaf] You coming?
Dr. Kohn only just entered a second dose
in the medication plan after the fact!
Okay, Sherlock.
We gotta go.
Or the woman who fell down the stairs
will bleed to death.
I'm here for a patient
in the "abandon wing".
Where would that be?
[Emina] Afrim.
[in Turkish] Sis!
- [Ben] Shit
- Ben, what's all this?
What are you doing here?
We're helping them.
He has syphilis and he's undocumented.
- You're helping them?
- Yes.
You're coming with me
to the front desk now.
No?
I said come with me, Afrim, or so help me!
Come to the desk, now!
We're doing good here.
Look, either you come with me now,
or I swear I'll flunk you.
Got it, little brother?
[in Turkish] You can't.
You so sure about that?
[in English]
Emina, uh
Sorry, I
No, it's okay.
Fuck up your own life. Okay, Ben?
But you don't drag us into it.
[whistles]
You have something of mine.
Hey, wait! Adrian!
[Adrian] Thanks.
You realize he's a minor, right?
You realize?
I don't care what he does in the park.
I just need him to pack for me.
He can start thinking about
how to make up for last night's losses.
He Hey!
He needs to wear these when he "packs".
He has syphilis.
Uh
Do you have any tilidine?
I have fentanyl.
Do I look like a junkie to you?
Think about it.
Heya, neighbor, wanna smoke?
[Viktoria] Yeah, give it!
What are you hiding?
[groans]
No, wait a minute
May I?
Holy shit.
Even the nice doctor's at a loss, eh?
Huh
Uh
Come with me.
You can have your smoke too.
[tutor] Move the transducer
from the subcostal placement
to the right to the caudal
in order to reveal
the ureter in its total length.
Kidney stones are displayed
as artifact-rich, echoless structures.
In a clear ureter,
parts of a broken kidney stone
are visible in the bladder.
Honey Bunny, I guess those days
when we'd turn night into day
are long gone, huh?
I'm very tired.
[Dom] I'm really sorry for the long wait.
- But finally I have good news for you.
- Mm-hmm?
So the gallbladder wasn't actually
the source of your pain.
Yes, you do have two little stones
in the gallbladder,
however this is
the true culprit right here.
We can see the remains
of a kidney stone in the bladder.
See? This is the bladder, and down here
We can see some kidney stone residue,
which already detached itself
due to the painkillers we gave you,
and has migrated to the bladder.
Holy shit So how do they come out?
Peeing will probably burn a bit
in the near future.
Ah, okay. [chuckles]
But no surgery!
Right, no surgery.
Here's something to clean up with,
then as far as I'm concerned,
you can head home.
[Viktoria] I need that leg to shoot.
[Ben] The leg will go if you keep that up.
I have a second one.
Freshly stolen.
You gotta quit.
Why would I want to quit?
The therapy isn't even working anymore.
Do that outside.
I've quit a hundred times.
You don't get it.
Be happy, my friend.
Shit
Leave that.
I'll get you a clean one, okay?
Okay, these three
can be admitted to the floor overnight.
- We'll run another blood test tomorrow.
- Hmm.
For the knee and the gallbladder,
we can advise surgery.
They'll be put on the emergency op list.
Okay, so keep as many
as possible overnight,
advise for routine surgery,
and we just collect all there is.
Exactly. What I'm trying to say is,
we use the ER as a net.
Kind of. To fish out patients
for the other departments.
- Is this permanent?
- As long as I'm here.
- Finally, someone's doing something.
- I'm done.
The patient with the kidney stones can go.
Okay, thanks.
The stone migrated
and turned to bladder sludge.
Though he's a cholecystectomy candidate.
But the gallbladder
wasn't the source of the pain.
- It was a renal colic.
- Yeah? I'll have another look.
Neumann, right?
[Dom] Right.
Thanks.
What the hell was wrong with that?
Hello. Which of you is Mr. Neumann?
"Mr. Neumann"?
Reminds me of my father.
Please call me Daniel.
- Then I'm Zanna.
- Hi.
And you are?
- Liam.
- Liam. Hi, Liam.
- Nice to meet you.
- My goodness.
- Cool outfit.
- Thank you.
Second doctor in five minutes.
You're trying hard!
I'd like to talk to you
about going home or not.
Could I take another look
at your gallstones? Is that okay?
- Sure, of course.
- It'll be quick.
Liam, have a seat.
You're welcome to watch.
This is the gallbladder.
So, the rest of the kidney stone
won't cause any more problems.
This here, these two dots, however,
are gallstones
that are still in your gallbladder.
Have you considered
having them removed by way of surgery?
Mm-mmm.
Excuse me,
but the other doctor said that the stones,
no matter which one
you're talking about, had
- Migrated?
- Migrated, exactly.
And that we just need to watch them.
Right. Well, the kidney stone migrated.
The gallstones, however,
are still in the gallbladder.
And that's something that
could cause complications down the line.
Uh
So are you saying
I'm going to need surgery after all?
I'm super scared of surgeries.
I really don't want to do that.
And I have a big show
in four days that I can't miss.
We were just leaving right now.
Right, I understand that.
And this may feel like an ambush.
All I can say is I assure you that
removing a gallbladder
is a routine procedure, okay?
There's no significant risk involved.
Very low.
Yeah
I mean, she's the head doctor.
Oh, you're the head doctor?
Hey Hey!
We said you'd do that outside.
Hello?
Wake up. Hey!
Look, here.
[whispered] Hello? Viktoria?
Shit.
Oh, shit
[Liam] Daniel, it's gonna be okay.
I'm by your side, my love.