Das Boot (2018) s02e04 Episode Script

1
You've noticed we have something
to catch. One of our own.
U-822.
I believe someone sabotaged the radio.
Only Frank would know how to do it.
It's unbecoming of someone who wants
to be a German Navy petty officer!
Next I walk into that room and
tell them exactly who you are.
You're looking for a periscope.
I could kiss you!
If you don't tell us anything,
I'll have to ask my colleague
to make you talk.
Police don't beat people to death!
- Forster doesn't care.
- This is France!
- Ruth!
- Ruth, stop!
As long as he's there, we're safe.
For now. And Elias can get better.
Trust me.
Looking for this?
One measure at the end of your shift.
Petty Officer Grothe is
responsible for your drink rations.
What's our target? The White House?
- He's sweet.
- Can't blame him.
You are
I am what?
Somewhere over there is America.
America
My aunt is in America.
Emigrated shortly before the war.
She wanted a career like Dietrich.
Dietrich, what an actress!
"The Blue Angel".
My wife really enjoyed that film.
And what great legs Dietrich had!
My aunt wasn't bad either!
When I was a little nipper
she used to put me on her lap,
even though I was a bit too old for
that, and then she'd stroke my knee.
Blimey, I felt an
urge between my legs!
Ah, women!
What does your aunt do now?
No idea.
Haven't heard from her in ages.
I see.
What can you do?
She chose the wrong side.
One day, we'll step on to American
soil, then everything will be different.
That really would be something.
America?
I thought so.
How do you know?
From a message for our SS "cargo".
When the radio was still working.
What'll they do there?
Look for Winnetou?
Teddy Suhren told me in the barracks
how he and his men were
walking around New York.
In uniform. Before the war.
Not my thing.
Nor is the Negro music
that the CO lets you play.
Filthy pigs.
Shouldn't you be repairing the radio?
Aye-aye, sir.
Children, here's something to eat.
Do you want some cheese?
- Here you go, Elias.
- I'm not hungry.
Are you sure?
Well?
Ruth, can you try and get your brother
to eat and look after him for a moment?
He's getting worse. He
needs to see a doctor.
- I'll go to the village.
- I'll go.
- It's too dangerous.
- It's as dangerous for you.
Don't be absurd.
You're helping Jews. Do you want to
end up hanging from a tree as well?
You've got 2 children
and I don't have any.
So I'll go. You stay here with them.
Father Michel gave me the name of
the village priest. He'll help us.
Good morning.
Welcome to St. Claire's.
- You're Father Etienne?
- Yes.
Father Michel from
La Rochelle sent me.
Ah, Father Michel.
Father Michel is a good priest and
a good man. He was my confessor.
He told me to come and
see you if I needed help.
What kind of help?
I'd like to confess.
Follow me.
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
It has been over a month
since my last confession.
In the name of the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
I've walked from La Rochelle
to St-Rémy with a sick child.
Now his condition has got worse.
Did you do it on purpose
to harm this child?
Lord, no. I had no choice.
This child is persecuted.
It's certainly not a sin
to help a human being.
Maybe I should have stayed in La
Rochelle. I know doctors there.
Is it a doctor you need?
Yes.
There is a doctor in St-Rémy,
but I don't think he's a wise
choice for a persecuted child.
There is another one, but
he's no longer practising.
Go to Camille's bistro
and ask for Dr. Bizet.
Thanks, Father.
In the name of the German government,
Germany and France are now united.
The bistro?
Germany recognises the
suffering of the French people.
We want to put an end
to this suffering.
We want to begin a
new era of friendship.
Excuse me. I'm looking for Camille.
What do you want Camille for?
The priest said she'd
know where Dr. Bizet is.
You hear that, Bizet?
She called you a "doctor".
Hello, Doctor. I'd like
Your hooch is better
than I thought, Camille.
I'm dreaming that I'm seeing
a beautiful young woman
sitting at my table.
So that we can help you,
you have to help us.
You have to work with us,
so that we can protect you.
In this beautiful country,
there are some elements
who do not share our values.
Communists, terrorists,
agents provocateurs,
exiles, foreigners.
We have to work together
to eliminate these
elements from our midst.
- Hey, Grandpa, what's wrong?
- Please, he's old.
Eunuchs
- You're the worst.
- Mr. Desjesquier!
I'm telling these people
we're their friends.
Forgive him, Father. He's young.
He just needs some education.
Yes, absolutely.
Young people need guidance from
men like you and me, Father.
It's my duty to protect my flock.
But
we're not wolves.
On the contrary, we want
to protect you from them.
I hoped it wouldn't be you.
The one to arrest you, to shoot you?
Forster's looking for you.
You were seen escaping with
the Jews when Miss Strasser
- Was killed by your men.
- Not my men.
Gestapo, police,
there's no difference.
You're still protecting that family?
They need to leave France quickly.
So do you.
You can't come back.
I have to go back to them.
If you need anything,
whatever it is, contact me.
What's changed your mind?
A dog.
Leave the church alone. We need them.
We need to be united
in our common faith
to touch the hearts of the population.
Yeah, of course.
Where were you?
I thought I was on to
something, but false alarm.
Let's go.
We've still got several
villages on our list today.
How long are you planning on
staying this time, little angel?
I need a doctor.
I'm no angel.
There is a doctor in the village.
What do you want from me, demon?
The village doctor isn't the right
one for me and I'm no demon either.
What are you then?
Someone with no home any more.
Welcome to the club.
They took away my
licence after the war.
They said I was mad.
I just tried to patch up the
tattered bodies of our soldiers,
our former comrades.
If I couldn't do it
and they screamed out in pain,
I put them to sleep
very gently
for ever.
Tell me.
Is that the actions of a mad man?
I couldn't care less if you're mad.
There's a child who's sick.
And if he doesn't see a
doctor soon, he'll die.
A "special" child, I suppose?
Otherwise, you wouldn't
have come to me.
How is he?
Not very well.
He can't eat anything.
Did you find a doctor?
Right, let's unbutton this.
You're going to take
a big, deep breath.
OK, breathe in.
Again.
Pneumonia?
There is a miracle cure.
The Germans have stockpiled all
the sulphonamides for themselves.
So we'll have to rely
on traditional medicine.
It's a root that grows locally.
People here call it lung-root.
I don't know its Latin name.
Must I really let this drunk
treat my son with this?
Yes, because he's our only hope.
You're quite right,
sir, to reproach me
for being drunk when
your son is so ill.
But this remedy is the best one
available to a French patient.
Water, please.
Right away.
Thanks.
I'll get you to take this.
You'll drink it all,
the whole spoonful.
It'll do you good. OK?
Open your mouth.
There we are.
How long will it take?
It can take a while.
Dieter is on our side,
but Strelitz isn't.
He doesn't like the SS guys,
but to be honest, he
likes you even less.
I'll navigate when the time comes.
I spoke to the machinist's mates.
The ones who don't have a family.
We've done 10 missions
together. They're with us.
You were right about Laudrup.
We've probably got a Chief.
He's longing to sit on
his auntie's lap again.
Never mind.
But Schiller's a problem. He believes
what Peter said about the radio.
I know.
What else?
How's the morale of the crew?
It's been better.
The SS mission, the broken radio.
It's making everyone nervous.
I see.
Well then
Let's liven this place up a bit.
How's the weather, Fischer?
It's cleared up. Blue skies.
Good chance of a suntan!
Sounds like the Caribbean.
Chief, stop both engines right away.
Understood.
Stop both engines.
What's going on?
Forgive me, sir, but
what are you doing?
Both gun crews to battle stations.
2 additional lookouts on the bridge.
Aye-aye, sir.
Gun crews to battle stations!
2 additional lookouts on the bridge!
Gentlemen!
I've ordered you out here today
because today is Saturday.
And in my family Saturday is bath day.
Have you gone completely nuts?
What's wrong, Friedel?
You've been complaining
about the lack of hygiene.
Strasser, music!
It's January, sir.
We're in the Gulf Stream.
The water is only a bit
colder than in La Rochelle.
We'll freeze our balls off!
What are you?
Cowardly Tommies?
Fat American mummy's boys?
Is this an order, sir?
It's not an order, Strelitz.
It's a test of your manhood.
Who else is a real German sailor?
Why the hell not?
Clothes off, clothes off,
clothes off, clothes off!
Come on, boys!
What's taking you so long?
What is the crazy fool playing at?
No idea, Sturmbannführer.
They're all completely mad.
Yes, totally out of their minds!
Make room for Titch, you pussies!
First man round the boat
gets a bottle of rum!
Let's go!
Mez, Mez, Mez, Mez, Mez!
Watch your back, here comes
Wilhelm! Move it! Come on!
Here come the engine room boys.
Don't let any of them beat you!
Mez, Mez, Mez, Mez, Mez!
Hey!
Aircraft!
Aircraft!
Take cover!
Fire at will!
Take cover!
Clear deck and bridge!
All hands below!
Help! Help!
- Move it!
- Help!
Hold on. I've got you.
Second aircraft at 8 o'clock!
Fire at will!
All hands to diving stations!
Go!
Move it! Get down here!
Faster, faster, faster! Go!
Torpedo!
All hands below! Port 20!
Schiller!
We have to get below!
- Chief, rig ship for dive.
- Rig ship for dive!
Depth charges, but too far away.
Get inside, sir!
All hands on board?
Petty Officer, I asked if
all hands were on board?
Aye-aye!
Flood the tanks!
Stop!
Stop! Man overboard!
- Go down 100 metres.
- 20 on the bow plane, 10 on the stern!
Man overboard!
Man overboard!
Man overboard!
Thank you.
- Torpedo at 40 degrees.
- Torpedo at 40 degrees.
- Bearing fast right.
- Bearing fast right.
Miss.
Miss.
What the hell were you thinking,
Captain?
If this war was going
as we thought it was,
as the propaganda would have us
believe, then this would be a safe zone
and no attack would be possible.
That was subversion.
Schiller was alive
on deck. Where is he?
He was hit.
On his way to the
bridge. I saw it happen.
I'll write it all in my report.
How many men have we lost?
5?
6!
We should recover their bodies.
We let the sea take care of the dead.
Boat's at 100 metres, sir.
Both engines
slow speed ahead.
Hey, Robinson.
What you doing skulking
in the shadows?
I'm sorry. I didn't
want to disturb you.
Impressive he came all this
way to hear us, isn't it, boys?
Is that song for New Orleans?
Gonna record it for posterity.
- If it has your approval.
- Of course.
I hope the piano in the
studio is more in tune.
Maybe it's the way I'm playing.
You wanna show me how it's done?
OK.
Faster.
Much faster. Much faster.
Well, that was too
fast for me, I guess.
That's OK.
Let's take it slow then.
All you white folk, please leave!
This club is now closed.
White people out!
Let's go!
- What's going on?
- I need to find out. Get out of here.
Let's go, let's go. White
people out. Let's go.
Black people against the wall!
Come on, come on! Keep it moving.
I'm not getting off this stage.
You don't have a warrant!
Hey, out! White people out!
I'm not getting off this stage!
Get back!
Get back, get back!
What's wrong?
And why was she arrested?
I I don't know.
Then go see Sam.
He's got the money to pay her bail.
He likes this music.
That's what this is about. You know
Sam and Miss Lloyd are very close.
She wants his money and
he wants to fuck her?
But he is Jack Greenwood's son.
People would start to talk
Stop it!
We both know why you're
here - to test me.
You don't think I'll be able to
get your black whore out of jail.
- What? No.
- You're just like Sam.
You think I'm a
small-time, sleazy lawyer.
But who do you go to
when you're in the shit?
That's not it. You brought
Sam back to America.
- That can't have been easy.
- It wasn't. But I made it happen.
Nobody else could have
done it. Never forget that.
I can make things happen!
May I help you?
I'm here to pick up
Miss Cassandra Lloyd.
Wrongly detained, I believe.
Huh, really?
- Who are you?
- Frederick Berger, attorney-at-law.
I'm not acquainted with
your superior chief,
but Thomas O'Leary, Chief of the Midtown
Precinct, is a personal friend of mine.
Might I ask what your interest
in Miss Lloyd might be?
I have no personal interest.
Kindly show this card
to your superior.
O'Leary is a policeman?
A much respected big shot.
And he knows who I am?
You all right?
I've played better joints,
I've also played worse.
We'll have you in a cab
uptown in a minute, miss.
Thank you, Mr
Thank you, anyway.
- Shall I see you home?
- Yeah.
I'm sure Miss Lloyd is capable
of finding her own way home.
See you around, Robinson.
Sam is a rich, spoilt fool.
If he wants to have a Negro
whore, that's his problem.
You're a German soldier.
If you want me to do my duty as a
soldier, get me back to Germany.
Is that what you really want?
Of course.
OK, I'll help you then.
But first, you'll help me.
What do you think it
would mean for the US Navy
if we destroyed their
Naval Academy in Maryland
and then their Marine
Base in Carolina?
What would be the
strategic consequences?
The damage caused
would be devastating.
The east coast would be unprotected
against our U-boat fleet.
The commanders of the new fleet
that the Americans are building up
would be wiped out.
But how do you aim to do that?
An air strike like Pearl Harbor?
3 men
and a suitcase of dynamite.
But I need your expertise.
I don't understand.
In a few days, a German U-boat
will reach the Maine coast.
We'll both be there to meet them.
If it all goes smoothly,
then this U-boat will take
you back to Germany as a hero.
You're in touch with Berlin?
Like I said, I have my connections.
With deep sadness,
we pay our respects to
our fallen comrades.
We swear that their sacrifice
We swear that their sacrifice
It's customary to say that
their sacrifice wasn't in vain.
But maybe it was.
Just like all those who already
lie at the bottom of the sea.
And all those who
will come after them.
Just in vain.
Damage report, Chief?
Fortunately, only superficial damage.
They didn't hit the hull.
The diesels should be
able to run at full speed.
We just have a problem
with the batteries.
What problem?
I charge them up and power
drains away immediately.
Seems distilled water is leaking.
- Can you fix it?
- Yeah.
With more distilled water.
With a lot more distilled water.
Latest reports say there's a supply
ship in quadrant Caesar Bruno 95.
We can't stop and we
definitely can't go back.
It'd endanger the mission.
We have to. Then we'll get spare parts
for the radio and we can re-fuel.
Get the crew down here.
- Set course for the quadrant.
- Aye-aye, sir.
How do we contact the supply ship?
We'll have to rely on VHF.
Contact the supply ship by VHF.
Arrange a rendezvous.
Sir, is this really necessary?
It would be too
suspicious if we don't.
Tell them our codename is "Scorpion".
But that's U-612's codename.
When they see us, they'll
tell Lorient right away.
They'll be ordered to stop us.
Then we must stop them doing that.
Sir!
A cylinder in the port diesel
engine is making strange noises.
We need to dive, so
I can check it out.
We're too slow under water.
We have to keep going to
catch up with von Reinhartz.
- But we can't
- We stay on the surface!
Anything else?
Is it that time again already, Chief?
That's all you get.
Your reflexes are still working well.
Now drink.
Thorsten! Hurry up!
The boys want their turn too.
Give them to me.
What's up with you?
We will win this war
because we have to win this war.
Because there cannot be
any doubt about the fact
that freedom will always prevail
over the oppression of dictatorship.
And I say this
not without some pride
because we at Greenwood
Commercial Ventures
have succeeded in creating
for the Air Force and Navy
the technology to win this war.
Sorry, Father, if I may interrupt
We're just developing the prototype.
If you don't stop talking about it,
we'll have to shoot everybody here.
All right, all right, I'll stop,
but not before thanking you, Sam,
because without you none
of this would be possible.
I underestimated you for a long while.
Too long.
OK, Pops, OK.
Why don't you tell all these people
what they really want to hear?
Will you or will you not?
All right!
OK, yes, I will do it.
I hereby state my intention
to run for the Senate.
Congratulations, Dad.
My greatest achievement
of the evening.
Sneaking her in right
under my father's nose
for his election party.
I never thought her and I would be able
to be in the same room as the old man.
Cheers.
You shouldn't have interrupted him.
He wanted to praise you.
Fathers don't often do that.
I know, but his way of
praising people makes me sick.
It's a way of praising himself.
Besides, we're not there
with the radar testing yet.
I don't want someone
else to beat us to it.
She really is the prime article.
I do love her, you know.
So why don't you introduce
her to your father?
As the future Mrs. Sam Greenwood?
That's funny.
He's against segregation.
Says it in every speech.
Well, there are limits. Would
you marry a Jewish girl?
I would marry the woman I loved.
Really?
Sam!
Here
That was beautiful.
See, Thel? Someone was listening.
Why did you agree to sing here?
We owe Sam.
He's paying us well. I got a dress.
But you obviously hate it.
I don't hate it.
How will it advance our lot if I turn
down a chance to play events like this?
That's just a self-imposed
form of segregation.
Do I like it? No, I hate it.
I sang my song.
Done my duty.
Not that anyone listened.
Apart from you.
You wanna get out of here?
Your one and only chance.
Off to New Orleans in the morning.
Who knows after that?
Stardom?
Of course, after the war,
we'll have to finally deal
with the excessive bureaucracy
and I think some moderate
tax cuts for high-end earners
should provide some real
incentive for industry.
Don't you agree, Don?
Hey, come on. I want to
introduce you to Senator Corwin.
Harlem!
You won't get this
smell in Bloomingdale's,
but if it was sold in
bottles, I'd buy it.
Are you afraid of my black brothers?
You'll take care of me, won't you?
Depends how you behave.
I still wonder
Why the raid on the club?
Because it's doing well.
Precinct chief figured Joe was
good for another 1,000 a month.
Joe didn't figure he was, so
- So?
- So I guess he does now.
You care for a dog?
- Hey
- Hello.
- 2 hot dogs, please.
- Sì, sì.
But that's not why you're
brooding, Robinson.
- Thank you.
- What's up?
- It's nothing.
- Come on, I saw you back there.
Something's eating you right up.
I helped Sam with his radar.
So? That's good.
Could lead to many deaths.
Yeah, of Nazis.
Germans. Not all Germans are
Nazis. Not by a long way.
- They're not your people.
- Not every German is a Nazi.
But the others, the non-Nazis,
don't stop them, so
there is no distinction.
Here you go.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Have a good evening.
Why did you help him
if you didn't want to?
I felt like I didn't have a choice.
Didn't you?
I don't know.
Maybe I just wasn't prepared to
accept the consequences of refusing.
That's how we find
ourselves in chains.
Fear of consequences.
The only consequence I feared
was I wouldn't see you again.
Let's go.
Oh, my God!
Come on. Get some meat on your bones.
Could you go wait in my
room? It's just there.
How was the party?
Great. They loved it.
You're only lying to the Lord.
My landlady.
I'm just renting.
I know they use this
room when I'm not here.
You should get yours off too.
It's not that warm in here.
I must tell you something.
I'm not
You're not what, Robinson?
I don't know who I am any more.
From the moment I arrived in America,
I was desperate to go back home.
But now
something's changed.
I have changed.
And I wish I could tell you.
Why don't you?
I can't.
That's OK.
We agreed on taking it slow.
LOCATION OF DISEMBARKATION
12TH JANUARY, EVENING