Kleo (2022) s02e04 Episode Script

1
[train approaching]
THE PARLOUR
RESTAURAN
[Rossbach] Dear comrades,
I'm pleased we've finally come together
to organise the anti-imperialist
counter-attack in concrete terms.
[indistinct chatter]
It must be the goal of our collective
to activate the organisational structures
of Operation Ludsch.
[low suspenseful music playing]
To implement them on West German territory
and so bringing about the annexation
of the Federal Republic to the GDR.
And we've started making contact
with our comrades in West Germany.
Very good. [clears throat]
Comrade Rossbach,
with all due respect,
negotiations between the Americans
and Gorbachev seem to be heading
towards a reconciliation.
In a few days' time, the Federal Republic
will push through the monetary union,
and our people are celebrating that fact.
You really think our plans are realistic
in these circumstances?
We won't have a monetary union.
The Comrade Minister is in direct contact
with the new KGB leadership.
[low suspenseful music continues]
We have in our hand
something that will allow us to get
what we want from America.
- [all banging on table]
- Cool. That's really cool.
[chuckling]
[glass clinking]
Comrades.
Unfortunately
there's a serious problem.
We don't have anything we can use
against the Americans.
We didn't get the pact.
[theme music playing]
RED FRON
ERNST THÄLMANN
[music fades]
[Sven] Wow. Listen to this.
"With immediate effect,
both East and West Germans will be able
to cross the border without hindrance
wherever and whenever they choose."
- [Kleo] Is that today's paper?
- Uh Yeah.
[Kleo] That's good.
- What's good?
- The pact isn't where they want it yet.
So it's not too late to intercept it.
Have a look.
[birds chirping]
["Ready for You" by Ashley Clark & Catch
Harrington playing over ghetto blaster]
There's absolutely nothing here.
No dead drop. No Ludsch.
No pact. Nothing.
Maybe Kimberly lied to us.
She lied to us, huh?
- There's nothing here?
- Nothing!
Listen, comrade.
[eerie music playing]
What about that woman over there
with the bike, hmm?
Or the two city cleaners there?
[music intensifies]
[indistinct chatter]
What about the man with the binoculars?
Do you see him?
Fourth balcony from the top.
Left-hand side.
Fuck!
Are they all Stasi?
[Kleo] Operative forces
protecting the dead drop.
But how did you
- You're really good at this, huh?
- [music continues]
There, look. That's it.
The drop is in that bin.
Shit, he dumped something in it.
That's the drop, isn't it?
He's marked it.
We get out, huh?
[Kleo] Wait.
No.
Jutta?
[Sven] Your old workmate Jutta?
That Jutta?
That Jutta.
- She's part of Ludsch?
- Get down.
[music intensifies]
[Kleo] She's part of Ludsch.
[action music playing]
And she knows
where the Reagan-Honecker Pact is.
Right then. Follow her!
[engine starts]
[horn honking]
[honking continues]
- [dramatic music playing]
- [door opens]
- [door closes]
- [Pjotr] As ordered!
Are you happy?
It's a fine vehicle.
You've done well, tovarich.
[birds squawking]
So what do we do with this thing?
Yesterday, Mike, I ran over a kitty cat.
- Do you know what the stupid thing did?
- [Mike] Mm-hmm?
Picks itself back up
as if nothing is wrong.
- And do you know who else is like that?
- Who?
Kleo. She has nine
lives just like an old cat.
And to wipe her out, I need that.
[dramatic music continues]
I'm just waiting for the order.
[whistles]
From the top.
[suspenseful music playing]
THE PARLOUR
[brakes squealing]
- [Kleo] The Parlour?
- [Sven] Do you know it?
Yeah. Jutta and I
used to come here after work.
Okay, what's the plan?
- I'm going in.
- What? No. Again?
You can't just glide by,
and then poke your head
into a potentially dangerous situation
on your own, without a plan,
and that it'll be fine.
How else, Sven, are we supposed
to get the documents?
Uh, I don't fuckin'
- I'll come with you.
- No way, Sven.
If you come with me,
Jutta won't say a word.
Okay. You don't shoot that.
No spraying bullets!
Okay.
[gun rattling]
- [bullets ringing]
- Happy now?
So
I'll take this with me,
and you listen in.
And only if I say "egg liqueur",
do you come in, understood?
- Yeah. Egg liqueur.
- Good.
["Wenn" by Christiane Ufholz
& Gruppe Lift playing]
["Wenn" continues]
Hi, Jutta.
- Kleo.
- [Kleo] Hmm.
Nice of you to turn up here.
Yeah.
- A beer and a schnapps.
- Coming right up.
Hey, absolutely nothing has changed here.
Yeah, well Now there are two beers
on tap, and not just one.
- But no more lard sandwiches, huh?
- [chuckles] Yeah, that's right.
- No lard sandwiches.
- Enjoy your drinks.
Cheers, Jutti.
Um, cheers, Kleo.
- [song fades]
- [tense music playing]
[Kleo exhales]
Mmm. [exhales]
They were great times back then
at Sternradio, weren't they, right?
They were, yeah.
But if I'd known that you'd vowed
to be a full-time informant, we could
have had very different conversations.
- [tense music continues]
- [sighs] Kleo.
Okay. But I've not come here to talk
to you about the past, have I?
I'm interested in something else.
What's that?
I'm interested in what's in the envelope.
- What envelope?
- [Kleo] This one.
[envelope rustling]
[Jutta breathes deeply]
I know you're part of Ludsch.
I know this is your headquarters
and this Ooh!
Oh.
is your pay for operating the dead drop
at the monument.
I'm also aware you know
where the Reagan-Honecker Pact is, so
- Kleo, I think you'd better go now.
- [Kleo sighs]
- Leave, Kleo.
- [Kleo] Mmm.
- [tense music intensifies]
- Hmm.
- Kleo, you're being foolish!
- [bang on table]
- That's enough chat, Comrade Straub.
- [shotgun cocks]
[suspenseful music playing]
You never knew when to stop
back then either.
Always stepping out of line.
Well, well.
All of you back here again.
I suggest we have a round
of egg liqueur here.
It has a calming effect.
Go in.
[Rossbach] What for?
- [tyres squealing]
- [music continues]
- [Sven] Sorry!
- [man] Are you stupid?
- [music crescendoes and stops]
- Hello!
A very good afternoon.
[groans]
[woman groans]
[Sven gasps]
[electronic music playing]
- [whimpers]
- [gun clicking]
Uh
[groans]
- [bottle shatters]
- [groans]
[objects clattering]
[Kleo exhales]
- We can settle this the easy way.
- Really?
[music continues]
You telling us where the pact is?
Long live socialism. [grunts]
[groans]
[music stops]
Oh, no.
[coin rattles]
[jukebox powers down]
Look how it escalated.
[Kleo groans]
You know him?
Yeah.
Rossbach.
My instructor.
He was always an idiot.
But for him to die is a shame.
Yeah. Well, he doesn't count.
[calm music playing]
You tried to do things peacefully
and I'm proud of you.
- [Kleo] Jutta, wake up!
- [Jutta groans]
- [Kleo grunts]
- [Jutta gasps]
- Where's the pact? Who has it?
- Uh
- [Kleo grumbles]
- [funky music playing]
Jutta, this one is loaded,
so you'd better talk.
- [Jutta] Uh, we don't have the pact.
- Why don't you have it?
It was all going to plan.
Our comrade from the American embassy
left the bag containing the pact
at the dead drop as planned.
But when I arrived,
the thing wasn't there.
Bag gone, pact gone. Nothing.
Vanished. Someone screwed us over.
Who was it who screwed you?
[Jutta] If only I knew.
The operation is top secret.
It's all on a need-to-know basis.
No one knows the whole plan.
For fuck's sake, who created the plan?
Fucking who's behind Ludsch?
[breathes deeply] Okay, okay, okay.
The Comrade Colonel General.
[clicks tongue] Your grandpa.
[low mysterious music playing]
Yeah.
Ludsch was Otto's plan.
His idea for eternity.
Grandpa died.
[theme music playing]
[gun fires]
[theme music continues]
[music fades]
["Walk Hard" by Sebastian Barnaby
Robertson and Wynter Nicole Williams]
[song stops abruptly]
Hey, fish stick.
What's wrong with you today?
It's Ciana.
She may not be my princess.
She's a secret agent.
But from the West. The CIA.
- What makes you think that?
- Well, "Ciana".
C-I-A.
Three, nine, one. 13.
Sum of the digits, four.
And that computer game? Quattuor Saxa.
Four blocks. Four. Don't you get it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, sure.
But CIA.
Don't you think that's a tad far-fetched?
[mysterious music playing]
I mean, maybe she was named
after Leonarda Cianciulli.
- The Soap-Maker of Correggio.
- The what?
The Italian serial murderer.
She chopped her victims up with an axe
and made soap out of them.
And cookies.
- Cookies?
- Cookies.
A murderer?
[sighs] Ah, yeah.
Or it's just that they write "Ciana"
on Sirius B with a C and not with a K,
and all that's on you.
And CIA with a big C is in your head.
[mysterious music continues]
Ah.
- You think so?
- Yeah, I do.
Hey, Thilo, I've seen you together.
This is true love.
At least, that's how I imagine it.
[Thilo] Yeah, Dopi. You're right.
- It's true love.
- [Dopi] Yeah.
I can feel it.
It's so cool.
Hey, you know what?
I'll show you
how to roll a real tulip joint.
Huh? Ey?
[chuckles] Yeah?
[mysterious music continues]
- [Thilo] A tulip?
- Yeah.
[engine stops]
Admit it.
At the end of the day,
isn't it just cool
to be working as a team again?
I mean, okay, you did most
of the hard work, but I think it's great.
We still don't know
where this pact is or who's got it.
Wow. Okay.
Your glass is, well
always half-empty, huh?
Right now, I need something to eat,
a shower, and a few hours' sleep.
Okay, I'll cook for you. I'll make
a Bolognese or a Strammer Max sandwich.
Although no doubt you call it
a Strammer Marx! [laughs]
[emotional music playing]
[pops mouth]
Holger.
I've been waiting for you.
Wow, he's been waiting for you. [chuckles]
Oh, hi. I'm Holger.
Okay, and where's the bus?
What bus?
The bus for people
who give a shit, Holger.
- [Kleo] Sven!
- [Sven] What?
- [Holger chuckles]
- What?
[emotional music continues]
You'd better go now.
[Sven] Uh Wait, Kleo.
- Hey.
- Come in.
[Sven] Wait. That That's not right.
Kleo, that's not cool. If
We We're a team and you can't
And he just comes
Holger.
[music continues]
[both slurping]
[whistles]
[music stops]
[Kleo chuckles]
What's going on with you, Kleo?
[birds chirping]
[Kleo breathes deeply]
What was the call from Belgrade about,
asking if I was with the CIA?
Or the guy who came to my apartment
and threatened me with a gun,
and wanted to know where you were?
Kleo?
I can't recognize you.
Yeah, you want to know why?
[Holger] Mmm.
Because I'm no longer the Kleo
I was back then, Holger.
Yeah, okay, then
we can get to know each other
all over again, right?
Hello, I'm Holger.
[Kleo chuckles]
And I'm Kleo.
Former full-time informant
for the Stasi Reconnaissance Division 18,
Task Force for the Special Issues
at the ministry.
I killed people for the Firm,
lots of people.
They were shot, poisoned,
I blew them up, and so on.
I was put in prison
and I was betrayed by every person
I thought I could trust
in the world, without exception.
And the last thing I need
is someone like you around me, okay?
Someone who makes me vulnerable.
Okay.
[emotional music playing]
And what if we took up from
where we were before this all happened?
If the two of us just get on my Simson
and catch up on our weekend by the Oder?
Just drive away.
And leave all the other stuff behind.
[emotional music continues]
That's a nice idea.
Hmm.
But it won't work.
Too much has happened
and there's too much at stake.
[music intensifies]
I'm sorry, Holger.
But that's just the way it is.
[music fades]
BLAGOYE NEAR MOSCOW
USSR
[intriguing music playing]
[woman] Nikolai.
[chuckles]
Dear Mama. [chuckles]
How are you?
Couldn't be better.
Sit down, sit!
- Some tea?
- [Nikolai] Thank you.
[music fades]
So you finally made it to the top, ey?
I'm quite proud of you.
[wind chimes rattling]
What's eating you, then?
She's still stirring up dirt.
- We have dead comrades in Berlin.
- [mum] Mmm.
The little girl?
- [Nikolai] Mmm.
- [mum chuckles]
[blows]
Give me that.
[sniffs, exhales]
She'll show up soon.
[suspenseful music playing]
You've got to do all you can
to prevent her coming here.
She cannot have the pact.
Do you understand me?
Yeah.
- Mama.
- [mum] Hmm. Hmm.
[music intensifies]
["Die Wundersame Geschichte von Gabi"
by Pankow playing]
[song continues in the background]
When will you be finished?
I need to have a pee soon.
[Uwe] You need to shut up.
- [Jutta] Hi, Uwe.
- [gasps]
Fucking piss-fucker!
What are you doing here, Jutta?
We didn't arrange to meet.
Kleo Straub wouldn't let up.
We have two dead comrades in The Parlour.
So, therefore, Comrade Honecker
- Comrade Minister.
- [Jutta] Uh, yeah.
She has let it be known that there are new
orders from Comrade Zhukov in Moscow.
A slight change of plan, therefore.
- [Mike] Uwe?
- What? Another change of plan?
- Uwe?
- What is it?
Uh, would you happen to have
something I could cover myself up with?
We're wasting time here.
- What are you saying?
- [Jutta] Here. A new target.
[dramatic music playing]
- Mmm.
- Really?
[bird squawks]
["Heatwave" by Richard Mark Salmon,
Mickey Bruce & James Green playing]
[indistinct chatter]
- ["Heatwave" continues]
- [door opens]
[Sven] Yo, Freddy.
Want to go to the cinema?
Dances with Wolves is on.
Oh.
[Freddy sighs]
We need to talk, Sven.
Okay.
[song ends]
[Jenny] Listen, Sven, I've been thinking.
It's been bad.
We don't work as a couple.
As parents, however,
we're great.
We have a great son.
We're doing a good job.
No.
You.
You're doing a good job. I'm just
not a good father.
- And I'm sorry, uh It
- Sven.
- [sighs]
- You know, something just
Just exploded into my life,
and I'm so obsessed with it.
[breathes deeply] Kleo and
Just tell her, Sven.
[soft music playing]
Who? Maybe
Kleo.
You're in love with her.
[music continues]
Okay, um
Jenny, I'm so sorry
about the way it all happened. I'm
I'm sorry.
[Jenny breathes deeply]
[chuckles softly]
[Sven] Take care.
[soft music continues]
Um Could I have that?
Sure.
[door closes]
[music fades gradually]
[soft music building]
[doorbell rings]
[Sven sighs]
Hey.
Is, uh Holger still here?
No.
Cool.
Can I come in?
- Yeah.
- [Sven] Thanks.
[Kleo] Been thrown out
of some place again?
Yeah, but I brought some beer.
Yeah.
[Sven sighs]
[music fades]
[door closes]
[Sven] Hold on a second.
[exhales]
I want to tell you something, okay?
And I've no idea if
Not not because I can
You know, just because thinking about it,
if I hope that
- [breathes deeply] And yet just because
- What the fuck do you want?
I've no idea. Uh
[sighs]
Uh Can I, uh
sleep on the sofa, yeah?
Yeah.
[Sven] Yeah, that
[Kleo scoffs]
[Sven] Uh [sighs]
Why, Sven?
[sobbing hysterically]
["Pure (Pure Energy)" by G.T.O. playing]
[robotic whirring]
Look here, a tulip.
For you.
Oh, cool.
- You know I thought for a brief moment?
- [Ciana] Um, no. What?
That you were a CIA agent. Weird, huh?
[Ciana laughing]
Good morning.
[Thilo] Hey, Kleo. All right?
Did you bring me anything from Yugoslavia?
[Kleo gasps]
- Oh, no. I forgot.
- [car approaching]
[engine turns off]
[Uwe] What's that?
[curious music playing]
[Mike] Nothing.
"Your kiss, your kiss
So hot like a shot"
- What's all this?
- Just a verse.
What kind of verse?
[electronic music playing]
For Comrade Jutta.
Look, you're really starting
to get on my nerves
with your feelings.
Right.
[gun cocks]
["Pure" playing in the background]
[action music playing]
["Pure" continues]
In front of a supermarket.
We just took it. [laughing]
Cool, right? [laughing]
[action music playing]
[Sven snoring]
[snorts]
Shit.
[action music continues]
- [groaning quietly]
- Get up, you idiot.
- [Sven] My leg's gone to sleep.
- Come on, you idiot.
Okay. Okay.
- [Ciana chuckles]
- Breakfast?
Hard or soft-boiled eggs?
["Pure" continues]
- Soft.
- [Thilo] Soft.
We both said "soft", yeah?
We're swaying in cosmic harmony.
- Cool, right?
- [Ciana chuckles]
[ticking]
[Kleo gasps]
[tense music playing]
[music intensifies and stops]
- [tyres squealing]
- Shit. [gasps]
[car accelerating]
[screams]
Man!
Shitter!
Ugh!
- [Pjotr] Good morning, Kleo.
- [gasps]
Pjotr
[intriguing music playing]
Good to see you.
What are you doing here?
You were right.
[Kleo] I know.
Uwe has Sven.
The pig.
They're going to the power plant.
It's a trap.
Spasiba, comrade.
[Pjotr] The purple witch is part
of it too.
[bird squawking]
[Kleo] Ah.
- [Pjotr] Kleo!
- Huh?
And the money?
You'll get it next time, yeah?
["Pure" continues]
- [song stops abruptly]
- Whoa.
- Sven was kidnapped.
- [Ciana chuckles]
- Where's Rose Carmichael?
- [tense music playing]
- What's that?
- Your colleague or superior or whatever.
- [Ciana] Huh?
- You're in the CIA.
[Thilo] No, Kleo.
I thought so too at first.
She isn't, though.
That's right.
I'm not.
- Okay.
- [Thilo] Whoa!
She's an assassin.
- She'll kill you.
- [tense music intensifies]
[Kleo] Well?
Okay, all right.
I was just told to watch you.
You're in the CIA?
Thilo, it was one mission, but I, uh
- You could've told me.
- I warned you about her.
- You're right.
- [Kleo] Well then, hmm?
[grunts]
Where is Rose Carmichael?
Hotel Tegel.
Hotel Tegel.
- [music stops]
- You're coming with me.
I'm gonna get dressed.
[sombre music playing]
[Ciana] Thilo, I'm sorry.
Please. It's not what I wanted.
- They forced me.
- Yeah.
What do we do now then?
We do nothing at all.
It's not possible
if it doesn't exist any more.
If you're not you,
then there's no "we" either,
there's only you and I.
But, Thilo, it was a mission
and I never wanted to
No, you should be going now.
[Thilo] But you were about to go.
If I go too, we'll leave at the same time.
Yeah, of course.
That's an error.
[music fades]
I'll go then.
[emotional music playing]
[music fades]
[action music playing]
- [Sven screaming, muffled]
- [clocks ticking]
[Mike] Sit down. Give me your hands!
What's with all these clocks here?
Different time zones.
For God's sake, hurry up, Mike.
- Can you do anything right?
- It's a bit fiddly.
And now?
[Uwe] Now nothing.
Wait till the old girl's here,
then we'll see.
[Sven continues screaming, muffled]
[music continues]
Flash git.
[footsteps approaching]
[ambient jazz music playing]
Kleo Straub.
What a surprise.
I require your help.
Hell yeah!
[sucks lip]
- Sven was kidnapped by Ludsch.
- Tell me something new.
Does that mean you've got
a double agent with Ludsch?
[Rose] Mmm.
You know this is a trap, don't you? Hmm?
Yeah. That's why I need your help.
I can't go there alone.
You've got him there.
I'm not sure he's the answer.
- [electric guitar playing]
- [Rose] Hmm.
Let's say I help you.
What's in it for me?
I'd owe you a favour?
Really?
Oh, lucky me!
- But no.
- [electric guitar intensifies]
All right then.
Good luck.
Thilo? I need you.
But it could be dangerous.
Well, my life has no more meaning.
And if I die now, it's okay.
Okay. You drive.
- [action music playing]
- [engine revving]
[car approaching]
[Uwe] Here she comes.
You operate the crane. I'll blow her away.
Okay.
Shit, that's not her.
- It's her moronic housemate again.
- [brakes screeching]
She's up to something.
[exhales]
- Oh, really? There she is!
- [music stops]
- The cunt thinks she can deceive us.
- What now?
[action music playing]
[Mike] Get out of there.
Out! Keep going! Get down.
On the ground!
Lie down.
With your head towards me!
[Thilo] Hmm?
- Like this?
- Yeah, head down.
Right down!
[music intensifies]
[object rattles]
- Hey, Uwe.
- [music stops]
You really fall for that trick
every time, yeah? Drop the gun.
[bird squawking]
Go.
Move.
- Chop-chop!
- [Uwe] Okay.
Chop-chop-chop, chop quick gallop!
[suspenseful music playing]
- There.
- Kleo, all right?
- Uwe.
- Drop it.
[Uwe] Don't do it, Mike!
[ticking]
- Ah, but
- [Uwe] No buts.
Just shoot. That's an order.
- Go on.
- [Kleo] All right.
- Wait, wait.
- [Uwe] Lift the weapon back up.
I've had enough of you
already, man! Really!
[suspenseful music continues]
I can't do it, Uwe.
We're friends.
Aw.
You're friends.
Over there!
Where's Sven?
In there.
[Kleo] Thilo? Come here.
Pick up the weapon
and keep an eye on them.
Whoa!
Go on.
[suspenseful music continues and stops]
If they do anything stupid,
you pull the trigger here.
- Understood?
- Fine.
Thilo?
Really understood?
- [Thilo] Mmm.
- [Kleo] Hmm.
- Fucking cunt.
- [eerie music playing]
Hey! Keep still now and don't move.
Or I'll pull the trigger. Like Kleo said.
The fact that I tried to cut your throat
a few days ago in my garage,
it was nothing personal, right?
Yeah, forget it.
Did you serve?
No. Civilian.
You can tell. You're holding
that thing the wrong way. [gasps]
What did you say to get out of it?
Religious views?
No.
Existentialism.
- What?
- [Thilo] Sartre.
- Uh, never heard of him.
- [Thilo] Sartre.
"Man is thrown into the world."
Making choices, responsibility
Uh
- Never heard of him.
- You need to read it. Sartre.
S Sar tre.
[music continues]
Does your Sartre also know
what happens if you pull the trigger?
[music crescendoes and stops]
[clocks ticking]
[whirring]
Oh, really great!
- Thilo? Where are the others?
- I let them leave.
What? How come?
I know it fucks up your mission,
but I remembered Sartre.
You know what would've happened
if I'd pulled the trigger?
It would've ripped
their stomachs to pieces.
[groans] Oh, man! And the weapon?
- [Thilo] Mmm.
- Oh, no! For God's sake, Thilo!
We have to go. Give me the key.
[key jangles]
- And Sven?
- He's gone.
This really can't be happening!
- [car bangs]
- Oh!
[groaning] Oh, shit.
Oh, God!
Always ready, comrade.
Kleo, we're flying!
[Kleo] Goddamn it! [screams]
[panting]
Goddamn it!
Don't worry. Those who disintegrate
become part of the whole.
We won't disintegrate.
Shit.
[action music playing]
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