FBI: International (2021) s02e12 Episode Script

Who's there?
You've got a nice family.
Do they know who you really are?
The things you did?
Who are you?
What do you want?
Now, maybe you don't
remember everything.
It was a long time ago.
What is this about?
Indigo.
You're just the first name on my list.
Please don't do this.
Tell you what.
If you get in the noose,
you do it yourself,
no one will ever know
who you really are.
Or we can do it like this,
and everyone will know the truth,
including your precious family.
Did we catch a case already?
I haven't even had my coffee yet.
Murder victim. Tobias Ganz.
75-year-old German national.
What's that have to do with us?
I was just getting to that.
Katrin, how are you?
- It's been a while.
- Too long.
But I'm sure you've been
keeping busy, though.
Scott, I heard about Legat Dandridge.
Looks like I'm not the
only one who's dealt with,
how do you Americans call it?
Friendly fire?
Yeah. We're both still standing.
Yes. How is my replacement doing?
Hanging in there. Big shoes to fill.
When are we gonna get that pint?
As soon as you all get over to Berlin.
This case is interesting.
The main suspect appears
to be an American male.
Appears to be?
I'm still liaising with Berlin Police,
but so far, we don't
have a name or a face
or much forensic evidence.
However, we do have his voice.
There's an audio recording.
A recording of a murder?
Like I said, interesting.
Hey, Katrin.
So good to see you all.
This is Detective Kai Draxler.
He's leading the investigation
for the Polizei Berlin.
Agent Forrester, nice to
finally meet you in person.
Likewise, Detective.
This is Agent Raines,
our Europol liaison, Megan Garretson.
Rest of our team is getting
set up at the station in Berlin.
Thank you for coming.
Happy to help, but we are
still catching up here.
How is there a recording of a murder?
You should just see it for yourselves.
Tobias Ganz, retired
math teacher and widower.
The maid found the
body early this morning,
but Ganz had been
dead for several hours.
- Forced entry?
- A window in the back.
But no signs of a struggle.
75-year-old man wouldn't have put up
much of a fight anyway.
- Security cams?
- None.
But when our officers got
here, they heard a hissing sound
coming from inside this console.
And that's when they found this.
Vintage model.
Manufactured in West Berlin.
1970s. Still functional.
It recorded a man
with an American accent
forcing Ganz into the noose.
Our theory is Ganz encountered
the American inside.
He realized he was in danger.
Pressed this buttoned and
triggered the recording.
This is tradecraft. Old school.
I'm guessing Tobias Ganz wasn't
just a retired math teacher.
He was Stasi.
Just got a file from
Intelligence Analysis at Europol.
Tobias Ganz was an asset
of the Stasi Secret Police
in East Germany during the Cold War.
Now, before the Berlin Wall came down,
the Stasi had a huge network
of informants and collaborators.
East Germans spying on their
family, friends, and neighbors.
A total surveillance state.
The Stasi also had thousands
of spies in West Germany.
Sleeper agents, most of whom
were never identified
after the Wall came down.
So we think Tobias Ganz
was one of these agents?
It's worse than that.
What is this about?
Indigo.
Indigo was an elite Stasi spy unit
that went after its
opponents in the West.
Assassinations, torture,
active measures, psy ops.
The stories are disturbing.
We always thought Indigo was a myth,
a rumor spread by nostalgic,
old men, but now
Is there any information
on the recording
that could help us identify the killer?
A total of 23 minutes on the tape,
but only the first six are usable.
The rest is too fuzzy
to make heads or tails.
But the audio does confirm
that the American forced
Ganz to hang himself.
And
You're just the first name on my list.
Whoever this guy is,
he's not done killing yet.
How did he find Ganz in the first place?
And why would an American
be targeting old Stasi
spies from the Cold War?
That is the operative question.
All right, first things
first, we need to identify
our American suspect solely
based off of his voice.
Raines, got any ideas?
Not really, but I'll give it a crack.
Vo, can you give me a hand?
Jaeger, I need you to get me
everything you can on Indigo.
Reports, cases, files,
no matter how cold.
I know someone who might
be able to help us there.
- Thank you.
- Need some backup?
Always.
Thank you for meeting
with us, Mr. Ballack.
Please call me Simon.
I hear you worked intelligence for
West Germany before reunification.
Simon was head of
counterintelligence, a spy hunter.
He's also the reason I became a cop.
Gave me this when I
graduated from the academy.
Much as I love to reminisce
about the old days,
I don't think this is a social visit.
It's the old days we
wanted to ask you about.
What can you tell us regarding Indigo?
Haven't heard that
name in over 30 years.
Oh.
Indigo was a Stasi sleeper
unit operating in West Berlin.
Five-man team. Compartmentalized.
Each member reported up
to his immediate superior,
which meant only one person ever knew
the identity of the unit's director,
for Indigo meant psychological warfare,
the destabilization of a person's life.
Mind games.
As a start.
Sneak into a target's
home, turn on the stove,
tilt paintings on the wall,
plant evidence of
crimes, break up families.
Rumors circulated Indigo
even went after children.
The Stasi were ruthless.
Efficient.
They never made mistakes.
And Indigo was the worst of the worst.
Now we spent years looking for them
but only found glimmers and ghosts.
What if I told you
we found a member of the unit?
You're joking.
No.
Has has he admitted to it?
He never had the chance.
He was murdered by an American.
An American? Why?
We need everything you have on Indigo.
Files, records, witness reports.
Anything that can help us
find the American's identity
or that of his next target.
Forgive me, but no.
People are still in danger.
I know.
But the past is a dangerous place.
You know that as well as anyone, Katrin.
Simon, please.
Fine.
I'll send you what I have.
Thank you.
You're just the first name on my list.
You're just the first name on my list.
We've input the recording in an
AI program developed in Quantico.
It's called Voice2Face.
Still experimental.
It draws correlations between
the voice and facial features
- Raines.
- I'll skip that part.
Basically, we use the audio to generate
a CGI reconstruction
of the suspect's face.
- Bollocks.
- I'm serious.
Now we can do a digital image analysis
running this face against passports
and visa records of Americans
staying or living in Berlin.
Flippin' FBI! Amazing!
All right, I run it
against anyone with priors.
Five matches now.
Got something.
Paul Kennard. 39-year-old
American from Illinois.
About a dozen minor
offenses, mostly drug-related.
But here's the interesting part:
- Paul Kennard was born in West Berlin.
- Really?
He lost his German citizenship
because he was adopted
by an American Family.
He applied to regain it two months ago.
Is there a forwarding
address on that application?
It's Kreuzberg District.
An apartment belonging to a
German named Anna Dahns, 35.
- She's on probation.
- All right.
Raines, take this one.
You feel like stretching your legs?
She hasn't paid rent.
Three months.
All this trouble.
- Have you ever seen this man?
- Mm-mm.
I'll talk to the neighbors.
Reminds me of my flat
back in Manchester.
This thing has clearly never been used.
Hey, we got something.
"Anna, I'm sorry."
Might be from Kennard.
Anna?
Anna Dahns?
Hello?
I'm Megan Garrison with Europol.
I have a few questions for you.
We're looking for an
American named Paul Kennard.
We have reason to believe
that you and he are
Stop!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey, move!
That's what a five-minute
mile looks like, by the way.
Get up!
Get up!
Anna Dahns, you want to tell
us where Paul Kennard is?
You speak English?
Yes. Piss off!
Oh.
Still not talking?
Mm, she's a tough one.
We're gonna need to find some leverage.
- Anything off her phone?
- Pulled a video of Kennard
and ran it against
the crime scene audio.
The voiceprint is a
full biometric match.
Good work.
There's something else, though.
Paul Kennard and Anna Dahns
are brother and sister.
Paul Kennard and Anna Dahns
are brother and sister.
Now, we don't know who
their birthparents are yet,
but we know that in 1989,
Paul and Anna were orphaned.
Now, the only family they had left
was a maternal uncle living in America,
but he refused to accept both children.
Paul got shipped off to Illinois,
six years old at the time.
But after his uncle died,
he had a pretty rough
shuttle through the system.
Abuse, addiction, homelessness.
Anna was three when she got placed
with a family in Hamburg.
She's been in and out
of jail since she was 14.
All right, so brother and
sister got separated as kids.
How'd they find each other?
Anna's phone shows that
they found each other
on an ancestry app about a year ago.
We're still missing something.
Kennard reconnects with his sister
and then comes to Germany to
hunt down ex-Stasi spies? Why?
We still don't know
how he got the names.
West German intelligence
couldn't even find Indigo.
Is Anna helping him somehow?
Might have an answer to that.
Just chased down CCTV
from inside the S-Bahn
nearest the Ganz house.
We were trying to find footage
of Kennard when, lo and behold,
she was within walking
distance of the crime scene
shortly before the murder.
I think we just found our leverage.
Tobias Ganz, a retired math teacher.
This was the old man who
was forced into a noose.
By Paul Kennard.
Your brother.
Were you in on it?
Is that why you were at
Ganz's house last night?
I don't know what you're talking about.
You assaulted a Europol officer,
and the Berlin Police have enough
to charge you with accessory to murder.
So how about we skip the rage
against the machine theatrics
and get to the part where
you tell us the truth?
Why is Kennard targeting Stasi spies?
If that old man was Stasi,
then he got what he deserved.
And what does Paul
deserve for killing someone
and for you helping him?
You have no idea what
you're talking about.
Enlighten me.
I was trying to stop Paul.
That's why I followed him.
But I got there too late.
Where is he going next?
Your brother left this for you.
He's angry.
I don't know why, but I do know
that anger destroys
everything in its path.
You need to save Paul from himself.
If you really care about
him, tell us what's going on.
Why is he doing this?
Because of what they did to us.
What they did to our father.
Ewald Havertz was an economics professor
at the University of Berlin.
A critic of communism.
He had a young family
- When it happened.
- When what happened?
Right before the Wall came down,
Havertz was accused of
harassing a female student.
His wife, Elsa, died in
a drunk driving accident.
I couldn't prove it at the time,
but it was a covert op.
- Indigo.
- They broke Havertz.
Mentally, emotionally.
And then, he took his own life.
How did he do it?
He hanged himself in his own home.
That's right.
Havertz's son, Paul, found the body.
He was six years old.
I think they had a little girl as well.
Just three.
All right. Thank you, Simon.
We'll let you know if
we need anything else.
So here's what I think.
Paul Kennard somehow identified
the five members of the Indigo unit
and is now hunting them down,
taking revenge for what they
did to him and his family.
Kennard killed Tobias Ganz
in the exact same way his
father took his own life.
If the harassment
complaint was manufactured
as part of a covert op,
then the woman who made it
may have had direct contact with Indigo.
- On it.
- OK. In the meantime,
let's keep checking the shelters,
hospitals, and clinics.
Kennard spent half of
his life on the streets.
He knows how to stay off the grid.
All right, the woman who
accused him of harassment
in 1989 is a professor now.
Dr. Alina Volland.
- I can go talk to her.
- Yeah, take Kellett.
Katrin, is everything OK?
Yes, it's just this
it's just this case
bringing things back.
I grew up in East Berlin,
the wrong side of the wall.
You never told me that.
I remember skipping meals,
stuffing newspapers in my pajamas
to stay warm during the winters.
But we were happy.
Our family was happy
Until that day my
my father found a listening
device in our living room.
What happened?
Let's just say I know exactly
how Paul Kennard feels.
Sorry.
Ja?
Dr. Alina Volland?
Oh. How can I help you?
Agents Raines and Kellett, FBI.
What do you want?
To ask you about someone from your past.
Ewald Havertz.
Um
Not here, hmm?
Ewald Havertz was my professor.
He was a good man.
Outspoken, passionate.
A fierce critic of the Soviet system.
And yet, you accused him of
harassment and stalking in 1989.
Why?
That fall, before classes started,
a man approached.
I'd never seen him
before, but he knew my name
and he knew I had a
half-sister in East Berlin.
He said that if I
didn't do what he wanted,
they would send her to
the Hohenschonhausen.
- Do you know what that is?
- An East German prison.
The things they did
to the inmates there,
I couldn't let them take her.
So you followed orders?
I ruined a good man's life.
I destroyed his family.
And I've had to live
with that every day since.
So make it right.
Help us find the people who did this.
The man who approached
you, did you get his name?
Mm, he was too careful for that.
But I remembered his face.
And ten years ago, I saw it again.
I was reading an article about a
charity fundraiser when I saw it.
On the far left.
That's him.
The man you're looking for.
Got it.
The charity's records
show our suspect's name
is Michael Berkhoff,
an Austrian financier.
FBI! We're coming in!
My wife! He shot her!
Was this the man who attacked you?
Mr. Berkhoff?
He was here when we arrived.
Tried to come up from behind.
That's when he revealed a gun.
We fought.
I don't know how it happened.
The gun went off.
The second bullet was the one
After that, he got scared and ran.
Who is he?
The man who killed your wife
is the son of Ewald Havertz.
Oh, mein Gott.
You were Indigo.
That was a long time ago.
Did you run an operation
on Ewald Havertz?
The one that drove him to suicide?
I was not in charge.
And Havertz didn't kill himself.
We did and staged the scene.
It was the same with his
with his wife before that.
Yeah.
The director ordered them both removed.
I have no reason to
hide my secrets anymore.
- Who was the director?
- I never knew.
I reported to Tobias
Ganz, second in command.
Tobias Ganz is dead.
Killed by the same
man who shot your wife.
Ganz was the first name on his list.
I thought I had left it all behind!
The Stasi had us
document all operations.
Everything you need.
Target, assets, the
name of the director.
It's all in the file.
The Indigo file. Where is it?
Paul has been using it to
hunt down members of the unit.
That is how he found Ganz.
Does he still have it?
How do you know about that?
Because he just tried to cross
another name off his list.
Is Paul OK?
You're worried about the wrong person.
Paul went after Michael Berkhoff,
but he killed his wife instead.
That can't be right.
- Paul would never do
- Except he did.
Your brother murdered an innocent woman.
You have no idea what he's been through!
He has killed twice now,
one, a woman who had
nothing to do with this.
So if you want a third
murder on your conscience,
you need to help us.
After we found each other,
Paul cleaned up his life.
He got a job, started saving money.
And six month ago, he came to Berlin.
We started researching our history,
and we found out that our
father left us something.
A safety deposit box.
So your father had the file.
That's where he stashed it.
We don't know why he had
it, but that's how we learned
the truth of what happened to him.
And to us.
And that's where Paul
found all those names.
Before he disappeared,
he gave the file to me for safekeeping.
Where is it now?
He's the only family I have left.
Where?
Now, I knew she wasn't using this thing.
Scanning and digitizing the
pages is gonna take some time,
so we're gonna keep doing this
the old-fashioned way for now.
- Vo, what do you got so far?
- The list of Indigo members.
Five Stasi registration
numbers but only four names.
Two died of natural causes.
What about Ganz and Berkhoff?
The file does confirm
that Ganz and Berkhoff
are part of the unit, which means
there's only one member
left: the director.
That's the only name we don't have.
Berkhoff said all the information
we need is in the file.
The director's name must be somewhere.
The sooner we find it,
the sooner we find Kennard.
- I'm all over it.
- Anna just got a text.
Unknown number. Message
says, "Three minutes."
Raines, get a trace going.
You lied to me.
You're still talking to your brother.
He's using burner phones, right?
Call him. Convince him to come in.
I can't just hand him over to you.
Anna, we're gonna get
your brother eventually.
Delaying the inevitable is
not gonna get you anywhere.
Call him right now.
Keep him on the phone long enough
so that we can get a trace.
Two minutes should be enough.
If you want to help your
brother, now is your chance.
Take it,
or else I'm the last friendly face
that you are ever gonna see.
Paul.
- Are you OK?
- I'm OK.
Where are you?
You know I can't tell you that.
Maybe we can meet somewhere.
I found him.
The director.
Ganz told me his name.
Paul, please, you need to stop this.
This is the guy who was in
charge of everything, Anna.
What you're doing, it's not worth it.
Anna
You need to walk away
while you still can.
I got your message.
The Riesen chocolate bar. You love them.
Anna, I am sorry.
Just go to the police.
Tell them the truth, OK?
You really think that's
gonna do anything?
Nobody cares.
This is the only way.
Just do what I tell
you! This needs to stop!
You killed a man's wife!
No, she wasn't supposed to be there!
And that's
H-How do you know that?
The FBI are listening. You
need to get out of Berlin.
Run!
- Did you get a trace?
- No.
I can't just lose him.
Not again.
You already have, Anna.
Your brother's gone.
I was trying to stop you
from going down with him.
Stay with her.
Kennard now has his final target.
We have to assume that
he is on his way there,
but we don't know where he's going.
The answer is in this file.
We have about half the pages scanned
along with auto-translation.
- Does anybody have anything?
- Not much.
I've got notes, operations reports,
interrogation transcripts, expenses.
I mean, just pages and pages
of "Big Brother" -style doublespeak.
Nothing identifying the director.
Nothing.
All right. Everybody, stay on it.
Clock's ticking.
Hey.
I know this is hard,
but I can't do this without you.
I just needed a moment.
Yeah.
When I was seven,
my father took me to the Volkspark.
He sat me down on a
bench and told me to wait
while he brought us hot chocolate,
so that's what I did.
I waited.
By the time my mother found
me, it was already night
and I couldn't feel my hands.
They were so cold.
He abandoned us. He
escaped over the Wall.
I never saw him again.
And my mother was arrested
on suspicion of complicity.
And that was the end of my family.
Katrin.
I was so angry for so long,
but not at my father.
They broke him. That's
what they did to people.
How did you get out?
My aunt lived in West Berlin
and happened to be Simon Ballack's maid.
If it weren't for him, then
Maybe he was right.
The past is a dangerous place.
Maybe that's why I've spent
my whole life running from it.
We are going to get
Kennard, and then I'm going
to make sure everything
Indigo did comes to light.
No more secrets.
Vo's found something.
I think we've been
going at this all wrong.
So the Stasi documented everything,
but we're looking for information
they clearly didn't want anyone to have.
I found two periods at
the end of a sentence.
At first, I thought it was
a typo, a random mistake.
The Stasi never made mistakes.
Exactly. If you look at the
second period on the page itself
A microdot.
There is a whole other file
embedded within the file.
Cold War Stasi spies smuggled messages
by miniaturizing reams of
text to microscopic size.
Whoa.
Is there anything on the director?
Here it is.
All five names, including the direct
What is it?
Vo, you got a name?
This doesn't make any sense.
The director was
Is Simon Ballack.
What?
It says it all right here.
The former head of counterintelligence
for West Germany was a sleeper agent?
FBI! Open the door!
Break it down.
FBI!
Simon, put the gun down!
- I said, put it down!
- Katrin!
Now, Ballack!
Put the gun down, Simon!
He just tried to kill me!
This is the man you are looking for!
Don't you know who he is?
He's Stasi! He was a spy!
He clearly needs help.
Please, just take him in.
Liar!
Tell them what you did!
You killed my parents!
- Say it! Say it!
- Shut up! Shut up!
Simon, we know.
You are not going to shoot anyone.
You need to put the gun
down and give yourself up.
This is ridiculous.
- You can't possibly
- Stop with the lies.
We found the Indigo file.
I always thought this day might come.
In some ways, I'm glad it's you.
You are a traitor and a monster.
You knew the gun wasn't loaded?
No, I hoped he'd do it.
I did this on my own.
My sister had nothing to do with it.
She tried to stop me.
You should have listened to her.
It's over.
- And Paul?
- In custody.
- Did he
- He's going away.
For a long time.
What about the guy who did this to us?
What's gonna happen to him, huh?
A different justice.
Of course.
The next few years
are gonna be difficult.
But don't let go.
Hold on to the family you got.
I got you five minutes.
Anna.
I'm so sorry.
Paul Kennard will be charged
with the murders of Tobias Ganz
and Michael Berkhoff's wife.
Germany will not go easy on him.
Not sure how I feel about that.
I'm not saying he
shouldn't go to prison,
but Kennard is a victim here too.
That has to count for something.
What about the sister?
Obstruction of Justice.
Aiding and abetting
murder is on the table.
There are no winners here.
There's something else.
I looked further into the
file embedded in the microdot.
There's a lot more about
Paul and Anna's parents.
Go on.
Ewald and Elsa Havertz were Stasi spies.
They spied for East Germany for years
before deciding to switch sides.
Looks like they stole the Indigo file
to use as leverage.
That's why Simon
Ballack had them killed.
Should we tell them the truth?
After everything that Paul
and Anna have been through,
do they really need to know this?
Do they need to know the truth?
Many of us asked ourselves that question
after the Wall came down.
What is more important:
confronting the truth or
preserving our memories?
Katrin, I
You don't need to say anything, Simon.
I'm not here for an explanation.
Then will you accept an apology?
I'm sorry.
For lying.
For hurting you.
The world will pass
judgment on me soon enough,
but the only person's
opinion I care about
is yours.
Do you remember how, after the war,
they took the rubble
of destroyed buildings
and used it to make
hills all over Berlin?
The Schuttberge.
They built two in the Volkspark.
But by the time I was a girl
and my father pointed them out to me,
the rubble had already been
covered with natural growth.
They just looked like
another part of the landscape.
My point is,
eventually when I look back,
it's going to be like
you were never there.
Just another piece of buried history.
I don't need this anymore.
Katrin.
Thought you might want one of these.
Thank you.
It's not a beer, but
It'll do.
So it's just like you remember it?