Autopsy: burnt eyes, burst eardrums, scrambled otoconia
The coroner walks Charlotte through the dead boy's injuries: melted eyes, destroyed ear canals and balance grains knocked out of place.
S1E2 · Lies
14 moments · 12 min of essential viewing in a 45-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Magnus tackles Franziska in the woods
Magnus pins a girl he catches sneaking around the cave; she admits she overheard talk about Erik's drugs and offers an awkward apology about Mikkel.
Jana asks Tronte where he was last night
Jana presses her husband about his midnight absence and gets a thin story about bushes and a gas station, then says it all feels exactly like Mads.
Martha asks about the uncle who was never found
Martha asks Katharina how old her father was when Mads vanished, recalls Mikkel's fear of never being found, and insists her brother is coming back.
The dead boy wears 1986: Charlotte briefs the station
Charlotte lays out the evidence: red soil, '80s clothes and Walkman, a 1986 pfennig on a red cord, and a cassette that plays an eerie song.
Ulrich demands a search warrant for the plant
Ulrich tells Charlotte about a door in the cave leading to the nuclear plant and argues the three cases are connected, just like back then.
Aleksander orders Jürgen to clear the barrels tonight
Aleksander tells a nervous employee the police will soon be crawling over the plant and that the job must be done tonight, with no talking.
A stranger checks into the Forest Hotel
A hooded man asks for a room at the near-empty hotel; a grieving grandfather is told the whole town will find the boy and answers with quiet doubt.
Bending time and space: the black hole lecture
Over the caves, a recorded voice explains how gravitational anomalies might bend time and space, and asks what price such a journey would cost.
Ulrich screams at Aleksander through the plant gate
Locked out of the plant, Ulrich begs then rages at Aleksander, calling him an asshole and vowing to return with a warrant to open the gate.
Hannah's visit: Ulrich can't do this now
Hannah turns up at the station wanting Ulrich; he pulls away, shuts down her advances and promises only that he will call.
Ulrich corners Jürgen at the junkyard
Gun drawn, Ulrich finds Erik's drug stash in the scrapyard; a broken father asks where his boy is and gets no answer.
Jonas asks Hannah whether she loved his father
Jonas wonders if his dad kept secrets; Hannah admits she misses a notion of him and may never have known who he really was.
Mikkel knocks on his own door and meets young Ulrich
Mikkel insists he lives here; a teenage Ulrich and Katharina mock him as the wrong-house fool, and a Chernobyl headline dates the year.
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