Cold open: black holes and the endless cycle of time
The episode opens on a meditation about black holes, whether time loops back on itself, and whether the past is shaped by the future.
S1E4 · Double Lives
14 moments · 13 min of essential viewing in a 48-minute episode.
Moments, in order
Franziska corners Elisabeth over the missing lipstick
Franziska accuses her little sister of stealing and calls her deafness an act, then brushes off a ride to school and says she never liked Mikkel anyway.
Helge wanders off: 'I have to tell him'
Peter finds his father outside the rest home, muttering that someone has to be told and that it all has to stop, before trailing off into tick-tock.
The Goethe lesson on doubling and symmetry
A literature class on repetition and mirrored symmetry in Goethe is interrupted when Magnus turns up in the wrong room.
Charlotte quietly checks Peter's alibi
Charlotte phones Peter to ask why he called the night Mikkel vanished; his vague answers about writing reports until ten do not sit well with her.
'I never forget a dick': Charlotte questions the sex worker
Charlotte asks at the roadside trailer whether Peter was a client on Monday and gets a far more graphic answer than she bargained for.
Peter's mantra: the beginning is the end
Alone in his car, Peter repeats the line that the beginning is the end and the end the beginning, then sits through a patient talking about the mutilated body.
A stranger offers Elisabeth a ride
Elisabeth and her friend trade a joke about snails outside school, then a man in a car insists on driving her home until she says her mother is Chief of Police.
Franziska's money and the fat secret at the table
Magnus finds Franziska's cash stash and accuses her of dealing; she fires back that her parents' marriage is a lie everyone sits down to dinner with.
'You made me a promise a year ago'
Charlotte asks Peter to pick up Elisabeth, then reminds him of the promise he made a year ago and waits for him to tell her something he will not.
Ulrich caught at the power plant: 'It's my child'
Security hands Ulrich over after he climbs the plant fence; in the car he turns on Charlotte, raging that nobody is searching because it is not their kid.
Elisabeth comes home with a gift from Noah
Elisabeth walks in late, says she met someone, and shows a gift she was told once belonged to her father; Charlotte holds her tight, cold and shaken.
Ariadne's thread: one path through all times
As Helge is found in the woods, a voice reflects on searching for a guiding thread when there is only one predetermined path from beginning to end.
Helge names Noah; a boy is collected
Pressed on who has to be stopped, Helge finally answers with a name, and moments later a man tells Yasin that Noah sent him.
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