S1E6 · Sic Mundus Creatus Est

Moments, in order

A nightmare in the dark: calling for Katharina and Ulrich
The episode opens inside a dream of running and screaming for help, before a quiet reassurance that everything is all right.
1m 09sJonas KahnwaldHannah Kahnwald#cold open #nightmare #dream
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Charlotte orders Winden turned upside down
With one boy dead and three children missing, Charlotte briefs the police: every door, every basement, fifty years of archives.
40sCharlotte Doppler#investigation #police briefing #missing children
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Jonas asks Hannah how she met his father
Jonas asks his mother about meeting his father in a hospital at fourteen, and what he was like before he got sick.
1m 11sJonas KahnwaldHannah Kahnwald#grief #mother and son #backstory
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1986: Jana's statement on the night Mads vanished
Old headlines about Mads Nielsen, then a recorded police interview in which his mother insists the whole family was home waiting.
35sJana NielsenEgon Tiedemann#1986 #mads nielsen #police interview
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Martha fights Katharina and Magnus says it out loud
Martha wants to go to the school play, Katharina wants her home, and the shouting ends with Magnus saying what nobody dares to.
1m 34sMartha NielsenKatharina NielsenMagnus Nielsen#grief #family fight #nielsen family
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Ulrich asks his father where he was the night Mads disappeared
Ulrich visits Tronte, floats that the dead boy from the forest links to 1986, then turns the question on his own father.
1m 58sUlrich NielsenTronte Nielsen#father and son #suspicion #mads nielsen
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Jana reveals Tronte's affair with Claudia Tiedemann
Over a memory of two brothers brawling at Christmas, Jana admits she lied to the police in 1986 and names the woman Tronte was with.
1m 41sJana NielsenUlrich Nielsen#mother and son #affair #reveal
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Jonas and Martha before the play; Bartosz asks where Jonas is
Martha blames herself for the night at the caves and offers to run away with Jonas; moments later Bartosz asks if anyone has seen him.
1m 34sJonas KahnwaldMartha NielsenBartosz Tiedemann#guilt #love triangle #jonas and martha
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Regina tells Ulrich why Mads walked through the forest
Ulrich demands to know about 1986; Regina answers with the bullying that sent Mads home through the forest and the rape accusation.
2m 19sUlrich NielsenRegina Tiedemann#confrontation #1986 #old wounds
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Katharina on the radio: this city is sick
Katharina calls a radio phone-in as a missing child's mother and tells Winden there is a murderer among them behind some neighbour's door.
1m 37sKatharina Nielsen#monologue #radio #accusation
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Aleksander learns Regina's cancer has spread
Chasing missing test results, Aleksander hears from the screening centre that his wife's carcinomas have metastasized.
34sAleksander Tiedemann#phone call #cancer #tiedemann family
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Ulrich calls Hannah poison
Ulrich confronts Hannah over her 1986 statement against him, asks what she wants, and gets a one-word answer before he tears into her.
1m 13sUlrich NielsenHannah Kahnwald#confrontation #breakup #affair
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Regina and Aleksander: I'm here for you, no matter what
Minutes before the play, Regina calls Aleksander; he tells her he is there for her no matter what, and they trade I-love-yous.
42sRegina TiedemannAleksander Tiedemann#phone call #marriage #tiedemann family
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Martha's Ariadne monologue: a loose end in time
On stage, Martha delivers Ariadne's descent into darkness: no king's daughter, no man's wife, no brother's sister, her only judge herself.
2m 41sMartha Nielsen#monologue #ariadne #school play
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Katharina and Hannah brawl after the play
After the curtain, a barbed exchange between Hannah and Katharina turns physical, and Hannah tells the kids who their mother really is.
2m 42sHannah KahnwaldKatharina NielsenMartha Nielsen#fight #school play #hannah vs katharina
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Martha and Magnus: you don't really know your parents
Unable to sleep, the Nielsen siblings talk about the fight at school and how little anyone in a family knows about each other.
1m 33sMartha NielsenMagnus Nielsen#siblings #family #late night talk
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