THE SIGNAL
{an8}That's impossible.
{an8}Where's it coming from?
- Let me through! - We just need the intercom.
Get out!
Sven, you need to...
Help me.
Why was your wife in the cockpit? What was she talking about?
I have no clue.
- I think you do. - Sven, you need to...
I'm sorry. I love you.
- I'm sorry. - Stop.
I love you.
- I can turn it up. - I'm sorry. I love you.
- Stop! - Mom?
- Charlie. - Mom? Where is she?
Charlie! She's not here.
I heard her!
Charlie! She isn't here!
- Charlie! - Mom!
Charlie! That wasn't Mom!
- Where is she? I heard her! - No. It was a recording.
- What recording? - I don't know. From the cockpit.
- What cockpit? - From the plane.
But why was she there?
I don't know, Charlie. I don't know either.
Oh God, Sven.
Yes, Kathrin, it's...
It's so awful. I don't know what to say.
I don't know. Right now is...
Charlie.
Let me know if you need help, okay?
- Yes, you... - Here. You have to eat something.
That's so nice. Thanks.
What should I do with all this pasta salad? I...
Start downstairs and work your way up.
Come in, 12-3. Federal police requesting assistance.
Do you have the position?
Hadi.
Hadi, wake up.
When was it?
Just now.
And now?
I can't find it anymore. Maybe I was wrong.
Maybe it did come from Earth.
We're in the middle of the dead zone, over the Atlantic.
A ship.
- A ship? - Yes.
No. Impossible. Look where the antenna is pointing.
Out into space.
So straight out of deep space.
Yes.
A child.
I seriously doubt it is a child.
It's someone imitating us.
We have to wake the others.
Paula.
Wait.
If that signal is really coming from outer space, then it's a big deal.
They won't leave it to two little scientists
from a private foundation.
- The politicians will take over. - And we'll be out.
Look at how our world acts in a crisis.
Paula, I know what I'm talking about.
I grew up somewhere else. I've seen a thing or two.
You don't want that.
Shit. Yeah, maybe.
Let's try to find the signal again.
Okay. Maybe you're right.
- Maybe we have to be sure first. - Right. Yes.
Let's start looking.
- I can't sleep anyway. - I don't think I'll ever sleep again.
But what are they looking for?
I don't know, Charlie.
Can they even do that?
They can do anything.
You have visitors.
- Excuse me. - This can't be happening.
- Grandma! - Oh, Charlie!
What the hell is going on here?
Maybe you can help us figure it out.
Let me through!
- We just need the intercom. - Get out!
Sven, you need to...
I'm sorry. I love you.
This is all we have until the black box is found.
If it's ever found.
Someone go check the greenhouse.
Who's checking the greenhouse?
Okay. Where is...
Anything you can tell us about this?
Any detail could help.
- We're just trying to figure out... - No.
Nothing.
Your choice.
It's pointless.
We're too far away, and now we're picking up all the shit from Earth too.
Yeah.
We'll have to do it digitally.
Systematically. One grid square at a time.
It won't work manually.
I'm coming over.
Paula?
Yes?
If anything was going on, then...
Then I'd tell you.
That's what we agreed on.
Okay.
I'm just exhausted.
I'm tired as hell.
But you're right. This won't work.
It's pointless.
- Let's tell the others tomorrow. - Paula.
We just have to convince them to keep it to themselves.
We can't do it alone.
Is that absurd?
No.
So?
You're probably right.
Okay.
Come on, let's try to sleep for a few hours.
Okay.
Don't!
Charlie.
For tomorrow.
Can I be excused? I'm going upstairs.
Yeah, okay.
I'll be right up.
But brush your teeth!
If it's true,
then we have all their deaths on our conscience.
And you know exactly why.
Sistine Chapel.
Bach, Beethoven, Mozart.
Putin, Trump, Bolsonaro.
- Joan of Arc. Mother Theresa. - Rosa Luxemburg.
Pol Pot, Mao, Hitler, Stalin.
Hagia Sophia, Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu.
North Korea, 9/11, Uyghurs, Islamic State, Boko Haram.
- Guantánamo. - Abu Ghraib.
- Srebrenica. - Mullahs in Iran.
Genocide, slave trade, crusades, the Inquisition, witch trials.
I told you, don't debate with the history teacher.
His knowledge of human malevolence knows no bounds.
True.
- So what's the upshot? - What's the upshot?
Live well, protect your loved ones, leave Earth no dirtier than it already is.
Visions have always made the world worse.
- We've ruined every good idea. - Indeed.
- Indeed.
Enlightenment.
- What? - 17th century. Enlightenment.
Kant. Reason.
"Man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity."
Now she's got us.
21st century.
Digitalization. Echo chambers. Trump.
Man's return to his self-imposed immaturity.
- Dude. - I told you. He's a real killjoy.
It's my superpower.
- Hey, guys, aren't we here to celebrate? - Yeah, come on. A toast.
- Come on. - Okay.
- To the astronauts. Because... - To the astronauts.
- ...you'll fly! - You'll fly!
- Yes, we'll fly! - We'll fly!
Oh God.
Speaking of flying.
Hey!
What are you doing?
I'm waiting until she calls.
You know what?
She did call.
She left me a message before her flight.
Really?
Yes. And do you know what she said?
That we shouldn't fight.
- I don't get it. - Me neither.
- How does she know we're fighting? - But we're not. We're Team Earth.
Come on now. Time for bed.
Take the sweater off.
No.
But it's way too hot.
I want to keep it on.
Okay.
Come here.
I'm here for you, Charlie. Okay?
Okay.
- I'm watching out for you. - I know.
Good.
Good night.
No!
Please leave it on.
You have to take them out. It's too noisy to sleep.
I like the sound.
Mom says it's what's left over from the Big Bang.
It's the stars.
Come on.
TICKETS
Wait.
Come on.
- Where? - Here.
Here I am. Here.
Paula.
Paula!
- Get it off me! - Hey!
It wasn't me!
Paula!
I have to...
I have... I...
Get up. Over there...
There's the door.
What's "Streich" in English? Paula? "Streich"?
I don't understand.
Hey.
What's wrong?
Damn it! Don't touch me, you bastards!
- But we both heard it. - Heard what?
You were sitting right next to me. We looked for it all night. You...
- What do you mean? - It's not just in my head!
It can't just be happening in my head! Please, Hadi!
It won't stay like this. Okay?
Hey. You're not alone.
I'm with you.
What do I do now?
It's important that you first calm down.
- Okay. - Okay?
Okay.
- We'll get through this. - But how?
Okay?
How?
I see things up here. Things that aren't real.
Paula...
Go lie down and take the pills in the emergency kit, okay?
And... I'll cover for you.
I'll tell them... you're sick or something. Okay?
Hey. We'll think of something.
I'm here.
- Wait. I'll come down. - Okay.
Sven, what do they want from us?
What do we tell them?
What were they doing in the cockpit?
Mira...
What if it happened again?
Don't be silly.
She was just unlucky. She had a bad trip.
- It could have happened to any of us. - But it didn't.
Because everyone's predisposition is different.
It wasn't a bad trip.
It was full-blown psychosis.
What good does dwelling on this do?
The doctor told her she'd be fine if she didn't do it again.
- It was a warning shot. - Says who?
Paula.
She said that?
Yes.
- Why? - It's bullshit.
Do you know what the doctor said?
Worst-case scenario, she could have flashbacks.
Flashbacks?
Yeah. When she's excited, stressed, or it could be out of the blue.
That's why she took those inhibitors. As a precaution.
What inhibitors?
The doctor prescribed psychotropics.
- What? - So all that can't be true.
She was safe!
Wait, but...
Hadi quit smoking his weekend joint four months before the launch
because he worried about the blood test.
How could Paula go to the ISS with psychotropics in her blood?
It's not real.
Your choice.
After analyzing the transmission,
{an8}the German astronauts Paula Groth and Hadi Hiraj are suspected
of deliberately causing the crash of Air Eleven Flight 7606.
- Let me through! - We just need the intercom.
- It's out. - Sven, you need to...
I'm sorry.
Hey.
Oh God! How long did I sleep?
More than 20 hours.
What?
Yeah.
You're already up?
How long have you been sitting here?
- Don't know. It was dark. - Charlie.
There are people outside.
Charlie.
You can't do this. Come here.
I just don't want...
you to have false hope.
Have they found anyone?
- Where? - In the ocean.
No, I don't think so. Not yet.
See? So you don't know if she's dead.
No one does.
Charlie.
What do those people want?
Come on. Let's have breakfast.
Hey, how do you feel?
Listen.
- What do they... - Don't worry.
They think you had a fever. That you were sick when you left Earth.
Okay.
Yeah.
VOICE MESSAGE RECORDING...
VOICE MESSAGE SEND
VOICE MESSAGE SENT
Why are they here?
Remember I told you that...
I told you that Mom was in the cockpit.
They're on the lawn.
No. Take it off the hook.
- And you asked what she was doing there. - Yes.
Just like you, they also want to know what she was doing there.
- Move away from the window. - But do they think that Mom...
No, Charlie.
It doesn't matter what they think. Okay?
- Sven! - I've had enough.
We're just making it worse.
- Mr. Groth... - How can you...
Get off my property.
Turn the camera off. Turn the camera off! Leave!
Private property. Please leave. The road is over there. Thank you.
Thank you.
This is private property. Thank you. Just leave.
Turn the damn thing off!
- Charlie. - I told you to go back to the road.
That's... You can't be serious.
What does "for now" mean? Does someone have to break a window?
Show yourself!
My nine-year-old daughter is here. She just lost her mo...
You have my daughter's death on your conscience!
You asshole! You're scum!
What did they say?
- They can't do anything. - They don't want to.
Murderers!
Do you know the worst part? Not only was my daughter taken from me...
Murderers!
- ...I can't even mourn her. - Show your face!
Murderers!
This is unacceptable. She shouldn't hear this.
- Come outside! - Come outside!
Put her in the car. Charlie can't be here.
- Charlie! - No!
Get dressed now!
I want to wait here.
You just can't. You can't, okay?
- What if she calls? - Charlie!
We want the truth!
She won't call.
Stop hiding, you bastard!
Stop hiding!
Just for a few days.
Okay?
- How can you sleep at night? - Murderers!
Murderers!
Do you trust me?
Come outside!
We want answers!
I'll come and get you.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
Stop! I said stop!
We want answers.
The 12th orbit!
What are you doing?
The 12th orbit!
The 12th orbit is ours! I didn't wait long enough.
I can't go! Please don't send me away!
Please!
I can't go!
- She gave me a kick in the butt. - We're not out?
- She said we should get back to work. - So we're back in the game?
Yes.
You murderers!
Murderers!
Charlie!
I'm safe.
No more drugs ever. I'm taking the pills.
Medical checkups. I'm safe.
Okay, listen. Here.
My medical report.
Divulge it, and I'm out.
I'll sit with you on the deck.
I'll take the trash out.
I'll wave to the neighbors and sit back down.
If that's what you want.
Do you know what I don't want?
For you to just disappear from my life.
If you pot me here like a plant, Sven, I'll disappear too.
I might not get lost in outer space, I won't die in a rocket launch,
but I'll slowly fade away until there's nothing left of me.
Your choice.
Silence won't help you!
Just come out!
Hello?
No! Out of the question!
Leave us alone, damn it!
MURDERER
I'm here today to express to you our deepest sympathies.
What happened to you
is one of the most terrible things that can happen in life.
Losing our loved ones like this.
Not knowing what really happened to them.
Understandably, it pushes all of us to our limits.
But I want to make one thing clear.
We still don't have any answers, even if everyone claims we do.
We live under the rule of law.
Until the investigations are closed, everyone's presumed innocent.
Go back to your billionaire!
Benisha Mudhi fully supports our astronau...
Shut up, you hypocrite!
Excuse me, I'd like to...
You and big money are responsible too!
Piss off!
Shut up!
- Piss off! - You all have blood on your hands!
- Liar! - Shut your face!
Better?
Piss off, bitch!
It's true.
- What? - He's right.
I do have blood on my hands.
Want a cup of tea?
How is Carlotta?
She simply refuses to believe it.
She's still waiting by the radio. Right now, as we sit here.
Oh God.
Earlier I thought I was jealous of her.
In her world, Mom is still alive.
Rot in hell!
What do I do?
Where are you, man?
I don't want to take that away from her too.
Paula should never have gone up there.
It's partly my fault.
I still think she was the perfect person to go up there.
Come out, man!
Mudhi wants you to have a direct channel to her.
Press this to contact us directly.
- Doesn't she have a cell phone? - I'm her cell phone.
She's a little paranoid.
She thinks every cell phone could be hacked.
Kindred spirits.
Again, if there's anything we can do...
If Mudhi can snap her fingers
and magically make all the people outside my house disappear,
I'll take you up on it.
We can do that.
What?
All people experience grief, pain, and loss differently.
There's only one thing that's the same for all of us.
We all have a price tag.
- Murderers! - Liars!
Hey! Leave her alone! Don't touch her!
Leave her alone, man. Hey!
Piss off!
Are you okay?
I hope you lose everything that's still dear to you.
Dad! Dad, come here!
Charlie!
Charlie.
Charlie!
She called.
What?
I talked to Mom.
Okay.
What are you doing?
That's enough, Charlie. It's going to stop now.
- Are you even listening to me? Mom called. - Charlie, Mom is dead.
- Okay? She's dead. - That's not true!
- What are you doing? - You have to stop.
This piece of shit is driving you crazy.
- Give it to me. Give it to me! - Stop it!
That's enough.
I wish you were gone and not Mom.
Do you hear the people outside? Do you hear what they're saying?
They're saying Mom caused the plane to crash.
That she went crazy.
And you know the worst part, Charlie?
They're right.
Anyone who knows is complicit!
Right!
Fuck you! Leave us alone, man!
Sven, it's Rainer.
Will you give me my kid back?
I can't watch the news anymore. I can't take it.
Yeah, I know it's terr... I have no idea how to explain it, because...
It's slander.
Something totally different is going on.
You were right. Something's not right. It's a frame-up.
Excuse me?
I can't tell you anything. I...
I'll get myself in...
What does that mean?
Wait a second. The doorbell's ringing.
Rai... No, Rainer, wait! Rainer!
Charlie. Charlie!
Shit!
Charlie?
I'm sorry.
Let's not fight. That's what Mom said.
What's that?
"Atheist whore" was probably too complicated for them.
They probably can't spell it.
- What's up with Rainer? - No chance. I can't reach him.
ISLAMIST WHORE!
Something's not right.
I'll be right back, okay?
She doesn't want to hear anything. Be right back.
Please don't...
I knew it.
Rainer!
Rainer.
Rainer?
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Hello?
She discovered something. She wasn't crazy.
She wasn't crazy. Paula and Hadi.
They discovered something. Something incredible.
Charlie! Wake up.
- This can't be happening. - Charlie.
- Charlie! - But she was just...
Charlie?
Charlie!
Stop the car, man!
Subtitle translation by: Laura Hatry