- Hi. - I thought you weren't coming.
My aunt went to bed late. She sat around watching TV forever.
- But what's that shining back there? - Maybe one of the tramps' old fires.
- Really? The ones lying under the bridge? - Yes, but they don't come here. Sit down.
You always came here with your parents.
I learned to swim back there. My father stood beside me all day...
in the water until I finally stopped sinking.
- Do you miss him? - Sometimes.
- And you? Do you miss your parents? - I can't remember them.
I wasn't even three.
- Who is that? The police? - I don't know. I don't see a blue light.
- What's he doing? What do they want with us? - Hey! What do you want with us?
We now come to one of the most interesting organs...
of the human body: Our brain.
Gross!
God-awful!
Karin, please pass around our brain.
- Tim, what comes to your mind with "1492"? - That was the discovery of America.
- Correct. And why does that come to mind? - Because we learned it in history.
Good! This brings us to the question
which we want to deal with today concerning the brain:
What actually is learning?
Gaby!
Well, learning is when you retain something in memory.
- If it stays in the brain, so to speak. - What do you think of that, Karl?
The brain is like an enormous hard drive, like an enormous network.
Be quiet. Karl is completely right. Up to a certain point...
one can in fact compare the brain to a computer.
But it would be the most powerful and largest one ever built. Why is that?...
Because this wrinkly thing is comprised of over 100 thousand million nerve cells!
What could have happened in Tim's brain when, for the first time...
he heard about the discovery of America in 1492, huh?
Ugh! This can really spoil your appetite.
Thanks Willi, but that's not the right answer. Go back in the corner.
Please, go back in the corner.
And Tim, please go to that corner.
Let's now consider both of them to be nerve cells,
who have never seen one another before.
You, Tim, are the nerve cell that deals with the year "1492".
Willi, you serve as a nerve cell having the concept "discovery of America".
Now turn yourselves around, get to know one another, and establish a connection. Now!
Oh...
And now, remain exactly like that!
What happens in the future inside of Tim's brain when I say "1492", huh?
Tim, climb up on this table please.
This is exactly what happens. The other cell also begins to work...
because both cells are so superbly interconnected.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, we call "learning".
Don't forget Kevin's ceremony tonight. He has designed an exciting presentation.
About his invention. The lecture just may be very beneficial for you.
- Do you know him? - No. He's from Schiller School.
I was a tutor there. That's the connection.
- And? What about tomorrow? Are you with me or not? - Man, Gaby!
There are so many great social studies topics!
Why must you always pick something like that?
Because it interests me, Dumpling. And it couldn't hurt you either,
to live for a weekend in the outdoors without TV, Internet, and phone.
- But I can't ride. - Man, Dumpling!
Icelandic horses are small. It's not bad even if you fall off.
- Besides, you are well padded. - Man! I've lost weight!
Almost 350 grams since last week!
You don't want to gain weight again, right?
- What are you doing there the whole time? - I'm attempting to break my record.
- It stands at one minute and two seconds. - You already know everything!
Yes, and I don't want to forget it again.
A kid from Schiller School is missing.
Surely run off. It's completely chaotic there.
Tell me, should we go with Gaby on this curious outing tomorrow?
Well... If we come up with nothing better in the meantime...
Ah, there you are at last. Hello.
My name is Eleonora. You could discretely call me "you".
What do you want to drink? Coke or iced tea?
Why are we here? What do you want?
We'd like to conduct a few tests with you. We won't harm you.
- You'll soon be free again, I promise. - Who is the boy over there?
- The one who disappeared from school? - I'd like to conduct an intelligence test.
They will search for us and stick you in prison!
We'll just forget that for now. Come on, the tests will be fun for you!
We don't know if they're missing. Both had problems in school.
Perhaps they only took a trip. The boy lives in a home, in any case.
- He has run away before. - But three children within a few days?
- I'd prefer that Gaby and the boys stay nearby this weekend. - Exactly.
But she'll be terribly disappointed.
She'll understand.
Hey, Oskar! Well? Are you still stressed out?
- Well, how was your day, sweetie? - Good.
Dumpling is afraid of falling off a horse. Do you know where the sleeping pad is?
- Gaby, your trip... Mum and I think you should stay close-by. - What do you mean?
- Well... not alone in the forest. - Tim, Karl and Dumpling will be close-by!
- I mean, you all not alone in the forest. - Without the possibility to reach you!
But that's exactly my study topic, Mum: Away from civilisation!
A child is missing from the Schiller School and...
Why don't you camp with Willi in the park? The park is enormous.
- That's almost the same as the forest. - It's not the same!
We have our reasons. So, either camp with Willi or in your own bed!
Why must parents always cause so much of a hassle?
Chief Inspector Glockner wants us to stay overnight with Dumpling?
- How come? - Because of the kid who ran away.
- They see kidnappers behind every bush! - The point of your project says otherwise!
- But from my garden it isn't far to the kitchen. - I have an idea.
We'll pull it off! I fail to see that they're spoiling our trip!
As Manek also said recently, sometimes one must challenge authority,
and make his own decisions! Hi Manek! We were just talking about you!
- Of course, only the best of things! - Obviously. Anything else would be a lie.
Honourable ladies and gentlemen, dear fellow travellers.
It doesn't happen very often, that a school has a truly...
exceptionally superior talent. And it is still very...
- Uncommon? - Yes, thank you.
when such a talent places his abilities fully in the service of his classmates.
The young man who I would now like to introduce, has done exactly that.
His invention should enable everyone to better exploit their talents.
They should increase their creativity, sharpen their memory and concentration...
and they can help themselves finish their homework faster.
Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome the inventor of the "Mind-Machine"...
and this year's winner of the nationwide Youth Research Competition:
Our student Kevin Sudheim!
Kevin! Kevin! Kevin!
Ladies and gentlemen, I...
Originally, the Mind-Machine was...
Well, that wasn't planned. I think, we should have understanding for Kevin.
The last few weeks were hard for him. Please bear with me a moment.
What was that just now?
The people are here only because of you!
Hello! Hello, Kevin!
- I'm talking to you! - Mr. Manek?
Can I please speak to Kevin alone?
Yes, of course.
Strange! Normally, Kevin is always so self-confident.
He's an arrogant arse. Considers himself Einstein. At minimum!
- Whereas you consider yourself like Einstein. At minimum! - Willi.
My role model is always the old Gauss. The mathematician. Einstein was a physicist.
That's a distinction like between bittersweet and nougat. Understand?
Kevin! You never answer the phone! And you're hardly ever in school.
- I'm in a critical phase of my work! - Which work then?
Why can't you talk about it with me?
You think I understand nothing about it.
I only want to help you!
- You've changed, since your parents... - That has nothing to do with it!
- Kevin had real conflicts with Nadine. - And that's why he was so bad off?
Perhaps because of his parents too.
To lose his father is brutal, but both of them...
- Perhaps you'll speak with him. - That's what I thought too.
I don't want to push my luck, the next train comes in 20 minutes.
- Shouldn't we slowly make our way there? - I'm staying. The canapés are excellent.
But don't go to bed too late. You have to be fit for tomorrow.
I have a semi-tame horse for you.
Could that also mean semi-wild?
- Smart phone. - Thanks.
You're Nadine, right?
Your parents shop at my mother's store from time to time. Tell me,
- what was going on with Kevin earlier? - Oh...
He's currently just a bit out of sorts. It really went to his head...
- with this stupid award. - I'd be happy with that "stupid award".
I hardly see him anymore.
He's always tinkering with something in his country house.
- Aren't you coming along? - No, I want to speak with Kevin again.
- You're all alone. We'll wait, OK? - No, I'll walk.
A bit of fresh air will do me good.
- Are you sure? - Yes!
Hey, Benni!
- How are you? - I'm so tired.
- Then don't you want to sleep? - I'm afraid to.
Who were the other two who came today?
- No, Oskar, I've told you that you must stay here. - Gaby?
- Yes? - You know Mrs. Steiner? Nadine's mother?
- Yes. Hello, Mrs. Steiner. - Good morning, Gaby. Your mother says,
- you were at the ceremony for Kevin yesterday. Have you seen Nadine? - Yes.
- She didn't come home yesterday. - We were together on the bus.
But she insisted on speaking with Kevin again, at the school.
He was rather confused and messed up the presentation.
- Then she surely stayed at Kevin's. - She should call if she's stays out!
Thanks, Gaby.
- Actually, where is Willi? - He left for the city early today.
He absolutely had to get something, but he didn't want to say what.
- Hey. - Hey.
- And? Have you spoken with Kevin? - He wasn't at the school tonight.
- Nadine was also not at home last night. - Deductions, deductions...
The guy who shares his room gave me his address.
- We'll ride out and search for those two. - If Gaby has had enough of work.
Sure.
- A wonderful day, ladies and gentlemen. - Hello, Georg!
- And? How do I look? - Oh, great!
I'm totally prepared for our trip! Do you know what this is?
The Hydrocamp!
The best and latest high-tech tent on the market!
- With a tug, it pitches itself! - Dumpling!
On this trip, we want to come as close as possible to living in the wild.
That includes sleeping under an open sky, understand?
You can take along your "Hydrocamp", but we'll have no use for it!
What's in there then?
- You can't be serious, right? - But...
- Please take them back with you, Georg! - Very well, Miss Glockner.
Gaby, please! No! I need at least a bit of chocolate for the trip!
The only thing you need is one of these wonderful animals.
They'll throw me off and trample around on me! Say something, Chief!
Get in the saddle at last, Willi.
- Georg? - Yes?
Remember, in case my father calls, we're camping with you in the park.
- I must speak to the boss. - You know that won't happen in the morning.
- Have there been developments? - None at all!
When an experiment seems doomed to fail,
it's usually followed by the big breakthrough.
Really.
If disorders occur in the new test subjects, I'll abandon the experiments!
Hey, now wait up.
It is still totally unproven.
- How are the interim results? - Good. They are healthy with normal aptitudes.
The boy's IQ is 109. The girl's is 111.
- What about the IST 2000? - Also normal.
- Evidently no special abilities. - They're exactly the right kind.
We wouldn't want to enhance perfect humans.
I feel like John Wayne.
- Who is that? - A western hero.
Yes, yes. Make fun of me!
Crap! Now stay there, Günja.
OK, Günja.
Stay here and wait for me, you hear? I'll be right back.
Very calm.
Yes, Günja. Good horse.
Ah! Help me, Gaby! Help me!
Ah! Help! Gaby!
Wait, Willi! I'm coming!
Help me! Gaby!
Brr, Günja! Brr!
Slowly. Very calm.
Thanks! I'm really thought for a moment that that was it for me.
Yes, yes, take it!
I don't want any more of that hellish stuff!
There's Kevin's house.
Kevin!
It doesn't look as if anybody is here.
The garage is shut.
It's odd that everything is shuttered, right?
- As though no one had been here for weeks. - And what do we do now?
- I would like to take a look in the house. - Careful, Tim!
- The balcony door is pushed in! - You can't do that! That's burglary!
We want to know what happened to Kevin and Nadine!
Wait at the door, I'll let you in!
What's taking him so long?
This you must see.
Oh, my God. How long has he lived here like this?
No idea.
I think it's much worse that there's no longer anything of his parents around.
- A family once lived here! - What happened to his parents?
They died. In an accident, a year ago.
They were musicians, and played together in a small chamber orchestra.
One night they had an accident. They had just returned from a concert.
In their minibus.
He was sleeping here.
You surely can't wipe out everything that you remember of your parents. How?
Maybe he thinks otherwise.
A single cassette. "Kevin's presentation".
Look what I've found!
What is that?
Welcome again this Monday with "Weltmann". Where visions come true!
What? The guy has no clue. He only wants to become important!
Shut up for once, Karl!
Greet the winner of this year's nationwide Youth Research Competition:
Kevin Sudheim!
Look, he has the Mind-Machine with him!
Your invention is called a "Mind-Machine".
Does this machine really increase intelligence?
- The only cassette that he has. - That may be too much to ask.
- I always call it "massage for the brain". - And how can we visualise it?
The nerve cells in the brain constantly exchange information.
That they do this with "neurotransmitters". These chemical messengers...
- govern all mental processes in our brain. - I'll look around.
- OK, and now how does that work? - The principle is very simple.
The brain receives very weak electromagnetic impulses from this cap.
Neurotransmitters like acetylcholine or dopamine get amplified.
- And that leads then to better brain performance? - Essentially.
- Great! With that you could really give your classmates a leg up. - In principle.
What happens if I attach the Mind-Machine to myself?
You need to come at once!
Look!
- What the hell is that? - That looks like a prototype.
- A prototype of what? - Of a new Mind-Machine!
- Why should Kevin build a new one? - Because he's a fanatical researcher.
For him there's nothing worse than stagnation.
Do you know how lucky we are?
This is most likely the prototype of a completely new invention.
And we're the first ones allowed to see it! This is great!
- This is really comfortable! Do you want to try too? - Nah, thanks.
- Are you able to get out of there? - How?
What is this, Karl? What's it doing?
Help me, Chief! Help me!
Willi!
What's happening to me?
How... how are you then? Are you alright?
Yes... actually.
Actually I'm even...
quite good.
I feel so... recuperated.
And do you notice any other difference from before?
- What do you think? - Well...
Apparently the machine didn't do anything awful to him.
But it would be good if an expert on the machine examined him.
- Should we call Manek? - That's a possibility.
He has a phone line here!
Do you have the number?
Here: 35807.
- Jürgen Manek. I'm not at home... - Answering machine!
Hello, Mr. Manek. Tim here. We're here in Kevin's country house.
We've discovered a strange machine that Kevin built. Karl thinks
it could be a new Mind-Machine. We're camping here tonight.
Come by and take a look for yourself. Talk to you later.
OK?
- Tell me, who solved the cube? - I did.
- You? When? - Just now, when Tim was calling.
- I don't believe you. - I did, I swear to you!
OK.
Then do it again.
Here.
- And? How do you feel now? - Good. Really good!
You feel somehow free.
Fine. So, if you want to know exactly what happened to you, imagine...
Today, in your brains, millions of new highways emerged.
Upon which sports cars hurtle along, including many convertibles.
Therefore, you feel good, a little as though air had been rushing past you.
The people in the sports cars are all super good at math and logical thinking.
At the tollbooth, they don't pay with cash or credit cards,
but rather with intelligence. Today we test whether they'll really come through.
- Eleonora? - I'm working, Hackspecht!
Please pardon the interruption, Kevin. I must briefly speak with Eleonora.
- Kevin? - Yes?
My aunt is surely worried. And Martin's home surely called the police.
Don't agonise yourselves over it. Eleonora has spoken with everyone.
If it's alright with you, I would still like you to solve a few exercises.
Are you ready?
Good, then begin.
Oh, man! How shall I sleep here?
I'm dead tired, as if I had already ridden 1000 miles! And totally sore!
- I have salve for sore feet. - I don't mean my feet, Karl!
- It helps there too, Willi! - I hope so.
Otherwise I'll need to ride in the prone position again tomorrow!
Here: tomato, broccoli, asparagus.
Thanks.
I don't understand one thing. Kevin has built this incredible new Mind-Machine.
It's much better and more powerful than the one with which he won "Youth Research".
In fact, it can turn a guy like Dumpling into a genius.
- Why hasn't he told anyone about it? - Well, because it's not ready yet.
- Perhaps it isn't developed enough. - I'm more interested in
why he got rid of everything, that reminds him of his family.
What's it like without a father?
Sometimes he speaks to me, in dreams.
And I wake up and think he's there.
I'm completely sure of it.
And when I then notice that he isn't there...
Well, I still have my mother.
And all of you, of course.
That helps.
Crap!
- Who is that? - No idea.
Perhaps Kevin. Or Mr. Manek.
Oh my God, the horses!
Help me!
We must get to the river.
Come on, get out of here!
Help, Tim! Help me!
We need to leave before they get us!
Go, get in!
That's the Hydrocamp! With a tug, it pitches itself!
- Don't you want to take a break? - I'm just searching for a record, dear.
- Just take a little break. - There, I've got it.
"The Band".
Don't answer it.
Glockner here. Hello, Bienert. Do you know "The Band" or Bob Dylan?
Oh dear. You're sorting through your records?
You're clinging tightly to them and musing.
Someone has apparently seen two of the three missing children.
He claims two motorcyclists came out of a black delivery van
- and kidnapped them. So, climb off the ladder. - I'll be right there.
- What is it? - The missing children.
- They were probably kidnapped after all. - By whom? Now I'm worried.
You've reached Sauerlich.
- Glockner here. - Ah, Commissioner Glockner.
- What are the children doing? - The children? They're in the garden.
Yes, I see them. They're barbecuing.
It's a wonderfully starry night. Their tent stands by the northern wall,
under the cedar, and in the sky you can see Orion, the old hunter.
I think I hear a travelling song.
Yes, the nice young people are singing:
"We trek through the mountains in morning dew!"
- Thanks. Keep taking good care of them! - Of course, Commissioner.
Wait up, Chief! I can't go on! Oh, man!
- Willi, they're after us! - But I don't hear anything!
- Willi's right, Tim. We should stay here. - Exactly.
OK, we're staying here.
But when it gets light, we'll call your father from a town right away.
Dad will never forgive me for this.
I think I have something here.
It's still dry.
"0 errors = very good"
Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up!
- Tim could briefly see the delivery van. - It's black, I'm certain of that.
I think the tag had a four-digit number.
- Why did you break into the house? - That's Kevin's house. We thought,
- we'd find Kevin and Nadine there. - The break-in was my idea.
As well as not camping at Willi's place.
Gaby and I had an agreement.
I need to talk to you alone!
No one yet knows where Nadine is. Her mother is insanely worried.
The boy from Schiller School has also disappeared!
That's why you shouldn't have camped in the forest!
Now you know what could have happened! Be glad that you only got wet!
Now come to the police station and report on what you know!
Is that clear?
Gaby, our family is a team. We must all stick together.
And now stop crying.
I've been so worried.
- What's the news? - Here.
Many people wanted to see the machine you found there.
But there was nothing there. Nothing!
This machine doesn't exist. And there's no trace of Kevin and Nadine.
Because of the other case, I'll check on the black van.
Record the statements and then take the children home.
What sort of other case, Mr. Bienert?
You said there was a connection to the other case.
I'll get the witness forms. Then we'll begin taking your statements.
On Thursday night the 13-year-olds Martin R. and Claudia M. were abducted.
They met secretly at the river. There, unknown persons kidnapped them.
Was the 10-year-old Benjamin K. from Schiller School also kidnapped?
No, he still knows nothing about it.
I must speak to the boss!
OK.
I want to abort the experiments.
And why?
The new test subjects show the same disorder as the first subject.
- It's surely only nightmares, Kevin. - Only nightmares?
They are violent psychoses!
Their brains produce more dopamine than is normal for healthy people!
And due to the massive energy consumption they fall into an almost comatose sleep!
You're a scientist! You're on the verge of achieving great things!
- Have you forgotten our vision? - No, but you don't understand!
The new machine is unpredictable. I'll never get it under control.
Well, maybe we should really talk about your shortcomings!
One can see through your tricks! Someone discovered your prototype!
- Who? - Don't worry. It's secured.
- Where is it now? - You want to see it? A good idea!
- Perhaps the sight will inspire you to new insights! - Where is it?
In the Mind-Room with the other machines.
Commissioner, I don't know where I should pick up the children.
They didn't stay overnight in the park. I just told you that, because...
Grilling, singing and looking up at Orion. How was it once again with the old hunter?
Before we take the children home, take down his statement too.
Do you know what I've been asking myself the whole time?
What?
Did they discover us at Kevin's house by accident
or did they know that we were there?
- Mr. Manek was the only one who knew we were staying there. - Karl!
- That's nonsense. - Manek certainly had nothing to do with it!
- Why not? - I don't believe that.
He's an enthusiastic natural scientist, and Kevin was always his favourite!
- They could been in cahoots together. - And then what?
We'll keep a close watch on him.
- We should break in again? - Not with him at home! Wait a bit!
Miss Glockner. Miss Glockner!
I've promised your father that I will drive you all home. Each to his own house!
Thanks, Georg.
I'm on probation.
Hi, Dad. We're back and would like to hang out a little bit.
- In my room. - Fine, son.
Was it worthwhile? Did you learn something?
Yes, Willi learned the most of all.
Come on.
And now?
I got Manek's E-mail address from the boarding school homepage.
I'm trying to get into his computer to send him a Trojan horse.
It will get us access to his mailbox.
Tim? Gaby? Get yourselves some rest.
Manek has good security, but we'll get through yet.
A virus was discovered on this computer!
Crap!
- What is it? - We're no longer alone!
Virus killer activated.
Tim! I'm in the mailbox!
What do we look for? Quick! I can't stave things off forever!
My God, what's the matter? What's eating you, Willi?
- I don't know. - Did you have a bad dream?
I don't know. It was so... There were so many voices!
They talked to me incessantly and yelled at me.
But I didn't know what they wanted! They were getting louder.
- And I thought my head burst! - Should we get a doctor?
- Or should we call your father? - No doctor. Just...
I've never before dreamt of such things in my whole life.
- Willi, are you really OK? - Yes.
- And? Have you found something out? - Oh, yes.
A mail from outside of the boarding school. Three weeks old.
Dear Jürgen, here is the list that you asked me for.
But this must remain between us. Yours, Bettina.
- Who is this Bettina? - Unfortunately, I haven't found that out.
These are all addresses.
- Several of the names are familiar to me. - What are the names of the abducted kids?
One moment.
The second abduction was Tuesday night. Both 13-year-olds Martin R.
and Claudia M. met secretly on the riverbank, when...
- Claudia Meinhardt and Martin Rokowski. - And the kid from Schiller School?
- The 10-year-old Benjamin K. - Benjamin Küster. Exactly.
Manek has a list with all three abducted kids on his computer?
Yes, and what we do now?
We need a confession from him. A true confession.
Are you sure that no one can see this?
- Super. - A fluke.
That's a fluke I'd like to see again!
After your mysterious call I tried to contact you continuously.
- What kind of a machine has Kevin built? - You know that better than we do.
Could all 5 of us talk?
We found this on your computer.
That's...
That's the list from Bettina. How was it "found on my computer"?
Your anti-virus definitions are not up to the latest standards.
You were the one! What were you thinking of snooping around on my computer?
That's burglary, theft, who knows! That's criminal, Karl, you know that!
Have you completely lost your mind?
I must inform the Director. He'll go to the police and throw you out of school!
- The list has the names and addresses of all 3 missing children. - What?
- Two were kidnapped. We know that for sure! - Only you knew where we were yesterday.
- The same people also wanted to kidnap us! - Kidnap?
- Really? - It was in the paper this morning.
- Kevin wanted to help them. - What did Kevin want?
A couple of weeks ago Kevin asked me to set up some contacts for him.
He got over the death of his parents and is now in a position to help others,
- with similar experiences. - What's similar?
Is this an interrogation?
These are names of orphaned children or adolescents.
They're in foster care or live with relatives.
Bettina works in the youth welfare office and has looked after them all.
At my request she made the list available. Satisfied?
- How did Kevin want to help them? - He hasn't told me.
If there's really a connection there, then...
- Where is Kevin? - We don't know.
- Nadine also disappeared. - We must find them.
- Does your father know? - Not about the list.
- We wanted to speak to you beforehand. - I'll get ready, and we'll go to him.
I don't like this whole thing.
What was that?
What do you have there, Karl?
You believed I had something to do with it.
With the missing children.
How do you dare think so? Karl?
Willi?
Gaby?
You too, Tim?
I'll inform your father, Gaby.
Mr. Manek...
We followed the empirical evidence. The methods applied were reliable.
But they led to a false conclusion.
The way he looked at us...
We managed things so that now everyone is angry with us.
We really did a good job of that.
Shh!
What's going on here? Who are these people? Why have they brought me here?
- They want nothing from you, only me. - Is this because of the Mind-Machine?
Is it because of the missing children? Was this your secret the whole time?
- I didn't want you involved. - Please tell me what's going on here!
I've developed a new Mind-Machine. All of these children are orphaned!
Nobody can imagine that. It's as though a part of you is suddenly missing!
- What does this have to do with the Mind-Machine? - It helped me!
It made something of me again! I thought, if I can help the children,
if they accomplish something special too, they can cope with everything better!
But now everything is out of control.
- And I must go to the city, to get dopamine blockers. - What?
- I don't know how the machine is affecting them. - You can't do that!
You must get help! Promise me you'll find Manek in the city.
He'll help us.
- Good morning, dear. - Good morning, Mum.
- Have you recovered? - Depends how you look at it. There's an egg there.
- Thanks. Is Dad still sleeping? - Nah, he's already on the phone.
- There will be more overtime hours today. - Good morning, Dad.
- Good morning. I have to go. Bye. - Ciao. Any news?
If so, I wouldn't tell you. This case is a little too big for you.
Better leave it to the police.
Wait, I'll get it.
- Gaby Glockner. - Bienert here. Hi, Gaby.
- I'm sending a fax about the delivery van. Will you tell your father? - What?
It belongs to a security company. It's well-known and this isn't serious.
Good work. Should my father know anything else?
No, that's enough for now. Bye.
HS Security, 58 Friedrich Street.
- Hey, there you are. - Hey.
- And? Have you found the company? - This should be the one.
That's the delivery van, right?
There's Kevin in it!
- Are you sure? - I saw him too! Follow them!
- Karl, what's going on? - I know the woman who was sitting in there.
- I've seen her somewhere before. - Where?
I don't know! It must have been recently.
And you, Willi? Yesterday you could recall everything so quickly.
Since this morning I can't solve the cube anymore. Not even one side!
And? Do you know what it is?
- Yes, who is she then? - Come on! We have to go to school!
"Kevin Sudheim's appearance with Weltmann"?
Welcome again this Monday, with "Weltmann".
"Where visions come true!" Today...
- There she is. - Weltmann's assistant...
May I come up?
Mr. Manek. Yes, sure.
- Hello. - Hello.
- Mr. Manek, because of yesterday evening... - I wanted to talk to you about that, Tim.
With all of you.
Until yesterday I thought our school was like a family for the boarding students.
And a reliable friend for external students.
And I was quite sure, Tim, that you saw it the same way.
I tried to teach you...
Please take a seat.
I thought you trusted me. Please help me! I'm looking for a logical explanation.
And certainly not that you snooped around on my computer.
I have no sympathy for this. There will be consequences.
But how dare you believe I had something to do with the disappearances?
No explanation? I see.
I'll need some space to cope with this. A short...
hiatus, in a sense. No termination of our friendship.
Understand?
Good.
What are you watching? Is that Kevin's appearance with Weltmann?
- Yes. Do you know him? - He was a student teacher at the Schiller School.
- Weltmann was a teacher? - A good one?
He could have been a good teacher.
- Some of his students worshipped him. - Why did he stop teaching?
- Because he wanted to be on TV? - Maybe. Does your father have news...
- on Kevin or Nadine? - His readiness to talk with me...
has taken a little step backwards.
I always knew that your father and I had a lot of the same goals.
- Stay out of trouble for a while, okay? - Certainly.
You don't also know by chance Weltmann's assistant?
No.
What day is today?
Welcome again this Monday with Weltmann. "Where visions come true!"
My guest today is a young man, who doesn't want to be at home in front of the computer.
Meet this year's winner of the "Weltmann Grant":
Stefan Stefflings!
The train comes in 10 minutes. We get off at Ostbahnhof...
- and will arrive in about 30 minutes. - Oh yeah?
Yes, I've been there a few times.
- What, you've been there too? - Just out of curiosity.
- You applied to Weltmann? - Awesome! When do you appear?
- Never. He rejected me three times. - Is he crazy?
- There's no one smarter than you! - Your inventions are unbeatable!
- No, they're really not. - Sure! Oskar still wears the tracking device,
- that you invented for pets! - I've already come to accept the truth.
My things were rejected because they're not visionary enough.
Weltmann wants only the best.
Kevin, for example.
So, that's it.
It did no harm. Will you take over please, Hackspecht?
I still have to get ready.
So, kids, chop-chop!
Time to get in the machines!
Are you crazy?
You can't give them that stuff and stick them in the machines! Pig!
This is saline solution!
We went to a medical distributer. There was a case of it.
- This is completely harmless. - Why haven't you called for help?
I wasn't alone! And I couldn't have left you here alone.
We'll get away this evening.
We'll destroy the machines and get away with the children.
I don't believe you'll do that.
- Excuse me. Where do you get tickets here? - Nowhere. Everything is sold out.
We can forget about the tickets.
Hey, will you give me a packet of Blossom?
Write it down, okay?
Did you see that? He had Nadine's mobile phone, the one she had on the school bus
when we saw her the last time!
Follow him!
- There he is. - And the guy and the motorcycles.
It's too dangerous. I'm calling Dad. Crap, no connection.
- That's too dangerous! - And if Kevin and Nadine are in there?
- There are two beds in there. - And an EEG.
- What's that? - An electroencephalogram.
You measure brain wave activity with it.
I got a connection!
I promise you I'll do everything to recover Nadine.
She would have called me. I've said so from the beginning.
Excuse me.
- Gaby? - We've found the motorcycles.
- Please don't be angry. - Be quiet for once!
- Gaby, can you talk louder? Where are you? - Dad?
Hello?
- Gaby? - Dad?
- Try again! - Look where the call came from.
- I see. - Mr. Glockner? I must speak to you.
Be quiet.
Do you hear that?
Come on!
Holy shit.
Where's Gaby?
- Where's Gaby? - I don't know! She was right behind me!
- Karl, can you switch off the machines? - I'll try.
Willi, we have to find Gaby!
- Now it's time for your performance, Willi. - Is that necessary?
You know that I abhor violence.
Hello?
Hello!
What are you doing here?
Who are you anyway?
Hello, young man Hello. Hey!
Stay there.
Are you deaf or something? You should stay there!
Now you stay righ...
Sit on him, Willy!
Thanks.
Weltmann has great powers of persuasion. If he wants, he'll give one the sense
- of being the most important person in the world. - Oh yes?
At first I was very impressed. His vision is simple and persuasive:
We don't use our brains to capacity. If we could enhance its potential,
we could change the world! That's a terrific message for young,
idealistic people! Also for teachers like me.
And then I found out about the experiments in his house.
He brought me here with him.
He thought that, as his tutor, I would be excited.
Together, we would soon substantially enhance the IQ of our class,
creating little geniuses. The children were motivated in their lessons.
We had no more discipline problems. It sounds tempting, right?
- Eventually I'd go to an admin job. - Was he expelled because of that?
He wasn't expelled. They're afraid of a scandal.
They kept him nearby, free to come and go.
Weltmann administered pills to the children, that supposedly only made them more alert.
In reality, they should be used to enhance memory in the very sick.
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's... They were like hammers!
Doping for the brain, that was his idea.
But the terrible side effects made him completely out of it!
Both the physical ones as well as those affecting thinking and emotions.
- I became terribly frightened. - Do you think he persuaded Kevin...
- to experiment on the kidnapped kids? - Kevin's fantastic machine...
seemed like a simple means to improve thinking. When I saw the video,
- I thought that it somehow made sense. - And the kids had this video?
- Yes. Somehow they got hold of it. - It seems no one is here.
- Hi, it's me. Anything new? - Nope.
Bienert wanted you to know he couldn't trace Gaby's call.
- And Oskar is gone too. - What? Oskar is with her?
- How does it look? - I'll have it soon.
Oh my God!
- How did you get in here? - Later! We must get out of here fast!
- Who are you? - One of you.
So, get out of here!
- I need to start up the machines again! - How come?
- And set them on high power. - You want to destroy your machines?
Then the nightmare will finally be over.
- I have no idea what will happen. Get away from the machines! - Go, out!
Kevin!
It's hard, right?
When a series of experiments fails, we begin to doubt ourselves.
You'll achieve something that no one before you has dared to dream!
Kevin, I saw how, in the past few months, you were up to the task.
And I was so proud of you, as though you were my own son.
Do you want to throw all that away?
- Do you want to do that? - Destroy them, Kevin!
He's only interested in the machine! And not interested in tracking down
- what happened to Benni and the others! - We're helping the children!
What does he know about your world? Our world! Our family...
- works for a common goal! - That's no family! Kevin!
A family would never have kidnapped Nadine!
I'll help you, Kevin! You always wanted to become a great scientist!
- Have you given up dreaming? - My God!
- Did you know about this earlier? - So, students throw around stupid phrases?
- We won't fall for that anymore today! - When I look at these machines,
with those you consider the "dumb generation",
whom you wish to turn into geniuses, I ask myself,
- what went wrong with you back then? - How dare you speak to me that way?
- You need this thing most desperately! - Then you'll be the great scientist!
- And no longer the little moderator! - I know you! You're a scientific nobody!
We could shape a new generation that propels this country forward again!
- No one is going to stop me! - You're the scientific nobody!
That's why you need Kevin's machine!
The children!
Take the children out!
- Kevin, we need to get out of here! - OK, it's done!
- What about Weltmann? - I don't know! We're just getting out!
Up ahead, it leads up to the street.
Take cover!
Kevin, get them out!
Get away from there!
Gaby?
Dad?
Gaby, come here!
Dad!
Jürgen Manek. This I could have imagined!
- How did you know where we were? - Oskar has his tracking device on.
And I had the receiver in the car.
- The tracking device that you invented, Karl! - That's what I call justice.
- First of all, good morning. - Good morning, Mr. Manek.
You're surely asking yourselves, why we're here before classes.
But someone still has to give this presentation.
Kevin, please come up to the stage.
I know that most people feel I've done an evil and outrageous thing.
Therefore, there will be no explanation and no apology.
I only want you to know one thing.
Research is my greatest passion and probably the only thing I can do well.
Back when I won the prize, I was where I always wanted to be.
I was once the best, you know?
Once the king.
I developed the Mind-Machine, in order to help you.
To give everyone the chance to improve his capabilities.
Today I know that great responsibility is necessary with such a machine.
And that our brain needs no help. Our capabilities grow on their own.
For that, we need only the will to incorporate new challenges,
experiences, and information throughout our lives.
Then the nerve cells in our brain never stop,
always growing more prolific, finer, more complex connections.
Then we'll become superhumans all by ourselves.
Benni.
Martin.
Claudia.
- What will happen to him now? - A judge must decide that, Willi.
I would still like to take this opportunity to honour four young people,
- who, with their courage and ingenuity... - Kevin!
I know, I'm younger than you.
But I hope we can become friends.
I've held onto something.
Once TKKG had solved this case, Tim got more interested in the 70's,
the era in which his father had grown up.
Gaby thought it was once again time for one of their grand dinners.
Karl consulted more with his father about his inventions.
And even Dumpling had, quite unexpectedly, discovered a new love...
Help me! Gaby! Help me!
Help! Gaby! Help!
Willi, your helmet!
What do you think? Do we really want to help him?
Wait, Willi. We're coming!
Subtitles translated by SmartyBoy