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[Dog barking]

[metallic squeaking]

[owl calls]

[coughing]

[trap snaps shut, rat squeals]

[female person moans]

[heavy breathing]

[Rat squeaks]

[coughing, moaning]

[Coughing]

[wheezing]

[Rat squeals]

[moans in agony]

[heavy breathing]

[Maggie coughs]

[moans in agony]

You need to get used to animal blood.

If I can do it, then so can you.

I'll help you with that.

[Sighs]

[Kai] Drink the blood mixture.

Otherwise you'll never be able to control your thirst for human blood.

You know that. [Gagging]

No.

[Maggie groans]

You have to accept what you are.

You have to be strong.

They're hunting us now,

because you're their only hope for the survival of our species.

[dramatic music]

[Engine continues to run]

[Kai] What is it?

[Maggie] On the sign, bottom left.

The symbol of a great hunter.

We're in a hunting area.

Just keep driving.

[Engine noise]

[Dramatic music]

[Crows calling]

[Engine keeps running]

Those people there,

they don't know that they could all be victims.

We do.

One less.

[Crows calling]

We could save these children.

A start.

[Labored breathing]

[Gasping]

[Norwegian] Okay. Okay.

Hm.

[heavy breathing]

[Gunshot]

[Crow calls]

[clacking]

[Electronic music, whispering voices in the background]

(Goldhofer on TV) Let me make one thing clear.

That the Demko family and Wolfgang Jessen family were the masterminds,

cannot be proven at present.

But it is very likely.

(Speaker) The exact connections of the Oderbruch case

we may never know.

At least not without Magdalena Kring and her brother Kai.

(Goldhofer) Both have disappeared without a trace,

just like their parents, Arthur and Minna Kring.

The only thing that is now certain that Kai Kring was not killed

in the Oder flood in the Oder flood of 1997.

But we do not know where the Kring family is and

and how they involved in the matter.

(Narrator) One person who is always hushed up,

is Stanislaw Zajak, the lead investigator investigator on the Polish side.

He had a theory at the time, that cost him his career.

Is it true that Zajak was convinced

the Oderbruch murders were by... vampires?

(Goldhofer) I don't want to fuel the whole topic any further.

Zajak has long since been from the police force.

He was obsessed with the case and that can take its toll.

As far as I know, he's undergoing therapeutic treatment.

He should be left alone.

The Oderbruch case has many unanswered questions,

but Zajak is not the answer.

We don't need absurd theories.

What we need are living witnesses.

[Cawing crows]

[loud breathing]

[Whispering voices]

[Door lock opens] [Spanish]

[sighs]

[dramatic music]

[ominous music]

[whispers unintelligibly]

[crow calls]

[Phone vibrates]

Hello, is everything okay?

(Camera's broken.

I changed the battery, but it's not working.

(Maggie) Then you have to buy a new one.

I'll wait three months.

You owe me money for three months.

I'll send you the money soon.

For the whole year.

You always say that.

I won't do anything more.

Give me a few more days, please.

Money this week or I'll stop.

Okay, I promise.

How is she?

She has exams this week.

She's taken four sleeping pills since last time.

Can you send me send me a new photo of her?

Send the money.

[quiet guitar sounds]

[exhales loudly]

[ominous music]

[whispering voices]

[shrill sounds]

[moans]

[Maggie] Did you find any money?

(No.

He killed his last victim just yesterday.

We were too late.

Next time we'll have to be quicker.

Who was that on the phone?

(Maggie.) Aunt Edith.

Arthur's condition has deteriorated further.

[Engine noise]

[soft orchestral music]

[soft orchestral music]

[Orchestral music]

[Dog barking]

(Hey!

Hello, my darling! Come here!

Look what I've got for you. All good!

All good, my darling.

Yes, fine.

It's all good.

[melancholy music]

[inaudible]

[ominous music]

[Engine noise]

[squeaking]

[laughter, voices in the background]

[phone vibrates]

[Pumping noises]

Can I have your cell phone for a minute?

(I didn't know how and when to bring it up.

But we're putting it off,

and there will never a good time.

Read through this.

It's not going to be easy, to find a place

where this is possible without papers and anonymous.

But we have to be prepared for the be prepared for the worst-case scenario.

If you can no longer have children any more children,

then you are worthless to the Strigoi.

I'm sorry.

- I didn't mean to... - It's okay.

We'll take care of it.

(Maggie) We'll take the really big trailer at the end.

Drunken nomads.

All men.

500 milliliters per person.

No more.

[Rock music]

[Foreign language]

[Music gets louder]

[Male voice]

[Music gets quieter]

[Conversations in foreign language]

[Bird noises]

[ominous music]

[quiet breathing]

[threatening sounds]

(I make 70 animal blood to 30 human blood.

To get you used to it, we have to increase the proportion of animal blood again.

Trust me.

There is no other way.

If you don't want to be a danger to humans,

then you have to drink this.

[groans, coughs]

(I'm going to put pure human blood.

[shrill sounds]

[Kai] You only drink from the bottle.

[Wind]

Next exit on the right.

Where are we going?

Oderbruch.

[Heartbeat]

Arthur is dying.

This may be the last chance to see him again.

To ask questions.

If you really want to, to see our parents again,

then I don't want not stand in your way.

One night.

No longer.

Thank you.

(Narrator) One man who is always hushed up,

is Stanislaw Zajak,

the lead investigator on the Polish side.

He had a theory at the time...

Is it true that Zajak...

Someone who is always hushed up, is Stanislaw Zajak.

(Goldhofer) Both have disappeared without a trace,

just like their parents,

Mr. Arthur and Minna Kring.

The only thing that is now certain that Kai Kring was not killed

in the Oder flood of 1997...

(Narrator) One person who is always Stanislaw is always hushed up...

(Goldhofer) The Oderbruch case has many unanswered questions,

but Zajak is not the answer.

We don't need absurd theories.

What we need are living witnesses.

[Impact]

[Inhales deeply, exhales]

[Door knocking]

[Woman] [Polish]

[Dial tone]

(Goldhofer) Yes? - It's me.

We have to talk.

I'm not allowed to talk to you anymore. You can't call me anymore.

I'm hanging up now. - I've got a student from the boarding school.

She's afraid to testify,

but I think I can get her to talk to you.

When? Where?

The rest stop. On the A12.

Near you.

I'll let you know when we get there.

[Beep]

[Cello music]

[whispers]

[Door slams loudly]

[Animal noises]

(Norwegian)

[threatening music]

[moans]

(man) His house has burned down.

He is dead. Like all the others.

Magdalena and Kai were here.

A day ago. Maybe two.

[Conversations in the background]

This...

This is not a suitable meeting place.

We have to learn to live with them.

To interact.

To treat them with respect and dignity with respect and dignity.

We need them. They don't need us.

We have found out where Stanislaw Zajak is.

He's still in the Oderbruch.

Good.

Maggie and Kai Kring.

We're close.

I know what they're doing.

We need to place Strigoi in these places here.

Brothers of ours live there, who are conspicuous.

They'll show up at one of them next and kill him.

Everyone reports immediately, when they are in position.

Even you. You're going here.

To Christobal.

He's been careless for a long time.

We'll find them.

Or we die.

You know what awaits us in Terra Azul awaits us if we fail.

What about me?

Thank you.

We're going to Germany.

To Zajak.

[Cars whizz by]

[Dramatic music]

[Door opens ringing]

[Chair squeaks on the floor]

[Goldhofer] Does she speak German?

How do I know.., that she's telling the truth?

(Zajak) You can ask her anything.

Just not her name.

The names of the dead students were not all published.

Tell me the names of your dead friends.

Danja Novak.

Roman Kaczmarek.

Miron Kowalski.

And Ilona Zilinski.

How long did you did you go to this school?

First I need something from you.

- What's this? - Roland Voit's diaries.

Maggie Kring and he have have a daughter. I have to find her.

I've tried on my own, but I need your help.

I've stood up for you for you.

And now you're showing me stolen evidence?

I didn't see that.

I didn't see that. This meeting never happened.

[Door closes, engine starts]

Let's find the girl,

we'll find the truth.

[groans]

[draws in a sharp breath]

[sighs]

[engine noise]

[atmospheric music]

[birdsong]

[engine noise]

[bottles clinking]

What is it?

Nothing.

[Bottles clinking]

[Door lock]

[Birdsong]

[metallic clattering]

[Man] Zibben have no access here.

I wanted to steal food, but the door is locked.

Are we not feeding you well enough?

Yes...

You do.

But...

Sophie's birthday is coming up.

Worldly traditions have no meaning here.

It's been a long time, that you disobeyed the law.

Perhaps you have forgotten the consequences.

No.

Go to the Silentium, I'll be right behind you.

[Keys rattling]

[Door creaks]

[Keys rattling in the lock]

[Ominous music]

[Engine noise]

[Frog croaking]

[Clattering]

You have time until dawn.

30 years of silence and now I only have one night left.

It's too dangerous to stay any longer.

[Gate creaks softly]

[Soft music]

[Frogs croaking]

[Door creaks]

[soft music]

Stojan and I, we hadn't in the Oderbruch not long ago.

I broke into a hospital, to steal blood.

I was caught. A woman.

It was my duty to kill her, but she was stronger than me.

I was the last woman of our kind.

Had Stoyan and the Strigoi found out about her,

she would have been into their breeding program.

I couldn't let that happen.

Because I loved her.

Your mother and I decided to feed on animal blood.

She didn't have our characteristics.

And so we kept her secret.

Why did you have children?

Your sister, she had no symptoms.

Until the incident with Auris Conrady we were sure she didn't have it.

But you showed the first signs the first signs appeared during puberty.

(Minna.) I tried desperately

to wean you.

(Arthur.) I knew what was coming for you.

Because I'd been through it myself.

And I wanted to prevent that from happening to you.

I often wished

Maggie hadn't stopped you, when you tried to kill me.

Then all my victims still alive now.

I understand, why you tried.

I would have done the same.

But...

you shouldn't have forced me to lie to my sister.

(I wanted her to go away and lead a normal life.

No one was ever allowed to know what she was.

Not even her.

Our species is dying out,

because apart from your mother and your sister

there are no more women.

And that's a good thing.

Because if the Strigoi find Maggie,

you can imagine the consequences.

Not just for your sister.

Countless people

would fall victim to their children and children's children would fall victim.

Maggie.

[somber music]

I shouldn't have stopped him, when he tried to kill you?

Do you really believe that?

Everything had to happen just like this,

to get us on the path where we are now.

What we are doing now,

will save more people than I have on my conscience.

[Cello music]

[soft music]

[Arthur] What you two are doing...

You must stop.

It's too dangerous.

The Strigoi will find you.

It's the only thing.., that keeps him alive.

Making up for what he did.

[Dog barking]

What keeps you alive?

[Dog chewing]

[Whining]

Not abandoning Kai, like you did.

[sentimental piano music]

[loud knocking]

You don't tell anyone that you got this from me.

I'll give you a week. After that I'll say

that I received Voit's letter to his daughter anonymously.

And we'll contact her ourselves.

In 1998, a two-week-old girl was dumped in a wooded area

and found by a farmer named Alois Regener... "found".

In her basket was a note with the name Vera.

Are you sure it's her?

In 2011, this Alois Regener transferred his farm

to his longtime employee Magdalena Kring.

Vera was adopted in 1999 by a couple from Zurich.

She now lives in Monrico, Spain.

[Bird calls]

(Maggie) Wake up. It's already light.

I already know our next destination.

The N340, a 1000 kilometer long coastal road in Spain.

People have been disappearing here for decades people have been disappearing along the route for decades.

There are no bodies, so there are no investigations,

vast uninhabited desert, deserted.

The area is too big.

Where should we start?

(Maggie.) Here.

[sentimental music]

[Crows calling]

[inaudible]

[atmospheric singing]

Kai!

We must!

[menacing music]

[Goldhofer] When did you go to school?

[Luba] About three years before.

(Goldhofer) How were you recruited?

I lived on the street, in Warsaw.

Someone approached me and wanted a blood sample from me.

He also wanted a photo and my name.

A few weeks later he came back came back and said

I could go to this school, do an apprenticeship.

Start a new life.

Is that the man the man who spoke to you?

Was he there too?

(Luba.) We had to donate blood.

I saw him once, how this man...

drank the blood.

[Door opens]

[Goldhofer] Who are you?

Stand still.

Where is Stanislaw Zajak?

You have to aim for the heart.

Or the head.

[dramatic music]

Gently.

[Music becomes loud]

They saw you, that you wanted to steal food.

That's why you were punished.

That's right.

[Threatening music]

[Pumping]

[threatening music]

[loud whirring, pumping]

This man knows more than anyone before him.

We must find him.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music gets louder]

[Cello music]

[Collar rattles]

(Roland Voit) Dear Vera,

I've been thinking for a long time, what I should write to you.

Enclosed are the diaries from my youth.

I stopped writing in them, when your mother left me.

Maggie told me that you were never born.

Otherwise I would have I would have done everything in my power

to be your father.

She has a daughter.

[dramatic music]

Subtitle: Jana Knäringer, digital images GmbH, Halle (S.), 2025