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A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

-There's no Tuberculin! -He's dying.

And Privy Councilor Koch isn't here either. So get lost!

Sorry, but I'm a doctor from Great Britain.

How do I get to the Tuberculin exposition?

A doctor from England? Anyone could say that.

Here's my approbation certificate.

Please give me the Tuberculin.

I don't speak English. Tischendorf!

Could you translate this?

Is he really a doctor from England?

Arthur Conan Doyle?

Are you related to the mystery writer?

He's the creator of that Sherlock Holmes.

I am the mystery writer and a doctor.

Everything is fine. I'll show you to the exposition. Follow me.

There's no Tuberculin.

How many times?

So, get lost!

PART FIVE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

Eight, nine.

This is like an ethnological exposition.

-Only ten men are allowed in. -When's the next exhibition?

I hope never!

Dear colleagues, this is my first Tuberculin patient.

She and four other patients get an increasing dose of the drug.

All of them react with a fever and shivering.

That reaction proves the effectiveness.

Von Minckwitz! Why is the dose increased?

I...

I'd say a diluting effect.

Nonsense! Tischendorf?

Every injection leads to reactive tissue from the tubercle disappearing.

The dose has to be increased to achieve the same amount of reaction.

Within three weeks the dose can be increased five-hundredfold.

-Perfectly said. -Gentlemen!

The disease process of the test group convinced me completely.

This is a world sensation.

Get well soon.

Matron Martha, the fever and patient charts of the other Tuberculin patients.

Thanks.

Gentlemen!

Get to work.

And you'll bring the bed back!

Come.

Did you accept his proposal after all?

I want to talk to him about my plans to study.

-So you really want to study? -Get off your high horse.

Nurse Lenze.

If you want a change, found a carers' union with me.

But I want to help people, not just care for them.

What?

I've been here for years, 16 hours a day

and now you snot-nose tell me it's useless?

Don't worry yourself.

Tell me about your plans.

The deadline for the admission exam in Zurich is this week

and I'm not sure I can ask Dr. Behring for a recommendation.

Don't hesitate. You have to go to Zurich.

Tischendorf will understand.

This serum will make us rich.

People say that Hoechst offers Koch millions for his Tuberculin.

I'm aiming for that.

Don't dream too much and rather sleep.

You haven't left the lab since I've been here.

Family life is good medicine against restlessness.

You're a very decent colleague. I'd not have made it without you.

But you had the great idea.

What matters is what we achieve together.

But I still wonder how you got such a high dose of antitoxin.

That's simple.

You have to love the goats.

And then ask them for it.

Miss Lenze!

There's something to celebrate.

We now have a stable antiserum.

That's great news.

All we need is the go-ahead for the tests on patients.

I'll ask Prof. Koch.

You probably had no time to write the recommendation for Zurich you promised.

So you said no to marrying that youngster?

Tischendorf has no problem with a wife that studies.

And it doesn't concern you anyway.

I won't spoil your happiness.

You'll get all the help that you want for your studies from me.

Thanks.

What'd she want?

To marry me.

She just doesn't know yet.

It's hard to believe that the news spread around the world so quickly.

2000 foreign doctors are supposed to be in town already.

But the tuberculous patients in the hotels are a problem.

They spread their bloody sputum everywhere.

And they're given fake Tuberculin everywhere.

The drug will soon be available in a fair amount.

-Then they'll be cured.

I can't understand your confidence concerning the drug.

Its composition is kept secret by Dr. Koch

and only tested on 13 patients with doubtful success.

Dr. Koch's love for the truth is only challenged by his love for humanity.

If by that you mean that chorus girl of an actress, you're right.

Oh, our serum is ready to be tested on patients.

Stop that mumbo jumbo.

I remember the failure with the living rabbits well.

You know how I work scientifically and I can tell you, the serum works.

What's the institute's head say?

He wouldn't mind more institute's glory.

Look, Schmidt.

That's what the future looks like.

Yes.

We've agreed on the amount of the advance

but I also want to keep the advance payment

even if Tuberculin is never mass produced.

Why? Do you doubt the effectiveness of your drug?

No, but as I'm privately in a very delicate situation,

I must be sure that I can do what I want with the money.

I don't know whether I can agree to that.

So far, you haven't even given us the formula for your drug.

Dear Director Laubenheimer, I can assure you that the ministry does as I please.

They want me here in Berlin.

I'll even have my own institute built.

I have lucrative offers in Germany and abroad.

-If Hoechst can't decide... -No offense, dear Koch.

That's not what I meant.

But I don't even know Prof. Koch.

You could at least try.

I cannot ask him for Tuberculin.

You see, everyone wants Tuberculin.

These starvelings can't pay for it.

My patients are important. People from Russia, America...

I can't promise, but I'll try.

And when can we meet with Miss Lenze?

Soon. At the moment my patients need me more.

I'm convinced that I can at least halve the 50% mortality rate of diphtheria.

A requirement is, of course, the huge, industrial production of my serum.

With herds of serum animals.

Bacteriology has started a new chapter in medicine's history, here in Berlin.

Our institute will be the first to produce a cure

for the great scourges of mankind.

What a show-off.

It's not yet been tested on patients.

Does our great artist want to add anything?

No.

I hope you're better with photos than your study.

If so, you may go somewhere.

That'll be all for today.

Why do you make fun of him?

I just want to tease him a bit.

-He didn't harm you. -He did.

You care for him.

Thanks for letting me be in your lectures.

Ida, I want to support your study financially.

I haven't forgotten that I still owe you.

Not anymore.

Tischendorf, don't waste your energy.

It's the man here, not Dr. Behring.

He does what he wants.

You're just angry as he flirts with Miss Lenze.

You may have to fight him.

I'd be lost in a battle with him.

But Miss Lenze will marry me.

I'll soon introduce her to my father.

Really? And he's fine with a church mouse?

I'm sure that once he gets to know Ida, he'll give us his blessing.

Well, you can marry below your standard, but I hope it's a good catch.

My debts with the fraternity are over 20 Marks.

If I don't pay soon, I'll be excluded.

But you got a lot of money for the photo of Freiberg.

And you still owe me my stake.

On my honor, Tischendorf, you'll get it back.

Even when the guy does a lot wrong

A rich wife solves the problem

If there was a chance...

to keep this M�nage � trois a secret, it's gone with this article.

Everyone...

Everyone knows of your affair with her.

It's maybe better.

That's all?

We should finally separate.

You lack the money for that.

You've even quit your job at the university.

It seems like you're mad.

How about half the advance from Hoechst in case of divorce?

I want all of it.

Once the Tuberculin is in production...

you and your mistress will get rich enough.

In Berlin, in Berlin

Let the evil men move on

In Berlin, in Berlin

Let the evil men move on

Miss Freiberg?

What are you doing here?

Robert's lab is besieged again.

I'll wait for the petitioners to go away.

I was fired.

The audience hissed me during the performance.

My life was supposed to be unbearable

but now the director will have to call me Mrs. Privy Councilor.

I'll have a new job then.

Wife.

I might have the same soon.

Georg Tischendorf wants to marry me.

But it feels wrong.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't because of another man.

No. What makes you think that?

There's one who confuses me, as he's so different.

In what way?

Wild.

Charming and full of ideas.

But also deeply desperate and insecure.

Sometimes he scares me.

I hope you're not talking about that maniac Dr. Behring.

He has sensitive and touching sides as well.

Women always fall in love with the wrong men.

Stop it, pick Tischendorf. Be the wife of a doctor.

I want to be a doctor, too.

There are no female doctors.

I'll be the first one then.

There are no tickets for the Tuberculin circus.

Everything's sold out again.

Ask Dr. Ehrlich.

He's working for Koch and is a nice guy.

I always get him his cigars. Maybe he can help you.

The Dr. Ehrlich who characterized blood cells with his dye?

He leaves dyed spots everywhere.

Thank you.

I'd like to know which new methods of dyeing blood traces

could help my Detective Sherlock Holmes to solve a case.

You've found out about my viral strain in England?

It hasn't been translated.

So you speak good German.

I was at a boarding school in Austria.

I devour your detective stories.

The cases of Sherlock Holmes are fascinating.

Is it true that fingerprints can be matched with perpetrators without a doubt?

A chief officer in India found that out.

But as far as I know, so far

no perpetrator's been caught because of his fingerprint.

My detective is ahead of his time.

And now you ask whether Mr. Holmes

could do a similar trick and catch someone by his blood trace?

That's highly interesting.

Follow me.

Maybe here.

For a long time I've assumed people have different blood

as the cases of blood transfusions are rarely successful.

Where could it be?

I said no visitors.

Excuse me, Prof. Koch.

I'm Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, a practitioner from Portsmouth.

I'm politely asking you for a ticket to the Tuberculin exposition.

The tickets are sold out.

You must leave.

I didn't come all the way from England

just out of scientific interest.

My wife is sick.

Tuberculin is her last chance.

No. Mr. Schmidt will show you out.

What was that supposed to be?

He said it was about a new Sherlock Holmes story.

A detective story?

Hundreds of people wait for Tuberculin.

If it wasn't for them, I'd have spoken.

Behring and I finally have an antitoxin against diphtheria.

I've heard that from Bergmann.

Tests without me knowing?

No. But you know how impatient Behring is.

It doesn't sound good.

To be honest, I'm a little concerned.

Sister, please come here.

Nurse Ida!

Take the corpse to pathology.

Give it to Professor Virchow personally

and tell him she's been treated with Tuberculin.

That's important.

She died earlier than we'd expected with infestation of the lungs.

Her overall state was fine, though.

I've never seen such an explosive increase of tuberculosis.

You think the Tuberculin may have caused it?

You seem to be a very bright Lady.

I'll get Professor Koch.

If his drug doesn't work, he has to know.

My child, I don't have more evidence for this assumption.

The world thinks that Koch's found the miracle drug against tuberculosis.

What will happen when everyone finds out that he was wrong?

No.

Take the compounds to Tischendorf's studio.

He'll take photos for my talk to the Association of doctors.

Ida?

Are you alright?

It's because of Therese.

She's not good and I think I gave her false hope.

Oh, Ida.

Everything will change, once you get to know my father.

For both of us.

You probably want to see my daughter.

Else!

Look!

That's so cute, a bunny.

Is it for me?

To be honest, it's a rabbit.

Its name is Ida. Happy birthday, madam.

Else, be nice and say thank you.

-Thank you, Dr. Behring.

You immediately hit the mark, Dr. Behring.

This is the first rabbit I could heal from diphtheria.

I'm glad the failed presentation at Virchow's didn't demoralize you.

You saw what an impact the failure had on Professor Von Bergmann.

Forget Bergmann.

He's not interested in having my serum tested on patients.

But that's the law to start producing the serum in large quantities.

Thanks.

Just as Hoechst plans to do with Koch's Tuberculin.

-Take a seat. -Thanks.

It seems to be a very lucrative business.

I'm hoping to get such a contract as well.

I'm reaching an age where one wants an easy life.

I'll see what I can do with Von Bergmann for you.

It's for the Charit�.

I'd like to see your work with my own eyes.

If I may.

I feel honored, Excellency.

It's no problem if Else comes along?

She's very interested in your research.

Naturally.

This will be the parlor.

And this will be the living room.

Come in.

Thanks.

What's that?

Those are chinoiseries. Chinese mural art.

They're beautiful.

Soon all of Berlin will visit you.

I'm already scared of the so called noble society.

But I'm intending not to embarrass Robert.

"The bon ton."

A lady shall not examine a gentleman through her opera glasses.

And she'll not realize when a gentleman examines her through his opera glasses.

The role of Mrs. Privy Councilor can be learned.

Will she divorce?

Yes. Finally.

I'm so glad.

Therese.

If you knew what had happened.

Stine fell asleep at the table and her head fell into the soup.

It was chaos.

Matron Martha gave her night watch for a whole week.

Edith is still angry at me.

Why should I care?

I'll soon be gone anyway.

And if Georg really marries me...

His father has to like me first.

I'm really scared to meet him.

Will everything be fine, Therese?

You have to get well again.

Therese?

Therese, you can't...

Therese, you have to be my maid of honor.

Therese!

Sorry, but do you still have a ticket for the Tuberculin exposition left?

I'll pay twice the amount.

-No, we didn't get one either. -Thank you.

Sorry.

I'll show you for a few Marks.

And you've come from England to see Koch injecting a tuberculosis patient?

I hope that won't be everything.

12 Marks and I'll get you real Tuberculin.

Really? You can do that?

Gentlemen, after Professor Koch injects the Tuberculin,

the patient will be healed from tuberculosis within a few days.

It sounds like a miracle? It is a miracle!

I expected more scientific explanation.

You're waiting in vain.

The whole world is going crazy because of a show.

But we still don't know how Tuberculin works.

I'm afraid, not at all.

It really is full of infection.

Yes, and they're all flushed, and they're not old.

The first patient?

Yes, and unfortunately not the last one.

It seems like one has to come from England to believe that.

You think Sister Therese died of tuberculosis?

I'll tell you why she's dead.

Because of the poor conditions at the Charit�.

If you work for 16 hours a day,

your body's weakened against the patients' illnesses.

We have to fight for our rights. We must get organized.

The deaconesses must be stopped.

Instead of permanently praying, we need more time to rest.

Who wants to join a carers' union?

Ida?

Stine?

I want to, but I'm too afraid.

It doesn't matter which nurse's cap, we are the doctors' handmaid.

Women should get the right to study medicine.

Nobody cares for a union.

The authorities do.

I may go abroad without a lawsuit.

If you hadn't noticed, Bismarck's declared siege on Berlin.

But Miss Lenze doesn't care for such things.

I...

I can't breathe anymore.

Open your mouth!

You need the sickroom.

Diphtheria?

Come with me.

Here's the limewater to gargle.

Also the mercuric cyanide, on the inside, twice a day.

We need the diphtheria serum.

Poor Sister Therese just died and you want to test the miracle drug?

You're obstinate.

I won't let them experiment on my nursing staff again.

The Tuberculin didn't work.

It doesn't mean the serum won't either.

-I saw it working with my own eyes. -Really?

Miss Doctor is the better medic, don't you think?

She's right.

Behring convinced me as well.

Come with me. You may need to inject Stine with the serum.

What if someone sees us?

Professor Koch is in the auditorium.

The exposition will go on all day.

Are you sure?

This could mean trouble.

I can't let Stine die as well.

I remember how the phials look.

Behring showed me them for the animals.

They're not here.

You may find them in the stable.

I'll look after Stine.

Thanks.

TUBERCULIN

And the work with Dr. Ehrlich is satisfactory?

He's very talented in some technical stuff and he assisted me well.

I've now increased the gain of the antitoxin immensely.

Another flock of goats is standing by to be immunized.

That's interesting.

Poor Lotte. What's wrong with her?

She wants to give blood for a cure.

Oh no!

Elsilein!

Think about your cousin Klara, who almost died of pharyngeal diphtheria.

Thanks to Dr. Behring, that illness can soon be defeated.

But anyway Lotte, doesn't it hurt?

I always say the love to animals and children ennoble women.

Just my opinion.

Nurse Stine has diphtheria, Dr. Behring.

You said it would be ready for tests.

Anytime now. Your Excellency, may I invite you

to an exclusive operation?

You'll see the first healing of a patient with my serum.

If I understand you correctly, you've never given this to a human.

I'm aware of that.

Elsi, come!

When the antitoxin's given intravenously, it acts immediately.

You can inject the serum right into the bloodstream?

That's correct.

It isn't that simple, but I think this method will gain acceptance.

The drugs work faster then.

Incredible!

Marvelous.

Chief staff surgeon, my deep respect!

How are you?

My cough's non-stop, but the sputum isn't bloody.

He's constantly at 38 degrees.

Still?

That's very unusual.

-Professor Koch? -Yes?

TUBERCULIN

German research triumphs against rival France and that chemist Pasteur.

And Virchow makes some obscure Englishman doubt Tuberculin!

That's treason!

How do you know all that?

I got Tuberculin for Doyle, but Virchow talked him out.

I expected that from a national traitor and friend of Jews.

You have Tuberculin?

Where from?

My father is doing all he can to get some.

I can help him.

Here. Originals.

-Where did you get it? -Connections.

My debts with you are therefore settled.

Miss Lenze? May I talk to you?

Sure.

Do you have the key to Professor Koch's lab?

Yes, I do.

Tuberculin was stolen.

And the thief had a key.

I was in the lab, but I've not touched anything.

-Von Minckwitz can testify. -Von Minckwitz was there as well?

Why were you there in Professor Koch's lab?

I was looking for Dr. Behring to treat Stine.

He's used our serum?

Behring?

Why didn't you say?

I'm glad you're here. There's much to do.

You tested the serum without telling me. That's betrayal.

This emotive behavior doesn't suit you.

I used our serum in an emergency.

-You should have asked. -You're right about that.

Be happy. We took a risk and were rewarded. That's all that counts.

I promise not to do anything without your approval.

So?

Did it work? Behring?

It was incredible.

Miss Lenze!

Come, our table's over there.

Your father is here? We should be on our own first.

I had something important to do with my father.

But I wanted to talk about future plans.

We can do that now.

Don't be afraid. Come.

May I introduce...

my father, Senior Medical Officer Dr. Siegfried Tischendorf.

This is Miss Ida Lenze.

-Pleased to meet you, Dr. Tischendorf. -The pleasure is all mine.

Take a seat.

Fassbrause for the lady.

I didn't meet your father personally, but he was a respected colleague.

Georg told me how your guardian embezzled your heritage.

What's important is that you come from a good family

and fulfill the job of a doctor's wife.

I hope my future will be more than that.

Thanks.

I could convince the clinic management to install a photo studio for me.

You know how much I love photography.

As long as you don't forget your study over love.

You'll have to take over a practice at Kurf�rstendamm.

Your son is very artistic.

Did you put that bee in his bonnet?

I supported him to follow his talents.

Just as he supports mine.

Which talents are those, may I ask?

I want to go to the admission's exam to study medicine in Zurich.

I'm waiting to hear about it.

You want to do what?

We could both run the practice.

But...

You won't really follow that fantasy, will you?

But you've always supported the idea.

I always thought it was a female fancy.

I can't afford fancies.

My father's right.

You have to know your place.

In that case, my place isn't by your side.

Fine. I'd ask you to leave then.

Goodbye.

Professor, you asked for me.

Tuberculin was stolen from that cupboard.

Dr. Ehrlich told me that you and Miss Lenze were in my laboratory.

I'm a corps student. I don't have to let you insult me.

If anyone needs some extra money, it's that nurse.

Von Minckwitz, we know you live beyond your means.

And Miss Lenze said she left before you.

You rather trust an assistant nurse than a Von Minckwitz?

Give me your thumb.

Excuse me?

Your thumb, Von Minckwitz.

Do you know what dactyloscopy is?

A perpetrator can be convicted with his fingerprint.

Think about what you want to say next.

If you confess, we'll only dismiss you.

If you deny it, we'll pass it to the police.

Pack your stuff, Von Minckwitz.

You're no longer a student here.

Come in!

Take a seat!

You went against my wishes and got Behring's serum for Stine.

But...

I've followed the incredibly fast recovery of the nurse.

I think it's possible that the serum helped.

Although I've no idea how it works.

As diphtheria is an illness you only get once,

there must be an antitoxin that is produced.

Why shouldn't we take that antitoxin from the blood of animals

and give it to sick people.

It's plausible.

You have amazing medical expertise,

but not a good nurse.

You're not willing to accept a lesser role.

You'll soon work your debts off, but I don't think you'll want to be a nurse.

You don't look well.

Tea?

I can't offer you the luxury of sugar.

Do you have plans for the future?

When girls your age look that sad, it's mostly because of men.

I set false hopes on a man.

You really want to be subordinate to a husband?

Humbleness and deference aren't you.

When I was young, I promised myself to never put up with a man's violence.

My drinking father's stick and my poor mother's lot taught me that.

Joining the sisterhood seemed like the only way

to not be under the hand of a husband.

You'd have made a courageous doctor.

Definitely not.

Sister Therese loved you very much

and bequeathed her savings to you.

It isn't much, but it might be enough for a ticket to Zurich.

That English man calls our revered Professor Koch a quack.

Arthur Conan Doyle?

Prof. Koch is a Charlatan!

How dare he?

Gentlemen!

This is the latest death of a Tuberculin test patient.

After numerous autopsies I've performed on former Tuberculin patients,

I want you to witness what I've found.

As Professor Koch said,

the injected Tuberculin lead to dead tissue in the lung.

But I want you to look at the fresh lesions

at the edge of the necrotic tissue.

Here.

Here... and here.

There's no doubt that Koch's drug favors the rapid spread

of the tuberculosis in the sense of a miliary tuberculosis.

Tuberculin is ineffective?

Not just ineffective....

I think it's dangerous.

Upstairs?

Subtitle translation by Ben Evans

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