Tue, Oct 19, 2010
Falk has Dunja interned in psych ward until she signs either transfer of all her decisions to a regime lawyer or becomes his StaSi spy. Dunja gives in, finds he home bugged but informs daughter Julia. Hans prevents Martin being sanctioned for refusing a dubious order, even offers to arrange a lease for the home he squats with Julia, who calls him a coward for failing to oppose the regime with her, warning against her appointment with a West German reporter. Falk's wife Vera loses self-control after a pupil realizes he gets unfairly bad grades on account of his parent's escape attempt, relapses into drunkenness and badly hits a cyclist knave, is given 24h by Martin to report to the police. Martin and Hans are delighted and sort of make up after hearing Julia is pregnant and agree on discretion, but Falk knows from his spy Moni, also about the journalist, and covers up Vera's hit and run, blackmailing Martin. Falk proudly presides in the Kupfer home over a party for his pre-teen son Roman's acceptance -possibly arranged by falk- as gymnast in the prestigious state sports school, inviting general Gaucke, who promised him promotion to lieutenant colonel soon and his father's post as deputy if he helps free its, while Hans counts on his party top protector. Dunja Hausmann comes and sings one of her forbidden political songs, yet Hans refuses, thus bringing his wife to hysteria, to silence his mistress.
Tue, Oct 12, 2010
Hans Kupfer looses credit with general Gaucke, who promotes neither his candidate nor Falke, after Dunja's failed suicide which drives Julia hysterical, turning even a while on Martin, who incurs a formal warning -to his unconnected partner Peter Görlitz's envy- for refusing an order to raid a harmless party. Falk physically fights Martin, who is surprised to win for the first time, and to find his brother utterly unforgiving, while both feel betrayed by father, who learns his wife knew about Dunja. Falke is instructed to 'find ways' and blackmails a police employee to spy on his kin.
Tue, Oct 22, 2013
Falk Robert has the environmental library stormed, the 'opponents' arrested, and tries to play them against each-other. Robert is shown the StaSi enrollment of Vera, who also admits it to Nicole, who refuses to believe she passed only minor info. Vera feels her life is rendered senseless by Falk and leaves him. Hans is horrified to learn Falk was responsible for abducting Martin's daughter Anna but dares not tell Martin fearing fratricide and pressures Falk to help find Anna. Dunja is off liquor and returns to activism, performing at a church gathering for liberation of the environmentalists. Falk's hard line looses out within the party due to massive protests and Western media attention, bringing party dictator Honecker to order their release. Gauke blames Falk, whose career seems wrecked. Nicole and Thomas are delighted with Robert's return, Vera's innocence is established when Thomas admits Falk got to him, the lovers reconcile. Martin learns who are and discretely observes Anna's loving adoptive family in Weißensee.
Tue, Sep 28, 2010
Martin convinces Julia to move out together, but after he talks over the home assignment clerk to give them a shot against the rules, their application is squashed from the top, which only makes the conflict between Martin and father Hans, who calls his infatuation foolish and immature, deepen into a worrisome family rift. Falk fears for his position after tormented Robert Schnyder's diabetic hospitalization, compromising the party's detente policy, but general Gaucke chooses another scapegoat and even proposes a promotion, against Hans's advice, enabling him to bug Dunja's home, which Hans blames him for bitterly but implicitly. Falk, who disapproves of Martin's affair with Julia even worse then Hans, fearing political/career consequences, gets Martin's Politburo-connected ex Marion to blackmail him with access to their pre-teen daughter Lisa to 'win him back'. Martin and Julia now both consider splitting up for each-other's and their families' sakes. The child-lurer Martin and his cop partner Peter Gorlitz are officially looking out for seems to have got hold of Lisa.
Tue, Oct 5, 2010
The search for missing Lisa has the Kupfer family bicker but also tie together. Hans and Marlene blame Falk's plot. Martin finds Lisa with a kind man who promised candy but tried nothing, and realizes he's only being charged as former Wall-flight-convict, so a scapegoat while the real pedophile is probably still lurking around. Marion invites Martin for a makeup family dinner, but he tells Lisa he's not returning to her mother ever. Klaus Meigold is arrested attempting to smuggle Dunja's subversive record to the West, Hans wants to recruit him as informer instead. Dunja rejects an offer from Falk, and blames Julia for Meingold's arrest. Julia left Dunja's home, but visiting cop lover Martin can't condone her squatting, yet bitterly leaves home for her over 'professional' family disputes. Hans cues Dunja her home is bugged, yet she won't turn informer. having accidentally spotted husband Hans with Dunja, Marlene confides in Falk about her secretly knowing about his father's affair and asks him to eliminate her rival, who is ordered to be arrested but commits suicide.
Tue, Sep 17, 2013
1987, six miserable years later of political exacerbation. Imprisoned at Hoheneck as traitor, Julia Hausmann lost Martin's baby and he is made to believe she escaped to Hamburg, hence sells his car to former police partner Peter Gorlitz, who took him in at home now he's a discredited carpenter, to pay for an illegal way out. Falk Kupfer blackmails Dunja Hausmann to Stasi informant threatening to treat Julia even worse, even convincing her Martin had returned to his daughter's mother. Hans Kupfer lost his job to Falk, posted as instructor in the ministry's Potsdam-Eiche security troops college, his wife Marlene is a bitter shadow. Falk's marriage became a shambles, Vera was transferred to a children's home. Their pride and joy Roman finally wins gold as gymnast, but the doping wrecked his health. Hans risks his neck to find out the secret program, treating professor Holz concludes he needs a kidney transplant, but after testing other kin, only Martin may be a matching donor, is told the truth about Julia but bitterly refuses out of grudge against sadistic Falk.