ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS I still don't get it! Get what? This! I mean, it's just... SHE IMITATES THE MUSIC BEAT You sound like my mother! And, actually, right now, you even look like her. Must be the hair. And this looks great. Surprising...but great. Professional choice, based on research. Allows me to blend in seamlessly with the subculture. See? MC: And now, please give it up for the return of the master of dark house - DJ Kurt Sommer! CHEERING All this for someone who plays a few records? Kurt Sommer is a living legend. Star of the Berlin Philharmonics. Then, at the height of his fame, he gave it all up for repetitive beats. CHEERING We dance to live. We dance until we die, because the music is the life and soul. VIOLIN PLAYS Ah! Where do I know this from? Hey, stop! Stop! SHE YELLS Are you crazy? You're under arrest. Palma Police - suspected supply of illegal narcotics. What? This is crazy. I got nothing. Search me if you want. Turn around. Arms to the side. Shoes. Mind if I see? I told you, I've got nothing. What's that? Oh, jackpot. # When the moonlight shines Down on the sea # And you think that you got a shot at me # Then set me free # You gotta set me free # I'll surrender # Surrender... # 45 pills. That's all the evidence we need to convict you of intent to supply. Unless they're all aspirin. In which case, I'd like to borrow a couple. I have a slight headache. PHONE RINGS We're on our way. Restringido. Somos los detectives. Winter, Blake. Perdona. Pasen, pasen. Looks like he died with his cans on. What was he listening to? Mahler, Symphony No 4. It's on repeat. VIOLIN PLAYING Ah! Of course! You remember the violin last night? That's Mahler. I knew I recognised it. You like Mahler. Sure. Also Beethoven. Franz Liszt. David Hasselhoff. You know, all the bases covered. Many consider Mahler's Fourth Symphony to be his most profound musical statement. It describes man's dance with death himself. Miranda! Ugh. Just don't. Assume this was an overdose. It's impossible. Kurt didn't do drugs. He hated them. "Music is all I need to make me high." Direct quote. No forced entry, no signs of struggle, no obvious trauma. I'm sorry, Max. I'm with Miranda. Death's head logo. Now I'm going to bet we'll find several more of these inside this totally clean DJ who absolutely, definitely didn't do any drugs at all ever. HE SIGHS Look, I've done everything we can to clean this place. OK? I mean, everyone gets searched at the door. Heinrich has a zero-tolerance policy with all the staff and we always cooperate with the police, so... The fact remains we found a dealer operating inside your club. Now your DJ's dead of an overdose. Suspected overdose. That's impossible. Kurt was totally anti-drugs. That was one of the only reasons he agreed to play in the first place. We assured him that the club was totally clean. Fine. We need to track his movements in the club. I'm going to need access to all the CCTV you have. Heinrich. Sure. Follow me. I took him to his dressing room before the set. He wanted something to drink. Champagne, whisky? Mint tea. Kurt didn't drink alcohol. Of course. Did he ask you for a yoga mat, too? We had already provided that. Ahem. Stop. Maria. This is you, right? Kurt Sommer was found dead in his room this morning. And we found this in his bathroom. You were selling drugs - the same contaminated pills that have put five people in hospital in the last month. And now they've killed someone. And we have CCTV of you making your sale. What do you want? The person who's really behind this. Luis Gardera. I don't know any Gardera and I don't know... Everyone knows he runs the trade around here. There is a deal on the table. You help us and we can help you. Immunity is my new identity. Look. We need someone to work with us. Help us get close to Gardera to get the evidence we need. This, taken two years ago. This one last month. And these, these are all victims of Gardera. Trying to frighten me. That's pathetic. I would be - frightened, I mean - if I had to work for Gardera. He seems to go through a lot of staff. And that and that and that... It's one hell of a severance package. You think it's so easy, huh? Gardera knows people everywhere. In this place, in government, everywhere. There's a reason why nobody's talking about him, because they all end up like this. You won't... ..if you let us protect you. I should trust you two with my life? I would if I was in your position. Gardera's lawyer. We have no grounds for provisional imprisonment. I set bail as high as I could, but still it is nothing for them. * Damn it! She's terrified. A few more minutes and she would have helped us. Maybe. Maybe not. Well...I think we've done all we can. I'm heading home, I need to sleep. And you need to shower. Yeah. MUSIC: Mahler's Symphony No 4 KNOCK ON DOOR Hey. Is it true? About Kurt? I heard a rumour, but... No... PHONE RINGS SHE SIGHS Blake. Sure this is the right place? Maybe she got scared. Would you blame her? PHONE RINGS Si, diga? Perdone. Estan esperando a alguien? Si. Estamos esperando. Yes? Carrer Marco. Ten minutes. She's changed the place. Maybe we missed her. Maybe. This IS the street. OK, one more minute and then we'll get out of here. Yeah. This way. Do you want something? Did you mean it? When you said you could help me? Yeah, of course. You have to trust us. I came here with my friend to have fun, you know? And when we earned enough money, I was going to go home, and he said he could help me maybe with cash, and then he gave me pills to sell and then he took my passport and security. Heinrich works for Gardera? Shh. He trusts him. That's why Gardera puts him inside the club. BOTTLES CLATTER, SHE GASPS Got to go. I just want out and to go home, but if I try and leave, they'll kill me. OK, if you agree to work with us, we can help you. We'll set you up with a contact in Vice. He's an experienced officer from the mainland who can deal with it. No, Gardera has informers throughout that squad. In police and government, everywhere. That's how he works. If they know, he knows. Why do you think I called you? You're not connected. This is specialist work. It's dangerous. I said no! That's the only deal. I work with you and you alone or nothing. Do you understand? It's just you or I take my chances. We don't run informants, Detective Blake. Not on this scale, anyway. If I approved this operation, my neck would be on the line. But if you're the one who busts Gardera... I've done this kind of thing before, back in London. We ran informants in drug gangs. These are long-term operations. They can take months. Years, even. Yeah, but Maria is giving us a way in. An opportunity like this is so rare, Ines. OK, set it up. But run it outside the station. OK? Perfect. Yeah, I can hear you! There's some people on the pitch. They think it's all over. Oh, for God's sake, Max. It is now! He's nervous. Whenever things get serious, he tries to pretend everything is just one big joke. I noticed. HE SINGS You did these for Kurt? May I? Max told me you did his album artwork. Yeah, I met him in Ibiza when I was having an exhibition. He liked my work, but he was always very specific - knew exactly what he wanted. Death leading us all in the dance. Buenos dias. Pero bueno... Que tal? So, Miranda, treat for you. Yes. Treat for us. Ensaimadas! Of course, my friend! And there's absolutely no doubt about this? Cause of death was a massive barbiturate overdose, just as we suspected. But Kurt was riddled with an aggressive cancer, probably a renal tumour. Almost every major organ was involved. No chance of cure. Are you hearing this? Yeah. He would know all this, that he was dying? There was a tiny mark on his right side, almost certainly a scar from a biopsy one or two months ago. And he would have been weak and in a lot of pain. So, yes, he knew. So you think it was suicide, that he knew what he was taking? It makes sense. * Hi. We booked a room. Mr and Mrs Schmidt. Gracias. After you, Frau Schmidt. So...how long were you in Vice? Nearly three years. That's funny. I find it hard to imagine. Because I'm a woman? No, no, because you're just so...straight. Maybe that's why people trusted me. It was girlfriends a lot of the time - people they didn't even notice. Most of them were being abused and...they just wanted a way out. So I helped them. So why did you quit? People... People who trusted me got hurt... ..or worse. And you have to deal with that. Because some people find it easier than others. Yeah, sure. KNOCK ON DOOR Yes. OK, we'll track you from a safe distance - you won't be able to see us - and we'll be listening to everything, OK? OK. Just pretend we're not there. Yeah, sure, no problem. Just put that through. And you're sure they bring the new shipment tonight? Yeah, yeah, that's the regular routine. Delivery for next week's supply... ..for the club. OK, good. Nothing different tonight, yes? You just pick up the stuff and you leave. All we want is to observe so we can start building a case. I understand. We need a safe word. Something that you can say if you think it's all going wrong. OK, um... Um... I can't think of anything right now. Um... OK, listen. You have a good friend called Miranda. She's coming to visit you from England next week and you can't wait to show her the island. You get scared. You talk about that. OK? I hear my name, and we come in and get you. OK? OK. Are you OK? All right. HE SIGHS PHONE RINGS Hello. Go to Carrer de Elio. Why the new place? Security. Just do it. OK. Let's follow her. No, wait. It's a new location because they're tailing her. Checking for people like us. So...? So we play cat and mouse. They've gone right. They've gone left. Carrer de Elio. OK. Hang back. I'll take over at the top. She's getting in a vehicle. Silver BMW. No! No, that wasn't the plan! I'll get the car. Where are we going? INDISTINCT VOICE Tell me, where are we going? Max! Max, are you there? TYRES SCREECH, SHE GRUNTS SHE GROANS Go! Excuse me... STATIC Ah! They're getting away! I'm losing reception. What's the range on that thing? Half a mile, maybe less. There, there! INDISTINCT VOICES ON RADIO I'm still losing them. I'm losing them. We never used this place before... SHE GROANS IN FRUSTRATION RADIO CRACKLES DRONING Wait. You hear that? That's the night ferry. If they're at the docks, we can find them. SHIP HORNS BLARE INDISTINCT VOICES ON RADIO There. There. Can you hear that? Switch off your lights. There. That's the car. Back up. Heinrich. * SHE SIGHS I don't get it. What's wrong with the usual place? We had to increase security. You understand, after your mistakes. Sure. So where is it? It's late. I want to get some sleep. What did they offer you? Reduced sentence? Or immunity? I don't know what you're talking about. SHE GROANS Liar. Sit down. MARIA BREATHES HEAVILY Come on. Again, what did they offer you? Nothing! I said nothing. So they just let you go? Yeah! They sent in a good lawyer. He's from Gardera. So I just did what they told me to do. GUN CLICKS We have to go in. He's going to shoot her. No. No! Not until she says my name. She's freaking! She can't remember her OWN damn name! OK. OK. OK. They asked me to work for them as an informer. They said they could help me if I helped them. Think about it. We can use it. Months - years, even - me feeding them the wrong information. We can make them believe what we want them to believe. OK... Please... Let me ask Gardera first, please. And when he says no, OK. OK? You know how he operates. Counterintelligence. He can see... Maybe he can see that this is a great opportunity. Please. Please. She's lost it. She's lost it! She's wearing a wire! Believe me... She knows that we can hear everything. She's trying to take us straight to Gardera. This could be the perfect double cross. Yeah, IF he buys it. IF! Please, please, please, please... No, no, no, no, no. Please... GUNSHOT We're going in. So this was supposed to frighten me? MIRANDA SIGHS OK. But I'll talk to him first. Maria, come on. Hey! Hey! Wait! Maria! Hey! Stop! No! What the hell were you doing?! That is not what we agreed! You could've been killed! Do you think I don't know that?! You want Gardera, right? So if I'm prepared to take the risk, you should too. No! Look, you should have discussed it with us. I had to stop him from storming the damn building! It just came to my mind. I... Maybe this way we can get right to him. Or get yourself killed. I mean... Maria... No! We do this my way or not at all. ENGINE STARTS OK. here's all they have on him. Heinrich Muller, born in Fussen, Bavaria, 1980. He's got no German criminal records. He's been here for nearly three years. Fussen? Nothing. Look here. Kurt Sommer was born in the same town, same age, 1980. That's relevant because...? Because it's a small place. You'd think...they... They'd know each other. Mmm. MAX SIGHS HE SIGHS HE TYPES They DID know each other. And Heinrich's drugs killed Kurt. PHONE RINGS It's her. Blake. OK, understood. Heinrich is taking her to see Gardera. I'll call Ines. * Ines, we're getting close. Understood. We'll hang back and wait for your word. OK, this is close enough. RELAXED SPANISH MUSIC PLAYS We're here to see Gardera. Thank you. This way. Come on. Stand by. Copy that. Talk to me. I want to help you. The police trust me and, as I told Heinrich, if I pretend to work for them, we can feed them with any information we choose, even lead them to rivals. And you believe you can deliver on this promise. Yes, of course. If it wasn't all lies, right? What? She's working for them already. I... I was to meet them. She's a liar. She wants to betray us all. No, that's not true. I think it is. No, it's not true. I was meeting a friend. She's called Miranda. I met her a few years ago in London. Just say the word. Kill her. Come on! No, stop, please! She's blown. Move in, now! No! Please! Please! GUN CLICKS TYRES SCREECH Do you want me to shoot this woman? Are you deaf? Kill her now. No! What is this? HEINRICH CHUCKLES Shoot her! No, no, no! Police! Freeze! Put the gun down! Now! Both of you! What? You did it. Wow. It was a beautiful performance. INDISTINCT VOICES Luis Gardera, I'm arresting you for soliciting a murder. This is crazy. Is it? Show him. INES SPEAKS IN SPANISH Alba was my best friend. We grew up together back in Fussen. And she was my sister. She came here three years ago, worked in Gardera's club for the summer, then she just disappeared. I came to look for her, but then they found her body thrown on some rubbish. We knew he was behind it, but nobody could prove anything. The photograph. You recognised her. Yeah, that was hard. Gardera was untouchable. Witnesses simply vanished before they could even testify against him. But Kurt was your best friend from school. When he realised he was dying, you both saw a way to get revenge. His death started the dance. The whole thing was a performance. A symphony, if you like. All designed to lead the two of us to Gardera. Everything had to feel real. My injuries, Kurt's body. And making sure you saw the drug deal. Make us put you under surveillance and then lead us right to him. Making sure we collect the evidence we need to convict him. Exactly. Thank you for being so predictable - both of you. What was her name? Your informer. Amy. She was only 19. They'd done things to her, like... Unspeakable things. It wasn't your fault. That's what everyone said. Maybe they were right. Yeah, of course they're right. Perhaps death really is nothing to be scared of. All these people are at peace now. Just like her. No-one can hurt them. Maybe. The dead must rest, but the living... ..must drink and eat... ..and dance. No dancing. Oh, come on, live a little! Dance with me! Absolutely not. Oh, come on. You don't have to be good. I can teach you. Thank you, but no. Ma... Max.. SHE GROANS Look at you - you're dancing! HE LAUGHS # We got time on our side # Never too late # If you want me now # It's gonna have to wait. # Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Able 2020