A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[knocking on door]
[door opens]
[Poschacher] So? Are your boots cleaned and polished?
Are they in front of the door?
[child 1] Ah.
Really? Who else is in front of the door?
Krampus!
- Were you virtuous all year long? - [both children] Yes.
- [Fanny] Yes. - Yes.
[Poschacher] Krampus will notice if you lie.
And if you lie...
he'll get angry.
- He will eat you! - [Fanny gasps]
- [Poschacher] Ah! - [Fanny gasps]
- The children were virtuous all year long! - [Fanny] Yes, thank God.
- No Krampus! - [Poschacher] No Krampus!
In that case, you'll get gifts.
[chuckling] Ho, ho, ho.
- [child 1] They're so big. - [Poschacher] Look.
So nice.
- [child 2] What's in there? - [Poschacher] Look!
[eerie sound]
[growls]
Alfred?
Do we have to leave?
Keep sleeping. I just wanted to have a look.
Because you're scared.
I'll fix this.
[opening theme music playing]
REGRESSION
DR FREUD
Good morning, Doctor.
Oh, dear.
Doctor?
This looks terrible.
[piano playing softly in the distance]
[playing the piano]
[continues playing the piano]
Good morning.
He was in the mental home.
I enquired.
Szpilman?
In my clinic? Hmm...
He hung himself there.
The ghosts are dancing in this house.
They never should have built it.
Four hundred dead people in just one theater fire.
The doors couldn't be opened.
That's what the police said.
The people down in the stalls managed to escape.
But the poor devils up in the gallery burned alive and suffered wretched death.
[sighs]
I knew one of them. Franzl. I liked him.
And the Emperor? [scoffs]
The Emperor with his bad conscience.
He started having a house built on the ruins the very next day.
A tenement, which didn't help him, as nobody wants to live here.
At this cursed place.
And everyone who lives here goes mad.
I never should have let you into this flat.
Just look at you, Doctor.
Go to sleep!
Come on.
[clicks tongue] No! No! No! Come here.
Look.
[plays multiple notes]
What do you notice?
Hmm?
I don't know a lot about pianos.
But you know about dirt.
Look.
The mechanics...
The felt! Hmm?
Well, some are not as dirty as others.
Yes!
These.
- [plays a melody] - [humming]
Hmm?
[clears throat]
I...
have to go to the clinic.
Mmm-hmm.
[coughs softly]
[in Hungarian] Countess?
- Count? - [gasps]
[gasps]
Where is Fleur?
[Maria] Gone.
Countess!
An imperial ambassador is waiting.
- [in German] Viktor, Viktor! - Hmm?
Wake up!
[grunts]
What happened? What happened?
She's gone.
[groaning]
Viktor von Szápáry?
That's me.
His Imperial Highness, Crown Prince Rudolf, wants to talk to you.
I'll come as soon as...
Of course.
Is she with him? With Rudolf?
- What did she do? - Stay calm!
- She's somewhere out there. - Stay calm!
[Heinz] Willi?
Karli?
Are you here?
Karli?
Have you seen Karli or Willi?
- I'm talking to you! - What is it?
Have you seen Karli or Willi?
No!
Why? Is something wrong?
I saw them.
Where are they?
It's a simple story. When people want to harm me, I harm them.
- I don't want to harm you. - Tell me who paid?
Everybody pays. Nothing's for free, you know?
In that case, I have no choice.
Just leave, I'll do it on my own.
Come here!
[Anneli] Relax!
- Calm down! - It's none of your business!
If you want to harm him, you first have to harm me. Simple story.
Inspector!
[chuckles]
What does she mean now?
Get lost.
[sighs]
[door closes]
[Freud] Karol Szpilman. Do you recognize him?
[nurse] Yes, the pianist.
I know that he survived the theatre fire and committed suicide here, but...
What else?
We said he was the last victim.
More than three years later.
He thought he set the fire himself.
I know this might sound absurd, but...
can you remember whether he ever mentioned Fleur Salomé
or Countess Szápáry?
No.
But you should ask Professor Meynert.
He was the doctor in charge. I'm sure he'll be able to help you.
I think he's in the basement with the criminals.
- With Mucha? - Yes.
- Thanks a lot. - No problem.
[clears throat]
[groans softly]
[door opens]
Come along. The crown prince is awaiting you.
Viktor von Szápáry.
Your Imperial Highness.
[Crown Prince Rudolf] Szápáry, take a seat.
[Viktor] Thanks, Your Imperial Highness.
[pouring drink]
Thanks.
[Crown Prince Rudolf] One doesn't thank servants.
[Viktor] I'm sorry, Your Imperial Highness.
I don't know the customs at court too well anymore.
- [door closes] - Your invitation surprised me.
Learn them, Szápáry.
The customs.
You'll need them.
The Imperial Court requests presence of the Szápáry family at the peoples' ball
You'll be the first Hungarian who will have his hand shaken by my father.
You now belong to us.
Your Imperial Highness,
I, Hungary and the peace in Europe thank you.
Thank Fleur Salomé.
[chuckles softly]
She impressed me.
I'll forward that message, Your Imperial Highness.
[indistinct whispering]
[Viktor] Did Fleur foretell the future?
In the brightest colors.
[grunts]
Do as you please.
- [clinking] - [Rudolf] Mmm?
Szápáry, I have to tell you...
over the last few days, I've been unwell.
But since my mother encouraged me to invite you...
I hate exaggerations, but I can say that I've become a different person.
A good looking, lonely man? Sit down.
[indistinct chatter]
Nobody wears hats in my house!
Heinz is already waiting for you.
He wants to talk to you. Downstairs.
[scoffs]
Loser!
[Riedl] Is there a problem?
Kiss is alive.
He killed two of my guys.
And now?
You have to help.
He already showed up at my place.
He wants to know who wants him dead.
I didn't say a word. I didn't, but I know him.
When he wants something...
There's nowhere I can go. Next time, he'll get me alone and then... [whistles]
We have to get rid of him.
Give me a glass.
You have many soldiers to order.
We need some of them.
Just to make sure.
You can keep the money. But you won't get back the deposit.
[both grunting]
Come on then.
[both grunting]
[glass shattering]
[indistinct grunting]
[both screaming]
[panting and groaning]
[both grunting]
[stabbing]
[panting and groaning]
[in Hungarian] Dear Fleur, where are you?
[dog whining]
[door opens]
[in German] She wasn't with him.
So what did he want?
[chuckling]
No.
[Viktor] Yes.
We're invited.
The day after tomorrow.
She made it.
- Fleur made it! - She made it.
The police were here because of Fleur.
I know where she is.
[indistinct grunting]
[door opens]
- [Freud] Professor Meynert. - [Meynert] Dr. Freud.
- [Freud] I need to talk to you. - [Meynert] Of course, you do.
Szpilman, Karol. One of your former patients.
I have reasons to think that he's an interesting case study.
You haven't heard yet.
We have a new patient.
[Freud] Fleur.
Freud, get away from her!
Professor, you mustn't do this.
Don't cause an artificial fever in this patient.
Her temperature is too high when the second personality...
The Szápárys did this.
They sent her here, right?
Professor, let me explain.
- Fleur Salomé is... - An insane criminal!
- What? - She attacked
and injured a guard last night.
At the Mölker Bastion.
With foam at her mouth.
Really dangerous.
She isn't dangerous anymore.
Obviously, here and now.
- Please free her. - I prescribed 48 hours.
- That's torture. - That's therapy.
Thermo-therapy! Approved over centuries.
Therapy, Dr. Freud.
Maybe you should think about what that means.
It's torture.
Torture for me.
I...
We were right about Leopold.
The class winner of your school.
A maniac.
And Clara?
Which physiological reason was there for her state?
Which organ was sick?
- What did she lack besides her toes? - I'm warning you, Dr. Freud.
You won't find out. Clara is gone, saved.
By her mother, from you.
And...
And Mucha?
Another brain-physiological damage?
- It has to be an epidemic. - Shut up!
I warned you, Freud.
You're fired!
Fleur.
[Sophia] Fleur? She's down here?
In this darkness?
Fleur? Where is she?
[orderly] Cell number four.
Dr. Freud!
Táltos.
What are you doing to Fleur?
- [Sophia] Are you Professor Meynert? - I am.
This man has been harassing my family for days without a break.
- He has an obsession. - What?
- No! No! - My niece is a sick woman.
His presence is poison for her.
Please remove him.
- You're the poison! - [Viktor] He's mad, Professor.
[orderly] Are you crazy?
Stop! Don't, stop it!
Professor Meynert, they're the poison. The two of them!
They poisoned Fleur and are using her to poison others.
Mucha and Leopold. Leopold is one of their victims.
He knew the symbol. And Mucha knows the same melody that Szpilman knew.
- Freud! - Professor.
They're using hypnosis.
She knows an extreme version of suggestion.
You were at my home.
You hypnotized me, so I'd kill myself.
I want to see my niece now.
No!
[Meynert] Freud!
Don't make it this difficult.
- [Meynert] Make way! - [Freud] Professor, I beg you.
It's your own fault.
- Get him and carry him away! - [Freud] Karl!
No, don't!
Don't let her go to Fleur.
- Please, Professor! - [orderly grunting]
Don't let her go to Fleur!
Professor!
Please, don't leave Fleur alone with her.
Private. Thanks.
How does he know all this?
- Szpilman! He knows about the fire. - Be quiet.
- [man yelling] - [shrieks]
Stop!
[Sophia breathing heavily]
[in Hungarian] My child!
My dear child.
The day I found you...
The day you were revealed to me...
was the day that your gift became my task.
And it has been fulfilled.
You've made it, my child.
Forgive me.
[Viktor in German] Freedom.
Freedom for Hungary!
[Fleur gasps]
Fleur?
Is she still here?
I can feel it. I have everything with me.
No, no, no. She's gone.
It would be too conspicuous. Izom shall take care of it.
What about Freud?
He doesn't know anything.
You heard it.
And nobody will believe him.
- [orderly 1] Don't resist. - [orderly 2] Keep going.
- [Freud groaning loudly] - [women screaming]
[orderly 1 grunting indistinctly]
[orderly 2] This can't be true.
- [Freud panting] - [soft instrumental music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
I will sedate you, Dr. Freud.
I will then take you in as a patient
and have you strapped to your bed for your own safety.
Alternatively, you'll leave.
Leave this building right away.
And never enter it again.
It's your decision.
Show Dr. Freud the door and inform the porters
that he's banned from entering these premises.
My door is always open for you, Theodor.
You know the office hours.
[speaking incoherently]
[Poschacher] Look at that!
What have we got here?
Hair!
Who did that?
A hussar.
What did he look like?
Handsome, young.
He had a scar on his cheek.
Riedl.
Would you repeat for the protocol that you saw Lieutenant Riedl?
Yes.
[Poschacher] Inspector, where are you going?
[Kiss] Where would I be going? Were you not listening?
[Poschacher] Inspector, please stop.
I've survived other things. I'll survive Riedl, too.
Huh? Huh?
I think so, too.
But if you'd go to Riedl now, whether you'd kill him or not,
General Lichtenberg would know that we're after him.
He'd have to act then.
We then won't only have to deal with Riedl, who bribes some whoremongers,
but a company of hussars will be at your door. Is that what you want?
But...
we have a witness.
We now need a strong companion.
You know who I mean.
[Freud] I'm begging you.
[snorts]
He respects you.
Take over Fleur's treatment.
He'd love to give her away. He hates being down there.
Breuer, you took the Hippocratic Oath.
Like I did.
The damage Meynert is causing
while we're standing here and you're remaining silent...
[sniffs]
Fleur Salomé is the greatest discovery in the history of medicine.
She's living proof for how much even Charcot,
you and me underestimate the power of hypnosis.
Post-hypnotic suggestion.
Fleur can do it when she dissociates.
And the Szápárys are using that ability to make people submissive.
- [bangs on table] - Damn it!
I experienced all of this with Bertha Pappenheim.
The loss of judgement and dignity.
I should have kept you away from that Fleur.
From the very beginning.
If need be, with violence.
You won't help me.
"I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment."
"I will protect them from harm and deliberate wrongdoing."
- The Hippocratic Oath. - Yes.
And?
I won't break it.
Especially not when the person in question is a friend.
Me neither.
Close the door behind you when you leave.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[Anneli] It was clearly Lieutenant Riedl.
I recognized him.
- Because of the scar on his face. - [Janecek] Wait outside, please.
[door opens]
[sighs]
You want me to arrest a lieutenant of the Imperial army
because of a whore's testimony?
[Poschacher] Of course not!
- So what do you want? - It's not about arresting him.
You shall summon him as a witness.
[Janecek] Yeah, right.
So he can say, "No, I didn't stab the whoremonger in the wine cellar"?
[Poschacher] No.
So we can look under his helmet.
The murderer of Heinz Konrad was injured in a way that will be visible for a while.
Disgusting!
One look under his helmet.
- [groans] - One look!
- It was worth a try. - Yes.
- [door opens] - Fine!
The law applies to everyone. That's an imperial edict.
I'll summon Lieutenant Riedl as a witness.
I promise.
Shit!
[Arthur] Doctor! Doctor!
My penis only speaks Latin now, we can't understand each other anymore.
Can you help me?
Your message sounded urgent.
And it promises an adventure.
Sit down.
[accordion playing]
[Poschacher singing] ♪ Quietly the evening bell rings ♪
♪ Nature goes to sleep ♪
♪ Birds sing farewell songs ♪
♪ The sun is leaving westwards ♪
♪ Quietly a nun in a black attire ♪
♪ Walks through the monastery ♪
♪ Quietly praying for the warrior ♪
♪ Who was injured in battle ♪
♪ Who is knocking at the gate? ♪
♪ An old walks in ♪
♪ "My son is here He's wounded ♪
♪ I'd like to care for him" ♪
♪ The nun says "Poor father ♪
♪ Your son is not alive anymore ♪
♪ He just took his last breath ♪
♪ His wound was too severe" ♪
[door opens]
[door closes]
[Riedl] Kiss is here. He's alone.
What are your orders?
Let him come here.
I told you.
He knows how to defend himself.
By attacking.
[footsteps approaching]
What do you want here?
I just wanted to see your face when I ask you this question.
Did he or did he not stab the whore?
What do you think?
Of course he's innocent!
He's a man of honor.
Why don't you kill me then?
[von Lichtenberg] Because I'm a man of honor as well.
Georg died in a duel.
I respect tradition.
[Kiss] This might have been a misunderstanding.
Why don't you yourself kill me?
When a man of honor wants to kill someone, he does it himself.
But you'd rather send some stray dogs after me.
Why?
You know, I have a friend.
He's a little odd, but a good guy.
He'd say...
that you'd rather send a whoremonger, because you unconsciously have doubts.
You're not sure.
Was Georg really innocent?
I will kill you, Kiss.
Not now.
Not here.
One more thing beforehand.
This is a summons, signed by Central Inspector Janecek.
For Lieutenant Riedl.
Tomorrow, at 9:00 a.m., you have to be at the police office.
It will be for a witness interview concerning the murder of Heinz Konrad.
Thanks, that's all. You may leave.
- [Freud] Now. - [yelling and speaking incoherently]
[doorman] What's going on here?
- Oh, it's Dr. Schnitzler! - Don't stand around. Come and help.
[Lenore moaning and groaning]
- I'll die! - [doorman] What's wrong with the lady?
She dislocated something, if even that. A hysteric.
- Grab her, please! - [doorman] Yes.
- [Arthur grunts] - [Lenore moaning]
- It certainly won't work that way! - [Lenore crying]
- [Arthur] Was that necessary? - Yes, sure.
[doorman] Please calm down, madam!
I'll help you.
- Wait, I'll grab you by your arms. - [Lenore crying and moaning]
- [Arthur] Now. - [screaming in pain]
[continues screaming]
Let me go. Let me go now!
[groans]
I think I feel fine again.
- Yes? - Yes, it doesn't hurt anymore.
You're a real doctor. We can drive home now.
- Of course. Sure. - Let's drive home.
Oh, it still hurts a little bit.
- [Sister Agatha] Professor Meynert. - What?
[Sister Agatha] Sorry, but two policemen are here for you.
Good evening, Professor.
We received a tip that a criminal escaped.
What kind of tip?
Anonymous.
Ah!
And you simply believe it?
Nobody escaped. Now stop wasting my time.
The person who gave the tip knew that a certain Fleur Salomé is here.
That goes around, the woman is famous!
We'll take a look.
Please.
So you need a guide? It's an honor.
[Freud] Fleur...
I'll get you out of here.
[door squeaking]
[Freud] Shh.
[door opens]
[gate squeaks open]
[patient talking incoherently]
[Mucha humming]
[Meynert speaking indistinctly]
...it's their hubris that drives these people.
Their vanitas reaches a pathological level.
[Meynert continues indistinctly]
Right, here we are.
You see? Locked.
Everything's fine.
Look for yourself.
As you can see, Fleur Salomé is in secure custody.
Mmm-hmm.
[Meynert] Such anonymous clues are symptoms of a lack of attention.
Come.
I'll show you the other patients.
[Fleur breathing heavily]
Now... I'll bring you to my place.
We can make it.
[Meynert] Pavel, why isn't this door locked?
Please go ahead, gentlemen.
The doors of the cells are, of course, locked all day and all night.
[singing] ♪ Ha, such lust from beautiful eyes ♪
♪ Her blooming chest gives life... ♪
- What is this? - Agatha.
Come, Agatha!
Go on!
- [Mucha grunts] - [Sister Agatha screams]
[screaming]
Stop!
- Stop or I'll shoot! - [yelling]
[gunshots]
[indistinct screaming]
[horse snorts]
[Arthur] Shit.
Lenore, have you got a light?
Look, they're coming.
- [Arthur] Do you need help? - [Freud] It's fine.
[Lenore] My goodness, the state she's in.
Oh, my god.