Last week, the police raided a drug lab in Holland,
but instead of arresting drug dealers
they accidentally handcuffed three German tourists.
Yeah, what can I say? The real drug dealers are still on the run from the law.
"A drug dealer is on the loose." Or as they like to say in Holland,
-"a drug dealer". -[audience laughs]
Lenny, I know you've probably blocked me, and I get why you did that,
but… fuck, man! The Dutch aren't actually in prison.
[TV comedian] The tourists thought they were in an escape room
and not in a drug lord's hideout.
-Unfortunately, they were all arrested… -[door slams]
That's too bad,
but for escape room fans, absolute jackpot, right?
-[audience laughs] -[band playing comedic music]
[mobile phone vibrates]
[Moritz] Everything went perfectly.
It's a happy ending! Yeah, I changed my mind about the party.
I'll be there, but I'm not wearing a costume.
A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
[uplifting rock music playing]
These are A Levels.
In the German school system,
the first 18 years of your life are focused on them.
They're coming for you!
[male announcer] From the makers of the GCSEs
and the BTECs,
the final season… A Levels.
After 12 seasons, the grand finale is here.
More exciting than ever before.
-Spoiler alert… -[Dan] Fritzi Neuhaus won't make it.
[announcer] Anton Kollisch High School in Rinseln presents…
A-Binge Watch!
-[klaxon blaring] -[electronic music playing]
[Moritz] People party as if
it's the greatest thing they'll ever achieve in their lives.
They wrap classrooms in tinfoil,
drink themselves blind in the canteen…
-[man] What do you want? -Water!
[Moritz] …put way too much effort into their costumes.
Well, most of them do.
Or they shag random people in the sports hall
-who they barely spoke to the whole time. -It's itching.
-Can't you take it off? -No, no!
[Moritz] As if good A Level results guarantee you an amazing, successful life.
Bullshit! I mean, what do we think became of all these idiots here?
Well, I actually wanted to work in marketing,
advertising and stuff, or become a vet.
After A Levels, I spent a year in Brazil doing a work and travel programme
and I tried ayahuasca for the first time.
When I was 40, I moved back in with my mum in Rinseln.
But now I know what really matters to me in life.
Engineer, programmer, CEO…
I was up for absolutely anything, but my parents, not so much.
They wanted me to do something more stable,
and now I work as a waitress in a cocktail bar. Yeah.
I joined my local fire brigade as a volunteer.
And one night after a party, I drove home really drunk.
I actually came off the road and flipped the car and, um…
I died.
What are you looking at? It's true.
What have all you lot accomplished then? You all passed your A Levels.
[Lenny] Can you stop ruining everyone's fun?
Moritz, we passed our A Levels! So come on, have a good time!
Instead of taking that…
pseudo-philosophical shitty bird's-eye view you always take.
I don't do that!
Ah!
Vodka!
I don't think mixing alcohol and painkillers is a good idea.
Moritz, mate, I'm good!
-[Dan] Hey, guys! -Mm-hmm.
[Dan] How's it going?
-Hmm? -Hmm.
Sorry that I just abandoned you guys like that, okay?
Yeah, and I'm sorry that I didn't trust you.
I had good reason, but I was wrong.
You're a huge Baywatch fan, yeah?
Yeah, you spend all your time watching it. Totally your kind of thing.
Admit you just wanted to have a reason to show off your six-pack.
-Yeah, I wanted to show off my six-pack. -Hey, Dan!
Congratulations on your exam results! Sick!
Yeah! Yeah!
3.7, guys. Precision landing!
Who are you supposed to be, anyway? Steve Jobs?
No, Smoke Monster from Lost.
Wow, Lost. How old were you when that came out? Three?
You're never too young to think the ending of Lost sucks.
-[Dan chuckles] -[Lenny sprays]
[klaxon blaring]
It's vodka.
What? It's not a good idea to mix alcohol with painkillers.
-[Moritz] That's what I said. -I get it, Mummy and Daddy.
Let's just all relax and have a good time, yeah?
Come on, guys. We passed our fucking A Levels!
[students singing]
A-A-A-A Levels!
A Levels!
[Moritz sings quietly] A Levels!
-[all] A-A-A-A Levels! -[Fritzi clears throat]
[all] A Levels! A Leve-e-els!
-Hey, Fritzi. -Hi, Fritzi.
We're sorry, by the way.
Yeah, he's really sorry.
Why? For hitting me over the head with a gun?
Or because I didn't pass my exams?
Or because I didn't pass my exams because you hit me over the head with a gun?
Nah, I'm only joking. Any chance of me passing my exams is long gone.
Not a big deal.
Yeah, for real.
A Levels are completely overrated.
In Germany, complete idiots end up going to uni.
You'll be fine. You're funny and clever.
And with a vocational training, doors will definitely open for you.
Of course! Right. A shot for the A-star boy!
Um… Uh, Fritzi, I don't drink alcohol.
Moritz, do you really not understand how unique this moment is?
Okay, I'll just have to explain it in your language.
-[klaxon blares] -[cheering]
-That's not permanent marker, right? -It'll wash off. So…
-Here on the x-axis… -That's the y-axis.
…it shows how cool we are.
I'm here, you're here.
-You don't have to flex. -I'm not flexing.
And gradually, other things start to count as well,
stuff like success,
power, money and all that.
And this is the only point
where complete and utter nerds like you
cross with people like me.
Just one moment where we are both on an equal level,
and that's here.
And that's why I'm drinking with everyone that's passed
one shot.
Down.
Down it!
[Lenny and Fritzi] Down it! Down it! Down it!
-[Lenny laughing] -[Moritz groans]
Also, if you're gonna be way too busy,
I can go and find someone else to have fun with, yeah? Ciao-ee!
-Where are my favourite A-star students? -[cheering]
Gotta go.
Bla!
-[Lenny] What's wrong? -Huh?
What's the matter? You're being so… un-Moritz-like?
Listen, a happy Fritzi is a silent Fritzi, okay?
Or do you want us to get caught now?
[Lenny] There's always a master plan, eh?
Come on, let's celebrate the end of exams
and just pretend for a few seconds we're normal teenagers.
[female singer] One, two, three…
[singer shouts]
[girl screams]
[cheering]
♪ Choose your fighter You suck ♪
[cheering]
[balloon squeaking]
♪ Get back, right here I'm in the mood ♪
♪ It's cool, you're good ♪
♪ Kept it inside ♪
[female] You experience every feeling more intensely.
Freedom.
Tenderness.
Love.
-[singer shouting] -[cheering]
[Lenny] I'm gonna grab my pills from the car or I won't last much longer.
What's going on with Kira?
Who the fuck are you and what have you done with Moritz?
You've only had one drink.
Yeah, so,
she had some issues with her parents and the police,
some kind of bullshit excuse.
I blocked her. I've got no idea what's going on.
You two make such a good couple.
It'll work out. She won't find anyone else as good as you.
-♪ Choose your fighter ♪ -[Moritz humming]
[mysterious music playing]
What's with you?
♪ Choose your fighter ♪
[soft music playing]
-Congratulations! -[Lisa gasps]
Holy shit, you scared me.
The Smoke Monster from Lost? Again?
-[girl behind shouts] -Wait.
[girl behind] Go on then! Woo!
[Moritz] So…
-Better? -Mm-hmm.
[sighs] Sorry that I've been so distant these last couple of weeks.
It's okay. I deserved it. I should have been honest with you from the start.
I googled it.
Do you know how many people apply to study journalism in this country?
-Ten thousand! And they accept-- -Three hundred. I know.
But you have to stand out.
So, I… I thought about it and…
you can write about me and submit my story.
Really? Are you sure?
Yeah. You'll definitely get in with it.
Yeah, well, you haven't even read my article yet.
Uh… yeah, you're right. How could I have?
I've read your stuff before and always thought it was exceptionally written.
And this application won't be the end of it, I mean…
my story has too much potential.
I've already been contacted by loads of journalists and, well…
M1000's been contacted.
[dramatic music playing]
You could have the exclusive rights.
And then you could write an investigative report or a book or…
The thing is, there are parts of the story that you don't know about.
Some big things are happening at the moment.
The hottest chapter is coming next.
The reclaiming of MyDrugs.
And the rebirth of M1000!
Imagine how good we can have it!
While MyDrugs is turning into the go-to place to buy drugs on the internet,
I'll be giving you exclusive interviews, like Superman and Lois Lane!
It'll be great for both of us,
for your career and for my reach as well.
We could potentially really profit from each other, Lisa.
Just picture it!
But, shh, Lisa! Nobody can know about this alliance yet.
Fuck everyone else.
We're a team, Lisa.
An undercover team.
[girls laughing]
-[Moritz] Deal? -[Lisa gasps]
[Moritz sighs]
Um… have you been drinking?
Just a shot from Fritzi.
Then I definitely don't want any.
No, come on! There's only one day we're on an equal level with the cool people
because, well…
[Lisa groans]
It's super complicated, but Fritzi can explain it.
Fritzi?
[distant] Fritzi!
[groans]
Fritzi?
[chilled-out electronic music playing]
-[Lisa] Uh… Jens? -Uh-huh?
I have to tell you something. It's about Moritz.
[car horn beeping]
[Kira] Shit. Shit.
Shit, shit, shit!
Fuck!
Lenny, we have to get out of here now! Um…
Great entrance. Last time, you said you were gonna be there for me.
Now I'm supposed to rush? Have you got shit for brains?
The Dutch are on the loose.
They arrested some random tourists instead.
Fuck.
-Shit, the others! -Come on, let's go!
[students cheering in distance]
I don't want you to think I'm only being nice
because you have something on us. I…
What I'm saying is, you are--
Seriously, Dan, come on. Just spare me the bullshit.
If you want to fuck me again,
here, I'll make an exception.
This will make it more fun.
Um… more? Was earlier not…
Oh, just more. I meant more fun.
Yeah, but isn't alcohol a… [whistles]
-[Fritzi chuckles] -[chuckles] Uh…
What did you put in there?
Oh, nothing. Just something that'll yank the sticks out of those A-star arses.
-Wait, you put our ecstasy in there? -My ecstasy.
-Fritzi, that's dangerous! -Don't talk to me about what's dangerous!
You're the ones who sold drugs to the whole world and almost killed Gerda.
Holy shit, Fritzi! You are so fucked up!
[panting]
[man shouting in distance] Come back inside. It's fucking great!
I'm gonna get you a drink, okay?
Only one point in time where guys like you and me can talk on an equal level.
-Sorry, you're dressed as…? -Power Ranger.
Power… Ranger. Get it?
Mmm-mate!
Power… Ranger!
Hey, Moritz, are you feeling good?
You know you can talk to me about anything.
Sometimes it's better to talk to someone who has nothing to do with it.
What do you mean by talk to me about anything?
Has she said something?
What? No!
I mean, she just said she's writing something about you.
And it just kind of seemed like you could really use a buddy to talk to.
Ta-da! Here he is!
[Moritz hears echoing voice]
Actually, this all began when Lisa wanted to take a break.
-[Dan] Moritz! -Because of that, Lenny--
Daniel! Hey! Are you having a good time?
-You haven't seen Lisa, have you? -No. Mo, we have to talk.
Oh, look, Joseph! This makes it much clearer.
This is the point in time where we are all the same.
-Guys! Guys, we have a problem. -[Moritz] Kira?
-Hey, Joseph. -Hey. Look! I'm a Power Ranger.
Can you give us a second? Something important we need to talk about.
None of you have seen Lisa?
Man! Lisa left with her bike an hour ago!
-Lisa did what? -Moritz, concentrate! We have a problem.
Here!
Oh, look at that. Only yesterday we were talking about that game.
Now it's popping up as an ad. They are definitely spying.
Not the ad, Moritz, the article!
-What? -That's not the Dutch!
We need to get out of here!
-[singer shouting indistinctly] -[cheering]
-[Lenny] Come on! -[Kira] Come on, run!
Moritz, come on!
[upbeat rock music playing]
[boy] How shit-faced are you?
[girl] What the fuck?
Maarten? [gasps]
[girl] Hey!
[Dan] Come on.
[Dan groans]
[lift bell dings]
[Kira] Come on, move! Move! Go, go, go!
[cheering]
-[girl] Hey! -[glass smashes]
[boy] Okay, three more!
What do you want? Hey!
-[Maarten] Fuck! -How shit-faced are you?
Who is that wanker, anyway?
Ah, and where might you be going in such a hurry, huh?
Agent Fox Mulder.
FBI.
-You're all acting very suspiciously. -Very suspiciously.
Hey, you!
Have you taken something?
Let me see.
[Moritz groans]
[man] Oh my God, Moritz!
Don't be so boring. I'm just joking, man.
As if he would ever take anything.
Listen, my friend, can I just give you one piece of advice,
Moritz, just learn to chill out for once.
Yeah? You don't always have to be so proper, eh?
Hey! You're done with high school.
Fellas! Why don't you party like everyone else and have a drink?
Congrats on your a Levels. Have fun!
[man] Man, those guys are boring. Moritz!
-Bor-itz! Bor-itz! -[girl] Woo-hoo!
[Kira] Where are we going? In there?
[Kira] Okay!
That's your superpower, right?
You're so boring, nobody believes you'd do anything.
[Dan sighs]
Hey, are you feeling alright?
I'm good.
Okay, everything's good.
[rock music playing]
[cheering, clapping]
[cheering]
[sighs]
[Gerda sighs]
[Gerda] I heard you're giving shots to all the A-star students.
And, well, I know we're not talking at the moment
and you hate us and all that, but…
I should get the whole bottle seeing as I finished top of the class.
Not a chance. That did not go well last time.
But I do have some ket if you want.
Okay, what is in that?
Sometimes people just need a little bit of help to be happy.
I mean, look at those guys!
Simon, for example.
He hasn't spoken to anyone
who's not in the school newspaper team for three years.
And yet now, he's been chatting with Iri for an hour.
And Michi? Did you know he could dance like that?
Neither did he!
And Angie is letting out her sexual side that she's been repressing for so long.
Maybe some of tonight will stay with them
in this serious, grey,
awful, monotonous place that all adults seem to end up in.
And you can all thank me later.
[cheering]
And I'm here to have fun tonight.
I'm definitely not gonna let you ruin that for me,
especially not in your high-and-mighty protest costume.
Okay, seeing as you're the one who said something, Tiger King? Seriously?
A coke-head Trump supporter
who tortures animals and drove a kid to kill himself.
Nice one, Fritzi!
Nice one!
[drunken shouting, cheering]
[quiet humming]
[Moritz humming]
-I've got to get out of here! -Hey! Hey, hey, hey! No, no, no! Mo!
What are you doing? We can't leave. What's wrong with you?
Hey, hey! Just look at me.
You're high. Fritzi put ecstasy in your shots.
-She did what? -Oh my God.
Look, just calm down. We can't leave. We'll run straight into Maarten's hands.
-[Kira] Oh my God. -[gasps] Why didn't you say anything?
Earlier?
-That I'm on fucking drugs! -[Kira] Mo! Calm down!
This is exactly why! Calm down!
-[Moritz muffled shouting] -Hey!
You're okay. Everything's gonna be okay. Just stay calm.
I can't stay in here!
-Hold his hand. -What?
[Dan] Just do it.
-Everything's gonna be fine, okay? -Oh God, I'm on drugs!
-[Moritz breathes heavily] -Hey, hey!
Everything's okay.
Okay? Hey.
[Dan] Just breathe in… [inhales deeply]
And out… [exhales slowly]
In through the nose… [inhales deeply]
And out through the mouth… [exhales slowly]
Notice your surroundings.
-[Moritz breathes shakily] -[Dan] Let yourself fall.
[birds chirping]
[Dan] Feel your lungs expand as they fill with air.
[Dan inhales deeply]
[Dan] Feel the floor under your feet.
Feel your weight.
[Dan] And feel how the muscles in your body are getting softer.
[deep breathing]
-Headspace. -[Kira gasps]
-[Dan] Hey! -[Moritz yelling]
-[Dan] Mo! Hey, hey! -[Moritz panting heavily]
Boom!
[Maarten laughing]
Hey!
Mitch Buchannon! [inhales through teeth]
Nice!
Mulder and Scully back there were kind enough to tell me I could find you here.
Huh…
-So, guys, are you having a good time? -[cheering]
Nice, nice.
We all know that you only elected me as class representative
-because you're big fans of Obama. -[laughter]
Um… just so you know, that's called "positive racism".
But I was happy to take up the responsibility, anyway. Woo!
A Levels aren't a matter of life and death, you know?
-But the yearbook kind of is. -[laughter]
So, let's move on to the official yearbook category winners
for Anton Kollisch High School!
[delayed laughter]
All right, let's start with:
Who is most likely to join a silent monastery?
[boy] Definitely you! Simon!
[Gerda] Who could it be?
Simon Schaffhofer! [laughing]
[Gerda] Who would have thought?
[girl] He's not saying anything. I think he took something.
[Gerda] And next we have:
Who will never lose their virginity?
-[Gerda] Who could that be? -[boy] Me! Me!
[Gerda] This one goes to…
Lina Kamper, congratulations!
[laughter]
[Gerda] Next, who will be the first to end up homeless?
[boy 1] Definitely him, man!
[boy 2 chanting] Fritzi! Fritzi!
[more people chanting] Fritzi! Fritzi! Fritzi!
Fritzi!
-[boy 3] 100% Fritzi. -[more people chanting] Fritzi! Fritzi!
-[girl] Fritzi! Woo-hoo! -[boy chanting] Fritzi! Fritzi!
[girl laughing] Yeah, go on then!
[girl] Gerda Schwertfeger?
Gerda Schwertfeger? Just because I'm Black?
Wow, guys! That, I'm afraid, is just straight-up racism.
-[girl laughs] -[booing]
You'd think we went to Otto von Bismarck High School.
-[girl] Eh? -[Gerda laughing]
Okay, no laughs?
Yeah, why don't you google it? That's your homework.
-[laughter] -[girl] Ah!
[Gerda] Let's skip over this category and keep going.
[boy] I love you, Gerda!
I love you too! [chuckles]
Right, moving on.
Who will still be living with their mum at 40?
[in Dutch] I couldn't find the little girl.
He hasn't found Kira, he said.
I know, Dan. I understand that too.
Just chill out, Dutch isn't that hard to work out.
But… how did you people even escape?
[Marlene] Hmm.
[mobile phone buzzes]
[Marlene] Do you really think our employees can be blackmailed?
-[Beeke] No. -[Marlene] No. We knew from the beginning.
-[woman] Hello? -[Marlene] We needed you to think
that everything was going according to plan
-so that you'd tell our, um… -[Beeke] Mole.
[Marlene] …tell our mole when the police would be paying us a visit,
so that we wouldn't be there and the police would find something else.
[Beeke] And that something was what we in Holland hate the most:
German tourists.
Not long now.
[woman 1] Whoa! This is exciting, right?
Have you done an escape room before?
[man] No, he said it's a new thing in Rotterdam.
I think we have to look for the first clue, yeah?
[woman 2 laughing] Oh! There's a drawer here.
Is that a gun?
I think this is the first clue, guys!
-[woman 1] Wow, wow! -[man] Let me take a quick photo.
-Wow! Cool effects! -[woman 1] Hey, hey!
[woman 1] Whoa! Not so fast, officer!
[woman 2] Ooh, wow! This is so realistic.
Whoa! Oh! You're strong! [screams]
So, the money and the access codes for MyDrugs, guys.
Or we'll have to shoot your stupid, sparrow-sized brains out.
-Does that make sense in German? -I don't give a shit!
[breathing rapidly]
[softly] We breathe in and out.
-Feel the ground… -Moritz.
I'm really scared of you.
Honestly.
Really scared.
I've always been. How you only live for work.
I mean, you basically have no personal life. [chuckling]
Okay, I admire how you're able to do that, but…
you take it too far.
Really.
I mean, you would… you would all literally kill for the job.
[laughing hysterically]
[gulps]
Okay. Okay, I guess maybe I deserve it.
To die.
But Lenny and Daniel?
[breathing heavily] I mean, I just feel so…
[crying] …so sad.
So sorry. I got them into this because I wanted to be like you,
and what do they get out of it?
And me?
Tied up, just sitting here!
I don't want to die today.
But if I have to, then here.
Here with my best friends. So do it!
[Dan] Uh…
We're sorry. Someone put something in Moritz's drink.
-Oh. -[Maarten laughing]
[laughing]
[laughing loudly]
Okay, so it looks like somebody has won two categories this evening.
Who will get filthy rich from their app?
And who will end up in a psych ward?
-[laughter] -Both go to…
Moritz Zimmermann!
[laughing nervously]
The access codes for your Bitcoin wallet, Moritz!
[gulps]
I programmed an app!
Yeah. If I don't press this button on my phone
that I have to press every hour on the hour, every hour,
then all your information will be sent to the police.
Including photos. [chuckles]
[phone buzzes]
Then do it.
Okay, but only if you let us go first.
It'll be eight o'clock in two minutes.
Do we really want us to wait and find out if you're lying?
[Maarten sighs]
Sorry, I apologise for lying to you.
[phone hits floor]
-[Moritz] I'm sorry. -Right. Enough.
-Next up is the hottest guy. -[cheering]
Who could that be?
-Dan… -[crowd] Riffert!
-[breathing heavily] -[girl] Woo!
[Maarten] So?
[gulps]
[in Dutch] Let's all just take a breath.
Marlene. Beeke.
We had such a good time together.
And you're such amazing women!
You're beautiful. Talented.
Smart.
Successful.
Do you really want to do this?
[Beeke sighs]
[in English] I've killed hotter guys for less, believe me.
And so… [in Dutch] Shut your mouth.
Otherwise, I'll shove that buoy up your arse.
Right! The access codes, now!
[Gerda] Who will be the first to die?
Lennard Sander. Oh, guys.
Moritz, whatever you're thinking, don't do it or we're dead!
One!
[Lenny grunts]
[Maarten] Two!
[gasps] The password is asterisk…
-[gunshot] -No, no!
[grunts] That burns! Ugh! Was it acid?
[Lenny laughs]
-No, actually… -[Lenny] It was acid!
Fuck yeah! Acid!
[Marlene] Okay.
[gun hammer cocks]
[Moritz whimpers]
[exhales deeply]
[whimpers]
-[Marlene] Hmm? -[gunshot]
[in Dutch] No!
[Jens gasps]
-Oh my God. Dad? -[Jens gasps]
-[Moritz] Dad, run! -[Jens] Oh, fuck!
[Maarten] Marlene?
I made a bet with Beeke and Marlene
that you'd behave for at least five years
because you saw how things ended for Mia.
Anything for your career, right?
I could probably kill your dad and you'd keep on working, wouldn't you?
Do you even care about anything anymore?
Do you feel anything? Huh?
Hmm.
[Dan gasps]
[gunshot]
["Choose Your Fighter" playing] ♪ Whoa! ♪
♪ I'm filled with rage, boys toys ♪
♪ Wh- wh- wh- wh- ♪
♪ Choose your fighter You suck ♪
♪ You suck, you suck ♪
♪ Good luck ♪
♪ Choose me, choose me ♪
♪ Choose me ♪
♪ Pretty please Eh, eh, eh! ♪
♪ Choose your fighter ♪