01x01 - Episode 1

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[RAIN TRICKLING]

[ENGINE RUMBLING]

[VEHICLE APPROACHING]

♪ [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

POLICE

[RADIO CHIRPS]

- OFFICER: [ON RADIO]
- Alpha team, go ahead.

♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

[THE TORMENT]

HOST: And now,
straight from Warsaw,

another one of our graduates,

reporter and host of the show,
Toward the Truth,

our own Kama Kosowska!

[ATTENDEES CHEERING]

ATTENDEE: Kama!

[INAUDIBLE]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

How are you?

♪ [UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS] ♪

PHOTOGRAPHER:
One more over here.

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

♪ It's dragging me down ♪

♪ And I feel like
I'm out alive ♪

♪ ["THEE ART OF LIBERTEE"
BY RYKARDA PARASOL PLAYING] ♪

♪ Loneliness ♪

♪ Ain't no coward's friend ♪

♪ For folks like me, though ♪

- ♪ It's a constant ♪
- [KAMA CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

♪ Something I know... ♪

ASKA: He's always been my type.

♪ Something I could lean on ♪

♪ Something to hold... ♪

- Who?
- Arek.

Believe it or not,
I had a crush on him.

[KAMA CHUCKLES]

We all had a crush on him.

Now I remember. We have
the same taste in guys.

KAMA: That was ages ago.

Right, Booba?

Oh, it's not Booba.

Please, just Aska.

[LAUGHS]

Two gays dancing
across the hall.

[CHUCKLES] One was big,
the other small.

You don't have
to watch what you say.

Don't worry, you're not
on air, honey.

You know how it is.

One recording,
and they just cancel you.

I remember that
you always had fun with words.

Remember what
you called me then?

Well, yeah, Booba.

Chubby Booba.

No, of course not.

Yeah, you're trash.

- You did it behind my back.
- You sure?

You only said it once,
but it stuck.

That's your talent.

Two years later,
I switched from Arts to Science.

But I couldn't shake it off.

You're talking nonsense.
Seriously.

Deep down,
I'm thankful, I guess.

[SCOFFS]
I ran so far from that nickname

that I ended up
specializing in psychiatry.

I've got a nice home.

Unlike most of my classmates,

I haven't gotten divorced.

Good for you.

Good for you.
You deserve it, Booba.

You don't get
to call me Chubby Booba.

I go by Doctor Joanna Nitecka.

♪ ["NIE STALO SIE NIC" BY ROBERT
GAWLINSKI PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] ♪

- [ATTENDEES CHEERING]
- Want to go dancing?

Come on, let's do it, please.

You're such a good dancer.

♪ Na, na, na ♪

♪ Na, na, na ♪

♪ [VOCALIST SINGING IN POLISH] ♪

What's up, Kama?
You look very nice.

Thank you. [CHUCKLES]

♪ [SONG CONTINUES PLAYING] ♪

My father-in-law
wants your autograph.

- [GROUP CHUCKLES]
- What are you up to these days?

This is the best party
of the year.

- Yeah!
- [CHUCKLES]

Let's hit
the dance floor, girls.

- ♪ [SONG CONTINUES] ♪
- [ATTENDEES CHEERING]

[LAUGHTER]

♪ [SONG CONTINUES] ♪

- [PLUG SNAPS]
- ♪ [MUSIC ENDS ABRUPTLY] ♪

[CONFUSED CHATTER]

Kama!

- ATTENDEE: Hey, stop it!
- Kama!

GUARD: Excuse me, sir.
You can't...

- f*ck off!
- [ATTENDEE GASPS]

Kama!

- Hey, just relax...
- [ATTENDEES MURMURING]

Where are you?

- ROBERT: Hey you!
- MICHAL: I know you're here!

- ROBERT: You're wasted.
- Ah!

Let's just cool off.

Listen, man. The exit is there.
You should go.

- [GASPS] Michal?
- ♪ [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

There you are.

[ATTENDEES MURMURING]

[MICHAL GRUNTS]

So, how've you been?
Everything's good?

[SIGHS SHARPLY]

- I'm asking if everything is...
- ROBERT: Hey!

- Are you deaf?
- MICHAL: f*ck you! Get off me!

- Don't touch me!
- [GASPS]

[GRUMBLING LOUDLY] No!
[PANTS]

You and your father
ruined my life,

do you understand?
Get the f*ck off me!

Hands off! f*ck off!

You and your father deserve
each other!

You won't get away with it!
I'll never forgive you!

- I won't stay silent!
- [GASPS]

MICHAL:
No, I won't! You hear me?

- You'll pay...
- YOUNG KAMA: Seven.

- Six.
- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

YOUNG KAMA: Five.

Four. Three.

Two. One.

- Here I come.
- ♪ [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

ASKA: Give her some air!

- [WEAKLY] What happened?
- ASKA: You drank too much.

- [KAMA GROANS]
- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

Booba!

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Let's get you home.

- I wanna go home.
- Yeah, but I'll drive.

You'll be okay.
I'll be right back.

♪ [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

I made a fool of myself.

Don't worry about it.

You just had too much to drink.

Where are you staying?
Your father's?

My grandma's.
Do you remember the address?

[SIGHS] We're about to find out.

[KAMA CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Grandma Manka.

She must be 90 or so.

She would be. Covid.

I'm so sorry. I really am.

The last tenants moved out,
so now that I'm here,

I'll fix the place up,
update the listing.

- I got a crew I'd recommend.
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

What was the deal
with that prick?

Well, apparently it's my fault
he didn't succeed in life.

- ♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]

ROBERT: Is this it?

All right,
I guess I didn't forget.

Thank you.

Are you inviting me over?

[LAUGHS]

- Seriously?
- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

I really missed you.

[KAMA SCOFFS]

Booba said that the two
of you get along really well.

Aska has a hard time
accepting failure.

Come on, and you don't?

Of course I can. I know I can.

But what it really comes down
to is I miss seeing you naked.

Your wife is waiting for you.

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS, SIGHS]

[GROANS]

♪ [SOFT TENSE MUSIC
PLAYING] ♪

[SIGHS]

You and your father
deserve each other!

You won't get away with it!

CALLING DAD

[SIGHS]

♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

- [LIVELY CHATTER]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]

Kama, sweetie?

And the luggage?

- [BIRDS CHIRPING]
- ♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

Michal! Piotrek!

Have you been here long?

Why so shocked?

[PIOTREK CHUCKLES]

♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

[GROANS]

[SIGHS]

- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪
- [WATER FIZZING]

[RAIN PATTERING HEAVILY]

[EXHALES]

♪ [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[TIRES SCREECH]

♪ [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

Good morning.
A pack of smokes, please, sir.

Card, please.

THE POLICE "ARCHIVE X" UNIT

REVISITS THE HIGH-PROFILE
DISAPPEARANCE

OF TEENAGER PIOTREK KNAP

- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
- [THUMPING ECHO]

YOUNG KAMA:
Come on, cut it out!

- [THUMPING STOPS]
- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

I thought you'd patch things up.

♪ [UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

[SIGHS]

How about hide-and-seek?

That game's for kids.

Besides, a storm's coming.

Afraid you're gonna
get your fancy sneakers dirty?

Michal!

We can extend
the play area more.

From the campsite to the creek,

and from the road
to the house with no roof.

YOUNG MICHAL: Yeah, man.

But the storm
doesn't stop the game.

YOUNG KAMA: Okay,
I can seek first.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

YOUNG KAMA: All right.

Fifty, forty-nine,
forty-eight...

- Don't peek, Kama!
- YOUNG KAMA: I'm not peeking.

Forty-seven,
forty-six, forty-five,

forty-four

♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SIGHS]

Excuse me, Doctor.

Detective Tomasz Korcz, police.

Did you operate
on the accident victim?

SURGEON: In fact,
I just finished.

What's his condition?

Well, he has severe
multiple organ injury,

internal bleeding.
In short, it's not good.

- Stable.
- Will he make it?

Maybe.

He's currently involved
in an investigation

I'm conducting
for the Cold Case Unit.

A boy went missing in the '90s.

SURGEON: Oh, yeah,
I think I heard about it.

The accident victim is his dad.

He may have crucial information

concerning what happened
back then.

But the patient
is in a coma, detective.

Pharmacologically induced.

If his condition
improves enough,

maybe we could wake him.

If that's the case,
I'll let you know.

Does that work for you?

Thank you.

- What about Knap?
- Oh, yeah. Pardon me.

Uh, the victim's belongings
came in the ambulance.

May we take a look, please?

Well, that's not
up to me, detective.

Who can I... [SIGHS]

- Thank you.
- [OBJECTS CLINKING]

♪ [INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

[ZIPPERS OPENING]

Where's the cash at?

KORCZ: It's fingerprint-locked.

[EKG MONITOR BEEPING]

♪ [MUSIC DARKENS] ♪

TELEPHONE
WALDEK KOSOWSKI

♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

[BIRDS CAWING]

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

- WALDEK: Kama?
- [GASPS]

What are you doing here?

KAMA: High school reunion.

I thought you were too busy
for that kind of thing.

It's gonna hit
the news very soon, Waldek,

so maybe
I should tell you first.

They took
the program off the air.

WALDEK: But they'll give you
something else, right?

KAMA: Hmm.

Well, I guess a change
would be good for me.

Is something wrong?

No, everything's fine.

I'm just telling you 'cause
I don't want you to worry.

[KORCZ MUMBLES]

- [KEYBOARD KEY CLACKING]
- ♪ [BROODING MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

A little late on the brakes,
wasn't he?

Maybe he was on his phone.

- What you got?
- The addresses of Kosowski.

Plural? More than one?

Yes, an apartment and a cabin
at a community garden.

KORCZ: And this?

Did the traffic geniuses
check it?

But the accident
isn't really our problem.

It depends
on who hit the victim.

I think we're gonna need
more footage.

Please check if the cemetery
has security cameras

to deter grave robbers.

Yeah. The addresses.

♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

When are you going back
to Warsaw?

Do you want
to get rid of me already?

Why would you say that?

[BIRD CAWING]

At least tell me
how the reunion went.

- KAMA: Hmm?
- The school event.

The girls got fat,

the guys are drowned
in alcohol and debt?

Torments of the past
caught up with me.

Why'd they reopen the case?

[TRAFFIC WHIZZING]

The detective's name is Korcz,

the brand-new head
of the Cold Cases.

- KAMA: You know him?
- I've heard of him.

He solved a few big cases,
but nobody likes the man.

Apparently, he aimed
for that unit for five years,

and finally got it.

He reopened Piotrek's case
right away.

Does Korcz

have anything concrete?

I think he's got nothing, Kama.

I'd throw a lead like that
to the press, too.

Maybe he's starting to realize

that this is
an impossible case to solve.

Has he contacted you?

And Michal Bak?

♪ [BROODING MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

You told me Michal
lives in Bydgoszcz.

He got married
and he's doing well, right?

- That's the rumor.
- KAMA: Well...

[ZIPPER OPENING]

Doesn't look like
he's doing very good.

[PACKAGING RUSTLING]

- Why?
- [LIGHTER CLICKS]

Did you see him?

What did he want?

To rip into me.

You got your share too.

What the hell?

That man is a nobody.

Just ignore him.

You shouldn't have accepted
that damn case.

You were too close.

That's bullshit, Kama.

The protocol was ignored.

Please spare me your lecture
on the protocol.

[SIGHS]

WALDEK:
Piotrek's life was at stake.

We didn't have time
to stop and think.

And because of that,
you missed something.

You must have

made a mistake somewhere,
you know?

YOUNG KAMA:
Five, four, three, two, one.

Here I come.

- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]

[WIND WHOOSHING]

[SWING CREAKS]

[WATER BURBLING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

Are you upset with me?

No.

I'm asking because I'm worried.

I hope you can understand that.

We did everything we could
to try to find that kid.

Everything.

I can't help the fact
that Piotrek hasn't been found.

Can I help you, sir?

You're Captain Kosowski?

There he is,
speaking of the devil.

KORCZ: I hope you
don't think I'm that bad.

Uh, Tomasz Korcz.
Police, Cold Cases.

I've heard you have a new lead.
Kama Kosowska.

Yeah, I'm gonna need to speak
to you too, Miss Kama.

Just not necessarily today.

Go, sweetheart.
I'll see you some other time.

All right, see you.
Have a good day.

WALDEK: Bye. I'll call you.

See you soon.

How may I help you, sir?

[CAR DOOR OPENS]

- I need you to come to the station.
- [CAR DOOR CLOSES]

- [RAIN PATTERING]
- ♪ [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

KAMA: Robert?
What are you doing here?

- [ROBERT GRUNTS]
- [KAMA YELPS]

♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

[KAMA BREATHES HEAVILY]

[BOTH MOAN]

- [RAIN PATTERING]
- ♪ [MUSIC CONCLUDES] ♪

[THUNDER CRACKLES]

YOUNG KAMA:
Guys, we gotta go now!

You hear me?
I'm soaking wet!

- [THUNDER CRACKLING]
- Olly olly oxen free!

Olly olly oxen free!

[THUNDER CRACKLES]

Do you remember why we broke up?

ROBERT: Hmm.

It doesn't matter now.

But it was clearly a mistake.

I remember I wanted
to go to college in Warsaw.

And you decided you wanted
to go to Gdansk Tech

because you had an aunt there

and you wanted
to move in with her. [LAUGHS]

You're changing the subject.

I actually think
we should be together.

And I actually think polygamy

in this country
is considered ill*gal.

Have you ever heard
of a new thing called divorce?

[SCOFFS]

Hey, where are you going, huh?

You always have to do that.

Every time the conversations
get serious, you run away.

[SIGHS]

Because if you're
gonna talk about that,

if you wanna have
a serious talk,

I need my panties.

Now you need them, Kama?

I'm trying to be serious
and you're [SIGHS]

Being funny
and trying to laugh it off.

Well, sorry for having
a sense of humor.

ROBERT:
That is not a sense of humor.

That's just a defense mechanism.

[SIGHS] Looks like you read
too many of your lady's books.

Do you really think... [GRUNTS]

That by bringing up Aska
[GRUNTS]

It's gonna make me, what?

Change my mind?

Well,
maybe you should change it.

Tell me, Kama,
did the fame f*ck you up?

[SCOFFS]

Did you also kick out the guys
you had sex with in Warsaw?

Well, thank you.

Thank you for reminding me

why I left you
right after the finals, Robert.

You should say "during."

♪ [PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

During Lit and Math,
to be precise.

Because you insist
on making promises.

Keep running your mouth
about our future.

Such a romantic idealist,
aren't you?

You know who's
a romantic idealist?

Booba.

Your wife.

[SIGHS]

Bye.

Bye.

- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- ♪ [MUSIC TURNS INTRIGUING] ♪

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

♪ [INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

What are you doing out
in this rain, kid?

I've been looking for you.

They left me waiting.
I hate those two idiots.

Who? Michal and Piotrek?

They ran away from me
during hide-and-seek,

and I couldn't find them at all.

Huh. That's weird.

Get into some dry clothes.

Come on.

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

YOUNG KAMA: Dad, wait for me!

WALDEK: Go back inside.
You'll catch a cold.

I told you to go back.

YOUNG KAMA: Or what?
I'll get more soaked?

Quite a downpour, huh?

Yeah. Is Piotrek here?

He went out.

To the creek
with Kama and Michal.

Kama told me they were
playing hide-and-seek.

You know how the creek floods
during storms like this.

We were by the shore,
but then they were gone.

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

What if they're still hiding,
waiting for you?

I looked for them everywhere!

I'm not saying
they're in any trouble,

but I think
we better check it out.

Is Michal at his house?

I didn't see him come back.

Let's get going.

KORCZ: So you informed
Ryszard Knap,

and then you split up.

Are you sure
that is exactly what happened?

Whose idea was it?
Yours or Knap's?

♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

I'd like to ask you
a couple of things.

KORCZ: I understand,
but I'd like is

for you
to tell me the story first.

For starters,

why were you interested
in my neighbors' cars

at the community garden?

What were you looking for?

I'll try to answer
your questions.

WALDEK: Listen, son,
all the actions

and decisions I took in 1994

were aligned
with the protocol at the time.

And I have absolutely
no regrets whatsoever.

And I'm not blaming you, sir.

- [DISTANT DOOR CLOSING]
- [RADIO CHIRPS]

I don't have to assist you.

I'm not obligated to answer.

I came out of respect
and because I wanted to.

And honestly, if respect
goes only one way,

I'd rather go, Detective.

All right.

I was checking the parked cars
in the area

because I was actually
looking for your car.

If you had had the courtesy
to just ask me,

I'd have told you
I don't currently own a car.

There's a four-year-old car
registered in your name.

- A Kia.
- I put it on the lot for sale.

My eye pressure's too high.
Glaucoma.

I got treatment,
but it didn't help much.

So my daughter convinced me
to give up driving.

I'm gonna need
all the information

from the lot to verify.

What do you need that for?

[SIGHS HEAVILY]

Have you had contact
with Ryszard Knap?

♪ [SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC
PLAYING] ♪

WALDEK:
We call each other sometimes.

On birthdays and

the anniversary
of Piotrek's disappearance

and of when my wife passed away.

But have you seen him
in person too?

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

I saw him earlier today
at the cemetery.

What's the occasion?

Will you tell me,
what is this all about?

Why did you meet today?

You're the reason.

You reopened old wounds
and gave him false hope.

How long were you together?

A few minutes.

I was in a hurry.

I forgot I had
a doctor's appointment.

So you left the cemetery first?

Yes.

♪ [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

That's Ryszard Knap.

♪ [MUSIC RISES] ♪

- What's going on?
- ♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]

Were you stuck
in the office this late?

I'm dropping it.

One of my girls failed
to link the

accident to the case
I wrote about on the front page.

I don't have much time.

I'm here about that front page.

- It's about Piotrek Knap?
- Mm-hmm.

I think I saw your name pop up
earlier in the archives.

I was a witness.

Piotrek was my friend.

By the way,

I thought that since the police
reopened the case,

perhaps I could, um,
cover it on my program.

Hmm, are you serious?

You can't put that on a show
that you don't have, right?

What have you heard?

Well, that you got fired.

[SCOFFS] Of course.

A woman with opinions

and the courage to share them
is annoying.

So what's your connection
with that missing kid?

Are you gonna cover it?

I could probably
write a book, you know?

[BYSTANDERS CHATTERING]

The accident
that I mentioned earlier?

The victim is
the missing boy's father, Knap.

KAMA: Mm.

♪ [PENSIVE DREAMY MUSIC
PLAYING] ♪

Are there any suspects?

Do you have a contact
at the station?

Aldona, do you think I want
to steal your story? Come on.

Hmm. I don't know.

You wouldn't have this job
if it weren't for me.

What do you want to know?

Did Korcz discover
anything at all?

He only said
some things didn't add up.

He mentioned he questioned
the other boy.

Well, he's a man now.

Michal.

Do you have any idea
where I can find him?

[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]

- [THUNDER RUMBLES]
- ♪ [MUSIC CONTINUES] ♪

YOUNG KAMA: Michal!

[DOORKNOB RATTLES]

[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]

YOUNG KAMA: Is Piotrek here?

Yeah, right.

- Then where is he?
- RYSZARD: Piotrek!

Do you think I care?

RYSZARD: Piotrek!

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

WALDEK: Kama!

♪ [MUSIC DARKENS] ♪

♪ [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

Oh my God. Piotrek!

[THUNDER CRACKLING]

Piotrek!

RYSZARD: Piotrek!

[THUNDER CRASHING]

♪ [MUSIC FALLS, FADES] ♪

♪ [INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

[DISTANT DOG BARKING]

m*rder*r

♪ [UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

[GATE CREAKS]

[ZIPPER OPENING]

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

[GASPS]

♪ [MUSIC FALLS] ♪

♪ [MUSIC FADES] ♪

♪ [THEME MUSIC PLAYING] ♪

♪ [THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES] ♪