eps. 8

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Aito Mifune is flown in by helicopter to personally learn about the research results on board the "Thorvaldson".

Charlie Wagner, a young marine biologist, is assigned to a remote field post in the Shetland Islands.

On the Atlantic coast of France, the chef of a prestigious restaurant dies in agony after liquid from a lobster splashes into his face while he is preparing it.

As Venice experiences a plague of jellyfish, molecular biologist Dr. Cécile Roche discovers the cause of increasing coastal deaths: a mutated strain of bacteria.

Cécile Roche reports the critical situation of the French Atlantic coast to a commission.

Dr. Cécile Roche identifies the same bacteria in crabs that have swept the coasts around the world as the same one that entered the drinking water in France's coast via infected lobsters.

Charlie and Johanson have returned to Kiel. They are watching a UN meeting in Geneva at which Dr. Roche predicts a worldwide threat to the drinking water supply.

The "Thorvaldson" sets course to the Arctic, where a large number of Yrr signals have been detected. Anawak and Crowe believe that communication with the Yrr is possible exactly at that spot.

Aito Mifune is flown in by helicopter to personally learn about the research results on board the "Thorvaldson".

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Format

1×45’

Produced by

Schwarm TV Production (a joint venture between Intaglio Films and ndF IP) for ZDF, France Télévisions, Rai Fiction, Viaplay Group, Hulu Japan, ORF, SRF, in co-production with Bravado Fiction and Beside Production, in co-operation with ATHOS

Cast

Alexander Karim (The Lawyer), Cécile de France (The New Pope), Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin, The Crown), Joshua Odjick (Unsettled), Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt), Krista Kosonen (Blade Runner 2049), and Takuya Kimura (2046, I Come With The Rain)

Year of Production

2023

Writer

Steven Lally (Strike Back), Marissa Lestrade (Deep State), as well as Chris Lunt and Michael A. Walker (Young Wallander, Devils)

Director

Barbara Eder, Luke Watson, Philipp Stölzl