5.748 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
Latestrauke and members of the crisis unit are working feverishly to get diesel and avoid a nuclear accident. Pierre helps CID, so he has to admit that he knows more than he has suggested.
A chain reaction in the European power grid plunges the continent into darkness. Hacker Pierre Manzano realizes that a code he wrote is to blame. In Germany Frauke Michelsen heads the country’s crisis response team. Disaster looms.
Writing
Adapted from Marc Elsberg's meticulously researched bestseller
Production
Chillingly plausible infrastructure breakdown
Acting
Bleibtreu's sweaty, paranoid everyman coder
Creator
Marc Elsberg
Moritz Bleibtreu
Pierre Manzano
Milena Dreißig
Carmen Laschitz
Heiner Lauterbach
Jürgen Hardtland
Stephan Kampwirth
Veit Rhees
Herbert Knaup
Reinhard Severin
Jessica Schwarz
Helena Voss
Caroline Hartig
Helena Voss
Anselm Bresgott
Pierre Manzano
Barry Atsma
Axel Kjaer
Marie Leuenberger
Frauke Michelsen
Francis Fulton-Smith
Roman Kantor
Claudio Caiolo
Carlo Bandoni
Rüdiger Klink
Sascha Kosack
Renate Serwotke
Renate Voss
Sönke Möhring
Markus Jung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Elsberg's novel sparked real EU infrastructure security reviews in 2012, making this less fiction than uncomfortable prophecy.
The series deliberately mirrors COVID-19 coordination failures, filmed during the pandemic with Germany's fragmented federal response fresh in mind.
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