Scene 1: Berlin, 2004. A group of teenagers trade something off. It finally gets to Yusuf (Eren) who joins his friend in a car. Suddenly red dust explodes.
Cut to Yusuf and his little brother (Momo Ramadan, left) doing sit-ups before breakfast. Brother retrieves a lot of cash from his various toys. Yusuf puts it in his trunk and drives through Berlin, while listening to news stories about a series of bank robberies.
Momo, not to be confused with the Egyptian singer, looks much older than his character, and gives off a gay vibe.
He visits Baba, probably his father (Numan Acar), in a building being constructed. Baba is delighted: "I kiss your eyes!" But when Yusuf tries to give him some cash, he refuses, and advises, "I want you to stop this day trading."
Google AI: Day trading is the buying and selling of securities, such as stocks or options, within the same trading day to profit from small, short-term price movements.
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Scene 2: An evening soccer game. Suddenly a Detective arrives, plus a lot of cops in riot gear. Continuity error: suddenly it's raining. They wait for Yusuf to make the winning goal, and then arrest him for the bank robberies.
Scene 3: 18 months before the arrest. Yusuf looks at a bill for 8,100 euros, draws the money out of his bank account, and pays it. "And pretend that it comes from my father's account: Mohammed Arslan."
The bank clerk finds this suspicious, and calls for the manager to do some research. Turns out that Dad the 8,100 € is just for the taxes on the real amount due,120,000€! Couldn't Yusuf still pay for some of it? Or set up a payment plan?
Scene 4: While Dad is cooking dinner, Yusuf calls his sister into his room, and gives her the dets: Dad has already declared bankruptcy. Then he was talked into getting a loan, and can't pay it back, and now it's at 120,000€! Yusuf already spent all of his savings on the taxes.
They start to tell Mom, but she rushes right into the kitchen and starts groping and fondling Dad, so they change their minds.
Scene 5: In the present, Yusuf is interrogated by the arresting Detective, who does the Bad Cop routine: "You think you're tough? You think you're smart?"
The IMDB only lists three cast members, Eren (Yusuf), Numan (Dad), and Merlin Von Garnier (Malte, not introduced yet). Other sites list Momo Ramadan (the Little Brother), Andreas Pietschmann, Omid Memar, Michelangelo Fortalezzi, and David Bredin (left). I don't know which plays the Detective.
Yusuf he calls his sister and tells her to retrieve an envelope taped underneath his desk. It contains a business card: "Call her -- it's my lawyer, Dr. Julia Rieger." Why would you go through the trouble of hiding her card? Lots of people have lawyers.
"Plus bring me some clothes and books, and don't tell Mom and Dad." In the U.S., you must notify the parents when you arrest a minor.
More after the break.. Caution: Explicit.
Scene 6: Sister tracks down Little Brother (at the donut shop) and gives him the secret phrase that Yusuf told her: "The rebels re approaching the Death Star. Alderan must be evacuated."
Left: Michelangelo Fortalezzi.
Younger Brother rushes home, sends a message to his "chess opponent," and -- wait, where's the money that he stashed in his toys?
Meanwhile, the Detective tries Good Cop, giving Yusuf coffee and a sweater, and trying to bond over both having divorced parents. "I advise you to confess, and tell us who your buddies are."
When this doesn't work, the Detective tries Bad Cop again, mussing Yusuf up: "You ripped off the bank where you work! Your own people! You'll get 10 years!" He's dumped into a cell.
Scene 7: 15 months before the arrest: Yusuf graduates as valedictorian of the Class of 2004. Is this high school or college? Dad congratulates him. "All doors are open to you."
"How would you know that?" Yusuf snipes. It's just a platitude, buddy. "Does Mom know how much debt we're in?"
Dad pooh-poohs him. "I'll figure something out."
Yusuf reveals that he has a scholarship to study law anywhere he wants: Brussels, Hamburg, Paris. It was high school. In the U.S. law school is for university graduates with any major, but in Europe you study law as an undergraduate, then take an internship.
He says "I won't be back until tomorrow," and leaves. Where are you going, buddy? Graduation party with a boyfriend? I've checked all of your interactions so far, even the decor in your room. No expressed heterosexual interest.
Scene 8: Yusuf returns the next day to discover that Mom found out about the debt. She moves out.
Cut to soccer practice. Afterwards Yusuf looks at the letter offering him the scholarship, sighs, and tosses it away. He'll have to go to work to make some money to help Dad pay off the debt..
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Scene 9: Yusuf applies for an internship in a giant glass-and-steel building. Couldn't you apply for a job, or is it always internships first in Germany? They like his grades, but "What languages do you speak?"
"German, French, and English."
"And Turkish, right?"
The 4,000,000 people of Turkish ancestry in Germany face discrimination in education and employment, police targeting, media stereotypes, and hate crimes. Yusuf won't get the job.
"So, when Turkey and Germany play soccer, which team do you support?"
"Turkey."
They're impressed that he told the truth. "We like honest people here. Congratulations, you got the job."
Scene 10: In the present, Sister and Little Brother argue. "The money can't have just disappeared! Yusuf hid it somewhere else -- keep looking!"
Left: Omid's cock. I don't know who he plays.
When Sister goes to visit Yusuf, but the Detective draws her aside and brags about how he solved the case: Six bank robberies, 1-2 million euros. Expert jobs: car with stolen plates, a bank far from the nearest police station, mid-afternoon when there are no customers around. Geez, I thought they were embezzling, or breaking into the vault late at night.
He knows it was Yusuf because they got an anonymous letter: "if you want the bank robberies to stop, compare this photo with the surveillance photo in the Daily News. His name is Yusuf Arslan."
The Detective was obsessed with the case: "Your brother and his pals are making us a laughing stock, but it ends today."
Scene 11: Sister brings Yusuf the stuff he asked for, and tells him about the anonymous letter. "Someone ratted me out? But who?"
"You have to give back the money and tell about the others. Then you'll get off with a light sentence."
"Nope, I'm not ratting out we're friends."
Also, he lost Grandpa's locket at the soccer game. Could Sister look for it?
Cut to Sister and Little Brother looking with flashlights on the deserted field. She insists that he hand over the names of Yusuf's friends.
"Look, I promised Yusuf. I can only tell you one name."
Scene 12: Yusuf did not receive Kaution, bail, so he is transferred to prison to await his trial. As he is loaded into the van, the Detective shows that he stole Grandpa's locket! This infuriates Yusuf.
Cut to the police searching Yusuf's apartment. Sister has arranged for Dad to take a "holiday weekend" so he won't find out about the arrest.
And a montage of two guys and a girl finding out about the arrest. Two are very upset, but the third is overjoyed as he drives his convertible through the countryside. He's the one who stole the money and ratted Yusuf out!
Beefcake: None in this episode.
Heterosexism: Only Dad and Mom groping each other in a single scene.
Gay Characters: Yusuf never displays any heterosexual interest, a big relief after that other teenage-criminal tv series, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), where the guy's main goal is to win the Girl of His Dreams.
Granted, Yusuf an unsavory character, but If they can just keep him from gawking at girls for the remainder of the series, I'll be satisfied.
Will I Keep Watching: Of course.
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